Totally street inspired.

Overheard in the street - "I can't spend 300 dollars, but I need an iPod, or how would I listen to my music". This person had a laptop and a Starbucks coffee and was sitting in the sun. The keywords (marked with font weight) that rung in my ears like the bell rung at Hiroshima every year to mark the tragedy there. The weight of the fonts indicates the decibel intensity of the keywords in my head.

Questions that crossed my mind in no particular order.
- Is this abuse, ignorance, peer pressure .....?
- Since when iPod became a need?
- Is this really that difficult, you have a laptop to listen to your music?
- Why just iPod, there are million other less expensive music jukebox?
- Starbucks - average coffee - $3. 3 x 100 = 300.
Considering 5 cups a week - 20 weeks - 5 months.
Don't have Starbucks for 5 months and you can afford "the need".

Similar posting.

Beverage 2.0 - Jones Cola

Last browsing through the beverage aisle at the local grocery store came across this soda - Jones Soda. A fairly low profile beverage maker. Just for kicks took a pack of four home. After finishing the first bottle I started reading the text on the bottle and first thing that kicked me was - Dude, this is web 2.0 or what.

Few interesting things that caugth my attention.

1. The label on the bottle is user generated. Meaning consumers send their picture and it gets printed on label if selected


2. Message under the bottle's cap. They are same as fortune cookie and they admit they picked it from real fortune cookie!


3. Spelling is "unorthodox", some thing on the lines of Flickr.

Further digging found that this drink was not popular because Target had some kind of exclusivity on the product. And, this deal is expiring soon so expect this drink to be in your local grocery store, SOON.

Google's messages are slamming funny!

Logging after an eon to post and was greeted with this! Now, one can blog in Hindi and the title was hilarious - Shuru ho gaye mamu! Funny.

On the other side, I was disappointed that now there is a limit to the amount of images that can be uploaded to blogger. WTF!?!?

Delhi has changed.

If San Jose, CA area is known as Silicon Valley because of it's high tech industry then Delhi is the city of bridges and construction.

There probably is no nook left in the city where one does not find construction happening. There can not be a bigger billboard screaming that this is the sign of prosperity. Who would have expected a sophisticated metro station in the middle of congested Chandni Chowk. Swelling with pride factor.

I can't aim no more.

After thousand hour wait at the carousel finally had all my baggage together and my bladder was at the verge of exploding and had to make a dash to whereelse .... mensroom.

In the rush did not realize; right when I relieved myself I realized, WTF!?!? In a country where the average height is probably 5'5" the urinals are located almost at 4' height. One has to know enough physics to compute the projectile's trajectory to find the right aim. And, me no good at this.

This was the first time I noticed this and it was stuck to my head and started comparing height of pretty much every thing that crossed my path *ahem* exceptions are always there. And, everything was higher than we normally find elsewhere.

Even taking a dump was a tip-toe affair considering the height. And, after all the intake you can imagine the number of visit takes an exponential upswing.

Disclaimer: Numbers may be exaggerated!
PS: I know I am kinda wierd to notice things like these but, what to do.

Lazy caffei-nation

Disclaimer: I have not had my second doze of caffiene since morning. Read this posting at your own risk.

I worked in San Francisco for about a year and I was required to be at work early (no fun). Travelling from South Bay to the city I used to stumble and crawl upon astronomical number of empty disposable cups of coffee before I would reach my desk. Considering I am not at all a morning person I never noticed the coffee addiction of this nation till two incidents recently.

1. Lazy: Now Starbucks offers drive-thru if you have not noticed already. One day I was in a rush and quickly wanted to drive through one of these stores. Seeing a long line of cars waiting to be served by this "park-thru" I decided I will walk inside and get my shot. And guess what, it took me less than five minutes and two cars before I had my cups of coffee. Hmmm.... I thought the idea of drive-thru was to make things move faster. And how lazy are we getting?

2. This morning, I bumped into more people waiting in line for their morning coffee at Starbucks than the number of people in the crowded elevator.

Warning: Thinking aloud without caffeine.

On an average people spend about $4 something on coffee at Starbucks. Let me round it off to $4 for calculation purposes and some of these people are monotheist about their coffee - i.e. Coffee is Starbucks or there is no coffee.

Agreement: These are total assumptions and I have no finance background. By reading further you agree that you are solely responsible for all consequences drawn upon you and the author in no way is liable for any consequence(s). Though if you profit anything from this you will owe 10% to the author.

In a month, if people buy at least 20 cups of coffee. $80.
In a year, about 240 cups. $960.
Investing this $960 in something that gives about 10% compounded anually, in 5 years this will return $1,582.66.
Not paying for kids college tuition and taking a payday loan - PRICELESS.

Do you know how Starbucks also translates into F*** OFF? Click here.

In this blog:
First Starbucks
Coffee's chemical formula