Monthly Archives: September 2005

If I used my sex appeal, what’s wrong with it

September 24 05

Jackie Chan used his kung-fu skills to get where he is, Arnold Schwarzenegger used his muscle. Every actor uses his or her own unique selling point to establish herself and if I used my sex appeal, what’s wrong with it?– Mallika Sherawat on Talk Asia, CNN Indeed!

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Patriotism and living in an adopted country

September 24 05

It was not money and the promise of a more upscale life that made me come to the US over three years ago. It was the promise of a more liberated lifestyle. I always thought that the US was a place where you didn’t have to explain your actions and that no one would judge [...]

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A programming board game

September 15 05

If you are out of ideas on what to gift your friends’ kids on their birthdays, here’s an idea – a board game that teaches them programming concepts! C-Jump teaches important ideas like variables, and logic such as if, else. It may not make a programmer out of everyone, but it will teach them a [...]

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Personal skills and the art of seduction

September 2 05

At a personal skills improvement course at work a few weeks back, the instructor asked us to write down a couple of topics that we wanted to get tips on before the class was over. I wrote down “how to chat up a beautiful girl at the bar“, while others wrote more serious work related [...]

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