well well well
now you all know how nigerians have earned a bad name in the world in terms of money fraud.
their well known tactic is to send a fraudulent mail to the victim and coaxing him to reveal his account numbers etc.
hehe...well i got one similar mail ,enjoy:
FROM ENGR IBRAHIM WAHALA
LOT 857 RUE 21 ZONE 4
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE
DEAR SIR,
I AM CONTACTING YOU FROM MY OFFICE CONFIDENTIALLY CONCERNING THE
IMMEDIATE TRANSFER OF AN AMOUNT OF MONEY FROM HERE IN ABIDJAN WEST AFRICA.
THIS MONEY IN QUESTION IS USD $2.2 MILLION DOLLARS AND THE FUND IS
CURRENTLY IN THE BANK OF AFRICA IN A SUSPENSE ACCOUNT AND I WANT YOU TO
HELP ME TO RECEIVE THE MONEY IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT SO THAT I CAN COME OVER
TO MEET WITH YOU FOR THE SHARING OF THE FUND AS I HAVE AGREED TO OFFER
YOU 20% OF THE TOTAL FUND WHILE THE REST OF 80% WILL BE THERE IN YOUR
BANK ACCOUNT UNTIL I WILL MEET WITH YOU AS SOON AS THE TRANSACTION IS
OVER.
PLEASE SEND ME YOUR DIRECT AND CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE NUMBER SO THAT I
CAN CALL YOU SO THAT WE CAN TALK IN FULL DETAILS AND I WILL SEND YOU
THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS INVOLVED.
I AM WAITING FOR YOUR EMAIL RESPONSE URGENTLY.
THANKS.
ENGR IBRAHIM WAHALA
pz out
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Saturday, May 20, 2006
gre with indian masala
GRE Graduate Record Examination.
it is a very well known examination ,known to be taken by scores of students who wish to pursue their education in the united states and places where they are recognised.
this test is conducted by a body in the u.s. known as ets,which thorougly believes to test your grasp on the english language.
the english is considered to be a hurdle by the students from non english speaking nations.but atleast for india...well i guess it is not the case,no sir.eee!!!
here is how....
the orthodox traditions of teaching in indian schools dramatically comprises of mugging,which unfortunately is being followed even today.
the english section has a good deal of synonyms,filling gaps etc .
and we have a bunch of publications listing out the most asked gre words and seemingly so that each publication has a different list :P,with very few similarities.
so using the mugging power ,we indians ,who have mastered this craft(from years of unrelenting practice), mug every nook and cranny of the publications and spew it on the exam,though only a lucky few or the deserving manage to get a respectable score in the english section.
and mind you,these words never mange to creep into the vocabulary ,so what we see here is an approach not different to the regular school exams,mug spew delete,though the very motive behind it (i guess),is to get a firmer grip over english.....
anyway.....monkey see monkey do!nothing can evade the indian mentality!
if there isnt a way....sooner or later you will find one,whether you may like it or not!
k00l d00ds those indians! ;)
pz out
it is a very well known examination ,known to be taken by scores of students who wish to pursue their education in the united states and places where they are recognised.
this test is conducted by a body in the u.s. known as ets,which thorougly believes to test your grasp on the english language.
the english is considered to be a hurdle by the students from non english speaking nations.but atleast for india...well i guess it is not the case,no sir.eee!!!
here is how....
the orthodox traditions of teaching in indian schools dramatically comprises of mugging,which unfortunately is being followed even today.
the english section has a good deal of synonyms,filling gaps etc .
and we have a bunch of publications listing out the most asked gre words and seemingly so that each publication has a different list :P,with very few similarities.
so using the mugging power ,we indians ,who have mastered this craft(from years of unrelenting practice), mug every nook and cranny of the publications and spew it on the exam,though only a lucky few or the deserving manage to get a respectable score in the english section.
and mind you,these words never mange to creep into the vocabulary ,so what we see here is an approach not different to the regular school exams,mug spew delete,though the very motive behind it (i guess),is to get a firmer grip over english.....
anyway.....monkey see monkey do!nothing can evade the indian mentality!
if there isnt a way....sooner or later you will find one,whether you may like it or not!
k00l d00ds those indians! ;)
pz out
Friday, May 12, 2006
education,do we really need it?
well..... we all know since our primary classes,that education is a must for a successful life.
we all toil a lot for that piece of paper which reads out your qualifications and if it comes from a reputed institute ,that adds the icing on the cake!
using this piece of certificate ,we scutter around for jobs and we eventually get one.then again toiling for till late hours we get our pay checks which turn out to be heavy.
sweet.rosy.
but surely there must be this other side of the spectrum,where things arent so rosy . the indian republic boasts of voluminous such cases.people who barely manage to get 1 sqaure meal a day are very common to find.
but also amongst this squalor you will certainly find a group that is famous for some road side business....
#1 :-
place:vaniyawad,nadiad
name of enterprise: hari om tea stall
owner : bhupat
description:
this guy runs a tea stall and surely he hasnt had a formal education.but statistics say that this guy reaps huge profits by selling tea.huge translates in mamothic!a rough calculation lead to the figure of 45k a month! dig that
#2:-
place:commerce six roads,ahmedabad(now sarkhej h/w)
name of enterprise: shambu cold coffee
owner: N/A
description:
this fellow earlier had a stall in front of the college and college easily translates as a mint for the larri walas.and yea he did earn hell lot,before he shifted to another place,though it earns the same revenue.this guy uses amul gold ,which happens to have the highest fat content and also the costliest.
#3:-
place:vijay char rasta,ahmedabad
name of enterprise: r.k. vada pau
owner: N/A
description:
the origin of this place remains unknown.one of those places which sprung up in the midst of the people and then people suddenly noticing it and adoring it and admiring it!if you want to eat vada pau,this is the place to be!
#4:-
place:near fortune landmark,ahmedabad
name of enterprise: gulab corner
owner: N/A
description:
the origin for me atleast is unknown but as the board read out;it said it was famous.i dunno what the real deal is with this guy.i had accompanied my friend for a round of golas.and the thing was that this guy was selling it in a cup with ice and syrup and some real fruits.four of us ordered it and the bill came to 140 bucks!dig that. the cost price according to my 7th standard math says should be around 10 bucks for the four cups,if not less!
now lets calculate the profit : 130 bucks .that is way way more!!!
as i pointed out from the above examples,the above entrepreneurs didnt have any formal education,no certificates ,no nothing,yet they turned out pretty well,dont you think.
looking at such instances it often makes me ponder ,why go through all the ordeal of appearing for exams ,undergo the tension of anticipation and then if lucky manage to pull through,whereas these fine people have seemed to be comfortable without this ordeal,no wonder they would have had to slog initially!
and with outside food getting popular i guess they are going to stay!i laugh sometimes at the situation sometimes,that though qualified there are people who slog it out whereas there is an all together a different clan of paragons who have etched themselves ,kissed fame and earned money with the same slogging or more!
what would you call it?luck?
pz
we all toil a lot for that piece of paper which reads out your qualifications and if it comes from a reputed institute ,that adds the icing on the cake!
using this piece of certificate ,we scutter around for jobs and we eventually get one.then again toiling for till late hours we get our pay checks which turn out to be heavy.
sweet.rosy.
but surely there must be this other side of the spectrum,where things arent so rosy . the indian republic boasts of voluminous such cases.people who barely manage to get 1 sqaure meal a day are very common to find.
but also amongst this squalor you will certainly find a group that is famous for some road side business....
#1 :-
place:vaniyawad,nadiad
name of enterprise: hari om tea stall
owner : bhupat
description:
this guy runs a tea stall and surely he hasnt had a formal education.but statistics say that this guy reaps huge profits by selling tea.huge translates in mamothic!a rough calculation lead to the figure of 45k a month! dig that
#2:-
place:commerce six roads,ahmedabad(now sarkhej h/w)
name of enterprise: shambu cold coffee
owner: N/A
description:
this fellow earlier had a stall in front of the college and college easily translates as a mint for the larri walas.and yea he did earn hell lot,before he shifted to another place,though it earns the same revenue.this guy uses amul gold ,which happens to have the highest fat content and also the costliest.
#3:-
place:vijay char rasta,ahmedabad
name of enterprise: r.k. vada pau
owner: N/A
description:
the origin of this place remains unknown.one of those places which sprung up in the midst of the people and then people suddenly noticing it and adoring it and admiring it!if you want to eat vada pau,this is the place to be!
#4:-
place:near fortune landmark,ahmedabad
name of enterprise: gulab corner
owner: N/A
description:
the origin for me atleast is unknown but as the board read out;it said it was famous.i dunno what the real deal is with this guy.i had accompanied my friend for a round of golas.and the thing was that this guy was selling it in a cup with ice and syrup and some real fruits.four of us ordered it and the bill came to 140 bucks!dig that. the cost price according to my 7th standard math says should be around 10 bucks for the four cups,if not less!
now lets calculate the profit : 130 bucks .that is way way more!!!
as i pointed out from the above examples,the above entrepreneurs didnt have any formal education,no certificates ,no nothing,yet they turned out pretty well,dont you think.
looking at such instances it often makes me ponder ,why go through all the ordeal of appearing for exams ,undergo the tension of anticipation and then if lucky manage to pull through,whereas these fine people have seemed to be comfortable without this ordeal,no wonder they would have had to slog initially!
and with outside food getting popular i guess they are going to stay!i laugh sometimes at the situation sometimes,that though qualified there are people who slog it out whereas there is an all together a different clan of paragons who have etched themselves ,kissed fame and earned money with the same slogging or more!
what would you call it?luck?
pz
Thursday, May 11, 2006
grad! a friggin grad
well graduates i are!
>:)
hehe...may 9th was one of the memorable days ,cause that was when i graduated!This 9 letter word is very much revered by the engineering community,cause thats the day when you are free(although professors think otherwise,they say the tough part begins now,well they got some attitude! )
this day was planned way before in the past,say four to be exact.yet at the ceremony the principal says ,he is unable to do say(thats what i heard)in such a short period of time.for your kind information ours is a state university in the records of aicte and perhaps its just in the records.cause the vice chancellor could hardly pronounce english plausibly from the matter that was handed to him,though he has been awarded a Ph.D (wonder ,wonder) and with a canadian college tie up we never heard of!
almost all of the day was spent in taking snaps of each other and assurances that they would remain in touch with each other.we were given the graduates gown(dunno the exact name!) and they didnt live up to our expectations;maybe because they were crumpled,we had to pay for renting it,and we didnt have that funky hat kinda thing with the string glued to its centre,which is usually flinged in the air as a sign that we are grads!will miss that!
i guess it was more of a formality rather than a real effort!
we then were given feedback forms(yes,they didnt relieve us from the mundane task of form filling even in the last moment as though it mattered much! and yea they wouldnt give degress until we filled those forms)they asked to grade the college and for sure the grades wouldnt have gone higher than C (with D be the lowest) except for the nerds (:-B .
well now i am a free man,joining the unemployed force of the nation,waiting the government to chalk some plan for us people... ;)..hehee
till then i am going to attend something that long been put on the back seat!
pz out!
and yea..me got a photo with me wearing a gold medal :raising brows: ^_^
Thursday, May 04, 2006
enter sandman
sleep,slumber!
well thats one of the favourite hobby in the world and many puritans following it sacrilegiously.
so how many times have you been disturbed from your subconscious state?
for me ,its as long as i can remember.
i have been struggling to get my fair share of sleep for the past 6 months!!!hmpf.....
top reasons you can get disturbed from your beauty sleep and they actually happened to me! :
#1 A galloping horse ,yea its true
#2 EarthQuake
#3 Door Bell
#4 Water Delievery Guy(thats door bell again)
#5 Phone Call
#6 Phone Call in vibrator mode.
#7 Tank Overflow!
#8 Ghosts(yea my house is haunted)
#9 Courier fellows 7 in the morning
#10 Band(Gujju band,that plays garba songs,with just a keyboard,mic, and 2 drums,crummy amplifier,god forsaken voice of the female singer)
#7 has an incident related to it.My folks were out of station ,at my cousins,so one night i thought of sleeping at my friends place.The tank overflowed and the gushing water could be heard by the neighbours.They called up my other neighbours.My neighbours called up my folks way down in south.My folks call me up and say,"Hey buddy ,the tanks overflowing better get there fast ."This happened 0640 in the morning!!
enough of chit chat....am off to bed ,hopefully the long awaited sleep!
pz out
well thats one of the favourite hobby in the world and many puritans following it sacrilegiously.
so how many times have you been disturbed from your subconscious state?
for me ,its as long as i can remember.
i have been struggling to get my fair share of sleep for the past 6 months!!!hmpf.....
top reasons you can get disturbed from your beauty sleep and they actually happened to me! :
#1 A galloping horse ,yea its true
#2 EarthQuake
#3 Door Bell
#4 Water Delievery Guy(thats door bell again)
#5 Phone Call
#6 Phone Call in vibrator mode.
#7 Tank Overflow!
#8 Ghosts(yea my house is haunted)
#9 Courier fellows 7 in the morning
#10 Band(Gujju band,that plays garba songs,with just a keyboard,mic, and 2 drums,crummy amplifier,god forsaken voice of the female singer)
#7 has an incident related to it.My folks were out of station ,at my cousins,so one night i thought of sleeping at my friends place.The tank overflowed and the gushing water could be heard by the neighbours.They called up my other neighbours.My neighbours called up my folks way down in south.My folks call me up and say,"Hey buddy ,the tanks overflowing better get there fast ."This happened 0640 in the morning!!
enough of chit chat....am off to bed ,hopefully the long awaited sleep!
pz out
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