The computer says 95%...

that is what I get sometimes when I used to frequent the on-line dating sites like (match.com, shaadi.com etc.).

Story 1:
My on-line shrink (more on that later) decided to give one of on-line site a chance. Apparently she sent out a few requests to guys that she felt she would like to get know better.

She got a standard rejection from one of her preferred matches...

Thank you for your interest, our preferences do not match.
Best of luck
XXX

On seeing XXX profile she noticed his preferred partner had no information

Now my experiences have been quite similar. It says we have a 95% match and when I email them, they write back that our preferences do not match.

Am I asking for too much? Should I set expectations lower on dating sites?

The Simpsons...Woo Hoo or D'Oh

are coming to big screen this Friday. Since I am an avid fan of Simpsons, I am going to go and enjoy it on the big screen.



I hope Matt Groening and the rest of his writing staff were up to the challenge of keeping the audience enthralled for over 60 minutes. I would hate if the movie becomes the reason the Simpsons jumped the shark.

Woo Hoo or D'Oh...time will tell.

PS: As I was writing this, I decided to peek into my friends blog and guess what she hates the Simpsons...I am in shock !!!

It feels like 1984....

I had this dream once, that I am at work and suddenly the computer screen becomes blank. A pixelated image appears uttering "This is our company. A company of dreams and hope. This is our company. Oceania. These are our associates. The workers, the strivers, the builders. These are our associates....".

OK, I used the quote from 1984. But that is how I feel sometimes at work.



Perfect examples

1. The grand marshal of our office does a sortie at 0h-nine-hundred-hours (is everyone present at the office) and another one at eighteen-hundred-hours (who is leaving early)

2. I get an email, follow up phone call, project meeting and evening drop buys to discuss the projects/work I am supposed to deliver.

3. All company correspondence and updates are now done through PowerPoint and pushed using Brainshark. This website allows you to send a presentation along with voice over and also track who visited it or rather who did not.

Or maybe it is the Monday morning blues....

Helpdesk...are they for real !!!

We realize in our office that around half an hour back all our systems (corporate email, corporate intranet, internal systems) are down. Our office manager ask me to go into and check the server - I am not going into into the Indian stereotype launch here - but i go into the server room and check on the diagnostics (usual crap of ping our servers and realize we are OK but our corporate office is down). We dutifully call our corporate office and here is where the fun begins

Uber: Just want to check if we have a system wide shutdown
IT : Yes we do.
Uber: It would be good if you could have called the office manger at each office and informed this
(we have around 10 offices, but they can do something call mass phone message. They do it all the time for things like not talking mandatory classes like sexual harassment)
IT - We sent an email informing we have a system problem
Uber - I did not get it (just to hear back their response)
IT - That is because the email is down too.

Wonder if communication is a required course in college anymore...

Reason I will get married

Last week when having one of those "zen" conversations after a couple of bottles of wine at this delightful roof top garden. The question came to owning houses in Jersey City. Due to my aversion to suburbia and that I do not make $$$$ per year, the only houses I can afford are 1 bedroom of 800 sq.feet. Since I am pack rat that hardly suffices. So I proclaimed I would marry to be able to afford a bigger place.


That conversation soon morphed into why I would marry...

#1. I can now afford to buy 2/3 bedroom condo in Jersey City and not have to torment myself to a life in suburbs with the the manicured lawns, tree lined avenues, women with wicker baskets etc.

#2. This is important. I can get to buy a nice sports convertible. I will let my wife buy a regular sedan. That way we have both. One for fun and the other for lugging around groceries and people. (I am Indian and having a Japanese owned sedan is a right of passage for us)

#3. I feels girls are more fetish about cleaning than guys. So me being a pig will be negated by her. Plus cleaning may actually be fun with her around.

#4. All bills will be split in too...and I will save on taxes.

#5. And yes I get the extra benefits too...like someone to talk too, argue with, fight with, more stories for the blog and yes sex too. There I said it.

And some of you might ask, is this a reason to get married? That is so materialistic. My answer to all of you naysayers, I found my reason to get married. I cannot help it if insurance, banks, realtor's, IRS give more breaks to married people than single people. I do not make the rules of the game. I just play the game. There are sacrifices needed to win the game and I am willing to make them.

Now time to and surf match.com....