Song written about work, Hindi verse.
Sung to the tune of "Socha Hai" from Rock On
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M M A 2 (Hindi)
Dhamas Jekab
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(26) Yes Franck!
Rambouillet se aati callein
Franck farmaaye Haan kar daalein
Khoon paseena sahi.
Leavon ki hai bas to khwabein
Lambi hoti jaati raatein
Build hota kyon nahin
Museebaton se ham na darein
Kaarnamon se timesheet bharein
Baat banta hain yoon
Apne apne modules liye
Namumkin ko mumkin kiye
Sun hi lo kuch stereo
M M A 2 . . . Project ka naam hai
M M A 2 . . . Haan tujhe kaam hai
M M A 2 . . . Kiya nahin to karo abhi
Janvari ya farvari
Behte hai sab delivry
Khoon paseena nahin.
USB se gaane sun lo
MP3 ya WAV bhi chun lo
Bajta hai sab audio
M M A 2 . . . Conti ka jaan hai
M M A 2 . . . Mistral ka shaan hai
M M A 2 . . . Suna nahin to suno abhi
Sannata sunayi nahin deta
Aur kharabi dikhayi nahi deta
Neeche hai sab kabhi
M C I P Queue!
(bridge)
Rambouillet se aati callein
Franck farmaaye Haan kar daalein
Khoon paseena nahin.
USB se gaane sun lo
MP3 ya WAV bhi chun lo
Bajta hai sab audio
Museebaton se ham na darein
Kaarnamon se timesheet bharein
Baat banta hain yoon.
Aansoon hai behlana kyon
Euro behte aatein to
Sun hi lo kuch stereo
M M A 2 . . . Conti ka jaan hai
M M A 2 . . . Mistral ka shaan hai
M M A 2 . . . Suna nahin to suno abhi
(x 2)
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Apostrophe Catastrophe
Labels:
Memory,
Observation,
Verse
Came across this post in Blogosphere about apostrophe abuse. Ended up writing a ditty there.. but could not edit it there... could not editee/a written ditty.
The abuse of the apostrophe is on my list of pet peeves as well. (The under-use of the hyphen is a close second)
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APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
Or, The abuse of apostrophe's,
Or, Its not right,
Or, Soon it will find it's grave!
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Loud and strong
Proud and long
Grammarians complain
But it's all in vain
It'll happen now, and again
Then it'll be the common strain!
Sound and fury down the drain
Might as well say "Amen"!
- Thomas Jay Cubb
The abuse of the apostrophe is on my list of pet peeves as well. (The under-use of the hyphen is a close second)
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APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
Or, The abuse of apostrophe's,
Or, Its not right,
Or, Soon it will find it's grave!
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Loud and strong
Proud and long
Grammarians complain
But it's all in vain
It'll happen now, and again
Then it'll be the common strain!
Sound and fury down the drain
Might as well say "Amen"!
- Thomas Jay Cubb
Saturday, November 10, 2007
You Are What You Say - More!
A few more things that I missed out in the previous post.
A. Coffee-drinking - the next social stigma
I was asked at the dentist's whether I drank a lot of coffee because of some stains on my teeth. The dentist asked this in an apologetic manner. A couple of years ago (or maybe a little more before) it would have been: do you smoke a lot?
Coffee has a lot of stuff going against it - it is intoxicating, odorous, may be harmful, and what's more, popular too! Two decades down the line, the kid next door will say: hey mister, would you please mind not drinking that?
Anything that could possibly give on pleasure must be stigmatized; at least don't do it in public! After coffee, it would be chocolates...
B. Making Fun Not = Having Fun
Constant criticism, even if done by way of casual jokes, does not advance a relationship. We need to accept people as they are; faults are acceptable, let people be. Do not always try to correct.
C. Egalitarian Vegetarianism
Shouldn't vegetarian mean only vegetables/plant-products? After all the term is not non-dead-animal products nor is it non-killed stuff. Some people would choose to define it that way, because otherwise it would mean no milk, no chocolates! Some vegetarians take the "will-not-kill-anything-even-if-to-live" line of reasoning. Well, we have to accept it like you have to have money to make money, only life can sustain life.
D. Religious Intolerance & Smoking
This one is outright biased, opinionated, founded on coincidence, even propagandistic - I have not even checked the facts! :-)
There is growing unrest and intolerance, rising religious tensions, in the world today. Also less tobacco usage. Could the two be linked? The Holy Wars (Crusades) ended after the arrival of tobacco. Being intolerant and rude to smokers is socially acceptable nowadays. If you agree with that, then you must also agree that religious intolerance ought to be acceptable - if you worship your god, it would harm my god!
Oh my god, that was a straw-man argument if ever there was one! What an unashamed attempt at blatant self-justification? "Well, I am right and you are wrong, so you should not do whatever it is you are doing, even if it does you good, because I have a right to protect myself and I believe it is wrong and could harm me. So please stop. STOP IT!"
E. Anachronistic phrases
On a related note (to E. above). Stuff like dialing a number (remember when the phones had rotary dials?), hang up and so on. There were more examples, I can't recall now...maybe in a later post...(I wish!)
- Thomas Jay Cubb
From the cradle to the grave
Go the cowardly and the brave
The good die young, some unsung
While the evil live and thrive
The skull and bones, touch wood,
Might do you good!
Only when a man dies.
Do we realize
There are no why's
All just a roll of the dice.
(untitled, unedited poem... please excuse!)
A. Coffee-drinking - the next social stigma
I was asked at the dentist's whether I drank a lot of coffee because of some stains on my teeth. The dentist asked this in an apologetic manner. A couple of years ago (or maybe a little more before) it would have been: do you smoke a lot?
Coffee has a lot of stuff going against it - it is intoxicating, odorous, may be harmful, and what's more, popular too! Two decades down the line, the kid next door will say: hey mister, would you please mind not drinking that?
Anything that could possibly give on pleasure must be stigmatized; at least don't do it in public! After coffee, it would be chocolates...
B. Making Fun Not = Having Fun
Constant criticism, even if done by way of casual jokes, does not advance a relationship. We need to accept people as they are; faults are acceptable, let people be. Do not always try to correct.
C. Egalitarian Vegetarianism
Shouldn't vegetarian mean only vegetables/plant-products? After all the term is not non-dead-animal products nor is it non-killed stuff. Some people would choose to define it that way, because otherwise it would mean no milk, no chocolates! Some vegetarians take the "will-not-kill-anything-even-if-to-live" line of reasoning. Well, we have to accept it like you have to have money to make money, only life can sustain life.
D. Religious Intolerance & Smoking
This one is outright biased, opinionated, founded on coincidence, even propagandistic - I have not even checked the facts! :-)
There is growing unrest and intolerance, rising religious tensions, in the world today. Also less tobacco usage. Could the two be linked? The Holy Wars (Crusades) ended after the arrival of tobacco. Being intolerant and rude to smokers is socially acceptable nowadays. If you agree with that, then you must also agree that religious intolerance ought to be acceptable - if you worship your god, it would harm my god!
Oh my god, that was a straw-man argument if ever there was one! What an unashamed attempt at blatant self-justification? "Well, I am right and you are wrong, so you should not do whatever it is you are doing, even if it does you good, because I have a right to protect myself and I believe it is wrong and could harm me. So please stop. STOP IT!"
E. Anachronistic phrases
On a related note (to E. above). Stuff like dialing a number (remember when the phones had rotary dials?), hang up and so on. There were more examples, I can't recall now...maybe in a later post...(I wish!)
- Thomas Jay Cubb
From the cradle to the grave
Go the cowardly and the brave
The good die young, some unsung
While the evil live and thrive
The skull and bones, touch wood,
Might do you good!
Only when a man dies.
Do we realize
There are no why's
All just a roll of the dice.
(untitled, unedited poem... please excuse!)
Friday, May 18, 2007
Apart, Not Separate
Half my team moved to a different floor today. Does distance make the heart grow fonder?
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APART, NOT SEPARATE
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Empty chairs and desks, now felt is pain
Now this floor is so much less fun;
You've gone, and left a void main,
But size and space spare none!
Young ones leave when they get older
But without you this place seems colder
(Fewer people for the AC,
Laws of physics, you see?) :-)
Now you have moved to floor three
A place more, where we can feel free!
That you have made the shift
Just means that we'll use more, the lift!
- Thomas
Friday, December 09, 2005
Sigh-O-Nara
I bid adieu to my first company Ushustech in June 2005. This was my farewell letter, in verse!
(The annotations were not there in the original)
SIGH-O-NARA
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Two years ago
When I joined Ushus
I saw myself becoming
the US in UShUS.
But I saw that
the going was tough and
the tough were going!
I reassured myself that
They were just panickers!
When I joined, the company was having a rough time.
Panicker is also a common surname in Kerala, this led to some confusion! :-)
Might be a long way to the top
but with desire-fuel
lit by the fire in our bellies
We were the 'get-there-surely' s.
I kept my faith
in Ushus
Somehow I knew
that to the top,
Fate would push us
and not crush us.
My hopes were not belied
Business accelerated (!)
and the HP-era dawned.
When the sun rises,
time for the twinkling stars
To take a break.
I see the U
in UshUs!
But if night should again fall
I'll be there
For U again!
- Thomas Jay Cubb
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(The annotations were not there in the original)
SIGH-O-NARA
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Two years ago
When I joined Ushus
I saw myself becoming
the US in UShUS.
Sayonara means goodbye in Japanese.
The company had a lot of Japanese customers.
Ushus, by the way, means morning.
The company had a lot of Japanese customers.
Ushus, by the way, means morning.
But I saw that
the going was tough and
the tough were going!
I reassured myself that
They were just panickers!
When I joined, the company was having a rough time.
Panicker is also a common surname in Kerala, this led to some confusion! :-)
but with desire-fuel
lit by the fire in our bellies
We were the 'get-there-surely' s.
I kept my faith
in Ushus
Somehow I knew
that to the top,
Fate would push us
and not crush us.
My hopes were not belied
Business accelerated (!)
and the HP-era dawned.
The company was merged with Accel, another company which was owned by a Mr.Panicker. Prior to this, we had landed major deals with Hewlett-Packard and things were sunny again.
When the sun rises,
time for the twinkling stars
To take a break.
A little bit of self-congratulation! :-)
Now as I am leaving,I see the U
in UshUs!
But if night should again fall
I'll be there
For U again!
- Thomas Jay Cubb
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Monday, November 14, 2005
Doubled
Labels:
Verse
This was written to report the occasion of a colleague getting married.
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DOUBLED!
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From a lion to a cub,
Welcome to the Club.
-Thomas Jay Cubb
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Meaning plane 1
You have just gotten married; we have been married for many years. Come and start enjoying the joy of matrimony.
Meaning plane 2
You were a lion (with free will) once, now you'll become a cub again! We share your misery!
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DOUBLED!
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From a lion to a cub,
Welcome to the Club.
-Thomas Jay Cubb
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Meaning plane 1
You have just gotten married; we have been married for many years. Come and start enjoying the joy of matrimony.
Meaning plane 2
You were a lion (with free will) once, now you'll become a cub again! We share your misery!
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Professor Bhatt
BHATT LIMERICK
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There was an old man by the name of Bhatt
Who lectured whilst scratching his butt
His nails were long
So when he taught for long
He ended up with his butt cut.
- TJC 23 Sep,2003
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PCP Bhatt was my professor in iiit-b (where I had a brief stint). He used to teach us Operating Systems and Foundations Of Computing. Professor Bhatt was an excellent teacher, with plenty of wit, but had a strange habit - his hand inevitably crept into his pants when writing on the whiteboard, when his back faced the class...in full view!This limerick was reportedly leaked to Professor Bhatt! I wonder what he thought.
I remember an interesting conversation that I had with him in class when he was explaining schedulers - the component of an OS that decides what should be done when. I detected a chicken-and-egg problem : who or what schedules the scheduler? I decided to be cryptic. The exchange, unforgettable for anyone who was present in that class, went verbatim-
TJC: Professor, but who cuts the barber's hair?
(pause of 5 seconds)
PCP: What if the barber is a Sardarji?
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There was an old man by the name of Bhatt
Who lectured whilst scratching his butt
His nails were long
So when he taught for long
He ended up with his butt cut.
- TJC 23 Sep,2003
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PCP Bhatt was my professor in iiit-b (where I had a brief stint). He used to teach us Operating Systems and Foundations Of Computing. Professor Bhatt was an excellent teacher, with plenty of wit, but had a strange habit - his hand inevitably crept into his pants when writing on the whiteboard, when his back faced the class...in full view!This limerick was reportedly leaked to Professor Bhatt! I wonder what he thought.
I remember an interesting conversation that I had with him in class when he was explaining schedulers - the component of an OS that decides what should be done when. I detected a chicken-and-egg problem : who or what schedules the scheduler? I decided to be cryptic. The exchange, unforgettable for anyone who was present in that class, went verbatim-
TJC: Professor, but who cuts the barber's hair?
(pause of 5 seconds)
PCP: What if the barber is a Sardarji?
Friday, September 16, 2005
Song For The Quinquennium
I reproduce here my submission to My Favorite Word.
Quinquennium. Not too many words start with a 'q', and this one has two 'q's! Really like the way it sounds too.
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SONG FOR THE QUINQUENNIUM
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English's list of Q-words:
Not many in queue.
I searched "five years"!
At last found a good one
not just starting with Q
but which in fact had two!
I just love it, won't you too?
Please do take my cue.
-Thomas Jay Cubb
http://incubbator.blogspot.com
I wonder why this word is not more in vogue; a quinquennium is a more practical measure to track your life with than a decade is, come to think of it...
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This became, very soon, the first version of "About A Word" (final version at CubbSpace)
This is a poem about the word quiniquennium which means "five years", it is in fact my favourite word. somebody had asked me yesterday, so that's where the inspiration comes from all of a sudden..
it's very very experimental.has its rough edges, so let me know what you think... so that i can finalize... .
luv
thomas
ABOUT A WORD
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English words starting with 'Q'
Are, queerly, a quite quiescent few.
Query anyone, "Not many in queue".
A quixotic five-year lexical quest (quite untrue)
And I found the word most q-true-blue!
Half a decade, it's my favourite
(The word's quinquennium)
Say it aloud, savour it
Ain't it cute, sounds so.. yum-yum?
No question, better than all the rest of'em.
For not only does it start with a 'Q',
It has one to spare too: two!
-Thomas Jay Cubb
(September 15, 2005)
Quinquennium. Not too many words start with a 'q', and this one has two 'q's! Really like the way it sounds too.
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SONG FOR THE QUINQUENNIUM
-------------------------
English's list of Q-words:
Not many in queue.
I searched "five years"!
At last found a good one
not just starting with Q
but which in fact had two!
I just love it, won't you too?
Please do take my cue.
-Thomas Jay Cubb
http://incubbator.blogspot.com
I wonder why this word is not more in vogue; a quinquennium is a more practical measure to track your life with than a decade is, come to think of it...
-------------------------------------------
This became, very soon, the first version of "About A Word" (final version at CubbSpace)
This is a poem about the word quiniquennium which means "five years", it is in fact my favourite word. somebody had asked me yesterday, so that's where the inspiration comes from all of a sudden..
it's very very experimental.has its rough edges, so let me know what you think... so that i can finalize... .
luv
thomas
ABOUT A WORD
--------------------------
English words starting with 'Q'
Are, queerly, a quite quiescent few.
Query anyone, "Not many in queue".
A quixotic five-year lexical quest (quite untrue)
And I found the word most q-true-blue!
Half a decade, it's my favourite
(The word's quinquennium)
Say it aloud, savour it
Ain't it cute, sounds so.. yum-yum?
No question, better than all the rest of'em.
For not only does it start with a 'Q',
It has one to spare too: two!
-Thomas Jay Cubb
(September 15, 2005)
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Cake In The Pantry
The birthday-poem...Dedicated to Thomas by Thomas!!!
Written on February 19, 2004 to invite colleagues to share some cake on the occasion of my birthday.
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CAKE IN THE PANTRY
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Personally, Thomas Jake-
ub invites you to partake
pieces of his birthday-cake!!
It's in the pantry,
but I remind you to hurry
for the problem with cakes
and other such sweet bakes
is that, a few moments is all it TAKES!!!
And hey on-sites
How I wish you could have a few bites!
Alas!
A loss!
- Thomas Jay Cubb
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PS I (as do you of course! :-) wish me a happy birthday!!
Written on February 19, 2004 to invite colleagues to share some cake on the occasion of my birthday.
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CAKE IN THE PANTRY
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Personally, Thomas Jake-
ub invites you to partake
pieces of his birthday-cake!!
It's in the pantry,
but I remind you to hurry
for the problem with cakes
and other such sweet bakes
is that, a few moments is all it TAKES!!!
And hey on-sites
How I wish you could have a few bites!
Alas!
A loss!
- Thomas Jay Cubb
------------------------------------
PS I (as do you of course! :-) wish me a happy birthday!!
Friday, September 02, 2005
Car Sweet Car
My manager Noushad bought a new car. He had organized a grand sweet-treat, but there was no camera that day. So for the company-newsletter , we had to make do with this.
CAR SWEET CAR
The car, a Santro Xing
Just made us sing
The sweets were yum..mmm..mmphy
We hope the car is comfy
Those near and those afar
Wish you a Happy New Car!
- TJC 2004
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