I was sitting at work today when one of the greatest phenomenons of modern times happened.

It was the 27th of February, the last working day of the month. It is that time of the month when your employer acknowledges your existence, through a directed movement of electrons through the internet and the banking system, transfers stuff to your bank account. And one of the greatest phenomenons of modern times happens.

A hundred phones in the office simultaneously make the “ting-ting … ting-ting” sound of a newly received SMS. Yay! This months’ salary is here! Oh, the joy!

But this joy is coming to an end for me.

As most of you know, I’ve been trying to write CAT for a while to see if I can do an MBA, but it keeps getting jinxed. The first time I wrote it, I did well, but the IIMs cancelled the test ’cause of some paper leak. Then when the re-test came, I forgot to get up on time. Then the next year, when everyone was writing CAT, I was in a nightclub in Shanghai. Then the year after that, the IIMs rejected my application, but didn’t say why. They must have been like ‘Dude. Rethink your life’.

So I rethought, said screw you CAT, and wrote GMAT. I scored 760.

And then, I applied to the Indian School of Business, said ‘Dude, let me in’, and they were like ‘Sure, why not!’. And I was like ‘yay!’.

And so, I’m going to be leaving my cushy and interesting job at Google, and spending the next year at Hyderabad, studying, doing homework, writing assignments, staying up late and mugging one day before the exams. And hopefully, at the end of it all, the economy won’t be much worse, and I’ll have a job.

We’ll see how it goes. I will, of course, keep you all informed through this blog.

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Let me try some of my own hyper-intelligent and super smart blog posts. I’ll start with my Delhi – 6 review. So I’ve copied the review and pasted it in the box… hit submit and…

WTF?!?!?!?!!!!! The internets think my Delhi – 6 review is stupid?!?!?!??? The tubes must be clogged again!

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Yes. Gmail was down for a while earlier today. Thank you to all those of you that felt the need to ping me and let me know. And special thanks to those that felt the need to explicitly call me and tell me. I was not busy with any crisis at all. Without you, I would never have realized that the product that I’ve been working on over much of the last year was down. The Google alerts system and server logs would not have alerted me to the fact the one of Google’s flagship products is down globally. So thank you very much.

I am also flattered with the confidence some of you have shown in me. Like this chat with a certain unnamed party called “X”

X: “Hey!!!!!!!! Gmail is Down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Me: “I know… Some problem at google’s end”
X: “Did YOU screw it up?”
Me: “No… Why would you think that?”
X: “you know…. disaster is, after all, your middle name…”
Me: “#$@%%@*&!@!@$%^&@”

I mean, come on guys.

I know I’m prone to disasters, but you don’t have to assume that every time something goes wrong, I am responsible. I can assure you that it was not me this particular time.

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If you’ve been following the IPL, the tickets at several stadiums went on sale today. Check out the details of ipl tickets here. Pretty reasonably priced, in my opinion!

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Hey everyone,

I’m not feeling too good this week, so there’ll be no more blog posts till Saturday. If you’re looking for something to read, check out my other blog about the IPL – The Unofficial IPL Blog

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My funky Mummies-hate-the-stock-market theory found some subscribers today, when The Economic Times published my poetic interpretation of the Sensex! Check out the online edition here.

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As all of you already know, this blog is a part of my latest get rich quick scheme. This is a part of my master plan to take over the universe. Only thing is that it has not been working very well! So, I’ve been on an overdrive in the past few weeks to convince people to invest in my blog. “It’s just like investing in the stock market, only better” I’ve told them. And, the very nice folks at ReviewGist saw this fantastic business opportunity and have bought advertising space on the Blog! Hurray for me!

ReviewGist is this startup company that does product reviews for you. But it uses some voodoo-Artificial Intelligence-magic-thing to automatically gather reviews from all over the web and come up with an objective ranking for the product. I’ve found it very useful. Check out the review of the N95 (My dear dear phone) and the gaming consoles (My dear dear dream).

Now, as a way to expand the business, I’m going to try to convince everyone why it is a good idea to give me money and I can promise absolutely nothing in return. Except my eternal gratitude. I have a lot of that to give away this month. So, if you’d like to buy advertising space on this blog, please email me at aditya@pointlesswanderings.com, and I will pledge my soul to you as a Thank You!

But wait, it gets better. I’m starting a new service for all YOU READERS OF THIS BLOG! I’ve even prepared an advertising pitch for it:

Do you feel like you have more enemies than friends? Does everyone in the world seem to be out to get you? Would you like to see your friends insulted and humiliated in public? Don’t worry! The Pointless Wanderings blog is here to rescue you!

For the low, low introductory price of Rs. 250, I will grant you this wish – I will write a slandering, mis-informed, utterly untrue, but entirely believable post throwing muck on your least favorite person. Doesn’t it sound GREAT! Have the pleasure of humiliating your enemies from behind the cover of anonymity! That too for the low price of Rs. 250*! Hurry! Don’t wait! DO IT NOW!

*Conditions Apply. Lots of them actually. Least of them not being that you offer me police protection. Rs. 1000 extra charge is victim is in the same country as me, and Rs. 1000 extra on top of that if the victim is related to either Deve Gowda or the Buffaloes.

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