Monday, October 30, 2006
Thanks Doc...
...for helping me in Losing My Virginity. It kept me up all of last night!!
PS: This has nothing to do with the fact that my Bangalore Times fortune a couple of days back predicted a romantic or marriage proposal from a colleague.
PS: This has nothing to do with the fact that my Bangalore Times fortune a couple of days back predicted a romantic or marriage proposal from a colleague.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Virgin? Far from it!!!
This post was inspired by Richard Branson's autobiography. It's called Losing My Virginity (what else did you expect? And he did lose it very young!!) and is an awesome read. He has probably done more things than anyone else on this planet. That's a pretty wierd statement when I read it aloud...but I still stand by it!!
Virgin started off as a student magazine (creatively titled "Student") in a ramshakle house in England. And the two pillars on which it attracted a string of highly creative employees were - dope and "free love". You have to admit, it is as attractive as any job can get!! They started a mail-order record business and were brainstorming for a name. Someone suggested "Virgin, just 'coz there are not many around here!". And so the story goes...
Some parts of the book make you smile (starting Virgin Atlantic), some make you sympathetic (dyslexia), awestruck (the balloon expeditions) and some make you downright nauseous (wife swapping!!). And I went through the whole gamut of emotions through only half the book; until fate intervened.
This is an appeal to all my friends who stock books within my reach - please buy your copy of "Losing..." asap. And let a borrower and a lender be.
Thanks.
PS: One bad side-effect of reading the book is that you might feel like a total loser at the end of it.
Virgin started off as a student magazine (creatively titled "Student") in a ramshakle house in England. And the two pillars on which it attracted a string of highly creative employees were - dope and "free love". You have to admit, it is as attractive as any job can get!! They started a mail-order record business and were brainstorming for a name. Someone suggested "Virgin, just 'coz there are not many around here!". And so the story goes...
Some parts of the book make you smile (starting Virgin Atlantic), some make you sympathetic (dyslexia), awestruck (the balloon expeditions) and some make you downright nauseous (wife swapping!!). And I went through the whole gamut of emotions through only half the book; until fate intervened.
This is an appeal to all my friends who stock books within my reach - please buy your copy of "Losing..." asap. And let a borrower and a lender be.
Thanks.
PS: One bad side-effect of reading the book is that you might feel like a total loser at the end of it.
