Month: November, 2009

The Undibloggies awards – the Indibloggies for the rest of us (featuring 10 awards that the Indibloggies refused to allow)

Neo is already having second thoughts about calling his version of the Indibloggies the “Undibloggies”, because he’s tired of explaining that it has nothing to do with the winning bloggers being forced to pose in their underwear while receiving the award (but yes, there was no dearth of sponsors for such an event). But folks, [...]

What happens in Vegas ends up as a wedding ceremony in Chennai

There is immense business potential in Indian weddings – Neo pitched his startup idea to Mrs. Neo’s rich uncle (before the stock market crashed) during one of Mrs. Neo’s 193 saree changes. Neo calls it the “WTFGO LCD overhead display system”: Problem statement: At any given time, about 80% of the wedding guests and approximately [...]

The best thing to do right after your move to India: Panic

Neo arrived in India during mosquito-gras – the yearly event in Bangalore when millions of scantily-clad mosquitoes get high and swarm around searching for the Jonas Brothers mosquitoes. The good news is they are so crazed that they forget their mosquito-duty to bite you, and sort of leave you alone – just remember to keep [...]

Why it is better to be “charming like India” rather than “hot like China”

Tongues will always wag, but the truth is that Neo had nothing to do with Mrs. Neo’s decision to dump “part ways amicably with” Ganesh. That was all Ganesh’s doing. As the average reader* will probably agree, haranguing Mrs. Neo constantly about how she was damaging the environment every time she dried her hair wasn’t [...]