Perspectives

Have you mafia-ed yet? The addictive game that has kept me and a number of my friends busy in their lives? Well, next time there are about more than five of you together (preferably with a few girls – why would you meet up otherwise anyway – ) and dont quite know what to do. Try Mafia.

If you cant read the ton of stuff written in that wiki, listen it out from one of the greatest proponents and players of the game, Ankit.

And ping-pong? No, I am not talking about table tennis. This is again a group game, preferably with five or more people. And this how it goes.

Everybody picks and says a country out loud, just so that group hears it. Now, someone starts off saying “ping”.. the next guy in line (or circle or whatever) says “pong” and the next guy says one of the countries picked by the someone in the team (other than his own, that is.). Now, whoever picked that country starts off again with “ping”. And it goes on. Simple enough? Two things: Play it fast and confuse people around you. For instance, Mukund (where the %^&* do you write man? ) points at you with a wrong country. And by instincts, you will probably blurt out something when you were not supposed to. The game ends when someone either says something when he/she is not supposed to. Or you say your country, or you say ping instead of pong or viceversa. Ofcourse, you play many such rounds.

Still confused? Call me in one day to your get together, give me food to eat and I will kick start it off for you ..

Gawd, How do people upload to youtube? Sucks. Failed thrice now. Is there a desktop uploader for youtube? I know Google video has one. Guess I will just stick with it.

This is an inspirational and ingenious talk from Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala at a tech talk in Google. More about Dr. Jhunjhunwala and TeNet here.

Until this, I have only heard about him through my friends and colleagues from the IITs. After seeing him talk, I have become his big fan. The line that captured my mind in that talk is “The only way to bring about a change and to chase a big dream is by becoming an entrepreneur”. I couldnt agree more.

Have you guys seen this ?