Did this ever happen to you?

I was at one of my company's events recently and I was listening to a presentation. Some guy came and sat in the vacant seat next to mine. From my quick glance towards him, I figured that this is someone I know pretty well. I turned around and looked at his face. From the side view, I was quite confident that I know this person. I tapped his shoulder and said "Hi". He turned around and from the front, he looked quite different. He was not the person I thought he was, I had done a mistake. However, by this time this guy was in the game. From the looks on his face, I could easily tell he was totally confused inside and was trying to guess who I was. He of course tried not to show it on his face and replied "Hi. How are you doing? Which project are you in now?" What could I do? I too acted as if I knew him and exchanged pleasantries. At the end of the day, he must still be wondering who this stranger who spoke to him was.

Sarvam Bollywood Mayam

Another post about FM radio stations. Hopefully the last for a while.

Typically I listen to FM on my way to work. I keep switching stations at the rate of approximately 0.5 seconds. I think it is required by some biological law for men to keep switching TV channels and radio stations at this frequency. A couple of weeks back, I was pleasantly surprised to hear to some old(ish) Hindi music on one of the stations. Mithun's "I am a disco dancer" and such stuff. Only towards the end of my 1 hour journey I realized the reason behind this: The radio station was celebrating 25 years of India's cricket world-cup victory in 1983 and to make us recall how those days were, they were playing Bollywood songs from that year. It left me wondering how these guys can link anything to Bollywood.

However, nothing tops what I heard a few more days back on another radio station. It was the World Environment Day and there was a movie star in the studio to discuss about it. I guess the movie star knew as much about the environment as the squirrels know about space shuttles. However, the host was intelligent. She went "Hi ! Today is world environment day. Environment is all about greenery. So who do you think is the evergreen star of Bollywood."

LOL!!!!!