Archive for February, 2004
Meeting an old friend
One of the earliest scam I ran was a newspaper in Mysore. It was called “White Noise”. We even got a newsprint license. My partner in that scam was Sunil. He was the marketing guy; his job was to look for ads. Soon he fired everyone - editor included and started doing everything by himself - he would even make up his own news if there was no news.
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Lovely toys
I was in the sleepy little town of Huanglongxi in Sichuan province of China. One of the street vendors had set out this game. I tried but could not get even a single ring around the lovely toys, while the local kids laughed at my “foolish” throws. I plan to practice at home and return soon.
Wargames
When I don’t have anything to say, I conveniently pick up a childhood story. Here is a story of a game we used to play in childhood days.
Childhood days, I used to live in Jaipur, a city in India . There used to be this empty plot at the corner of my block. They had started building a house.
(the area we lived in)
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