<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:51:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Hari. Etc.</title><description></description><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/etc.html</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-8241845358409888073</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-07T17:11:04.138+05:30</atom:updated><title>&gt;&gt;</title><atom:summary type='text'>abandon, abscond, clear, decamp, depart, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, ebb, end, escape, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, flee, fly, go, leave, melt, pass, pass away, retire, retreat, sink, vacate, vamoose, wane, withdraw, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be swallowed up, cease to exist, come to naught, dematerialize, die out, drop out of sight, end gradually, evanish, fade </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2009/07/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-8944065070919807174</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-02T19:36:30.525+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ramblings</category><title>Beware the vacuum cleaner!</title><atom:summary type='text'>It sucks. They suck actually.Humour me for a minute. And look back a few years, assuming it’s been a few years. Back to the time when you were this cocky little twit who thought the world would change its angle of inclination, with but a glare. Angle of inclination, quality of public toilets, the few tonnes of gold in Dalal Street, whatever got you off.Come back. Look again. Still that cocky?I </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2009/06/beware-vacuum-cleaner.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-6605022771474178875</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-17T19:54:52.764+05:30</atom:updated><title>Am I proud or what!</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2009/04/am-i-proud-or-what.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-3201544432973884192</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-05T14:16:51.068+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Confessions of a compulsive procrastinator</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ramblings</category><title>Top 10 reasons why I've not changed my site's design</title><atom:summary type='text'>1. That bleeding Stumble button!2. 4 other jobs that I still have to procrastinate.3. The bloody phone rings every time  I start!4. Shit! I don't remember this one! Sorry.5. The fine tuning in the layout, which I'd again postponed.6. Gym time!7. Weekend's just a couple of days away!8. I get this horrible twitch on the far corner of my left eye every time I start. Must be some HTML bad luck.9. </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2009/01/top-10-reasons-why-ive-not-changed-mu.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-3506126255395249473</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-30T12:09:13.473+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ramblings</category><title>Monkey on the mind</title><atom:summary type='text'>Did you ever have this feeling that there was a voice in your head? Telling you, urging, pleading, pushing, badgering, teasing, and instigating you, to do something. Constantly and mercilessly yakking its way through everything you do, or even try to do.Something that is not stupid, but super stupid. The kind of thing that people first laugh at, ridicule and then put down as absolute insanity. </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/10/monkey-on-mind.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-8311361851669952814</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-24T17:28:06.458+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Chilkan</category><title>Chilkan says #1</title><atom:summary type='text'>Arz kiya hai:Eh Khuda teri kya khudayi!Jugnu ki gaand mein batti jalayi!</atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/09/chilkan-says-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-2415569792678164604</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-19T16:32:22.531+05:30</atom:updated><title>Who are you? Really.</title><atom:summary type='text'>I think this is a beautiful story. A human story. Could be anybody's . Mine. Yours. Anybody's. That it is about a girl sexual orientation is just incidental I think. It's about every thing, in a way. About how we repress ourselves. And about how knowingly, unknowingly, we live for someone else's approval.I found this here. You know, I think way too deeply about alot of things. I over anylize, and</atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/09/who-are-you-really.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-1034974108304116420</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-16T16:43:22.731+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>What I found on the Web</category><title>Testimonial</title><atom:summary type='text'>It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is derived from this tradition</atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/09/testimonial.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-5999591091356873820</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-02T12:36:28.077+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>KLPD</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>What I found on the Web</category><title>Married Chips</title><atom:summary type='text'>This was an email forward.After nearly 50 years of marriage, a couple was lying in bed oneevening, when the wife felt her husband, begin to massage her in ways he hadn't in quite some time.It almost tickled as his fingers started at her neck, and then beganmoving down past the small of her back.  He then caressed hershoulders and neck, slowly worked his hand down, stopping just overher stomach.He</atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/09/married-chips.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-7443218516125109080</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-27T21:22:05.552+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ramblings</category><title>Why do I want to go?</title><atom:summary type='text'>To Mongolia?Coz I know so little about it.To work?I have to pay for Mongolia, right!Away from her?Coz she’s left me nowhere else to go.To Hitch?He rhymes with me.To the next channel?Hopefully the next one still has ads.Home?I run out of reasons to stay out.To my barber?For no reason now, actually.To the North East?I really liked dog the first time I tried.To the loo?Hell coz I need to go!But, why</atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/07/why-do-i-want-to-go.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-1072256681544389718</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-26T14:29:50.934+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ramblings</category><title>Not a mistake</title><atom:summary type='text'>Like in any story worth telling, there was this girl. She had a huge load on her heart, weighing her down, killing her one day at a time. But she could not rid herself of it no matter how hard and no matter which way she tried. Till she met this guy.He lent her his ear, his patience, his words and a little bit of his courage. Phone bills soared on either end. Nights seemed to have no end. Chat </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/07/not-mistake.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>9</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-1795789683035232246</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-14T14:43:40.829+05:30</atom:updated><title>Brains?</title><atom:summary type='text'>Got this one by SMS.A 3 year old boy examining this testicles while having his bath asks his mother, "Mom, are these my brains?""Not yet", she replies.</atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/07/brains.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-2108736271270586834</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-27T21:24:21.390+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ladakh</category><title>Ladakh in 84 pictures</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/07/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-2285220611529058649</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-01T18:09:04.394+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ladakh</category><title>Coming soon</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/07/coming-soon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-2821037182017573745</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-27T11:59:05.407+05:30</atom:updated><title>You have been bundooed. Part I.</title><atom:summary type='text'>The car was zipping down the winding road of the hill when the inspector spots its missing number plate from the bottom of the hill. He sends his crony forward waving his three and a half foot bamboo lathi trying to stop the car. Predictably enough, the car brakes at the last minute and plasters the black road with rubber, to stop inches from the vacillating crony in khaki.The super dark window </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/06/you-have-been-bundooed-part-i.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-1959346164212866382</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-25T13:35:59.855+05:30</atom:updated><title>Sing along!</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/06/sing-along.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-1964786629131014563</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-23T20:00:00.524+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>What I found on the Web</category><title>Me me me!</title><atom:summary type='text'>&lt;!--ColorQuiz.com code--&gt;Hari took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!"Needs a way of escape from all that oppresses him ..."Click here to read the rest of the results.&lt;!--End ColorQuiz.com code--&gt;</atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/06/me-me-me.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-5336437467622723339</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-23T12:09:08.599+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>MazdoorUnion</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ramblings</category><title>What's in a name!</title><atom:summary type='text'>A little before my brother and I were born, Vasanta and Charyulu had this understanding. They would have two kids, girls ideally. The first one would be named by Charyulu and the next one by Vasanta.       To their immense disappointment, I was the first successful sperm.    Now, however disappointed, Charyulu had to find this name for me. The dutiful son that he is, he asked his mom, her sisters</atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/06/whats-in-name.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-439225323829613724</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-20T13:22:04.160+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>MazdoorUnion</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>KLPD</category><title>And he took flight</title><atom:summary type='text'>Fearless was the young ornithologist who went by the name of Arjun. Keen of the eye and sharp of the mind, unquenchable was his thirst for adventure. And insatiable his hunger for knowledge.      Early one morn, at the crack of dawn, the intrepid ornithologist rose from bed and set out to find a treasure of knowledge in the dingy alleyways of Jumeraat Bazaar. Two streets down, he came upon a </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/06/and-he-took-flight.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-6258431257710456132</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-20T13:23:52.049+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ladakh</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ramblings</category><title>Soon.</title><atom:summary type='text'>Scared. Excited. Worried. Holding my breath. Vacillating. Eager. Confident. Guarded. Unsure. Prepared. Nowhere near it. Determined. Nervous. Like steel. Irrational. Frantic. Tired. Impatient. Absolutely scatterbrained. Bubbling. Bursting. Petrified. On the edge. Back. On the edge again.I've waited 12 years to feel exactly like this. And I can't wait one minute longer. Ladakh, here I come.</atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/05/soon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>7</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-2137760299728947451</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 10:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-20T13:22:57.139+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>MazdoorUnion</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>KLPD</category><title>**********</title><atom:summary type='text'>Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia or Abulafia was a thirteenth century Jewish scholar and philosopher. Among all of his deeply philosophical pursuits and passions, he had this obsessive belief that alphabets, numerals, vowel-points and their infinite permutations hid the purpose of human existence and the “truth”.     Umberto Eco wrote this incredible book called Focault’s Pendulum. Now related to as </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/05/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-8998289378736462769</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-16T10:22:01.244+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>What I found on the Web</category><title>Evolution!</title><atom:summary type='text'>This is an article I found here.I still can't believe there is any debate about the reality of evolution as a process in nature, but large groups of people continue to resist any form of scientific revelation.  Part of the reason is no doubt related to religion, as for whatever reason, evolution and religion have been put in a cage with each other with orders to kill. Last time I checked, </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/05/evolution.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-4040789142065405484</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-20T13:24:23.354+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ladakh</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ramblings</category><title>Reclaimation.</title><atom:summary type='text'>If you had to look back on your life, what would you remember?The promotion? The performance bonus?The plaque in the conference room?It does not take supreme intelligence to know what really matters.And yet, you do little besides look in the distance and sigh.Wouldn't it be tragic to realise too late that you didn't see the trap? That you didn't recognise the two words that are the biggest curse </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/04/reclaim.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-2198638532926985458</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-15T20:32:59.203+05:30</atom:updated><title>And one more!</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/04/and-one-more.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38712094.post-8982043906325344018</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-20T13:25:38.114+05:30</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ramblings</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>What I found on the Web</category><title>Black screen. Green letters.</title><atom:summary type='text'>This feels like the computer I used in 1987. Remember those days of "Logo" and "Basic". Damn I was good with that shit! I drew a house using all those lousy commands. I was probably in 4th Class (Grade, if you like). And could barely boot a computer with DOS. And I drew a house with things like rt 45, Lt 90 etc. My computers teacher was so excited, we thought she was having a seizure.Talking </atom:summary><link>http://www.hetch.co.in/2008/04/black-screen-green-letters.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hari)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>