Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, "Who are you?"

-Khalil Gibran

EMC enlightened me with Citibank.
My experience so far...

-> In addition to the usual debit card, they'll send you all the other scheme cards (Indian Oil, grocery, Shoppers Stop Card) also. Your consent is not required for this.
And will gladly charge you Rs.499 (+taxes) each card.

-> You are also supposed to have a Citibank Gold Cash Back credit card.(they need not ask you for this).
Oh yes, if you deny the card, they'll make it "lifetime free" for you (being an "esteemed customer" with *good track record*).
Your life time is one year. After that they'll charge you Rs.1000 (+taxes) as renewal charges for the card.

-> You are also supposed to take a personal loan from them. Otherwise they'll bug you calling every other day.
Adding yourself to Citibank's DND(do not disturb) list does not help!

-> And, if by any chance, you have visited any of their branches for cash transactions, don't be surprised if you have been charged Rs.100 (+taxes) as personal banking charges.
(you can get this reverted back by placing a request though)...

Relaxed and Perplexed

Very often someone comes to my desk...I usually raise both my arms...in a relaxed fashion with my hands locked behined my head... leaning backwards on the chair...(dont know what is this supposed to mean in body language terms).
wondering...this should mean something...should propose a theory for this atleast... :)

So...when someone is talking to you...raises one of the arms...showing armpits...you intutively feel one out of the two things...

1-> you raise your arm in order to show your armpits and both feel a plaseant sensation of showing them and sharing their natural *scents* (that means sharing thoughts...cooperation...friendship...equality... and what were you thinking I'm talking of ? :) )

2-> you instinctevely sniff the air...as you were absorbing the scent of the one who has the arms raised. That should be a socially respectful manner to consider the one with arm/s raised as stronger...or wiser...or anything...in that moment.

Now...in an even *more* relaxed (perplexed actually!) moment...one could raise *both* arms and show *both* armpits...that would mean an even more *comfortable* situation..and it is even more relaxing if you raise both of your arms too and continue the conversation...

So...just raise your arm when you feel you like on a conversation and observe the reactions!!!!!!

Answers with No Questions

I have a feeling that Douglas Adams presently must be just looking down on all of us and grinning at the fact that we are all here still wondering what the meaning is and looking for answers that never had a question....:)

Aim of Life

These are some random scratches ...on what I think life is all about...
okay.. not my thoughts in entirity, but have given a lot of thought over this...happy??

Life's aim can be well stated in three stages...
1-> Survival
2-> Social
3-> Entertainment/Satisfaction

with the following rules applied:
-> cannot skip these stages...i.e individual cannot(will not) aim of being social until he has survived, or went past through stage one...similarly one cannot think of entertainment withou one and two.
-> it's a cycle which never ends....i.e we'll be going back to survival as soon as we are satisfied with life...this is where *greed* come into picture...the cycle never ends...we hae exceptions here..sucide cases..may be i am wrong here..or just need to think more on this.
-> They are always achieved in the same order...one..two..three...one..two..three..
-> every action is based on achieving one of the above goals...(i have a nice case study of *sex* on this...but restraining myself from quoting here...just to be serious :) )
-> all this applies not only to humans..but to all life forms.



/Puneet
(with tongue in my cheek)

I literally hate it when people call me *good*...#**%#@* and rely on _me_. What the heck#$%@*#^

Man I''ll never ever understand women..no matter how much I try I can never understand them...