Received the following email a few days back. So far I must have received around 20 such emails.
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From: James Dale
Private Email: j.****22@hotmail.com
Tel: +44 702-***-8380
Subject: Inheritance Fund
Date: Jan 13TH, 2008.
Hello,
I apologize if the contents hereunder are contrary to your moral ethics, but please treat it with absolute secrecy and personal courtesy. I am James Dale an Auditor in a commercial Bank, in the process of auditing our bank accounts this quarter, I and one of my colleagues recently discovered that there is a dormant account valued at the sum Ј10,000,000.00 (Ten Million British Pound Sterling) and after due verification of this account we discovered that the account owner is late and that is why the account has been dormant and as such a Ј10,000,000.00 has been lying in the bank unclaimed.
The idea of presenting a foreigner to act as his next of kin came into our mind, as you know the said deceased is a foreigner as well. Hence, that is how and why we have contacted you to present you as his next of kin, so that the Ј10,000,000.00 will be paid to you and we can both disburse the fund according to the percentage we will agree upon.
In view of this, I am seeking for your co-operation and understanding to stand as the next of kin to our deceased customer, to enable us claim the fund from my bank.
Hence, if this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take undue advantage of my trust, then I hope to bestow on you. Please kindly get back to me immediately only through my personal contact email; j.****22@hotmail.com
On getting your response, we shall agree on the percentage ratio on which we shall disburse the Ј10,000,000.00 between us, as we intend to invest part of our own share in real estate or any lucrative business in your country, and we would appreciate if you can put us in the right part where we can invest our own share in your country. I will not contact any person or company until I hear from you, so as to enable me decides on what to do next.
Be rest assured that this business is 100% risk free.
We wait for your prompt response.
Best Regards,
James Dale.
Private Email: j.****22@hotmail.com
Tel: +44 702-***-8380
NB: PLEASE NOTE THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE NOT RELATED TO MY LATE CLIENT OR NOT; THE FUND WILL STILL BE PAID TO YOU, SINCE I AM PRESENTING YOU AS HIS NEXT OF KIN. ]--
So by calculation I should be a millionaire sheikh buying oil wells and driving Continental GTs.
Ho-hum. Well, I am off to shop for a Bentley.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Fly or Cry?
Bangalore International Airport (BIA) now announces everyday flights to Singapore,New York, Greece and Pain.
That is what the new announcements should be saying soon. Bangalore Govt decides to open a new world class airport. Very Good. Bangalore Govt decides to start daily flights connecting Bangalore and India to various countries of the world. Excellent. Bangalore Govt decides to shut down HAL airport.Wrong move. Bangalore Govt...What Bangalore Govt? Bangalore doesnt have a govt anymore. WTF?!
But what I fail to understand is the logic behind the government deciding to move all operations from HAL airport to the new BIA. This is probably another classic case of the human race progressing but our esteemed indian politicians regressing. Why in heavens name would I travel 3 hours to travel 35kms so that I can catch a flight that takes 1 hr to travel 900kms?
People moved their mode of travel from rail to air not just because the fares had come down but also because it was much more convenient in terms of time taken to reach point A to B. Now with the time factor becoming comparable once again I would rather take the train. Let me put it in perspective :
Scenario A: Business Analyst Tanya Dhurai who works for Sinfosis has to travel to Hyderabad for a client meeting on 16th Jan. Her flight by Queenfisher Airlines from the HAL airport is scheduled for departure at 1900hrs. She also has to attend a meeting with her tech team at 1600hrs which would last for approximately 30mins. So she attends her tech team meeting at 1600hrs, leaves office at 1645hrs. Takes a cab to the airport and reaches the airport at 1730hrs, checks in, goes through the security check and boards the flight at 1800hrs.
Scenario B: Business Analyst Tanya Dhurai who works for Sinfosis has to travel to Hyderabad for a client meeting on 3rd April. Her flight by Queenfisher Airlines from the Bangalore International Airport is scheduled for departure at 1900hrs. She also has to attend a meeting with her tech team at 1600hrs which would last for approximately 30mins. So she attends her tech team meeting at 1600hrs, leaves office at 1645hrs. Takes a cab to the airport and reaches the airport at 2000hrs,cant check in, and cant do anything but go back, because the flight has already reached Hyderabad.
So if you have to reach the new BIA from the Infosys campus, it takes you a good 3-3.5hrs. Add to that another half hour for check-in, security check and boarding. SO that makes it 4 hrs. So at the barest minimum I have to spare a good 4 hrs to take a damned flight. There is no direct flight between two cities in India that takes more than 2.5-3 hrs.
While on the airport talk, BIA was earlier scheduled to be fully functional in 2015. Then the Bangalore govt (?) wanted to speed up things and directed them to make it fully operational by 2010. And now the buzz is that its scheduled to open on April 2, 2008. How are they managing something like that? I mean come on, this is not how we politicians function. We are supposed to delay the process, make a few extra, sorry, make a lot of extra bucks, stall some more, raise objections,set up a dharna so as to enable the local corporator who is related to the wife's cousin's chacha's daughter's milkman can also make some dough. So it is quite surprising to see something this far ahead of schedule. I won't be surprised if there is some conspiracy behind this and one day we hear of the BIA collapsing due to weak infra. Yes, I am a cynic.
On the other hand we have the Hyderabad International Airport which is coming up 30kms from the city centre too, but the access to which is being tackled proactively in the form of a new expressway which makes your journey to the airport a matter of a 45min drive. Inspite of which they havent yet decided to shut down the airport currently being used, though talks are still on.
Anyways, I have booked my train ticket to and from Bangalore. I hope you have too.
That is what the new announcements should be saying soon. Bangalore Govt decides to open a new world class airport. Very Good. Bangalore Govt decides to start daily flights connecting Bangalore and India to various countries of the world. Excellent. Bangalore Govt decides to shut down HAL airport.Wrong move. Bangalore Govt...What Bangalore Govt? Bangalore doesnt have a govt anymore. WTF?!
But what I fail to understand is the logic behind the government deciding to move all operations from HAL airport to the new BIA. This is probably another classic case of the human race progressing but our esteemed indian politicians regressing. Why in heavens name would I travel 3 hours to travel 35kms so that I can catch a flight that takes 1 hr to travel 900kms?
People moved their mode of travel from rail to air not just because the fares had come down but also because it was much more convenient in terms of time taken to reach point A to B. Now with the time factor becoming comparable once again I would rather take the train. Let me put it in perspective :
Scenario A: Business Analyst Tanya Dhurai who works for Sinfosis has to travel to Hyderabad for a client meeting on 16th Jan. Her flight by Queenfisher Airlines from the HAL airport is scheduled for departure at 1900hrs. She also has to attend a meeting with her tech team at 1600hrs which would last for approximately 30mins. So she attends her tech team meeting at 1600hrs, leaves office at 1645hrs. Takes a cab to the airport and reaches the airport at 1730hrs, checks in, goes through the security check and boards the flight at 1800hrs.
Scenario B: Business Analyst Tanya Dhurai who works for Sinfosis has to travel to Hyderabad for a client meeting on 3rd April. Her flight by Queenfisher Airlines from the Bangalore International Airport is scheduled for departure at 1900hrs. She also has to attend a meeting with her tech team at 1600hrs which would last for approximately 30mins. So she attends her tech team meeting at 1600hrs, leaves office at 1645hrs. Takes a cab to the airport and reaches the airport at 2000hrs,cant check in, and cant do anything but go back, because the flight has already reached Hyderabad.
So if you have to reach the new BIA from the Infosys campus, it takes you a good 3-3.5hrs. Add to that another half hour for check-in, security check and boarding. SO that makes it 4 hrs. So at the barest minimum I have to spare a good 4 hrs to take a damned flight. There is no direct flight between two cities in India that takes more than 2.5-3 hrs.
While on the airport talk, BIA was earlier scheduled to be fully functional in 2015. Then the Bangalore govt (?) wanted to speed up things and directed them to make it fully operational by 2010. And now the buzz is that its scheduled to open on April 2, 2008. How are they managing something like that? I mean come on, this is not how we politicians function. We are supposed to delay the process, make a few extra, sorry, make a lot of extra bucks, stall some more, raise objections,set up a dharna so as to enable the local corporator who is related to the wife's cousin's chacha's daughter's milkman can also make some dough. So it is quite surprising to see something this far ahead of schedule. I won't be surprised if there is some conspiracy behind this and one day we hear of the BIA collapsing due to weak infra. Yes, I am a cynic.
On the other hand we have the Hyderabad International Airport which is coming up 30kms from the city centre too, but the access to which is being tackled proactively in the form of a new expressway which makes your journey to the airport a matter of a 45min drive. Inspite of which they havent yet decided to shut down the airport currently being used, though talks are still on.
Anyways, I have booked my train ticket to and from Bangalore. I hope you have too.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Purpose?
What is the purpose of our life? No, I don't want to sound like an old revered sage, nor am I looking to enlighten any of you reading this. It's just something I was wondering about the other day.
Right from my childhood I have seen my relatives, distant relatives, not-related-at-all relatives, irrelatives, friends, foes, me, everyone, every single one of us and them grapple for space, for greatness, for wealth. We are exhorted to excel. Be one up on the other. Be the numero uno. What a bloody waste of our lives. Why, in heavens name, if I cant enjoy the wealth, the fame, the greatness, should I covet it so much?
We can't take the wealth with us. And if you ask Why, you'll be told that in this world you will be saluted only if you are something. You counter with a, "Man, I dont want to be 'salaam'-ed!". Which is countered with a, " Don't you want your kids to have a good comfortable life?". You tell them, " Why in hell should I give a damn about my kids who aren't even around right now? And why should I slog my hands to the bone for them anyways? They want a good comfortable life, let them slog once they arrive in this world!!".
(Ed-To be honest I dont want kids. But more about that later.)
Wouldn't you honestly like to live on the mountains, being the fat of the land, eating off the fat of the land? A li'l hard-work to get by and provide for the 2 room cottage. Two nice shady trees, a hammock, some music?
You try for a while. To live they want you to. It just doesn't cut it for you. So you try living the way you want to. This is when they start looking at you as a deviant. And maybe it is true. Maybe some of us are deviants. And I can bet a lot of money that there are millions out there who WANT to be deviants too. But the society, peer pressure, greed has caught up with them and maybe they are a little too late.
[This post really doesnt make any sense. And this not an indication or a precursor to the rest of my posts. Its just something I wanted to vent out. Frankly, I dont know if I am a deviant or not. Maybe I am simply a hypocrite.]
Right from my childhood I have seen my relatives, distant relatives, not-related-at-all relatives, irrelatives, friends, foes, me, everyone, every single one of us and them grapple for space, for greatness, for wealth. We are exhorted to excel. Be one up on the other. Be the numero uno. What a bloody waste of our lives. Why, in heavens name, if I cant enjoy the wealth, the fame, the greatness, should I covet it so much?
We can't take the wealth with us. And if you ask Why, you'll be told that in this world you will be saluted only if you are something. You counter with a, "Man, I dont want to be 'salaam'-ed!". Which is countered with a, " Don't you want your kids to have a good comfortable life?". You tell them, " Why in hell should I give a damn about my kids who aren't even around right now? And why should I slog my hands to the bone for them anyways? They want a good comfortable life, let them slog once they arrive in this world!!".
(Ed-To be honest I dont want kids. But more about that later.)
Wouldn't you honestly like to live on the mountains, being the fat of the land, eating off the fat of the land? A li'l hard-work to get by and provide for the 2 room cottage. Two nice shady trees, a hammock, some music?
You try for a while. To live they want you to. It just doesn't cut it for you. So you try living the way you want to. This is when they start looking at you as a deviant. And maybe it is true. Maybe some of us are deviants. And I can bet a lot of money that there are millions out there who WANT to be deviants too. But the society, peer pressure, greed has caught up with them and maybe they are a little too late.
[This post really doesnt make any sense. And this not an indication or a precursor to the rest of my posts. Its just something I wanted to vent out. Frankly, I dont know if I am a deviant or not. Maybe I am simply a hypocrite.]
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