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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Punishment for corruption - The Manchu Style

Chinese government yesterday executed Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of Food and Drug Administration in that country. He was convicted of amassing $850,000 and allowing fake drugs to be sold.

The Chinese government says that this will serve as a warning to corrupt officials.

The punishment may sound harsh to us Indians where even murderers and rapists get away easily. But this is precisely the reason that China is going to be a super power. Discipline has to be indoctrinated into people.

What we Indians see in movies like Anniyan, the Chinese government does it !!

Monday, July 02, 2007

Interview with Sivaji

After Adiseshan's death by rampaging students trying to get 10000 rupees, Sivaji is jobless and is wandering around. Our reporter caught him loafing around at a temple in Chennai.

Interviewer: Mr Sivaji...Thanks for allowing me to interview you. I did not expect to find you in the temple again. Hope you are not looking for a new girl?
Sivaji: Yes. I am. Tamil Chelvi left me.
Interviewer: Oh..thats too bad. You are such a nice person helping people get MBBS & engineering degrees and providing jobs for millions. Why did she leave you?
Sivaji: She could not sleep in the night with me.
Interviewer: Why sir ?
Sivaji: She could not stand the tabla sound I made on my head. I should have learnt it after Durga left me when I made that "Lakalakalaka" sound....

Interviewer: Sir, lets talk about your life a bit. Everybody wants to know how a Software Systems Architect could amass 200 odd crores?
Sivaji: Ohhh...Give me a break. After completing Windows XP systems design, I joined Apple Computers. There I designed the iPod. Before coming to India, I completed the design for a new device called iPhone. For all these small softwares, I got a few millions...

Interviewer: That's Cool Sir...Ok. About your problems with Mr Adiseshan...How come he was able to remove a state government but was afraid of you going into the IT office with some documents and hard disk. Does he not have contacts there who can hand it all back to him?
Sivaji: You think Adiseshan is intelligent? He could not recognize my voice & Tamil accent when I spoke on the phone chewing my collar.

Interviewer: It was amazing the way your former wife Tamil Selvi saved your life by waving her red davani before the electric train. She was courageous..
Sivaji: Shut up you moron... You think the train driver stopped because she waved her Red Sari? He was trying to see something by leaning forward and accidentally stepped on the brakes.

Interviewer: How can somebody be revived by CPR after more than an hour of his death. But how was the doctor able to revive you?
Sivaji: Naan eppa varuven, eppadi varuvennu yarukkum theriyadhu, aana varavendiya neratthil correct-aga varuven.(When I will arrive, or how I will arrive, nobody will know, but I will arrive when I ought to)

Interviewer: Finally, You are Sivaji, The BOSS (Bachelor of Social Service). Tom Cruise has been running around saying that his wife Kate was a MOSS (Master of Social Service). What is your opinion about that?
Sivaji: Kanna, according to Indian culture, after marriage a lady takes on her husband's identity. So now she is Kate Tom Screws.