The people across from the office have two yellow and one blue plastic flowers attached to their bathroom window. It is the bathroom window because it is made of that rough-textured glass that is no-see-through.
I'm sure the whole wide world has been waiting to read this.
On to other, equally notable things.
On my absent colleague's cabinet there are two miniature Mercedeses, one maroon, the other silver. One's stuck in sort of a tupperware bowl on a sheaf of papers, the other one on what looks like some sort of ramp. Black plastic. Neither Mercedes looks very happy.
The subprime rate mortgage crisis keeps throwing its weight around. Now it turns out that even the oh so successful on their own Chinese were hoping to make a fast buck on another bubble that was supposed to keep growing forever and that was mostly based on loans that should have never been given in the first place. Idiocy thy name is banking.
Darshini David wore bright orange yesterday. Big buttons again, even though the collar was less pronounced than usual. Made her upper body look humongous. I'd been looking forward to her daily appearance, but BBC did not put her on. Rico Hizon from Singapore, a man of vast knowledge, enigmatic smiles and succinct wording (albeit also guilty of some overuse of personal address interjections), was left out as well.
BBC World News has been showing the same AT&T formula 1 whine car racing commercial for weeks. Something about "ultimate speed," "enhanced performance" and "innovative solutions." Leaves me panting every single time. AT&T would be well advised to axe their commercial scribes for abundance of originality.
And oh the big business world is still complaining about the credit crunch that prevents them from sinking trillions into questionable megadeals.
In Bangladesh the police is sent after students that have been proclaiming loudly what everyone has known forever – niffy, inept, self-serving government. Not so different from most governments. More about this on Global Voices.
Oh well. Time to get on with work.
Like the ramblings...Mercedeses? I guess so. Darshini David and then you use a female pronoun "her" Please explain.
ReplyDeleteDarshini David is a Sri Lankan-born news presenter. There's some information about her at
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Also see an older post, "Darshini David's wardrobe" at
http://worldsowide.blogspot.com/2007/08/darshini-davids-wardrobe.html
Obviously I don't watch BBC on TV but I should. I constantly check BBC News on the Net though. She's has impressive credentials!
ReplyDeleteDropping by to say hello. Enjoyed the ramblings and especially your observation power with regard to bathroom flowers and despairing Mercedeses. ;)
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