Random Thoughts – Random Musings

What’s your comfort-soup phrase?

So to speak! Those who don’t know what a comfort soup phrase is – are usually unaware and hopeless or sometimes aware but helpless 😁 Everyone has their usual suspects, sometimes more than just one. I am a culprit of liberally sprinkling “so to speak”, as my cushion / comfort phrase…as I just got to…

integers & a 10 year young’un

I was caught in an inadvertent crossfire exchange of a positive and negative integer session basics, between my wife and my 10 year old. She was trying to brush his knowledge right before a class test. 🤭 Mom: Ashvik, Borrowing money makes you +ve or -ve? Ashvik: Obviously mom, I have money, I am +ve…

Half means bigger half

Warning – parental discretion futile. 👻 A typical day in our household. My 11 year old son wanted the — bigger half — of a burger when he had to share it with his sister! Sure this applies to practically any eatable..and if your eatable to kids ratio is not 1:1..(You may have experienced this…

New kid on the block! Young author alert

We have a 11 year old strutting around the house as if he is a celebrity! Well, why not! Ashvik has authored, illustrated and published his first book – a science fiction novel, or that’s what it looks like. 😄 Extremely elated to announce that his maiden book has now hit the stands and is…

Men speak 7000 words a day vs 20000 by women..ahem

That’s a very (un)popular myth IMHO and has had its prominence, debunking, and a fair bit of memes going around as well. My first thought as I try to take this in was, why doesn’t this background stat help show up in the workplace scenario as much as it could have? We see anywhere between…

Claim your seat at the table

This is my next in series of the (hopefully) morale boosting pep rants, aimed at team building and personality development. There are more often than not, multi faceted categories of people, in a team setting or situation: the table creators the din makers the note takers the mannequins The table creators are good at identifying…

Do you Go to the Get or Get to the Go?

Figured the cryptic title yet? Almost rhapsodic! * pic courtesy: sketch by my 10 year old son Warning: Significant wordplay involved. Two innocuous statements combined to cause massive confusion 😄 I submit my quick perspective around this. The above 2 statements generically typecasts 2 kinds of people you get to (be and) meet. There is…

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