Rajni Ishtile!

• Rajanikanth makes onions cry.


• Rajanikanth can delete the Recycle Bin.


• Ghosts are actually created when Rajanikanth kills people faster than Death can process them.


• Rajanikanth can build a snowman..... out of rain.


• Rajanikanth can strangle you with a cordless phone.


• Rajanikanth can drown a fish.


• When Rajanikanth enters a room, he doesn't turn the lights on, he turns the dark off.


• When Rajanikanth looks in a mirror the mirror shatters, because not even glass is stupid enough to get in between Rajanikanth and Rajanikanth.


• Brett Favre can throw a football over 50 yards. Rajanikanth can throw Brett Favre even further.


• The last digit of pi is Rajanikanth. He is the end of all things.


• Rajanikanth does not know where you live, but he knows where you will die.


• Bullets dodge Rajanikanth.


• A Handicap parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Rajanikanth and that you will be handicapped if you park there.


• Rajanikanth's calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd, no one fools Rajanikanth.


• If you spell Rajanikanth wrong on Google it doesn't say, "Did you mean Rajanikanth?" It simply replies, "Run while you still have the chance."


• Rajanikanth can do a wheelie on a unicycle.


• Once a cobra bit Rajanikanth' leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.


• When Rajanikanth gives you the finger, he's telling you how many seconds you have left to live.


• Rajanikanth can kill two stones with one bird.


• Rajanikanth was once on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and was the first to spin. The next 29 minutes of the show consisted of everyone standing around awkwardly, waiting for the wheel to stop.


• Leading hand sanitizers claim they can kill 99.9 percent of germs. Rajanikanth can kill 100 percent of whatever he wants.


• There is no such thing as global warming. Rajanikanth was cold, so he turned the sun up.


• Rajanikanth can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.


• Rajanikanth has a deep and abiding respect for human life… unless it gets in his way.


• It takes Rajanikanth 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.


• Rajanikanth once shot down a German fighter plane with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"


• In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Rajanikanth could use to kill you, including the room itself.


• Behind every successful man, there is a woman. Behind every dead man, there is Rajanikanth.


• Rajanikanth destroyed the periodic table, because Rajanikanth only recognizes the element of surprise.


• Rajanikanth got his drivers license at the age of 16 Seconds.


• With the rising cost of gasoline, Rajanikanth is beginning to worry about his drinking habit.


• The square root of Rajanikanth is pain. Do not try to square Rajanikanth, the result is death.


• When you say "no one's perfect", Rajanikanth takes this as a personal insult.

Picking up a copy of R's biography is on my mind. Afterall, I might find instances that elucidate the above axioms.

Credits - A fellow-mal working hard in the deserts of Arabia

Insight into influencing prescription habits

Managed to lay my hands on this, forms for an interesting read. More so for people who understand pharmaceutical selling.

Discovering Serendipity

It isn’t too often that one thinks deeply of the meaning a word is supposed to disperse. One such casual yet very coherent conversation led me into the understanding the usage of the word better.

Serendipity is the case-in-point. A noun, it stands for the act of finding something delightful/valuable when you are not looking for it.

Derived from an old Persian fairy tale titled - The Three Princes of Serendip , the word was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read,

"It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for, comes under this description) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table."

Interesting snippets -

Serendip is the old Persian name for Sri Lanka.

The word 'serendipity' has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company. However, due to its sociological use, the word has been imported into many other languages (Portuguese serendipicidade or serendipidade; French sérendipicité or sérendipité but also heureux hasard, "fortunate chance"; Spanish serendipia; Italian serendipità; Dutch serendipiteit; German Serendipität; Swedish, Danish and Norwegian serendipitet; Romanian serendipitate).

The 2001 film Serendipity (Kate Beckinsale, John Cusak) revolves around two people who fall in love in "a series of fortunate accidents"

During the final episode of the 1973 Doctor Who serial "The Green Death", The Doctor hears the dying Professor Cliff Jones utter the word "Serendipity", which leads The Doctor to replicate Cliff's tests and discover that the maggots can be killed by an edible fungus.