Colors of My Sea!

Ever since I heard this word, I am rather interested in finding live examples of it. Hokum means "Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate" . Lets find some examples of it! Fresh out of college, on my first day to job in corporate world as a software engineer, I got a warm 'welcome quote' on corporate from a very dear friend, I can't write that as it may seem offensive to many. In other words quote said 'Corporate is Hokum'. After spending almost 3 years I am quite agreed to it. Two distinct fraternities in a software industry are developers and managers. One using whole of their brains to get the real work done, other trying to manage these brainies and business. Both group fight with each-other as the opposition seem to be not according to them, rather I should say Hokum in their perceptions. Management is always concentrated to get profits out of development work no matter how hard it is to do in a set pe...

I was rushed into the luggage van of the Mumbai Local by the crowd on the way to my first Visa interview. Luckily I got a corner seat. Happy I was, that I can prepare some answers to probable questions. Suddenly I saw a guy takin' out a small musical instrument which usually is used in the classical/devotional Indian Music, Manjeera they called it. And then some more took it out. A mere thought came in mind that ' um gonna lose the visa today, this music is going to fragment my concentration !! ' They started with loud cracking noise produced from that tiny instrument which attenuated as the devotional song followed. I was loosing my temperament, but I was a helpless creature as there was hardly some space to move your hands, moving to other bogey seemed impossible to me. I had no choice but to hear them. Fear of losing came to my mind with this disturbance! Time passed, I started enjoying ...