I smell a rat!

Oh yeah, I smell a rat! A stinky one, that too. The entire world seems to come to an end, and here I am smelling a rat? You want reasons, why I am smelling rats? Okay take this then, for starters of course, how about the Chinese Year of Rat have started, and I am supposed to celebrate as people in media (print or otherwise) are trying to convince me how all of my wishes are going to come true this year. And to top it all, my Zodiac animal is Ox… it still seems a puzzle to me how this year is the luckiest time for me.

Okay, oh yeah I do smell a rat not just because Ox and Rats should I just say, don’t go together, but because I don’t understand how Chinese people had it all figured out, that Ox indeed go together with rats!!!

And yeah, but Ox and rat is the least of all worries of mine( told you it was just for starters!). Lets first talk some finance, Indian and otherwise. In India, two almost rocking IPOs were cancelled… should I say the name? Emaar and Wockhardt. Believe me, I know Khorakiwala right from childhood, ahem ahem… give or take 18-20 years on the higher side( okay not exactly, I knew him but he didn’t know me) , and knowing how will he be feeling right now, boy I can almost see him feeding his IPO papers to the rats!!! And then, with the volatility in the markets, this indeed seems to be the cursed time for Khorakiwala. Never mind… And yeah Dow Jones is swinging more than Charlie Brown and Lucy’s swing in the park. But hold on… what about subprime crisis? Oh yeah blame it on rats and dogs, and Bears and Stearns, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch… And my my I can literally smell the shit coming this way, to be precise rat shit!(heard they smell the most, I didnt do the survey boy! Dont look at me like that).

Now, lets come to some better news. Hey of late, I heard that NASA people have started getting Beatle-sick[ read it here ]… they love their Beatles isnt it… boy, I love my Black Sabbath too… especially they have such a uncanny resemblance to each other… they both sing songs, which I could never appreciate. Well, I tried hard to listen to Black Sabbath, and never tried Beatles. But still boy I love their music! And you know what, aliens were the first people to hear non-DRM music before us!! Wonder, how much did Steve Jobs bribe NASA for that? What does Steve think, boy? He thinks-”… lead to exploration of new markets…”. What ?? Now is Jobs going into rake alien mullas too? Told you boy, I am smelling rats, alien rats!

P.S: For that matter, rats were the first animals to be sent to space, isn’t it?