Self-compliment

Meetings of the General House of the municipal corporation are more often than not stormy affairs,with the Congress and BJP-SAD councillors bickering with each other. Sloganeering and making allegations is common. During a recent meeting,the leader of opposition in the House,Arun Sood,quipped that nowhere had he seen the ruling party protesting during meetings. “It is the ruling opposition. They protest on all issues along with the opposition,” said Sood.

Slow

A game stall named,‘Test Your love’ at the Chandigarh Carnival turned out to be a major crowd puller,especially the school students and youngsters. Even Chandigarh Advisor,K K Sharma,who was present for the inauguration,was found trying his hand at the game. To his surprise,the result of the ‘Test your Love’ game commented on that he takes a lot of time to fall in love with somebody. Slow and steady surely wins the race !

Missing

During his promotion tour in Mohali organised by the Himachal Youth Brigade,the 7 feet 5 inch tall,budding wrestler,who is touted as the “new Khali”,visited a Gurudwara to seek obeisance and later addressed the media inside an office in the shrine. Two of his companions,however,were in for a rude shock when they found their shoes missing after they came out.

Grand

It was not just the marquee setup for the wedding of Panchkula Mayor Upinder Kaur’s daughter that was spruced up,but also the foliage around the venue. Electric bulbs were seen hanging from trees around the HAFED ground at Sector 5 where the wedding was hosted. The VIP’s daughter’s wedding looked more like a carnival. Much to their inconvenience, it kept residents in the vicinity awake thanks to the loud music played till late night.

Poor planning

Usually we create infrastructure for the new machinery we buy. However,at the city’s tertiary care institute,PGI,things seem to work the other way round. The hospital had bought a Robot to conduct robotic surgery worth crores,but even after months of purchase the robot has not been put to use. The reason behind this is that the operation theatre is not ready yet.

Age no Bar

Come December,and college students get anxious about their placements,while colleges begin to invite CEOs of companies to interact with the students and offer jobs. However,this time it was two school children who visited MCM College,Sector-36 to offer internships. These school students were Sindhuja (16) and Raghav (15) – the country’s youngest CEOs! Age is simply no bar for them!

Cricket paves way for hockey

Hockey lovers of Panjab University (PU) are a happy lot these days with the upcoming astro-turf in the varsity playground. However,it has left budding cricketers of the varsity disappointed,as the astro-turf has occupied the space they used to play cricket. Well,somebody’s loss is somebody else’s gain!

Quid Pro Quo

With a long list of speakers to address,time constraint was one major hurdle at the recently concluded two-day national conference on women rights. Tasked with the job of time management,a Supreme Court Judge was trying his best to offer adequate time to each speaker. While he kept the outer limit for each address as five minutes,he granted five additional minutes to the UT Administrator K K Sharma. “Mr Sharma was very helpful to me when I was in Chandigarh and so he would get five minutes extra to speak,” the Judge smiled.

Jugaad

Jugaad is now not just a colloquial term for local improvisations and innovations. At the recently concluded two-day IT conclave,the term was much used and discussed. Talking about frugal innovations taking place in the IT sector,Prerna Puri,Secretary (IT),Chandigarh,talked about the Jugaad technology and how it had helped the common people.