* Calling former pupils of Windsor… Rekindle friendships, meet old buddies, see pictures of yesteryear, and retrace your footprints in the quadrangle of your Alma Mater this weekend. The Alumni Dinner will be held on Friday night, with a Family Get-Together Day on Saturday. It’s going to be ‘each-one-meet-one’ weekend. Pictures projected on a giant screen will take you down memory lane, so be there! For more info, contact Anita on 084-500-7242, Val on 081-784-5244, or the school on 036-637-3632.
* The Windsor commemorative magazine (together with a DVD) featuring pictures of yesteryear, as well as pictures of the attendees at the Alumni Dinner, will be ready by the end of March. For more info and to place your orders, contact me on 082-756-0736 or labqi_khan@yahoo.com
* Technology giant Microsoft has announced that Indian-born Satya Nadella will be its next chief executive. Company founder Bill Gates said, “During this time of transformation, there is no better person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella. It will be important that Mr Nadella be free to make changes. Satya is a proven leader with hardcore engineering skills, business vision and the ability to bring people together. His vision for how technology will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what Microsoft needs as the company enters its next chapter of expanded product innovation and growth.” “Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionised the world through technology, and I couldn’t be more honoured to have been chosen to lead the company,” said Mr Nadella. The Hyderabad-born executive joined Gates in 1992 and has degrees in Electronics, Computer Science and Business Administration.
* Whose responsibility is it to repair parking lots around shopping centres? The number of potholes (nay, craters) resemble the surface of the moon. If the Department of Public Safety is responsible (after all, they mark the parking bays), then they need to pull their fingers out and start earning their stripes. If the onus lies on the shoulders of those conglomerates who own the shopping centres, then those mother-loving fat cats better come to the party and repair their property. They make mega-bucks from us, the consumers. Very soon, some motorist / shopper is going to sue them for damage to his / her vehicle!
* Have you noticed the breath of fresh air that’s blowing in our area recently? Municipal big wigs are opening bridges and community halls, and addressing social issues, house meetings, etc. This is so inspiring! Is it because elections are around the corner? If only we had elections annually! Talk about cockroaches emerging from the woodworks once every five years!
* How many people have you seen on the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’? I am referring to the bridge alongside Boxer. What a f&*^ing balls-up!
* Talking of a f&*^ing balls-up, the Town Hall clock could compete with other facets of our town. To name a few: the one-way system, the taxi rank in Forbes Street, the monument at the Lyell / King Street intersection, little or no effort to repair our roads, the long wait for hail damage relief, street lights that take ages to repair after storms, ad nauseam.
* Women in Tokyo threatened a sex boycott against any man who voted for Yoichi Masuzoe in last weekend’s gubernatorial election, in protest over his claim that menstruation makes women unfit for government. In 1989, he told a men’s magazine that it would not be proper to have women at the highest level of government because their menstrual cycle makes them irrational. “Women are not normal when they are having a period. You can’t possibly let them make critical decisions about the country [during their period] such as whether or not to go to war,” he said. Obviously those women wish to have their men by the balls.
