Archive for September, 2006
Underneath the Sky
A somewhat impromptu trip to western Norway brought me to this cute little town called Bergen where I spent the weekend at, checking the fjords out on my way and on the way back as well, taking two different routes to and from Oslo.Since the trip was sort of unplanned, and it was intended that way to make it a more worthwhile reminiscence, I [...]
Linguistic Conundrums
Just the other day, a friend of mine, the same guy who had put haircut on tuesday for me wanted me to write something in Hindi for his wife, to impress her and to kindle her romantic spirit. How successful he would have been with his romantic enterprise, given the fact that she is eight and a half months pregnant and focussing only on being able [...]
Fights Galore!
A news story last evening that I saw showed the conflict between Maharashtra and Karnataka over Belgaum. Kasargod district, sandwiched between Kerala and Karnataka also has been part of a border dispute. What difference does it make which state these districts belong to? People can still move about freely since both are soverign parts of our [...]
Airavat vs Rajhamsa
Airavat - originally the name of Indra's white elephant, that he had stolen from Thailand. Now, Airavat - name of restaurant on Mysore road just beyond RV college that us cheap ones used to frequent until they hiked up prices by 40%. Now they're on the verge of bankruptcy due to the absence of our patronage. Also, Airavat - Mysore to Bangalore [...]
A walk up the hill
For the past two months, I have made up my mind about sticking to this routine of walking up Chamundi hills along the steps and then coming back down the same way, once a week, each saturday that I can be at home in Mysore. There is no better kick for an unwilling-out-of-place techie, than to actually be as far away from anything related to work [...]
Leave the dead alone
Another tearful reunion with the television after a long time. This time it was not because of the absence of a television at the hotel that I stayed in, it was more of a content based longing. When everything is either in French or Norwegian or Swedish, and there is no nude womans on TV, its really not worth watching. Hence when I got back to [...]
Lost and Found
This is probably a corny post for someone who is not in my shoes. Like I care. I visited Norway for the second time in two months, courtesy of a company sponsored visit. I was able to get the same room that I had stayed in previously at my hotel, and was thankful for that, because there was a certain comfort attached to the room that I [...]
Butterfly Effect
Sure, you must've heard of it as part of chaos theory or seen the movie starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. For those uninitiated, its a theory that tries to come to the conculsion that a small ripple in the past will create tidal waves in the future. Hitler was supposed to have been aborted, and had that happened, the world would have been [...]
