Archive for September, 2006
haircut on a tuesday
Back home in India, it is pretty much impossible to get a haircut on a tuesday, if you are the run-on-the-mill, average kinda guy who has been visiting the same saloon or barbershop ever since you were a kid.In those swanky places such as VLCC or some other stylist saloons that have mushroomed concurrently in correspondance with the growth of the [...]
Hotel Babel
On work assignment in Norway for a second time, my company has put me up in a place called 'Hotel Bellevue', which is not so much a hotel as a bunch of small apartments with a common kitchenette that masquerades as a hotel to the non-discerning eye.I had been living in this very same hotel the last time around that I was here as well, and this is [...]
Hajama
hajAma is the Kannada word for a barber. The Norwegian word for the same is Fris?r. A friend of mine at the hotel I am staying at got a haircut using an electric machine from another guest at the hotel. For the simple reason that I wanted to try it, and because it seemed a tad easier than the cliched 'rocket science' phrase that is being [...]
2 years
Its been two whole years since I started work in Bangalore. I was oblivious to this fact until I opened my company inbox to see that I had received a congratulatory email from our HR department for having reached this milestone. I was also disturbingly oblivious to the fact that today was my salary day. The focus, I now feel, was on things [...]
