Archive for February, 2008
Live Blogging
This is a new thing for me, to actually sit and live blog when at a place where I am supposed to do something else, but the scenario that is unfolding around me is so interesting and document-worthy that I figured I might as well do it now, rather than never do it. I am in the basement lounge of the CHAC, aka the Capitol Hill Arts Center, a very [...]
Happenings
So it turns out, not without a tinge of irony attached, that in a manner similar to how my first visit to a McDonalds happened in Oslo, rather then in dear old Bangalore or how my first bout of public drunkness (read drinking beer in the wide open in public) happened on the pedestrian streets of Copenhagen with a fellow brown guy and his Polish [...]
Decree
Due to current geographical location, I am forced to make any references to money in terms of hard currency, and as a consequence, might sound a bit more obnoxious and air-headed than I usually do. I doubt you can tell the difference. However, to express solidarity with my Asian brothers here, some of whom are part of gangs that I have steered [...]
Marriage Blues Revisited
I turn 25 this year in less than two months. Assuming that I have a life-expectancy of around 65 or so, accidents notwithstanding, I still have forty years to go and I have 61.5% more of my life to still look forward to. So far, touchwood, the ride has been pretty decent, like a complete and total rollercoaster, replete with ups and downs as I [...]
When Hari Met Stoli
My first weekend in Seattle, after having visite the Experience Music Project museum and the Science Fiction Museum and getting bitti entry for having a press pass, for I intend on writing about the place in RSJ, I was hunting around for a place where I could spend the evening before I headed out back to where I lived and call it a night. It was [...]
Lifehouse
In the land of hedonism and of unimaginable excesses, I am trying to live life like a native, albeit a poor one without a car, who uses public transport to get to work. Transport notwithstanding, I am able to ensure that I live well enough and dine where I want to and drink where I want to, and shop for whatever it is that I want without thinking [...]
Airport Live Blogging
LJ-ing from Narita International Airport, Tokyo, I am tired. I have spent the past week in a crazy whirlwind of travels across Mysore - Bangalore - Chennai and back and to and fro after having been informed that I have to go to Seattle on Friday the 1st of Feb. Last minute US visa interview, stamping, collecting it from the courier office three [...]
Airport Blues
Blagging en route to Chennai at 0530 AM this morning, I have hajjar cribs to make. However, for the time being, let me restrict myself to saying how I wish I had a mute button to switch off the PA system which is so noisy that it doesn't allow junta to sleep. I am sitting right across the PA address box, and every square centimeter of my being [...]
