Archive for October, 2008
Redifining Hospitality
Atithi Devo Bhava Guest is God-like, or so said someone who had a thing for hospitality, and someone else wrote it down in ancient times and it seems to have stuck around for ages as an integral part of our culture thereafter, until now. These thoughts stuck me when some guy from my office who lives close to me said he'd drop in to my place, [...]
LOL Speak v/s Tech Speak
With the popularization of the infectiously absurd but funny internet meme, the LOL Cats, LOL speak is now among the in-things in the present day pop culture lingo, in line with 'RESTECP' as said by Sacha Baron Cohen in 'Ali G InDaHouse' and 'All your base are belong to us', from the Jap game 'Zero-Wing'. I confess to cheaply conforming to LOL [...]
Making up for Lost Time
On the second Saturday of March this year, I was out in the evening to watch this movie titled 'The Other Boleyn Girl' at a cinema hall in downtown Seattle. After the movie was over, I was still in no mood to return home. Thus, I made a beeline for my favourite bar there, at the Capitol Hill Arts Center, and was sipping on a mug of Pabst Blue [...]
Blugging my Plog
The title refers to a spoonerism that stuck, and will hopefully be around for long. It came about as a result of Monkee talking in his sleep over the phone the other day. For those still blinking at the ostensible spelling error - it is plugging my blog. If you don't know what plug is, kindly refer urban dictionary. After having engaged in [...]
Welcome!!!
Welcome to the all new Hari Shenoy dot com. What you see right now is the end result of something that happened circa January 2007, when my ex-flatmate Sankar (a formerly regular reader of all the nonsense I used to spew, but now ruined by a punishing B school schedule) got me an advance birthday present in the form of my own domain name. Not [...]
About Me
Update 19th May 2011: I'm still unsure of how to go work on this "about me" section, though what I do know is that I like writing more than I ever thought I could and also because it makes me happy. End of Update When I had initially thought of putting this post up, I was brimming with ideas and with all sorts of content that this post [...]
