Posts Tagged ‘Bangalore’
Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
I was just listening to this brilliant song by Creedence Clearwater Revival, titled "Have You Ever Seen The Rain", and I've always had a big smile on my face whenever it has played on my ipod, just it like it did now. I suddenly remembered this fond mental picture that would be embedded in my mind forever that I would always associate with this [...]
Dorky Guffaw and The PonyTale Tail
Dorky Guffaw is a superhero. He is a conventional superhero, in lieu of the fact that he does not conform to any of the stereotypes that you'd associate with every other superhero that you'd be aware of, who exists out there.Dorky Guffaw came into being, one fine ennui-filled afternoon, when a colleague of mine and I were engaged in arbit gtalk [...]
Television Woes
When I was in school, The Times of India's sales were on the rise, as the newspaper had reinvented itself, complete with colour photos and relevant local content. A whole bunch of people had switched loyalties to move to the TOI, and I remember my folks also choosing to move to it, discarding the good old Indian Express, quite unceremoniously. [...]
Men of God
Religion to me is very personal, and my transactions with the almighty don't depend necessarily on the holiness of the place, as much as they depend on how much peace I derive while being there. I was told to visit the temple when I had been to Gokarna a few days ago, for it was supposed to be a very holy place, akin to Kashi in the north, and [...]
Death to the people who leaked the Deathly Hallows
One of my previous posts had something about a well-written (but definitely not in the style of JKR) piece of fan-fiction by someone who goes by the handle Melindaleo, on the Phoenix Song site. The small amount of hype that was generated when this book was floated as being 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' was soon quelled once some [...]
Things that make you go…..whoa!!!
There are wonderful things that a software engineer in a happening IT company gets to see in Bangalore. I generally equate women, specially the pretty ones with wonderful things. Of course, it is implicitly understood that wonderful things and IT company recruitment policies are mutually exclusive.On an average, Mangalorean girls are the prettiest [...]
