2009: The Year That Was
Posted on January 2, 2010 - Filed Under blog
2009 has been quite a year for me and when I am long gone and my great-great-grand kids want to read what I’ve written (yeah, your great-great-gramps is teh_pwnage!), they need to be shown how cool I was, even if it means writing something completely untrue and fabricated, as some part of this post might [...]
Read More..>>Disco (?) Dancing Metal Heads
Posted on February 1, 2009 - Filed Under nonsense
Well, ok, not so much disco as freestyle dancing. But you get the drift.
This is the first of two videos I am linking courtesy of youtube. I’d initially put it up, but some resizing error had made the layout look lousy and I’m sort of a stickler for symmetry and for things to look neat [...]
Parsimonious Peregrination
Posted on January 19, 2009 - Filed Under blog
a.k.a travelling like the cheap guy that I am a.k.a Bangalore-Chennai-Bangalore on even less than a shoestring.
At the very outset of this post, I am reminded of some random thing I did in engineering college, in the third and the seventh semester. We had this particular lecturer whose idea of teaching was to walk into [...]
What Petrol Crisis?
Posted on January 8, 2009 - Filed Under blog
Its all over the news today, although it might’ve been overshadowed by the Satyam fiasco, which has almost managed to dislodge all relevant 26/11 coverage from major news channels.
In case you weren’t aware, there’s a major petrol product supplies crisis due to the combined effects of strikes by the truckers (which has entered its fourth [...]
Demonic Resurrection : Opeth = Kryptos : Iron Maiden
Posted on January 8, 2009 - Filed Under blog
Elementary, dear reader.
Or more like an extension of high school math – ratio and proportion.
So, for those that came in late, Mumbai based Demonic Resurrection is all set to be the opening act for Opeth’s maiden India show to be held on 25th January at IIT-M for Saarang 2009.
When last heard, Sahil Makhija, [...]
My Cousin’s Wedding and Other Stories
Posted on December 2, 2008 - Filed Under blog
Well, I made up the other stories part so you’d start reading, but I wouldn’t hold it against you if you were to just close the window.
So, on Saturday evening, I left Bangalore for Mangalore via train and returned on Monday morning. It had been almost two years since I had visited Mangalore, and [...]