Posts Tagged ‘travel’
Conspicuous Consumption Goodbye
When I was much younger, I was told of how North India is culturally different from where I was born and raised. I paid little heed to these words, simply because it was of no consequence to me. I had spent a third of my life in South India and it made little sense for me to deeply analyze something that I felt had no direct impact on my way of [...]
Weekends in the NCR
After moving out of home in 2004, Gurgaon is the third city that I have lived in after Bangalore and Hyderabad. In Bangalore, my weekend planning was initially governed by when I would leave the city to head to Mysore. When things settled in and I began discovering, exploring and understanding Bangalore, and eventually falling in love with the [...]
Of Writing and Travel and Travel Writing
There are many reasons why one would like to travel to a particular place. I can’t say for sure what motivates other people, but I am inspired to visit places that are on the cooler side (temperature-wise), that have rich history and culture, aren’t particularly crowded or over-run by the average ignoramus camera-toting, loud-mouthed [...]
Where the Hell is Matt?
I am extremely jealous of Matt Harding, but not in a bad way. He's been to 42 different countries and has been sponsored by Visa to make an advertisement by travelling all over the world just to do that dance of his. I can dance like that. I am undeniably goofier. But alas, he gets to put all the travel. Such is life. I will have to resort to [...]
Notes About Nothing – 18/03/2009
The last time I did this series of bloglets was when I was inspired by Purely Narcotic's LJ to write about stuff that took hardly more than two hundred words to pen down. By itself, it wouldn't make for a post, given my verbose nature of posting, and clumping a few of them together seemed to make more sense. This series of posts comprises [...]
Paranoia Sets In
The first time after the Bangalore serial blasts, I had to head towards Majestic to a bookstore to pick up a few text books for my sister. This was about a week after July 25th '08, and as I alighted from the bus and walked up on the bridge that leads towards the Majestic theatre side of the bus stand, despite the fact that I was listening to [...]
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 [...]
Notes about Nothing – Work Anniversaries
Its official now, I've spent more time outside college than I did within it. Not that I attended too many classes and all that, but I guess I've been a Corporate Ho longer than I was an undergrad student. Four years have passed since I graduated from being a dorky engineering graduate to a dorky engineer who had to earn his living. This [...]
