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 ( Read more... )

Bangalore rocks! Totally and absolutely.

Although Mysore will always be city no.1 so far as I am concerned for the rest of my life, I've grown to love Bangalore so much more after a weekend trip to Chennai. Three days in Chennai on band related work and within twelve hours of landing there, I was pining away for Bangalore and its weather ( Read more... )

Indian Railways online ticket booking rocks. I've always been a fan of train travelling since I've been a kid and ever since I moved to Bangalore, I have been reasonably frequent in travelling between the two cities, raking my train miles up ( Read more... )

In a bid to provide some random arbit posts post the election, I went on an LJ rampage of sorts, putting up five posts in less than an hour, once I returned home after casting my vote.

I don't know for what reason, but the fourth post that I put up, which was a post related to indelible ink and requested readers for some information didn't show up ( Read more... )

On election day, our family has this habit of waking up early in order to go vote en masse at the polling booth. It is probably due to the fact that all the four voting members of our family have consecutive serial numbers in the voters' list and we are quite concerned about making life easy for those election officials, who'd have quite a task of ( Read more... )

Saturday, the 3rd of May 2008 saw me attend my first ever book launch. With this book launch, I now know two published authors personally, one of them being my friend Vikarna's dad - Dr.Krishna Rao who wrote the book whose launch I attended, and the other being a certain Aswath Venkataraman a.k.a Kodhi, who's book launch I wasn't invited to. Aswath ( Read more... )

I had to travel from Bangalore to Mysore on sunday afternoon for arbit reasons. I usually travel by the Volvo bus which is super-comfortable, air conditioned and usually allows even a light sleeper like me to crash on it on occasion. The only downside is the price, which is INR 190 one way ( Read more... )

After a narrow run-in with a possible appearance on page 3 due to a visit to a radio station 'friends only' party (which sounds ominously like live-journal lingo reference), I was in receipt of some other piece of news that had me scandalized and aghast at the developments that were taking place in the world around me.

In the before (like in the ( Read more... )

When we moved into our present house in an obscure area in the outskirts of Mysore, a little under four years ago, this area was as backward as could be. Being the proud owner of a Hutch pre-paid connection (back then), I was aghast at the fact that I had absolutely no network within our house, and any sort of conversation had to be done by running ( Read more... )

My salary account gives me the luxury of withdrawing cash from any ATM without any service charges, and I have managed to use that feature to my advantage on numerous occasions ( Read more... )