Half Marathon: Last Sunday I partiicpated in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon's Half Marathon run on 20th January. This time I significantly improved my timing and cut down about 20 minutes. I wasn't actually working on an improved timing, but with the first timer apprehension behind me, I was much more confident and aware of what happens ( Read more... )

Ethiopean refugees have run away from the captial city of Delhi, the clutches of the stark raving attention seeking Asterix, Obelix and the like, and have taken refuge in the city of Bombay for a few days ( Read more... )

The past week has been good personally. First of all people from Bombay are making me feel at home ( Read more... )

There is a subtle difference between restaurants in Delhi and Bombay. In Bombay the waiters/captains always serve the dishes into your plate after naming the dish and asking for veg/non-veg preferences. In Delhi they just name the dish and put it on the table; you have to serve yourself or specifically ask to be served. The naming and the asking is ( Read more... )

This is it. Last day in IIT. Last day in Bombay ( Read more... )

A few of us - eddd, freegeek, Atul, Archana, and me - 'met' Shantaram aka Gregory David Roberts as part of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival. The villager geek has written about it here. I think Shantaram is an awesome dude. All that he said was inspiring to say the least. freegeek's photos here - I happen to be in the background in most of this set.

I just finished booking my first real e-ticket on Indian Railways. BOM-PNQ-BOM Intercity. No more waiting for the ticket to arrive by courier :). Booking possible upto chart preparation time too. This rocks. Facility extended to all Shatabdis, Jan-Shatabdis, Rajdhanis, and other Superfast trains. For Bombay-Pune that means Deccan Queen and ( Read more... )

The fact that I can summarise a year like this convinces me that blogging is good. Also, everyone is doing it and it is making for very interesting reading. So here is my year in review.

2005:
January - Food and drink trails like this discussing SigFood, Goa trip for COMAD 2005, Gunda - IIT's superb cult movie, Mithun-da fandom, and realising/ ( Read more... )

I was on my way to Colaba yesterday evening, when a certain person asked me for a big big favour. I was to buy some hair colour (brand etc. specified) from Westside. The following took place in Westside's cosmetics department:

Me: Give me L'oreal/Garnier hair colour.
Salesgirl 1: Sir what colour would you like?
Me: I wouldn't like any but the ( Read more... )

People are wearing sweaters and jackets in Bombay!
It is perfect weather this time of the year.