The sound of rain drops.. lullaby...

If one searched for my first name, this blog used to be the second search result in one search engine. Due to my inactivity, it is now nowhere on the first page. To keep my online existence alive, I plan to revive this :)

These days, I don't have patience to write oodles of text. I hardly have patience to even read such except when it is extremely ( Read more... )

Gandhi Bazaar must be teeming with fresh flowers, fruits and vegetables and must be a sea of humanity as well. Ladies in silk sarees must be touring homes of near and dear ones homes with "bagNa". Small streets must be blazing with loud speakers and houses must be filled with aromas of hoLige, kaDubu and chakli.. Wish everyone a happy gauri and ( Read more... )

At the university lab where I'm interning..

Grad student A: They're putting up stickers saying the food is only for guests of such and such event
(silence)
Grad student B:  ...like that's going to stop us ! ;-)

I never realized free food is such a big deal with grad students in US ! But, whenever there is free food anywhere in the building, the news ( Read more... )

Bangalore roads are a battlefield during peak traffic hours. Everyone is strategizing, fighting, blazing horns and putting lives into risk ! I have discovered 3 principles to keep sanity if you have to drive everyday through Bangalore ( Read more... )

These days I hear people using "having said that" a lot. Having said that, most of that usage seems appropriate and correct. When you say something, and you want to contradict yourself in the next statement, you use having said that. Having said that, now I think it's not used for contradicting; its purpose is to soften your previous statement with ( Read more... )

Last weekend, we had been to this quick trip to Marwante, a beach near Kundapur. To be precise, we were at Turtle bay beach resort, a decent but overpriced resort near Trasi junction which is 12 Kms after Kundapur (coming from Mangalore) on NH 17.


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Yesterday night at around 10:30, I was driving past a circle in Padmanabhanagar. It was pretty dark and lonely at that time. I took a left turn just when the signal went red. While I was doing that, in the middle of the circle, a bright camera flashed brilliantly and took my picture!! My first brush with such a camera in Bangalore. Pretty neat, I ( Read more... )

We moved to a new office yesterday. It is very far from home and the commute is 1.5 hours one-way on average. But, the office itself is nice. The cubicles are more spacious than the old office. I have a seat by the window from which I can see west sky which is largely unblemished by buildings and which will hopefully look great towards evening.

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I came to office on a weekend because I have a deadline to meet. But, my mind is so self sympathetic that I am working on a weekend that I am giving myself lot of leeway. I even bought a book at  Landmark to compensate for this :P  Landmark has a discount sale on !!  They have plenty of books on discount. Most notable among those were the "Wilco ( Read more... )