Literally. I woke up this morning to find one random drunk guy lying drunk in my garden, making random noises. I tried to  shout trying to wake him up so that he would go. But to no avail ( Read more... )

• When you have a company like ITC sponsoring a quiz, you can always expect lots of prizes in kind. Last year's finalist prizes included a bag of cheap biscuits (mostly marie/krackjack types - sunfeast of course) and a packet of Aashirvad rajma. This year, they seemed to mess up on that. I think two finalist teams didn't receive anything. There was ( Read more... )

I reached Madras a full four hours before the Odyssey quiz was supposed to start two weekends back. The presence of another "good" quiz the previous day meant that not too many others were taking the early morning train for the quiz. In fact, I was the only quizzer on that train - not something you normally see on national holidays, when half the ( Read more... )

He rushed to my room all excited. "Dooode! How was the exam? Did you do the last question?"

The exam in question was the final exam of a course on Technology and Business. It was a mostly objective paper and at the end there was one subjective question I think. Maybe there were more, but I only remember this one. I had returned to my room half an ( Read more... )

I came in to work this morning to see > 400 unread items on my google reader! The only time it was higher I think was when I took a week off to go to Chickmaglur and Goa ( Read more... )

Given my superior long term memory (for which i've paid a huge price in terms of an extremely bad short-term memory), I keep running this "this day that year" iteration in my head. On a certain day, I try and figure out what I did on the same day a few years back. Some memories stick, others don't. For some "significant" dates (such as my birthday ( Read more... )

People, sorry for the delay. I know this travelogue is taking forever to write. In order to clear my conscience and allow myself to blog about other things without apologising, I'm completing the quartet today. Rather, I hope to do it in the next few minutes.

As you might have figured out,
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We saw off Manu at the chickmagalur bus stand and proceeded towards Goa. Rather, set out to proceed towards Goa. Only problem was that we had no clue how we would get there. The rest of this blogpost is going to be preserved. For a few decades after which I might relate it to my grandchildren as an adventure story.

After a quick run of the A* ( Read more... )

As I mention later, Goa is a country of commissions. Did I say "country"? Well, yes, it's a country by itself. At no point during the day and a half I spent there did I feel like I was in India. It was like I'd briefly moved to this new country. Where I was going to holiday.

Well, coming back to the commission, our taxi driver decided where we were ( Read more... )

I returned from my trip last Saturday. I didn't like Goa, and hence spent just about a day and a half there. For purposes of pseud value, I'll write the story of my last week's travels in four parts, and they would be in reverse chronological order. Each part would, however, be linear, though I won't be making any special attempts to ensure ( Read more... )