Illustrated Guide of making Avalakki for all the bachelors

Am no more single and looking….

This one is a biggie and very very special.  We were holding back this news for sometime now.  Parents of both families were not yet met. And they happened to meet finally, yesterday. Yep.  Yep. Am committed now! This is a semi-love n semi-arranged story.  Nirmala is her name. It dates back to early march [...]

Adjusting from Indian culture to American

I received a request this morning. Jules from Vassar College in New York, is writing a  paper on “The process of adjusting from Indian culture to American culture“.  She has asked readers of this blog to give our thoughts. She is interested in understanding few things here: # What did you have to adjust to? [...]

The World’s most comfortable shoes

I never wore black formal shoes. Reason being, they are not comfy + You cannot walk fast or run. All due to their make. Inflexible leather and tight sole. Though they please the on-looker for the formal looks, the wearer is never at ease. Then comes  Hushpuppies black with Bounce technology. Designed just for all [...]

Man-of-the-match and zero sum game

In a cricket match, they award man-of-the-match for that key player who made the difference. Rewarding just one player, inspires other men in the team, instead of letting them down, to try hard and win that title in coming matches. Let me try draw parallels to a corporate setting. In a software project team of [...]

Separated at Birth ?

Have you ever been told that you are a look-alike of so and so… ? Recently, one of my colleagues told me that I look like Kumara Sangakkara, and some time back I remember some stranger telling me that I resemble Sanjay Manjrekar. So I placed all of us next to each other. Do we [...]

Sujay’s First Birthday and you are invited

Created an invite for my nephew’s First birthday. Join in.

Ninnindale, Sihigaali

These two songs definitely deserve all the praise. When nice music crosses great visuals and fine lyrics, magical is not the word. Listen to them… am sure you’ll come back again. This one from the movie Milana – Music Manomurthy, sung by Sonu Nigam. Liked those cute little dance steps going back n forth. And [...]

Bele Saaru barutta ?

I did two things today. I learnt preparing Bele Saaru. When it came out well, I drew this proud chef’s picture. Since my kitchen literature in english is not good, here’s How to make Bele Saaru in Kannada : - Modalige ondu cuppu bele tagondu adakke 2.5 rashtu neeru haaki. Soppu matte bele na cooker [...]

Taking stock of Year 2007

It’s time to look back and take stock of the year 2007! - Yoga, tops the list. With consistent practice, now my fingers can touch the floor.- Trip to Boston in May. My first ever travel overseas was a nice experience.- Cartooning. This was always an interest in the back burner. Now trying to run [...]

Arti to Ujwal

I stayed with him at his New york apartment overseeing the beautiful Manhattan. This is when I visited NYC over the weekend 4 months back. My engineering class mate Ujjwal Kumar. Very smart chap,less talkative and one who keeps to himself. All through the weekend, he looked a lot worried man. After a lot of [...]

Scanning my soul !

My first peripheral purchase. I have placed an order for HP ScanJet 2400. Delivery is expected tomorrow. These days All-in-one (Printer/Scanner/Copier) devices cost as good as a standalone. But I still bought a standalone, as I don’t want to burn any cash on the never ending expenses of toner/cartridge. Print is not what I am [...]

Charity at Home

Have some free time at hand ?Want to do some charity ?but do not want to get up and go out of the comfort of your chair ? This is what you can do. Challenge your vocab with freerice.comVisit the site to know how playing the vocabulary game can be a work of charity ? [...]

The Knack – Dilbert Season one episode

Dilbert’s Knack. I was watching this season one episode over the weekend. First let me tell you the story in the unpopular dilbert bulleted style. The engineer Dilbert drinks coffee, accidentally from his pointy manager’s mug. That makes him lose the knack for technology. The planned outer space advertising campaign is misfired and disturbs the [...]

Best Time Passers

If you ask me to name two of my best time passers, I would name this :- BBC World Service on worldspace.- http://www.wikipedia.org/ BBC, with its rich and in-depth content and great presentations brings the stories from around the world. Tuck a pillow and turn on the radio over an afternoon. Great treat.Wiki, I have [...]

WHY ME ?

This is what I saw in Spam folder of my gmail inbox. Why was it sent to MEEE ??? Unknown sender. No Subject. Is it not easy to come up with an abstract name and generate a random subject line, like others have done in the top and bottom ?( click to enlarge)

Arth Designs launch

My Sister Nanditha (sitting), along with her friend Surekha have finally come closer to achieving their dream. Their designer wear boutique launch. Arth Designs. They studied together at the Vogue Institute in Bangalore. Nearly after an year after the school they have launched their ethnic designer wear collection. It has taken a lot of courage [...]

Kitne admi the ?

I don’t usually forward forwards. But this one..I could not resist.

Lift Please

I pick them on my way. Some times it’s a construction worker, a tailor, school going kid, security guard and so on. The road which I take to my office has no rickshaw or city buses. So there will be one or the other waiting for a lift. What do I gain ?- Squirrel Social [...]

Why am I no-believer ?

My first video post on this blog. I wouldnt have found a better one to post.Atheist : youtube video This is what I mostly read as I grew up. Darwin, Freud, Marconi, Hertz, Feynman. They were a more believable stories than the marvels of Lord Krishna,Shiva, Shirdi Sai baba etc A well presented reasoning always [...]