After seeing this website bangalorepothole – one might as well consider a PhD in potholology 😉 Seriously speaking, its pretty interesting and unexpectedly informative wrt potholes! But it does make one realise that some roads on Bangalore would make the moon’s surface look like a skating rink in comparison!
…and there was light… and a lot of smoke as well… but well, that’s Diwali, the festival of lights! 🙂
This was a pretty interesting explanation of their strange flight patterns…
Have very less experience in taking portrait pictures, (not that I have a lot of experience in other types of pictures, but relatively speaking 😉 ) and I took these candid pictures.
Its common among software engineers and I’ve been no major exception as well – to be perpetually pissed off for not having got a well-deserved hike or a promotion, esp as much as someone else got. Once in a way, we go beyond mere bickering and nagging to really trying to demand what we deserve.
[updated 9-Nov-2005] Some photos from the general class train on the way to Hyderabad…
updated 26 Sep, 05 Though I’d read the Mahabharata in my childhood days – all abridged versions, though from multiple sources , I heard a story today in a seminar in IISc that I had never heard before… (What’s in italics here is merely a verbatim repetition to the best of my memory…)
Managed to fast again yesterday. This time it was much easier, completely effortless. Maybe I’m getting faster at it 😉 [ugh, couldn’t resist]
One of the biggest differences I see in the work cultures of the east and the west are in taking leave – atleast a few days off from work. I’ve come across people in India who have worked for a decade or two at a stretch – and proudly proclaiming that they have not even…
[updated on Sep 2nd] Yesterday evening Jigar was telling me that a week starting from today marks a special time for Jains and they’re involved in fasting. A one day fast would be from yesterday night to tomorrow morning – only thing permitted would be hot water. I don’t know what made me decide to…
