Archive for December, 2006

India Trip

Our India trip continues. As I anticipated, it’s full of food, cards, family time, food, chats with friends, and did i mention food?!
Bangalore was a rocking experience once again. The city has overtaken Mumbai in terms of energy levels. The roads are fantastic, but the traffic is horrendous, just a small sign of the atrocious [...]

Happy Holidays

Only 2 more days before I depart for my India holiday! For the next couple of weeks as I shuttle around the country, blogging will be light. Although I do promise to blog about all the interesting stuff (if there’s any) on my return.
A very Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukkah, and a very Happy New Year [...]

Shiok Anniversary

Part of what makes living in phoren so tough is that you don’t always get the food you like. Indian food whether it’s Mangalorean, Punjabi, Tamil, Bengali, Chinese or anything else, is what I truly miss.
The one restaurant I’ve wanted to dine in for almost 2 years now, is Shiok. I know it’s not traditional [...]

Comment Spam

I read a great story on Naked Conversations, and wanted to post a comment. The message I get from Typepad:
Your comment has not been posted because we think it may be comment spam. We routinely monitor comment activity and block comments that exhibit patterns of abuse. We apologize if you believe you’ve reached this message [...]

Groucho Marx as Krishna

Imagine what fun would come if it turned out that …Krishna wasn’t the Avatar after all, the whole thing was an elaborate joke, and after bringing the armies face to face on the battlefield he simply leapt off the chariot and pranced away yelling “I refuse to join a war that would have me as [...]

Have updated the BlogRoll (finally!)
As is quite evident from the list, I am suffering from Feed Fatigue. I know that by trying to follow so many blogs, I’m neither doing justice to all of them, nor am I leaving any time for actual writing. However, as of now there doesn’t seem to be any way [...]