Last week (18th of May) to be exact, marked our anniversary of stay Down Under; a good time, I suppose, to reflect upon the upon the differences in lifestyle, attitudes, career-prospects etc. between the USA and Australia.
Unfortunately, a further move within Australia - this time to the west coast of the country, Perth - is [...]
Kyun ………….Khoye Khoye Chand Ki Firak Mein Talash Mein Udas Hai Dil
Kyun………..Anpne Aap Se Khafa Khafa, Zara Zara Sa Naraaz Hai Dil
(full lyrics)
….asks the Man [1] in a moment of nirvanic clarity that (to my drunken mind) could possibly be achievable only under the influence of (1) one dry sapphire [...]
…..when I went home recently after a gap of 3+ years did not involve the burgeoning number of new shopping malls, or the new fly-overs, or the sudden new-fangled fad for Mehendi (Gariahata crossing was chock-full of Mehendi-wallahs adorning nubile arms), or even the (as Dipanjan had warned) inflated value of the rupee [...]
I do hate the old-hag manner of going ‘things used to be better in the days..yadda yadda….’, but in case of flying (on airplanes), the statement is probably true.
Or else, I must have been much less demanding and easily pleased twenty three years ago, which was the last time I flew half-way around the [...]
…..such as it is, will resume soon. As in posts/rants/reviews on topics other than cricket.
As the all-mighty Lord (apparently prodded by the Dictator, who for some peculiar reasons thinks much too highly of American Football) pointed out, this blog has been possessed by cricket in recent times.
Should we blame the partisan Aussie media? Should we [...]
I knew that Mac users (and general Apple lovers) are a bit crazy, even cultish (in fact, I like Apple products as well, mainly due to aesthetics). But this is kind of extreme:
Violet Blue, a popular blogger and sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, who also features in the film, says: “First of all, [...]
All that is necessary to bring rains in drought-affected Queensland is scheduling a Test match at ‘Gabba. Voila, four days of showers predicted.
Via Marginal Revolution, this anecdote about ‘ticket insurance’ in Mumbai:
“My favourite ticketing system was in Mumbai, India,” Kim enthuses. “No one actually buys a ticket, but you can buy ‘ticket insurance’ from private entrepreneurs who work at the entrance of the station. The ‘ticket insurance’ is about half the price of a regular rail [...]
Via the eminent blogger, a list of things you wish you’d learned when younger. Quite a few items I find myself agreeing with:
Most of it doesn’t matter. So much of what I got excited about, anxious about, or wasted my time and energy on, turned out not to matter.
Trying to please other people [...]
Some random, irrelevant thoughts on drinking socially and such. Feel free to skip to the drink recipe at the bottom.
I enjoy consuming alcohol, but have realized that satisfaction often comes more from the social interactions inherent with drinking rather than the spirits themselves. To be sure, some alcohol such as aged single-malt scotch or [...]
….the more than 200 innocent victims of terror-attacks on Mumbai trains.
What has the Indian government done in the meantime to secure itself, especially in context of the emergence of Indian links with the latest UK terror plots ? Precious little.
I got a haircut yesterday at a barbershop called ‘Bogarts - Gentlemen’s Hairdressers’. As the name suggests, these salons are exclusively for men, which is almost the norm in India, but something I have never once come across in the US. Anyhow, there are a couple of these shops in the downtown area and I [...]
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