Brewhaha

Forgot to mention about this. Last weekend had been to Brewhaha. "BrewHaHa is a unique food’n’fun concept" thats how the proprietors have defined the place. Brewhaha is situated very near to Jyothiniwas College. The is full when college is on.

I had been to the place last Saturday and had an lemon ice tea - trully fantastic; the taste of lemon lingered in the outer tongue and that of tea in the inner tongue. They have got a good range of brews and snacks like any coffee shop. They have smartly categorized these items and made combo meal offers also. Its a bit expesive but I believe it would be good. For the literatti fans there are a variety of board games for the offer and every board game costs 40Rs an hour. If you have a huge group of friends then this is the appropriate place to visit.

All in all the place is a good concept but during holidays it is almost empty because of the location. I would give the place 3.5 stars out of 5.

Another day gone by

30th June --Monday
The tie rule at office is back on from today. For the rehearsal started at the Pearly gates today itself. The St.Peters at the gates were stopping asking for a tie. Man I am back in school...this place is horrible. I also got to know my correct salary today ... man it made me cry.

Gave the Business Language Communication exam at Infy Lab today .. this is nothing but Infys vrsion of TOEFL - TOEFL ka score accept karoge toh bolo ne bhai.

Today was a comparaively cool day at office not much work had a nice time left at 7 and was home by 8PM. I did not commit the mistake of asking for work. I feel this is the right time and should make the Warwick app.

Nothing more to pen. Feeling drowsy ..guess time to turn off the lights.... iya iya aye...

Good Weekend after a long time!!

One more good news -- Thomas is blessed with a baby girl. Well for those who do not know .... Thomas is one of my friens from ... He was really happy , he couldn't explain the feeling that he was having when he called me up to give the NEWS ... Congrats Thomas.

Well this weekend was really spent well. Met all my maternal side cousins in Bangalore. Watched Dasavataram with Madhu, Harish and Ramya ... of course was completely ripped off .. had to buy the tickets but no regrets as was able to meet anna (Madhu) (anna doesn't imply respect its a nick name for him). About the movie ... feel I got conned ..There is nothing to the movie other than just Kamal's acting. I think Kamal made the movie just to show that he is much versatile actor than Sivaji Ganesan ... (THOSE morons who donot understand what I am taking about here is some gyan - Sivaji Ganesan is one of the Tamil cinema legends who acted in a movie called Navaratri in which enacts 9 roles/characters). The story did open with a thud with 12th century tale but after that it went FUSSSSS! Absolutely Nothing!

After the 2 and half hours of the torture we were back home at 1.30 AM. Then we decided to watch Amir. Both the idiots went to Snoring City with in 30 minutes... and I also could barely keep away my winks after strugling for around 45 mins I caved in anf put off the movie.

Sunday -
Anna woke me up around 9 and said was going for bfast - I joined him. After a heavy breakfast we decided to go to Ragi Guda temple. We came back home and I had a bath and then we left. We spent around an hour talking about our work life and then after that came back home. I put my clothes for a spin and went with the guys to Matru place and had a good meal and then returned home finished the clothes load and then started doing what I do best - watch movies :-)

Saw Sarkar Raj and Amir today ... Sarkar Raj is no where near Sarkar ... Wats wrong with Ram Gopal Varma ... Everything that he touches is starting to stink . I have nothin more to say about it. Now lets come to Amir (Sujal Gharewal thats the household name of Rajeev Khandelwal ). Aamir is a good movie made by a rookie, there not much story to it but just a good theme thats been converted into a movie. Cheers to Rajeev... his long struggle is at last paying dividends.

Now tomorrow Monday ...hmmm... back to the grind...waiting for the next weekend ...will be going to Madras to meet parents....from there on to Bombay-Pune for Sids marriage in Pune... looking forward to it ...

I am Back!!!!!

Back Again after a very long time .... was quite busy all this while... well this is just a pretext ... as the saying goes 'Where there's a Will There is a Way'
Was really off from February to April due to a knee surgery. Those 5 days in hospital was a real pain (no shit - pun intended) - but the good part is that I have recovered to 80% and was on leave for about 2 whole months -- woohoo no stupid coding.

Good News - My H1 application made through the lottery this time and has been approved.

Now back to some cribbing - The last 2 months after joining office has been really hectic. My role at work has not completely ... some kinda transition phase thats wat the #%$@&@* say. This adds to the agony of the droid work that I am doing. After joining Work have worked on 2 interfaces, and the 2nd one is prolonging like a long snake. But I guess I have put an end to it today.

Now to some Wimbledon - Was watching the Safin vs Seppi match yesterday.... I have always believed that Marat has the stuff in him to match Federers shots. Hope to see a Safin-Federer final this time.

Going to MG Rd for bowling now...
More next time ...Bye till then...

Mee Mumbaikar

When I started this blog I had decided never to use this bog to air my political views. But the recent incidents of beating up of the North Indian Mumbai taxidrivers by the activists or supporters of MNS has prompted me to write this.


The very first question that comes to head is were these goons MNS activists or was it an act of some other party of which Raj is taking the mileage by trying to turn the tables.

Does Mumbai belong to only Marathis; do the other migrants who have added to the prosperity and culture have no rights? History clearly tells that its the migrants from the various parts of the country who had laid the enterpreneurial seeds and in the process of development led to the prosperity of Mumbai as a whole - To tell the truth Mumbai cannot be claimed by any one community as its own, every community has a hand in its growth and each one has a right and freedom to follow its culture.

I feel the main reason behind all this factioning is to implement the "Divide and Rule" policy. Probably Mr.Raj is afraid of parties like SP trying to tap the North Indian vote bank and hence he should kindle the Marathi sentiment and secure the Marathi vote bank.

Raj tries to quote example of Manmohan Singh and Karunanidhi who have taken up the issues of their regional people with the French and Malaysian Govts, but my dear friend let me bring to your notice that their requests did not kindle any kind of violence.

Its aspiration not extraction!!!

Due to knee injury had to visit the hospital with my sister. I explained my case history to the doctor and informed that previously when I had a similar injury the doc made a puncture and removed the fluid to relieve me of the pain.

After some time when we were waiting for my turn at the MRI scan center my sister explained that the correct term for removing fluid is aspiration - 'Fluid is aspirated from a part not extracted or removed.' For those who thought extraction is the correct word here is some gyan - extraction is process in which the fluid is created after some processing done on the material. Hope you got what I am trying to say.

Bombay Visit - Jan 28

This visit Bombay cost me a bomb but it was worth every penny...:-)

I had booked the to and fro tickets on the cheapest available flight - Spicejet, this would be first and the last time that I would ever book a ticket in a no frills airlines - man just to save a few undred bucks I realised that I was missing a lot of convinience but again it was an experience for which I am grateful. The Spicejet air-hostesses are goodlooking though not handpicked - this is just fyi.


The Bangalore - Mumbai flight started right on time - I was having a funny Happy feeling as though I have no worries at all. I got a window seat in the not so comfortable cramped plane. Its really difficult when you have funny structure with long legs and small trunk. The plane started the take off at 9.30AM, as we moved towards the vast openness, I had a feeling as though some one was welcoming me into her arms with warmth and caring. It was a real pristine feeling even in the emptiness as if I was nearing to God - never felt this way before.

As I looked down, the reducing landscape reminded me of Google Earth. As the size of the world below started diminishing it felt as if I had reached the heavens. The contours merged into a single dimension giving a view of the vivid colored layers of nature. The blue rivers merging into the brown earth and the earth into the green forests - this was pleasant site to watch making me wonder from where did this all start.

As we approached Bombay the concrete jungle ememrged showing it wicked greedy face. I was desperately trying to identify the places from up above could make out Sion as it didn't seem to change much but the other places all seemed the same with a lot of scrapers touching the sky - there seemed to be no limit to the upward expansion - having conquered the earth we are now trying to pull down the sky. The fight landed in right on time and as I had no luggage checked-in the came out of the airport pretty fast with out any hasles. The whole airport seemed to have changed - with proper directions and all. Out side there was a proper Taxi/Rick stand no husling nothing.

I asked the rick wala to take me via Powai because it had been a long time since I had gone through that way and was having a nostalgic feeling as that was the route which we used to take while going to college - I was reminded of the days when Abhijit used to get his car and all four of us would be returning and I used to be the bakra always. The ride around Powai lake and the stink of the typical Bombay slums reminded me of the good old days. The unpleasant smell somehow brought with it a feeling of familiarity. Somehow we made through the snake like slow moving pathetic traffic onto the Eastern Express Highway.From there it was a smooth ride. At the time of alighting the rickwala begged for 20 rupees more - never experienced this ../ Bby rickwalas were dignified enuff to never debase themselves to such lower tactics. This was pretty saddening.

In the evening I decided to meet Sai at Thane. The nostalgia again hit me ... went to Thane by train-enjoyed the ride .. it was great getting back to the crowd. I met Sai at (to be precise 'outside') McDonalds - the crowd here never changes :) We then went to Tip Top where we discusses about SPJain Dubai over the Snack buffet - got all my apprehensions about SPJain cleared. Said goodbye to him and again boarded a train back to Mulund then home. On the way I met R..... Mami and then on went to their Mulund Sriram house had a chat with Rajammami and all then straight home.

Day 2--

Abhijit called up at 9 AM sayin he reached Bby while I was still in bed... said he will reach by 12.00 - man he didn't call up at all an d when I called he hsaid he wud b there by 1 so I went to Meera aunty's place and had 2 dosais and from there went to Sarayu Mami's place on Meera auntys request to trouble shoot the issue Sarayus were facing with the comp. It seemed that the DNS driver was having some problem - couldn't resolve it; felt really bad for the old couple as it was their only means of communication with their sons. Then I went back to Meera aunty's house and had lunch.

In the end Abhijit came at 3 picked me up and we went to R-mall to buy gifts for S(iddharth) & S(hruti). We decided on perfumes. The selection was done by Ghone with emparting of some gyan on perfumes to me. There seemed to be heavy pressure on the sales guys as they just kept hoarding around us. In the end we zeroed on to some Spice flavors. We packed the perfumes and headed to Thane - Ghones place then changed our clothes went to the venue - Tip Top again. We had some fun here, some leg pulling sessions and then the function ended at 9PM. Then we were back on our way to our homes. Next day morning Abhi picked me up on the eastern express highway and we were off to the airport. Thats how the trip ended.