The kind of people who call themselves as bloggers are the ones you should be very careful with. When a blogger is around you should remember the following,1. On days in which they do not have anything to write about, you could be their victim2. In their stories, if they do not have a villan, your name could end up ...
The other day I was on a call with a Nepali friend and the person said that Vijayathasami falls on the 6th of October and till then they are on Holiday! Its Dasara and its a TEN day holiday! At that moment it stuck to me, how much disconnected I am with our culture, till I was reminded by my ...
Up to now whenever I wanted to write notes I always took down notes in words. I am bad at drawing and thought that drawing were too childish so never opted for that.First time I realized that graphical notes than text notes were better was when I was reading the Head first series book on design patterns. It was much ...
Last year at this time of the year we were 'conquering' the Himalayas. We had a super adventure, which I had already documented to the best of my limited ability as a series under Himalayan Heights.We tried to make a promise to make this an annual trip, but unfortunately this December wasn't the right time to travel out, due to ...
I am down with flu, the last time I got flu I made sure that I shared it with everyone I met. Now this time I am wondering how I would perform. ;) Ah its not just the diseases which are contagious.I remember as a kid I started to read books because people around me were fond of reading and ...
When I was a kid I was very superstitious, seeing a particular type of bird had different interpretations. As per my interpretation seeing a lone black and white bird of that certain type meant it was to be a sorrowful day and any other number meant it was a joyful day. When I set off in the morning I would ...
Started the year in Style at Taj Mahal. It was an adventurous beginning to the year! Based on the place of visit there were people who were making predictions for the year and we had proved them all wrong! ;)As soon as we returned from the 'pilgrimage' to the Himalaya's was sent off on an African 'Safari' the first of ...
The German story Rewind ten years back Europe was a growing Economy and Germany was referred as the “Sick man of Europe”. In 2002 Germany’s economy grew by a mere 0.2% and it was the slowest rate in the whole of Euro zone. The unemployment rate was soaring and the chances of a recovery looked very slim.Fast forward to today, ...
The other day I was scrolling the daily mirror site and found a heading which read that "Chandimal fined", I didn't bother to click the item and read it. I was under the prejudice that the youngster would have obviously done something nasty and has been deservingly punished. This same ME, few years back, used to jump and read such ...
At office we have this secret santa thing and this is my open letter to the secret santa about my wish list.Dear Sir/Madam,I thought I would write this to give a guideline on the do's and don'ts for the presents you wish to buy for me.Don'ts- Please kindly avoid buying me boring things like ornaments and soft toys. Since my ...
I had watched with fascination the boldness with which facebook changes privacy settings and introduces new features. When it introduced features like location services, facial recognition, etc strangely the features came as enabled and the user, if needed had to find out from elsewhere that such a feature has been added and explicitly disable.I tried to put myself in the ...
Fittingly when I was returning from Kenya ( after going on three safari's ) a few months back I watched the movie African Cats on the in flight entertainment system. I decided that I will be blogging about this, but I kept on thinking that if I am to write about it, I need to give it more time and ...
The world is a strange place, just under an year ago in Indian media the Indian cricket team was considered as saints and Sachin was the god. When non Indian cricket fans thought that the world cup final will be the grand swan song for the legend, indians were talking about him playing another world cup and quitting with another ...
The inaugural meet up of Yarl IT Hub will be held on next Saturday at the IIS City Campus auditorium in Jaffna. The event is expected to have an expert panel discussion on cloud computing featuring prominent academics, Software Architects, Doctoral Students, etc. Along with that there will be sessions done by students from Jaffna, Yarl IT Hub introductory session ...
I am addicted to this clip on youtube. Had watched it more than 10 times within the last few days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibH7uAODhjYThe song Aaromalae is one of the songs which never fails to impress and now I had listened to quiet a few variants of it and I admire AR Rahman even more!Listen to these too, original from the film,Listen to ...
In certain countries certain tribes are held at high esteem. Two countries at distance apart have two unique communities which are referred very highly with respect to bravery. One is the Maasai people of Kenya and the other Gurkhas of Nepal.GurkasThey simply explain a Gurka by the phrase by saying that,"If a man says he is not afraid of dying, ...
