You are playing a game of bridge. You bid for, say, “six spades”. The lead happens, dummy comes down (people who don’t know bridge just assume that the first few cards have come down to the table) and you take stock of the situation.
Given the bidding, your cards, your partner’s cards and the lead, you [...]
A few months back, before went on exchange, we thought of doing a survey of “delivery systems in south indian fast food (read darshini) restaurants in Bangalore”. And maybe publishing a paper on it. However, thanks to our combined laziness, it’s never happened. Nevertheless thought of writing what I’ve been observing in a few [...]
, , , two others and I initially thought we are going to fraud our project in Infrastructure Appraisal, Financing, Privatization and Regulation (IAFPR). We decided that each of us would put in 4 man hours of work where we would each come up with 4 pages of report and put it together. It just [...]
Once upon a time, I thought it was bad to swear. Never swore except for some occasions like “I swear on my mother I didn’t nick the ball”. Even in times of absolute necessity, I used to write “f***” or say “cluck”. When friends tried to teach me swear words, I used to quietly listen [...]
Played the game today after a gap of around two months. Played for an hour. Half court. On a screwed up board where the angle between the board and the ring was around 135 degrees while it should ideally be 90!
Figured out that even though I haven’t played for too long, I’m still fairly good [...]
I hope you didn’t get put off by the academic-sounding title of this post. It just so happens that I couldn’t think of any better title for it. Anyways, this post has been in the offing for a long time. I had first thought about writing on this subject on a bus ride from Madras [...]
Recently I had told you people that I’ve been trying to figure out if there’s a possibility of a relationship with her. Still trying to figure it out.
However, must tell you people that I’ve started enjoying it – talking to her frequently, guessing what goes behind each thread of conversation, trying to understand her while [...]
Recently I had written about the difficulties I faced while chatting with Shilpa in Kannada. Today I figured out one more difficulty that could crop up, but thankfully didn’t during my last chat with her.
One peculiarity with Kannada (i guess it must exist with more Indian languages) is that written Kannada is completely different [...]
Have been running on a short supply of sleep of late. For about two weeks now, I’ve never had my “quota” of sleep. Extracts from two Pink Floyd songs aptly describe the situation…
… you fall
upon my waking eyes
inviting and inciting me
to rise
through the window in the wall
come streaming in on sunlight wings
a million bright [...]
Due to some allergic reaction of the skin on the back of my right palm, I’ve had to shift my watch from my right wrist to my left. It’s a fairly heavy Titan watch, something my left hand is not used to carrying. And I wear it almost always, which means my right hand feels [...]
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