Pertinent Observations

Looking back, the first time I heard of Google was sometime in 1999/2000, when I read the news report that Yahoo! had changed their search engine from Inktomi to Google //

Bhaand has tagged me. So here are eight random facts about myself. I wear my watch on my right hand. And it’s a fairly heavy watch. So once when for some reason I had to wear it on my left wrist, I started feeling left-handed Most of my “stories” are based on principles called “sampling” [...]

bjbalaji , baada? and I went for Sivaji yesterday night. “Second show” at PVR. Baada had put fight on saturday itself in order to book the tickets in advance, and since the movie was supposed to start at 10, I had a quick dinner, left my motorcycle and sensibilities behind and proceeded to the Forum [...]

It was shortly after my sixteenth birthday. Those days, the latest buzz around town was with regards to proposals. Everyone seemed to be proposing to everyone else. In new school, in old school. New film actors, old film actors. I had recently switched to the Times of India (from the Deccan Herald) and that too [...]

I find vocal carnatic music extremely irritating. As much as I love the instrumental version, I simply can’t stand the vocal version. The vocal stuff gets on my nerves and drives me mad. On the other hand, I find instrumental stuff extremely pleasing and soothing, and an excellent background music when mugging, etc. Could it [...]

there is no doubt that led zep have created a lot of awersome music -? stairway… , kashmir, whole lotta love, black dog, babe i’m gonna… but what sets them apart is that they haven’t made any bad songs! i mean, most other bands i listen to have 1-2 really irritating songs which can get [...]

It is common practice in the Indian film industry for characters to be named after the actor playing them. I mean stuff like (ok i can’t get a better example) in Dil Hai Ki Maanta Nahin, Pooja Bhatt’s screen name is Pooja; or in Andaz Apna Apna, Raveena Tandon’s character is called Raveena and Karisma [...]

So afterakshata_rao 2 years back, and manubhardwaj and chinmayhegde last year (you need to be manu’s friend on LJ to see this), it was my turn this time. Judging the school science seminar that is. I’m not too enthu about making a nice essay out of it, so let me do it in bullet points [...]

“It’s Electronics and Communications at RVCE”, screamed the Deccan Herald, covering the ongoing CET counselling. The paper went on to explain the other “trends” that are popular among students who have cleared the engineering entrnce this year. My mind goes back seven years. As soon as the JEE results were announced, I was clear that [...]

Acute shortage of parking space means I usually take an auto rickshaw whenever I have to go to the M G Road area. The usual fare is Rs. 35, so when the meter shows Rs. 45 (as it did last week), I demand an explanation from the driver. And the last time round, the driver’s [...]