During my experiments to make hot chocolate of various degrees of chocolate-milk combination revealed that the higher the milk-to-water ratio, the more frothy the chocolate became. That was when I realized why restaurants (especially in Bangalore and Madras) try to make their coffee frothy – it’s a sign of quality, that they’ve used sufficient milk [...]
I apologise for this morning’s post on IPOs. It was one of those posts I’d thought up in my head a long time ago, and got down to writing only today, because of which I wasn’t able to get the flow in writing. So after I’d written that, I started thinking – so if IPO [...]
I’ve commented earlier on this blog about investment bankers shafting companies that want to raise money from the market, by pricing the IPO too low. While a large share price appreciation on the day of listing might be “successful” from the point of view of the IPO investors, it’s anything but that from the point [...]
Less than a semester into my undergrad (Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras) I wanted to drop out, and start work. I didn’t want to be an “engineer”. I didn’t know why I’d to spend all my Thursday and Friday afternoons filing away at some piece of iron in the [...]
Vidyarthi Bhavan has its weekly holiday on Friday Mahalakshmi Tiffin Room doesn’t open for business on Saturday Brahmins Coffee Bar is closed on Sunday Upahara Darshini used to be closed on Mondays, though in the last few years they’ve been open 7 days a week Dwaraka and the Gandhibazaar branch of Adigas are closed on [...]
Half a litre of it. At Savas in Monastiraki square in Athens. And such awesome food. Druink.
is such an awesome combo. As we just discovered, here in Monastiraki square in Athens. It was this restaurant called Savas. Specializing in one “Sauvlaki”. So over the last week or so of vacation, the girlfriend has been complaining of not eating spicy enough food. So as we settle down today, and get our can [...]
Back when I was a kid, an annual “excursion” was to the Sai Baba’s ashram in Whitefield, near Bangalore (ok, back then it was “near Bangalore”. Now people claim it’s part of Bangalore). This would usually be in summer, when the Baba would descend on his “summer home” in whitefield. There would be lots of [...]
I suffer from astigmatism. I see better at certain angles than at others, so if I’m not wearing spectacles that correct for it, the aspect ratios of everything I see is quite messed up. It also results in massive parallax errors. When I was entering the wedding hall where I was going to get married [...]
You know inventory represents a huge cost when online retailers such as Flipkart which don’t have to invest in keeping inventory at storefronts in expensive malls and high streets offer massive discounts, of the tune of 30 to 40% at times. You know that inventory represents a huge cost, and shop space is precious, when [...]
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