bowling shane…

Yet another boyhood idol of mine bids adieu. Warne, Taylor, Waugh brothers and McGrath were main resons behind my fanatic love for the Aussies. Everyone talks about the ball of the century and I have seen it a million times in recording but to me it just doesn’t feel the same way as watching Warne [...]

befuddled

In today’s day and age, I thought clocks at public destinations is
predominantly for people who cannot afford a time showing device[ In today's day and age that is rare as well].I saw a digital clock yesterday in one of the traffic signals in Bangalore. I marvelled at the idea to have a digital clock [...]

one line stories

Times of India print version is definitely better than its online version.
A humble request to all fans of thalaivar. Please don’t paste thalaivar posters at important road signs.
Traffic in Bangalore is always like the 4:30-8:30 traffic on 880. Even if you are driving, you can read an entire newspaper
I was speaking to an auto driver [...]

this post is like seinfeld

Was at the airport on the way back to chennai and a board at the security checkpoint read “Safety Culture is of paramount value” . I guess either safety or culture could have been removed from that sentence and given the location of the board, it would have been best if they had discarded culture. [...]

my first flight within India

The line at the Chennai Airport security check-in was as long as anything I had seen. Airlines have setup shop like private bus companies and their traffic has quite literally shot up in the air. The one area I think they should pay attention is the message on the security monitors on top [...]

landed in India

There is something about the motherland that reinvigorates even the dullest of souls. As soon as I disembarked the plane, I was greeted by a round mound with a double-sickle moustache – a trademark Chennai cop. As I walked just smiling to myself, I was counting the number of people in the airport [...]

laying over at Bangkok

If airports were a gateway to a country, I think this one in Bangkok is a very poor gateway. For a country with such sparkling tradition, the airport is appalingly American. I am almost certain that Government would have wanted to build an aiport quickly and the architects decided to Control-C, Control-V an [...]

Food, Headache and capitalism

The flight from the United States to Hong Kong was special – for the first time in days, I slept like a log without thinking about work. Another thing that I noticed was that they served too little food on the flight but when they served it, the food was piping hot and good except [...]

Money, Money Money

Airlines are weird. And I know that I am not the first person saying this but I have a special hatred for them. Think about this – the first time you land in a foreign country, the airline loses your suitcase and doesn’t get the luggage back to you for a few weeks [...]

Playball

In Boston, Theo is acting as if he incorrectly heard his wife when she said “I don’t want us to keep Nanny”. It might sound ridiculous but I cannot think of a better explanation behind him trying not to keep Manny. Manny and Paapi form the best 3-4 combination in the league and to [...]