On the excite­ment front, lit­tle sis­ter (who’s a chef) got her­self a job in the UK and is fly­ing out tomor­row. So it’s good­bye to win­dow shop­ping, trav­el­ling and watch­ing movies together. We’ve raided most of the shop­ping malls in town try­ing to ade­quately pre­pare her for the Eng­land win­ter. She’s going to be in […]

Nidhi reminded me today that I haven’t been updat­ing. So I thought I’d do a quick detour via the cyber­cafe on the way home. The phone con­nec­tion will take longer, so I guess I will have to con­tend with mak­ing Sify Iway a lit­tle richer till then. Life’s been a whirl­wind. We finally moved out of […]

I am try­ing to get a grip on my things as I organ­ise my pack­ing. I look around and sud­denly the thought strikes me. I am a col­lec­tor. A rabid col­lec­tor. There is noth­ing I don’t col­lect. Bills. State­ments. Books. Cas­settes. Restau­rant order slips. Doctor’s pre­scrip­tions. Ball point pens. Brochures and those lit­tle fly­ers about […]

Things are mov­ing. Finally. We should be shift­ing house by next Tues­day. Found a decent place nearby. I’ve been enquir­ing about cable inter­net con­nec­tions and I haven’t found any­one who pro­vides con­nec­tions in the Boriv­ili west area. I’ve tried Hath­way, Dish­net DSL, In2Cable but none of them pro­vide con­nec­tions here. I was rather sur­prised. Given […]

I was read­ing Bijoy’s per­sonal account of the first ever flash mob in Mum­bai: “Flash mobs, a social phe­nom­e­non first reported from New York in May, are sweep­ing the world through email and the Inter­net, espe­cially via blogs. Flash mobs are sud­den and seem­ingly unplanned gath­er­ings of large groups of peo­ple that con­verge in public […]

While I am quite open to change (in fact, I wel­come it), I am quite averse to the ‘wait­ing’ period. The phase where the changeover is tak­ing place and you sim­ply have to ‘wait’ for things to hap­pen. And you want things to move faster. But they just don’t. And you want to scream out. […]