Archive for May, 2005

Quicky…
Sunday, May 29th, 2005

Having some wonderful time out here in India. Weather sucks, but then its a known fact. In the mean while, I inched further towards old age. Lotsa things to blog and those things have to wait till I get back to UK. Have fun folks. Cheerios!

Want to see some unbelievable numbers?
Friday, May 20th, 2005

Check out the usage statistics of my site. The one that matters most is the Visits – the figures under the column with yellow header. Though it gives a heady feeling, honestly I don’t believe that around 380 people visit my site EVERY DAY, including all search engine & spam bots. 50-60 would have sounded [...]

“Free Cash” Machine
Friday, May 20th, 2005

Thats what the notice put above the new cash machine at our local high street said. You know very well.. what they actually mean is, the transaction charges are free.
An interesting comment from Dandanakka on my post on Hotel Saravana Bhavan:
I visited the first weekend (after its opening) and had to wait [...]

Flying to India..
Thursday, May 19th, 2005

I am flying to India in less than 48 hours from now to see lil’ Anirudh. I had waited enough coz of some unavoidable work here and this would be one of the shortest long distance trips for me, only next to my 5-day trip to Chennai in 2000 to wind up my MCA. The [...]

Request for Information on Madras Historians
Thursday, May 19th, 2005

A British colleague of my friend, whose Great Grand Father was in charge of many water projects in Madras (building Canals & Bridges) during 1860s, is visiting Chennai in early June to see & photograph the places his great grand father worked. He wishes to get in touch with some historians (esp. Mr Muthiah, Mr [...]

Hotel Saravana Bhavan
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

As I had couple of hours to kill at London before meeting Jag on Monday, I decided to check out the newly opened HSB at Wembley. It is several years since I visited an authentic Indian restaurant (I couldn’t think of the Tandoori restaurants in UK as Indian..) and Saravana Bhavan is something very special, [...]

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When imagination comes to face with the reality..
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

As bloggers, we interact with so many people on a daily basis by commenting on each other’s post and after a period of time, this extends to a sort of friendship over e-mail and chats. On many occasions, we don’t get to see the face of the blogger or hear his voice, but we only [...]