Wishing you a very happy & prosperous 2006.

Recent riots in France & Sydney, leaves me wondering how safe are we, where ever we are. As societies are becoming more and more multi-cultural, how good would the tolerance levels be? Apart from staying away from the trouble, what else could one do if, god forbid, such situations come up?
Tsunami, Baaz, Fanoos, Floods, Stampede [...]

When I heard a huge bang at 6 in the morning, I told my wife that weather is getting worse as I heard a loud thunder. My window rattled a bit, but that was it. Only after hearing from my folks in India enquiring about our safety, we got to know about the blasts in [...]

Since when chicken curry became vegetarian? When I saw the familiar sign “Suitable for Vegetarians” on Sainsbury’s Noodles – Chicken Curry flavour, I thought it was a mistake. But among the ingredients, I saw one ‘Chicken Curry (Vegetarian)’. I am sure that it is not a mistake. But then, what could that be? May [...]

I bought a car yesterday as a gift to my wife on her Birthday later this week.

I used to my debit card (yeah.. yeah.. its a Citibank debit card) to draw some money from the cash machine. But the cash machine had run out of cash and cancelled the transaction. When I tried to do the same from another cash machine, I was informed that I have exceeded my daily limit. [...]

At last I (think) I have won this round against the spammers.
Couple of months back, I got a mail from my hosting company that my site has exceeded the 1 GB bandwidth allowance. Since the reader count for this blog was on the rise at that time, I didn’t give a big deal to that [...]