Archive for April, 2007

Ergonomics
Monday, April 30th, 2007

Working from sofa for long doesn’t seem to be good for my back. In the recent weeks, I have been working for extended hours from sofa when Anirud is not around and from the dining table by sitting on it when he is present, as a result of which I have been suffering from slight [...]

Parking Notices
Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I had to stop by a local church for some reason and for a moment, I didn’t see the ‘r’ in the notice at their parking lot. Couldn’t help smiling when I noted that eventually. If you don’t get the word play, look at the blue notice that is typically put up by the respective [...]

Posted in UK | 2 Comments »
Airlines and an evil idea
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Few years back I used Kuwait Airways for my trip to India and when I had some change in the itinerary, they made me regret for choosing to fly with Kuwait Airways. The procedure was very complicated that they can’t do any changes over phone or email and I had to visit their offices in [...]

Two
Friday, April 20th, 2007

Two years have rolled over since this happened. Time sure flies.

Trip down the memory lane street
Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Recently I was driving past Hounslow – a London suburb near Heathrow, where I lived between 2000 and 2002. As those were the good, old bachelor days, I was telling my other half about the time we had then, the route we used to take for our daily commute, the Asian shop in our neighbourhood, [...]

Posted in UK | 5 Comments »
Keeping track of time
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

While attending a seminar at London recently I noticed that the key presenter, who is a CEO of a company, was wearing three watches – two on his right and one on his left. I am not sure about others, but I was distracted by that for some reason. Someone who took up the podium [...]

Washing
Thursday, April 12th, 2007

The washing machine at our home conked out recently and we had to resort to manual washing for few days. Though that sounds like a simple chore, it was something that we hadn’t done for quite a few years now.
The last time I remember washing my clothes without a machine was during my bachelor [...]