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Monday, June 30, 2003 Oooooooopss! How did I miss it ?Last week while in India, I completely missed the Twentieth anniversary of India's World Cup win. More than the slideshow in rediff about the twentieth year celebs, I liked the one on my hero, The Huryana Hurricane. Posted at 6/30/2003 01:57:40 PM Link It benefits to misspell sometimes. Search for the word 'Naadi Josiam' in Google and the only result it would bring up is a link to my website. I was thrilled to see from the Webstat provided by my web host (34sp.com) that people have been lead into my site while searching for words like 'Naadi Josiam', 'Kili Josiam' etc. Those words were in one of the guest articles and...... (read the first sentence of this entry!). Posted at 6/30/2003 12:10:24 PM Link Sunday, June 29, 2003 Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon was one book that has been eluding my hands for long. I managed to get a copy of that yesterday and now I am in the verge of finishing that. A cool way to pass the weekend.Posted at 6/29/2003 11:05:51 AM Link Saturday, June 28, 2003 I had this feeling before and I'm having it again now. In the last 3 months, I haven't been learning anything in work and that is a very bad sign. I am trying hard to update myself in the technical front but am meeting so many roadblocks.One side of me tells that all I need is just two weeks to pick up what I intend to but the other side keeps my morale down. I am normally an optimistic person and don't get bogged down easily. So, what I need is the right environment to learn, which I would strive to create from now on. Let me see where I am in a month or so. Posted at 6/28/2003 05:05:10 PM Link New Woodlands Recently, we hosted my wedding reception at Hotel New Woodlands, Chennai. It so happened that the actual number of guests outnumbered the aniticipated ones and we had to request the hotel management to cater to the food requirements of the additional guests. To my surprise, the hotel management insisted that we pay for the food bill of the additional guests in advance despite the fact that we had already settled a fat amount for the originally planned number. I got pissed off when they insisted that the amount be settled in CASH and my folks had to run around in search of ATM. They could have very well accepted Credit/Debit Cards as their restaurants do accept the same. Couldn't believe that such a big hotel would be so inflexible at the crucial moment. I would NEVER, EVER recommend New Woodlands to anyone in future. Posted at 6/28/2003 03:37:58 PM Link Friday, June 27, 2003 Hot WeatherYesterday my friend from Switzerland told me that the weather there is unusually very hot that the mercury touched a 250 year high recently. Not a good thing to hear, isn't it ? Posted at 6/27/2003 12:09:12 PM Link Global Greenways I got a mail today about the Chennai duo whose aim is to promote tree planting and coincidentally someone else forwarded me an old article about the same duo. They started 'Global Greenways' (earlier, 'Environmental Society of Mandaveli') and have done a commendable job over the years. No wonder why Mandaveli roads are lined up with shady greens. The best thing is they give away free saplings and plant them too taking lot of efforts. If you are interested in making your neighbourhood greener and would be able to spare some time & effort to water the saplings, you may approach 'Global Greenways' at (+91- 44) 24938368/24937060. Posted at 6/27/2003 11:55:36 AM Link Thursday, June 26, 2003 The Devil is back!Back to UK after three great weeks in India. Things are quite smooth except that my wife would join me only after three weeks. :( Posted at 6/26/2003 02:44:41 PM Link Friday, June 13, 2003 hmmmmm.... those reading my blogs regularly would know it very well. I am a married man now! :)Posted at 6/13/2003 01:21:11 PM Link For the first time in years, I didn't check my mails continuously for 4 days. Despite all the precautions, ants have got into our home PC and the HDD has gone for a toss. Sad! Posted at 6/13/2003 01:19:58 PM Link Monday, June 09, 2003 "Udhavum Ullangal" (transalates to 'Helping Minds') is a registered charity organisation in Chennai, helping the orphans & needy. If you could sponsor for a day's meal for the inmates on the day of your choice (be it Wedding Anniversaries, Birthdays or whatever), it would be really helpful for them as well as giving you utmost satisfaction. The place is near my home at Chennai and I checked it out and found them genuine. Check out their website and here is their phone number: 044 22348338 / 22321236. Spread the word among your peers.Posted at 6/9/2003 02:46:45 AM Link Friday, June 06, 2003 One more step! I cleared the first four papers of my MBA @ Durham Business School.Posted at 6/6/2003 02:21:35 AM Link Thursday, June 05, 2003 Chennai extended me a real "WARM" welcome when I arrived here last night. At 8 p.m, the temperature was 39 deg C. :-)Posted at 6/5/2003 03:22:44 AM Link Yesterday was my parent's Wedding anniversary. I placed an order with www.chennaibazaar.com to deliver a dozen of Alphonso mangoes. They promptly did it with a nice, little card apt for the occasion. This is the second time I place an order with Chennaibazaar and their service is indeed good. Would recommend it for the NRIs. Posted at 6/5/2003 03:18:36 AM Link SRI LANKA became the eigth country yesterday to be honoured by the visit of yours truly! :-) The other seven are.. 1. England 2. Scotland 3. Belgium 4. Italy 5. Switzerland 6. France 7. Isle of Man Posted at 6/5/2003 03:13:02 AM Link Tuesday, June 03, 2003 Airlines to the European destinations allow only 24 kgs of main baggage. Depending on the airliner, they may tolerate up to 30 kgs. But not beyond. I couldn't understand why this is so, when the American destinations are allowed up to 60 kgs. One has to be really choosy with the things and everytime I pack up my luggage for the flight, I get a bit irritated with the above fact. This time is no exception.Am leaving for India on a three week vacation and this blog might not get updated as regularly as it used to be. However, I would try to steal sometime for this. Keep visiting!! Posted at 6/3/2003 09:14:58 AM Link Monday, June 02, 2003 I spent the whole of sunday cleaning up the house as my landlord and his agent are coming to inspect the house. Thank goodness, they gave me enough notice. Else, they wouldn't believe its their house. :)One thing I am worried about this exercise is the huge Indian tricolour I have put up in the hall. Hope they wouldn't mind that. Posted at 6/2/2003 10:12:25 AM Link 'Cry my beloved country' Is there a solution for this ? Posted at 6/2/2003 10:05:58 AM Link Sunday, June 01, 2003 Being waken up at 4 a.m, particularly after going to bed after 1:30 a.m would no doubt be stressful. Being a net freak, I didn't miss the opportunity to browse. But all the tiredness vanished in a second, when I saw that Anand has blogrolled mine. Thanks Anand! Every man yearns for fame.Atleast, every blogger does! :-)Have been thinking about this Blogrolling for quite sometime. My current site design won't allow that. That could wait till I complete my site redesign. Posted at 6/1/2003 06:30:59 AM Link Numerology bug bit my parents (perhaps, my grand parents!) and they named me 'Chakkarapani' (Note the second 'k' followed by 'a'). None of the folks who man the official records seem to understand this and they constantly mis-spell my name. Last night, I went through the hard copies of all the official communications sent to me over the past few years and was surprised that my name has been spelt in ways, that would send the permutation experts tizzy. This underlines the need for an effective system of keeping records rather than typing out letters, quoting names from memory. Atleast, the mistakes there would be consistent. Posted at 6/1/2003 06:12:43 AM Link |
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