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Archive for October, 2008

Whats in it?

Whats with Male Bollywood singers?? Udit Narayanan, Kumar Sanu and others cannot pronounce words in thamizh (Tamil) songs properly. Especially words like vazha, kaatril. But listen to Shreya Ghosal who is also from bollywood but can pronounce correctly with proper stress.
Why do music composers spoil their best compositions by rendering their own voices or [...]

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Diwali celebrations: Bangalore should have a law like in Chennai with regard to diwali cracker bursting. In chennai you are not supposed to burst crackers after 10:00pm. Last night after reaching Bangalore, my sleep was disturbed till 12:00 due to bursting of crackers all around. Am not against cracker bursting, even I do it.
Candle light [...]

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First time am running with Chennai Runners. Run along East Coast Road on 19th Oct, I decided to cut down from 35kms and do a 20kms. Running in Chennai is definitely a different experience than running in Bangalore due to heat and humidity. Also, the earlier day was in IITM for BCC2, after the run [...]

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IIT, Madras the venue for BCC2. Meeting the usual suspects, Syed, Sukumar, Kribs, Aswin, Viki, Kausikram, Vijay Anand, Rupya Ganesh. Apart from that a poor turnout less than 100, far less than what was expected. Maybe the seasonal rains are to be blamed.
Met new guys, Viru, Deepak, Bala.
One session stood out. This was a session [...]

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80kms of running this week

3 days of 21kms and 2 days of 10kms. According to Garmin the new watch which I’ve got, my timing has improved and so has my speed. But am maintaining a steady speed so as not to get tired easily when running Ultra Marathon.
All that I take along is a bottle of lime juice to [...]

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GMail Goggles

This is a real good concept which is definitely bound to prevent lot of those unintended mails. Those unintended mails which create rift between partners/friends.
The series of Maths problems could frustrate you and in the end make you discard the mail itself. It would be great if goggles could be activated for specific user-id’s rather [...]

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Road Trip

Those waving of small outstretched hands, group of guys crowding around bikes in admiration & respect, smiles while riding past, blush on face of village belles. Well well well, thats why heart of India is villages. Lush green fields, rich rivers, mist covered mountains, unspoilt beauty.
Long stretches with no sight of people. Roads filled [...]

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