Archive for July, 2006


This week has been rather uneventful. The bug that has been worrying me last week, continues to do so with no solution.
I’m finding my schedules slipping and I just don’t like that!
Managed to dodge one really heavy shower just after I got off the bus, but got stuck in the next one, resulting in an [...]

Yesterday at 6.25pm one of the busiest cities in the World came to a total standstill for two minutes.
As the coldwar sirens blared all across Mumbai, millions stopped all conversation, traffic came to a halt and cinemas interrupted films on Tuesday as the Indian city observed a short silence in memory of 182 people killed [...]

A mom was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school. He didn’t want his mother to walk with him. She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe.
So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbour, Mrs. Goodnest, if [...]

Had planned on getting to bed by 9.30pm yesterday, but well everytime doesn’t always happen to plan. This time I am not complaining
Went over to U. Conrad’s place for the birthday celebrations. I realized that I had reached there a bit too early because most of the others actually turned post 9pm (that’s called [...]

Have had a long, tiring and not very productive week. Things sometime just don’t go the way you want them and that can be really really demoralizing!
My weekend hasn’t been all that great either, but for Saturday morning with I spent with a lil while mouse
My 4pm lecture at TIME didn’t happen but in its [...]

I have been getting warning emails about the same, and I guess there may be some amount of truth in them.
I received quite a few scraps from pals with this content. None of them know Portuguese.
The scrap was:
Opa, tudo bom? Eu criei um vídeo com uma seleção de minhas fotos novas, clica aí pra [...]

Received this email from a colleague of mine whose friend narrated his experience on one of the trains on which a bomb went off during the deadly Mumbai bomb blasts of Tuesday.
It goes as follows:
“STUNNED” - Mumbai Mirror.
“7 BLASTS ROCK MUMBAI”- Yahoo! headlines.
Which editor wrote these lines? Which abysmal mother f@#ker had the guts to [...]

Mumbai came to a shocking standstill on July 11 when serial blasts ripped through its local trains, killing and wounding hundreds. But the city of dreams stood fearless and fighting fit.
Salute Mumbai’s never-say-die spirit and Light a Candle for those who succumbed to the blasts or got injured. For every candle you light, CNN-IBN [...]

Am proud to say that yours truly’s weblog has been selected as Red Orbit’s Blog of the Day

I’m happy

Received two forwards with this letter. It very well could be a real letter from any Mumbaikar to the persons responsible for the bombings yesterday.
Dear Terrorist,
Even if you are not reading this we don’t care. Time and again you tried to disturb us and disrupt our life - killing innocent civilians by planting bombs in [...]