Archive for May, 2008


Dad’s down for another day and when he is down, we usually set out for a father-son-on-a-bike-visiting trip. This time the destination was banks. We visited five banks in the area of Andheri and Vile Parle.
We also managed to grab some vadapav and sugarcane juice, both of which will be eternal favourites for any [...]

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is the second in a series of seven. When Prince Caspian blows a horn out for help, little did he realize that he would be calling for the Kings of the old.
Back in the real world, the Pevensie siblings are still hoping that they somehow go back to Narnia. [...]

After intense internal and external debates, hours spent on pondering and an equal number on (re)searching, I finally selected my electives for third semester.
So, here goes (number in brackets are number of credits):

Finance Electives
Corporate Finance - Theory and Practice (4)
Financial Statement Analysis (4)
Mergers and acquisitions (2)
Operations Electives
Supply chain analysis design and modeling (2)
Project Management (Ops) [...]

Marise came over last Saturday, as well as this.
It’s been a while since I had a pizza, so we ordered two pizzas from PizzaWay, which is where I normally ordered because they are tasty and cheap. This time I was told there was no deal available, but bargained my way into it. Hey! I am [...]

AMEN: The only part of a prayer that everyone knows.
BULLETIN: Your receipt for attending Mass.
CHOIR: A group of people whose singing allows the rest of the Parish to lip-sync.
HOLY WATER: A liquid whose chemical formula is H2OLY.
HYMN: A song of praise usually sung in a key three octaves higher than that of the congregation’s range.
RECESSIONAL [...]

Mark offered me the opportunity to look after the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5 and I’ve taken it. I’ll be making weekly posts of the same on Weblog Tools Collections as well as on the WordPress Plugin Competition Blog. First post in the series are a few tips for plugin authors seeking an entry into the [...]

This last week (since Saturday) has been rather painful in some aspects. For some strange reason my head started throbbing Saturday evening. I assumed it to be lack of sleep and so headed off home from Marise’s place.
Went for mass at the Sacred Heart Church in Worli on Marise’s invitation. She wanted me to do [...]

My Dad sent me an email today of an online system to address grievances in India. The mail goes like this:
Can you imagine this happening in INDIA ?
Government of India has an online Grievance forum at http://darpg-grievance.nic.in/
The government wants people to use this tool to highlight the problems they faced while dealing with Government officials [...]

Can’t believe my last personal post was on March 4th.. Then we were just getting into the exam spirit and a lot has happened since then.
For starters, we had to get through a barrage of exams, that just didn’t seem to stop. Everyone desperately looked towards March 29th, the last day of the exams, also [...]