Archive for November, 2006
Seoul First Impressions
By Chandoo at 27 November, 2006, 8:47 am | 0 Comments
Its been a couple of days since I have arrived here. Some of the first impressions about the city.
The trees here are amazing. They change colours every season. Now most of them are yellow and leaves are falling. The kind of leaves you would have seen in Mohabbatein and wondered where on the earth [...]
Read More >>In Seoul now…
By Chandoo at 25 November, 2006, 1:09 pm | 0 Comments
I am in Seoul, South Korea for some office work and would be here till the end of the year. I have started from Chennai today morning (00:15) and reached here more or less just now.
My first impression of Seoul: This city is way too advanced. No wonder it is world’s technology/electronics leader.
Chalo, expect some [...]
Supply Creates Demand
By Chandoo at 23 November, 2006, 4:48 am | 0 Comments
The things I love about Chennai are many, filter coffee, trees, relaxed pace of life, amazing food, culture to name a few. But one of the important reasons is Landmark Bookstores.
During my second week in Chennai, Ashwin, one of my b-school classmates introduced me to Landmark. We went to the store located in the basement [...]
Innocent Websites, pissed off clocks and such like …
Monday mornings are not just difficult, but often they are funny too.
So to begin with now there is a website for innocent. Even before you head there scratching your head, let me warn you: its the website of Malayalam actor Innocent. Now
Some enterprising soul in Anand, Gujarat has made a clock that can [...]
PHD’s regular blah # 2
By Chandoo at 17 November, 2006, 7:05 am | 0 Comments
I got engaged to my college sweetheart, my love of life, Jo last saturday, it was one of the most beautiful and simplest functions that I have been to. I am so happy. Marraige is on Jan 21 in Vizag. Will post a detailed marriage invite later.
Its still raining in chennai, and like mad [...]
Sweet Nothings
Today is World Diabetes Day and I saw this wonderful ad from Horlicks in Hindu.
Image Courtesy: Hindu ePaper
Howto: Excel Based Mutual Fund Portfolio Tracker
By Chandoo at 13 November, 2006, 12:23 pm | 2 Comments
Instead of searching for the NAVs of all my funds at MyIRIS or MutualFundsIndia, I have developed a small excel sheet which will fetch the values for me and displays the current portfolio value at the click of a button. Here I am trying to share the “HOWTO” of the same.
Create an excel workbook [...]
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