Coimbatore Bus Mafia and Adventure Trip to Ooty

on 29 Sep, 2006 in Random | 1 Comment

Heard of black tickets? Well you must have somany times. After Aamir Khan glorified selling black tickets big way in Rangeela, Chennai’s private bus operators couldnt help but pick up a trick or two of the trade.
So there I am, unaware of the UCBTM (Undergroud Coimbatore Bus Transportation Mafia) cancerously proliferating and thriving in Koyembedu’s [...]

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Relationships & Banks

on 27 Sep, 2006 in advertising, banking, personal finance | 0 Comments

Banks and relationships are as old a pair as slice bread and butter knife. I can imagine my grand father getting shivers allover when he deposited bulk of his first salary in the bank wondering all he was left with was a stupid passbook with illegible numbers on it. The point is days have changed! [...]

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Porok, Call back Ads and Simple Joys of Life

on 12 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

First up, Porok!
MTV India has tied up with Microsoft XBOX and is welcoming xbox to India in style with “Porok”. [Read news items 1, 2] As they say in the Ad, “Porok might have been inspired from cocks, but inside we are all tigers”. Having seen a couple of XBOX ads, I am sure this [...]

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Welcome to PHD!

on 5 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

Its been 2 years since I have posted such a message. A recent look at my website statistics revealed that most of the visitors are first timers, and quite a few of them land here searching one of the “iim”, “indore”, “iim indore blog”, “iimi” or “chandoo iim”. So, let me take a moment and [...]

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How too many dishes spoiled the cook…

on 18 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

Or, How Chandoo got hungry, cooked dishes and had a huge meal
Well, that was a poor attempt at copying an already copied book title nevertheless, the news in the town is that “Chandoo is cooking” or wait a second there; I think it should be “it has rained for a week in Chennai”. [...]

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A dream that is three and half years old…

on 11 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

January, 2003:It was my engineering final year, campus was abuzz and everybody was hopeful and anxious since its placement time. CSE people have more opportunities naturally and we kept hearing about the companies that might visit the campus this year.
Finally the first company was announced. India’s largest software services company it is. We were running [...]

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Orbit Musings and other things

on 3 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

>>> How come chennai doesnt have any English / Hindi FM channels? I think (correct me) all other metros have them. The only FM channel where you can hear something in Hindi is All India Radio’s FM Channel.
>>> I am planning to buy a TV. My budget is 10k. The TV must be flat screen, [...]

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