A date with my plate!

I would call it the Chennai’s food backbone, Saravana Bhavan as it is popularly known in this coastal city. As we enter this high-class vegetarian restaurant’s head office branch in Vadapalani, my friend was skeptical about the quality of the food and worried looking at the bustling crowd.
We opted for the AC room and even [...]

A bachelors guide to renting a house in Chennai

All you hopeless and wifeless bachelors, get up and start looking. With PHD releasing “the unofficial bachelors guide to renting a house in Chennai” today, you will never again get a “no, we dont rent to criminals, politicians, drummers, dogs, carpenters and bachelors” reply from your prospective landlords.
Where to look:

Never call a housing broker. They [...]

Learnings of the week that was

Not that you would be interested to know them, but anyways,
>>> It does rain in Chennai for more than 12.3 seconds at a time. It happened once yesterday.
>>> Using combo-boxes in excel is not that difficult, it is so much more fun and intuitive. Try learning them here if you are a excel freak like [...]

How to serve the customer

This week I came across two service orgs (cafe coffee day and shoppers stop) and observed peculiar things about their service.
The “we serve you faster than anyone” problem:
After roaming a lot in hot chennai sun (well, slowly people have been dropping hot adjective for chennai, you see, it has become redundant these days), ashwin suggested [...]

Wear, will you?

I saw this superb ad while I was going in a ferrari (sorry, auto) in chennai.

PS: I remade the ad using images in flickr, thanks to whoever is the original owner of the helmet and brain pics.

HOT HOT Advertising

Courtesy: Metro Plus, Chennai
A man eats a stick of kurkure and suddenly burns into flames, after the fire is doused, he distributes kurkure to horrified crowd. I think this is probably the best outdoor advertising I have ever seen. No wonder the ad bagged gold in cannes for JWT, Chennai. Read the entire story in [...]

Chennai - First Impressions

This is my first time in Chennai and these are my true feelings about this coastal city:
- The city looked familiar. I am a true to heart wanderlust and seldom I get this feeling. I think it has got to do with people and the trees. The place reminds me of Vijayawada/Vizag.
- No “cybercafes”. You [...]