Proud Owner of iPod Nano
By Chandoo at 14 December, 2007, 1:34 am | 0 Comments
I have been wanting an ipod for almost two and half years now. Somehow the need vanished after I got my Walkman phone. Even then I came close to buying one at several occasions during my duty free shopping spree. I almost paid with traveler checks for an ipod at Changi airport sometime back. [...]
Read More >>An Irish Evening
By Chandoo at 18 May, 2007, 3:02 pm | 0 Comments
After a hectic day at office and client site, we had a wonderful evening on Wednesday. It all started when one of my collegues suggested that we have a pint to cheer up the hard day at work. So off we went to a near by pub. There I got introduced to Guinness, Ireland’s own [...]
Read More >>The Art of Imitation
By Chandoo at 27 December, 2006, 1:32 am | 0 Comments
Last minute Christmas shopping frenzy combined with determination to buy a nice handbag to my fiancee made me wander the already crowded Myongdong streets on Sunday night. To say that the street is busy is a huge understatement. I actually relived the crowded Mumbai local train experiences on Sunday. So much so that the always [...]
Read More >>Dongdaemun
By Chandoo at 10 December, 2006, 4:57 am | 0 Comments
In a hurry to make most of the weekend, 4 of us rushed to the Chungmuro metro station, bought tickets for Yongsan[view Yongsan photos] and rushed to line number 4. The train came in a moment and we boarded it immediately. After a couple of stations Rhushi shouted, “Abe, we took the wrong direction. We [...]
Read More >>Purnography in Seoul
By Chandoo at 2 December, 2006, 1:08 pm | 0 Comments
As planned earlier, Saturday was busy to the end. After a good and loooooong sleep, we (few other TCSers and myself) went to Yangson area in Seoul where one of the biggest electronic malls is located.
It was extremely cold today. I think it was -2 degrees or something when we came out of the station. [...]
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 [...]
Carl Sagan, Frying Pan and Local Election
By Chandoo at 12 October, 2006, 11:57 am | 0 Comments
That did rhyme, tell me no?
(1) Carl SaganI am sitting in a cubicle with dimensions as small as 1/862180000000000 square light years in an obscure country in a tiny speckle of blue dust and metal on the shore of a cosmic ocean and hitting keystrokes madly, the purpose of which is so irrelevant that reading [...]
