Bangalore Roller Coaster

What's with married life and arguments ? In hindsight some of the arguments may appear very trivial, about subjects you couldn't care less about, but at the time of the argument, they appeared earth-shattering. Well, I am not going to write about my personal arguments and who got the last word here. But I would like to mention one of the best written articles on the web about 'things' a couple has argued about. It is aptly called, 'Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About'. It makes very addictive reading, so don't tell me I didn't warn you. The books too are must reads. I haven't found a copy, but if I did, I will definitely buy them. If someone knows where I can find one in India, or order one online, do let me know.

We have been looking for a children's bed for quite sometime. When we were in Noida, we had seen a very nice bed at Lifestyle's 'Home Center'. It was the perfect colour and the right price, but as luck would have it, they only had the last floor piece and refused to give it to us. They told us Lifestyle, Bangalore, carried the same bed, and we could buy it here. So we went to Lifestyle, Bangalore, and the last piece was on display on the floor, and it was slightly damaged. We were really upset, but decided to continue looking. Since we are not familiar with Bangalore, we asked around and looked at @Home, HomeStop, and even the newly opened Home Town, on ORR, but nothing clicked. One day my husband passed by a shop and vaguely noticed that they had kids furniture. But the only name that he could recollect was 'Spaces'. I searched on the web, but found no store of that description. Finally last Sunday, we went for lunch at a friend's place and saw the delivery...

Last night we planned to catch the movie, 'Bourne Ulitmatum'. Since it was a weekday and we wanted it to be a quick watch without having to spend more time in Bangalore's traffice than in the movie, we decided to give PVR a skip and go to the Innovative Multiplex. This was my first time there, but I had been sufficiently warned about the quality of the theatre viz-a-viz the ticket charges. It was rip-off for the money that we paid. The best part, was that it has a stall and balconey seating but my husband was unaware of the same and he just asked for 2 tickets and got stall tickets. The seats had cushions on them as an after thought, and the acoustics were a little questionable. While we were watching an edge-of-seat scene in our movie, we could hear the 'Chak De' song play in the next audi !! All in all, it was an okay sort of theatre, and should have been priced accordingly. But given the demand and supply equations in Bangalore, everything works.

I have a lot of photographs online, some of them have been scanned from the time when digital cameras weren't everywhere and I like to look at them at times. It brings back old memories. And then, Yahoo decided to shut shop and move everyone to Flickr. I had always seen Flickr as a professional photographer's companion. My cousin has a lot of world class pictures there and she gets great comments from the whole community. When I was given the option to move to Flickr, I thought why not ? But of course, I didn't read the fine print and missed out on the fact that at the end of three months, I would either have to buy the pro membership, or all but the latest 200 of my pictures would be visible. The others would be hidden, for all practical purposes lost. I didn't want to invest $25 per year for hosting and sharing my pictures online. So I looked around the web. Besides a lot of disgruntled bloggers/yahoo users, I also found this really cool tool , Migratr , which allows ...

Watched the program on National Geographic about the IC 814 hijacking. It was a little too dramatacized and the passenger's angle was totally missing. But for 2-3 passengers, they totally reported the whole episode from the Captain Devi Sharan's point of view. Nothing wrong with that, but only that it was just a very small view of the whole episode. I am sure they must have a lot of footage of the time when the plane was in Kandhahar, Afghanistan, but they didn't show much of that. It also reminded me of my own article, which I had written when I had just come back from the ill-fated trip. The whole office was abuzz with the news that a colleague had been on board the plane and the first day I came back to work I was bombarded with questions and more questions. It was so bad that I had lost my voice by the end of the day. So I decided to write the whole thing down and send it to my friends in office. That article got forwarded around quite a bit, and finally found a place ...

Just to inaugrate my blog. We have just moved to Bangalore from Noida, and the roller-coaster ride called 'Bangalore' has just started. To start with the good things, the weather is excellent, my daughter has settled in school and has just started her school bus from today. I am proud of her and they way she has adjusted. And that brings us to the woes.. the traffic. It is horrible, and I don't even want to start on this one. The cost of living is much higher. In the same salary that we had in Noida, we are now poorer after just paying the monthly rent, the driver, the maid and doing our groceries. But that is the price you pay to stay in the most happening city in India. More later..