My Life

Yet Another Plan to avoid Movies

March 29, 2008
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Regular readers will know that I’ve been desperately trying to avoid watching movies. My several previous plans (plan 1, plan 2, plan 3) have not been very successful, and even my writing harsh reviews (Race, Saawariya, Om Shanti Om) have not done anything. Things were getting desperate for me when it seemed inevitable that...

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Coffee and my Near Death Experience

March 19, 2008
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You folks will remember that the wife and I were hunting for sofas a while ago and it was a horrendous experience, but we finally managed to agree on one particular sofa, and we bought it. The thing is sitting in our living room now, and the wife is very fond of it, and...

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The adventures of Dabhishek!

March 18, 2008
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Back in college, I knew this fellow called Dabhishek. What he was doing in an engineering course was beyond me, and in many ways it was beyond him too. He was very absent minded, but equally determined to get through Engineering, even though I suspect he didn’t really care so much about computer science....

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Getting Up At Dawn!

March 12, 2008
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Something very interesting happened to me today. I got up at 5:15 AM in the morning! I know what you’re thinking! You’re thinking – “Hey Aditya, What are you doing up at midnight?“. That’s a good question, but there were some unavoidable circumstances. But getting up at 5:15 was very educational for me, because...

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Bunking School!

March 9, 2008
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I was out sick for most of this week, and it was pretty bad, and I couldn’t get to work. I don’t like to miss office because it’s a lot of fun (and the food at google ROCKS!) but this was not the case back when I was in school. I absolutely hated going...

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Update on plan to avoid movies

March 1, 2008
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As all you already know, I’ve been working on strategies to try to avoid watching movies. The wife is a big movie buff, and she drags me along to watch ALL movies. Her theory is that watching movies together helps us “connect and rejuvenate” our relationship, but the only thing I’m connecting with while...

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Chitradeep and the Attendance Saga – Part 2

February 26, 2008
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We spent that day very gloomy, with the prospect of a confrontation with the Principal looming large on our heads because we had lesser than the required 75% attendance in one subject. An encounter with the principal was not going to be a...

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Chitradeep and the Attendance Saga – Part 1

February 24, 2008
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Chitradeep seemed rather tensed as he walked into class that day. He is usually a very cheerful person, to the point of being annoyingly cheerful, so if he was feeling down, it usually meant something was wrong. He came down and sat next to me. It was still the first class of the morning,...

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Zen and the art of Dining Table Buying

February 14, 2008
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As you’ve all probably noticed, I’ve not been blogging regularly these days. That’s because we’ve been moving our house, and getting settled into a new place. Settling in a new apartment is a very complicated process. There is so much to do and so much to buy. One of the things we’ve been looking...

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Keeping Up Appearances – Part 2

January 28, 2008
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This is part 2 of a series. Part 1 is here. I’m sitting in a fancy restaurant with some exotic italian dish in front of me. Not only does this “exotic italian dish” look like a bar of RIN soap, but it also smells like one. The problem, as always, is my big mouth....

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