29.11.09
Does it make sense?
Folks, would you please help me understand why and how this could be a coffee ad?
Do leave your comments.
P.S. - Clicked at Frankfurt Airport enroute to Milan. (22nd sept 2009)
Do leave your comments.
P.S. - Clicked at Frankfurt Airport enroute to Milan. (22nd sept 2009)
11.7.09
Vidyarthi Bhavan
Trip to Vidyarthi Bhavan - 4th July 2009
recently i happened to read about Vidyarthi Bhavan in OT and it was in my head that one day i have to visit this place and taste the Dosas there.
one night (3rd july 2009), i was driving back home at 11 PM (i am a forced bachelor these days as Surabhi 'n Mireya are in lucknow), called CP to check if he is game to go for a coffee. he suggested that i drop in and then we make a plan.
Bada Bansal, his wife, Nliesh, CP and Sonali - there were all there at CP's place when i arrived.
as usual lot of brainstorming took place about where we should finally go. i was sort of sleepy and could have retired, but then few folks were hungry, and it was decided that we will go to Empire, kormangala for food, it was 1 AM then and we started.
Nilesh was with me and rest of the folks were in Bansal's car. Nilesh wanted to listen to gang's favorite song from Swadesh - Ye jo desh hai Tera.. we were in front of intel office on ORR and we stopped there, called CP to listen to the song... CP saw Intel office and said, he was thinking of joining Intel, and now he wont :-) this is the kinda kick you get when you listen to A. R. Rahman.
Anti climax when we reach Empire. it was shut and we came to know they could not renew the license to be open till 3 in the morning and now they shut down at 11:30 PM itself. We decided we will head back and cook at home (Niesh said he will cook daal so we stopped hunting for a food parcel). on the way back when we were getting out of kormangala, i remembered once i had gone to madiwala mandi road for tea in similar hours, i suggested to try that today and we did. Hungry souls ate like mad whatever was available on that small teashop. i think the time was 2:30 am or some thing. we headed back, reached CP's home, Nilesh cooked Khichdi and all of us were thinking what to do next. and then the Vidyarthi bhavan idea struck me. it opens at 630 and we had few more hours to pass. one more golden idea, lets play Sweep. 4 players and i was the most pathetic one, bansal teamed up with me and saved the game whichi otherwise tried to screw. thanks to cards, it was 6 in the morning, bansal said he wanted to go home, so we 4 were left and we were hungry. Google maps came handy, we got the directions to Vidyarthi Bhavan and started the drive.
some directions - from Marathalli to Silkboard, and then straight continue till banshankri, take a right and again go till dead end and then left, first right continue on the road till you see an HP petrol bunk a left immediately after that, first right and first left (complex isn't it?). this is gandhi bazaar main road and you will find vidyarthi bhavan on your left, you can miss it as it is hidden behind flowers shop, but if you ask someone, every one knows about it.
one suggestion from all of us who went there, try only Dosas and coffee, and nothing else, specially NO idlies please if you wanna come back feeling good.
OT article for someone who wants to get inspired and do it one morning.
Few pics of 4 of us @ VB
6.2.09
And then the fight started...
My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, 'What's on TV?' I said, 'Dust.' And then the fight started... *************************************************************************************
My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.' I bought her a weighing scale. And then the fight started... *************************************************************************************When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive...
So, I took her to a gas station..
And then the fight started...
*************************************************************************************
My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and my wife kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table. I asked my wife, 'Do you know him?' 'Yes,' She sighed, 'He's my old boyfriend.
I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn't been sober since.'
'My God!' I said to my wife, 'who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?' And then the fight started... *************************************************************************************
I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first. "I'll have the strip steak, medium rare, please." He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?" "Naaah, she can order for herself." And then the fight started... *************************************************************************************A woman is standing & looking in the bedroom mirror.
She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband,
'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.' The husband replies, 'Your eyesight's damn near perfect.' And then the fight started...*************************************************************************************I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light for $14.95. Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95. I told her the beer would make her look better at night than the cold cream. And then the fight started.... *************************************************************************************
I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary?" It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation.
"Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said. So I suggested, "How about the kitchen?" And that's when the fight started.... ************************************************************************************* When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed..
But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first: the truck, the car, e-mail, fishing, always something more important to me.Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point. When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors.
I watched silently for a short time and then went into the house.
I was gone only a few minutes. When I came out again I handed her a toothbrush.
'When you finish cutting the grass,' I said, 'you might as well sweep the driveway.'
And then the fight started...
*************************************************************************************
My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.' I bought her a weighing scale. And then the fight started... *************************************************************************************When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive...
So, I took her to a gas station..
And then the fight started...
*************************************************************************************
My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and my wife kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table. I asked my wife, 'Do you know him?' 'Yes,' She sighed, 'He's my old boyfriend.
I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn't been sober since.'
'My God!' I said to my wife, 'who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?' And then the fight started... *************************************************************************************
I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first. "I'll have the strip steak, medium rare, please." He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?" "Naaah, she can order for herself." And then the fight started... *************************************************************************************A woman is standing & looking in the bedroom mirror.
She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband,
'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.' The husband replies, 'Your eyesight's damn near perfect.' And then the fight started...*************************************************************************************I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light for $14.95. Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95. I told her the beer would make her look better at night than the cold cream. And then the fight started.... *************************************************************************************
I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary?" It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation.
"Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said. So I suggested, "How about the kitchen?" And that's when the fight started.... ************************************************************************************* When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed..
But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first: the truck, the car, e-mail, fishing, always something more important to me.Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point. When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors.
I watched silently for a short time and then went into the house.
I was gone only a few minutes. When I came out again I handed her a toothbrush.
'When you finish cutting the grass,' I said, 'you might as well sweep the driveway.'
And then the fight started...
*************************************************************************************
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