Nirenjan’s Space

Ever have that feeling of relief when your legs just give way and you want to fall back onto the couch?

Autos in Bangalore are charging people double the meter fare. Is this a trendsetter?

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Seen today on Nelson Manickam Road, the driver and cleaner of one of Chennai’s innumerable thanni lorries were testing a new brake technology for their perpertually brakeless vehicle.

The new brake technology? The concrete median on the road. Numerous disadvantages observed were

• the scattering of concrete chips all over the road for the braking distance
• damage to the brake itself, making it good for only one use (parava illai. Chennai has innumerable other medians to use as brakes

One interesting aspect observed was that steel is stronger than concrete (or atleast lorry manufacturers do a better job on the wheel caps than Chennai Corporation on the medians)

I’ve coded my own doodle-board. I’ve put it up in the side bar for testing. Tell me how it is guys…

This post is dedicated to Lazy Geek and his wife, who celebrates their first wedding anniversary today. Congratulations Guru!!!

Sometime last year, my sister would regularly buy Superman, Spiderman, Batman and those sort of comics. Eventually, I’d wind up devouring them. Although it’s been a long time since she actually bought any of them, I’ve suddenly developed a craving for them. A couple of days back, I almost became insane enough to go and subscribe. That insanity is still present, and although I don’t know if I will subscribe, I most probably will buy those comics.

I was suffering from a major case of blogger’s block, but I’m back now.

So what should I write about? Besides my continued development of my site, that is…

BlogStreet still has my old blogspot blog, which has long been deleted, and has no record of this blog. High time I put it in.

I was looking over my server logs this morning when I found that a relatively large number of page requests came as a single request from a particular IP and a referrer with names like poker, loans, porn, you get the drift… What concerns me is that could this be detrimental to my site’s future? Any suggestions out there?

15th September 2000 - I remember the day almost as clearly as yesteday. It was the day I joined my engineering course in Electronics and Communication at SSN College of Engineering. Today, almost four and a half years later, I’ll be receiving my degree. And, in the process, get to meet the entire batch again, probably for the last time…

I was volunteered for showing a group of tsunami relief volunteers from somewhere in the north around the city. Their train leaves at only 10 pm tonight. So I found myself at 3 pm inside the Mahindra van with Nisant, Sunil, Anil, Kamal and Shyam, heading for Sangeetha’s in R. A. Puram to grab some grub. The only problem I had was communicating with them. They knew only Hindi, and my fluency in Hindi leaves much to be desired. But somehow I managed without dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.

After lunch, we headed for the Universal Temple of Peace on R. K. Mutt Road and spent a silent half hour there, after which, we proceeded to the Kapaleeshwarar Temple in Mylapore. I could go on and on and on about the temple but I’m sure that more justice would be done by somebody else who has already written about it. Anyway, by the time we left the temple, it was just 4.50. So much time, so little to do.

So, we went over to the Sai Baba temple nearby. A quick trip round the temple and back into the van, this time heading for the Parthasarathy temple in Triplicane. After another trip around the temple, we boarded the van and headed towards MAC Stadium. Didn’t actually stop there though, and just told them the name of the place. We also went past Ritchie Street, wearing an absolutely dead look (being a Sunday). From the blank expressions on their faces, I’m sure my Hinglish was found wanting.

Finally I dropped them off at Central at about 6 and while I was trying to thank them for coming so far and doing so much help, they were trying to thank me! Now I’m back home, where the van has dropped me and back to my version of “Battle Control Online”

Just back from the Light Music show at Saarang 2005, IIT Madras. Although KK was singing mostly Hindi songs, it started to get more interesting towards the end. My favourite was his rendering of Uyirin Uyire from Khaaka Khaaka

I was working on the project when all of a sudden, my project manager comes and asks me, “Nirenjan, wasn’t it your birthday yesterday?”. I simply nodded yes, and was surprised to see the entire project team waiting there with a bouquet of roses and a card. Very nice…

Bad cold and mild fever.

Phone calls and SMSes, even from the US…

Skipped office

Lunch and dinner at home, to rest an ailing body

Birthday cake with the family

Not my best birthday, but had fun, nevertheless…

The act by Army personnel, throwing innocent passengers out of the bogey, is absolutely shocking. From what I read in the papers, the passengers had a legitimate ticket for that bogey and that most of the bogey was unoccupied. The Army men said that they could not board since they (the Army personnel) had weapons and sensitive documents. When the passengers objected, the Army men threw them out in the path of an oncoming train and were overrun and killed. If the Army can perform outrageous acts like this, then what will become of the country?