mildly interesting stories.

Mildly interesting stories, written slowly, mostly in the evenings — about places I went, films I keep returning to, the small tech rabbit-holes I fall into, and the kind of trivia that won't leave me alone until I've written it down.

No agenda. No plan. No reason, really, except it seemed like a good idea at that time.

25 years, and counting - still no plot.

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19 Jun № ···

The Great Indianapolis Farce

I have been saying all along that this was the best F1 season I have ever seen in my life. That makes yesterday’s 6 car farce more painful. But

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18 Jun № ···

Bangladesh beats Australia!

Wow!! This was probably the biggest upset in the history of one-day cricket. The team that is ranked last in the international ratings (by a long way) beat the team

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13 Jun № ···

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

So today I had some time to kill, and being a big fan of the Star Wars epics I chose to see the latest offering from Lucas – Revenge of the

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11 Jun № ···

A New Beginning

So here I am, with my third “I’m back” post :). It has really been a long while since I have even given some attention to this site. But its

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12 Aug № ···

The Excursion & My Birthday

On Friday we went for a class excursion. We visited the hill stations Kodaikanal and Munnar and finally the theme park 'Dream World'. It was nice to have

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07 Aug № ···

Soft Drink Scare

What a shock we had yesterday! Pepsi, Coke and their other brands of soft drinks (Limca, Mirinda, Sprite, Moutain Dew, 7 UP, Fanta, Thums Up) had been found to have

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07 Jul № ···

Back to school

Today went back to school again. We have this cultural festival every year at school called 'La Fest'. It is an inter-school competition in various items like dance,

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23 Jun № ···

The Matrix Reloaded

It was great. Enjoyed it thoroughly. The stunt choreography, music, effects are all stunning. However it is not without flaws, heavy (and long) dialogue and complicated sub-plots does not make

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18 May № ···

Harry Potter - Why?

Yesterday I watched the madness surrounding the release of Harry Potter. What the hell? After all it is just a fairy tale!!  I have read the first two books in

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12 Feb № ···

India vs Holland

Am I seeing this?? Can't believe India is batting like this against Holland!! They have to bat way way better than this if they have to have any

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09 Feb № ···

Game Project

I have been reading a book called "The Making of Microsoft".. Great book. Its really stunning to find out how two hobbyists went on to make the largest

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08 Feb № ···

Driving License

So, I finally got my car driving license yesterday. I wanted to get the license while I was still 18 (minimum age in India) and so happy to have managed

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29 Jan № ···

Optical Illussions

A cool optical illusion!  The boxes marked A and B are of the same shade of gray!! Don't believe me? Test it by yourself! Cover all the squares

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26 Jan № ···

My message on BBC

Wow!! I had my message read in BBC World's Click Online.. The message may be small but, BBC World!!... Hurray! I was heard all over the world Text

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20 Jan № ···

Money comes, money goes

Something very interesting happened this month.  First of all I got a cash prize of Rs. 1500 from my Dad's office association. Then I got $35 for a

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11 Mar № ···

Free as a bird

All my major board exams over!! Just a few practicals to go and I'm free (atleast for a few weeks :). Found a new cool PHP host too! Fast

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12 Jan № ···

It's back!

The first update for a long time now! Loads of changes... Site is now in PHP! Also switched webhosts - back to SpacePorts. New layout, new site design.. hope you

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02 Aug № ···

Top Ten Fiction!

Just a compilation of my favourite fiction books. 1. Detective    Arthur Hailey 2. Odessa File    Frederyck Forsyth 3. Swami and his Friends    R K Narayan 4. Far from the Madding

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05 Feb № ···

Hello

Hello friends, thanks for stopping by... This site was recently updated... still doesn't have my picture though... that'll come soon. Ah! And don't forget

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