I was off to bed at 1:30 am (16.Oct.2014) IST. The room has a window facing north. I saw a shadow of the window grill on the wall on the south and the shadow seem to move. It was like a car passing by with the light changing direction. It was bright I thought someone […]
Do you know Chinese have a word that is derived from Tamil. It is Congee, which is porridge. The same in Tamil is Kanji. "Chinese rice congee". Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congee
Note: This option is not available on the latest version of Skype. If you are like me, who used two Skype account, I would recommend using the older version of Skype. If you have two skype accounts and would want to have both the skype accounts available on your PC, here is a simple trick. […]
If you are using lightroom, you would have faced the same problem as me, if you are using lightroom on a narrow monitor. When you expand Detail tool, you will not be able to see all of the controls below the Detail preview. From the above screen you can see that you cannot access […]
Tried this lodge when I went on a solo unplanned trip. It was best for me. Also suitable for large groups and families. Shalom Lodge, Kutralam (Courtallam) try these numbers: +91 9842182056, +91 9976691686. Very close to the main bus stand.
I never gave it a thought what Shiva Lingam really means or represents. The first time I ever heard an explanation is from a movie "Outsourced" released in 2006. It bothered me a little and I was not able to make a meaning out of it on why Shiva or Sivan should be represented as […]
I still remember. It was May 13th, 2012. It was a Sunday. We had just moved in to our newly constructed house, my 28 years dream. I was out with my office friends for the weekend. We were getting back to Chennai. My friend Chandru who was the consulting engineer and also the mason, Velayudham […]
Hi, I am away from home. As soon as I reached this place I started to get ads that come with every click on any web page. I found all these ads are from the netsmarketing.com site. It first goes to netsmarketing site and then gets redirected to the ad destination URL. This did the […]
Why being a native Tamil speaker I want to share this translation in Telugu? Yes, I am a native Tamil speaker. I can also manage in Telugu as my neighbors are Telugu and I have also been in Hyderabad for a good 1.5 years. There was an incident during my first week in Hyderabad. […]
Premonition?? Oct/1/2011 Today I took the East-Thambaram to Sholinganallur route to reach my office. The road was empty and tempting . On my way I slipped in to a strange thought, ‘if I need help and if I call Rajaram to come here from office, will he have his bike to come'. Few seconds passed […]
This has long been out of the dream list too. To take a auto rickshaw in Chennai without bargaining and pay the meter rate to the auto driver. Too many people like to complaint about it, but few are taking things in their hand to voice it out to the concerned persons. I guess TOI […]
This was back in 2008. After a great Hyderabadi dinner I was coming from old city to Hitech city. On the way I found this hyderabadi answer to the proposed petrol price hike. The facts are convincing Life Span 20-50 yrs Daily Food Consumption 17-36 lbs Daily Water Consumption 5-12 gal Daily Fecal Volume 30-50 […]