AJ on February 18th, 2009

  Feeling: accomplished  Listening to: Green Day – HolidayRepublishing this here from my article in Desicritics.org to set the context for the next post.

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AJ on January 27th, 2009

  Barcamp Bangalore 8 was announced sometime recently. So I headed to the Barcamp Bangalore site to check out the details and was shocked.
The site’s homepage has been changed to something so tacky, and my first reaction was, wtf, it’s so fugly. Ugh.. C’mon guys, do something better than that..
Anyway, Barcamp Bangalore has been announced for [...]

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AJ on March 30th, 2008

  Feeling: Excited  Listening to: Nirvana – All ApologiesOMFG, it’s raining hailstones in a Bangalore. After such a LONG time.
Wow. And the weather is lovely. I don’t even remember last when there was a hailstorm in Bangalore.
Yeah
Update: Tried to get a few pics of the hailstones but was unable to. Got some pics of the heavy rain [...]

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AJ on September 25th, 2007

  A new hypermarket (what is a hypermarket anyway?) or a shopping complex has been constructed right NEXT to my apartments. This is on a stretch of the road which is exceptionally prone to frequent and long traffic jams, on one of the busiest roads in Bangalore.
I am so dreading the opening of the place and [...]

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AJ on July 30th, 2007

  Feeling: contemplativeIt’s a bit late but I’ll still give my take on day 2.
Frankly, I was disappointed by Day 2. The sessions started off late as it did on Saturday but that was okay I guess. During the introduction, a lot of speakers came forward to announce what they would be talking about and frankly, I [...]

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AJ on July 22nd, 2007

  Feeling: contentThe Bangalore Bloggers Meet happened. And it ROCKED. More than 40 bloggers from Bangalore, Mumbai and two from Germany (who are in Bangalore) as well as a couple of non-bloggers (journalists, short-film makers) gathered in Brew HaHa and had a blast.
For the first half an hour or so, everyone introduced themselves. And the sheer variety [...]

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AJ on July 21st, 2007

  Feeling: Excited  Listening to: Introduction from the bloggersI’m blogging live from the Bangalore Bloggers Meet in Brewhaha. There are more than 40 people here.. Lots of different bloggers from a range of places from India and a couple of them from Germany.

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AJ on February 5th, 2007

  Feeling: cynicalThe cauvery tribunal has released it’s verdict over the sharing of the water from the Cauvery River between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. This has been one of the most contentious issues between these two states, to the extent of causing extensive riots in Bangalore in 1991 and 1992. The previous order given by the tribunal [...]

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