Meticulously Underthought

The End

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:09:50 PST

Just a final update if you'd missed the devil in the details of the conclusion of the last post, this little five-year-old experiement is over for good. The same fate is applicable for the work blog,...

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The Walk

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:23:08 PST

There is certainly a lot of magic in Delhi’s winters. Of course, it is hard to find and hidden away from the hours that we get to normally see, when we honk and snake our way through the working day,...

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One times one

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:40:50 PST

When your latest resolution in life goes something like “try and not sleep with friends and people who mean a lot to you,” the connotations are staggering since you could not sleep with strangers in...

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Reflect

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:28:25 PST

I think it would be a lie if I said I was tempted on more than one occasion in the recent weeks to update this blog. It is not like I have lost the urge to communicate; it is more like I have not...

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Cold Love

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:03:25 PDT

It is that time of the year again when the shadows creep in pleasantly, much earlier than normal during the afternoons. The days have an almost-golden glow to them, it is a bit too warm now, but in...

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Revenge

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:34:15 PDT

Call it an epiphany or call it whatever you would want to, but when you are up late in the night, largely unwillingly, in a strange room full of snoring people, aided by the laptop that beams out...

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All things remaining the same..

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:05:13 PDT

To the lovely folk at Jhanki.com (no linky love for the naughty peeps), blindly pimping your own product in comments on other blogs is not the most brilliant marketing idea that anyone had ever come...

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House Shopping

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:39:42 PDT

Oh, I have a blog that I used to write frequently on? Good that you reminded me, because I'd almost forgotten that I had one or what it looked like. You can blame the sad state of affairs here on...

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Updates

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:35:44 PDT

To think that at some point in life (not too long back, probably five years at the most) I used to write emails with "dat" and "coz" sprayed all over it strikes as nothing short of, well, extreme...

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Notch

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:03:45 PDT

Personal management is an art that is as highly specialised and complicated as personnel management. While the latter involves finding common grounds and meeting targets within a group of people, the...

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Net Vibes

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:27:48 PDT

Help! Both The Hindustan Times (in the delicious Brunch) and The Times of India have declared that the Internet is the new happening social scene in India. While HT takes a look at it from the point...

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Identity

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:54:24 PDT

The air too, like the skies, always turns a dull shade of grey when it is overcast and rainy here. Much before I finally started for home, sometime past eight in the evening, what was left of the...

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Percentages

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:47:51 PDT

When do you know for sure that enough is enough? It is applicable in both cases - good and bad. If you go by a purely numerical definition, good or bad enough could probably be defined as anything...

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Reasons

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:40:02 PDT

I think it is about time I gave up on the ‘have no time for this’ excuse and wade out into the open with the possible real reasons as to why I have been blogging lesser and lesser these days. First...

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Bloggitus Interruptus

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:37:06 PDT

Honestly, I can't pick between Bombay and Delhi, both seem awfully bad at the same time, though the familiarity of Delhi is always something to look forward to, while the eateries (they almost always...

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Inconsequential

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:45:56 PDT

I do not know what is more scary, that you have settled into a risk-free rhythm with yourself without any effort or that with each passing day more of the frivolous aims and targets disappear...

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Sail

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:46:40 PDT

It so happens once probably in everyone's life that you tug really hard at the rudder and hoist the sails in a direction much removed from the one where the usual winds happen to pass by. I have...

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The Upgrade That Was Not

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:09:53 PDT

Hell has frozen over! Blogger is rolling out a new backend. On second thoughts, it is only getting a bit chilly out here, but it certainly ain't cool enough for things to freeze over. At least not...

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Lovely Writer

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:59:04 PDT

Thanks to Chris, I stumbled upon Windows Live Writer. Till date, I've used a variety of blogging clients like wbloggar, ecto, Performancing for Firefox (the current one) and almost everything else...

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Satisfy Me!

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:25:19 PDT

When you start a new business in an already crowded market place do make sure you get one thing right - go out of your way to satisfy your initial set of customers and treat them like you'd treat the...

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Company

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:01:29 PDT

On the daily late evening drive back home there is often not a lot to lift my eyes and thoughts away from whatever that is occupying it at that point. On most days it is mostly all about nasty...

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Oh, just shove it, really

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:20:57 PDT

Because I am number one, very old and very naked too. No other Indian blogger, (and I stress NO OTHER), features on the first page of results for Google search for "looking for females in bangalore...

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Afraid

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:48:07 PDT

Threesome Originally uploaded by codelust. "If you have an infant and the baby has gas, burping the baby is being a good parent. But when you have a 10-year-old who has metaphoric gas, you don't...

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Enough

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:42:58 PDT

I think a week's worth of self-inflicted torture should be good enough punishment. Don't you agree? Hello, world. Again.

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Aside

noreply@blogger.com (shyam) — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:28:40 PDT

One of the funnier sides of the recent blog ban is that it has given a bit of a glimpse into possible numbers related to bloggers in India. From the numbers on BloggersCollective, which I guess is...

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