Back to Bangalore

Its been close to 3 months since I've posted anything (not that I have readers waiting with abated breadths for my new posts).
Anyhow, a lot has happened since then. opened a new blog ( a belated effort to join the bandwagon of mba blogs out there), finished school and graduated with my mba degree, got a job at TI-India, and am finally back in bangalore after living in the US for 10 years.
On my first day home, I was thrilled when i read the morning newspaper (Times of India). ESPN wud telecast live coverage of Miami & Heats Eastern champhionship Finals. After settling down in front of the TV, and switching over to espn after getting a few laughs watching DD National, I was horrified to find some local soccer ( or just plain football) Mohun bagaan game on. Go Chatterjee go!!, shoot a friggin goal, so i can watch Shaq & Chauncy Billups fight it out in the last crucial game of this 7 game series. Anyhow, no such luck. That's It!! No more NBA for me. I'll be buying Mohun bagaan red shorts, and netted baniyaan's over the next couple of weeks.

Can somebody give me an executive summary of this translated page ( from Spanish to English)

These translated pages are absolutely useless. I wonder if these websites are being charged for click thru's on translated pages. Bloody insane!!!!

Google's language translation

Translating webpages from one language to another must definitely be a real challenge.
Case in point. Click on the Title, which directs you to Google's translation of a very popular colombian local paper, El Tiempo, from Spanish to English. I think I can understand the original El Tiempo website better, even with my limited spanish comprehension skills.

I'm going to try a portugese website next:-)

Holi Hai

OK, Holi would have been just another festival that we desi's in the US did not indulge in, if it had not been for this pic i received from a friend today. Bloody Hilarious! This guy will have 'rung' for days after the festival..

No matter where i go, soul is in the same place.

On one of my recent web searches at 3:00 am in the morning after a weekend night at a housparty, I heard this song that went "no matter where i go, soul is in the same place". Even in my inebriated state, i was instantly transported to my last visit to Bangalore. Not to get too reflective here, but I am amazed how strongly i feel about 'home', even after living in the US for 10 years.

Great link to pics of rural india.

Below is a great collection of pics from my friend Stephan, on his recent trip to India. Within 10 days, he captured more of India than I have in my lifetime. Shame on me. Maybe on my next visit to India, I'll act like a tourist, and snap up a couple of hundred pics. I'll ingore the derogatory remarks like 'arre, stop acting like a phirang dude'.

click on the link below for the pics.

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1136024

This is probably the only Mall & Mandir combo in India. This pic was taken in Bangalore, on Stephan's recent trip to India. He had heard about the 'huge' statue of Shiva, that I initially had no clue about. It's behind the KidsKemp mall, and you have to walk through the mall, passing by the designer clothes section, before you get to the entrance of the mandir ( or mall exit). Another first for India!!!!

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How many people in this jeep. About 40! A great pic to convince any automaker about the need for transportation in rural India.
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Auto-rickshaw in Bangalore. This guy could'nt give us a ride as he was having engine problems. Yeah- looks like he knows how to fix it.
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Our tour guide at the Mysore palace is to my extreme right. Jill, who was visiting along with Stephan is in the center.
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We all look happy, quite understandable after drinking all that KingFisher beer.
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