Chintadhara - a thought process

Thanks to Chinmay ! I got a new pass time!! This is basically vocabulary test and with each correct match you get some point which is depicted as your Vocab Level. But thats not all, as the site puts it and I quote - "For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger" Isn't this nice, donate rice while polish your vocabulary. I love it!

Almost after 8 years (6 years according to my mom, still the debate is on with her :)!!!) I finally got a chance to visit the eastern part of the country. The reason was my cousin's marriage . Wedding was in Vadodara and bou-bhaat (aka reception) was is Rishra , a suburb near Kolkata . Rishra is also my native place. My Thamma (paternal grandmother) and many relatives live there. It was quite a fun to visit after so many years and meeting so many people together. Most exciting thing was I was not able to recognize a single person. After meeting so many people and the rounds of introduction I was the totally confused. Boy! I have quite a big family tree. Cousin's marriage gave a good opportunity to meet many of them. In between all the wedding functions I did get some chance to visit Kolkata. Since my childhood days, I used to always love a drive through the city of Kolkata (Calcutta then) and crossing the Howrah Bridge was the main attraction. This time also it felt quite th...

Wish you all a very happy Bijoyadoshomi !! It's that day of the Durga Pujo when I feel bit low. Today morning only I was telling mom, every year I feel Durga Pujo is like a 5 seconds festival though we celebrate it for 5 days. But it’s also the day when I remember how much fun I had in last 5 days. And I would like to share the memories with you all too... Ablum URL: http://saptarshide.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album34

Today I came early too office, about 8:00 a.m. Those who know me might get worried reading this, reason being I normally don’t even wake up by this time. In fact this would almost midnight for me. But yes today I came early due to some work at office. For last many early I have drastically disrupted my daily routine. In school days I had to reach school by 8, so had no choice but to get up early. Once in college the slide began, initially it came to 9 then 10-11 and finally I even have record of getting up after-noon. I had primarily two reasons - staying up late in the night and nothing better to do getting up early. This used to work for me as long as I was a student, but once I landed in job it cramped my day. I had very little time in a weekday to spare on anything after office work. And slowly as the work increased in office, I started feeling more cramped. Then I started feeling that there should be more than 24 hours in a day! But sitting early in office today, I feel how foolis...

It has been quite a while since I last wrote in this blog. A lot has happened since my last post which I wrote when I was about to leave Chennai. Since then I have re-located to Delhi and was bit busy 'starting-up' my home here. I have joined my new office in Noida which is much bigger in size than the one in which I used to work in Chennai. I will cut short this update as I just logged in to say hello to all of you who keep visiting this blog. I hope to pick up speed in filling this space of lots things which have happened in last few weeks since I came to Delhi/Noida.

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I was looking at my blog and saw last few post were purely about movies. Does that means I am not doing anything except going to theaters? Well I looked back and answer came a big YES. Weekdays are mostly busy at office and weekends are mostly taken by my laziness and sleep. Whats left of the weekends goes in cleaning the house and bring it back into order to be messed up again in the coming week. Only other thing is going for movies Saturday nights and writing about them on this blog. Oh yes, now remember I did do something else. I finally finished reading The Three Evangelists by Fred Vargas , a novel I had got some two months back. Thats pathetic compared to my normal time taken for finishing a novel. In good old days a week was the maximum I would take for finishing a novel that too if it was really thick one. But now I happy at least I did something rather just wasting time in doing nothing. Since novel has come up, let me tell a bit about it also. The Three Evangelists belongs...