Moving Home

Instead of managing 2 blogs, I finally decided to set up my own home on the Internet and start blogging at a central location.

One click on www.basrur.net will get you to my new blogging destination

Cheerio

70 lakh sq ft of empty space

Well not really. The South China Mall is probably the worlds largest mall with another distinction. Its the emptiest mall too. This blog post has more details. There are quite a few of these kind of big, bigger, biggest malls coming up in India and one can't help but wonder if some will fall prey to something similar. Deepak Shenoy has an interesting take.

Gold

So India managed to get a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Whoopie!

Hats off to Abhinav Bindra.

Second Life

A few ex colleagues met up for a drink last night. While we were excited that we were catching up after a really long time, I was more excited to meet Suman. Suman met with a near fatal accident in Delhi a few months back and had his head fractured at 52 places. He went through 3 plastic surgeries and was in the hospital for over 2 months. Ironically other than his head he didn't suffer any other injuries.

He was conscious through all these times and it was nerve wracking to hear him recount all that he went through. But the greatest joy was to see him sit up there confidently, laughing and smiling. He is all geared up to enjoy his second life.

I really admire his guts and salute his spirit of life.

Free annual report

This one surely beats me! Amongst the multiple annual reports that I received over the past 2 weeks the one that surprised me was from Hotel Leela Venture Ltd. It came with 25% discount coupons on a purchase of Rs. 6000/- at any of the Leela Hotels. I was impressed. Even more so since I do not own any shares in Hotel Leela Venture Ltd. I checked my demat and then again rechecked my demat account. And it was true I didn't own any Leela shares.

I plan to write in to the folks and request them to allow me to retain the 25% discount coupon :-)

Online Reunions

As you go along you make many friends and as time goes by you lose touch with quite a few of them. You never mean to but that's how it turns out. Infact Shoba Narayan has a good take on friendships in yesterday's Lounge.

So it was great to bump into some of my 12th Std classmates on Facebook. Some of these folks I haven't heard of ever since we passed out. That's 18 goddam years back. Man that suddenly feels old :-) Would be great to meet up with the gang and head to the canteen for some bhurji pao & cutting chai.

Nirvana baby, all grown up

Remember the naked baby on the Nirvana Nevermind album. Turns out he's grown up to be a normal guy. Interesting to look back upon times. I wonder how he feels :-)