Archive for March, 2005

Putul Yatra 2005 (potli baba ki)

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Last week, the ever versatile Mumbai-city hosted an exhibition called Putul Yatra 2005, having over 300 Puppets from all over India on Display. It was a rich assortment of different styles and techniques.

This event, like many others, was less publicized and yet was crowded enough with kids and elders alike. […]

Happy Holi!!

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Holi is the Indian Festival of Colours. Its celebrated for numerours religious reasons, the main of those being the survical of Bhakta Prahalada when her Aunt tried to kill him on his Uncle’s Request. I actually really dont care. Since I was a Kid, I have been playing Holi with friends and family […]

Vote for Zishaan

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

Zishaan, a friend, a teammate and a Junior has a photoblog: Point and Shoot. He has been shortlisted into the best S.E.Asian category for the Photobloggies 2005 awards. Visit Point and Shoot and if you like it then do vote and support him here.

Had a wonderful and stomachfull weekend!

Monday, March 21st, 2005

Coupe of ex-batchmates, Alok and Shariq landed up from states, alok on Friday and Rizvi on Sunday and it was a weekend rushing from one treat to another. Went to Gorai Beach on Saturday, Dinner at Saffron Spice, next morning lunch again at Saffron Spice, Tea @ mocha’s , Light early dinner at pizza […]

A heart is like a FTP server…

Friday, March 18th, 2005

I am a Designer, a man whose job involves designing on real world metaphors so that the user feels comfortable adapting from the normal to the virtual world. I propose to extend the usage of metaphors and attempt to explain some realworld phenomenons using metaphors from the virtual world. The first of this series is A Human Heart is a FTP server

First Law of Friendship

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

v = u + at
This only applies to me (and a few others… ), for the hidden meaning of this rule is:
v(We) = u(You) + at (Abhishek Thakkar)
-@

What is Love ?

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

.L.O.V.E. = Loss Of Valuable Energy

Super Contra!

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

I cam across this post today on Samurai Games, thats the name we used to call them in Bhilai too (my hometown in India). The rate was 10 bucks an hour or 100 bucks a day, 15 bucks for an extra game cartridge. Dad didnt get us one of our own till I cleared Xth […]

Confoosions….

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Let me say this … the photoblog template is a mod of the the “GreyCard” template by Tim::Hollosy… He has some confusion that I am trying to claim it as my own. So here goes the Disclaimer.. You can read the rest at PixelPost
-@

Wordpress as Photoblog

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

After maintaining Sizzlers for quite some time … I was looking for a way to photoblog. While Wordpress is an excellent publishing platform, its definitly not a photoblog. Like many users who are in love with this application, I was looking for a way to customize wordpress as photoblog. Unfortunately, none of the options […]