Monthly Archives August 2008

Hyderabad Airport – user development fee

Flight costs seem to be increasing rapidly on a weekly basis. And if you’re traveling to Hyderabad or Bangalore, you’ll now have some more money to shell out.

That’s the price for stepping into a the beautiful, swanky, colorful new airport for about 15 mins before your flight.
And that’s why it’s a good idea to carry [...]

How Phelps must have swum

How Phelps must have Swam Swum.
Cartoon taken from the Internet. Couldn’t find the source.

Independence/Dry day

A few days late, but this is what my friends were most worried about going into the long weekend.

Independence means having to stock up on alcohol, on Independence day… lol

Bhaiyya

I’m confident this photo has done enough rounds of forwards in emails already, but posting it anyway. Very funny ! Taken in an auto.

For those who don’t read Hindi, here’s the translation.
” Sitting with your boyfriend, calling me a brother is not allowed. Thank you !”
(The translation kinda kills the joke, but it’s useful to [...]

Mountain biking in Leh and Ladakh

The reason I’ve been training for the last month or so is for …. drumroll….
http://www.yhaindia.org/mountainbikingleh_ladakh.htm
Mountain biking in Leh and Ladakh is kind of an adventure sport if you may
Ladakh is a high altitude cold desert with a low level of atmospheric oxygen. And cycling at that altitude has been said to be one of [...]

The long weekend

Laziest long weekend ever. Mostly at least.
a. Watched the first two seasons of That 70’s show : [51 episodes * 23 mins(approx)] / 60 mins = ~ 20 hrs.
b. Watched three movies : Batman: Gotham Knight (R), Howard Sterns Private Parts (J), Empire of the Sun (R) ~ 5hrs.
c. Read two books: ~ 8hrs
d. Cycled [...]

The Long weekend plan

Long weekend coming up. Internet connection at home is in the process of an upgrade, so I won’t be online for the next 3 days. Maybe I should switch off my phone too.
The plan is to stay indoors as much as possible. I’ve got a dozen movies to catch up on. A friend of mine [...]

Abhinav Bindra Olympics gold video

The 25 year old Abhinav Bindra gets a Gold medal at the Olympics !

And last I checked, I saw this.

Look who’s at the 11th spot.
Edit: Look what we found:Abhinav Bindra’s blog- http://abhinavbindra.blogspot.com/
Checkout the awesome comments.

California consumes more petrol than India!

http://in.rediff.com/money/2008/jul/23look.htm