Eaten at Meiling Hawker Center. The flavors of noodles, egg whites, shrimp, calamari, assorted spinach and vegetables fuse together to create a gastronomic delight of epic proportions. The perfect Saturday afternoon meal.
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Tags: Food, Singapore
Our Trippy Office
These are photos of our Karaoke room. The colors are so cheerful, it makes you want to sing and dance, and not slouch over a laptop 
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Bangkok – Home but not really
I went to Bangkok on a work trip but I managed to sneak in some temple time with my friends. Here’s a slideshow of the city I can call home, that’s closer to Singapore than Guwahati.
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Tags: Bangkok, Friends, Life, Photos
Sunrise and Skyscrapers
I had to wake up at an ungodly hour for a meeting a couple weeks ago. I was running late but I had to pause to take a couple photos of this beautiful sunrise.
The skyscraper is what I pass on my way to Raffles MRT. It reminds me of how clean and organized Singapore is. Like a land of Legos.
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When was the last time…
You smiled at a stranger?
You gave up a seat for the elderly?
You did not bargain with a roadside vendor?
You thanked a waiter for his service?
You bothered finding out the names of your cooks, drivers, domestic help?
And their kids?
When was the last time you ran with abandon?
And got the neighborhood kids to give chase?
When was the last time you gave yourself a break
And just lay in the sun, Facebook, Twitter, your blog, all but forgotten.
When was the last time you did anything without turning it into an update or a Tweet or a blog post?
Have you gone swimming lately? Or played a game of tennis, badminton, soccer?
When was the last time you hung out with your family, no phone calls, no interruptions?
When was the last time you wrote someone a letter or a proper email?
And instead of Bye! Or Thanks! Or Later!
You signed it off as ‘With Love?’
When was the last time you had a happy memory?
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An Unlikely Love Song
Every time I watch the very handsome Christopher Plummer choke through these words, I cry.
I would like to sing for you now
. . . a love song.
I know you share this love.
I pray that you will never let it die.
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Tags: cinema, love, Music, Nostalgia, Popular Culture
Violinist plays a Nokia ringtone
How many times has a ringing phone annoyed you during a movie, concert, whatever? Here’s a video on how a violinist handles it with humor and still continue entertaining.
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I am Unlimited!
I went to watch Wicked on Sunday – it over whelmed me in parts, bored me in parts. Here are some photos of the set I managed to sneak in.
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Tags: Music, Musicals, Singapore
A reminder
I like to say technology and Steve Jobs introduced me to The Beatles. In 2005, I had just completed a month at Google, I chanced upon Manan Singhi’s music library on iTunes. (ITunes libraries can be shared among users on a common LAN and we used to try and get to work early so that we could get access – the number of users per library in those days was restricted) One fine morning in Hyderabad, I heard ‘I am the Walrus’ in Manan’s library and that started a long romance with this band of poets and rebels and wanderers.
Looking back in 2012, no other singer comes this close to what I feel for the music of The Beatles.
Along the way, many singers and musicians have come and gone, some songs I will never forget. Surrounded by auto tune, rude rapping songs, clones of R&B, sometimes it takes something very simple like this cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps to remind myself true love is TS Eliot put to song by four very talented dreamers.
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Tags: Music
Sister, sister
My sister and I were playing the fool on the day my parents and her were supposed to fly back to Bombay.
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