Speech is silver, silence is gold

Coffee and I did the whole distance thing, and for a very long time. My neighbors peaked my intrigue every morning through their sinful morning brew and the aroma...dear lord...it was hard to ignore. As a kid I was not allowed to try coffee but each time I visited South Indian restaurants I was allowed to share a cup with my mother. These once or at the most thrice in a year affairs started getting on to me. (Coffee addiction stage 1.) I always maintained my stash of coffee bite toffees (the taste started getting worse with each batch) but let's face it... that wasn't real hot piping cup of filter and the more I passed across the streets selling coffee powder (almost every big street has a coffee vendor) with mean blends, the more difficult it became to brave the separation.  I can go on and on, but thought why not give an event by event account of a Coffee addict from the moment it started: I. Aromas of Coffee - The guilty neighbors: As I mentioned before, it started wi...

Hyderabad Diaries: Charminar, Chowmahalla Palace and others (Date: 17-Jan-2015) Charminar : This weekend I visited Charminar, yet again, with my friend Sud.. and the place continued to thrall me with its ethereal beauty despite the fact that betel juice traced its path from the streets and along the winding stairs (that path could do with some lighting) bang into the balcony. The glimpse of the (not-yet-crowded) bazaar through the balcony was made memorable when the clocks chimed at 11:00am (Charminar is one of the many clock towers adorning the twin cities ::4 clocks, to be more precise::) while the lazy pigeons sat perched in their moolah oblivious to the furor and the shutterbugs clicking away to glory. (PS: Single female visitors will not be allowed to enter Charminar owing to security reasons, there were few eve-teasing instances in the past, it is better to tag along with a friend.) In and around Charminar Famous Govind Bandi: The next stop was the famous Govind bandi...

The best part about weddings (apart from crashing them) is getting to meet your long lost friends (connected by Wi-Fi) who can no longer quote excuses for not visiting the erstwhile land of the Nizams. These trips, besides pulling me out of my slumber, turn me into the local guide and the fun gets real when your explorer friend helps you discover the charming city in a new light.   My adieu to the year 2014 has been in the pipeline for the longest time possible and since one of my resolutions for the new year has been to 'DO THINGS, NOW!!', here goes my account of Golconda fort and things I discovered on that eventful Sunday of January 11, 2015 (OK! I am a week late, but I call these humble beginnings) and before it's too late, a happy new year to whoever is reading this space! Hyderabad Diaries: Golconda fort and others (11-Jan-2015) A. Playing the good host: Playing a good host (though my guest claimed I figure amongst the best guides ever..!! :wink::wink:) mea...

The frame of mind is something that is the most inevitable.You like something or you hate something... The mind frames them neatly and puts them on the most accessible corners of our brain so that the moment we see it or hear of it, its by an impulse that we react.. NO THINK-TANK!! IMPROMPTO!! And I won't deny that even I've got my priorities set without putting the teeny-tiniest efforts to learn about it.. And when it was time to implement whatever my mind framed for me - for quick decision making, I was proved wrong!! And HOW?? I won't divulge in those details now.. Travelling has been on my mind after a rather busy year where I almost flunked in third year second sem finals, earned a job in a MNC, watched some dozen movies each month and screwing up the big three : TOEFL, CAT and fourth year first sem exams; I needed a break!! Well I deserved a break at least for those efforts that didn't go in vain.. And when my suggestion was actually considered with utmost gravit...

I never understood this 4+, 4 running, . . . lingo; so, lets approximate it to 5. It has been 5years since I knew her..Believe it or not, we are still going smooth.. In the early years that we met, she gave me creeps..She was my reflection(not the mirror image!! :P) : the same thought cooks in our minds - it's minds and not brains, so MIND IT!! I thought each day, 'MAYN! I CAN'T TAKE HER ANYMORE..Lemme call it a day' My roll number was 438, hers 439. That was too much for me to handle. What was worst?? ----> Lazy-bones, late-comers, bench-mates, common friends, those tuned thoughts, both getting into the wrong bus-together or all by ourselves, we packed bags together-no words only action : we bunked together, fought : we never spoke after the tiff - next day it was as if nothing happened, nothing et-al... If all this was in the first year of our engineering life...not much changed in the second year, the bond became more strong - from single bond to double bond!! S...

When winning is a habit, a sudden failure is bound to shake your roots.. Few recover soon..but that is a rare phenomenon. Come new year, u become more pepped up..plan better..dream bigger..work harder to live your dreams..but when the dream shatters?? how long will it take for u to bounce back?? 8months!! When will u be lucky?? third time lucky!?! Long long ago..the game of tennis saw different players clinch the Grand Slam titles..but for the last few years barring the French Open Singles Title, there was only a single winner, the one man who ruled the grass courts - the name, Roger Federer. If the final tiffs were with Andy Roddick initially, then they shifted to the Spaniard, Rafael Nadal. Critics however didn't acknowledge his game to the slot that he held, for all these years. It seemed as if his magic tennis racquet won him all games..number one slot seemed to have stuck to him. Roland Garros was one ground this swiss maestro had to conquer. 2006 onwards there was a serious c...

Testing the LHC by injecting the first protons into it on Wednesday..Is it the end of the World?? Does the effort of 5000scientists, engineers, technicians for two decades spell doom for the inhabitants of the earth?? The Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ), the mega machine, 100metres below ground, crafted to unveil the deepest mysteries of matter. LHC will accelerate sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light and smash them together, this aims to fill the gaps in our understanding of the cosmos. It may determine the outcome of novel theories about space-time : does another dimension - or dimensions - exist in parallel to our own?? Whizzed to within a millionth of a percent of the speed of light, the particles will be the first step in long-term experiment to smash sub-atomic components together, briefly generating temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the sun in a microscopic space. Analysts will then pore over the wreckage in the search for the fundamental particles. This would ...