Posts by: Kalyan Varma

I visited themadman‘s new restaurant ‘Shiok’ on CMH road the other day. Really nice ambiance with excellent south-east asian food. For those of you who don’t know him, he is a geek turned chef. Read his inspirational story here. Someday.. somewhere… I just might start one. The idea has been itching me for a while now.. It will either be a dessert-only place or a european restaurant. ( maybe the day is not too far away ) So many new restaurants in town and haven’t had time to visit any of them. Visited Shezan ( try the steak) and Bangalore…

Its been exactly a month since I’ve had the fall and I am still limping around. I felt better after the bed rest and the doc suggested I was all good to go. After 2 – 3 days of walking around it got worse. Went through MRI scan and then the doc confirms that its an injury to the bone. Luckily its not a fracture ( and that means no operations required ). However the only cure is loads and loads of rest ( something that’s hard to get ). Currently going to physiotherapy everyday and walk around with a…

So the dates have been announced and apparently there will be 1 million Electronic Voting machines(EVM). The only information that they provide is As many as 200 technicians at BEL, which also manufactures electronic warfare equipment for India’s military, have been working on the project. … When the EVMs had an experimental outing in five state elections in November, they drew a fascinated reaction from the electorate in rural areas. “You won’t believe the kind of response,” said Mr Simha. … “Some of them were thrilled to punch the machines. I have seen so many happy villagers.” BEL says the…

http://www.spatch.net/orkutworld.mp3 Follow the lyrics, its too hilarious ( ack ravi for the link )

My age old Nokia 3310 finally gave up yesterday. It seems to reboot every 5 min for no reason. I am looking to buy a new one, but I have no clue which one to buy. I do not want a camera phone nor anything with fancy Internet/wap/email shit. The phone should be physically durable ( I have the tendency to drop the phone very often or spill water over it), relatively light and small and it should have decent bit of features to work with my laptop (GPRS/IR ?). Can anyone suggest a good one in 10-15k range?

Met the doc 2 days ago and he was amazed to see my knee in doing well. So now I don’t need to wear anything or take any medication. Ofcourse I will still be limping around for another week, but thats OK Had a gala time last night at ashwinb‘s “farm house” somewhere away form the city, where Thermal and a Quarter(TAAQ) along with other bands were performing.. I cannot wait for their 3rd CD to come out. Crashed over at ashwin’s place after TAAQ and stayed up almost all night chatting away and had yummy breakfast at the resort….

Kurtz : “The horror. The horror…” The words are still echoing in my ears.. A *must* see if you have not watched this movie “Apocalypse Now”. I watched it last when I was a kid and now again. The movie starts and ends with the song “the end” by Jim morrison. What more do need I need to say.

After 2 days, 7 movies ( 4 of them were romantic movies on V-day ), tons of junk food, and catching up on sleep things don’t look too well. My knee still hurts and I think I will have to spend another 2 days on the bed. Without the net access in my bed, I reduced my inbox from 3200 to 480 ( its a great feeling ain’t it ?). My mom managed to pull the network cable all the way to my bed today and finally I can lie on the bed and be online (thought its still not…

I got home from work last night ( rather this morning ), and I was taking my socks off just before I was about to crash and then it happened. I lifted my left leg to take the socks off and then I moved the weight on the my left leg to lift the right leg . Something snapped at my left knee and I crashed on the floor. The Pain lasted for 2 -3 min and I was just lying there on the floor. My knee looked fine and the dislocation lasted for a sec or something. Anyway dragged…