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We had an Agenda for the weekend which included a visit to New Market to get a bigger cage and some nests for our little Finches. New Market is the Mecca for shopping. Think of anything under the sun and you’ll get it at New Market. Fortunately for us, New Market wore quite a desolate look because of the transport strike and so we decided to indulge in some big time lukkhagiri. After finalising the cage and stuff, the shopkeeper told us it would take about an hour to customize the cage as per our requirement. So we went into the market and ended up discovering and buying stuff we hadn’t dreamed of getting in a mall, including those fresh green veggies which called out to us. Nahoum’s was a must and we popped in and had some patties and pastries. That took care of breakfast. After that we headed to Elgin Road to feast on some Momos. Sunday took us to Mani Square and what better to do than indulge in Macdonalds. I was quite surprised to see that footfalls in this mall had picked u...

Construction on the East2West Metro is happening at a really good pace, not by Kolkata standards, but by any standard. I'm a bit shocked, yet happy that Construction can happen this fast in Kolkata. Am just looking forward to seeing all this construction culminating into a better Kolkata.

For most of you who tweet in bits and bytes, this little video is about the real twitter. 6 Little FINCHES tweeting away to glory. We had pulled them into our living room for the night as a storm had broken out with strong winds and heavy rain. Of course over the past couple of days, a song has been playing in my head over and over again. I'm sure a lot of you have heard it. A song by the great BOB MARLEY called THREE LITTLE BIRDS. Of course with all respect to BOB (do forgive me for this), it plays like this in my head of late: SIX LITTLE FINCHES – DADDY FINCH (Me) Don't worry about a thing Cause every little thing is gonna be alright Tweetin' don't worry about a thing Cause every little thing is gonna be alright Rise up this morning, smile with the rising sun SIX little FINCHES, sit by my doorstep Tweeting tweet songs of melodies pure and true Tweetin' this is my message to you-ou-ou Tweetin' don't worry about a thing Cause every little ...

Well after a lot of debate about keeping pets, we finally got Six Little Finches on Saturday. Well the excitement started in the afternoon, when my wife stated that we needed to get bigger pots for some of our plants and so we went and while getting the pots also bought another plant. From there the mission was to get some Finches, as she was completely taken up by our neighbour’s birds. They had just recently got a pair of Finches. So off we went to Santoshpur where we located the Pet shop that kept birds and Fish. My wife instantly fell in love with a couple of the Finches from the dozen odd that were in the cage. So we started off with two, which became four and finally we picked up six little birdies. We brought them home, but before that, drove around looking for bowls for their feed and water which we got. The cage was set up among the plans in the Balcony and once they had settled in, we put some food and water for them. Gosh they are a chirpy bunch. By late evening we h...

Well every bad thing that happens has a positive side to it. All you've got to do is find that good thing. After the Swift met with an accident I was sad, to say the least. Distraught, but the ray of red sunshine got a twinkle in my eye. The poor beast had been parked there for months and so a couple of days ago, I decided it take it to town. I was leaving for work and had climbed down as usual, backpack on my back and umbrella in my hand. As I walked past that red feline creature, something came over me, so I put the umbrella down and put the key in the ignition, got astride and pushed the electric start button. No pulse. The battery was dead from several months of neglect. So I pulled out the kick lever, pushed the choke down and started to kick; first a few hard kicks, then more feverishly and finally desperately. I had broken into a good sweat by now. Having broken into sweat, there was no turning back. So I took a couple of minutes and started pumping the kick start and th...

So after we got the car stuff done, it struck me, that we could atleast do one thing that we had set out to do. CHINESE LUNCH. It was more like Chinese high-tea considering that we were drinking beer and having Chilli Chicken and Chilli Prawns at 4:30pm, but what the heck, Chinese it was afterall. The idea strck me when we reached the Garage. CHUNG-WAH was just walking distance from there, so we decided to get atleast on thing that we had planned for. After several beers and starters, we got the all time favourite Chilli Chicken and Chicken Fried Rice. In fact after we were done, we even ordered take-away for dinner. We wanted to make doubly sure that we did Chinese today!

A grey and overcast Saturday noon filled with indecision finally got us out of the house and in our car. Well the plan was still undecided but the steering having a mind of its own led us towards South City Mall. Well all the way, plans of watching a movie this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon or this evening or the next coupled with the want for proper Chinese food came to a crashing halt when I slammed the brakes on the car, in the middle of traffic on Prince Anwar Shah Road just shy of South City Mall, and it went sliding on the slippery surface of the drizzle soaked slime on the road and collided with the rear fender of a Mahindra Xylo. Well that’s how instantaneous our accident was. We were in the middle of traffic one moment, waiting for it to move and the next second when it did move and I got the car in motion, I realized the traffic in our lane, and the car 20 feet ahead of me had stopped suddenly, so I slammed on the brakes too. But aquaplaning got the better of us. Thoug...

After a long hiatus a bunch of us got together last evening and all thanks to Dharmesh. He had popped into town a week or ten days ago, headed up to Gangtok and on his return to the city called me day before yesterday and asked if I could get as many of our batch mates together. I immediately went about the task. Calling was going to be rather tedious, so a group text to all the boys was sent out. Monday evening’s plan got derailed as I guess the notice period was too short, and so Tuesday evening was confirmed by a couple of the guys. On Tuesday morning Dharmesh called me and confirmed that instead of the usual Magnolias, Nizar had suggested a place called Flavours of India. Well that was no problem for me because it was just around a corner from my office and 7:00pm suited me just fine. So as I was getting into my car after work, Dharmesh called me and informed me that Nizar, Narendra and he were already there. Punctual fellow, I guess timing is everything if you’re a Stock Broker....