Recently work took me to Calcutta. Now no offense to anyone living there but mentally I have always had this particular image of the city being very poor and under-developed in some way. Maybe it’s always the images which I have seen of Kolkatta in press, movies etc. A few years back when someone visited [...]
Entries from January 2006
Oh! Calcutta
January 30th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: Travel
Welcome to Kapil’s Korner
January 26th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Dear Friends, welcome to the new Kapil’s Korner. For the non-geeks I just moved my blog to my own priavte domain at www.kapilb.com/blog And for the geeks as you can already see I have put my blog on the Wordpress platform and this is going to be interesting. Technical details later, first let’s just see [...]
Tags: Internet/Blog
What’s cooking?
January 20th, 2006 · No Comments
Tomato & Basil Soup with Malaysian Noodles. Read more at my Khana Peena blog.
Tags: Food
Look ma, I saved some money
January 15th, 2006 · 1 Comment
In the last two weeks I identified two areas where I could save some money by being just a little more smarter. I thought I should share this here, so that you could pick a tip incase you were paying for something which does not need to be paid for.
Credit [...]
Tags: General
Hello world!
January 15th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Tags: General
Happy Sankranti
January 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Wishing you all a very Happy Sankranti. Received some delicious “tilgur ladoos” for this special occasion. I remember as kids we did a lot of kite flying during this season. We used to cut our fingers with the manja, buy lots of manja months in advance and spend sometime [...]
Tags: General
kapilb.com has moved
January 12th, 2006 · 3 Comments
After spending more than one year at blogger.com, I have finally decided to move into my personal domain kapilb.com and set-up the blog there. As a starter I changed my hosting company and moved my domain to Jodohost. They seemed very helpful in the sign-up and it was very prompt indeed. I [...]
Tags: Internet/Blog
hotmuggs in office
January 11th, 2006 · 2 Comments
This week we got delivery of the new coffee mugs which we wanted for our office. They are these smart looking hotmuggs which come with a little tilt. So when you see the coffee inside its not flat but rather tilting towards you making you feel the coffee will pour [...]
Tags: Workplace
Reading for 2006
January 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment
I was supposed to accompany N for clothes shopping on Saturday evening, but she made a mistake - She made me walk past Crossword. And at that moment I could not resist myself from entering the place and picking up a few of the books from my “wish-list” which I very efficiently [...]
Tags: Thoughts
You can comment now
January 5th, 2006 · 2 Comments
A few days back I noticed that my create new comment link was broken and gave an error page when clicked. Thanks to Gangadhar and Anumita, I reminded once again that it should be corrected immediately.
Thank you to them and all those who had trouble, can now continue to comment.
Tags: Internet/Blog





