Kapil’s Korner

Simple happenings in the interesting thing called LIFE.

Entries from June 2007

Weekend in Kolkatta

June 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I’ll be in Kolkatta for the weekend. Will be attending a wedding and chilling with my in-laws. Also hope to get some time to see some of the beautiful sights of the city which include the Howrah Bridge, Victoria Memorial - roam the famous Park Street.
I will be sharing my experience on Twitter - [...]

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Tags: Travel

Kebab Korner: Freaking Expensive

June 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

A few days back we celebrated my sister’s birthday at Kebab Korner in Hotel Intercontinental on Marine Drive. This is an old-time favourite restaurant of Mumbai city when Intercontinental was called Hotel Natraj.
The start itself was bad, we literally had to beg them for a table because it seems their most popular and busy day [...]

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Tags: Food

flickr cancels paypal option

June 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments

This is very disappointing. A few hours ago I had some funds credited to my Paypal account. The first thing I was supposed to do was upgrade my flickr to a pro account. When I logged into flickr it seems just a few days back they had stopped accepting payments via Paypal for some freaking [...]

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Tags: Internet/Blog · Photography

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

June 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I saw Jhoom Barabar Jhoom last night. Although I don’t do popular movie reviews I thought this would be worth sharing because it’s released only last Friday. So a couple of quick thoughts on seeing this movie:

Shaad Ali disappoints on the story line. After a very engrossing Bunty Aur Bubli - JBJ is weak when [...]

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Tags: Entertainment

Lunch @ Not Just Jazz by the Bay

June 17th, 2007 · No Comments

The first Saturday of a lovely monsoon was indeed very interesting. For a change the lazy me decided to take the better half out for a buffet lunch at Not Just Jazz by the Bay - her favourite. This is a very proper Soup, Salad and Sandwich place - which to me is not all [...]

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Tags: Food

Microsoft Office Bus

June 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments

If you live in one of the major cities of India, you’ll know that most office-goers have a tough time commuting between office and home. Either you get squeezed in public transport or the pain of driving through the traffic wants you to leave the car home and hop into a cab. But here is [...]

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Tags: Technology · Thoughts · Travel

Bloggers party too!

June 12th, 2007 · 3 Comments

If you thought only Page 3 parties and film premier parties had their dose of celebrities – then boy you surely are mistaken. Welcome to the blogger’s party. Yes, for all those people who think blogging is a geeky subject then you must attend one of the blog meets – you’ll be surprised to meet [...]

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Tags: Internet/Blog

Snapped: Orange Sky

June 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment

For a change, I was home early today and was working on the computer when I looked out of the window to see some wonderful cloud play far in the horizon. I was lucky the camera was handy so got a few shots of the beautiful color palette.

Beautiful skies are something which have always been [...]

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Tags: Photography

Digital Photo Management for Dummies

June 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Digital cameras - they are everywhere. Inexpensive, easy to use and a great thing to show off also at times. cool! it’s not very uncommon to see people using their equipment to go clickety click and capture all that makes sense to them. But what happens once they go home? do the photos get shared [...]

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Tags: Photography

Ad pick: Lilliput kids wear

June 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments

Ok, I really didn’t appreciate this ad when I looked at it. The first thought which comes to my mind is the message it is giving out to children. I mean if the kid happens to see this ad will he/she get more persuasive to buy those clothes so that he/she can go to his/her [...]

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Tags: Advertising