Kapil's Korner

After the attempt to do at least 10 books for a year, this year I had a rather poor reading record. I finished reading 4 books and hopefully will finish reading at least 1 more before the year ends. Resolution for 2012: More reading for sure. The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, [...]

The 2011 X’mas holiday has been rather wonderful. Spent some lovely time exploring Nairobi with wife and a new set of friends we have here. Explored We visited the Nairobi National Park. Saw a few animals – Giraffes, Baboons, Bisons / Wild Bulls, lots of deers. Unfortunately could not see any of the wild cats. [...]

At the start of the 2010, I read @jax ‘s tweet which said he wanted to read 100 books in 2010. Got me kicked. I said if not 100 I should at least do a ten to my record. And here it is, a snapshot of the books I read this year. You Can Negotiate [...]

My wife says when I enter a book-store I smile like a kid allowed to go shopping in a candy store. I often have to be reminded that there are yet some books which remain unread. There is a constant battle as to what to read – the things I like to or the things [...]

Last night the MacBook refused to go online. After a 2 hour struggle it just won’t work. So I gave up. Which lead me to dig out the DVD of Harishchandrachi Factory [Theatrical Trailer] – A Marathi film depicting the struggle of Dadasaheb Phalke in making Raja Harishchandra in 1913, India’s first feature film, thus [...]

Yummy desserts A good book And the forgotten playlist on the iPod

This has recently caught my attention and I think anybody who spends hours reading would love to own one of these. This is a product of Nobody & Co. who seem to work on such funky designs, but none as exciting as this one. Image from TrendHunter Magazine

I have been under the weather and things have been bad in the nose and throat. Lots of coughing and sneezing. Had to rest home over the long weekend with not much to do. Tried to catch up some reading and I am glad I could finish off the long over-due end chapter of one [...]