Chennai International Airport

The International Airport in Chennai (MAA) is a statement. But before you start assuming its cultural significance, let me quickly say this: I don’t know how to frame the statement itself, but I’ll attempt to elaborate my understanding. As someone interested in UX and wanting to improve UX every here and there – no I haven’t improved UX anywhere yet – I cannot help but notice this about the MAA airport....

<span title='2017-11-28 01:13:26 +0000 UTC'>November 28, 2017</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Tonnes of updates

The biggest update since the last time I posted something is that I have moved to Chennai. Singapore is fun and a great place to live, but perhaps it didn’t work out very well for my career aspirations. It did work great for the wife, but she is happy to back in Chennai as well. Besides she is on the planned break for Sid, so maybe it doesn’t matter all that much in the short term....

<span title='2016-07-19 09:34:18 +0000 UTC'>July 19, 2016</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Real Estate Ads

The sector that really needs better marketing folks is the real estate sector. At least the residential real estate market in India and to some extent in Singapore also. Today someone from India wanted me to buy a house in Bangalore. Apparently I could do that with just a 7lac payment and then rest upon possession. I had a couple of problems with the call: It was made at a completely inappropriate time....

<span title='2015-07-15 10:27:11 +0000 UTC'>July 15, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Is this a mistake?

I find this an oft-returning thought to me. I completely believe in assuming responsibility to what happens with my life. And truly, my career and life so far is a reflection of conscious decisions I have taken thus far in my journey. But every time I look back, I clearly see the mistakes I make. Some of these mistakes are fairly disastrous. I sometimes wonder I shouldn’t have joined IIT. I always knew I wanted to be on my own....

<span title='2015-06-22 09:29:58 +0000 UTC'>June 22, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Mujhe Hindi maaloom hain

As I was rolling in the bed y’day night trying to sleep, I weirdly started thinking how Hindi as a language fared in my life. When I entered middle school, I had to make a choice for the second language. And my parents rightly made my choice for studying Hindi. They felt, I would anyway pickup Tamil and knowing the national language is very important. Yes. I totally agree today – besides, I am sure Hindi was simpler than Tamil....

<span title='2015-06-18 03:44:41 +0000 UTC'>June 18, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Food Delivery Service

One of the things that is uniquely Singaporean is their hawker centers. Cheap, good quality food. Of course, being a vegetarian, my options in a hawker center are quite limited. And you can find one in every other block – basically you are never too far away from good food. Perhaps why services like Food Panda are not a major hit. Besides the hawker stalls don’t cost you any more than $3-$4 for a good filling lunch....

<span title='2015-06-03 08:24:50 +0000 UTC'>June 3, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

bakkum baga baga baga

I never thought I’d ever say this of a Kamal Hassan movie: Uttama villain is a brave story. And I loved it. I think the last such movie was “Anbe Sivam”. That was a classic and I truly appreciated Kamal Hassan in that role: It was a brave story in multiple ways and had a truly appreciable philosophy backing it. TL;DR – Go watch Uttama Villain without expectations. You’ll love it....

<span title='2015-05-18 04:02:03 +0000 UTC'>May 18, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;7 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

NRI and Entrepreneurship

Currently, am an NRI. Wow!! And an expat in Singapore. Super wow!! I never thought I’d be any of that. You know only NRIs are able to afford housing in Abhiramapuram and Mylapore, right? For Teynampet, you may need to be NRI banker or something. And you know the kind of life expats live in Chennai? Splurge is the word. They are the only people who buy stuff at KNK road and that European coffee boutique off-Gopalapuram....

<span title='2015-05-13 02:34:02 +0000 UTC'>May 13, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;3 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek

Cabbie – Comedian

I was in Chennai last week. I had to go out someplace and I had hired a cab since I am not very keen in driving in Chennai any more. It was a 40 minute drive one way and it was a pretty hot day. The cabbie was the only relief all along the drive although both my wife and my mom found him a tad too annoying. The man was naturally gifted at talking....

<span title='2015-05-11 09:18:00 +0000 UTC'>May 11, 2015</span>&nbsp;·&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;·&nbsp;abishek