Posted by: Aadisht on: June 22, 2012
June has been the last month where I get to live in my own place (well, until I make new arrangements in either Delhi or Chennai. It’s complicated.) As a result, I have been making the most of it by inviting as many people over as possible and socialising like there’s no tomorrow (this will [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 8, 2011
My career path this year consists of not being at the factory (located fifteen kilometres outside Kanchipuram) every day, but gradually shifting into a sales role, so that I’m either at the office in Chennai or travelling and meeting customers. Therefore, I am looking for a place to live that is not too far away [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 27, 2010
The Art of Manliness blog recently (well, actually, a couple of years ago) had a post on how the Victorian custom of calling cards had died out, and lamented the fact: During the heyday of calling cards, using a business card for a social purpose was considered bad manners. Today, while business cards are great [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 2, 2008
Love Food Hate Waste has five tips on how to save money by not wasting food (via). Although the list has been designed with a UK audience in mind, some of the tips hold equally well for us junta sitting in India. For example: Tinned beans, frozen vegetables, meat and fish and dried fruit, nuts, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: February 27, 2008
The coolest bookshelf I’ve ever seen: Limited by space, we melded the idea of a staircase with our client’s desire for a library to form a ‘library staircase’ in which English oak stair treads and shelves are both completely lined with books. With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 18, 2007
My flatmate has moved out and I now have the entire flat to myself. This means that I now have an empty bedroom to play with. What exactly to do with this is an interesting problem. A number of alternatives have emerged: My father has suggested supplementing my salary by going into the flesh love hotel [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 22, 2007
My idiot flatmate hasn’t paid the electricity bill and the power’s been cut off. The good news is that this happened during winter in Bangalore, and so this doesn’t lead to much physical discomfort. The bad news is that thanks to another decision by the idiot flatmate (viz., buying a manual defrost refrigerator instead of [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 15, 2007
Realised this just yesterday. I’ve been saving my old chequebooks just for the record of cheques. This has been adding to the clutter in my cupboard for no good reason. I can happily copy all the chequebook entries to Excel. This will let me write even more detailed narrations, slice and dice my chequebook data, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 10, 2007
Remember how I had been looking for bins to store my unironed laundry in? I found them! Much joy. A mess of scattered clothes which was engulfing one side of my hall has now been transferred to the laundry bins. As you can see on close examination, there are separate bins for undergarmaments, socks, and [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 11, 2007
Beloved readers (especially the Bangalore ones), please help. Does anybody know where I can buy the following things in Bangalore? Home Stop and Lifestyle don’t have them, and neither does the Dubai shop on CMH Road. A clotheshorse. As I mentioned earlier, drying clothes on the balcony puts them at risk of getting wet again [...]