Entries from November 2004

November 30, 2004

LA Confidential

Met my college friends in the city of angels. As an airport, LAX wasnt any great shakes. My friend Herman stays nearby in Santa Monica so we went to his place first and then for dinner. Nirmal was arriving from SFrisco the next morning.
Nirmal was to reach at 6 am by Greyhound from SF. [...]

November 24, 2004

Dosa Time

Kris had already been to this south Indian joint called Udupi Cafe. He said it was decent so we went again. Its rather far off so we had to cab it.
Anyhow, after reaching a decidedly seedy looking neighbourhood, we found the place and ordered dosas and Kris ordered a papri chaat also. The chaat [...]

November 17, 2004

MasterCard Fraud

Terri and Susan organized a dinner this evening. It was to celebrate my birthday last week, plus Kris and Badri’s birthdays coming soon. We went to the Melting Pot, the fondue place.
We had the privilege of having dinner with TW employee#1 aka Patti Hall. So there was Gary, Ross, Ross’ GF Vanessa, BADri, Kris, Terri, [...]

November 12, 2004

Hair apparent

It was time. Damn thing was becoming a bother. Another inch and it would really bother me.
Last time, I spent $$$ so I was going to be careful this time round. I searched for the preferred option on the net, but the nearest one would have cost more to reach than the actual service.
At lunch [...]

November 9, 2004

The Constitution State

After the dreary days, I was looking forward to a weekend with cousins and friends in Connecticut. The flight was via Detroit, which I learned earlier was actually De-troit in French which means ‘of the straits’ bcos its between some rivers.
The airport was amazingly huge. I caught the connecting flight and reached Bradley which is [...]