Tuesday, October 02, 2007


This must be one of the all-time-greats. Found it near the Domlur Airport-road fly-over. Spent a while trying to figure what it could be, but failed. "Two welar works in walk nassing". My best guess is it could be "Two wheeler works and vulcanizing". But it is not a "puncture-shop", so it can't be vulcanizing.

Monday, September 24, 2007


I found this in restroom at my office. "UNDER MAINTAINENCE. NO USE".

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Where do you live?
KOORMANGALA. Right next to the Samsonite store.

Sunday, September 02, 2007


Railways have the most interesting terminology. What is a "running" room? Does the room run? Should I go there if I want to run? I have no idea.

Saturday, September 01, 2007


The board says "Sri Durga Past Food". Of course, I have seen eateries selling stale food, but I have not seen anyone openly announcing that the food they sell "past" food.
It has been almost 3 months since I posted here. I'll try to be more regular.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Messages on auto-rickshaws can be quite innovative and entertaining.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

A typical North Indian meal consists of: Mysore Dal Tadka, Kerala Paratha, Hong Kong Chicken. BTW, South Indian meal consists of a couple of Bhats. Mahesh Bhat and who else?

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Another example of innovative usage of Kannada (and Hindi too!)

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Designed to confuse the Kannada activists?

Is this Kannada? Is this English? Both! Kannada activists must be scratching their heads.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Hey, what's that?

This picture shows the amazing abilities of my Nokia 3230 cell phone's camera (megapixel camera, nothing less!) in capturing the turbulent Arabian sea on a full-moon night with a little bit of artificial lighting from the street lights. Impressive? ;-)

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

If you are at Palaghat (Palakkad) railway station in Kerala and if you get hungry, no worries. You can go to vegetarian auxiliary stall or if you are non-vegetarian, you can go to non-vegetarian auxiliary stall.


auxialiary = snacks in Kerala?

Monday, March 12, 2007

Flexibility and humility - the two most needed qualities in Indian men today.

I saw this slogan at a handloom store in Calicut, famous for it's dhotis. Flexibility... I can understand and associate with dhotis... but humility? I don't know!

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Roh-Afza in water?

I knew that people in Kerala drank warm water with jeera in it. Look at the color of the water - this is what I got in all restaurants at Calicut. I was told the color comes from some herbs. I prefer calling it highly diluted Roh-Afza.

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Here is your chance to buy a site in a well 'planed' layout in Bangalore.

I guess they have their own runway for the 'planes'. With the traffic condition being what it is in Bangalore, planes may really be needed!

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

How big can a domestic water heater (geyser in common lingo) be? Apparently, "quite"! See how my relatively large hand compares against it:

Friday, February 09, 2007

A house with an electric fence to protect it. Birds are getting paranoid these days.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

You are at your friendly neighborhood dentist. What do you expect to find in the waiting room? I mean, apart from five year old magazines? If you are at a certain dentist near Lalbagh west gate, you will see this:


Had this been in an ear specialist's waiting room instead, I could have thought of some symbolic meaning to it :-)

Monday, February 05, 2007

Here are some of the latest "Fusion foods".

When you mix traditional South Indian food with Italian, you get:

If you can't read that, it says "Pizza oothappam".

How about South Indian with Chinese?

Again, it says "Idly Manchurian".

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

You need: 50 electrical connections
You have: 1 electric pole

Your solution:


Another view:

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Khedda on Airport Road!

This is the state of foot path at the junction of Airport Road and Intermediate Ring Road (Domlur). The hole is at around 6 feet deep and it is right in the middle of the way. Who are they trying to trap?