Trip to Chennai
I went to Chennai to conduct a written test, finalise registration of the company and to meet colleagues who are joining in the near future.
I was working like crazy for the past 7 or 8 weeks and I needed to take a break. Of the two days I was in Chennai, I worked only half of the first day and one fourth of the second day and for the rest of the time I went out and had fun. I went to Chennai with Elise (Chat Friend, Belgian, Indophile, exchange student to IIMB from Solvay Business School, Elise's Blog, a longer and more meaningful intro later) and we went to Marina Beach, Mahabalipuram (a nice long drive on East Coast Road), Besant Nagar beach, Spencer Plaza, 2 km walk on Mount Road from Spencers towards Central, Half an hour ride on a crowded City Bus). I had a great time. I needed to.
Changes to blog
With the help of Anuj Lakhotia(NSIT, TU2K5, aspiring to be an entrepreneur, Anuj's Blog, a longer and more meaningful later), I made the following changes to the blog.
i) Changed the address of the blog to RK's blog to make it easier to remember the location. (I apologize to people who already linked to me at the old address. As a temporary work around I have provided a redirection to the new address at the old blog location)
ii) Added a counter to the blog. This counts the number times the main page is visited. As of now nearly one in every ten hits might be mine but as the readership increases this should my hits to the page will not cause much difference to the counter.
iii) Registerd with BlogRoll, provider of a nifty set of tools for easier blogging. Check out the "BlogRoll Me" link on the side.
Anuj is going to write a post on his blog about various helpful blog tools. You can use them in your blog too.
There are more changes in store:
i) Splitting of the blog into business blog and personal blog.
ii) Having a shoutbox on the blog.
iii) Any other cool features that Anuj might find on the net :-)
Other random thoughts
Lots of questions in my life are getting answered and one of the answer is "Starting a Charitable Foundation" (Name undecided. High probables : "Aislinn Foundation" or "Cressida Foundation"). The idea of the foundation is in it's infancy. I am going to write about it in more detail some time soon.
4 comments:
Hi R.K
I am more than overwhelmed to see my name on your blog, Thanks a lot. You would have ultimately found all those things yourself. I just told you what i felt u should do, so that you can make justice to ur blog and make its presence feel on the net.
Hope your chennai trip went off well.
And yes, I am waiting to shout in your shoutbox..
Adios anuj
From Elise's blog:
... Then, roamed around in the city trying to find Indian clothes and (wedding?) ring…
This begs a question - what ring was it?
:-) It was just make-believe.
I wanted to see the people who buy gold by the kilo. And this happens in the Jewelry shops in T.Nagar and GR Thanmaligai is the biggest Jewelry showroom around. Four or Five huge floors of gold. Probably some 20,000 Sqft. Once inside, I thought we could also see people's reaction to us acting as couple.
There WERE people buying gold by the kilo and they were giving us odd looks. The sales people didn't skip a beat though. They were very professional and showed us thousands (I'm not kidding) of rings.
There were not pushy but there was a continuous soft sales pressure and it was difficult to get out. Finally we got out after few clever excuses from Elise: "I don't like yellow gold. Do you have white gold?"
Anyway, it was fun and GRT is great except that I don't like what they are selling.
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