On Haj, Mecca and pre-islamic arab

I was blog crawling when I came across Jivha’s Blog. The post on Haj stampede caught my attention. I went about surfing on the net on mecca, haj and islam… to my amusement the found some extemely interesting and thought provoking articles on origin of Islam and pre-islamic arab. The articles are extremely baised, yet


Stains and vessels

I was less than a furlong from my office, at Dickenson Road-MG Road junction when I realized that I had left the milk for boilng at home and totally forgot about it. Rushed back home only to come to an overheated vessel and black contents of what was, once upon a time, milk :( I


DK2 Rocks!

Hey, I am just coming back from Vipin’s place. Played Dungeon Keeper 2 for over 4 hrs! it’s an awesome game that combines RPG and strategy gaming. It’s fun, and some of the humour there is rolicking (like when you dont make a move in a while, the narrator says “Every rock in your dungeon


On strategy games

Met up with Vipin yesterday. He gave me Masters of Orion-3, a turn based strategy game. I am still grappling with the controls and trying to figure out how to play the same. Right now I am hopelessly plagued with spies infesting my planets and assasinaing my leaders, reseachers and stealing my technologies :( I