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The King Of Good Times

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Let's start with a question. How long do you think  can you can manage without a watch? A few hours ? A few days ? How about three months and 4 days ? Thats how long i have survived without a watch in this crazy world that often finds 24 hours to be too short for a whole days work. Its not a fact i am very proud of, and thank God for keeping me from losing my job,but it surely is an achievement of some sort. The reason for the radial white patch on my left wrist instead of a titan quartz watch was that my regular watch repair guy was out of station for a very long time, three months and 4 days to be precise. "You could have gone somewhere else genius", You may wish to tell me, but wait till you finish reading this story.  A few weeks ago i had written a post about Nadeem, a tyre repair specialist who deeply impressed me by his commitment and work ethic. This post is about another expert, the best at the craft of watch repair.

Horror..... the way it was meant to be !

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The Orion Mall In Bangalore There are many things I like about the Orion mall in Bangalore, first of all its one of the few places close to home where I can hang out, second-most of my friends live nearby so nearly all of our reunions are 'Orion based’, third-the food is great, and finally I love the way the parking staff greet me every time I drive into the basement of the mall, it makes up for all the annoying security checks they put me through. I watched ‘The Phantom Menace’ in the galaxy theatre at MG road in 1999, the theatre has been closed for a long time now, but the memories of watching the movie there are still fresh in my mind, I still recall the pod race scene in the film, the sound system was spectacular and when Anakin Skywalker wins the race I yelled out loud in the theatre full of people, fortunately for me I wasn’t the only one doing so. Go Anakin Go!!! I never intended for this blog to be about writing film reviews but since movies form a big

One Step Closer….

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I have often wondered how great it would be if life remained static. A life where friends stayed friends, where parents never grew old & where love lasted for a lifetime, I have found it annoying and unfair how life changes every minute, the most dynamic process existent in the world is probably life itself. Does life ever wait, does time ever stand still?  Is there a pause button on the remote control of life? It’s funny how we find answers to some of life’s most complicated questions in the simplest, most basic scenarios from our day to day routines. I spent a good portion of my morning today at the Jalahalli branch of the State bank of India, this is one of the busiest branches of the bank in the whole city. They have close to a million registered accounts and irrespective of what day of the month it is, or what time of the day you happen to come here, it is perennially busy. On most days the token allotted to you will be at least a hundred numbers away from