why so many?

I was up at 4:00am this morning due to an unrelenting sore throat. Unfortunately there was no Paracetamol or Ibuprofen around at hand and finally out of sheer exhaustion, I took a big swig out of my daughters Childrens’ Motrin – it did say that for kids around 95 lbs range, you could take 3 [...]

spring is here – why?!

I hate spring. There, I’ve said it. The unthinkable. The ‘wonderful’ season that follows a mournful winter. It sucks, badly, for me. And the reason I know it is not because of any Spring festival or the beautiful flowers blooming everywhere or the fact that we now have sunrise at 5:15am (yes, it is not [...]

cost of good food

To paraphrase the Mastercard ad:
Cost of a Sumeet mixie fitted with a motor to accept US voltages – $150.00
Cost of transformer to run said mixie in the UK – £70.00
Delight in pigging out on home-made adai’s – Priceless!!

GTA in EDI

I am no gamer. Although I pretend to be a serious coder from time to time for professional reasons, gaming has never been one of my interests. The closest I come to playing games is Mah-Jong on my Vista (I had no choice, people!) laptop. Ok, maybe I should just keep some things to myself. [...]

US vs. UK – #213

As told by Homer on The Simpsons:
You don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.
Inspired by random surfing and this.

dirty laundry

Since moving in to our furnished flat here in Edinburgh, I have been trying my best to figure out how the appliances work. I usually just take a brief look at the control panel and then straight away I power it on. Most things have been working the way I expect them to.
The washing [...]

Six months in the UK

Normally I am the kind of person who forgets birthdays, anniversaries, etc. But somehow I seem to have remembered that this month marks the end of six months of moving to the UK.
Though this is the second time in my life that I have moved across entire continents, it feels a bit different from [...]

buses and me

I have a long-term relationship with public transportation, not always by choice. Reading this article today brought memories of taking the bus growing up in India, going to school/work in the US and finally, everyday now. As much as I would like to gloat and take credit myself for not adding to my carbon-footprint by [...]

Left or Right

I knew that in the UK traffic was on the left. What I did not realize until I moved across the Atlantic is that the rest of Europe has its traffic on the right just like in the US. I was genuinely under the impression that the US was the odd one out with the [...]

confusing metrics

There are many things that are the same and some that are very different when I compare life in the US and in Scotland. In general I find that most measurements are in metric form. However if you actually start getting into the details, its not so clear anymore.
Take for instance, distances and driving. In [...]