Musings of my complex selfhttps://blog.husainad.com/https://blog.husainad.com/lets-start/https://blog.husainad.com/lets-start/I am not an avid reader but I am sure I have read or in other ways come across a story of an entrepreneur who had small, humble beginnings and made it to the to...Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/moving-on/https://blog.husainad.com/moving-on/Hi all, If posting the first two posts was difficult for me, it was nothing to the block I am facing now. I keep thinking about what I should write for the next...Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/the-actual-start/https://blog.husainad.com/the-actual-start/Hi all, I am very excited to post this first second entry to my blog. Its almost shameful for me to admit that I wrote the first post back on May 8th, 2009 but ...Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/carlton-towers-and-fire-safety/https://blog.husainad.com/carlton-towers-and-fire-safety/I am sure the news about the fire in Carlton Towers has spread now. It happened yesterday (23rd Feb 2010 at around 5PM Indian time). According to reports I am r...Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/my-cousin-brothers-essay/https://blog.husainad.com/my-cousin-brothers-essay/Hi all, My cousin brother (aged 11) got a school assignment to write an essay on Mahatma Gandhi. As usual, he opened up Wikipedia to read about him but was conf...Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/of-many-cuisines/https://blog.husainad.com/of-many-cuisines/Image via Wikipedia I just came back from Ragoo's on KR Road where I had a coleslaw, salad, garlic bread, muglai tikka, pizza, pasta, noodles and rice. That mak...Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/writing-750-words-a-day/https://blog.husainad.com/writing-750-words-a-day/Finally, today, I decided to try out this service called 750 words. It basically encourages you to write 750 words everyday. The point is that writing regularly...Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/buying-new-monitor/https://blog.husainad.com/buying-new-monitor/Rant first Power problems are not a new thing to us Bangaloreans. With the summer coming in and increasing temperatures every year, power problems are common th...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/highway-to-2010/https://blog.husainad.com/highway-to-2010/I am excited to present this first guest post on my blog. I understand that it might appear to break a pattern but I intend to keep streamlining this as we move...Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/how-to-train-your-dragon/https://blog.husainad.com/how-to-train-your-dragon/Ever since I saw the trailer for How To Train Your Dragon back in January when watching Avatar (the trailer was 3D too), I couldn't wait for it. The trailer sai...Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/stay-hungry-stay-foolish/https://blog.husainad.com/stay-hungry-stay-foolish/First, a rant... When I was reviewing this book last week, my cousin brother (of age 11) saw the title and asked me about it. He asked if this book suggests we ...Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/understanding-economics-an-easy-way/https://blog.husainad.com/understanding-economics-an-easy-way/Have you ever wondered how the exchange rate between two currencies is determined? Ever lost your sleep over the effects on interest rates due to rising inflati...Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/connect-the-dots/https://blog.husainad.com/connect-the-dots/I have already spoken at length about this in an earlier post which was for another book by the same author: Stay Hungry Stay Foolish. This contains story of 20...Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/month-with-nokia-5230/https://blog.husainad.com/month-with-nokia-5230/I can't believe it is a month since I started using two phones. I bought my new phone on May 24th from a small shop in Jayanagar after much waiting and debating...Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/effectual-entrepreneurship/https://blog.husainad.com/effectual-entrepreneurship/This is continuation to my previous post on my experiences in Startup Saturday, July 2010. This post concentrates on the highlight of the meetup which was a pre...Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/startup-saturday-july-2010/https://blog.husainad.com/startup-saturday-july-2010/Yesterday was my second participation in this series of meetups. The first one I attended was about "Marketing & PR" and opened to me a completely different con...Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/toy-story-3/https://blog.husainad.com/toy-story-3/There was a time when I would watch a movie within a maximum of 4-5 days of its release. But I am married now and it is difficult to manage stuff like that. Tha...Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/long-time/https://blog.husainad.com/long-time/Let me count... It is about fifty days since I last wrote here. I have missed writing new entries here. With one thing or the other, I have stayed extremely bus...Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/checklist-manifesto-atul-gawande/https://blog.husainad.com/checklist-manifesto-atul-gawande/I first saw this book in the recommended section of a bookstore in my favourite mall. As usual when I visit the mall, I pay the bookstore a visit and let the ma...Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/ask-yourself-happy-cease/https://blog.husainad.com/ask-yourself-happy-cease/Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.— John Stuart Mill Go on, try it. If you think sufficiently, you will find it to be true. This is quit...Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/content-little-hard-much-impossible/https://blog.husainad.com/content-little-hard-much-impossible/To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach We'll continue today with our theme on contentment and happi...Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/dream-boldness-genius-power/https://blog.husainad.com/dream-boldness-genius-power/Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I chose this quote for the first quote in...Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/going-through-hell-winston-churchill/https://blog.husainad.com/going-through-hell-winston-churchill/If you are going through hell, keep going...Winston Churchill I found this quote while scrolling through my list of favourite quotes to pick up the quote for to...Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/harry-potter-deathly-hallows-part-1/https://blog.husainad.com/harry-potter-deathly-hallows-part-1/It is after a very long time I saw a movie in first day-first show. As the bulk of the last book of Harry Potter series is in this movie, I was particularly loo...Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/lifeless-poem/https://blog.husainad.com/lifeless-poem/Ever since through the window I last looked at you My heart bleeds solemn words Speech can never tell; Song can’t sing nor tear cry Nor touch express nor though...Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/pursuit-happiness-ridiculous-phrase-cp-snow/https://blog.husainad.com/pursuit-happiness-ridiculous-phrase-cp-snow/The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.– C.P. Snow This is following the happiness quote I wrote abo...Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/quotation-tuesday/https://blog.husainad.com/quotation-tuesday/This is something I wanted to start since a long time and finally, I am doing it today. Starting today every Tuesday, I will be posting a quote and my reflectio...Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/video-conversion-nokia-5230-staxrip/https://blog.husainad.com/video-conversion-nokia-5230-staxrip/When I bought my Nokia 5230 some time back, I got a 2GB Micro-SD card free with it and didn't bother upgrading. I hit the capacity in no time. I filled the card...Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/best-times-now/https://blog.husainad.com/best-times-now/The best of times is now.– Oprah Winfrey I am not going to add anything more today. A lot could be said and is already said. This quote puts all of that togethe...Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/human-nature-weak-bookstore/https://blog.husainad.com/human-nature-weak-bookstore/Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore?– Henry Ward Beecher Just a fun quote today: I don't know how many people this is true for but I find it extreme...Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/nothing-person-productive-last-minute/https://blog.husainad.com/nothing-person-productive-last-minute/Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute.– Unknown This is especially true for me. I will be trying to complete something for the longest tim...Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/taj-mahal-hotel-cake/https://blog.husainad.com/taj-mahal-hotel-cake/I have been wanting to start this photo section from a long time. I have been collecting photos and planning to post one every week but never happened. There wa...Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/dusty-computer-pc-cabinet/https://blog.husainad.com/dusty-computer-pc-cabinet/This photo shows what happens when you don't clean your computer cabinet for a long time. This particular cabinet came from a very busy and dusty area and that ...Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/healthy-strong-eggs/https://blog.husainad.com/healthy-strong-eggs/We see the strange and interesting things on roads. Admittedly, this is not as strange but it is worth considering the risk this guy is taking in seating himsel...Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/moon-closeup/https://blog.husainad.com/moon-closeup/I put this in a little late today but better late than never, right? Today, I have for you glorious photos of our nearest celestial neighbour: The Moon. The pho...Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/new-year-2011-fog/https://blog.husainad.com/new-year-2011-fog/Welcome to the new year. As the very first post in 2011, here are some of the photos I took early today (around 7 AM) on and around Bannerghatta Road. The fog w...Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/nothing-simple-hope/https://blog.husainad.com/nothing-simple-hope/Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.– Jim Horning Another Tuesday has passed and I could only get around to posting this quote now (when it is already We...Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/rang-de-basanti-2011-old-songs-golden-greats/https://blog.husainad.com/rang-de-basanti-2011-old-songs-golden-greats/I had nothing to do on a Friday evening and decided to accompany my parents to a old songs musical show as they had an extra ticket. I didn't know much about it...Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/regret-things-tempered-time/https://blog.husainad.com/regret-things-tempered-time/Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sidney J Harris I am just making it in t...Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/spider-web/https://blog.husainad.com/spider-web/Its the first Monday of the year and I have another photo (or set of photos) for you. Now, I am not really fond of insects but I am really fond of macro photogr...Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/taught-wait-inspiration-start-action/https://blog.husainad.com/taught-wait-inspiration-start-action/We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.– Frank Tibolt This q...Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/royal-meenakshi-mall-2/https://blog.husainad.com/royal-meenakshi-mall-2/I went to the mall today with a friend to check it out. Quite a lot of stores have opened up since the last time I was there. I wanted to see how many have open...Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/royal-meenakshi-mall-first-look/https://blog.husainad.com/royal-meenakshi-mall-first-look/Wow! It is over two months since I last wrote a post here. There were no posts in the whole of February or March. Thats two months just gone from the life of my...Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/cinepolis/https://blog.husainad.com/cinepolis/When we moved from my old residence in the city to a place off Bannerghatta road, I knew it would be difficult to hangout anymore. I had to travel almost 10 km ...Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/hotel-fanoos/https://blog.husainad.com/hotel-fanoos/There was a time when there was one place we always used to go for sheek kababs and sheek rolls. We travelled several kilometers through heavy highway traffic t...Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/source-code/https://blog.husainad.com/source-code/After a long spell, this week saw release of movies where you'd not feel like you threw your money down the drain after watching it. The last worthwhile movie I...Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/thor-3d/https://blog.husainad.com/thor-3d/Thor is your regular superhero movie built according to recent standards. It is loaded with all the effects, jokes and fun that is typical of this genre in the ...Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/green-lantern-3d-movie-review/https://blog.husainad.com/green-lantern-3d-movie-review/Out of all the superhero movies released or releasing this year, I was looking forward to Green Lantern the most. It was not so much the movie that attracted me...Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/quick-look-hypercity-bangalore/https://blog.husainad.com/quick-look-hypercity-bangalore/I had never heard of Hypercity until it opened up at Royal Meenakshi Mall about a month back. I heard about it when the mall first opened but I was never much i...Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/royal-meenakshi-mall-two-months/https://blog.husainad.com/royal-meenakshi-mall-two-months/It is now over two months since my neighbourhood mall opened its doors after a long wait. At the time, it hardly looked like a mall - just a building which had ...Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/book-harry-potter-deathly-hallows-part-2/https://blog.husainad.com/book-harry-potter-deathly-hallows-part-2/I reviewed the movie in my previous post. To keep it simple and short, I didn't go into many details there as far as changes from the book were concerned. We'll...Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/harry-potter-deathly-hallows-part-2/https://blog.husainad.com/harry-potter-deathly-hallows-part-2/It has all ended! Seven Harry Potter movies later, we have come to the last movie of the series. Seven books and eight movies is quite a story and it falls on t...Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/planting-trees-gottigere-bannerghatta-road-bangalore/https://blog.husainad.com/planting-trees-gottigere-bannerghatta-road-bangalore/Count Quickly! How many jokes have you heard on the infrastructure and the state of Bangalore city? How many of those jokes are about the "Garden City" now bein...Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/zindagi-milgayi-dobara/https://blog.husainad.com/zindagi-milgayi-dobara/July 15th of this year saw the release of a movie called "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2" and another one which I was not interested in at all: "...Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/steve-jobs-passes/https://blog.husainad.com/steve-jobs-passes/Today, I stepped into office expecting a day like any other - work, lunch, work some more, dinner and sleep. When I got in, I didn't expect to write a blog post...Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/june-25th/https://blog.husainad.com/june-25th/This day holds special significance to me, especially now. When this day came around five years back, I thought this would be like all the other 25th Junes befo...Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/june-25th-2012-yes-this-year/https://blog.husainad.com/june-25th-2012-yes-this-year/Another year - same date, same day. Five years since June 25th 2007 and I find myself in a similar situation. It is just about the same coincidence that, like t...Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/long-time-no-write/https://blog.husainad.com/long-time-no-write/It is well over eight months since I last wrote here. A long time by blogging standards. I do not want to go in to the reasons here; suffice to say that such pe...Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/barbeque-nation-review/https://blog.husainad.com/barbeque-nation-review/I had given up on Barbeque Nation after my meal there sometime back. The quality was going down with every one of my visits and the experience then was at an al...Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/barfi-movie-review/https://blog.husainad.com/barfi-movie-review/Bollywood movies generally evoke an image of glamour, raw pseudo-superhero action, or silly comedies. But now and again, a genuine gem of movie comes out - with...Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/bootstrap-breakfast-13/https://blog.husainad.com/bootstrap-breakfast-13/I previously wrote about this meetup group when I attended it two weeks back") (which was my first time there). Second times are more exciting at a meetup group...Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/bootstrap-meetup-breakfast-12-my-first/https://blog.husainad.com/bootstrap-meetup-breakfast-12-my-first/It was about a month ago when I came across this meetup group. The agenda is simple - Meet every other Sunday for breakfast at 8 AM and solve problems. Along wi...Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/38th-cake-show-bangalore/https://blog.husainad.com/38th-cake-show-bangalore/The end of this year saw the 38th annual cake show in Bangalore. The cake show, held in St Joseph's School Ground (near Mallya Hospital) draws a huge crowd who ...Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/the-hobbit-unexpected-journey/https://blog.husainad.com/the-hobbit-unexpected-journey/I have been waiting for this movie ever since I read The Lord Of The Rings book series, and The Hobbit after it. This was one of those movies which I see on the...Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/beast-out-of-control/https://blog.husainad.com/beast-out-of-control/As the dominant species on this planet, human beings have gained control over almost all beasts. I say almost, firstly because there is a lot more to this plane...Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/donuts-krispy-kreme/https://blog.husainad.com/donuts-krispy-kreme/I used to hate donuts. Well, hate is a strong word; I was indifferent to them. All I had ever had were donuts from local small bakeries, which are just an excus...Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/caffe-pascucci-worth-hype/https://blog.husainad.com/caffe-pascucci-worth-hype/I walked in Caffe Pascucci in Jayanagar 4th Block, one afternoon all tired and almost famished, having missed lunch. The place was full and I approached the cou...Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/installing-ubuntu-13-04-mouse-touchpad-not-working/https://blog.husainad.com/installing-ubuntu-13-04-mouse-touchpad-not-working/I downloaded Ubuntu 13.04 the day it was launched. I didn't get time until the weekend (yesterday) to try it out. I wanted to do a clean install and began with ...Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/mairaj-restaurant-tale-woeful-service/https://blog.husainad.com/mairaj-restaurant-tale-woeful-service/Some times you pay for food, at other times - service. Most of the time, you expect a decent combination of both. That is the expectation I had when I walked in...Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/moghul-darbar-great-food/https://blog.husainad.com/moghul-darbar-great-food/Don't come here for the service. I have been a frequenter of Moghul Darbar ever since it opened near my house all those years back. It was always good and hardl...Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/zovi-pepperfry-dominate-fashion-world-online/https://blog.husainad.com/zovi-pepperfry-dominate-fashion-world-online/Online shopping is gaining popularity with every sunrise and hence it becomes inevitable for the online sellers to exhibit their prowess every possible way. Gon...Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/go-goa-gone-left-4-dead/https://blog.husainad.com/go-goa-gone-left-4-dead/It has been a trend lately that I end up liking movies I go to watch without any expectations at all. It just goes to show how unpredictable this movie watching...Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/rant-customer-service-social-media-age/https://blog.husainad.com/rant-customer-service-social-media-age/It is no secret that when you pay your bill in the restaurant, most of what you are paying goes towards the service. And its not just restaurants. Most of busin...Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/royal-meenakshi-mall-2-years/https://blog.husainad.com/royal-meenakshi-mall-2-years/Royal Meenakshi Mall has been my standard haunt for the last two years. It was very exciting when it opened, seeing there was hardly any place to hang out on th...Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/star-trek-into-darkness/https://blog.husainad.com/star-trek-into-darkness/I haven't been a Star Trek fan as long as I would like. I knew about it since quite some time but I really got into it with the first Star Trek") movie reboot. ...Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/raspberry-pi-media-center-raspbmc-xbmc/https://blog.husainad.com/raspberry-pi-media-center-raspbmc-xbmc/This is a post long overdue. I have been running a Raspberry Pi with Raspbmc for weeks now and it has been working beautifully. There were some hiccups initiall...Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/chung-wah-bannerghatta-road/https://blog.husainad.com/chung-wah-bannerghatta-road/I have been to Chung Wah at Bannerghatta Road (in Bangalore) a few times over the last few years. This place is a slight cut above many Chinese restaurants. Tha...Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/despicable-me-2-review-hilariously-surprised/https://blog.husainad.com/despicable-me-2-review-hilariously-surprised/Its been a long time since I wrote any reviews. Lets fix that today with my review on Despicable Me 2, and I am quite surprised posting this as I wouldn't have ...Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/eastern-diner-bangalore/https://blog.husainad.com/eastern-diner-bangalore/Eastern Diner was on our to-visit list since a long time. It got crossed off that list yesterday and got added to our favourites list. It is located in Koramang...Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/first-impressions-the-cuckoos-calling-review/https://blog.husainad.com/first-impressions-the-cuckoos-calling-review/I just got my copy of The Cuckoo's Calling yesterday and being my first fiction book in a long long time, I couldn't wait to get started on that. I do have a wh...Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/flipkart-delivery-pickup/https://blog.husainad.com/flipkart-delivery-pickup/Update: I wrote this two weeks back but I only got around to publishing it now. That is why, Tuesday actually means 13th August, 2013. I remember ordering books...Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/review-fresh-brew-chronicles-business-freedom/https://blog.husainad.com/review-fresh-brew-chronicles-business-freedom/After Stay Hungry Stay Foolish and Connect The Dots, it has become a trend for books containing stories of entrepreneurs, and I am okay with that. The stories a...Sat, 03 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/fakhri-blood-donation-camp/https://blog.husainad.com/fakhri-blood-donation-camp/"Donate Blood. Donate Life." Or "Donate blood, save lives." No matter how cliched these phrases sound, importance of blood at a critical time can only be apprec...Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/pizza-hut-chefs-table/https://blog.husainad.com/pizza-hut-chefs-table/Two weeks back, on September 6th, I spent three hours commuting for a three hour event in my otherwise commute free life. I was not too sure if it was worth it ...Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/the-lunchbox-movie/https://blog.husainad.com/the-lunchbox-movie/"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." The movie starts off with this premise and builds on it with a twist. The Lunchbox is one of the must-see mov...Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/39th-cake-show-bangalore/https://blog.husainad.com/39th-cake-show-bangalore/UPDATE: For the 2014 cake show, please read my new blog post") for a summary and photos. This year's cake show ended yesterday. As usual, it was held in St Jose...Mon, 30 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/fateful-day/https://blog.husainad.com/fateful-day/There was nothing unusual about 17th of January when I woke up and went about my day. I was a little under the weather and took the day off and was looking forw...Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/secret-life-walter-mitty-movie-review/https://blog.husainad.com/secret-life-walter-mitty-movie-review/There was a man who sought truth and journeys to mountains to find a sage who would tell him. And the sage would say that the truth is with you. You might have ...Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/5-spice-visit-mumbai/https://blog.husainad.com/5-spice-visit-mumbai/After several visits over the last few years, I have finally got around to write this review for 5 Spice. The difference would be that I would not give it a hig...Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/great-suspender-save-memory/https://blog.husainad.com/great-suspender-save-memory/The Great Suspender is a Chrome extension that does a very simple task - suspend all your Chrome tabs that you have not used for a while. This simple extension ...Sun, 02 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/cafe-churchill-colaba-mumbai/https://blog.husainad.com/cafe-churchill-colaba-mumbai/It was getting somewhat late (by Bangalore standards) and we were wondering what to do for dinner. We had tried most options around and we were looking to try s...Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/jalpaan-italian-indian-heart/https://blog.husainad.com/jalpaan-italian-indian-heart/I have been hearing about Jalpaan since a long time. I had visited it a couple of years back for a friend's treat and my memory is hazy on that experience. I ju...Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/angeethi-museum-inn-church-street/https://blog.husainad.com/angeethi-museum-inn-church-street/After years of recommendations from a friend, I finally made it to Angeethi a couple of weeks back. I had heard a lot about the place and had high expectations ...Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/grubshup-aundh-pune-ideal-gobbip/https://blog.husainad.com/grubshup-aundh-pune-ideal-gobbip/My last evening in Pune and my plans to meet a friend got cancelled. I was not in the mood for the room service again, and even though I was tired after a long ...Sat, 03 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/oriental-connexions-walk-wok/https://blog.husainad.com/oriental-connexions-walk-wok/We were just leaving the Symbiosis Institute of Management on the last day of the workshop and thought we could go to lunch somewhere nearby before leaving for ...Sat, 10 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/matteo-coffea-hangout/https://blog.husainad.com/matteo-coffea-hangout/This June, my company organized a pot lunch for all teams wherever they may be working, and I thought this is a perfect opportunity to try out a new cafe. I too...Sat, 14 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/corner-house-preserving-memories/https://blog.husainad.com/corner-house-preserving-memories/Corner House has always been one of Bangalore's iconic hangouts. It stands firm with it's traditions while the city around it keeps changing. I remember their e...Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/caffe-pascucci-silver-lining/https://blog.husainad.com/caffe-pascucci-silver-lining/I have written about Caffe Pascucci earlier and made it quite clear how disappointing it was. I have always been cautious of the place but visited them once or ...Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/dyu-art-cafe/https://blog.husainad.com/dyu-art-cafe/Bangalore seems to be the land of cafes. Well, hardly! But there are a few good cafes around and while they are almost all as far away as it is possible to be w...Sun, 07 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/maiyas-express-express/https://blog.husainad.com/maiyas-express-express/I passed by Maiya's Express recently when going to a cafe and I just stopped to take a look. I couldn't see much but I planned to come back there. As luck would...Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/passport-renewal-experience/https://blog.husainad.com/passport-renewal-experience/I avoid any work involving government offices. I can't bear the red tape and put my passport renewal off for as long as I could. I was just procrastinating unti...Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/40th-annual-cake-show-bangalore-2014/https://blog.husainad.com/40th-annual-cake-show-bangalore-2014/UPDATE: Read about the 41st Annual Cake Show in Bangalore (2015) and photos here. Breaking my delayed posts streak, I managed to post photos for this year’s cak...Thu, 25 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/41st-annual-cake-show-bangalore-2015/https://blog.husainad.com/41st-annual-cake-show-bangalore-2015/It seems that the Annual Cake Show is a continuous crowd puller. As usual, it was held in St Joseph’s School Ground (near Mallya Hospital) and drew huge crowd t...Sat, 19 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/krazzy-folds-crazy/https://blog.husainad.com/krazzy-folds-crazy/We were planning for a family dinner for the weekend and going through the usual list of restaurants. We decided on an old favourite but I wanted to try somethi...Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/two-years-joy-happiness-growth/https://blog.husainad.com/two-years-joy-happiness-growth/Today, I complete two years at Axelerant. TL;DR, it has been an awesome journey. Actually, that is quite an understatement as it does not fully describe the cha...Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/grill-inn-cheese-review-bangalore/https://blog.husainad.com/grill-inn-cheese-review-bangalore/Cheese! That's the one word review for Grill Inn. You love cheese? Go here. I found this place via a photo of a Chicken Cheese Burst footlong on a Facebook grou...Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/le-charcoal-non-francais/https://blog.husainad.com/le-charcoal-non-francais/It was time for the first team lunch of the year and we all got discussing where we would go next. When a colleague suggested Le Charcoal, I didn't expect it to...Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/muffets-tuffets-cafe/https://blog.husainad.com/muffets-tuffets-cafe/Being a remote worker I am always looking out for nice and comfortable cafes which are comfortable for long hours. I try out various cafes throughout Bangalore ...Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/reviewing-2015/https://blog.husainad.com/reviewing-2015/We're already a few hours into 2016 and I have been thinking past of how well 2015 has gone for me. The short version is that it went very well. It is easily on...Sat, 02 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/waffle-walle-be-one-with-waffles-bangalore/https://blog.husainad.com/waffle-walle-be-one-with-waffles-bangalore/This is a review long pending. I have been visiting Waffle Walle and having their delicious waffles since over a year now. It was awesome in the beginning, went...Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/vinaya-coffee-moments-delicious-uncomfortable/https://blog.husainad.com/vinaya-coffee-moments-delicious-uncomfortable/My search for cafes from where to work continue. I came across this new place that opened up in JP Nagar, and on the way to my regular haunt for working from a ...Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/black-mug-cafe-bannerghatta-bangalore/https://blog.husainad.com/black-mug-cafe-bannerghatta-bangalore/Another week, another cafe. I was quite surprised to find one in my own backyard. I just started searching for "Nearby" cafes on the Zomato app, not expecting a...Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/house-kebabs-decent-house-home/https://blog.husainad.com/house-kebabs-decent-house-home/I walked in House of Kebabs for lunch one day when I was supposed to wait in Basavangudi for a couple of hours for an errand. The name and ratings sounded appea...Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/ubuntu-16-04-desktop-first-impressions/https://blog.husainad.com/ubuntu-16-04-desktop-first-impressions/Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was released last week and I wanted to try it out soon. As I just gave away my home PC and I couldn't close applications running on my laptop, ...Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/cafe-du-monde-place-beignets/https://blog.husainad.com/cafe-du-monde-place-beignets/I wanted to go to Cafe Du Monde even before I knew I wanted to go to New Orleans. After watching New Orleans in movies like Chef, I had made up my mind to go he...Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/morning-call-beignets/https://blog.husainad.com/morning-call-beignets/When I visited New Orleans, I had read up on Cafe Du Monde and was sure to visit there. While reading reviews, Morning Call came up several times and I thought ...Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/ruby-slipper-cafe/https://blog.husainad.com/ruby-slipper-cafe/On my last day in Mid-City in New Orleans, I decided to have a little "nicer" breakfast than what I had usually. I looked up on Yelp and found The Ruby Slipper ...Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/sodabottleopenerwala-quaint-standard-food/https://blog.husainad.com/sodabottleopenerwala-quaint-standard-food/I had been hearing about SodaBottleOpenerWala since quite some time before I made it there. It is located on Lavelle Road which didn't make it easy for me to pl...Sat, 03 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/10-years-professional-life/https://blog.husainad.com/10-years-professional-life/This year, on 25th June, I completed 10 years of my professional career. It has been quite a ride and I have written about it at least twice before. In my last ...Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/leadership-styles/https://blog.husainad.com/leadership-styles/I am reading a book called "Primal Leadership" and just completed the chapter on The Leadership Repertoire. This chapter talks about four broad styles of leader...Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-13-dec-2019/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-13-dec-2019/This is my second week of writing down my learnings. My objective right now is to make this consistent before making it useful. This doesn't mean it isn't usefu...Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-20-dec-2019/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-20-dec-2019/I have started organising my activities more strictly around the calendar, which means that my life just got a little boring, but a lot more organised. I can ac...Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-27-dec-2019/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-27-dec-2019/Another week has gone and I am happy to continue to write here. My calendar-based organisation system is going well. At least, it's better than I hoped. I am ab...Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-7-dec-2019/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-7-dec-2019/I believe we keep learning all the time. It's just that we forget what we have learnt. I learnt a while back that we forget 95% of things we learn but I am forg...Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-10-jan-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-10-jan-2020/It's the second week of the new decade! And the second time I'm writing this type of post this decade. There's a nice ring to that, isn't it? Definitely, as any...Sat, 11 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-17-jan-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-17-jan-2020/I'm now at a point where I don't remember how many posts of this kind I have written so far, and that's a good thing. It means I am sticking to my habit and I i...Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-24-jan-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-24-jan-2020/Over the last couple of weeks, many have reached out and said that they read these posts. I started writing these posts for myself and I don't intend to change ...Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-3-jan-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-3-jan-2020/It's 2020, and I am doing this with a fairly predictable schedule. In other words, this is becoming a habit of mine and I couldn't be happier. But let me be car...Sat, 04 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-14-feb-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-14-feb-2020/It's travel week, and it will be a travel week almost every week for the next month. I am writing this in a flight to Mumbai and will connect to Goa where we ha...Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-21-feb-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-21-feb-2020/My post this week has been delayed for the first time since I started. I was at a company offsite meetings and retreat this whole week. My week was filled with ...Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-28-feb-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-28-feb-2020/I'm still travelling and trying to take a break. The keyword is "trying". Unless something else occupies me, I can't seem to get work out of my head. And that's...Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-31-jan-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-31-jan-2020/January has ended and that means 8.47% year has gone. That also means 8.47% of the opportunities I had to learn this year have passed me. I hope I made fair use...Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-7-feb-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-7-feb-2020/It's winter! Well, it's winter from quite some time but I actually felt it this week with regular snow and white roofs and roads. I hope you're keeping warm and...Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-20-mar-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-20-mar-2020/It's been an eventful few weeks for everyone in the world right now. Compared to what many people are going through while being away from home, my story is just...Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-27-mar-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-27-mar-2020/I normally work from home yet this seems strange to me. That's because my usual schedule has me going to different cafes. I am also taking a break from work thi...Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-6th-and-13-mar-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-6th-and-13-mar-2020/For the first time since I started, I missed a week. My travels and schedule caught up with me eventually. No matter, I'm here today and I hope to keep my last ...Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-10th-and-17-apr-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-10th-and-17-apr-2020/It happened again. I missed sharing my learnings before last week and almost missed again. But better late than never. Staying at home all the time has, ironica...Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-3-apr-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-3-apr-2020/As the days get longer, the day seems to be longer than ever being stuck at home. But it's essential and we need to do this to get through this together. With p...Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-24-apr-and-1-may-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-24-apr-and-1-may-2020/I might need to think of a new title to my blog post as I keep missing my weekly target. That's going to be the case for at least another month as I figure out ...Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-8th-and-15-may-2020/https://blog.husainad.com/learning-every-week-8th-and-15-may-2020/As expected, I was not able to stick to my weekly schedule. As I said before, it's likely that I will miss the weekly scheduled for a few more weeks but I hope ...Sun, 17 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/virtually-separate-together-in-reality/https://blog.husainad.com/virtually-separate-together-in-reality/A few months back when the current restrictions related to COVID-19 pandemic began, I doubted it will last until Ramadan began. Soon, it got clear that we are l...Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/set-up-lighting-for-better-video-calls-and-meetings/https://blog.husainad.com/set-up-lighting-for-better-video-calls-and-meetings/It's been months since many of us have begun working from homes. Strangely, even though I have been working remotely for over seven years, I haven't been workin...Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/recursion-book-blake-crouch-review/https://blog.husainad.com/recursion-book-blake-crouch-review/Recursion is a fascinating and intense page-turner that combines my favourite topics in science and science-fiction–memories and time travel. Funnily enough, I ...Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.husainad.com/toxic-positivity-by-whitney-goodman/https://blog.husainad.com/toxic-positivity-by-whitney-goodman/I don’t remember where I came across this book but I am glad I did. It’s not perfect, of course, but it is useful, and that’s more important. Toxic Positivity i...Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT