Sunky Monkey Merchandise
Mar 11, 2010 Fun
My brother has got hold of a Sunky Monkey key-chain recently ( Its not actually meant to be a Sunky Monkey one, but he flaunts it as one… 
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This one is really cool, and it actually has close resemblances to the real sunky monkey… he he
The Real Sunky Monkey
:: Screen credit.. some youtube video
Tags: chennai, Fun, movies, sunky monkey
New Camera
Feb 11, 2010 Photography, Travel
Gifted myself with a new camera, a couple of weeks ago, so was busy researching on it. This is a Nikon 3000, it came with a 18-55mm Kit lens, Kit bag, 4 Gb mem card, etc.. .
The Camera as such is excellent with a wide range of enhancements, the zoom is the only thing that hurts. I certainly do know the metrics behind zoom lenses in SLR cameras, but having got used to a superzoom (FujiFilm S5700) for more than a year, I find this very hard to get used to. But if you go to a store and check the price of those super zoom lenses for SLR’s you wont think about them.
Here are some of the snaps taken with the new camera
Also see, Snap from Kodaikanal trip Jan 2010, taken on my friend’s Sony A200 DSLR
Tags: chennai, D3000, Kodaikanal, Nikon, Photography, Travel Blogs
To Weekendboozapuram
Very interesting Chennai map for Krish Ashok’s Blog http://krishashok.wordpress.com/chennai-map/
Look at all the names of places here.. very funny
Buy Diamonds online in india? – Yes, Welcome to CaratLane
Aug 14, 2008 General
Ever wondered what will happen if jewellery shopping is made online, ladies choosing and buying jewellery using a computer instead of making men spend whole day(s) standing in a shopping mall. This is where the future is .. Visit Caratlane.com this i think is probably the first portal in india focussed towards online sales of diamonds jewellery, they say that they are gonna change the way indians buy jewellery.
“CaratLane is an online Diamond and Diamond Jewellery Portal that aims to change the way Indians buy diamonds and diamond jewellery”
Visit: www.caratlane.com
P.S. You also get a free gold coin as a part of their launch
“Being Randomly Selected”
I was travelling across to Norway, this week, It was a business trip with my boss. This is my first trip abroad and I have this unique fear of airports and other places of heavy security. I got this unique ability to attract people (let people suspect me as someone). So the party begins right from Chennai Airport. I went into the Immigration Check point, the Immigration Officer ‘randomly selected‘ me and started asking me all sorts of questions (studies, study details, school school details, company , purpose of visit, father’s name , occupations, … every unexpected detail .. )in a parallel corner, my boss cleared in with ease, no questions at all. Next we went had a break . and then we checked into the boarding zone, “Gate no:3 for Lufthansa” , Madhavan, had no problem in going in, but i was the one to get ‘randomly selected‘, the immigration authorities went on to verify my identity, passport, visa, travel docs,etc. the tricky part here is when the asked about the purpose of visit. I said official work ,and they asked the invitation letter, who cares carrying an invitation letter from the same company. I am just travelling to meet my friends at the headquarters, i don’t think i never needed an invitation letter, its not a “client visit” in Services terminology, where you need to get invited by some company and so on… i work for a firm and i just travel. but the airport authorities never seem to agree on that. we had discussions, he took all the id cards, business cards, visas (thank god he left my visa credit card with me.) with him to his supervisor, they were discussing about this… just imagine this happening right in from of the airplane doors on your first international visit. Then they came back to me saying, its okey this time but not anymore, next time onwards you should carry an invitation letter with you. All I can say was thank you. He also advised me that authorities do make ‘random checks‘ so i should be careful and have proper documentation.
I boarded on to my Lufthansa, had a good flight across to Frankfurt. got down at Frankfurt. I was waiting for someone to do a ‘random check’ on me. no one did. then we went on to have some food. roamed round Frankfurt airport a lil bit. and did a lots of things… right when we were about to check in to the Stavenger flight. we had to send our hand-baggages thru the scanner. My laptop got randomly selected now. The security guy next to the scanner said to me “Krishna your laptop has been randomly selected for a security check” . He said that in a tone which sounded like ” Krishna you have won a all expenses paid trip to Hawaii on a random lottery“
I went into a room in which the security guy did all chemical tests on my laptop. And i was declared okey and set free. (free to go to hawaii )
We had a long ride to the airplane, it was a regional plane, pretty small one. It was more than one hour air -ride to Stavenger. The view of Norwegian coastline from the air is awesome.
We landed in Stavenger, I was waiting form someone to do a random security check on me, but no one did.
I will post on the travel stories on stavenger soon… until then hang on
Tags: chennai, Corporater, Stavenger, Travel Blogs
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