Random Thoughts

If you are in Kolkata and want to get in shape without doing any weights, then I would recommend that you check out Soumen's workout . It been a week since I joined it and I have already started seeing the effect within a week. Hopefully by end of three months I would be back in shape again.

After more than two months, thanks to the lack of money, I ordered a couple of books again. This week am planning to read the 1984 and A Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Both these books have been on my reading list but somehow I could not get hold of these books. I am hoping that with these two books, I will be back again into the reading business.

Its almost a month of living in the city of joy, Kolkata,now. The city has a great heritage and culture. The food is good and familiar and you can see good faces around. Park street is the life line of the night life of the city. But places such as Salt Lake and New Town, although good are really far off. Life is more or less like Bangalore. Weekdays- office, weekends- Malls. Let me share some of the common myths and realities associated with this place. Myth- Kolkata is really a cheap place. Reality- Not really. If you are working in IT and don't want to stay too far from the office then am sorry to say Kolkata is not that cheap. The area in and around Salt Lake is definitely as costly as Bangalore and Hyderabad. Myth- Transport is easy and good Reality- Not really. Esp. not many Volvo buses. Given the soaring temperatures, its very difficult to make a long commute in the WBSTC buses. Calcutta is like a US city when it comes to transport. If you have a car of your own, th...