The lady first?

Chaitanya Reddy @ April 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I am not traditionalist with my views about gender treatment in a restaurant. 
What makes me uncomfortable though is the fact that more often than not, opinion about the food/service is sought first from the gentleman and then, if at all, from the lady - most often as a cursory afterthought.
Look around and you notice that food and the bills are brought [...]

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Who wants to sit here?

Chaitanya Reddy @ April 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Almost every eating joint/restaurant/fast food centre has a “bad table” - too close to the washrooms, tucked in a stuffy corner, bad lighting. No customer would want to be seated here.
So why have this table?
Why not replace it with some of restaurants own property - like a pantry corner, cell-phone charging zone, ‘collect your coupons’ station.
Another solution: make the [...]

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‘Start something New’

Chaitanya Reddy @ April 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet

That’s the tag line that Shoppers Stop now sports along with a new logo.

The old logo:

At first glance the new logo looks really familiar. This is what came to my mind :

The new logo has a ’seen it before’ feel to it. Start something new??? No prizes for guessing which logo I like more.

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IPR resolved?

Chaitanya Reddy @ April 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Thoughts are everywhere, scraps saying things that barely occurred to me a few seconds ago, blogs used as a medium of expressing. In such a scenario privacy is definitely not the only issue.
What about borrowed thoughts recycled just enough to seem original. Who traces the deleted posts that were my own? What stops the copy [...]

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Lucky Break

Chaitanya Reddy @ April 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Most successful individuals are victims of “luck”, mostly in the eyes of self proclaimed analysts.
“She worked by day and toiled by night, She gave up play and some delight, Dry books she read, new things to learn, and forged ahead success to earn, she plodded with faith and pluck and when she won, men called [...]

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Awesome Mausam

Chaitanya Reddy @ April 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The good news: Breezy, pleasant weather with temperatures hovering around 30 degree Celsius. Respite from the sun, almost too good to be true. With occasional drizzles, the weather has been one problem less in the minds of most hyderabadi’s for the past few days.
The bad news: Deviation from the normal course that climate takes has caused losses [...]

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