Trip to Pune. First Business Trip plus Delicious Food at Little Italy
Friday’s trip to Pune made a deep impression on me. It was nice to meet with an outsourcing firm run by honest, ethical people who do not oversell themselves. It’s inspiring me to get back into software development. Friday morning, at around 7 am, I boarded a cab to Pune. 11 am, I woke up … Read more
Breach Candy Club, Chez A, and literally the best chocolate cake I’ve ever had
Daya and I went to Breach Candy Club on Thursday night as guests of the two A’s. The two A’s, M, and S all grew up very near and they are lifetime members of the club. A2 first went to the pool when he was three months old. Breach Candy Club has a strong reputation … Read more
HelpWallah Feedback
Some people prefer helpwallah, while others prefer helpmewallah. H showed me a personal assistant service that had recently been in the press. It targets a different need and demographic, and is much more expensive. A suggested that we start with a 10 person beta so we could learn what peoples’ needs are in a low-risk … Read more
HelpWallah Beta
Spoke with H and A about HelpWallah. At the end of these conversations, it’s clear that the best way to take HelpWallah forward is to do a private, invite only beta of the service.
HelpMeWallah.com
This morning I started my first India-based business/ contribution to the community. It’s a personal help service called Help Me Wallah. Its intent is to make life easier for people living in India. Just Bombay at first though. (Nothing is up on the website yet, but we are already in operation.) 24 hours/ day, customers … Read more
Indigo
Delicious food and drinks in the Colaba area. Approximately a 300 rupee cab ride from our place in Bandra West. Getting there was as interesting as the food and conversation. It was monsooning and the soonest dialed cab couldn’t come for over two and a half hours, so we flagged down a cab. Empty cabs … Read more
Catch up Summary – Friday through today
Friday night was drinks with Daya’s coworkers at the Mumbai Cricket Association. An extremely nice, fancy country club near ASB. Lots of fun hanging with Daya and her coworkers. Highlights of the night were: bottomless kingfisher blues, JC’s unlocking my iphone, and seeing how enthused everyone was talking about the school. Daya gets home really … Read more
Train Ride to Haji Ali’s Juice Center
On Friday, Aug 12th, Twyla and I rode the train to town with the intention of visiting Haji Ali Mosque. Haji Ali is a beautiful mosque built on an island only accessible by foot during low tide. It was high tide when we got there. So Twyla took a couple of pictures and we went … Read more
Biguine’s Thin Veneer – First hand impression of “high end” goods and services in India
Twyla and I visited the “Biguine” salon on Thursday. It was my second time there. After the novelty attached to receiving my first pedicure rubbed off, I was free to get the service in a more objective manner. The staff meant well, but little things were off.
Reflections on being a trailing spouse the past seventeen days
Daya and I arrived Thursday, July 29th. It is now Saturday, August 14th. We have been in Bombay for seventeen days. Half a month. Two and a half weeks. This time has been great in a number of ways. I have enjoyed having more time to myself and expanding my mind to include new perspectives. … Read more
Trailing, err Traveling Spouses Society
“Trailing Spouses” is the term for people who follow their spouses to a foreign place where they would not have traveled otherwise, primarily for the sake of supporting the spouse’s career. As cool as it sounds to move to another place with little responsibility, it gets lonely quick. To combat this, Twyla, L, and I … Read more
Mia Cucina… and Birthday celebration at this other Italian Place Next to Domino’s
Mia Cucina is an Italian place near the Gold’s Gym by Pali Naka. W really liked the tiramisu there. If it were the only Italian option around, we’d make due. However, another Italian place nearby is significantly better and slightly cheaper. Its name escapes me, but you’ll find it next to the Domino’s Pizza that’s … Read more
Summary of last Sat and Sun, before the memories vanish
Bombay is becoming more modern by the week. A local friend of ours, H, took us around and and was shocked himself at how a seaside boardwalk had been paved and cleaned up “Where did all the hawkers go?” After the sun went down, some renegade hawkers
Lemongrass
Lemongrass is a Thai place worth trying in Bandra. They had a guitarist going around serenading every table with covers of folk and classic rock songs. Normally that’s annoying. However, by his second song
Quick Post Before Going Out Exploring
Yesterday I mostly stayed at home. Plants got delivered from Green Grower the day before, and yesterday was spent negotiating on which plants they needed to get rid of and which ones to keep. Today someone who works at the building rang the bell and then yelled in Hindi about garbage being thrown out the … Read more