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Day Four: Finally at Sea!! Hotel Lee Garden, visited Chilka Lake, an Island on boat, Saw Dolphins
03-Feb-12, 05:55AM
Day three: Left Kharagpur, Travel to Hawraw through taxi and then train travel to Puri.
03-Feb-12, 05:52AM
Day three: Left Kharagpur, Travel to Hawraw through taxi and then train travel to Puri.
Day two: Kharagpur, Stay at Technology Guestroom, Visited Technology Market and Attended marriage at Technology Club
03-Feb-12, 05:50AM

Seems every place at IIT Kharagpur started with Technology. We stayed at Technology Guestroom: which was awesome - the food was great, the room was superb, and overall we really enjoyed this place.
Morning, I had to deliver a bug fix which I was unable to do in the night due to Internet. Finally my Airtel Data card worked and I delivered the big fix. We did almost nothing thereafter.. stayed in room. Anandi was running in the corridor; knocking the door of Anirban/Mridu's room. I watched Rambo 3 while shaving :)
The food at the guest house was exceptional considering that even Anandi liked it. It was non-spicy yet tasty: which is a rare in Indian hotels. Most of Indian hotels would make non-spicy taste-less food to cater to foreign travelers. Even at costly resorts at Manesar (we visited last year), we experienced that the food was mostly oriented towards foreign travelers. But here at Technology Guest room, the food was perfect!
At lunch we had Bengali food and I loved it! After lunch, while Anandi was sleeping, we visited the Technology Market nearby and bought some toys for Anandi. We visited the market again in the evening with Anandi.
In the evening we attended the marriage; which was unlike most north Indian marriages. No band or loud music; very sofisticated food. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, here is the summary of day in photos:

Day one: flight to Kolkata, local taxi, lunch at Park Street and then travel in Train to Kharagpur
26-Jan-12, 08:55PMIt was Republic day; so we had planned to go early to Airport expecting heavy security in Delhi. We woke up at 4:30 and went towards Airport at 6:10. Reached airport around 7:10. We were traveling in the same flight as Anirban & family. Got our stuff checked in and then waited for Anirban & Mridu. Anandi bought a chips packet at 5 X normal rate. Anirban & Mridu and Anirban's Parents came at around 8:00. Anandi got friendly with Dadi (Grandmother; Anirban's Mother) . After security check-in when we were finally going to board the Airplane; Anandi almost screamed: Yeee! we are going in the Airplane.
Till the plane was at the Airport; Anandi kept saying: why the Airplane not fly; Airplane please fly; Papa, ask Airplane to fly :)
Flight experience was ok; I did some work (worked on a Rails project), and read a book on my Kindle. Anandi was shouting, screaming, opening the tray and doing weird things! Shikha was mostly trying to sleep. We ate sandwiches.
We reached Kolkata at around 11:30; took taxi for New Market. The taxi driver told us that market would be closed as it is Republic Day; so we went straight to have lunch at Park Street.
After lunch, we wanted to take a small steamer to Howrah; but again everything is closed it seems for Republic day. We took taxi to Howrah station. We waited for Steel Express at Howrah discussing about books, finding milk for Anandi and discussing work etc.
Steel Express Chair car was really good with better leg space and overall much better experience than the flight of similar duration in the morning. People were friendly, food was good (see I am a foodie!). There was slight delay, but we mostly reached on time at the Kharagpur station. The platform there is the longest platform in the world.
Traveling to Kolkata & Odisha
25-Jan-12, 01:08PM
Pizza @ home
23-Jan-12, 12:44PM

rvm notes is now rvm requirements
22-Jan-12, 02:50AMRe-installed Fedora 16 today and installing Rails using rvm. I am so used to running rvm notes and copying & pasting required package names that, I got confused when I did not find the info there. After few tries, I finally read the rvm notes and it mentions to run "rvm requirements"!
Rails 3.1: new and build work alike !
19-Jan-12, 05:51AMJust realized this today that in Rails 3.1 new and build work alike ! Here is an example:
Assuming we have two models: Client & Document and Client has many documents
In Rails 3:
| new | build |
client = Client.last client.documents.new client.documents => [] | client = Client.last client.documents.build client.documents => [#<Document id: nil, client_id: 1>] |
In Rails 3.1
| new | build |
client = Client.last client.documents.new client.documents => [#<Document id: nil, client_id: 1>] | client = Client.last client.documents.build client.documents => [#<Document id: nil, client_id: 1>] |
Dawkins will be in India!
17-Jan-12, 05:12AM
How I (finally) contributed to open source
17-Jan-12, 01:28AM
Why I reinvented the wheel!
16-Jan-12, 04:57AMI am back to blogging.... I used to have a WordPress blog few years back which I made offline due to spam issues. But then never got time to get it back online. Now I am back with a hand coded (so to say) blog.