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Festivals Festivals in America are celebrated more with the family and we can rarely see people outside on streets. On contrast Indian festivals are more with the community and we have festivals round the corner. I can hardly see people on roads for Christmas. It can be possibly because of cold also. People Greeting strangers with smile is a very common thing in America. It was hard for me coming from India to adjust this thing here but I got used to it because it made me friendlier. Safety A very contradicting point to be mentioned right after people but this holds a good position. As much as I say that people were friendly I have been warned that I have to be careful to go out in dark. If it is difficult in downtown I cannot possibly think of other places that can be safe. More number of guns than people in the USA . Food This is point that anyone who came from India would agree with me. Indian food or ingredients are very costly and everyone craves for this

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Date of visit : 5/7/2015, Lunch Sigree restaurant has been on my wishlist for long before I visited and had been shocked as why it was ever on the list. Though the people here are far more courteous and generous to my never ending questions and requests about everything, food was not at par as the name resonates.  Starters were just plain okay with no variety or spicy taste. There wasn't even chicken legs which are normally served in BBQ. Veg BBQ are better to non-veg. It could have been better as there are far more competing restaurants in chennai. Main course as all other foodies suggest are a major set back. It really requires a major change as there isn't anything that makes you wonder. There are butter naan, biryani, curd rice and some gravy which I didn't even bother to give a try. Such is their look. Main course isn't delicious. Number is very few either. The desserts section are spike in my happiness curve at this place. The varieties and ta

Date of visit: 17/6/2015 Dinner Courteous is one word to explain this restaurant. They are helpful in making decisions on what to order and patiently what is the food and service us properly. We came as group of 7 people for dinner and went with stomach full of food and heart full of happiness.  We got mint soda as welcome drink which are absolutely complementary. The honey potato fries are yummy and must order item on the list. Momos are also given as complementary. I wasn't good fan of chicken soup and their made me to hate it. DO NOT FOR CHICKEN SOUP. Chicken grill was good. They are courteous enough to give us more myanoise. The biryani was okay only. Chicken sizzler was so tasty that you will crave for more. There are good number of veg items also.  Overall rating: Food : 3.5/5 Service : 5/5 Value for money : 3.5/5 Ambience : 4/5

Date of visit: 2/06/2015 Lunch After seeing its much hype with the 4.9 rating, we people as a group of 24 went to visit the place. First things first. This is place is jam packed even on a weekday for lunch. The  starters  are simply amazing and similar you get at any barbecue restaurant. Paneer achari is tasty. Pineapple barbecue makes you to ask more. Chicken is usually good while prawns aren't over burnt or not at all. On an overall experience spend your time on starters than main course. It is worth it. Grilled chicken pieces are damn awesome. Do not refrain in asking more of it. Coming to  main course , I hardly tasted it because of my infatuation with starters. However you can taste different veg balls which are often treated with butter or cream. Definitely soothes your taste buds. Paneer gravy is also good. Get the curd rice with the mangoes. They really go well with each other and it is good to make your stomach lite after having such a sumptuous meal. T

Date of visit: 29/5/2014 - Dinner Do not visit this restaurant on its brand reputation. I felt many roadblocks as not to visit it again. It doesn't stand to its reputation and very bad experience for me. First and foremost problem I saw was with the tables which swing a lot, unstable to be precise. I moved three times for this problem. Order : 1. Cream of tomato soup - well what can go wrong with a soup? These people show what can be wrong. First mushroom soup is not available and then this cream of tomato soup doesn't have cream on it. Disappointing it is, no? There is still to go. 2. Paneer Tikka achari - This is to be regarded as the best. Must try for panner tikka. Paneer just melts on your tongue. 3. Lahori Banno kebab - Though the description wanted me to taste it, the dish made me puke. Chicken wasn't good and the egg coating didnt go well. 4. Chicken tikka masala - It was good and chicken was nice. Good gravy to taste. 5. Naan - I think tha

This is a wonderful rap given by my friend on account of wrong social activities - drug abuse, human trafficking etc. Listen to it and give feedback. Reach him out at  Hades/Raghav .

I thought of writing this post when I wanted to open an application and that couldn't be searched well because of poor indexing mechanism in windows 10 and eventually got struck. I couldn't either search for the application or manually go through the list and open it. I think this is the worst ever OS that can be delivered by Microsoft. So much disappointed.

Days back when I was trying to do a tutorial on IBM Machine Data Accelerator, I was unable to download the required sample data for it. It was because that IBM server was down for maintanence. I thought maybe I can host some sample data which might be useful at times. Here are the links for the same: Code and Data for IBM Machine Data Accelerator Apache console logs

This video is for those who thought that AIB has crossed limits or demolished our culture and all crap notes they came up with. You have your freedom to view or not to but there is no where they made you watch it forcefully and made you offended. How can you be offended when YouTube is fine with their video and YouTube didn't play that video automatically. You chose to play it and get what you want of it. I don't say that the video is great or it is not great. I find it difficult to believe that people actually filed FIR against it. That is what saddens me,