Sunday, February 26, 2006

10 hashers at The Wetlands walk and Breakfast at The Tea Table
Sunita joined and was delighted with the whole sunday morning walk and adda! Look out for her write up soon.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Here’s wishing all the hashers a Happy Valentine’s Day. Be sure to go the extra length to make it special and connect with your loved one in the city.


We are changing the venue for this Sunday’s hash in order to connect with the city in the Marathon.

On Sunday 19th February 2006, Exide presents the The Telegraph Kolkata Marathon. There will be 3 races: -

Race Distance Starting Time

Marathon 42.195 Km 7:00 am

Ladies Run 10.500 Km 7:15 am

Fun Run 4.200 Km 8:00 am



We hashers will once again be participating in the Fun Race.

Reach Red Road at 7:30 to fill in your registration form and collect your Marathon T shirt and cap.

Once the Fun Run is over, you can collect your breakfast box and drinks. By 9 after the Fun Run is over, Kolkata’s very own Sandeep Vyas will be performing on Red Road as he did last year.

To check who all ran last year in the Airtel Marathon check under Archives for March 2005 on www.calcuttahashgroup.blogspot.com

The total prize money on offer this year is Rs 7.60 Lac. The event is being organised by the Athletics Coaches Association of Bengal. (ACAB).
The Co Sponsors for the event are

Eveready Industries Co Sponsor

Ramsarup Group. Co Sponsor

ITC Sunfeast Co Sponsor

Selvel Vantage Outdoor Partner

Pepsi Beverage Partner

Red FM Radio Partner

High Life Management Event Managers


So come Run For Your City and join us in making this years marathon a grand success.


More on www.kolkatamarathon.com

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Tiretti Bazaar - Chinese breakfast

On Feb 12th, Lilly, Carl, Siddiqui, Peter, Rosie, Madhuri and I met in front of Statesman House to do the China Town visit.

We walked past Bow Barracks and the oldest undertaker's. We also saw the oldest chinese restaurant of Calcutta - Nanking.

We ate lots of street food at the stalls - pork pao/buns, chicken "wons" ;-D
The prawn sui mai was excellent. The vegetable dumplings too. The Chinese sauces were hot and spicy. I even bought a packet of prawn crackers.
Lilly took a lot of pictures of all the interesting things en route.

We then went to the Sea Ip Church for prayers and astrological predictions for the Chinese new year of the Dog that started on 29 th Jan.

The sticks predicted lots of good things for Peter, Rosie and Lilly. Madhuri was delighted with the candles, paper and incense sticks we burned. I was delighted with the Chinese breakfast so we were all very happy with the new year.

We headed back to Chennai Kitchen for juice and coffee after a walk through Bow Barracks.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Botanics - Lexicon

I didn't make it out to the Botanics as it was my father's birthday and we cut the cake at breakfast so the rest of the day is sweet ;-D
As I can't do the write up I leave you with a few new expressions.
Like the branches of the banyan tree of knowledge, here is some interesting vocabulary to take root in the hashers' psyche!

Larfs for the Intelligentsia

(The Washington Post runs a yearly competition in which readers are asked to submit alternative meanings for various words …)




Flabbergasted (adj.) appalled & amazed over how much weight one has gained


Abdicate (v.) to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach


Esplanade (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk


Willy-nilly (adj.) impotent


Negligent (adj.) to absent-mindedly answer the door in one’s night-gown


Lymph (v.) to walk with a lisp


Gargoyle (n.) an olive-flavoured mouthwash


Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks one up after being run over by a steam-roller


Balderdash (n.) a rapidly receding hairline


Testicle (n.) a humorous question in an exam


Rectitude (n.) formal dignified demeanour assumed by a doctor immediately before examining patient


Oyster (n.) person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions


Circumvent (n.) the opening in the front of boxer shorts


Frisbeetarianism (n.) the belief that when you die, your soul goes on the roof and gets stuck there

Coffee (n.) a person who is coughed upon
Pokemon (n.) A Jamaican proctologist