Am being kidnapped by wife to some interiors exhibition at the Kanteerva Stadium. Please send help!

In the meanwhile, have fixed the CSS error on this site that had some of you climbing walls. And I also replaced the image at the top with a GIF (yes, I know it is evil – let’s see Unisys try to get me to pay!) to placate those lost souls using IE 5.0 or earlier (guys, you *really* should consider coming over to this side of the century line!)

Later

Well, that was interesting. The exhibition shuts at 8pm, and at 7:15 we were still looking for the entrance to the stadium! Thanks to the Bangalore Traffic Police turning *yet* another road into a one-way street, we ran around in circles before we finally found a way in.

The exhibition was fairly interesting, though perspectives may differ. 80% of it seemed to have been about “decorations” – which turned out to be outrageously garish “paintings” and “sculptures” that only a blind man would buy with any degree of comfort. If I would have to live in a house that had something like that hanging in there, I’d be a basket case!

However, some of the exhibits were really nice. In the 45 minutes that we had to traverse it, we saw a good many things we will eventually want to have in our house (once we start and finish building it, that is). Saw somenice kitchens and some nice bedroom furniture, and some of those “old world” desks and furniture that I am especially fond of (and can’t afford).

There were also some nice things there that I might want to pick up immediately – a beanbag, a foldable foam-only bed for the guestroom, and an automatic garage door. The last one is something I am going to run past my present landlord.

Kept my mental calculator running as Shubha, Anjali and I ticked off things we would like, and arrived at the hefty sum of Rs.650,000. Hmmm…..