Happy Hours On Tuffeeho
Boozers of the world unite, happy hours are here again. And informing Indians living in the metros about them is www.tulleeho.com. A very desi site, tulleeho.com reviews "bars and such like places" in Delhi, Mumbai and a few in Calcutta, Chandigarh and Ludhiana.
The reviews are well-written and provide enough information on the prices, which includes the discounts offered during happy hours, quality and ambience of various bars across the five cities.
While Delhi and Mumbai bars are covered extensively, reviews of bars in the other cities have just started. And this is where users of the infobahn and the mug that cheers get to pitch in. The site not only invites reviews, but also pays for them.
There's more. Want to brush up your knowledge on all things alcoholic? The site has a section called 'Know your Booze' that delves deep (not quite, but what the hic!) into it. It also offers cocktail recipes and advice on offbeat places to get smashed in-like Mashobra, if you know where it is.
Not a kid anymore
THIS SITE is for those who are in the awkward phase of not quite being a kid anymore, but some way off from being accepted as an adult as well. Again a site made by Indians for Indians, www.notakid offers advice and such-like stuff to those caught between the board exams and the perils of dating.
The site gives pointers on how to throw jungle parties and other such exercises in stupidity, as www.notakid.com likes to put it.
It details a list of handy excuses that can be used by all age groups. The cardinal rule here is to pin the blame on something that. cannot defend itself like the weather, the transport system et al.
The site has a section on jokes, both Indian (as in the Ajit and sardarji kind of stuff) and not so Indian, Bollywood gossip, a non-entity of a cool dude and what have you.
But there is one useful thing the site does. It provides model question papers and answers for those taking their class X ICSE board exams. Though why those who are under the CBSE have been left out in the cold beats me.
The site is still not quite Complete and work remains to be done on some of the sections.
Dead people server
CURIOUS SUFFERS and future dead people, if you want to know if those -who achieved their 15 minutes of fame are still alive, newly dead or long-ago dead, log on to www.dspinfo.com. You can browse the list of who's dead and who is not either hy year or by last name.
There are certain giddelines involved in the illusion of one-time celebrities in the list of the dead people server.
The site covers only interestirig celebrities, wherein a celebrity has been defined as one who is known to a fair number of people and interesting depends on the discretion of the site.
Murderers, jocks and the kith and kin of the famous do not find place in the dead people server, unless they died while playing on field.
Also, those who died before 1970 are not included in the list. The site is worth a look-see if you are surfing with no specific purpose in mind.