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Reviewed Prestige Hand Blender

Shoddy workmanship

Bought this less than a week ago, and when cleaning, it literally came apart! Thought that this was how iit was supposed to be, to facilitate cleaning and when I couldn't put it back together again, took it back to the shop where I bought it, expecting he'd show me how simple it was to fix it ba...Read more

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Reviewed Out of the Box - Bangalore

A Good Childrens Library

Out of the Box is a childrens Library and Activity Centre, in JP Nagar, 7th Phase, near Brigade Millenium. The library caters to all age groups, from babies to teens. It has a decent collection of books, but as always, no book collection can ever be exhaustive and therefore, there's always scope...Read more

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Reviewed ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

Inefficiency, thy name is ICICI Prudential

Here's my experience on buying a Term Plan for Life Insurance from ICICI Prudential. I've tried to be as factual as possible and to keep the emotion out, though I came close to losing my patience with them ever so often. I approached them, towards the end of February, for a Term Plan. I'd don...Read more

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Reviewed Sleepers Movie

A powerful movie

A powerful tale of four innocent young boys who pay for a small mistake in the worst possible way.  The movie is allegedly based on a true story (allegedly, because no one has been able to verify that the events depicted actually occured), though I hope it's not true, cause I wouldn't want to wi...Read more

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Reviewed Shawshank Redemption Movie

A Wonderful Story

I chanced to see this movie by pure luck - having nothing better to do, borrowed a disk from my friend and this was it.  At that time, I'd not even heard about the movie(how? you may ask).  But once I saw it, it immediately climbed to be one of my all-time favourite movies. This is one movie ...Read more

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Reviewed Dr. Vasudev Dhananjay

An Excellent Pediatrician

Dr Vasudev Dhananjay; Jay Clinic; Police Station Road, Basavanagudi . We started going to Dr. Dhananjay when our daughter was just 3 months old. At that time, we were staying in Basavanagudi and it was quite convenient. Over the years, we moved to JP Nagar 7th phase - definitely not a convenient...Read more

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Reviewed Beetel Trend

Phone with GSM SIM Card Reader

For a full description of specifications and features, see: http://www.beetel.net/?page=parts_large&filter.common.parts.id=30 This award winning phone from Beetel has something unique - a SIM Card Reader / Writer to read / write numbers from / to GSM SIM Cards. As we have a couple of mobil...Read more

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Reviewed Bannerghatta National Park

Something better than Nothing!

Bannerghatta National Park is located about 22 km from Bangalore, down busy Bannerghatta Road.  It had been a long time plan to take our almost 4-year old daughter there, and one Friday, when she had a school holiday, we decided to put the plan into action. From our house in JP Nagar, 7th pha...Read more

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Reviewed Barbeque Nation - Indiranagar - Bangalore

The mother of all upset stomachs

I visited this branch(JP Nagar) on Aug 25 for Lunch.  We had the standard non-veg buffet with unlimited starters.  Don't know what it was that I ate that was bad, but something was defintely bad.  Very bad.  I spent the next two days vomitting and visiting the loo ever so often.  At the end of t...Read more

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Reviewed Dakshin Honda - Bangalore

A good dealer

On the whole, my experience with Dakshin Honda has been positive. Initially, I was working in Electronics City, which meant that getting the car serviced at Dakshin Honda, Hosur Road was quite convenient.  Subsequently, I changed jobs and no longer had to go to Electronics City, but I still p...Read more

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Reviewed Honda City ZX Exi

A Superb Car

Note: this review pertains to the Gxi variant.  Am writing it under this category as there's no separate category for Gxi.  Actually, the categorization is pretty wrong.  There should be either only one category for City ZX, or as many categories as there are variants* The Honda City is truly...Read more

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Reviewed KFC - Jayanagar 4th Block - Bangalore

Urban Legend or Partial Truth - You Decide

Enough has been said on K F C  and the 'creatures' it uses instead of chickens.  Keep in mind that K F C does not own and operate Chicken Farms itself ( except in a few countries ) and relies only on inspections (as few as twice a year) on it' s suppliers. While all the nonsense about creatur...Read more

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Reviewed Sony DCR-SR100

Excellent Video Camera - Easy to Use and Reliable

This is a great video camera that gives great picture quality bundled in with tons of features that make it really easy to use. Bought in late 2006, this camera has been with us for over two years now, and has accompanied us on all our trips - both long and short.  Operation is really simple and...Read more

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Reviewed Samsung LA32R71B

Samsung LA32R71BM: A Solid, Dependable LCD TV

We bought this TV in March, 2007 as a replacement to a regular, CRT 21" TV.  1 year 9 months later, we've had no regrets (touch wood!) in the choice we made.  When we bought this, we surveyed local dealers and basically reviewed most of the brands on offer.  We quickly narrowed down the choice t...Read more

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Reviewed Samsung SR-32NMB Refrigerator

Pathetic samsung service!!!! Beware!!!

UPDATE ON OCT 16: Yesterday, I got in touch with Mr. Srinivas B - Regional Service Manager, Bangalore - and explained my situation to him and the fact that I'd contacted the office of the VP Customer Satisfaction.   Srinivas was courteous, took time to understand the problem and promised to send...Read more

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Commented on jayasank's review

BARBEQUE NATION - CHENNAI
Barbeque Nation - Indiranagar - Bangalore

Please post your review in the appropriate product listing. You have posted a review for BN Chennai in the listing for BN Bangalore.

Commented on vishwas_mnit's review

Birla Sun Life Dream Plan - Beats Every Term Plan
Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance

A more detailed description of WHY this plan is so great would've been helpful. It comes across clearly that you think this plan is great, but not so much on the reasons. E.g. a comparison of features and benefits across the three plans mentioned (for the same amount of cover) would've been great.

Reviewed New Earth, A - Eckhart Tolle

An old book: Staying Awake (Unsuccessfully) ...

Having nothing better to do, I was browsing for inspirational and motivating books and noticed this title - along with it's predecessor "The Power of Now" - in many of the lists of "life-changing" books that so liberally populate the net.  Being a little, shall we say, 'mindful of my expenses'(m...Read more

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Reviewed China Pearl Restaurant - Koramangala - Bangalore

Great place for great Chinese food!

China Pearl is located in Koramangala, 6th Block.  Same road as Anand Sweets. This is a great Chinese restaurant for some great food at really affordable prices.  The service is excellent too.  This is such a favourite of ours that we rarely go out to any other restaurant - all our meals outs...Read more

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