[this was written at different points in time but is backdated just for the record] My birthday is usually quiet and unnoticed, and as I’d written earlier, am still not sure of any optimal approach to this day 😉 The words of a gentleman who has gotten to be one of my most intimate friends…
[Date of this entry only an approximation] At home we’ve known about the usefulness of the microwave oven but somehow never actually got down to buying one, somehow it seemed unnecessary. However recently one finally made its way into our kitchen in the form of a birthday gift for my mom. Then there was the…
I was saying earlier that I’ve lived in just one single house all my life. At that time I’d not really imagined that that wouldn’t be for very long! We are finally executing the long long pending plan of my mother’s generation in rebuilding the house from scratch, to replace it with something new, modern…
A little less than a couple of decades ago, when Sanjay was a little boy aged maybe 10 or so, his family used to go regularly on trips typically around South India. The whole group of family and some family friends, typically numbering around 15, would cram into a Matador van and head off to…
some pictures…
I’ve been particularly lucky to have had the opportunity to spend time with my grandparents right up to their last days. Grandparents are really special people and in my case they were both more my friends as much as grandparents! I have many things to say about them, and this post is more of a…
Like the hibiscus plant, one can never imagine what can teach us what… sometimes even some random television scene can become a teacher! Recently was watching TV with my mother and doDDamma (mother’s elder sister) and while flipping through the channels stopped at a Hollywood movie. It seemed to be an interesting scene where people…
Consider the following situation: Put an active lively person into a 1 x 1 x height cage. Lock it. Throw away the key. Forever.
flashback = old memory. In this case, something that happened over twelve years ago (when I was a teenager)… and nothing to do with me today! If you read this article, please read it completely – do not jump to any conclusions and abandon it midway!! 🙂 —— Sitting in stillness may at times bring…
Today being father’s day, I’d like to recall a puzzle my late dad gave me in June 1998 a couple of weeks before he had a fatal series of cardiac arrests. Of course I’ve come across this plenty of times later as well… I suppose it must be fairly well known by now. I must…
