That’s a well known joke – an acronym for “wife” and it had me pretty much braced for the worst when I got married. However now that I’m a married man – I’d say that “worry” could also be “wonder” 🙂 – Ive had a nice time with Vijetha so far in discovering so many…
[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…
The following is something I’d written a while ago in a “learn kannada” forum… Real life incidents though not exactly verbatim… Auto-rickshaw drivers of Bangalore nowadays have become more selective than infy in ‘choosing’ their ‘projects’! They usually refuse to go wherever a passenger wants to go, and drive off, and one has to stop…
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…
mini-island Originally uploaded by common man. Actually I’m just discovering why Leonid was so impressed with flickr. There are countless other features like customizable APIs, tags, calendars, etc but one of the coolest things is the way it provides an upload tool that integrates with Windows Explorer – just right click and send to Flickr!…
[Though there are specifics here, my guess is that similar ideas are applicable to any caste] Going through the” trauma” 😉 of arranged marriage reveals many things, among others, the role of caste in our modern urban highly developed Bangalore society. It is just unbelievable how many highly educated families are so closed knit about…
Well here’s a confession of an unmarried man – in all my life of 30+ years, only one time have I taken a girl out alone for coffee and a chat. And that was only after I found out that she was married and there would be no cause for misunderstanding 😉
Yesterday evening, being ಯà³à²—ಾದಿ (Ugadi ), there was a question on RadioCity FM 91 on what bevu bella means. For a change I actually keyed in the answer and, very unexpectedly, got a call by Sunayna saying that I’d be on air in a minute, to get away from the radio, and stay on the…
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…
