Our home’s first basic necessity – TV has conked out. It was just 4 years since we bought this one. It is a Toshiba 21″ CTV – a very ordinary telly that very much catered to our needs. We bought this one just before 2006 Football world cup and we chose Toshiba over another unknown [...]

* Today, I start my sixth year with GE for I joined the company on this day in 2005.
* I had so many stories to blog about in the last one month, but each of them had at least one element that stopped me from discussing anything in public.
* Watched Kalavaani and Madharasapattinam. Both of [...]

King Roger of Wimbledon has been dethroned. After the five-setter with Falla on Day 1, and another hiccup in second round in Court no. 1, we all could see that coming. But just when Fedex was getting in to his good, old habit of three set walkovers, this was a jolt. Never before since 2002, [...]

As mentioned in my previous post, I volunteered as a ‘marshal’ for the annual carnival held in our town. As part of the carnival, there was a procession across the town that included floats decorated by various schools. Each of the marshals were assigned a road and at the appointed hour, we have to put [...]

** I was unable to access my website for a while as the company I work for placed my site among many others as having inappropriate content. For whatever reasons, the decision was reversed and my site is having one extra visitor since yesterday – me.
** After a long gap of 6 years, we [...]

(Cross posted in Anirud’s blog)
The first thing that Anirud asks upon woken up is ‘What day is today?’. Today was no exception. When I told him that it is Thursday, he reacted with shock as if he just missed a flight. ‘Appa, innikku election theriyumaa?’ (Do you that today is the election day?). He is [...]

Watched Suresh Raina’s rampage in the one-sided match between CSK and KKR. Talking to Harsha Bhogle at the presentation ceremony, I *think* I heard him saying something like ‘..During the first IPL, I used to ride the bike in the night. When I go near the red-light areas, people will talk to me in [...]