If you’ve been reading my blog or know me, you probably know that I have a rather regular set of vacation times – ie, a week’s break once every three months or so. This time, however it was slightly different, and it had been about 5 months since I had taken a break. Let’s go back in time for a bit, however.
Tags: break, holiday, Kerala, mangalore, trip, vacations
Its been a very busy, hectic past few months. Besides my day night job( I work at US timings, PITA), I’ve also started contributing to techie-buzz, though my day night job takes a whole lot of my time, and I’ve not been able to contribute much. My Linux blog and as well as this blog has been lying almost in a coma state. I plan to start posting some articles now and then, got it in shipshape with a new theme, so watch out! I’m still pretty active on twitter ( again, not as active as I used to be – even with my “low” activity I keep getting requests not to spam the timeline :p
. I’ve been fairly active on posterous though.
I started using tumblr as my tumblelog, but switched over to posterous. The primary reason for switching over was at that time, tumblr was incapable of handling multiple attachments – it’d post the first attachment and discard the rest. Started looking for alternatives, and posterous caught my eye. Its unbelievably amazing how simple posterous is. Just send an email to post@posterous.com, and you’re done. That’s it. That floored me over.
I’ve been actively involved in Web communities for quite some time, and now time constraints mean that current my involvement is at Chip forums where I’m the Super Moderator and at SuperUser( with rep of 7.1k ) – The StackOverflow for Power Users. I also lurk around in Meta – there are some good discussions over there. When I get some time, just drop by Reddit, Hacker News and TED.
Coming back to real life, as mentioned I’ve been pretty deeply involved in work, and come this Wednesday, I’ll be taking a break for about 10 days ( after a span of about 5 months, I believe). Initially, the break was meant just for the weekend – the plan was to head to Thrissur, Kerala and then hop back to Chennai. I decided to extend the plan, and head over to Mangalore to take a break. Deepti, Ankit & the rest proposed that we meet up at Cochin for the weekend,and so it was settled. So, currently the plan looks like:
Jun 23rd: Chennai to Thrissur
Jun 24/25: Thrissur to Cochin
Jun 25 – Jun 27: Cochin
Jun 27 – Cochin to Mangalore
Jun 28 - July 4th: Mangalore
Will be good to take a nice break. Hope I don’t calls regarding work, my experience says I will get it :/
Got nothing planned in Mangalore, lets see how it works 
Tags: 3i, blogs, break, Chennai, communities, mangalore, vacations
Picture from 10th standard yearbook, circa 2001. Somethings are priceless
Thanks, Kevin.
Tags: mangalore, Milagres, school
A little something my Dad sent to me by mail. Brought a HUUUGE wide smile on my face
Tags: childhood, Life, mangalore, Milagres
As part of Children’s day the Kannada daily Vijaya Karnataka had held an “Muddu Kanda”(translated means sweet child) contest. My sister Supriya had enrolled her daughter, my neice Shriya in the contest and guess what Shriya won the second place 
Daiji World features this story. Below is the picture.
For more of my Neice’s pics you can check my flickr set.
Tags: DaijiWorld, mangalore, Shriya, Supriya
Found this post while randomly browsing through facebook groups. Was literally ROFLMAO as I read through this. Here goes
1. Sunday morning breakfast has to be sanna and sorpotel.
2. Konkani is never spoken, always sung.
3. At all family gatherings, (after a few drinks) the older men of the family will bring out their guitars and sing dirty songs and everyone will actually join in.
4. Every other Mangy is a far off relation.
I’m not sure how exactly this conversation came about but @prolificd casually tweeted me, asking me If I’d heard of savemylanguage.org I replied no, and checked it – and it turned out to be an awesome site.
Its got quite a lot of articles, a wordlist of Konkani words in Devnagiri script, with meanings in English, and also an English To Konkani and Konkani to English translator. Unfortunately the translator didn’t quite work, even for a relatively simple ‘how are you doing’ phrase. Regardless, its quite a good site, and you can even submit a Konkani word which is not there in the word list.
Chceck the site – SaveMyLanguage
Tags: GSB, Konkani, mangalore, savemylanguage
After running about the Mangalore passport offices, running behind the cops to get verification done, and running to Bangalore passport office and converting the passport application to Tatkal, I finally received my passport in Chennai yesterday.
It wasn’t all smooth sailing though – I could’ve gotten it a LOT earlier but Ayudha Pooja, Vijaya Dashami, holidays caused the Passport application processing to be delayed by a week.
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Tags: 3i, Bangalore, Chennai, mangalore, office, passport, work
In my previous post I’d written about my initial experiences in Mangalore after a 5 month absence. This post continues my previous post.
If you’ve been following me on twitter, you’d be knowing that I was due for a trip to Mangalore soon. Well it’s been couple of days since I’ve been in Mangalore, so I thought I’ll do a short post on what’s been up past couple of days.
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