Seven years of togetherness Last week, Jo and I completed our Seventh wedding anniversary. All these years have gone by so fast, it's hard to believe we've been together for so long. The pandemic has been quite hard on us. While I moved to Bucharest last year, we were waiting
Bangalore The Passport Seva Kendra Experience So I just got my passport reissued this week and I'm amazed how far things have come. I got my passport done close to a decade back when I [had to fly to Austin][1]. Back then getting a passport done was a pain - I had applied
1800 km road trip The 1800km Coastal Karnataka Roadtrip – Part 2 – Mangalore – Kaup – Udupi – Malpe I've always wanted to go on long road trips, but with both Jo and me working, trying to find a contiguous block of holiday has been rather difficult. With me taking a break and Eid holiday coming during middle of the week, we got a chance to do
The 1800km Coastal Karnataka Roadtrip – Part 1 – Bangalore – Mangalore I've always wanted to go on long road trips, but with both Jo and me working, trying to find a contiguous block of holiday has been rather difficult. With me taking a break and Eid holiday coming during middle of the week, we got a chance to do
Bangalore The tours and events around the first week of June I was going through Google Photos' Rediscover This Day feature and realized that over the past couple of years, a lot of my trips seem to have happened around this time frame. 2016 This year I was at Goa for a weekend meet with Jo's cousins Full
Ambulance and Bangalore traffic. Part of this was originally posted as a comment to Nithin's facebook post about today's news article stating that Cops will send you legal notice if you block an Ambulance. There's a well known law called Parkinson's Law which states work expands
cpgweds On to a new life I had originally wanted to publish this back in late August when I shifted from Borg Cube to Borg Cube Grande.. ie, my new home.. but #lazybhat happened and I never got around to finishing that. Since shifting to Bangalore, I'd been staying in a tiny 1BHK house
Bangalore Being on the other side of the Interview table Attending an interview tends to be a scary, nerve-wracking event for most, me included. It's like college exam 2.0 - you don't do anything building up to the event, panic & do a splash and dash the previous night(though in my case, it'
Capping off a roller coaster year 2011 was a roller coaster year. Here’s the year in review, in bullet points * Sold off my iPhone 3G and purchased a Nexus S * Supposed long term US stay [gets cut short][1]. * 3+ years of work on project gone down the drain. On the upside, learnt quite a
Bangalored… … for a fortnight, that is. Although, I was not strictly Bangalored, barely a week after joining Logica I was asked to come over for Bangalore for 2 weeks for some training sessions. Now since this was a company sponsored training, my travel and accommodation was handled by them. Reached Bangalore
Bangalore A much deserved break: The Bangalore trip First up, Happy New Year folks! I don't take off from work very often - the main reason being me working in Chennai means it nigh impossible to visit my hometown of Mangalore over the weekend. So generally I have a set routine of work for about 3-4
And The Passport Arrives 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