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
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
holiday The Getaway – Part 1 – Coming together of The Plan(tm) 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
3i Of comatose blogs & 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
mangalore A Snapshot of Me From The Past Picture from 10th standard yearbook, circa 2001. Somethings are priceless 🙂 Thanks, Kevin.
I am in III Standard [][1] A little something my Dad sent to me by mail. Brought a HUUUGE wide smile on my face 🙂 [1]: https://i.sathyabh.at/sb/2009/03/iiistd-pic.png
You know you're a Mangi[Mangalorean] When… 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
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 it
Mangalore Diaries – Part II In my previous post I'd written about my initial experiences in Mangalore after a 5 month absence. This post continues my previous post. Well one of the main reasons I'd come to Mangalore was for my neice Shriya's first birthday celebrations and more importantly
Life Mangalore Diaries – Part I 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
Life Shriya dscn1492 Originally uploaded by soops_b Yup, that's my neice, Shriya and her mum, my sis Supriya. Shriya now pretty much looks like my brother-in-law. I've been saying this since day 1 but then there was a slight bit of my sis's
engineering It’s All Over Well it's all over. Finally. The moment I've been waiting for, since 4 years. What am I talking about?? I'm done with writing exams, that's what! 4 freakin' years of writing the same ol' mind numbing exams. No more worrying