Rama Navami & Vishu April 13, 2008

The Tamil Brahmin Community of Mattancherry (in west kochi) celeberates Sree Rama Navami with much fervour every year. When i looked around for information, i learnt that these celeberations have been held in the same location for 85 years now and that Navami is celeberated with such pomp in very few places in Kerala.
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It’s a hard life…… March 22, 2008

If you’re reading this, theres a 50% chance that you are a software engineer or a management blah-blah.
If you are neither, i love you, i just want you to know that. Also, if you are neither – theres a 100% chance that you know a software engineer or a management blah-blah. This means that you [...]

When it rains, it pours…… March 16, 2008

Temperatures have been rising around here for a while. No surprises……But boy was I in for one on friday morning. I woke up on the first of Meena maasam (considered the hottest month of the year) to an unbridled downpour. Felt like it was june already.
Anyway, I rushed over to campus, since we were hosting [...]

Half baked entries and vicious cycles March 10, 2008

Haven’t posted anything for a while. this is not for the lack of topics or ideas. but the lack of motivation and energy to develop them into interesting blog entries. And so, i have 3 half-done entries lying in my “drafts” folder. hey, theres three of them….. at least they wont be lonely.. (?)…
anyway, what’s [...]

A very long way…. February 26, 2008

I checked. found out that we travelled 1555 Kms on the trip. Phew!
Wasn’t bored for a minute on the trip. Okay, so maybe i was a little bored on the first day. But that problem was solved completely by SKS on the second day when she started dancing. and wouldn’t stop. not when she [...]

Regret February 22, 2008

My life is filled with many happy things right now, big and small. I hold them close to my heart; I don’t want to reduce their value by listing them out.
You’d expect me to be smiling like a fool about it. And I was, for a good length of time. But that smile has gone [...]

back, barely alive…. February 17, 2008

I got back last night. barely able to move my fingers even now….Major trip, this was. I havn’t measured but i think we covered around 1500 kilometers in 6 days.
route: kochi–>kovalam–>kanyakumari–>tuticorin–>madurai–>mandapam/rameshwaram–>kodaikanal–>kochiTHATS RIGHT! by road!!
are we crazy?? we might be…did we have fun? HELL YEAH!!
highlights of the trip:snorkelling around krusidai island (protected area under Gulf of [...]

Road trip! February 9, 2008

Presently very little to write about.
I’m setting out to Rameshwaram on monday with my whole class. I wasn’t sure till yesterday wether or not i’m going. but now, im positive. we’re making stops at all kinds of places on our way – from beaches to temples.
Hopefully i’ll have something to write about when i get [...]

an agnostic on faith January 27, 2008

DISCLAIMER: this post will be lost on most of its readers. this one’s for people who know what “sastha preethi” means.
During vanchipattu this weekend, we were transported to another plane – into the presence of lord ayyappa.
aishu, who was sitting right behind me and megha, wanted to know if the lord really did come down [...]