Look-alikes

Why does Brad Hodge remind me of Kevin Costner?

V in 1985 Looking V Much like a Baby Elephant!

Apprehensively Eager

We've got a dinner party today and I don't know what to expect because we are going as guests of another team. Will I have company? In our team we typically have team-lunch so it's after a long time that I'm going out for dinner with a gang.

Unsavoury Thoughts

I made a cake finally and I can only say it was better than the bitter muffins I had made last month. Everybody was supportive of course, including my son who suggested we increase its 'appeal' by eating it with ice-cream. Great idea indeed! I only hope practice indeed makes man perfect.

While at it, I remembered that almost all the great chefs/bakers that appear in The Hindu's Metroplus happen to have left a plum IT job to pursue their culinary passion. I'm getting irritated with it. Was the job really so good? Did they not like their job or was it the other way round too? I see so many of them in workplace everyday who come just to finish the hours and go home. May be they were one of those people! I think people don't give software jobs the credit they deserve - they are mostly stable, flexible and not taxing for an average worker. I love my job most times and I don't think it's beneath my dignity to admit it.

Checks and Balances

Life is strange is indeed. Just when I think all is lost, it gives me hope and when I'm all set to fly high, it sows the seeds of doubt in my mind and brings me down to earth.

Anu at Six Months

My Favourite Things...

I watched The Bodyguard till 1:30 this morning and my eyes are on fire. Silly of me but I couldn't resist. I don't know why I drool over the romantic movies. And The Bodyguard is just my kind.

Bangalore is beautiful when the mayflowers are in full bloom and lay a red carpet both above your head and below your feet. Nature's beauty is so soothing and cheery.

Hopeful

Rishi says we Indians are lucky. Why? We are a democratic, socialistic and secular country. I said it remains to be seen.

1983

This was the year my father's first brother got married and here are some of the guests at home - my maternal grandmother(sitting leaning against the wall), my third aunt on her left( looking so slim) and Kumudakka on her right(looking the way I always remember her). Next year this time my grandfather would be no more, my grandmother's big kunkuma would vanish forever and V would be born some days later.

As for this wedding, all I remember is the stack of colourful plastic tumblers. 

Summer of 81!

We bought a HP all-in-one and it feels secure to have the dilapidated photos on the laptop. Here is the oldest - cousins in grandmother's place. Surprisingly Manjanna is missing.

We are eighteen of us totally and I'm the ninth one which means there were equal number to follow but I somehow felt we, the older ones were more. May be because I was more connected to the older ones.