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Sharing Knowledge / Gossip🤫

When you become the person who knows things, then you get a certain amount of Klout. But the problem is others should know that you knew it first. So you end up sharing news to others even when it is not published yet. My question today was, 'is that gossip'? Looks like there is a …

2017

Highlights: 1. Read 11 books. 2. Blessed with a baby. 3. Got to visit two new countries. UK Sri Lanka 4. Work is good. I thank God for providing for all our needs. Lowlights: 1. Lost a family member to cancer. Good choices/resolutions: 1. Less sugar. 2. No internet on mobile between 8 PM and …

Kittens for adoption

Two 5- week old kittens for adoption in Chennai. DM at http://twitter.com/joejayanth if interested.

The Munias are flying

We hosted a Spotted Munia couple a couple of months back. You might have heard the recording of the chirping hatchlings that I posted a week back. The hatchlings have started flying around now. I have spotted two hatchlings now but I think there is more to come. The parent has brown spots on its underside, …

HDFC being human

I'm sure you must have spotted long queues outside certain outlets. More often the queues even extend to the footpath outside these outlets. This is no thanksgiving sale or iPhone fans camping outside the Apple stores. This is the queue to exchange the old 500 and 1000 rupee notes after these were banned by the Government. …

All this 500 and 1000 business

As the news pours in that the Govt of India has banned the usage existing 500 and 1000 rupee notes, I started discussing with my wife what the repercussions of this would be. Neither of us are experts in matter of economics, so we soon digressed into questions like: 1. If businesses are collecting cash …

Not my cup of tea

The best of tea and the worst of tea, Sometimes I make the best tea and some days I make the worst tea. It's really bad, it almost tastes like hot salt water (ok, not that bad, but close). I honestly don't understand how sugar, water and milk can taste like that but it does, …

Free up!

  Have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. - William Morris We (wife and I) are on a cleaning spree. Not floor cleaning or anything like that, but giving away things that we don't use. OR storing stuff that we do use sparingly in a …

Getting back to the joy of just writing

I started blogging in 2006, I used to just write whatever I felt like sharing usually funny observations, short stories, reviews and travelogues. It used to be blogspot, then it became blogger. Then the 'ad sense' bug bit me, 'why can't I make some money while at it' I thought and once you start doing something …