The com­ments are back. I must thank Jag, who noticed there was an extra ‘e’ that had got black­listed in line 602! That was what was caus­ing prob­lems with leav­ing com­ments on the blog. Though I am sorely tempted to remove the com­ments box, I feel it’s an inte­gral part of the blog and am not […]

My exper­i­men­ta­tion with back­lit pho­tog­ra­phy dur­ing the last week­end trip to Bandipur and Ooty. This was early morn­ing at the guest house in Ooty. With the sun illu­mi­nat­ing the flower from the back, it made a really pretty picture.

The ‘get­ting locked out’ of my own house was the bad thing that hap­pened on Sat­ur­day. The good thing that hap­pened was pass­ing my dri­ving test. The wait for the RTO inspec­tor stretched on for 3 hours. I nearly played hop-scotch on the pave­ment out­side the RTO. To make mat­ters dou­bly dif­fi­cult, the dri­ving school brought […]

…of your own house, can be a frus­trat­ing expe­ri­ence. I’ve been mean­ing to get dupli­cates made of my house key, but was pro­cras­ti­nat­ing. Finally, what I was dread­ing hap­pened. I locked myself out of the house. Get­ting ready to join Deki and Jil for Sat­ur­day lunch, I went down­stairs to find out some­thing from the […]

A pile of study mate­r­ial has arrived for a course I am com­plet­ing via dis­tance edu­ca­tion (I started it years ago and could not fin­ish it because I ran out of money. I am hop­ing to fin­ish it now). I had kept in touch with one of my pro­fes­sors from the uni­ver­sity and he told […]

The lat­est del­uge of MT com­ments spam is cre­at­ing havoc. Though I am using Jay Allen’s black­list, it has to be updated almost every­day. Today, while clean­ing up, a lot of valid com­ments got wiped out as they were show­ing up in the black­list and I didn’t really notice. So in case, you left a […]

I could lis­ten to his sexy voice all day long! Stay­ing home alone on a Fri­day Flat on the floor look­ing back On old love Or lack thereof After all the crushes are faded And all my wish­ful think­ing was wrong I’m jaded I hate it I’m tired of being alone So hurry up and get here […]

As usual, some high­lights from the week­end trip. The route: Ban­ga­lore — Mysore – Bandipur (Day 1) Bandipur — Gopal­swamy Betta – Mudu­malai – Ooty (Day 2) Ooty – Ban­ga­lore (Day 3) We have break­fast at the beau­ti­ful Lalith Mahal Palace hotel in Mysore. It looks new and freshly painted and the gold in the domes glint […]