070707 - Saturday of the Sevens

The newspapers said it is a unique date - one which falls once in 1000 years. Well, it was the day Pranav attended his first birthday party - in fact two birthday parties - back to back. It began with Samarth's(Vijay Ballary's son) 1st birthday and it was a lunch party at Pai Viceroy at Jayanagar. This was followed by a dinner at the same place (yes - Pai Viceroy again - what a coincidence). This time it was Khushi's (Harsha's daughter; Harsha is a colleague at HP) Birthday party - she turned three. Got a chance to introduce Deepa to my current manager Partha, his wife and his two kids. We also met Ritesh Maheshwari, his wife and their daughter.


(From L to R: Shweta, Raashi, Ritesh, Harsha, Khushi, Manasa, Deepa, Pranav, Me)

Talking about the date: it was slated to be the biggest wedding date in history by TheKnot.com. It reminds me how I would remember to watch the odometer of my scooter as it rolled over to zeroes when it reached the thousandth or any catchy sequence of digits.

Thirteen months from now, we shall have another chance when August 8, 2008, written as 08-08-08, rolls around — eight being considered in Chinese culture to be even more auspicious than seven is in the West. The Beijing Olympics begin this day.

Pranav Walks

Jedi and the IronKey

Caught Vipin (Jedi) online on Yahoo chat after many many days. As usual, he started off with, "abbe khande". Vidyut, his son has been teething since a couple of weeks. Vipin had joined a Silicon Valley startup 2 weeks before Vidyut was born. Their startup IronKey went live recently and he was excited about it. Hence the reason he was working past midnight. Going through the IronKey flash drive demo, I came across the term TOR servers. TOR or The Onion Routers is a network of routers in existence since 1996.

Linking myspaces blogs

I had started blogging in Jan 2007 using MSN spaces blog but found it slow. I then got hooked on to blogspot. Therefore, decided to add a post that links to my older blogs here: Zindagi ....aa raha hoon main

Sher se dosti

Pranav's new toy - The "Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Wild Lights Torch - Tiger" aka Sher. Me and Sher growl at him. You need to squeeze Sher's tail to open his mouth - and light and the growl sound come out. It actually makes two sounds - Grrowwl and Rrrrrrrrr.The toy is categorized for 2+ year olds but Pranav enjoys it immensely. Chandra's daughter Sumedha gifted it to him when they visited us back in May.

I was so impressed with this sound and light concept that I decided to search for more toys of this kind. Thanks to the Retail revolution in India, some fascinating toys by Fisher-Price are now available in most shopping malls like Shopper's Stop, LifeStyle. I picked up the "Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Wild Lights Torch - Cock" for Pranav's lil' brother Nachiket.

quit-thinking-so-much and enjoy life

Read this gyaan on a blog by Rowdy Webb who works for IPG: quit-thinking-so-much and enjoy life. I think I should follow that gyaan, work hard but go back home and enjoy time with Pranav instead of worrying about those little things that need my attention: paying the telephone bill, the LPG connection transfer.