This year, only myself and Surya managed to go to our native village during Sankranti. We decided to drive to that place in our Xylo. The onward journey took more than 12 hours, including a few hours of visits to relatives en-route. The drizzle hit highway reduced our speed and we fully complied with that …
Category Archive: Personal & Family
Jan
23
2012
Jan
01
2012
Welcome 2012
Milind and Sriya joined Spurthi and Surya in welcoming the new year at our home. After our dinner on 31st, kids spent a couple of hours with friends in the apartment complex. Once they are back, we cut the cake when the clock struck zero hours. The writing of the year 2012 on the …
Dec
15
2011
Looking Back – Email to Blog Transformation
Stumbled upon an old email to a group thread, that announced my personal blog and indicated a deviation from the habit of sending emails to relatives and friends groups. This email is sent sometime in Aug 2006 to a group mail of relatives, after I am confident that I am writing blogs regularly. Snipped out …
Oct
31
2011
Bicycled Every Day of the Month
Ever since my student days, this October is probably the first month in which I bicycled every day, no exceptions. Interestingly, the first and last day of the month saw the least distance bicycled – about 2.5km each. Most days saw to the tune of 6km to 11km. There is one day with longest distance, …
Oct
28
2011
Diwali Night – Part 2
We headed out from home in the afternoon on Diwali day and went to Kompally area to meet a few relatives. En route, me and Surya stopped by at our new home to burn a few crackers at the place. We reached the place of our get together by 5.30pm and kids played in the …
Oct
26
2011
Diwali Night – Part 1
After a few hours of our extended family get together and more than 200 pictures on my camera, we are back home. This is a great Diwali night, with 75+ people in a great get-together. First set of pictures from the evening/night here. More to come soon. Diwali2011-PM-Set01
Oct
26
2011
Diwali Wishes
Happy Diwali! Diwali2011-AM
Sep
13
2011
Satish Birthday Pics
RK stopped by in the morning with a cake. Evening dinner with Madhu’s family at Inorbit Mall. Back home and another cake. Pics from the day here. Satish-BDay-2011
Aug
16
2011
Wedding Anniversary Pics – 2011
We headed out for dinner on the occasion of our wedding anniversary. Here are the pictures of our family today. Food is tasty as usual at NanKing, the Chinese food place. Kids liked Schezwan Fish better than the other items ordered. Anniversary-2011
Aug
13
2011
Rakhi 2011
This year, the festival of Rakhi fell on a Saturday and most of our relatives have a holiday today. So we planned for a breakfast get-together. The day started at about 5.00am for us and we are almost done with the arrangements by 7.00am. First guests arrived by 7.00am and the event lasted till about …