My Strategy: RUN
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Experimenting with Public broadcast of my location
Scary, Eerie, Fun
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Dressed up to go to the temple
Dressed up to go to the temple
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Happy Diwali!
Our little one, Rishi, brought so much excitement and enthusiasm in to this year’s Diwali, it reminded me of my childhood Diwalis where unbridled excitement about the impending bursting of crackers & lighting of fireworks would enter my system around 4 AM the morning of Diwali. Oh, the joy of being the first on the street celebrating Diwali, the pride in lighting a fire-cracker held in your hand, tossing it to see burst mid-air.
Come evening, we would be witness to the misplaced bravado of our older cousins and friends launching ‘rockets’ by hand. The ‘victims’ of these rockets would usually be the richer neighbors with the bigger houses – all in good spirit, mind you. And, how innovative is the child’s mind that thinks of embeding a fire-cracker in freshly laid cow dung!?
And, the finale would be this family with a lot more cash to burn than you bursting a 10K ‘sara’ (Kannada word meaning string); the cacaphony lasting a good 20 minutes with the whole street counting down the end of Diwali.
Here are some pics from Rishi’s first Diwali. No fireworks for him, just yet.
Cricket & pigging out – Our trip to Bangalore, India
I come from a family of cricket (the sport, not the Arthropod) fanatics. We also love our food. So, its no surprise that we talk about pigging out in cricketing terms. Preeti and I dashed to Bangalore so as to let our parents spoil us silly in two competing baby showers (can’t wait for our baby to arrive). Both showers were very well attended and boasted an extensive menu of mouth watering Indian delicacies. So, without much ado, here are the more popular “fricket” (food+cricket) terms perfected over the last 30+ years:
- Pitch inspection – Send youngest cousin over to check the playing field (menu, dessert, whats hot)
- Is the pitch ready? – table set?
- Batting paradise – great food, even better service
- Spinning deck – watch out for a couple of items on the menu, play it easy
- Bouncers/Beamers – May get hurt if you don’t watch it. ie, a particular menu item (or two) has to be eaten in moderation. Also doubles for ‘not so good service’. Typically frowned upon when used to describe close family members that are serving. Ok (even encouraged) to make fun of distant cousins, etc.
- Land mine – might as well be eating the plantain leaf that Karnataka food is served on
- 2nd (or, any integer) Innings – 2nd Course
- Not out, Carried the bat through – cleaned up plate, not a morsel to be seen on leaf/plate.
- Slog – eating quite hurriedly (eating in this manner when late for a meeting or some other official appointment is just rude, ain’t no slogging)
- Clean bowled – poor eating performance. if one performs badly consistently, he/she may become an outcast
- First ball duck – Bowled over (see above item) with the first item served. Terrible.
- Double century – incredible performance, a rarity
If some of these terms just don’t make sense, check out this glossary.
And, here are some pictures from our Bangalore trip:
Trip to Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Qué Pasa Hombre? Got back from a short break in Puerto Vallarta over the Thanksgiving weekend. I guess we’re not the kind of travelers that fully appreciate sitting by the pool or on the beach for hours at a stretch – that’s exactly what people seemed to enjoy over there. It was still a nice break from the wearisome constancy of the bay area. Here are a few photos.
