What is your name?

My mom usually takes Chinni to neighbor so that she can play with their kids for sometime in the evening. Yesterday, the neighbor asked my mom "What is your name?". My mom replies her name.

Chinni corrects it saying "Hey, no, Iksha Ajji!"

This reminds me of another incident. Now-a-days Chinni is using a lot of brains.

Last Sunday, after Chinni finishing her bath has a conversation with her grandpa.

Chinni : Ajja, I used your soap

Grandpa : What should I use then?

Chinni promptly replies : Use my soap!!!

to which me and my mom laughed till eternity.

Genes

Having watched Chinni doing all the bad stuff inherited from me, feel like inheritance is bad unless and until only the good characteristics are obtained from the parents.

Biting nails is one which I have not been able to get rid off by myself. Chinni over takes me in this regards. She bits toe nails and I hate myself for that act, how can I blame or scold her for this?

Another one which I want to her rid off is the fear factor, like she is scared of sitting in jokali (swing) and playing in water. Even I was scared with these two in my childhood days.

Damn!!!

Visit to Dharmastala and Subramanya

The drive, apart from the 50kms ghat stretch, was totally enjoyable and I did. Not sure why men like curves, you can take a guess what all curves I am talking  about, so much. They thrill, but kill at times. Only worth mentioning is the drive from Dharmastala to Subramanya, which is around 60 kms. The road well maintained and curvy to get a thrilling experience.

That was the highlight of the trip.

I was planning for trip with a whole family for quite sometime. A couple flopped, but this turned out success. A 2 day trip, one night halt at Dharmastala and followed by next day visit to Kukke Subramanya was quite a get away from Bangalore. Atleast, my mom, sister and wife loved it. I am happy for they are happy about the trip. And since it was my sister's birthday, it seemed that liked "a perfect gift", as told by herself.

We visited Dharmastala, Southadka, Kukke Sumbramanya, Adi Subramanya and Abhaya Ganesha temples. Southadka has Ganesha temple, its small and beautiful. I liked Subramanya a lot, as in the scenic beauty of the place having Western Ghats as the back drop. I am neither a Theists nor an Atheist. So temples really didn't matter to me. And more over these religious places are now commercialized. You need to pay for everything, how will "bhakti" come in such places?, atleast I don't get.

I enjoyed driving, parents, sister and wife enjoyed visit to temple. The only one left was Chinni, who had nothing to enjoy. She in fact suffered. For 2 days she starved unnecessarily. There was no proper food available for her nor did get a chance to play around.

Overall it was a ok ok trip for me.

Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie

It was really shocking to know the demise of such a visionary. Though his life expectancy was known to be less, it takes time to for the fact to sink in.

There are people whose presence on earth makes it worthwhile. Steve was one of them.

I don't know much about him, only through James Gosling's words would one know how tough and perfectionist was he to work with.

I always had an urge to buy an Apple product, but my finance situation didn't allow me till some time. And now that my priorities changed, I didn't want to. But the urge remains yet.

Steve, I will buy an apple product just to pay tribute to YOU.

Update: Dennis Ritchie is no more. This shook me more. Alas, we lost another great personality this year.

When Steve departed, the next day his photo was seen on the front page of almost all news papers and explained his work in more detail than I was interested to read. Well, nobody would object to it, neither did I.

But Dennis's departure was published after 4 days of the event. This is what I object to, "Objection my lord!!!". TOI, Bangalore edition had a very small column, not even on the front page. This is more disturbing. I truely, deeply, madly condemn this act.

I pay a huge, respectful tribute to Ritchie. Thank you so much Dennis for your "C" and "Unix", because of which the computing world has grown so much.

And, my tribute to Steve remains, but a change in the way I pay, not going for an apple product for priorities have changed in a week.