Short and sweet trip

Had a nice short and enjoyable trip home over the weekend. Only problem with a short trip is you never really recover from the tiredness of bus travel.

Kerala is a complete mess now. Swami Vivekananda once referred to Kerala as a mental asylum , I believe he was being very mild indeed. Hartals happen at the drop of a hat(remember, bandh is banned by High court, so why not just re-name it ?). I bet no woman can step outside safely after 6.30 p.m or so.  Minor insignificant issues being totally blown out of proportion. A toothless media which hardly does anything other than just plainly report events that occurred. A population which is completely dejected and has very little hope of a better future. And I am not taking sides with any party here, all are uniformly bad. I had once harbored hopes of going back to Kerala sometime in future and settling there, now I think that might remain just a wish :-((

My little one was really happy to see me. We played lots, read stories and cuddled up together. Apparently she has been told in school to sing songs loudly. Boy, doesn't she follow those instructions well !! When she starts to sing, volume is so absurdly high that you have to cover your ears just to retain some sanity. I heard her sing in Sunday school class, she could be heard right outside the church. And I am talking of a really big church here !! :-)

She had a day off in school today. Education Bandh in Kerala. This state will never ever improve.

Back to blogger

BSNL has finally repaired my Broadband connection and I am back to 2 MBPS connectivity.

Enjoyed my Easter weekend in Calicut. There was a funny incident in the Church on Sunday. There was this obscure song that no one really knew. Our priest bravely started off at a real high pitch. Taking cue , half the congregation followed him. By the second line most folks were seriously struggling for breath :-). I could hear voices cracking all around me.Some folks realized the folly of high pitch early and dropped immediately to lower pitch, unfortunately most of them went to the other extreme and ended up with extremely low pitch. The choir gave up the ghost after the first line and remained silent. The end result was this weird sort of high-low pitch sound :-), with the Pastor just making wheee wheee type sounds on to the mike.

I must say just about the only person in the church who could sing that pitch happened to be my wife, who seemed to be hitting the notes with effortless ease. Needless to say, I stopped singing after the first word of the song:-)

Back to the grind here at work. I am in the classic researcher's dilemna now- The problems that you are supposed to work on does not seem to have any solution, however you seem to have a solution for everybody else's problems. Also , somebody else's problems always are much more interesting than your own !! :-)