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June 17th, 2008

Five Years of Blogging

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Things have been a tad busy around here. So much so that I missed mentioning completing five years of my nerve endings firing away (hopefully they’ve been firing much long than that). Blogging has definitely been [...]

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June 3rd, 2008

Closer Family

Last week we were pleasantly surprised with a spot of good news - Ash’s parents are moving to Houston. Her dad, a naval architect has been working in Bahrain for the past four years and his contract was expiring this August. He would have moved either to India or to other Asian countries like China, [...]

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June 2nd, 2008

Newbie to Wii

“They [Nintendo] know that Americans will be just as fat a few months from now” when Nintendo will have more units [of Wii Fit] available” [source; via]. The article refers about the fitness-meets-videogames phenomenon that is Wii. And more specifically about Wii Fit, a game that offers multitude of activities involving yoga, aerobics, strength training, [...]

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May 11th, 2008

Happy Mothers Day

This time last year, I was fortunate enough to spend Mother’s Day with my mom. She was visiting us for the summer and kick starting wedding preparations with the new bride-to-be. I’m not the type of the consumer that Hallmark loves so I tend to skip sending gifts for such random commercially-imposed occasions (notice how [...]

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May 10th, 2008

Change in Theme Design

After resisting for more than a year, I finally gave in and changed my theme last night. The previous one had served me well and I persisted with it primarily due to several customizations I had made. But it was getting too clunky and boring. And I wasn’t blogging regularly so why not tinker around [...]

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April 11th, 2008

Offshore Excursion - Tulum Ruins in Mexico

This is the concluding part of the narrative of our honeymoon cruise. I had written earlier on the dining options and the activities & entertainment aboard Carnival Conquest and later shared our experiences at the ports-of-call, Montego Bay (Jamaica) and Cayman Islands. Our final port of call was at Cozumel which is a small island [...]

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April 7th, 2008

Blue Bonnets welcome the Texas spring

Come April, Texas flora begins to wake up from its winter hibernation and bloom slowly to life. Admittedly, Texas doesn’t have much of a winter but the distinct dry and dreary landscape dotted with bare trees and dry grass cannot be missed. As Washington D.C. welcomes the spring with its famed cherry blossoms, Texas does [...]

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April 3rd, 2008

Offshore Excursions - Grand Cayman Islands

Previously when I wrote about the offshore excursions we went on during our honeymoon cruise, I mentioned about some things you ought to keep in mind when you choose a tour and disembark [also check out dining options on the cruise and entertainment & activities onboard] . The Cayman Islands were one port that we [...]

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March 27th, 2008

Cruise Offshore Excursions

This is the fourth in the series of our Honeymoon cruise to the Caribbean. I talked about the delectable food options and variety of entertainment and activities on board earlier this week. In this post, I’ll focus on the offshore excursions that you go out on when you are at a port-of-call. I may make [...]

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March 24th, 2008

Entertainment Galore on a Cruise

Apart from the plethora of food options on our honeymoon Carnival cruise, we also loved the onboard entertainment. Given that you are at sea aboard a huge ship with nowhere to go, the cruise had better keep you occupied otherwise walking the plank might not seem that bad an option especially with the lovely blue [...]

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March 20th, 2008

Culinary Delights aboard a Cruise

This is part deux of our honeymoon cruise to the Caribbean series.
One of the primary selling points of a cruise is the all-you-can-eat food once you are aboard. The best part about a cruise is that the price includes the top three hassles of traveling - accommodation, food, and travel. While you are technically traveling [...]

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March 19th, 2008

Does your life follow this path?

[source] Frighteningly true. I feel like living in the Truman Show.

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March 18th, 2008

Honeymoon Cruise aboard Carnival Conquest

Ash and I spent the previous week aboard the cruise ship Carnival Conquest for our belated honeymoon (hence the silence on this blog). Our hectic schedule in India left us little time for a honeymoon which I would have definitely preferred to spend in Kerala. Traditionally, a honeymoon vacation is supposed to be at a [...]

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February 28th, 2008

Leap Birthdays

There are 29 days in February this year; one more than the usual. I’ll spare you the details on this anomaly but it is quite cool to note how simple adjustments of just adding a day can correct for the temporal drift. I have always been fascinated by the incidence of leap year birthdays i.e. [...]

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February 22nd, 2008

Resident Aliens - Claim Additional Tax Deductions

You know what time is it? It’s Tool Time. Well, not really. It is that time of the year when you’ve to fork out your hard-earned money to the government in hopes that they provide you essential public services. I’ve been paying Uncle Sam my dues for quite some time now and have learned to [...]

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