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Today morning when my mom called me, I was wondering about some news that she is gonna tell; because she normally doesn't call like that early morning. And my 6th sense proved me true... She had called me to tell that Dr. K R Murthy had expired, suddenly! He is the Medical Director of Prabha Eye Clinic, Bangalore and founder of Vittala International Institute of Opthalmology (VIIO). More than that, I am a patient of this great doctor from past 28 years (right from when I was 8 months old baby!) and all of us look upon him with utmost respect, for being a godfather-kind-of person in our life. The last time I met him was when me and my mom went to invite him for my wedding and he was so happy to see me, as a groom now, but a small baby in his hands, 28 years back! I still remember his 'bArayya' (in English: friendly way of calling 'do come') phrase whenever I used to visit him! Now, everything is memory and history...But this is life and we need to move on... He...

Finally, the much waited and much hyped Bengaluru International Airport opened its doors to the world!! Seems this airport has charmed the people with its looks and infrastructure...Good to know! :-) Now, we Bangaloreans, have a voice now to say that we too have an International Airport of world-class standards! Earlier this used to put us in some shade while telling somebody about Bangalore Airport (Read: HAL airport) but now, hope it lives to its expectations! I am flying in another 20 days to this brand new airport and I am looking forward to see this grand facility in namma Bengaluru!! On the other hand, I will truly miss our good old HAL Airport which served so many years for the people all over the world. Miss the (comparatively!) easy access to my home from this old HAL airport and miss the Airport Road...But as they say: "Change is the only constant in life", we need to accept this CHANGE and move ahead for a brighter future...and just hope that this particular CH...

Happy Birthday my dear dad and my dear wife!! Yes, today is the birthday of two important persons in my life...My dad (fondly called 'Anna') and My dear wife (fondly called 'Ro')!! :-) Both share the same birthday and both share a good amount of love! Have a great day Anna...miss you a lot and wish we were there to celebrate this day! Anyways, We will celebrate all the missing important days when we come back..sure! :) I hope and wish I can make a great day for Ro here...I wanted to work from room today but had to come to office as I had some things to be done here...Felt bad to leave her alone on her birthday but I just wish I can make her evening bright! :-) Once again, Many Many Many more Happy Returns of the day! Have a wonderful year ahead...

Next month, by this time, I will be sitting at my home in Bengaluru, having food from my great mother's hands! :-) Yes, its been 5 months now in Dubai and next month, on completion of my 6 months, will be traveling back to my home and continuing my work from there!! For me, its kind of a good relief, in the sense, my parents will be happy to have us back home and my wife will be very happy to be back and start a new phase in her professional life! So, looking forward for this 1 dear month to finish soon here, in this Gold city! :-)

Yesterday was the much-hyped, Mother's Day, the day which is exploited more for commercial reasons than for love and affection! I didn't wish my dearest dear mother on this Mother's day! I just don't believe in these days, rather every day is a mother's day for me! Every day is the Father's day or Brother's day or Sister's day or in fact every day is a Valentine Day! :-) Why should there be one specific day, out of all the other 364 days, to wish your divine parents or to wish your lovely better-half?? Why this custom, which apparently is imported from our Big brother, the US of A? We understand that this country needs to celebrate these kind of days' because children can at least once in a year love their mom or dad or their spouse or their children. But why should this be 'celebrated' in our country where we value our parents as 'living god' or we value our spouse as 'better-half' for our entire life! So, when my mom to...

Its been 28 years on this planet now today and I am so so grateful to god for having given me such a wonderful parents, brother and now, such a wonderful wife! Thanks all for having given such a wonderful life to live!! Its my birthday today and Many Many More Happy Returns of the Day!! :-) Done 28 years on this planet and walking towards 29th year and by god's grace lots and lots more to come! On the other side, sadly, its my 3rd consecutive year that I am not with my parents to celebrate this wonderful day! 2006 @ Mumbai, related to a project work. 2007 @ Manali, celebrating my honeymoon :-) and now, 2008 @ Dubai, related to project work Hope and Wish in 2009, I can be with my folks to celebrate this day with a dinner to sign-off :O)

Sharaf DG , a leading electronics store in Dubai, is celebrating its 3rd year anniversary celebrations. As part of their celebrations, they had given an Ad in newspaper where people need to bring that Ad and take part in spinning the 'fortune wheel', which has lot of gifts to be given. So, yesterday we went to the nearby Sharaf DG store and tried our luck by spinning this 'fortune wheel'. I asked my wife to do the honours (Ladies first! :-)) and she turned out to be very lucky!! :-) She is always lucky since she has got me as her husband!! :O) As our luck turned out, we got the iPod Shuffle Docking Station as the gift, which might be worth AED 200 (approx INR 2200/-)! This is a cute mini docking station which has 2 speakers built-in so as to dock the iPod Shuffle in between the speakers and then listen to the songs! :-) But, the catch is, we do not have an iPod shuffle and the worst part is, that iPod Shuffle that fits into this docking station is of the 1st gener...

Yesterday was one of the worst days in my office commutation! When it takes daily around 45 minutes to reach my hotel from the office, yesterday it took nearly 2 hours to cover this commute! :-(( The reason being our good old, E11 highway alias Sheikh Zayed road! There was an accident near the Mall of Emirates where a car had turned upside down and Ambulance had rushed to that spot. Though this accident was on the 4th lane of the road, the traffic movement on the first 3 lanes were very slow where people wanted to view the accident! Hmmm...natural tendency of a human being! :-) Once pass this, traffic gradually came to a standstill after some more distance. We were moving at a snail pace! There was no accidents (since there was no visual information on the display board) but still we were moving very slowly! This happened for nearly 1 hour where we covered barely 15 kms!! Its so frustrating to sit in that traffic which is moving so slowly. Wish we could got down and walked, but the...

Every day if you do not hear one Ambulance siren, the ambulance zooming ahead in 100kmph, then thank god! either the 'terrific' traffic is less OR there is no accidents! (touchwood! :-)) It has become almost a daily scene where you notice a speeding ambulance zipping past all cars in the busy roads of Dubai, at amazing speed and loud sirens. The accidents has become so much part and parcel of Dubai traffic that at least one accident happens in the busiest road of Dubai - E11 or popularly known as Sheikh Zayed Road ! I don't understand why accidents should happen even when there is so much regulation of traffic and a superior traffic management in place. One of the reasons that can be attributed to is the usage of Mobile phones while driving. Here, it is so common and I believe there is some law of not using phone while driving, inspite of which people use mobile phone while driving at a speed of 100~120kmph on E11! This leads to so much distraction and chain-effect that ...

Wow! the day which I had been waiting, came, passed thru and went away! It was a very good outing yesterday and a very memorable day to mark my 1st year Wedding Anniversary. Apart from we celebrating here, my parents also celebrated our wedding anniversary day, in a different way! My parents had given for an 'Abhishekham' of our home-god, in a temple near our home. They said it was very nice and things went fine. Later, as I had requested them to find out a children's ashram so that I can sponsor that whole day's food, they had given some amount to the ashram authorities and yesterday's food was a treat for those poor little kids in the ashram. I thank god for giving us enough food so as to share the food with other not-so-well people. Back here, our day began with my parents wishing us early in the morning (from the temple). We then got ready to visit the only temple in the town, to seek the Almighty's blessings. Then we had a light breakfast back at the ho...

After a long wait, this d-day has come!! So fast that this 1-year journey has been...if I look back, its all a mixture of thodha gum but bhahut khushi!! All thanks to my dear darling wife, who came to my house with 2 briefcases of clothes and lot of love and affection and she won the hearts of my family! Wish you a Very Happy and Many More Wedding Anniversary wishes dear!! :O) I have made some plans for spending the day today and I hope and wish that all goes fine! More later :-)

Though I might be very very late breaking this news, but yesterday I found out how to blog in regional Indian languages like Kannada, Tamil, Telugu...Awesome google, they are customizing to local Indian population! Well, good strategy to capture the local market :-) I have blogged my below post in Kannada language, the language spoken by the people of Karnataka, India and my birth place! Amazing to see the posts in namma regional language..:)

ಒನ್ ಮೊರೆ ಡೇ ಈಸ್ ರೆಮೈನಿಂಗ್ ಫಾರ್ ದಿ ದ-ಡೇ ಅಂಡ್ ದಿ ಕೌಂತ್ದೊವ್ನ್ ನೌ ಸಯ್ಸ್ ೧ ಡೇ ಟು ಗೋ ...

Things were & are getting really hot...:-) This day, that year...there was 'Pandal' function at home and almost all of our relatives had come to our home to attend the function...It was almost the same with my wife's side also... Everybody carried the happiness in their face, including me :-) Now, today, this year, 2 days to go...

Yesteday was an interesting day as we had a team dinner @ an Indian resturant here! Well, now its 3 days to go...:-)