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September 9th 2011

Bangalore Indiblogger Meet – Samsung Galaxy Tab India Launch

by Anwin in Bangalore, Blogging, Indiblogger     tags: ,       No Comment

We are extremely excited about this Indiblogger meet. What with the recent surge in Android tabs and smartphones, the financial power of the Indian middle class, breakthroughs in mobile hardware, lowering costs, etc; the smartphones are here to stay.

ONLY 18 SEATS LEFT at the time of this post!!! Register HERE.

The agenda, as usual, is all about the bloggers.

Item By
1. Just The Beginning IndiTeam
2. 60 Seconds of Fame Bloggers
3. Introducing Samsung & The Galaxy Tab 750 IndiTeam & Samsung
4. Samsung Galaxy Tab Twitter Quiz IndiTeam & Bloggers
6. Mingling / High Tea Bloggers
5. Live & Let Comment Bloggers
10. IndiBlogger Forum: Redux Bloggers
11. Head home and keep blogging! Bloggers, Auto Wallahs, etc.

Will meet you all at the meet!

February 23rd 2011

Four Generations And A Wedding

by Anwin in Events, Family, Nagercoil, Personal, Pics     tags: , , ,       2 Comments

Last Christmas, we were in Nagercoil celebrating something and also so we could finish off Ayden’s baptism. Stories are many from that trip, but not all can be told publicly :-) .

One of the best memories from the trip is the following picture taken with Ayden, Dad and Granddad along with me. A very rare picture which I had never imagined in my wildest dreams.

Both my grandparents from my dad’s side of the family are still alive and reasonably healthy at almost 90 years of age. They were extremely happy to meet their great grandchild.

Below is my grandmother holding Ayden in our ancestral home.

And most of all, my brother Eddie got married after Christmas. It was a wonderful affair in Tuticorin and a reception in Nagercoil. I wish him all the best in his new life.

To the left is Sandy, a cousin of mine, and to the right is my sister-in-law Anusha’s  mom.

Altogether another great Christmas and end to an awesome 2010! Yes, I am offering my belated New Year 2011!!!

September 23rd 2010

Bannerghatta National Park Big Cats In Trouble

by Anwin in Animals, Bangalore, Cats, Flickr, Hobbies, Pics, Snakes, Trip     tags: , , , , , , , , ,       7 Comments

Poor guys, they seem to have got some bug or something. It has been a sad week with 5 big cats dying in the past week at Bangalore’s Bannerghatta National Park or Biological Park. Two of them were old Bengal tigers and a White Tiger who, officials say, has died of an almost 3 months battle with kidney disease. And another, a cub which probably died of salmonella and E.coli. Really really sad.

Read more here and here.

Anyway, I feel someone has supplied real bad chicken meat there. Hmm…

Some of my old friends (who I hope are still running around):

He was quite majestic looking and not at all bothered about people around.

This guy was a bit uneasy around us. He was lying under the shades when we came and proceeded to get into the man made pool for a quick dip.

This guy was totally cool. All pictures were taken this April – on the 24th to be precise.

Some other pictures I liked:

One of the truly free guys. He was on the rampage and fighting turf wars all around us on the footpaths and on the trees.

Mother and two baby monkeys (Rhesus monkeys) watching out for the big guy in the previous picture.

And two butterflies ‘going at it’ at the butterfly park adjacent to BBP ;-) .

Please do check out my flickr set too.

September 2nd 2010

The High Heavens And Alien Abductions

by Anwin in Bangalore, Humor, Pics, Story     tags: , , , , ,       6 Comments

Trippy as it sounds that is our current experience at the hospital. Nafisa was taken into the OT on Friday August 27th before the sun showed its face. At 6 28 am baby Ayden was born. And that story can be read at Edin’s and at Ayden’s. This story is different.

After a couple of days Nafisa described the experience as an alien abduction with aliens in green masks around strange out-worldly equipments gawking at this strange human who carries another little human in her stomach. And boy did she trip? As Renie asked rightly where can we get this narcotic in the open market? (in all seriousness :-) ).

The second experience is that baby Ayden has been kept under observation in another strange equipment radiating blue light under orders from the high commander and strictly enforced by the sister brotherhood.

The pictures to prove the second.

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I rest my case.

P.S: I hope to change the template on my blog one last time without changing anything in the theme. I am just not good at css. Damn!

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March 18th 2010

Univercell Chennai Indiblogger Meet 2010

by Anwin in Blogging, Events, India, Indiblogger     tags: , , , ,       1 Comment

Closely following the recent Kingfisher Bangalore IndiBlogger Meet, we have arranged for another mega blogger meet in Chennai this Saturday, March 20 – UniverCell Chennai IndiBlogger Meet.

UniverCell, one of the largest Mobile stores in India, and co sponsor for the Chennai Super Kings Team in IPL-3, is sponsoring the event. We are also expecting nearly 200 bloggers from in and around Chennai. Awesome!!!

When & Where?

Saturday March 20, 2010 – 2:30 PM, Chennai

End Time: 6:00 PM

Seats Available : 200

The Venue

GRT Convention Center
120, Sir Thyagaraya Road,
T. Nagar, Chennai – 600 017

Landmark: Next to GRT Grand Days

Agenda

Item By
1. Welcome IndiBlogger Team
2. Message from the sponsor UniverCell
3. 30 seconds of fame Bloggers
4. Live & let comment Bloggers
5. Traditional Media and Blogging Journalists and Bloggers
6. Formation of Chennai Bloggers Club Bloggers
7. Mingling session / High Tea Bloggers
8. Special Announcement IndiBlogger and UniverCell
9. IndiBlogger Forum: Open discussion Bloggers
10. Head home and keep blogging! Bloggers, Auto Drivers, etc.

Visit the IndiBlogger Meet page to register - limited seats only :)