I’m watching a 30 minute youtube video of two old polish people showing how to sculpt a traditional butter lamb, and tearing up for some reason as she gently places the cloves in and says “and now we give him eyes to see”
Rakesh runs a second hand book stall near Andheri in Mumbai. You can rent a book from him as low as 10 rupees. When asked if he makes enough, he said, "People earn so they can spend on something they want. I'm already surrounded by the one thing I always wanted".
I look at my mum’s old house on Google maps street view, the house where I grew up. It says ‘Image captured May 2009’. There is a light on in her bedroom. It is still her house, she is still alive, I am still visiting every few months on the train to Bodmin Parkway,
Reminder: Entertainment Quiz at 3 PM today at CP Arts Center, Alwarpet. Prelim followed by Final for teams of up to 3 people. Registrations on the spot. Find team (if needed) at the venue!
LinkedIn ESPN Sports Quiz Winner Rohit Suresh Mario Fernando and I are doing a sports quiz at QFIesta, @quizfoundation's annual quiz jamboree tomorrow. Please come if interested and can spare the time!
"We own no tankers, but we’re here to slake a different kind of thirst", claims @quizfoundation. If you are in Chennai this weekend and your AC doesn't work, who you gonna call (on)? QFIESTA - that's who! Promises to be a blockbuster weekend. Come on, what's your excuse?
Have you ever heard the collective scream from a group of grown men and women when you spoil their favorite TV shows? It's breathtaking.
Come for the Qfiesta ENT quiz. You should at least get something for not qualifying, right? #ValarSpoileris@absurdswagger@vijay_sarathy
Come for the 'Qfiesta 2019' Entertainment quiz hosted by @absurdswagger, GG and self for the @quizfoundation on the 3rd of August in Chennai. There are 4 other great quizzes as well.
You won't qualify for any of them but at least you will have fun in the Ent quiz.
One of the things they don’t tell you about Grace Murray Hopper was that she was 36 years old when she decided to divorce her husband and join the Navy, after Pearl Harbour. And then went on to get into programming and invented the compiler. An amazing life.
After the Mahavishnu of Mount Road, it’s the Grand Old Lady of Bori Bunder’s turn to note that QFIesta’s taking place tomorrow and day after - bang opposite the Andavar of Alwarpettai’s residence.
“If you can see a thing whole, it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives. . . . But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.”