My meaning of the word ‘cult’ refers to small break-out cultures that have a following. I wonder how cults started? Did someone get pushed around too much? Did existing cultures try to just snuff out the individuality from one person? Was he the only one who could see the other light? And once he saw [...]
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I am not feeling cultish
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cult, freedom on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Matunga to Manhattan
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, I was going to name my blog ‘From Matunga to Manhattan’, but we never lived there, so it would be kinda misleading. But if you are reading my blog, you absolutely need to know some stuff.
The facts:
I live in LA, which is in California. So I DO live in California. If you don’t know [...]
Lavanya Who?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alzheimer's, testing on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I notice it for the first time here. I am standing between the travel and biography aisles of the library and trying hard to concentrate. But the more I try, the better I notice the carpet pattern. My mind is not switching on at its usual speed. I had picked up a Frommer’s guide to [...]
And…I am blogging about it
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogeditor, bloggingsoftware, flock, linux on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so ever since I installed Linux, I have had to go back to Windows to use Windows Live Writer for blogging. Not these blogs but my official ones. It was a perfect piece of software built on an imperfect platform and obviously they weren’t making a Linux version of the [...]
Is your paunch showing?
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is that time of life when the muscles you exercise most start showing, isn’t it? The years of unhealthy food catch up with you and centre themselves in the middle of your torso all because you have a computer/desk job. I am sure that not too far from now we will have computers that [...]
California Dreamin’ on Woodstock Day
Posted in Uncategorized on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Play this while you read. If you are hearing it in office with headsets…careful, involuntary movement of bodily parts may occur.
Maybe it is the time in history..what with it being 40 years after the Woodstock festival that I am getting in the mood for real American music. Maybe it started with [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen…Lavanya Panchapakesan
Posted in Uncategorized on August 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Right from the time I first told someone my name, I realized that my grand mother had chosen a rather unique and cool name for me. South Indian enough to get approval from elders, short enough for North Indians to pronounce and different enough to be the only one in the batch of every class. [...]
Damsel in Distress
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged google, Microsoft, ms and yahoo deal, yahoo on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yahoo and Microsoft are going to take on Google. Ha! Big guys fighting other big guys. All for fickle consumers (cannot even say customers without my marketing-educated tongue having a whip lash). These “free” consumers who like hapless damsels in distress look on with their wide eyes as the hero beats up the villain. But [...]
Vampires 101
Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post has been inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, Midnight Sun and Bones.
In a world gone crazy with blood suckers and man eaters, here is a gist of all things vampire.
Every generation gets their own vampire.
There was some Dracula guy, [...]
It’s alright, it’s OK
Posted in Uncategorized on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is over. Officially, my time here in LA as a tourist/visitor is over. I have moved on to a bigger role as in a resident. No, my visa status has not changed, nor are we going to be here indefinitely. Its the time. 18 months is a good amount of time to adjust to [...]
