Rewind-Pause: Bangalore meeting from 20 years back
While I have not done office meetings in India for a long time, I can still visualize them the way they used to be. Invariably, there would be a water bottle at every chair and first order of the day would be the office help coming around and taking our tea/coffee orders!
Check out the size of the laptops. And the total mess of wires on the table. This was par for the course twenty years back. Wonder how meetings have changed these days in Bangalore.
Geoff has lost a lot of weight from those days. Dilip has lost all his hair on the head (he shaves his head like me now). Willie has not changed a bit. I have not seen Brandon in a long long time. And unfortunately, we lost Chandran way too early.
Geoff, Dilip, Willie, Brandon – do you remember this meeting?

Do you know these punctuation marks?
A couple of days back, Matt, Sunjay, Hunt and myself were Slacking about Sunjay’s use of the punctuation mark “?!”. Which got me to read up on punctuation marks that are rarely used these days.
See how many of these you might now. First name the punctuation mark and see if you can guess when it is used.
The ninth one looks like slanted in my handwriting. I meant to draw a straight line. (You have it on your keyboard as “|” )

Perfect day to spend a few hours in the sun
5K trail run on a cool day
Sometimes, she surprises me
Last night as I was going to bed, I got this picture from Kallol Nandi who further added that he felt very proud of her. My instinctive reaction was that he meant to send it to somebody else. On second thoughts, I looked closely at the picture.
I was still not sure why I was looking at a magazine. Then I saw the boats in the cover picture. I realized that this might be Sharmila’s painting. The boats looked familiar in style. She paints a lot of boats which always gives me a sinking feeling because she would invariably ask me for suggestions for names. Apparently, “Boat – 1”, “Boat – 2” … is not very artistic.
I forwarded that picture to her asking if it was her painting. She is roaming around in London and Paris with Nikita. I am told that is what self-respecting artists do. (roam in London and Paris – not necessarily with Nikita).
Anyways, this morning I woke up to a confirmation from her. I am glad she did not berate me for missing her signature completely!
Thank you Kallol for pointing me to this.
Does anybody know how can I get a physical copy? (Atlanta Journal Constitution is still showing the Fall copy)

Run with Jay Jay
Met up with a very old friend!!
In fact, Andrea was one of the people who originally convinced me to move from Dallas to Atlanta (for job). After she left Atlanta, I had not seen her for nearly 15 years. We fixed that problem today!
It was great to see her today, learn about her life journeys and the lessons from life she has drawn so far!






