Monday, June 28, 2004

Good news and Bad news! Good news is I am going home, and bad news is, not until mid August!

Just paid for the tickets (1070 euros!!) - Dublin-London, London-Dubai, Dubai-Cochin and Cochin-Colombo, Colombo-London, London-Dublin!

Last time when I was home, it was back in 2001. And oh, I have never been away from home for this before, ever! Am I looking forward to it?

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY!! I am delighted!!
Just arranged a weekend get-away to Kerry! Woohooo!! :)

Kerry is the South West corner of Ireland, one of the most untouched spots in the country. Lush green countryside, spotless beaches, ruins of thousands of churches, rich culture and history, hiking, trekking, horse riding, angling, scuba diving and nice eat-out and traditional Irish pubs, and I have two days!! Well, better than no days! :)

I will start from Dublin on early morning Saturday (empty country roads, here I come) and have booked an apartment (yes, a whole apartment) in Killkorglin (sp?) for two nights and then back to Dublin, on Monday afternoon. I will be taking my new Sony 717 baby with me; I‘ll post some pics in here!

Friday, June 25, 2004

Simple, harmless fun!! :D


Walk the drunk

And here are the scores so far: boards.ie thread

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

I have gMail! :)

Thanks to the friedly stranger, Jonathan Bloomer from the internet, for inviting me to open a gmail account.

More updates later

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Jim Yingst of Javaranch brought my attention to this brilliant site - DigitalGlobe. At DigitalGlobe (I guess Jim works for them), they have a huge collection of geo-spatial imagery, and its free!! (well, sort of!)

Using their extremely user friendly interface, I zoomed from globe-view to the image of my local town (Ottapalam) in about 5 clicks, and with recent response times (unusual for image archive web services), it was a pleasure to view the part of the world that I am so fond of, from an all new angle!!

I will share the catalogue ID in a minute.

Looking at a 0% cloud cover shot of Ottapalam/Palakkad/Shoranur region of Kerala, South India, I could clearely see Bharatapuzha (the great river that has seen raise and fall of civilizations along its banks), the 'Anangan' mountain range, Malampuzha reservoir etc, its amazing.

Zooming in another part of the world, looking at East of Ireland, you have half a frame full of 'The city of a thousand pubs', Dublin. The Leafy river, Dublin port, The M50 (motorway), Phoenix Park (and even President's Palace) etc are clearly visible!

Gosh, I would love to be in one of those things that float over the atmosphere, what you call them? That’s right, ‘satellites’!

Thanks to the folks at DigitalGlobe. Cheers!!
Someone asked me what’s up with this name 'Chunangadan'?

Well, I am from Chunandad, which is a small village in the Southern tip of the Indian peninsula. India is divided into States, and States to Districts and Districts to Taluks and Taluks to Villages. Chunandad is one such village in Ottapalam Taluk, which is in Palakkad District which is in Kerala State!

Adding the sound ‘an’ at the end of a place or group is how we refer to someone from ‘that place’ or ‘this group’ in the local lingo – in short, Chunangadan means ‘one from Chunangad), which I am.

And I am almost certain that I am the first blogger from Chunandad, but I couldn’t be sure, but I chose to claim the title until disputed by someone else! :)
As adults, time to time we end up doing certain things that we don't really enjoy. (Work for example, well, we don't really have choice when it comes to work, or at least until someone invents a free reproducible energy source that can satisfy the entire humanities hunger, lust and everything else. Okay, may be if I win a lotto or something, it might keep me going for a while too.)

I had to ask Jenna to remove my photo from her Yahoo album. Belive me its easier said that done, and there's a harddisk full of history on the run up to today. Its a bit of pain, but I will try to explain some of that here, may be!
For crying out loud...

.. someone send me an GMail invite, please!

Its been getting to my nerves lately, some of the most annoying people in the office giving out about every other possible mail service in this wide wide world (www), and yes as much as I agree with them, I wouldn't mind having one myself too, you know!

Well, its a matter of time anyways! ::keeping my fingers crossed::