tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26850337545103545592012-02-16T09:48:17.154-06:00Hukundadinda bengaloorige !Hukundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429436945775995947noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2685033754510354559.post-87585639640753172142009-12-25T16:43:00.002-06:002009-12-25T16:46:19.415-06:00

It has been a while since I wrote on the blog .... no excuses ... have been thinking about a lot of things ... christmas in dallas.... bujji's experiences in school .... questions that sudhanv a has started asking ..... our trip back home ....... our school in hukunda and an appeal about it ..... etc .... Will sit on these tommorrow ...For today it is going to be '3 idiots' ..:)

Hukundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429436945775995947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2685033754510354559.post-79782186865220094782009-05-07T16:26:00.004-06:002009-05-07T16:43:17.230-06:00

The modern Mother's Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor its mother,[1] and it's now celebrated on various days in many places around the world.Sandhya (my wife) was telling me yesterday in a different context that we tend to always forget thanking the woman at home (mother, wife, sister) for all that they do.Tomorrow is mother's day and I just started thinking

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A month ago, spruhaa (my daughter) had an incident at her school. She is in her UKG and had joined hands with another classmate of hers and were troubling a third girl in a very ackward way .... This girl who is being troubled is a special child in the sense that this child is very shy, still does not know to communicate well with others and supposedly is suffering from a very high inferiority

Hukundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429436945775995947noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2685033754510354559.post-36225972763624623002008-12-27T01:30:00.002-06:002008-12-27T01:38:11.346-06:00

Hmm ... Apologies for not writing for quite sometime now .... no excuses ... just did not find the motivation to write something ..... :-(I today happened to read thru some article about an indian's experiences in Sweden and also some comparisons between Europeans and Americans in general ....Note: Publishing this post with all due regards to the person who shared his experiences. I dont know

Hukundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429436945775995947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2685033754510354559.post-76133834182153809282008-10-08T15:13:00.004-06:002008-10-08T15:31:29.559-06:00

Sudhanva (my son) had his chaula (mundan) in August 2008 in Bangalore, India. As we could not give him a crop in India, we did so here in Dallas, Texas on October 3rd 2008. Sandhya took him to the saloon (as the saloons here only open at 10 AM !!!!!) and I understand that sudhanva did not make a fuss while having a hair cut !!!Check out the metamorphosis and some comments about his new look from

Hukundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429436945775995947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2685033754510354559.post-14911409676135599942008-10-01T21:26:00.002-06:002008-10-01T21:42:27.749-06:00

These are exactly the words spoken by one of my colleagues at my office here. She is a divorcee bringing up her 3 kids aged 17, 19 and 21 !! We were discussing about how things work in homes back in India v/s how kids are pushed to grow here in the United States .....I was telling her that back in India kids are grown up in sheltered environments (sheltered physically, psychologically,

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My daughter Spruhaa Vasistha ... Spruhaa is ambitionMy son Sudhanva Vasistha

Hukundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429436945775995947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2685033754510354559.post-86411926208816972442008-09-03T11:35:00.003-06:002008-09-03T11:54:50.838-06:00

It is the 3rd year in a row that we as a family are celebrating Ganesha - Gowri festival at home - 'away from home' !! Celebrating the festival sitting at my desk in office, I was thinking that it is amusing to note some of the differences between celebrating such a big festival as this away from home. Here it goes ......DIFF #1.Here: Business as usual. Work from 9 - 5 PMThere: Rajaaa (Holiday).

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I flew back to Dallas after a 4 wk vacation in namma bengaluru ..... it was nice to get back with family and friends after almost 2.5 yrs .... but it was also a whirlwind trip with 2 big functions (sudhanva's birthday party followed by his chaula function) in two alternate weekends ..... it got very hectic though ..... anna and amma were all the while complaning that I have not been able to spend

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Oh ! you are from India !!!...... Is English your national language ??...... Oh ! it is not is it !! Then how come you speak such good English !!!Too many exclamations .....but that is exactly the feeling of an American or a Hispanic (people who speak Spanish as their mother tongue ) who happens to speak to me here in Dallas .... they are amazed by the way the Indians in general are able to

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Hia -I found this very old write-up called 'Just for this morning' from my archives. I had seen this the first time in bujji's (my daughter spruhaa) school at HEAD START in Bangalore when she was in her pre-school. They had this notice board at school where they used to put up some very interesting anecdotes, stories, inspiring themes and some articles (like this one!) as food for thought ....Let

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I have been lying low for sometime now .... office work is killing me .. :-( .. coz' sandhya and the kids are not at home, I seldom reach home early now a days. I make sure that I reach only after 8.30 pm in the night - just in time to have dinner, do some work and doze off !While I was looking thro' my laptop for some photos and old songs that I had recorded of the kids, I found this really nice

Hukundahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429436945775995947noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2685033754510354559.post-32911396725465227662008-06-15T16:51:00.002-06:002008-06-15T17:00:33.001-06:00

Sandhya and the kids left for India on 8th June from Dallas, Texas. Oh ! we have been living in Dallas, texas for more than 2 yrs now. I am here in a short term assignment from IBM GLOBAL Services (am with IBM for 6 yrs now ...).Its has been movies galore for me after Sandhya and the kids left ...I have been watching atleast one movie a day since last sunday..... I have always been a movie buff

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Anna (for DAD) 'Gundanna HV', was born in Shettykeredoddi (In Kanakapura taluka, 60 kms from bangalore). He did is early school in 'kooli matha' at Hukunda and then moved to Kanakapura for his primary schooling and college. He moved to bendakalooru (Bangalore) for his graduation and post graduation. He earned himself the job of a lab assistant in the prestigious VIJAYA COLLEGE at a tender age of

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZY5xfFBsHT4 This is my son Chi. Sudhanva Vasistha dancing on the table. He is soon going to be 2 yrs on July 17th. Currently sandhya and the kids have gone to India for a couple of months. I will be joining them all on July 28th ... eagerly waiting to go home ! ..Check this video ..Bugs.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=rLu_THl9uZo Spruhaa is singing 'Look at all the twinkling stars' ! Both spruhaa (we call her bujji) and sudhanva (we all call him tammanna as bujji calls him tammanna) love this rhyme. Tamma is 'little brother' and anna is 'big brother' in kannada !! Now, I agree that 'tammanna' is a misnormer ...... but we like it :)Enzoi the video !

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All -It has been a while since I was thinking of having one place on the public domain (that still is restricted to some people) where I could sketch our 'Vamsha Vriksha' (family tree), travel down the memory lane, share our sweet memories with the entire family and also ask our folks to pen down some lines .....I will make an effort to keep this blog 'alive and kicking' on a regular basis. Watch

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