Trenchant

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Vishwa mangala go grama yatra

I attended a community (its called Reddy Seva Samithi, a community service organization) meeting in my home town last weekend. One of the elderly men who is a co-founder of the community, Mr. Lakshma Reddy happens to be an active member of  VHP, yes the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. As a part of his introduction to [...]

My trip to Vizag

I happened to visit Vizag for the first time last weekend. I was there to attend a friend’s wedding on Sunday night. Arrived at 6AM on Saturday morning at the Vizag railway station after an overnight train journey (Godavari Express). The journey wasn’t too pleasant, thanks to the scrimpy side-upper berth (I got that even [...]

Culture Vulture – my 3rd speech at Toastmasters

23-Jul-09. A day I would not forget for a long time to come. You’d remember some of your biggest goof ups well, don’t you?
It was my third(of the 10) speech at Toastmasters today. I messed it up in a very big way. Though the topic had great depth and the concept was to suit the [...]

Are you expecting? – My 2nd Speech at Toastmasters

Yesterday, I gave my second speech at the Toastmasters Club in my office. Its such a relief that I’ve done it finally. I have been thinking of this ever since I gave my Ice Breaker speech earlier. Honestly, I could not make up my mind with a topic for the speech. Yeah, part of the [...]

What are RSS feeds?

I just added an RSS feed link to my blog. Guests like you could subscribe to the feeds and they would know of all that I update here, without even visiting the blog’s homepage. Isn’t that interesting? Yeah I too thought so. In addition, I got curious to know how these RSS feeds worked. And [...]

Appreciation – Can anything compare to it's value?

Did you ever feel you’ve put in all your energies in to doing a certain thing, you’ve given your 100% and you’d your heart right there when you were doing it, and yet, at the end felt that it all went unnoticed? Let alone being appreciated for it, it has not even been acknowledged? Yes, [...]

ah well, you know, I mean aa, actually, hmm basically like….

aa well I thought of writing this post, you know, hmm ah….Isn’t this how we sometimes stammer and stutter when we’ve to talk? Talking in English isn’t really difficult as long as we have our basics in place and we’re able to think a bit before we talk. Most often we won’t get a chance [...]

My IceBreaker Speech at Toastmasters

Toast Masters Club is a place where one can hone his/her verbal communication skills, in a professionally guided environment. Interested? Want to know more? Check this out: http://www.toastmasters.org/
A club can be chartered (formed) with a group of 20 interested candidates. The club meets often in an organized way. Members take up roles as Speakers, Evaluators, [...]

foto – my photoblog

I have a lot of photographs that I’ve been shooting for over three years now. Thought I could publish a few of them. After all, photos are to be shared! So I started a photo-blog, foto.
The posts there don’t just show the photographs but also explain the context and the content.
You could navigate to [...]

I'm a good photographer!

I’ve added this new post that has a few photographs that I shot with my mobile-phone-camera. Click the link below.
My Photography
You just can’t miss them I bet.
Please comment. I am planning to take up photography as a serious hobby