April 18, 2008

Uh, just noticed that this site hasn't updated for pretty long time. Here goes a list of happenings I would like to share with the world.

January 2008

SPENT the New year's night at the Grand Shrine of Amaterasu, Ise Jingu Naiku. Picasa slide show link

CELEBRATED Imbolc

February 2008

WENT back home (Kerala, India) after two long years. Transit at Hong Kong for two days (thereby, my first visit in China) and a visit to University of Hong Kong. Picasa slide show link

READ The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) and  Animal Farm (George Orwell) 

LAMENTED over the troubled demise of Estralinha(mom of Isis), my love. 

March 2008

VISITED the Japanese Island of Kyushu for first time. Green algal sampling trip included visits in Kagoshima and Nagasaki prefectures and meeting Professor Masafumi Iima, someone I wish I could change into, someday! Picasa slide show link

READ The Bad Girl (Mario Vargas) and After dark (Haruki Murakami)

CELEBRATED Ostara (Shunbun-no-Hi)

April 2008

SPRING O'hanami at Gifu.

VISITED Mie university. Green algal sampling trip to Matsusaka and Tsu, Mie Prefecture. Picasa link

LEARNED new origamis (singing lips, floral dish). Give me some time to post in instructables on how to fold 'em.

READ The Abstinence Teacher (Tom Perrotta)

READING Bridge of Sighs (Richard Russo)

NEXT on "Reading-List":the Zahir (Paulo Coelho)

NEW essay added on Essays section

November 17, 2007

Photographs from the school excursion to Shodoshima (Mt Kankakei (gorge) 香川県、寒霞渓) appears HERE

November 11, 2007

What I saw at Befukyou (別府峡) and surrounding valleys were some of the most remarkable scenes of fall embracing vista, I've ever seen till date. Album appears here.

November 7, 2007

"Kouyou at Kyoto"

All say: "If you go to only one place in all of Japan, Kyoto should be it". having been living in Japan for last 3 years, I cant afford not to see this 'capital of capitals'-Kyoto as meant in Japanese. that's why I spent my last weekend there, to compensate what I missed in my last two visits there (2005, 2006): its celebrated Buddhist temples; and not to miss what Carrie missed on her first trip, "a chance to sip some water from each of the three spigots". So I picked 3 spots from wikitravel's: Arashiyama (Tenryuuji), Kiyomizudera and Chion-in, to immerse myself in celebration of "kouyou". Here goes some photographs for your viewing pleasure

October 3rd, 2007

back from mild and exciting summer i had on either side of the Strait of Juan De Fuca, i've been swamped lately, moving my dorm and lab and vexing on the fate of my kingdom by the cats. it was like an odyssey in quest of peace of mind, moving my way out of Usacho and UMBI. who would like to be a hypocrite to his own consciousness? damnation of sycophants!

the gloomy days are on its track yet again, this time through the morbid death of Isis (freaking road-mishap) right behind my University library last saturday. remembering him, his playful ways and troubled farewell... here you go my friend. I dedicate this homepage for your amaranthine soul, I love you.

About This Page

"There is a building. Inside this building, there is a level where no elevator can go and no stair can reach. This level is filled with doors. These doors lead to many places. Hidden places. But one door is special. One door leads to the source" - The Keymaker, The Matrix Reloaded

On my website, one page is special - this page. My other pages describe my interests. On this page, I attempt to describe myself, my history, and my point of view as accurately as possible.

My website is neither a journal nor a blog. It predates the popularity of both of those Internet phenomena. Journals are especially vile blogs where boring people talk about themselves endlessly. I don't consider who I am to be interesting in and of itself, so I don't talk about myself on my other pages that much. Even when blogs cover interesting topics, they're presented in a confusing stream of consciousness. Chronological organization is not navigable. Instead of chronological organization, which is really no organization at all, I structure each page and the website itself so that they can be efficiently browsed.

My website is also unlike Wikipedia, as I am one person and I do not have to follow their ridiculous Neutral Point Of View policy. The NPOV policy is probably the only way to get large numbers of people to work on something and end up with a vaguely coherent product, but it doesn't apply to a single person. On my website, I present my opinions freely.

On this page, I talk about myself to make the nature of my other pages clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Understanding my history and this site's history should provide the chronological context that I have intentionally not provided elsewhere for reasons of clarity. My website is closest in nature to a book; when reading a book, you want to read only the final draft, but when analyzing a book, you want all of the drafts. Finally, for reasons of completeness, I describe views of mine that are relevant to understanding the other things that I've written but don't necessarily belong in those other places.

And Finally, this home page of mine complements my blog that often get updated unlike this.