Kedar's Blog

July 4th 2015, 10pm : I remember my son and I had been watching some fireworks, that some of my neighbors were lighting up in front of their houses. We live in a nicely secluded townhouse section of my community. It was all fun and you could hear fireworks near and far that night. Finally we decided to go up to our 3rd floor bedroom. Next day was Sunday, and my wife and I were planning to watch a movie with a late night cup of coffee, once my Son went to bed. My Son went in his room to get something. He returned with a worried look and said to my wife “Mommy the kid next door is crying outside and his dad is also running out”.. I simply ignored him whereas my wife tried to say something to him to just let it be. After brushing his teeth and lying down in bed, my Son still wasn’t convinced – “but Mommy the kid was crying a lot and there was some light too”. Two minutes later, my Son and my wife said, someone is banging on the main door. I had not even heard it! Irritated, I went down ...

  A few days after we booked our Yellowstone trip, internet bloggers posted videos of Bisons and other animals running away from the park. They were suggesting that this might be due to an impending explosion of the Super-volcano on which the Yellowstone park is sitting on! ( http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/593833-yellowstone-volcano-eruption-in-2014-some-believe-animals-are-fleeing-park-see-it-as-an-alert/ ) I did not reveal this to the family or friends.. But frantically started reading all kinds of articles about the Geography, History, and Science related to this place, and just decided to go.. It’s like you never believe such things will happen to you in real! Two days into the trip, while coming back from Grand Tetons National park, my son and I went inside a gas station store. There on the way to checkout, a fellow customer asked me – in front of my son (!!) – if I had heard that a road in Yellowstone had MELTED that morning and all the roads going north into the park were c...

I actually borrowed this idea from another blog because it makes total sense.. Like most of us, I did want to do way too many things in life and I still do. But because life is so “one-way” and time never stops, I kind of kept dropping the ball on each one of them one by one. So this post will let me at least remember all the things I wanted to do in my life.. ..if there is another life and I still remember the blog address for this life (!!) and if my hosting company is nice enough not to nuke my site, since I won’t be paying for it during the time between my 2 lives (!!), then I can come back to read about this life and try to do the things I wanted to do, in the new life! 😉 With that *simple* hope, here goes: DREAMS I remember when I was a kid, I used to love breaking stones with a hammer!! So there was a time when I used to say I want to do that in life! Overtime, I realized that this is not really an exciting and profitable dream to hold onto 🙂 When you are a kid, who doesn’t fe...

Although I don’t believe such a thing exists on a scientific level, here are some symptoms I can imagine. Consider yourself in a mid-life crisis if - You are getting nostalgic about the past lately You think cutting your hair short makes you look younger You think tight T-shirts suit you better You get unusually happy when you buy from Forever-21 or American Eagle or Hollister or Abercombie. You start believing in stories of young girls dating married old men You say you don’t remember your age on your birthday You start becoming ambiguous about your age in general - you prefer to use floor() instead of round() on your age. You fight with all your liar’s might to stay below 40. ….. My friend Troy has contributed more to this list… his list follows: You just bought a motorcycle You start working out, because you think it might be your last chance to actually be fit You are more motivated to finish your projects before your mental faculties deteriorate or you get too lazy You find sites ...

I have a proud father moment to share!! It has been in the works for a long time.. I and my wife have waited and worked for this long enough to appreciate its importance.. my son’s future depended on it.. our peace of mind depended on it.. and also the overall quality of living for all of us depended on it.. This is once in a lifetime thing to start.. and it stays with you all through your life.. it is something you have gotta learn and not something you are born with..

Like many people from my homeland, I came to the US, seeking opportunities. At least that’s what I kinda’ like to think. If you ask me, I don’t really know why I came here.. back in those days, there wasn’t a great deal going on in the IT world back home - yes back in the last century - the year 1999. For a youngster, waiting desperately to break free, going away from home and the homeland, made perfect sense! I was already living in Dubai, working in the IT arm of a successful airline. I flew all over the world. Dubai is a small place and after 4 years I outgrew it. I wanted to continue my journey outward - away from my homeland. So I consciously looked towards the West. It was great.. I had a big country to explore, big cars, lots of do, see and experience. Part of being here was to ensure some stability, brought about by the permanent resident card - ubiquitously known as the Green Card! Sure, I wanted to get that.. it was the legal way of staying here for longer than the 6 years th...

Everyone comes to this world, with a handful of invisible sand of life and like the sand in a sand clock, the grains of life keep slipping away from our hand. Hardly does one realize when and how the sand he brought with him slips away from his hand..

I am experiencing a temporary bachelorhood right now with my wife and kid in India.. My friends invite me to spend my weekends with them. So here is an email I sent to them as a Thank You.. Thought it might be worth a read: