My should i write a blog?
I have been pondering this for quite some time. I started off some years back, but did not have the steam or motivation to continue. It was also lack of ideas, topics too. But now what happened?.
Before getting in to the answers, let me introduce myself. I am 34 year old mallu working as a software engineer in Helsinki. I am married to Deepa, with whom i fell in love during the initial years of my software career. Our daughter Gowri is now 3 years old and is going to day care.
I have worked in software industry for almost 11 years, worked on various stuff from protocol stacks, to testing to watching movies and listening to music to reading the same news again and again to yes, open and closed sources too. Now i work in MeeGo, mainly around telephony related areas.
Other than work what do i do?
I am a swayamsevak (a member of RSS) and am in perfect agreement with RSS and its ideology. I practice Karate (almost for the last 10 years) and Taichi (almost for the last 6 years), and I DO PRACTICE ALMOST DAILY. I had also participated in district and state level championships for our shotokan karate organization. I met my karate master Sensei Subramanian some 7 years back. The effect of meeitng him is so strong that i am unable to even watch a full karate class from anyone else because they all look life less.
I consider myself lucky, to be graded for Black-Belt by Kancho Hirokazu kanazawa, the only living student of the great Gichin Funakoshi.
Karate and Taichi has become the only activity i do other than work and home front. I have experienced the real benefits ( the health benefits) of taichi, when one famous heart specialist in Bangalore said, that i am almost cured of my rheumatic fever. Of late i am also interested in cycling. For almost an year (before moving to Helsinki) i cycled in Bangalore. I once did a Nandi hills trip too. Here in Helsinki, i cycle almost all summer, and make it a point to cover the lost days of winter by cycling extra on weekends. I do plan to do a Hameenlina ( 100km+ one way) this summer.
In this blog, i will try to put and express in whatever limited vocabulary i have, the feeling, opinions and thoughts i have about almost everything.
I also have other reasons behind starting the blog.
1) Improve my ability to express feelings, ideas and opinions through words.
2) Express my ideas somewhere, because i am mostly a listener in conversations.
3) And i am really excited to see myself, how life shaped my ideas, opinions and thoughts may be 10 years down the line.
So a humble start......
