After a long time

Its been quite sometime since I blogged here ....lot of things are happening... and i do wish to make a periodic note of them here.... but I guess I am just lazy to sit and spend some time to note down them here....
Probably I will start with the most happening thing in my life

Junior Nandoo (or) Sat - Yes we are expecting our first one early next year... and nandoo is busy getting prepared for the new arraival in our family. Doctor visits, scan appointments, Dietary advices, Pregnancy Gyaan... Sat & I are going through all the part and parcel of this exciting nine months journey...Its quite interesting... may be I will write a seperate post about Expecting Daddy's part.... I dont find much on the internet for the Daddy

A sweet something - I met my niece on a weekend after a long time.... It was quite a surprise when I heard from my niece that she has got 5/5 in a essay writing.. the topic was "The person I admire" ... Guess what that little kid has written about me in her essay :-) I still wonder what made her to write about me..... But that was very sweet of her to let me know .....

Talk at IIT Madras - This time for a change, I was invited by the management department students at IIT Madras to share my experiences with SMILE. It was a again a surprise...who wouldnt want to go to that campus.... I did talk there for almost 75 minutes and I hope the students realised what I was saying and probably few may get in touch with SMILE for thier winter intership.
25 Lakhs Scholarship - This is another quite an achievement when I got a mail from SMILE communication team that so far, we have spent 25 Lakhs for sadhana scholarship. When we started smile we never imagined that we could make such great strides.... but as the saying goes "Small drops make an ocean" this has become true for us. we were able to support 161 students so far mainly because people had thier faith in what SMILE was doing and they were committed to bring that positive change.... it has taken 6 years...some may argue its too late to reach this figure..but I see this as a sustained committed effort....
Adaptive Simulation - This may sound greek and latin to you...but this something that has been running on my head since July and finally last week, my team was able to run the code and come up with a desired output... this is one great step towards what I wanted to achieve and my team was able to meet the milestone... I was so happy to see the results on the screen. I am proud of my team members. There is still a long way to go but the proof of concept is achieved and validated.

Enthiran - Thala as usual kalakittar.... I saw this movie in coimbatore Central.... padam sooper...naduvula konjam ilutha mathiri irunthuchu... but overall it was very good attempt... the most interesting thing was having Nishu (Sat's niece) 4 year old with us. She was screaming and making sound and the whole theatre was watching her... I dont know what Rajini has got but he is the only person who will have fans in all age groups, all economic classess and all over the world... I liked the Kilimanjaro song.... That's my favourite...