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On our recent India trip, we were in Chennai going from Mylapore to West Mambalam when the little one kept saying "I think I just saw Jr.'s photo on a big banner ad for fireworks store". 

Given the noise level in the auto rickshaw and traffic and also given the improbable odds of something like that, we promptly ignored the little one.

Today BB sent us a photo saying "we were driving through Doraisawamy subway when we saw a picture of a girl who looks just like Jr. in a fireworks ad! Wanted to share it with you". 

Guess what?! It is Junior bursting fire crackers and it is a photo from this blog that someone copied without asking for permission! At least sending us some free fireworks would have been a decent gesture. 

Now here is the irony. The original photo is of Jr. celebrating with sparklers in Cupertino and the sparklers were purchased in the local Chinese store. They defiinitely did not come from Sivakasi. 

This is turnign out like the Nikon camera ad that was shot with Canon cameras. 

Needless to say this capture has created some issues at home about blogging, photos of the kids on the internet etc. etc. 

Jr. is happy that she has become a posthumus child model given her childhood has become a thing of the past. 

The little one is claiming she is a genius for pointing this out right. She is also upset that Jr's photo was copied while she is "much cuter" as a child with fireworks. 

San and MIL are just getting on the lecture train..

You know what they say.. 

When life gives you fireworks... just enjoy them!

Been away too long...

It has been almost a month and a half since the site saw a blog post. There is so much to write about.  Spent two and  a half weeks in India over four states, TamilNadu, Kerala, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. Went straight for a business trip from the vacation that turned out to be quite interesting. Flying back to the US and back within 48 hours... memories of people, places, the sights, sounds and smells that may or may not resonate because of all the hectic travel.. 

July came and went and a lot happened without me even getting to the blog. For the most part I chose not to check emails or Facebook during this time. Just let everything soak in.

For the first time exhausted the entire 32GB card taking pictures and started over! 

This trip also saw me go through 7 major airports in a span of 5 days, lugging suitcases on a business trip, navigating baggage rule incompatibilities on international flights on different routes, trying to figure out what day and time it was at any given moment.

Will start posting pictures and share some stories of experiences that truly touched me.. but first, more work!

Brevity and me?!

Four years ago, when Twitter was just picking up, yours truly did sign up and was even flattered by the following..

Then did a little clean up and never went into twitter. 

Why?

Composing those 140 character Haiku's was getting to be a challenge for a guy who probably holds the Guiness record for the longest run on sentence ever written in a blog, like this one for example...

Recently though, life has been very busy. Watching Bill Clinton in the Colbert report talking about Tweeting got me to take a second look at that account and I am hooked. 

BTW, my twitter login is NOT sundar72

It is sundar_72

Someone beat me to sundar72 inspite of me staking that login on every new thing that became big.. Really hope that folks who start new things make you login using your google or facebook login id. Otherwise it creates some mass confusion people!  sundar72 @aol @yahoo @gmail @quora @facebook etc. etc. 

but sundar_72 on Twitter.... and for some strange reason Monster.com! 

One advantage of having your own website is being able to put your Twitter feed as a Page in the site..

There is this Travelog and then there is the Traveltwig.. 

Now we have a place for run on sentences and chopped up sentences..

Yay!!