My first, full-fledged in-class course at APU ended this week. The final round of assessments is yet to be done. I am in the process of it. Most students have done well. I have done physical workshops, special classes, a bunch of short-term courses, but this was my first in-class, full-fledged course. Traveling to...

It’s been a busy week, both at work and at home. I think the heat also made the week much more tiring, but thankfully, it rained a bit yesterday. Hopefully we will get more rains. Uma at South United Football Club. It’s summer camp. I spent a bit of time organizing the NMG/2026 introductions and making them. It’s...

NMG 2026 results are out. If you are a grantee, congratulations. This is the 9th edition of 2026 and the biggest both in terms of total grant and the number of grantees. Initial emails have been sent. Today, I started sending some introductory emails so fund transfers can happen. The actual fund transfer is from...

Thanks for your patience, everyone. It took a lot of work to process this year’s applications. There were lots of good applications. We are a micro-grant, but that said, this is the biggest year for NMG, with 5.6 lakhs in the grant pool, thanks to friends of NMG – Shweta/Ashwini(60K), Divya(25K), Miss.Y(30K) and...

#30DaysOfDXing is where I am trying to receive various radio wave transmissions and listen to them using either my Radio, SDR, etc. I am currently using ShortwaveSchedule, Short-Wave Info, ShorWave DB, QSL.net, etc. as my sources. Look at the project page for more details. I am a radio enthusiast and also an E&C...

It feels like a long, tiring week because it’s been a busy one, or most probably because of getting back to regular life after vacation, or because Bengaluru has been hot this week. Anyway, its been a busy and hectic week. What better to do when its so hot. Uma started playing football this week. She is just getting...

I recently added setting up a proper Bee hotel as a goal, but I didn’t think something similar would happen naturally. I love the concept of Bee hotels. Bee hotel is a man-made structure for solitary pollinator bees to rest. It seemed like a fun project, so I added it to my TODO list. This week, we found that one of...

I am back in Bengaluru. Slept and rested a bit. I watched One Battle After Another on the way to Sydney and Naked Gun 2 on the way back. I really liked how One Battle After Another is told, DiCaprio’s role, the chemistry between father and daughter, and the climax. It’s a good watch. Yet to get back to work...

We just wanted to drive around NSW’s countryside and maybe visit a farm. Camden came up in the search, and the Airbnb there looked nice, and hence we settled on it. It was also perfect fir for the Easter weekend (4th and 5th of Apr) as it was a small town. Camden is not far from the city, so we planned to go to...

It wasn’t planned that she would walk all the way. I was ready to carry her at least three-fourths of the way. I would have been more than happy if she had walked a kilometer. But it so happened that she walked all the way, surprising us. The platypus track is the smallest one at Bidjigal Reserve. We chose it so Uma...

We did a leisurely walk through Sydney’s city center. We will probably do one more walk. But this one was mostly around Uma’s need to walk in the park and see water, and that’s what we mostly did. Diggy Doos Coffee As soon as we landed in the center, we looked for a good coffee place, and found Diggy Doo’s Coffee on...

We are on holiday. The week before the holiday was mostly spent covering for things that can happen during the vacation. Of course, you can’t imagine everything and solve it. But I think the teams are doing okay. So all is well. Uma at Sydeny Opera House. The holidays are going well. We got to celebrate Uma’s...