A bit of spring cleaning

"Spring cleaning" is probably not the best way to describe it, but cleaning up the old hard-disks certainly felt like that. A computer, a laptop, 3 external hard-disks, 2 USB pen drives...it can get messy after a while. I began a massive "clean-up" session last Sunday that lasted well into the midnight. This involved merging files / directories from these multiple sources to a single place to make it more manageable. This was a long pending task from August 2008 (since the completion of my MTech). The task is not yet done. This will be continued today (Sunday) as well.

Another visit to Cafe Mysore

The visit to Sweden had made me crave for some Cafe Mysore idlis. So last Saturday, I hopped into Cafe Mysore for a mid-morning snack. Not that I was hungry, but I was passing it.

I was quite surprised to learn of the death of Nagesh Nayak, the second generation of A. Rama Nayak that runs the Cafe Mysore. From the newspaper clippings pasted on the wall, it seemed that he died around 7th March. This news article has more info about it. Though the article specifies that the children of Nagesh Nayak would take over the management of the restaurant, it is not clear to me it would still be the same. The idlis that I had were sure off the mark.

Train related pics from Sweden

Finally, I managed to get some pics of trains / sites in Sweden. Here they are:

Stockholm Centralen station	A long-distance SJ train passes over a high viaduct close to Södertälje Syd
An empty SL local train rake waits at Södertälje Centrum for departure to Gnesta	The 08:05 SL local arrives at Södertälje Centrum to take daily commuters to Märsta via Stockholm Centralen. Commuters unhurriedly board the SL local at Södertälje Centrum
A very sleek-looking SL local arrives from the Stockholm side to Södertälje Centrum	A close-up of the SL local

Good to be back in India...

Last week I returned to India after about 7 weeks of stay in freezing Sweden. Of course, over that period, one did tend to get used to the cold. I had made a mental list of food items to be eaten...all those that were missed during my stay in Sweden.

But it is so unusually hot in Mumbai that it feels like going from the deep freezer straight to the oven. But that is life...the grass always seems to be greener on the other side!