Hi everyone! This is more an explanation than a blog entry. I'd gone to Australia for a cousin's wedding. Now I'm going to IIM Kozhikode and should be there in a week's time (Kozhikode is the same as Calicut; à la Mumbai and Bombay). A little bit about Oz. Almost the whole of May was spent there. It was a beautiful experience. For the first time, I had a real yardstick with which to compare India. Reading about it in books or watching movies is OK, but getting a first-hand feel of a foreign land gives you a very vivid point of reference. I can talk about it for days together, but time's running short. Right now I'm furiously burning DVDs and am being amazed by the amount of data I've managed to collect as the years went by. I'm also cleaning out my room, and am periodically being faced with (good) ghosts from the past, who remind me of a blessed childhood. Old _Target_ magazines, which I hope to digitize if I can find the time. I've come across the obligatory melted rubber-bands, Reynolds 045 shells, old _Rakhis_, dust-clouds worthy of the Sahara, Tinkle & Nandan issues (Yes, I loved Hindi kids' stories too). The dead and the living past. I can't say when the next blog post would be, and whether it'll be a looong post like some of the earlier ones. Right now there's little time, but this blog's alive for sure. I didn't really plan to write a post tonight, for the DVD-Writer awaits. But I came on this blog after a really long time, found those messages on the tagboard, and felt a wave of affection. I wouldn't have believed it was possible to feel connected to someone only by reading small bits of their writing off and on. But it is. Special greetings to the IIMK guys, to Aekta, Quint, Ranj, Keerthi, Zulu, Prateek, and everyone who cares enough to keep coming to this blog looking for a new post. A heartfelt goodbye to Aekta/Whirlwings and Amon. Those were the first two blogs that I started reading regularly, and played a big role in my deciding to start this one. And just clicking the links on a whim, what do I find? Aekta is back! So a goodbye and welcome in the same para, and in the wrong order. The virtual world is an interesting place. The links to both of them stay, and atleast one is alive, and the other has an illustrious enough past, and enough emotional attachment to retain the top slot. I can, and probably will, write a few posts on Oz alone, but don't know when. It was autumn there turning to winter, and the trees aflame with shades of orange and yellow were like the icing on a delectable cake. I took a bucketload of photos, may update them at some time, but don't know when. On this ambiguous note, I take your leave.