Author: Thejesh GN

Screenshot of my social.lol profile page. 2

Shutting down my Mastodon instance

I was using Masto.host hosted Mastodon instance at social.thej.in for a year (Week 07/2024). I am shutting it down for now and returning to social.lol/@thej account. There are a couple of reasons for doing this. So what changes Sorry about all the confusion. It’s part of a hosting experiment, I guess. Thank you.

Uma at the Beach 3

Langkawi

Table of Contents1 Frangipani Langkawi Beach Resort2 Langkawi Wild Park3 Langkawi Underwater World4 Dinner at Rimba at Ambong Pool Villas5 Mangrove Tour6 Langkawi Night Market7 SkyBridge – SkyCab8 Citizen Science9 End Note We wanted a birthday trip like last year. I also wanted it to be less buzzy and toddler-friendly. So I started...

Espresso martini at Frangipani Langkawi Resorts 1

Weekly Notes 11/2025

The first half of the week was busy, with most of the time, including some weekend hours, spent closing work TODOs. But now that we’re in Langkawi, it’s all good :)

Uma and Appa having a discussion. 0

Weekly Notes 10/2025

Appa was down with a fever and an upset stomach for a couple of days. He recovered pretty fast. Now that Uma can make sentences of two or three words from different languages, their conversation is fun to hear. She probably has a combined vocabulary of 100 words in Malayalam, Kannada, and English....

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Weekly Notes 09/2025

My neck is doing okay. Resting, i.e., not looking at the phone but sleeping, has greatly helped. I’m still wearing the cervical collar, as the doctor advised. I’ve also slowed down on the work front this week because of it. Hopefully, I will be able to catch up next week.

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A challenge of blog questions

I got tagged by Sathya to take up the challenge of blog questions. I don’t even remember the last time something like this happened. But I am thrilled to see blogging is popular again and, in most cases, becoming an alternative to social media. A selfish reason for participating in this challenge is...