Character: Uma

Echo finished his Gotcha Day cake in no time. 3

Weekly Notes 12/2025

We returned from Langkawi on Wednesday after a week-long vacation. It was a good trip. I had nearly a thousand unread emails, both work and personal when we returned. Around 80% of them are non-critical – newsletters, alerts from GitHub, issue trackers, etc. But I believe in inbox zero, so I had to...

Uma at the Beach 3

Langkawi

We wanted a birthday trip like last year. I also wanted it to be less buzzy and toddler-friendly. So I started searching for a holiday place within 8 hours of travel time and a single hop. Langkawi turned up in the search results. I didn’t know about it, but the more I read,...

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....

Uma and Pathu playing together. 0

Weekly Notes 08/2025

Work went well I am on top of it. I have closed the things I wanted to close this week and the pending tasks from last week. It feels good to have a completed task list on a Friday evening.

Ed Sheeran (+–=÷× Tour) 0

Weekly Notes 07/2025

It’s been a busy week. I was catching up on pending work along with work travel. And then, both Anju and I caught a cold, which we received from Uma. No fever, just a very bad cold and cough. It was tiring. All of us are recovering well; hopefully, next week will be...