Character: Uma

Dog at park 1

Weekly Notes 15/2025

We went to Cubbon Park on Saturday with Echo. Now that we have three beings who need attention at home, Echo gets the least. So we made plans to go for a walk only with him like last year – WN 13/2024. He had lots of fun. We need to do this often.  

Appu film poster on wall. 0

Weekly Notes 14/2025

This week was a beautiful mix of celebrations. Yugadhi and Ramzan came together, and right in the middle of it all, Uma turned two! So, we ended up celebrating three festivals with lots of food, fun, chatter, and love.

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

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....