My First post!

Boy!Am I excited!! I'm indebted to my two lovely nieces Lakshmi and Parvathi (Paru to me) and my daughter nisha for creating this blog. It needed a lot of effort from their part to drill into my thick skull to make me understand the rudiments of blog creations.
I must admit I'm a late comer to blogs. I am 67 years old and I belong to that era (which of course seems to be eons away) when no one has heard about computers. I declined all offers to learn the basics thinking I may not need it. It was when Nisha went to UK after her marriage that I felt the need for it. I learnt how to send e-mails and receive them. I could type,save cut and paste! All these apparently, just kidstuff for today's techies and why, even for the school kids. But there still a great deal has to be learnt, as I understand, to be a computer literate! I don't know if I would learn some of it before my time is up, nevertheless, I made a beginning today. My son Arun (fondly called Tinku by all of us except his wife the lovely Amritha ), who is in Doha working for an international consultancy firm KPMG as a chartered accountant, has not written a letter to us eversince he left our shores. It's mostly chat or mail. My daughter Nisha, again a charterd accountant who was in UK working for an asset management co as their financial controller and her techi husband Vinod (Vinod was born and brought up in London) are at the moment in Chennai as Vinod has a 2 yr assignment in here. But once they leave for UK by middle of 2010 I need to be more active on the computer.
My wife Suma is a very bright girl o( 58 yrs old) who enjoys sudoku and solving mathematical puzzles. She is definitely not dull headed like me because I never could solve sudoku by filling in at least one number. She does it with great ease even when I'm a bit annoyed searching for my favourite Hindu paper. I enjoy doing simple crosswords ( more complex ones are not my cup of tea!) that appear in the metroplus edition. Suma is far more intelligent and practcal than me> I used to wonder where I'd be without her!
My daughter-in law Amritha is a very vibrant girl with full of life and zest. There is never a dull moment when she is around. When we are in Chennai (We shuttle between Palakkad in Kerala and Chennai as Nisha and family are here) we miss her badly.
Vinod is not just our son-in-law; he is eager to extent any help when we need it. He is another son to us just like Amritha is another daughter.
Our house hold story is not complete without our two cute grandchildren-again, Amritha (6) and Krishna (3). Morethan Nisha and Vinod, it is these two cuties that prompts us to make more frequent visits to this awfully hot place. their smartness and intelligence never cease to amaze me. Paru and Lakshmi have the same opinion!
You must be wondering what I was doing for a living. After my graduation from Maharaja's College Ernakulam, I joined a multinational pharma co and sold their medicines for two decades. After that I shifted to training imparting communication and language skills. Meanwhile I had a heart attack which compelled me to put an end to my travelling career. I continued with my training classes in Palakkad which went on till 2006. My 6 month long absences almost every year when we go to London was too much for the students and they said goodbye to me.
Suma is old student of the Victoria College of Palakkad. she got her BA degree in Economics. I persuaded her to do her post graduation 5 yrs after she gave birth to Nisha,but she soon became pregnant and that was the end of our ambition to get her a post graduation degree!
This is all about us. I confess this is a bit too long. I promise to keep it short and sweet next time onwards. Once again my sincere thanks to my beautiful nieces Lakshmi and Paru (they're software engineers lakshmi is with L&T and Paru is with Infosis) who really made this dream of mine possible.
bye
Will be with you soon