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TLDR : I have booked the above bike, A Duke Adventure 390. Yes, at this age going to ride a bike which is typically a bike the post teen’s ride. How I convinced wifey - if not now when will I dance? Works all the time :)  Sometime in September Honda Highness was launched. I am a fan of Honda. I started reading and watching reviews in YouTube. Now that’s a good bike. No vibrations at 80+, a good looking bike nevertheless and is going to challenge the current King of the market - Royal Enfield. I love the looks of this chrome laden bikes which look like what the Terminator robot rode years ago. The Honda had the same retro look.    But it was not chrome - its plastic. Now that’s a bummer. Also Highness is being launched by Honda as a new brand - with brand new showrooms and service centre’s etc. and there are no showrooms nearby - I have to go to Bangalore for this ( I live in Whitefield ). Anyway didn’t bother  There are some movie shots that are still etched in my me...

I am not a fan of Donald Trump. He is a bully. He is a misogynist. He is a hypocrite. He is a racist. He uses religion to further his means.  He just got lucky being born in a rich family and has zero empathy for the rest of the world struggling. He is bad for the Environment. He moved US out of Paris accord. We were to slow down the destruction of earth and US being the largest pollutant in the world would have made a big difference. He has also reversed many Environmental laws - so Businesses can make more money. Like he allowing drilling in Alaska. He sided with Dictators around the world. So US could sell more missiles to some countries to bully their neighbours. Sigh. US is self destructing under Trump. I like USA. It was my home for 6 years of my life. India tugged our hearts and we got back. But had I got into academics - if I had continued after MS into PhD I might have still been in US now.  Or if I had got bit by an entrepreneurial bug while I was in US, I might be r...

2006 we purchased a Honda City.  What a lovely car. Though TopGear used to call it akin to driving a Washing Machine. I never felt so. It has taken us across the country without any hiccups. For the sedate driving we did it was perfect. Umpteen trips to Coimbatore and Chennai Pondicherry and Auroville Ooty's 36 hairpin bends and Kodaikanal, Mt.Abu Mysore, Coorg, Madikeri Goa,Harihareshwar,Mumbai Rain drenched Lonawalla, Kandala, Bushi dam Kissed Beach sand on Gorai beach near Mumbai Kissed Desert Sand at Jaisalmer and India-Pakistan Border Changed Car Tyres twice. Touched almost 98,000 on the odometer. Had one accident when a BMTC bus banged the car from the back on Marathahalli Bridge, when I had to hit a sudden brake to avoid crushing a 2 wheeler who cut across from left to right. Had our share of close calls, had hit sudden brakes, skids - but luckily no injuries. There was a good amount of bootspace. Helped pick US travellers with their 2 large suitcases and had room for their ...

Link to Week 11,12 July 5th - Sunday 1. Coco / Cocoa ( official spelling )  Switching to monthly blogging now. Week 13-16 was the month of June. Rumi was renamed to Coco. Rumi sounded so much alike Sufi. Coco was our back up name and all agreed. Coco bites and scratches us a lot. All of us have cuts and bruises because of her. And night she is a terror. She hardly sleeps for 2 hours and by midnight she is up and running - biting legs and hands and brushing past the face. I had to cordone off her with boxes - every night it would be my ritual. The defenses will work for only 2 or 3 days and this intelligent cat will figure a way to come out. Coco had a few nature call accidents - on our bed - exactly at the center - again and again. We had to block that spot with boxes till she got used to the litter box. Otherwise training coco was a cakewalk. Cats are very intelligent ( sorry doggies - I love you all but facts are fact ) - and she quickly got it. 2. We go on a picnic It was San’s...