Here is another intro This is Vardhini (Preetham's wife to Radhika, friend of Udhay's and known to a few others on this list). Udhay persuaded me join in 1999 and I used to post once in a while in the good old days - now I lurk.
To earn my living, I design and develop manageability software for telecom equipment and these days also manage (sigh!) a team of software developers. I live in the San Franciso bay area and these days I find myself day dreaming far too often (atleast once a day) of early retirement. When I am not working, I read a lot - from mystery to science fiction to the the National Geograhic. The last really interesting book I read is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Story of a shipwrecked sailor". I take voice lessons for fun, hike , run half marathons , dabble in nature photography and listen to various forms of music. I also make a decent Sangria (so I was told at my husband's last birthday party ). If any silklisters in the south bay area want to get together for a hike or a run, I am always interested. I am no good at expressing my thoughts in words so I started maintaining a photo journal of my travels and significant events in my life a few months ago at http://pvmemoirs.com (perennially under construction) Vardhini --- "Radhika, Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for all of you fans of six degrees of seperation (a film i > recommend), the > story of how i got onto Silk might prove the now common adage. I took > the > train to Bangalore from Chennai in December 2003 when i had come to > India to > undertake a training course in video editing (chose to combine this > with > holiday). I began chatting with the gentleman next to me-one Biju > Chacko-on > a variety of inconsequential things and he mentioned that I might > consider > Silk as a place to converse(he added that most of the conversations > would be > similarly inconsequential and attractively odd!). I later found out > that I > had another connection to Silk through Vardhani (my friend Preetham's > wife). > > The thread that binds me to Silk is lurking. I professionally lurked > at the > World Bank for a few years and now I work at a non-profit in > Vancouver ( > www.icsc.ca) and lurk in the dramatic documentary shorts world. I > speak > Spanish and gravitate toward languages (am learning to write Urdu > now), > writing poetry, and music of all sorts. The skills I really envy are > the > ability to draw or paint and to play an instrument(can only play my > voice). > Its pretty safe to conclude that my numerical literacy except for > dealing > with household budgetary figures every now and then is fairly > dormant. > Somebody famous once said that mathematics is the ability to predict > the > future and truly i am unable to do that! My Eureka moments are likely > to be > in the middle of congested traffic and when in a crowd rather than a > bathtub! > > We keep a cozy house at our apartment but house guests are always > welcome > and my culinary skills are in an emerging market situation right > now-there > is greater demand (from my husband of 3 months vintage) and supply > seems to > be keeping up. Well, one of you will have to pay me a visit and > verify that > for yourself! > > Cheers. > Radhika > > > 2006/4/25, Ashok Hariharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Since introductions seem to be the flavor of the moment, here goes. > > I 've been on silk for about a year, i think. I was on the > evolt.org chat > > list, and one day Madhu sent > > a link to a thread on this list, dont remember what it was about, > but it > > was certainly interesting. > > after that I signed into the silk list. > > > > i am originally from Madras (and before that from Pune, Calcutta, > > Tinsukia, New Delhi etc... my dad > > was in the army). about 7 years back, I shifted myself to Kenya, > where I > > 've been ever since. I am > > a technology consultant specially focused upon the sub-saharan > Africa > > region that includes: > > kenya, uganda, tanzania, ethiopia , rwanda and burundi. At one time > i used > > to deal with congo, but > > they tend not to pay with currency, so i had to drop that. > > > > in this region there are no specialized software companies, call > centers, > > development houses etc... > > but people still want software, customized applications, websites, > > services and so on. generally its > > the governments, the NGOs and the aid agencies, or big shady > corporations > > who have money to > > spend - and so i basically chase the money. i also tried my hand > at a > > couple of other things on > > the side,like for e.g. importing toilet paper from egypt and > selling it > > her, but it was a dirty business, > > so i quit. > > > > i like drinking beer, reading, travelling (not neccessarily in that > order) > > apart from work. at the moment > > i am reading the book of mormon, because one of their missionaries > (and we > > get plennnnty of > > them types here) left a free copy at my doorstep. if any > silk-lister is > > anytime in this part of the > > world, i promise to buy them beer - and if you are decent enough, i > have a > > spare room in my house. > > i blog intermittently at http://www.unganisha.org. > > > > > > > > > -- > Radhika, Y.R. > Project Manager, ICSC > Centering Women in Reconstruction and Governance > International Center for Sustainable Cities > Vancouver, BC > Ph: 604-666-0061 >
