hi, Deepa...come on over. Hiking is fantastic here too as i have been discovering(hv been in Canada only an year), in fact British columbia is fabulous for just about anything sporty-at 38 i have entered the world of ice skating and despite wobbles and almost falls am making my way thru a 6 week class and can actually skate forward now(its the backward that's scary!). maybe we will introduce you to that when you are here!
Cheers. Radhika 2006/4/25, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > wow, my joining silklist and posting my intro seems to have resulted in a > rush of true confessions! > > Radhika...I haven't been to Canada for a while now; but if I do make it > (perhaps in early 2007)...I am going to travel to Vancouver to meet > you....and the Bay area hike/run with Vardhani sounds fun....I liked your > photographs. > > > Deepa. > > > > On 4/26/06, 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 > > -- Radhika, Y.R. Project Manager, ICSC Centering Women in Reconstruction and Governance International Center for Sustainable Cities Vancouver, BC Ph: 604-666-0061
