At the beginning of this week we had heavy frost. It is good but also sad for my plants in the garden, as I see the sad end to my many plants. Today I got up early and went to put the garbage out. The wind was blowing quite heavy making the day very cold. [...]

This is great news for members of Family Ties. We now have a new feature which will allow registered members to manage photo albums of their own. They can choose to make the album public or keep it private to registered members only. There is no limit to how many albums you can have or [...]

A couple of nights ago, as we lay on the bed, we struck up a conversation which  kindled my memories. My wife, Rene, mentioned that, in the south of India, they pronounced my surname as ‘Rocha’ and not ‘Roach’. This took me back to the Chemistry lab in St. Columba’s School, New Delhi. I was [...]

As a kid I craved for dinky cars i.e. the ones made by Matchbox. A lot of my friends had them and I used to love going over to their house to play with them. But, then, I could not spend my whole day at their place. They would get fed up of me, for [...]