Posted by: inbavalli on: March 26, 2009
Since I was about five years old, which must roughly have been during the Bronze Age, I have been mentally collating data, doing some stats and arriving at the mean, median and mode. The subject is – do humans, regardless of color, size and other criteria, tend to like their maternal relatives more than their [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: March 16, 2009
Three decades ago why did I have to learn 16×16 and today why does my 8-year-old have to ‘mug’ it?
Six decades ago my parents had to learn multiplication tables up to 16 but that made eminent sense – they had to deal with currency in terms of Anas, which were in denominations of 4 and [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: March 10, 2009
The astrologer quickly flips through their horoscopes and starts: “Guru is sitting at lagnam for him and your sukran is well positioned…” As his voice drones on, she slips back to more than a decade, wondering what the astrologer saw in the two sets of squares in the first place.
Presented with at least a dozen [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: March 8, 2009
Umm Oviya was kind enough to send this tag across more than two months ago. I’ve sat on it shamelessly for so long that Umm now comes in the + Nilah version. Sorry and thanks, Umm Oviya!
The rule of the tag is – paste an image for every answer of yours from the first page [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: March 3, 2009
En iniya blogging makkalae! I’m alive and kicking, but just about. Life has been so hectic the past few weeks that I never got around to blogging. A tag and a post update are pending, and I feel suitably ashamed for sitting on them, genuine excuses notwithstanding.
I’m here now with a request. My son is [...]
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