<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>blog @ tinna.net</title><link>http://www.tinna.net/#blog</link><description>The Chronicles of Tinna</description><image><title>blog @ tinna.net</title><url>http://tinna.net/tinna/upload/images/templates/glowy/heading-logo.gif</url><link>http://www.tinna.net/#blog</link></image><item><title>Alternative lifestyle</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:282170</link><description><![CDATA[Now that the football season is almost coming to an end -- only one game left :( -- I've slowly been taking up a new hobby to keep me entertained over the summer (and speaking of summer... it's so unbelievably hot here right now, I'm literaly and figuratively sweating my ass off - I've gone down a whole pants size in three weeks... *in a strange voice* I'm melting! I'm melting!)]]></description></item><item><title>RSS!</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:263360</link><description><![CDATA[I have RSS now! Go me! I've finally joined the blog-crazy world and made my page all brimming with live RSS feeds...(and maybe about 2 years too late because everyone is so tired of blogs... but! in my defense, I was blogging 7 years ago -- way ahead of my time, really.) Anyway - what's RSS you might ask? Well, it's this nifty little feature which makes it possible to read all the updates I make on this site in a very user-friendly reader AND you can subscribe to it. So you'll know when I update even before I do! No not really...but wouldn't that be interesting?]]></description></item><item><title>Updates</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:262890</link><description><![CDATA[Long time no see... (or more like: long time no me-writing-some-stuff-for-you-to-read). I've been busy, I guess. Busy and lazy, lazy and busy and before I knew it was February 2007 and I'm 27 years old! Jeez! Time moves scarily fast.]]></description></item><item><title>Defining moments</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:282797</link><description><![CDATA[What are the things that define you as a person? The things you do? Things you don't do? What you believe? What you experience? What you feel? Are they all connected? Does one affect the other? -- Apparently I've been on this existential kick lately, partly because I have so much time alone with my thoughts (which can be downright scary if you let it go on for too long), but also because I've just realized that I'm actually 27 years old. At 27 you're supposed to be married with 2 kids, but I'm still stuck on trying to figure out who I am.]]></description></item><item><title>When my aunt came for a visit</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:282790</link><description><![CDATA[A few images from when my aunt Erna Valdís came for a visit in January 2007&nbsp;...&nbsp;wow, has it been that long? Clearly these pictures are long overdue.]]></description></item><item><title>Deja-vu</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:321714</link><description><![CDATA[When I was living in Chennai, the girls at the office would frequently go "to their native" (trans. back to their hometown) over the weekends. I never understood it, especially when you consider the fact that it took them on average 8-10 hours to travel one way. Why spend 20 hours traveling every weekend just so you can spend a day and a half in some small village/town with your relatives, when you are living and working in the big city far from the parents with no one telling you what to do?]]></description></item><item><title>Back to India</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:320622</link><description><![CDATA[After being almost forced out of India against my own will, (stupid financial crisis and all that), I didn't think I'd be going back so soon. But I couldn't pass up the opportunity to hang out with Jai and Vadivu one more time and spend Jai's last days of "freedom" doing something fun before she gets married in 13 days.]]></description></item><item><title>Football rant</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:280670</link><description><![CDATA[I'm so depressed. Why? One hint: UEFA Championship League :( I mean... what the hell happened? 3-0?! How could Man Utd let that happen? All Thursday I was completely at a loss for words - the entire match was far beyond my (apparently) feeble little comprehension of the game of football.]]></description></item><item><title>Woo freakin' hoo!!!</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:280890</link><description><![CDATA[Man Utd are champions! Man Utd are champions! Man Utd are champions! *imagine me jumping around right now...*]]></description></item><item><title>iPhone user!</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:292275</link><description><![CDATA[That's right, I'm part of that no-longer-exclusive group of zealous apple lovers who must have every single piece of newfangled gadget that comes out of Cupertino California (aka Apple Inc) and I don't mind admitting it. I like gadgets. It's as simple as that. And the sooner people accept that the sooner they can enjoy a couple of apples with me.]]></description></item><item><title>More from Top Slip</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:226713</link><description><![CDATA[Few more pictures from the August 2006 trip - Pictures that I took this time (or were taken on my camera .. aka the coconut one)]]></description></item><item><title>Highlights</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:226712</link><description><![CDATA[Here are a few pictures I've taken while travelling around Iceland - these are sort of the "highlights" of the places I've been to, but I still have a lot of ground to cover before I can have a collection that does Iceland justice.]]></description></item><item><title>It's a fishy world after all...</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:271541</link><description><![CDATA[I have a fish tank and it used to have about 30 fishies in it, all kinds of fishies of different sizes and colors. It was a beautiful aquatic fantasy world...sort of. When I woke up this morning three of my four big and shiny goldfishies were gone. One had died :( and was floating on the water's surface, but two were missing. And yes, I mean <STRONG>missing</STRONG>, as in they weren't in the tank.]]></description></item><item><title>Sugar...du du du du du du, oh, honey honey...</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:272039</link><description><![CDATA[I went to the small grocery store around the corner tonight to buy some provisions, namely orange juice and deodorant (the top two things I absolutely cannot live without - especially in hot and sweaty India). After standing in the deodorant aisle for about 15 minutes trying out different sprays, I went to get my regular Tropicana no-sugar-no-preservative OJ and they were out! Boo hoo.]]></description></item><item><title>Resolution</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:229613</link><description><![CDATA[Things seem to be reaching a semi-resolved state on the customs front. On one side, I can sign a contract with the customs agency and have it stamped in my passport. The contract will include my packing list of&nbsp;all the stuff I'm importing now to the country, and in the contract I'll be promising to export everything out when I leave.]]></description></item><item><title>Vrrrmmmmm!</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:231898</link><description><![CDATA[The company bought a new scooter today which employees can use if and when they need to go out on official business during the work hours. That was the official reason anyway... but somehow the keys ended up in my pocket ;)]]></description></item><item><title>Problem solving skillz in full effect in India</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:231531</link><description><![CDATA[I still haven't received my stuff...but the latest information I have is: "You'll get it on Wednesday." I guess we'll see then. But things have been so busy at work that I haven't had time to think about this, let alone let it bother me. Instead I've been working overtime for an entire week on this in-house project called ecTasks...]]></description></item><item><title>The summer, so far...</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:285814</link><description><![CDATA[The summer started with the Aerosmith concert (as my previous blog stated) then mom came for a visit and we took a gloriously relaxing trip to the African island of Mauritius - 5 star hotel, delicious food, private beach, free water sport activities, snorkling, kayaking, swimming and so on. Sooooo nice!]]></description></item><item><title>Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:285869</link><description><![CDATA[...and in Mauritius, I was really lovin' life! Here are a few pictures from the Mauritius trip due to popular demand (*cough*mom*cough*). I think they pretty much speak for themselves, but if not, let me know and I'll add captions.]]></description></item><item><title>Christmas 2006 @ Florida and the Bahamas</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:285868</link><description><![CDATA[Better late than never ... a few pictures from the christmas holiday trip me, mom, my brother Gunnar and mom's friend Sigga took last December. It started in Iceland with a 6 hour delay at the airport because of extreme winds, which were so strong&nbsp;that grounded airplanes moved many metres each time! ... then we went to Washington DC for one night, flew to Orlando and&nbsp;stayed there for a few days, then we went to Daytona Beach for a day, then Ft. Lauderdale for a night and then finally to the Bahamas for 4 days. It was sweeeet!]]></description></item><item><title>Coco and Taco!</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:285813</link><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I was in the market&nbsp;buying new fishies and fish food when I stumpled onto teeny tiny little turtles - each about the length of my pinky finger (and I have small fingers!) - and they were so cute that I just had to take a pair home with me. Impulse buy might not be the best way to "accrue"&nbsp;pets, especially from sellers that are as ignorant about taking care of turtles as I am - they convinced me that their first home (see gallery) was more than enough ... boy was I wrong! But after googling for days and searching Chennai for the best shop in town, I was able to give them a good home :)]]></description></item><item><title>Kill them all!</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:229220</link><description><![CDATA[My stuff arrived by ship last Friday, my stuff as in my used personal belongs, but I'm far, far away from getting my hands on it. Why? Because the customs office wants me&nbsp;to pay...wait for it...750.000 Icelandic kronas! (For all the currency challenged people out there, that's $11,000 or 6000 pounds!).]]></description></item><item><title>So how does the image gallery work?</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:306144</link><description><![CDATA[The gallery is split up into two sections (as of now), the Image cloud, and the Image galleries. The galleries are a collection of images which you can browse through at your own convenience, especially if you have no specific image or an event in mind. The image cloud, however, is a search/filtering application, which helps you find exactly the image you want by filtering all the images by "tags".]]></description></item><item><title>Follow your gut... (and no, I don't mean to KFC)</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:279908</link><description><![CDATA[I'd been thinking for some time now to get me one of those big/strong rubber elastic bands that have hooks on both ends. Why? Well, when you resort to balancing boxes between your feet while driving home from the mall on your scooter because there's no better way, and then when you reach home you're amazed you're still alive... that might be big neon sign telling you need to be more careful. So, rubber bands to the rescue. With those babies you can strap bunch of boxes in really tight at the end of the scooter, and not worry about when the next car is going to chop off your legs. ]]></description></item><item><title>Bleugh...</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:279159</link><description><![CDATA[I woke up around 7:30 this morning (and that's actually the middle of the night for me, what with my 10 o'clock wake up call and all...) and I realized I was sharing my bed with a mosquito grrr... and that LBF (little black fu%$#er) was just leisurely jumping between parts of my body feeding away...bastard. ]]></description></item><item><title>New things</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:226661</link><description><![CDATA[This year has brought on a whole new experiences; new loves, new likes, new dislikes, new places, new hobbies, and a&nbsp;new country ... which pretty much propelled me into making a new site as well. I'm sure it will change as my mood changes, and right now I was in a simple, nature, jungle lookie mood, which explains the photos and the footer.]]></description></item><item><title>New years eve 2007</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:297810</link><description><![CDATA[Icelanders tend to celebrate the new year in a very subtle way...this video should speak for itself.]]></description></item><item><title>Birthday woes</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:298514</link><description><![CDATA[You know what's a sure sign that you're getting old? It's when you wake up one morning, have some breakfast, glance over the news paper, go back to bed to spend a lazy morning reading a book, and then before you know it it's after noon and you just realize you've spent the better part of the day without remembering that's it's actually your birthday!]]></description></item><item><title>Champions again!</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:305801</link><description><![CDATA[Woo hoo!! United all the way! Whadda nerve wracking end of season that was.. but woo hoo! That's how you win the league... give Chelsea a bit of false hope, let them think that they could win it... then yank it right back from under them! :p]]></description></item><item><title>Best in Europe!!</title><link>http://tinna.net/#blog:0:306432</link><description><![CDATA[<div class="full-img"><img src="/tinna/upload/images/gallery/misc/small_utd-on-top.jpg" border="0" valign="5"/></div>

Omg! Omg! Omg! We won! We won! We won! Manchester United are the European Champions of 2008!!! Wooooooooohooooooooooo!! I'm bawling my eyes out right now, I'm so happy!]]></description></item></channel></rss>