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December 25, 2010February 27, 2011

Xmas in Atlanta

This Christmas we had quite a number of guests over. Ashley two sisters along with their family came over. So our little one bedroom was a buzz with activity. There were 6 adults, Ash, me, Audrey, Tomo, Ziggy and Tomo. There were three kids, Emery, Megan, and Dylan. And last but no least our two dogs.

We did our usual Christmas tradition and opened up gifts by the tree Christmas morning. Megan facilitated the presents distribution calling out who was suppose to open a gift next. With so many people around, there was so many gifts under the tree. It was a wonderful time and Emery got to enjoy her first Christmas with our extended family. Here’s some pictures from that morning.

Here’s Tomo buried alive under the left over gift wrap…

August 10, 2010September 3, 2010

Smiling Her Way Into 6 to 11 Weeks

Emery’s been growing day by day. She still sleeps a lot but when she is awake she is always looking around checking out the world. She’s looks at us a lot and is learning to smile when we interact with her. She also makes a lot noises just on her own, making baby babble noises. Here’s some photos of Emery:

August 6, 2010September 3, 2010

The Other Baby is Born

That’s a a long running joke but I think it deserves to be mentioned here that Ashley and I have been living in New York for over a year and a half because of a project that I have been working on during that time. My client is Allianz Global Investors and our job was to build a document and knowledge management system for them a long with a public website. The project took 20 months from beginning to end, with over 100 people contributing to it along the way. My role on the project started as the project manager but ended as the Engagement Lead. My Sapient team about 35 in India and 10 in the US at one time was comprised of Technologists, Creative Designers, Information Architects, Project Managers, and Quality Assurance Testers. It was a wonderful learning experience. I knew before I started that the project would be tough but never did I expect the kind of stress, pressure and long hours that turned out to be. However despite the challenge, it was the most amazing professional experience of my life so far. I got to see and lead a $5M project to the end and finally on August 2, 2010, we went live with the public website which was built upon previous 3 Releases of the Internal Document and Knowledge management system that we built starting Jan 2009.

There are so many memories from this experience, so many incidents and people I have come to work with along the way. The last weekend of launch was in of itself a memorable one and like Emery’s birth exciting and exhilarating. So after so long, my other baby is born and it’s live: www.allianzinvestors.com

Here’s some photos of my project team and our clients:

This was us in the war room right after the Go decision was made to Launch!
From left: Sudeep, Barry, Jomy, Josh, Sukhi, Rose, Paul, Catherine, Neal, Molly

This was my team in the US from Left, Josh, Sudeep, Sourav, Paul, Jomy

Pictures from Our Launch Cocktail Party (from left: Sudeep, Jomy, Josh, Brian, Alan, Paul, Neil)

From Left: Inder, Paul, Neil, Neal, Brian, Alan

From left: Henry, Kevin, Catherine, Neal

The website: http://www.allianzinvestors.com

July 20, 2010September 3, 2010

Ashley’s Birthday

Ashley loves seafood, especially oysters and shrimp. So for her birthday, I took her along with Emery to “Fish” a great but reasonable seafood and raw bar in the West Village. I excused myself from work early so we could avoid the crowds and we took a little family trip. The restaurant was great, awesome food and we ate our fill of oysters. Ashley was really giddy, she gets like that when there is seafood around, I love it!!

Pok’e wished Ashley happy birthday with a big hug

Did I mention she loves seafood?

We finished the night off with some little pastries from a local shop and spent the evening playing with Emery and taking an evening stroll through Times Square. I have been super busy at work lately so it felt like a little holiday to escape and spend some quality time with my Huney on her special day.

And ofcourse we need to include the gratuitous Emmy shot!

June 22, 2010September 3, 2010

Emery’s First Weeks

It’s been an eventful summer here for our family. Lot’s of change has happened here to our little family with the arrival of Emery.

After Emery was born, my Mom came down for a few days to help us take care of her. It was good to have some help. Our first night with Emery before my Mom arrived was an eye opener. Little Emery cried every hour and even though we knew that we would have little sleep, waking up every hour to soothe her, change her and feed her, we kept asking ourselves, how long this would go for. Then combined with people’s “get ready for the next 18 years of your new life” just added to our feeling that we would say goodbye to a good nights rest for good.

My mom arrived in the afternoon and stayed with us through the rest of the week. It was nice to have her around to hold Emery and keep her company when we needed some time off to run errands or just nap. Here’s some photos from Emery’s first week.

The following week, Ashely’s parents came to help out. They were a huge help and stayed with us for 6 weeks. Emery is very lucky to have such dotting grandparents. Grandma Au would carry her non-stop, change her diapers and feed her like her own daughter. They also helped us do a lot of grocery shopping going down to chinatown and making lunch and dinner for us. Here are some photos of them the first few weeks.

After one month, we had a traditional one month celebration for Emery. Our families all joined and had Dim Sum in Chinatown. I got a strawberry Shortcake for Emery from a wonderful Italian Bakery call Vineiros. We all had a great time, except Emery decided to take a very deep nap that day and hardly opened her eyes through the whole thing. Emery loves sleeping in her car seat!

Here’s some photos of Emery Week By Week:

Week 1:

Week 2:

Week 3:

Week 4:

Week 5: