Announcing my arrival

Hello world !!

My parents, Vijay and Ambika, announced my arrival in true geek style with the following announcement -

"Vijay and Ambika are happy to announce the arrival of their Daughter 2.0 (now re-branded as Anukha Vusirikala). She arrived at 5:28 PM on Friday (06/06). Anukha arrived 10 days ahead of schedule and appears to be fully functional with all the product features and no bugs. She is a tad light at 5 lbs 3 oz with a height of 19”.

Initial interoperability testing with Daughter 1.0 (Aanya) looks promising. Full regression testing expected in the next 25 years.

Parent processes (Dad and Mom) are overclocked but performing well and getting additional cycles from friends and family."

Starting life out as a second child is challenging enough without having to deal with the quirks of my parents. (But the good news is that, apparently, a second child is more likely to end up being a comedian or an artist, while the first one is more likely to be an engineer or a scientist. So, when their Daughter 1.0 is geeking out in MIT or Stanford, I will be chilling out at Harvey Mudd or some such liberal college).

OK... coming back to my arrival.... I was due to pop out on June 16th, but apparently I was not growing enough in my mom's tummy (and I thought I was getting a jump start on becoming an anorexic supermodel) and they decided to get me out of my cozy confines about 10 days early and out I came on 6 th June at El Camino Hospital.


It appears that June is when everyone in Silicon Valley decides to have a baby, because the hospital was overcrowded and I was exposed to the "joys" of a roommate in the hospital itself. (Inexplicably, "synchronized" crying with the roommate baby did not have the same appeal for my parents as it had for me).


A gaggle of folks including a pesky 4 year old that vaguely looked like me visited me in the hospital and made unintelligible sounds ostensibly to entertain me. I was like "Got milk?" - if not, move along ...