User:Premkudva

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This is me in 2004

My name is Premnath S. Kudva, and I am from Mangalore, India.

Hobbies and Interests

My interests include stamps, coin and Indian currency note collecting. In stamps I collect mint stamps, mostly directly from the postal administration of the country I am interested in. Besides mint stamps I also buy Year Books and Year Sets of a few selected countries like New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and Great Britain. I have hosted several posts on some of the stamps in my collection, to see them check my stamp collection here at LJ.

Coins

commemorative proof coins for my collection. I also buy a few selected proof coins issued by the India Government Mint
.

Fiction

Famous Five et al), Arthur Hailey, and James Hadley Chase
.

I still read a lot of magazines and books, though I have reduced reading fiction due to paucity of time. I have a large collection of books. So much so that when we built our house in 2001, I had a library room incorporated into it.

I restarted reading about two years ago. There have been a spate of book exhibitions in Mangalore over the last few years. One of which had brought a huge lot of hard bound used books from the US. From these I was able to buy at least 25 which where in mint condition.

New authors that I have read after I restarted by reading are James Patterson, Paul Adam, Martin Cruz Smith, Jan Burke, John le Carré (who was intensely boring), Michael Crichton and Dan Brown.

Aviation

Orbiter Mount note:The rear mounting point on N905NA is labelled for the absent minded installer, with an instruction to "Attach Orbiter Here" — clarified by the precautionary warning "Black Side Down"

My interests also include aviation, aircraft and airliners. A large number of books in my collection relate to aircraft and aviation.

Even though it is very routine today, every take off and landing that I watch of an aircraft fascinates me.

Have a look at the new

Boeing 787 at this website called How will you travel through life?. This site also has a section where you can check out the new Boeing 737
. They have a large flash presentation here which shows the 737 being put together from fuselage to take-off.

A similar

Airbus 330 assembly video can be launched here A330 Assembly
.

The most awesome photos of airlines can be found at Jetphotos.net

My most favourite airliner is the Boeing 737, all types.

Space

I drive this 2012 Mercedes Benz C-Class Avant Garde C250 CDI

I am fascinated by space and space exploration. The idea that a vast expanse of space has been interpreted by man since ancient times is a humbling thought.

While I think the concept of a space station is all wrong in terms of money spent and other priorities on earth, I quite like the thought that there are human beings dwelling in a billion dollar tin can in space.

Rocket and shuttle launches impresses me every time I see it on TV. The high I should say was watching a shuttle launch in a theatre in the movie Swades. It was simply wonderful.

I had been following the Space Shuttle programme from the days of its development by reading about it magazines like National Geographic and Popular Mechanics.

I still remember the photo of a white hot glowing shuttle heat shield tile being held between the fingers of a scientist in a National Geographic magazine.

The

Hubble Telescope is another space programme that grabbed my interest. I used to watch its development, and its wait on earth when the shuttle programme halted with the Challenger explosion. Its launch thereafter after the resumption of shuttle flights. Its faulty mirror, the successful service mission
to rectify it, and the beautiful images it gave of space.

Currency Note Collection

I have a collection of

Baazee
(now eBay.in) auctions and once at a stamp exhibition here in Mangalore.

These are my collection of Indian currency notes album. I have hosted them at Imagestation.

Model Cars and Other Stuff

I collect

model train
layout sometime in the future. I have now decided that having a model train layout takes too much money, time, skill and space and hence decided that I will not go for that hobby.

I interested in

manned space travel
. And hence check everything that is available on those topics.

Live Journal

I used to maintain a regular blog of my activities at

Livejournal called PremKudva's Journal
, which I finally stopped in August 2011.


Sphalerite
Sphalerite is a sulfide mineral with the chemical formula (Zn,Fe)S. It is found in a variety of deposit types, and is found in association with galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite (and other sulfides), calcite, dolomite, quartz, rhodochrosite, and fluorite. Sphalerite is an important ore of zinc, with around 95 percent of all primary zinc extracted from its ore. Due to its variable trace-element content, sphalerite is also an important source of several other metals such as cadmium, gallium, germanium and indium. The zinc in sphalerite is also used to produce brass. This sample was extracted in Creede, Colorado, and features black tetrahedral crystals of sphalerite up to 8 mm (0.31 in) in size, with minor chalcopyrite and calcite, in a 4.5 cm × 3.0 cm × 2.0 cm (1.77 in × 1.18 in × 0.79 in) matrix. This photograph was focus-stacked from 125 separate images.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus
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Wikipedia Contribution

Dharmastala
, and for Dharmastala too. So created those two articles on the 16th and 11th of September.

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Subsequent entries

Mangaladevi
 Mangaladevi Temple Veerendra Heggade Ratnavarma Heggade
Dharmasthala U. Srinivas Mallya
V. S. Kudva
Bookless in Baghdad
Jon Stock Jug Suraiya Tavleen Singh
Karnad Sadashiv Rao
Kadri Manjunath Temple India: From Midnight to the Millennium Mystic Stamp Company Z Grill
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
Hulivesha
 Maha Ganapathi Mahammaya Temple Operation Sukoon
Stamp dealer Benjamin K Miller Collection Jan Burke Universities Space Research Association
India Government Mint India Government Mint, Kolkata
M. R. Pai
 Linda Arsenio
Edward Luce
Scrabulous
 The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee John Hambrock
Dennis Ketcham
 The Week Nature of America Prem Shankar Jha
Bates Gill
Chandrayaan II
 Moon Impact Probe
Aditya (space craft)
Aditi Rao Hydari Andrew Stock Air India Flight 403 Air India Flight 245
Malabar Princess
Nine Lives: in Search of the Sacred in Modern India
 Dead Spy Running Operation Safe Homecoming
Gil Jeremy Bujakowski 1968 Indian Air Force An-12 crash 1986 Indian Air Force An-32 disappearance
Operation Samudra Maitri Mini World Lyon

Governors of the Reserve Bank of India

Being a Indian currency note collector made it easy to create these entries.

James Braid Taylor Benegal Rama Rau C. D. Deshmukh K. G. Ambegaonkar
H. V. R. Iyengar
 P. C. Bhattacharya
L. K. Jha
 B. N. Adarkar
S. Jagannathan
 N. C. Sen Gupta K. R. Puri M. Narasimham
Amitav Ghosh R. N. Malhotra S. Venkitaramanan C. Rangarajan
Indian rupee sign

Other Entries

I watch and frequently edit the following entries.

Inverted Jenny Hubble Space Telescope SOFIA Evergreen International Airlines
Mangalore
Indian licence plates
 Philately Model car
William Dalrymple
 Celebrate the Century Chandrayaan-1

Books

When I started I created these pages for novels, but didn't contribute much. Also the initial narration was mostly copied from the authors website. The Dalrymple books basically I removed from the book section of the author's article and moved them to a new article page. No creativity there.

Nothing Lasts Forever
 The Sky is Falling Bloodline If Tomorrow Comes The Best Laid Plans
Morning, Noon and Night Master of the Game Memories of Midnight The Shepherd No Comebacks
The Last Mughal
Begums Thugs And White Mughals
 The Age of Kali From the Holy Mountain In Xanadu
A Prisoner of Birth Return of a King Flood of Fire

My Wiki entries got a mention in The Week magazine.

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