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To get something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done. That's an anonymous quote I read somewhere a few ...

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the redness of pain inside bleeding hollows blue covered by your crust nothing that you say penetrates my being as the rain softly falls you...

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When Something is Better than Nothing OR How Facebook Inspires Me

Monkey in the jungle. Running around, frolicking, swinging, eating, pooping. Many more monkeys in the jungle. All friends with each other, a...

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Rainy Day Rumination

Rainy Day Rumination

Loneliness is like a drug I need to take everyday just to keep myself alive.

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Why I should go back to writing for a living.

Edited to add: Ideally, I wanted this to be a P.S. at the end of this post but I think this way, no one will miss the point (I hope!). In t...

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Why I need new dreams.

Will someone please tell my subconscious mind to stop feeling so abandoned, rejected, and forlorn. And to absolutely stop having this perpet...

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A called me last night, her voice shaking as she burst into tears. Her father was in the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital and the doctors...

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Why I Love Being Fat

I've been fat for most of my life now. And if there's one thing I have learned it's this - It's great to be fat. Yes, you...

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What makes you unfollow a blog?

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If you wake up and I'm not there...

Listen. Before you leave.

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There is someone you ought to meet, it's me Mister Incomplete

Restless Saturday night; I woke up thrice in my sleep. Once because of a bad dream, once because the timer on the air conditioner had gone o...

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Nowhere is everywhere I haven't been.

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Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realise you're really strangers. - Mary Tyler Moore

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Willy Shakes' Rose and All That Jazz

It's funny, but for someone whose name is actually really short and easy (I think) to pronounce I have quite a few nicknames. Like a wel...

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Scenes from an "international" domestic airport

I was at the Santacruz airport the other day. I'm sorry, but that's the easiest way to get there. No Bombay cabbie is going to under...

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Endless Loveless Beeps

What a day! I received so many text messages on my phone. And as I was hurtling down the Eastern Express highway in what can only be describ...

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Unless you've had your heart ripped out, torn apart, broken, or shredded to bits you won't even realise that it's there. So stop...

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When I was 8, I cried and cried for a walky-talky doll. Then she finally came to me with her big blue eyes, pitch black hair and red pinafor...

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Of all the people that have been cut off from me, you're the only one that's left me bleeding.

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If you had known me in the past and are now wondering what happened to me, let me fill you in. Nothing. Maybe we studied together or worked ...

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Blue Cheese and Happiness*

Blue Cheese and Happiness*

*With apologies to Alexander McCall Smith. Image courtesy www.thibeaultstable.com I celebrated Mother's Day yesterday. With someone wh...

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What a tale my thoughts could tell...

Because there will always be a song to listen to. Just because.

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When we first met I looked for a lot of reasons to justify being with you. Now all I need is that one reason to not be with you.

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Don't call my name, don't call my name Alejandro

Is he hot? I type into the irritatingly tiny chat window. Yes. You can have him. She types back. I have to see. Is he on your FB friend list...

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If all writing is a process of elimination then living must be a process of accumulation. We gather and live in order to write and eliminate...

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what we all need sometimes is a quiet place somewhere to sit across each other clean faced and bare backed the masks and bells removed and m...

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If love is always the answer, I'm not asking any more questions. P.S. Love is definitely not the answer to this question - have I gone c...

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There are no problems that cannot be fixed. It's the people who cause them that are beyond repair. P.S. Sorry for not replying to commen...

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Sometimes, it would be nice to see yourself through the eyes of those who love you. Even if there is a possibility that they could all be bl...

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Anyone can go by horse or rail, but the absolute best way to travel is by hat.

Anyone can go by horse or rail, but the absolute best way to travel is by hat.

Alice in Wonderland . In IMAX 3D. It's what motion pictures were invented for. What cinema halls were built for. What corn was popped fo...

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Guess Who Came To Dinner

Where are you from, I asked them both. Kenya. My jaw dropped in awe. Beautiful mesmerising Kenya, a long cherished dream, a fiercely protect...

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A writer remembers a poet.

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Like Water

Like Water

If you try to remember, you will lose. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless. Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...

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Logbook

Since the last time we met, I have moved up 15 levels in that silly game cooked a total of four meals in two weeks baked two chocolate cakes...

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We're good at one thing but we want to be better at another. We're bad at one thing but we try to improve at something else. We'...

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Cold Open

She flips open her sketching pad and starts to draw. The blunt tip of the 2B pencil in her hand seems to melt into the page as she makes the...

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what will you say about me when you write your story will i be the one that got away or will you eliminate a letter making make me the one t...

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In My Life

In My Life

There are places I remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places...

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Irony...

is when you make a decent chocolate cake for the person you love the most in the world and everyone eats it and loves it and then you decide...

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Things people say to me in baking class...

I kid you not! This happened last week: Are you working or studying somewhere? I'm studying... Where? Uhh... same place as you. Where? T...

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"Honestly, if you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love."

I watched A Lot Like Love (Ashton Kutcher & Amanda Peet) on TV yesterday afternoon. It must have been my third viewing of the film; for...

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hold on to your love don't waste it all on me tuck me away like dry blades of grass between the pages of a book you'll never read ag...

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My First Award!

My First Award!

So I've just received my first ever blog award! Thank you Blue Mist ! I started following your beautiful blog only recently and really l...

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Week 4

Week 4

I guess it's time for a baking school update. I just completed 4 weeks. Week 3 was a little disappointing; we had one holiday (Republic ...

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i think i love you

i think i love you the way i love cigarettes. i've smoked them as far back as i can remember. and i keep trying to give them up. i'm...

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Loose Ends

This had been languishing as a draft in my dashboard long enough so here goes... It's fiction by the way, as is anything labelled "...

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Delicious Thoughts

Delicious Thoughts

about the first time you touched me. light and easy, with just your fingertip on my elbow. then that lingering gaze. the first time you put ...

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The Only Way

Imagine the vast expanse of the Mongolian hinterland. Rolling hills in the distance and flat lands in front of you, blending into the horizo...

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What Love Means

For Corinne , on her 3rd wedding anniversary . "What does love mean?" This question was posed to a group of kids, between the ages...

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Action Replay

Think about your life's biggest regret. The biggest mistake you ever made. That one incident or person or thing that changed everything....

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Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

I first started blogging in January 2003 and back then, I was very clear about one thing - that I did not want to meet anyone in person. Blo...

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Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy Birthday to Me!

So it's my birthday today. I'm 36! Still don't believe it. I remember thinking, 10-15 years ago, that 36 must be as old as the h...

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Week 2

Week 2

Monday, January 18 Chutney Rolls They're actually garlic rolls but the Indianised version. They gave us the eye-watering, arse-burning g...

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About Me - Updated

I used to write for a living. Now I bake. I would continue writing even if no one read me. I wouldn't know what to do with a bunch of un...

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the corrosive effects of mid-night blogging

most nights i have the radio on until 2 am. yes, i love music. but sometimes it's just a way to kill the deathly silence. there is only ...

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Classifieds

Classifieds

Put a pair of boobs on him and you got me. Any takers? I promise to cook/bake while you get me the beer. Or at least talk about cooking/baki...

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