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Simpler Times

I'm not a church-goer these days but I remember the times when I'd HAVE to go at least two or three times a week. I belonged to a Ca...

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For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

So sex. Let's talk about it baby. I've been thinking about this lately and wondering why we don't talk/write about/discuss se...

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Riveting!

Riveting!

What a voice! Really gets inside you and stirs up your soul. Kicks up a storm where there was none and makes you feel alive again. I...

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(Not So) Original Soundtrack

(Not So) Original Soundtrack

I flunked maths and physics in school, more times than I care to remember. Sometime in the 17th century, a French mathematician and physic...

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Coffee Black and Egg White

Coffee Black and Egg White

There are some things that you can say And some things that you shouldn't. For everything else, there's always a song... Colorbl...

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Wounded Soldier!

Is what I am these days. As usual, I ignored the pain in my hand for weeks. Finally went to the doctor when I started having a problem wit...

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My First Letter

I remember when I was 7 or 8, and my life revolved around books, books and more books. With the occasional song and dance thrown in. Apart f...

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For Guyana Gyal

Reunion Week turned into Reunion Month! I actually wasn't going to write more about it since I've had enough (in a nice way of cours...

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Finally, I decided to tell her about him because I thought it would be nice to have her perspective on the matter. Gave her the dope, how ...

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Reunion Week

Imagine entering a restaurant at lunch time and leaving during dinner, and not as an employee but as a diner! Well I did that the other da...

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My Cup Runneth Over

Today this great playground that we call the interweb, made me realise how true it is when they say that the further you run away from thing...

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The Barefoot Mind

From mindless thoughts to a thoughtless mind, it's a long journey, and, salvation cannot be reached on speed dial. So you walk the stree...

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Paging Dr Freud

My mother tells me that my best friend is having an affair with India's most famous cricketer ever. "Whaaat?" "Yes, t...

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Stranger Ways To Live

I woke up yesterday with a sore throat, runny nose and cough. Made myself a mug of coffee and sat down at my dining table (something I rarel...

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Where Nobody Knows My Name

Where Nobody Knows My Name

Every New Year's eve I want to do only one thing - be with someone I love, get a little tipsy, dance till I drop, feel shiny and happy ...

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Desire on Hold

To sit within inches of you and put a tight rein on my thoughts. To stand miles apart and talk about you; non-stop and nineteen to the doz...

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Cheers!

Briefly surfacing to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I hope it's warm and wonderful and filled with everything you love. As for m...

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Fix

I carry it with me everywhere I go. I take it with me in little vials that are vacuum sealed. Sometimes they break open by accident and leak...

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K

It's been hectic, I've been swamped, and I'm dead beat from all the Christmas baking but I need a breather. Hello Blog! Did you ...

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Anger evaporates. Regret condenses into experience. Self-pity goes up in smoke. Sooner or later, everything dissipates. Everything except sa...

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If you play, you play for keeps...

The world couldn't eat the words I used to write, so I decided to bake instead. Turns out I can't eat my own words either... My wo...

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It's been too long, she says. My muse, she waits...

It's been too long, she says. My muse, she waits...

Blogging has been a wonderful refuge for my soul over the past 13 years* ; it's a place I've come to sometimes frequently, some...

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Thank You

Thank You

Nida , Guyana Gyal ,  Corinne and Kari. From the bottom of my heart...

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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well." - Robert Louis Stevenson

For once, I can blame this on fate. It's nobody's fault and yet, it's the hardest bloody thing to deal with. But like that quote...

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Three Men and Me (not in a boat but by the sea)

"I could never decide whether I love the mountains or the sea more," I told him as we walked along the beach recently. He smiled. ...

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Just a little of that human touch...

Some days ago I was chatting with somebody on Google Talk. A while later this person had to leave as it was the end of a work day, and signe...

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Airbrushed Memories

Yesterday while visiting my folks, I opened the cupboard in my old room and found all these boxes filled with photo albums. They were mostly...

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He rings me every month, at least twice. Sometimes, three or four times. I never answer. I haven't deleted his number from my phoneb...

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Read blog, get rant for free!

The talking Volkswagen ad in yesterday's TOI was a fabulous start to my day. It made me feel positive, revitalised, hopeful and happy...

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According to Me

Marmalade asked me if the movie really was value for money. I said yes, it was. It was very entertaining and satisfying. Though I have to ad...

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That Kind of Love

He watched the grasscutters through his fish-eye lens, watched as they worked through the green patch in a staccatic rhythm. He heard the sw...

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Happy Birthday Dad

I actually started writing this post on my father's birthday (Sept 7), but I just got around to posting it (Sept 10)! I read because ...

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Dirty Pretty Things

A couple of weeks back, I found out that someone had plagiarized something I had written and posted it on her blog. It was copied word for ...

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The Return

Sometimes people come back To shut doors left open Tie up loose ends Take one last look Pick up the pieces Start afresh Or sometimes they co...

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