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The Sun Also Warms

There are things that turn me on, turn us all on. It could be music, or the way the drapes against your window catch the light during a cert...

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The Future in Reverse

What would you do if you had the opportunity to meet your younger self? Someone who is exactly half your age right now. Would you tell him/...

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Booty Call!

Flipkart.com is seriously the book lover's equivalent of a booty call. I mean, I love spending hours at a bookshop. Browsing new title...

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Footnotes

Life is never just as it seems, out on the surface. Non-committal and blemish free. Unrecorded and unaccounted for. It's what's livi...

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And I wonder if I ever cross your mind...

When you're away from the blog too long, the general opinion is that you must have a lot happening in your life. But sometimes, it's...

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Letters at Dusk

This evening, I look out of my window and my eyes catch the burnt crimson sky in the distance. An ugly urban landscape before, and then shee...

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That Girl

Sometimes the days and months click on by too slowly for you to notice. Then one day someone asks you a question - How long has it been sinc...

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There are two kinds of people in your life. The ones that love you for who you are. And the ones that love you for who they are When t...

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Life

Life

My favourite version of this famous South American song. The singer, Mercedes Sosa, had a voice that was both comforting and overwhelmin...

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Distilled Memories

The smell of woodfires burning, sending up black soot to paint the walls. Huge pots bubbling atop the brick and cement stoves; boiled red ri...

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Sunday Afternoons and Bliss!

Sunday afternoon. I'm going to spend it cooking and eating some delicious seafood, all aided by some very chilled beer and the kickass v...

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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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