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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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