As I cradled the phone in the crook of my neck talking to Amma as I seasoned the kootu I was making this morning, my mom went “You will never believe what happened today…”
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Turns out she was out shopping with my aunt and when she got home, a strange […]
As I liberally dusted myself with Mysore Sandal Talc today morning in what appears to be a recent habit, I couldn’t help thinking back at the days I scorned my amma, appa and athai for coating themselves liberally with talc. I would tease them saying the powder was an inch think on their face and […]
As I grappled with my crushed and squeezed beyond recognition tooth paste tube I could not help recollecting memories from the tooth pastes of yore. My grandfather to be specific. He was extremely particular that the tube must be squeezed from the bottom up. Every bit of paste would be painstakingly squeezed upward and the […]
You know you are a generation past when
Thoughts and images of college days and beyond appear sepia toned in your mind
Testimonials on Orkut make you go “What are they thinking??”
You don’t wonder if you should get your hair “colored”. You think when next to do it.
You realize you have three nieces and a nephew
Your have […]
I scooped out steaming rice from the double decker cooker separators into my lunch box. It was one of those moments that etch itself in memory some how. Like pictures in an album. Me bending over to fill my lunch box, one hand holding the really hot vessel with steam emanating in wispy strands, the […]
Racing against time, I dropped K off at the building entrance and went to park my car. It was almost 9:00. Lugging my laptop case and a pretty heavy lunch bag, I made my way to the door shoulders hunched from the cold and the breeze. I struggled with the door and pushed it open […]
Yes it is. Let me start at the beginning. I have had a few tough weeks at work earlier this year. Absolutely my doing of course. At a time when I was seriously thinking working in the US was a drag, no friends to lighten your mood up, no one to haul you over to […]
Passing by the kitchen at work used to be an ordeal for me a few weeks back when I was a newbie suffering withdrawal symptoms from giving up kaapi. It struck me pleasantly as I passed it today that it did not affect me as much. Standing by the coffeemaker to fill my tall glass […]
Waiting for a friend in the lobby of her office, I picked up a worn out copy of Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Turning over the pages vacantly, I read a few of the contributions and found myself nodding my head in agreement or going “My parents would have done the exact same thing! […]
I guess it is apparent by now how much I am into “Everybody Love Raymond”. I think it is a brilliant series and each of the characters has something I can identify in people around me.
The reason for this post is however something I noticed these couple of days. I have a bad cold and […]
