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I am generally the girl who asks her aai (mother) to pray for her.Well, it basically comes out of she being the nicer one, her prayers will get answered for sure, even if not sooner. So any big thing around the block, even something as lame as, going to collect the results of an exam,…
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Happy New Year/Navreh/Nowruz/Ugadi etc etc to everyone 🙂Wonderful how different parts of the world welcome the new season (spring) during the same time of the year 🙂Maharashtrians erect a Gudi (as in the pictures) outside their homes, a symbol of prosperity, growth, one which wards off evil. Funny thing, I was giving sweets to the maid,…
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I am thankful generally that a lot of reading has been happening lately. Even though I was caught off guard by the new schedule and my en-office-route reading did take a back seat, I found my mojo. I think happens with stuff you really want to do in life.So I have been wanting to write…
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Disclaimer: To each his ownSince the dawn of gmail in my life, I have come a long way in learning how the world is trying to connect using the internet. People who have been using internet pre-gmail will consider me backward. And I think so too. But I was not exposed to computers and related…
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The other day I was talking to a long distance friend. She said she feels something will happen to her unbeknownst to us. I had just reached work and was multitasking. I did not catch what she was saying. And when it dawned on me, what she had typed in the chat window, my first…
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* Today at a non-work session, I was ‘the person’ who talked about work with another colleague. I know.I went on to person B like this – You know X and Y work, but X and Z is what we should be looking at. For that we need to get M and N to work,…
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New work has the most chilling air-conditioning. New work also has a very good espresso machine. The 2 go well together. When the cold takes over me, I just go and get myself some nice, hot coffee.Of course, normally this is not an issue. who made these chocolates!!! But I am allergic to coffee. As I…
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November was always good.You had lost your voice. No drama. You just took time to find it all over again. Santa did visit. Like magic, a little early.You opened your heart in December.Always good. You sang, you danced, you wrote. A lot of people made home inside your heart. Wonderful.Along came the pests. Little, crawling,…
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What is home to you?For me it is a feeling. Of years of wandering around (of course I am not a nomad, even though I talk like one) I have felt home-like at very unrelated places. In reality or in my memory. Hence the feeling is rather difficult to describe. Lately, triggered by a discussion with…
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We stopped in front of a kirana store (run by a baniya*, people who have moved from Rajasthan to the Marathi-ness of Pune), and inquired about the Sabudana rate. Why ? Because pregnant friend who is now the mother of a 8 month old Avani, thought all the big shops (the marts and all) were…