Today is a wonderful day.  The Accounts are busy – so no one’s bothering me for obscure data.  My Boss aka Mogambo has not come in and not called me even once.  Sure gives me an unflattering estimate of my importance in the company – but WTF, the pay is good.  So I am doing what [...]

Gems I discovered while cleaning old suitcases … God rewards people who clean old stuff in un-expected ways.  I got these photos as a reward  Kid#1 was a smiley kid, chubby and active.  He loved to hunt and decimate the population of the insect world ….. with his bare hands and with any footwear he could [...]

You’ve come a long way Baby!!! Or have you? Sati Savitri : The courageous and determined lady who won back her dead husband from Yama Draupadi : The princess who got to marry five most eligible princes of her time – and when humiliated instigated a war, echoes of which reverberate through time Sita : [...]

ME In the morning, rummaging the fridge) I love having dinner for breakfast DIL : EWWWWW, cant bear to see food in the morning KID#2 : I do that all the time – have dinner for breakfast ME : You are the leftover king in the morning (wandering off singing Kid#2 is King, Kid#2 is [...]

You must have seen those old cartoons – the ones in which a character runs off a cliff and keeps running?  He doesnt fall and keeps going on until he looks down.  And then he plummets to the ground screaming.  That, people, is the perfect depiction of life in general, and parenting of grown children [...]

For sleep I had some lovely company I went to bed with the English dictionary Because I have decided I’ll be Ninja Master Of Crosswords – Enough now, cut the laughter I chanced upon a lovely word Fou It means drunk, it also means foolish, crazy I think I like to be in the state [...]

There is a saying in Hindi which doesnt come through so well when translated “Bhagwan jab deta hai, chappar phar ke deta hai” or When God gives – the bounty breaks the thatched roof.  I guess in these times when the roofs are cemented, the bounty breaks the doors and cracks window panes and pours [...]

I have been tagged by The Life and Times of an Indian Homemaker aka IHM The rules for the tag are: RULE #1 People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves. RULE #2 Tag 6 people to [...]

I do have a bit of an ego trip that I’m trying to find professional help for. I have this thing where I like to look in the mirror and make these sexy faces at myself and say “I look good, huh?” I’m lucky that I dont have a spouse who would just roll his eyes, say [...]

Kid#2 can’t wait to taste freedom.  I am not an interfering parent – am at work the whole day so have given it up – but he would love to be out there in the world and keeps pointing out – charmingly – that he has one foot out of the door.  He has four [...]