The world seems to have gotten louder. Everybody seems to be talking all at once all of a sudden. Loud music blares out at you at every stop, vehicles honk louder, engines roar more intensely and I can barely hear myself think! Granted that it IS the Avrudu season after all, one can indeed say that the loudness is ...
To the land of sarees and back. In one piece with not much of collateral damage. I am pretty sure that I shall burst out crying if anyone so much as mentions sarees within the next few weeks. The things I do for my brother! I felt like kissing the non-urinated, non-desecrated, betel spit unstained ground at arrival in ...
Bit of a mouthful, yes, But I have these every once in a while. Especially during the cold and flu season when the body is too tired to engage in anything else but the mind is working overtime. I sometimes wonder why we are here. Surely not just to eat, sleep, work our youth away, get married when the ...
I know! They are just trying to establish a fresh and flourishing, able-bodied nation, overflowing with health and vitality. Shah! Mara plan ah! I'm still dumb founded by their abounding prodigy! I just can't believe that people are still complaining. See, it all started with the price increase of bread. The aim of this scheme was to discourage the people ...
It's decided. I'm eloping. When I do make up my mind to get married and settled down that is. No big, frilly, fancy and flowery wedding for me please. No long and torturous hours of smearing sticky gooey stuff on the face, draping yard after yard of shiny sequined material around myself. No bottles of hairspray and hair gel emptied ...
If anybody was wondering (I highly doubt it) I'm alive!!! Survived two weddings and I'm still standing! Well, sitting to be precise but I can stand if I wanted to :) It all passed by - the flowers, the excess of sugary sickly sweetness, the clone-like straight haired people in masks of makeup (I managed to pass with a minimal ...
Its just abominable how incredibly lazy I've become, but I suppose the laziness is just a part of my reluctance to pick up the wad of notes and attempt to beat in some international law and comparative political systems into this kicking and screaming brain of mine. And its amazing how so very important a frivolous task of cleaning out ...
Why is it that the victims in all these horror movies insist on running in the middle of the road when they are being chased by a car (or truck or bulldozer, etc)? Why doesn't it ever occur to them that they should get off the road (at least run on the pavement like a good pedestrian should) or run ...
I wonder what it would be like to be a dummy, a display doll, a mannequin (fashionably speaking of course) who stands there at a shop window and stares at the streets, the passers by, smiling, never flinching, starring, with their big hollow eyes, empty carved lips gleaming red. I wonder how it feels to not feel at all, to ...
Written in a tuk tuk - It is a truth universally acknowledged that tuk tuks are the bane of every driver's life. They wriggle their way through anything, come rain or shine, they wriggle, wriggle wriggle, a puff of smoke, a high pitched honk and they are gone, just like that. They scratch the body of your hard earned ...
My biggest problem in life at the moment is this; to read or to watch a movie. Occasionally I debate between cooking experiments. Writing doesn't have a specific time or a space. It just happens. Mmm......I can get used to this. These days, I take immense pleasure in answering the question; 'So, what do you do for a living' ...
I have tried for a very long time to turn a blind eye to this whole "let's hate the other races and point fingers at each other" scenario that's been going on lately, hoping that if I ignore it long enough without contributing to it, that people would soon tire of it. But seems not. Atrocities heighten day by ...
Sri Lankan aunties. Sigh. It does not matter that you have accomplished much more than they had ever achieved in their 50+ years or what their married with kids daughter/son ever will in their entire lifetime, it does not matter what educational qualifications you have in your bag, it does not matter that you are an internationally published writer ...
If there is something that I absolutely despise in the world that would be waiting. Whether it be waiting for photos to upload, dressed and waiting for others to get ready, waiting for a response to an email, waiting for a much awaited call, waiting till a much awaited day, waiting is a tedious task. If I had it my ...
The book fair is right around the corner and I JUST CANNOT WAIT! Halls and halls of, stalls and stalls of, rows and rows of books! Sigh.......... Bliss! :) Wandering through the alleyways flanked left right and centre with books, air perfumed with that special smell unique to those entire worlds trapped between pages, once you enter these halls ...
Beginning to hate rainy days. Specially nights. This is a little too much. Everything feels so cold and clammy. Ugh! And cloths smell funny too. Just took the entire wardrobe out and put them out to air. Doggy is all wet too. Comes cuddling with his fur coat wet and all. Had to shoo him off several times. Poor thing. ...
Finally a breather after a very eventful few days. Perfect Baudelairean weather. Appropriately dark and bleak, perfect conditions for scribbling or curling up with a good Gothic horror on the window seat. Weather teases us with hints of Spring and quickly runs away, hiding behind a somber cloud. I see muses climbing out the rain barrels and sliding their ...
And so the wedding frenzy begins. Sigh. Me in all my naivety had thought that a wedding is all about putting on a dress, looking pretty and just showing up at the event. But apparently, that doesn't even scratch the surface. So there I sat in the waiting room of the designated seamstress the other day, amongst other bridezillas ...
47 books, aching limbs, a gaping hole in the wallet and a full and singing heart. These are the repurcussions. Trudging around the bookfair with so may books hanging on my arms. I feel biceps & triceps coming up on my arms already. Sights, sounds and not to mention the smells, well there are many. Overcrowded beyond belief, its ...
According to my to-be sis-in-law’s sister, the beauty of being a bridesmaid is that you get to experience all the excitement of getting married without actually having to undergo all the responsibilities that come along with it. According to her it’s a no brainer, since you only have to dress as the bride instructs you to dress, without having ...