tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69610983201983729412024-03-05T13:02:40.143+05:30MusingsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-78935728218130025772016-11-18T10:08:00.002+05:302016-11-18T10:13:21.704+05:30Night raiders<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While modiji fights his war against black money, here I am fighting this silent war against ...black cockroaches!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No pest control, no boric acid surreptitiously mixed in ghee laced ata, no spray ever ' hit's them..they seem absolutely immune!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They appeared suddenly one fine night and truly obedient to God's word have " gone forth and multiplied".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We tried thrashing them with our chappals..thappp..thappp..goes our chorus at eleven each night, when we suddenly switch on the kitchen light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some were beaten to pulp..others learned a new trick..hide themselves immediately in narrow trenches against the wall like soldiers..so that nothing gets to them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They dip themselves into the oil( they believe in naturopathy), dive shamelessly into any food in vessels kept even a millimeter wide open..They come dangerously near my cutting tray as I chop veggies. They aren't even afraid of me!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I began scrubbing the kitchen platform clean with soap, ripping the crevices free from trapped food particles, cementing open cracks in the vain hope they don't come in for crumbs. That is when they began invading the fridge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Modiji gets mad at black money hoarders, I get mad at these night raiders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They exasperate me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I stopped inviting guests and if they do pop into my kitchen suddenly, I learned to use ingenious ways to hide them from their view. So a pan " accidentally" slips from my hand, the gas burner suddenly gets shifted and so on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I tried everything..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So finally am trying prayer!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-16239571210373633812016-09-30T21:53:00.001+05:302016-09-30T21:58:17.942+05:30Trees<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They fascinate me. I paint them on canvas or complete them in charcoal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The branches look so seductive. The shades of brown, light and deep brown...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaves in light and yellow greens dance merrily displaying ample sunshine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flowers in huge bunches..in yellows and whites and deep reds, tempting my fingers no end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's one lunging at me near my balcony. A mango tree. Delicious raw green mangoes hanging in clusters make my mouth water. Time to make some of those</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> pickles, panna laced with chat masala or even that fabulous, gooey murabba.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summer's in full swing. A variety of small, big, coloured birds sing. Perched high on the topmost branch, perfectly balanced, they sing a sombre, summer song. One bird goes 'ahhh...ahhhhhh' in the afternoons. As if in real, real pain. Crows do a caw caw endlessly. A gun shot somewhere..and cawcawcaws multiply a thousand times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tree is embroiled in deep mystery. How does it survive with no water? How does it remain strong unswayed by stormy winds? Does it really cry when it's cut away..sap oozing out?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trees embody strength and courage in terrible adversity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They mystify me..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">captivate me..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">motivate me..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and elevate me.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-44420037045815180022016-05-25T19:31:00.002+05:302016-05-25T19:31:54.873+05:30Mishti woman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah. I call her that. She was a sweet( mishti..in Bengali) woman who lived in our building years ago. A working woman, she had two sons and an elderly woman to look after the younger one. The two women looked poles apart. The one, calm and dignified..the other real uncouth, hair in a mess and spoke funny Hindi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I found amazing about the mishti woman, was that she always smiled. That super sweet mesmerising smile that could floor anyone. She sang at functions in her melodious voice accompanied by her harmonium. She was always in a sari and sleeveless blouse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you looked closely at her, you would notice that she was almost bald.. She had literally no hair..except thinning hair going down the sides of her head. Perhaps she suffered from thyroid. She never spoke of it. She wore no wig, didn't crib..never weaved any hair back. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Serene and secure, she focused instead on her strengths.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her smile. Her voice. Her accomplishments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She left our place long ago..but her smile remains with me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The strong, mishti woman..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were about to leave this guest house in Coimbatore after breakfast one morning, years ago, on our way to our son's new college where he had taken admission, when my hubby's colleague suddenly appeared on the scene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He looked at our sons..then at me.( I was dressed in a red top and trousers, with short hair to match).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" Your daughter?" he asked hubby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" My wife", declared hubby, with a glint in his eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The colleague went red like a beetroot, excused himself..and fled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't know about my husband..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but he surely had made my day!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-77749043385546750912016-05-20T08:15:00.000+05:302016-05-20T08:41:36.706+05:30The good looker <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I was heavily into fb those days, trying to reconnect with my old classmates, just after a long awaited reunion. When one day, this lone, red friend request button signaled my immediate attention.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">Clicking on it, I found a very good looking young man vying to be my friend.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">At least I thought so.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">He looked sideways in the picture, with a half smile that lit up his chiseled features.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I accepted without hesitation. Going through his profile, I found him to be a popular guy. He had lots of friends.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">Wow. Nice to have a friend like him.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">He had an attractive personality.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I feel quite drawn to him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">One day finding him online, I decided albeit warily to have a little chat. I learned he was an ayurvedic doctor based in Kerala. At least something in common with him, I thought, being a mallu myself.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">He seemed friendly..why else would he talk to a complete stranger like me. He talked about his work.</span> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">must be ever</span><span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">surrounded with female patients, I thought. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">In answer to his query where I was put up, I replied, "Well,quite close to movie stars, you know."</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">His ears perked up, now he was curious. "How far, where do they live?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I quickly changed the topic. I really wasn't into filmi stuff then.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /></span>
<span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">Suddenly he logged off, without even a bye.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">How arrogant!</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">We had no interaction since then.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">To add insult to injury, one day he unfriended me. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">It wasn't a good feeling, though I quickly got over it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">Months passed. One day chancing upon his name on a friend's post, I got back to his profile. Only to see a dark young man in the picture instead of the friend I had got to like.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /></span>
<span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">A thought flashed through my mind. Checking out the net, I found my old friend back!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">But he was a celebrity. I didn't know that. An upcoming malayalee actor then,now is a famous guy down south.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">Prithviraj!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">How embarrassing! </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I turned red as a beetroot. All this while I had been friends with a man who posed as an actor.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I laughed and laughed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I'm now a movie buff.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">Heavily into his movies.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">Prithviraj's.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-30021250696912239832016-05-19T11:14:00.004+05:302016-05-19T11:31:07.860+05:30Inspiring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He's humble</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he's simple</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Clad in shirt n pant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Doesn't shout or rant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My doorbell he rings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 'Bread!' he sings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I say 'no'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> unhappiness won't show</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He'll wait n wait</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even though I'm late</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He's never rude</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whatever my mood</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For 500 he has change</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somehow will arrange</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come rain or sun</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He'll bring in the bun</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He's always smiling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My bread wallah inspiring.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-15343156001378290942016-05-17T08:35:00.000+05:302016-05-17T10:25:15.241+05:30Special students<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They studied with us . </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">German.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They paid no fees..simply sauntered into class at will. We protested, teachers did too, but to no avail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They just needed open doors. That's all. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last year a dark guy used to attend class. He would rush in like wind, find the spot closest to the teacher and snooze away to oblivion. He never answered a single question.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But he knew all...(having attended these lectures umpteen times in the past).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We hated him..some feared for their lives. Sometimes Ma'am couldn't concentrate. So somebody would rise up with biscuits in hand and bribe the shabby fellow out through the same door he came in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He has numerous cousins, mostly students. When I did my first year, a very fair but extremely unwashed fellow, a consistent latecomer would dash in, curl into a sleeping position and sleep throughout. The instant Ma'am finished, he would run out at top speed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These guys are well qualified. They start from basic level.. some go on to complete their Phds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a rule, they need not give exams.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But an ambitious guy appeared in our class this year to write his finals. Obviously people next to him couldn't concentrate. He wouldn't understand " GO." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally a girl summoned up enough courage and went to the front of the class..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"You..you..you..you"..she whispered beseechingly, desperately to the fellow. Loud enough for us to hear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He slowly rose up, ran down the steps..and simply stood in front of her..and stared.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He stared..and stared. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We paused holding our breath. We stared. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally this crazy dog decided to call it a day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He fled.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-75410919132804151512016-05-16T19:33:00.001+05:302016-05-16T20:22:53.247+05:30The call that changed all<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She was beautiful. Her cheek shyly displayed a dimple when she smiled. And that she did often. He fell in love with her instantly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She had that something about her that drew people to her magnetically. So full of energy, she bounced like a ball up and down. With a heart for cooking..they shared the same passion. She was into art and crafts. He into sport. He worked as VP in a multinational. She gave tuitions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One fine day he proposed. She rejected. Outright. A tad disappointed, but never one to give up he proposed again...s</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">everal months later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This time she said," yes".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He, so overjoyed, told his family. She, hers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The engagement was fixed for the following month. They now were often seen together. At movies, shopping, at eating joints. Always holding hands. Her photos appeared on his FB page, his on hers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They seemed..so made for each other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He couldn't stop smiling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when the phone rang. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They wanted to make sure he would be willing to join their family business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Misunderstandings followed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The engagement was called off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He stopped smiling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Months later she found a man...got married.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Forever.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-91278223914024669072016-05-08T19:44:00.002+05:302016-05-08T19:54:50.327+05:30Sky is high<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Hey, just say 'why', my friend interrupted me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Why'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Because the sky is high', she laughed gleefully and ran away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One more Bakra.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We often did this silly thing when we were small kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was often in the habit of asking God, 'Why?'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why did that young lady I briefly saw in the hospital cry? Why did my friend lose her hubby in an accident? Why?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why did this wonderful Ma'am die all of a sudden? She used to teach so well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Why did this humble man of God, so close to us, have to leave this world .. so young?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As I pondered over these questions, it suddenly dawned on me, 'Because the sky is high.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was like He was telling me, "My thoughts are not your thoughts..neither are your ways my ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.…"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are things happening around me and in my life I would never understand...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with my finite mind. So instead of asking questions, I must leave the answers with Him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's too high for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I would know the answers when I meet Him one day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So now I don't ask 'why'...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">because I know the sky's high.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-45422552603478294872016-05-06T11:47:00.001+05:302016-05-06T12:01:41.503+05:30Morning walk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I really enjoyed my walk this morning. I normally walk in the evenings, but as I opened my balcony door this morning, I saw a young girl running around the building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That prodded me on. I changed and as the heavy aroma of my hubby's famous simmering ginger tea filled the house, I rushed downstairs, armed with my mobile and earphones. I began walking. The air was scented with Jasmine. It was fresh and cool, the heat of the day had not yet set in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The nightshift watchmen changed clothes, changed guard. They looked different in civilian clothes. A middle-aged couple walked in my direction. They seemed to have done many rounds already. The young girl in the tracksuit seemed to have disappeared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An elderly looking bespectacled man in a dark T-shirt and shorts walked briskly toward me. I changed course, gave him right of way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He writes very well. He must be gathering ideas for the the day, I surmised. My phone conked off suddenly. Irritatedly I fidgeted with it, till it started again. This on off game continued for quite some time, till I finally gave up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The couple had called it a day. He pulled down the overhanging Jasmine shrub, as the wife filled the tiny plastic bag with these white flowers. She kept looking over her shoulder at the fellow washing the car around the corner. Or was she afraid someone would catch them at it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some more rounds around the building, and I was done. It was the freshest feeling I have had in a long time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had worked up an apetite.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time for my tea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I'm doing this every morning.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-7546435711411820672016-04-28T10:15:00.002+05:302016-04-28T10:15:10.069+05:30I'm in love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I admit I'm in love! Pure love so unadulterated. Unabashed and filtered of all impurity.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I see him every evening. Standing at his balcony. So cute and fair, he stares as if at me.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I want to say hi, but then he quickly disappears back into his room. I refuse to leave my pose until he appears again.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">He looks out again as if searching for me. Then stares into the distance as if planning his next move.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">I keep looking. If only he'd look my way! I'd blow him a kiss. I wish so much to grab him, lock him in my arms.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">But something distracts his attention..must be more important than me.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">Then I hear some sounds below, there he is!</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">Enjoying himself thoroughly.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">His sister a year older cycling her tricycle..</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif, Linotype, Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.144px; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 30.8448px;">and this chubby little fella running, running to catch her!!!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-861848619032238162014-07-02T13:42:00.001+05:302014-07-02T13:49:36.382+05:30Disaster cupcake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Made this out of my own head this morn..
With happy,healthy ingred..
Honey..oats..ata...peanut butter...etc
It tasted awful..
So finally in desperation,applied butter icing..(neutralizing health benefit ) to somehow make it edible..
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Never use oats ever again..instead give it to d horse..or better still apply to ur face!" height="300" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/p417x417/10444708_10203938091914002_343577283441176912_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a sudden whim, I ran into the kitchen this morning. It was raining heavily outdoors. Maybe the cooling effect of much-sought-after rains..I wanted to experiment with baking. I love baking. Watching my son eating peanut butter, I felt like using it in some dish. I picked up some oats. Why, oats is healthy, isn't it?..and so I mixed honey, baking powder,oats and peanut butter with eggs and wheat flour. Milk was poured from the top(just as it's done on TV cookery shows) and I watched as the muffins rose in the hot oven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My heart rose too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't wait to eat them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they turned out horrible.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tasted so oatey..bland.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To redeem my effort, I applied butter icing with a dash of lemon added to it. I applied them generously all over the sad looking muffins.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yummm..now it tasted nice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But all health benefits fled with the wind!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hereby come to this conclusion..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NEVER use oats in your muffin again!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rather feed it to a hungry horse..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or better still apply it to your face with honey,..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as an excellent facepack!!!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-62963087116172759912014-06-18T15:16:00.003+05:302014-06-18T15:29:20.900+05:30Banana bread<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ingredients..</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #141823; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;">1 and 1/2 cup ata</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #141823; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$4:0">1/3 cup butter melted</span></span><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #141823; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><br data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$1:0" /><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$2:0">3/4 cup sugar powd</span><br data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$3:0" /><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$4:0">1egg</span><br data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$5:0" /><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$6:0">1tsp vanilla and 1tsp soda</span><br data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$7:0" /><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$8:0">4 ripe bananas</span><br data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$9:0" /><br />Method..</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #141823; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><br /></span></span>
<span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #141823; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$12:0">Mash bananas..add butter.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #141823; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$12:0" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mix well .Add beaten egg,sugar and vanilla and soda. Mix with wooden spoon well. Soda must be mixed well. Add ata. Mix. Bake in preheated oven at 180degrees till well browned and fork comes clean. About 40 minutes.</span></span></span><br />
<span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #141823; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$12:0" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cool. Cut into pieces.</span></span></span><br />
<span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #141823; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".o.1:3:1:$comment10203840564915888_10203840861043291:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$12:0" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chew happily!</span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-66947984519789879442014-06-17T19:53:00.001+05:302014-06-17T20:20:15.134+05:30Homemade Jackfruit halwa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a big lover of jackfruit halwa. No visit to Kerala ends without my buying at least a kilo of this , to gobble up on my return home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other day, Mom-in-law packed some not-very-ripe jackfruit for us to carry back. She didn't know what to do with it. "I'm making halwa,"I declared, without thinking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had no clue how to make it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday I began. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Just eat it as it is..why go into this bother?" Hubby protested.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was determined.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The end result was simply delicious. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just like the store variety. Maybe even better. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it's so easy to prepare!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ummmm...I just finished the last piece, hubby offered me so lovingly. Grateful, he didn't finish it off!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's my recipe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingredients...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 and half cups finely chopped jackfruit(seed discarded)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 cup jaggery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a pinch of jaiphal powder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">two tbsps ghee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">two tbsps finely chopped cashewnuts</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Method...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melt the jaggery completely in a nonstick pan on medium heat. Add the jackfruit. Mix well. Remove into a mixie jar and grind to a fine paste. Now transfer the contents back on the pan and heat while stirring continually, till the paste begins to leave the sides of the pan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow! Smells so good!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now add the jaiphal powder, cashew and ghee and keep stirring till it becomes a thick lump without any moisture whatsoever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Transfer it onto a greased plate. Spread evenly. Cool, refrigerate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cut into pieces and serve.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tastes heavenly!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-48509802611393925562014-06-11T14:02:00.001+05:302014-06-11T14:15:53.964+05:30On Indiblogger road...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I began blogging in 2010. I penned down some memories after our very first school reunion. Simply because my sons prodded me to. So I wrote about our kerala trip on my blogsite, 'My thoughts'..and loved the attention it received from my family. The reunion memoir connected me with my former, now greying classmates. Soon facebook happened and my interest in writing diminished, and eventually I stopped writing altogether till 2012, when I happened to log into a blogging site. I began and never looked back since( till last month. )I wrote around six hundred articles...and loved every moment of it. But my pals there left and new just-out-of-school kiddos joined the site. I began feeling left out. I had to leave, though it was tough. We were like family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scrolling down the net, I saw Indiblogger. Glancing through a few stories, I felt satisfied. I had arrived. I needed variety and boy! Did we have it here? Plenty!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The topics ranged from fashion to travel, cookery to technology, kids' stories to science fiction. Outstanding!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I logged in. Having been turned down by another site a few day's ago, I wasn't sure I would be taken in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank God, they didn't kick me out. I do look like an Indian, thankfully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sent in my blogs (beginning with two/three at a time...) , but I soon realized one post per day is a safe bet. The reason being-very few bloggers are privileged homemakers like me..and just cannot read all my posts in a single day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I liked the networking of folk here, friends are made so easily. No jealousy/insecurity seen in anyone. Nice encouraging comments appear on posts, thankfully. I loved every write up I have read so far. I realized I have still miles to go before I can ever catch up with any of the folk here. Authors are experts in their various fields, no controversial topics are chosen, each one remains within his respective limits. Some bloggers seem to be around my age, I observed gleefully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I was a tad disappointed. I would like to see a lot more humor in the writings out here, sometimes one does come out with a sprinkling here and there, but could we have a blog simply dedicated to humor? Is laughing a crime?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do want to begin my day laughing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One more thing I noticed was a dearth of easy poetry. Simple,heartfelt lines. Some of them are so deep, I can't get head or tail of it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indibloggers love get togethers, I noticed. Something so rare on other sites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So far so good. I just started my journey on Indiblogger road, but am enjoying it immensely!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-77125076030338747052014-06-05T11:23:00.001+05:302014-06-05T11:50:19.689+05:30Dumb belle no more!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;"> </span><img src="http://www.writerbabu.com/images/uploads/users/posts/1466.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Women don't really need to hit the gym. </span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Here are some tips for the fittest you.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">In exactly a month's time!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Stand next to the window, first thing in the morning. </span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">That is if you belong to any place other than Mumbai. </span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Now, inhale. </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Smell the flowers? </span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Don't forget to exhale.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Next, hold a huge pillow, a bolster's better. Hit your hubby with all your might. He's awake in a jiffy, eyes wide open. Laugh out aloud (at his puzzled face ). Laughing exercise numerous facial muscles.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Next, stand in your sunlit balcony. Do all asanas in full view of your neighbors.( To motivate them).</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Collect coins thrown your way from admiring male viewers. (It's commercially viable too.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Stand still for a few moments. Just look unblinkingly into the far distance. It's good for the eyes. </span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">If some dashing guy, a Prithviraj look alike, comes into your line of view, it's really not your fault.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Then, pound the tea masala in the mortar.. good for the muscles..sit down, enjoy your tea.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Let hubby have the paper..for a lil' feel good factor. And peace,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">They've left, so take a deep breath, hitch saree up, tuck it's pallu into your bulging waist, hold broom tight, bend forward...and begin cleaning the rooms corner to corner.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Wipe droplets of intense sweat beginning to form on your forehead, resist the urge to swear.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">For ultra body toning, stand tiptoe, try to reach the topmost shelf. Dust objects with a clean cloth...without pause.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">It really takes a good fifteen minutes or so.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Now, heave half a bucket of water, bend on all fours, press down with all your might. Mop the floor like Kanta bai.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">You have to. If you wish to have those great abs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Take some rest, or you'll faint. You've never worked so hard in all your life. </span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">A wave of new found love for Kanta bai now sweeps all over you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Cooking over, take the soiled iron pan, brush it spotless. Prevents upper hand fat accumulation.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">No bad words please.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Both hands laden with bags of vegetables from the nearby market..weightlifter style.. for well toned arms..(you can do without your martyr looks...that causes wrinkles)..</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">You get your full dose of vitamin D too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">In the evenings, walk outdoors briskly. Hands moving up and down, military style for added spectacular effect.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">They'll think you've gone mad.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">With thousands of rupees saved, with a katrina like figure, a little more compassionate are you now..</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Certainly not the dumb belle you would have been..</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 24.191997528076172px;">Had you been to that silly Gym.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.192001342773438px;">She traipsed into the room and seeing him sprawled on the sofa, laid the sheet over his slumbering body; that's when she discovered a long strand of hair tucked away on the inside of his collar (it wasn't his,she was sure). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.192001342773438px;">His cheeks wore traces of faded red lipstick and she noticed, he looked strangely good but reeked of alcohol, which he had never touched till..perhaps tonight.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="color: #111111; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.192001342773438px;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.192001342773438px;">Turning on his side, "Sara," he moaned ,"I love you so my darling."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="color: #111111; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.192001342773438px;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.192001342773438px;">Shocked completely out of her wits..she came to this one conclusion.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="color: #111111; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.192001342773438px;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.192001342773438px;">Sheela's twenty plus years of wedded bliss was over.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-29412213161604530342014-06-02T10:33:00.001+05:302014-06-05T12:09:47.949+05:30Charcoal painting..my new love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is easy, inexpensive and fun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Painting with charcoal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some samples...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Try drawing some yourself..it's not tough!)</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-7025003938371666072014-05-23T13:32:00.000+05:302014-05-23T13:41:11.146+05:30Vagabond<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He grew up quickly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having learned the tricks of the trade, street smart and savvy, he got absorbed into the underworld like fish to water. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He soon got into trouble with the law, was dragged numerous times into the police station, his buddies bailed him out, but he remained unfazed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soon his drinking got worse and he became a chronic alcoholic;thrown out of the accommodation he shared with his live-in partner, disheveled and unshaven, he began living off the streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All because his Mom had abandoned him as an infant, she was a teen then;he had no anchor, no mooring, he turned out to be a vagabond.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px;">He walked back slowly,as if in a daze,heart broken, his mind blank. He had prepared so hard for this interview, which would make his career in this top multinational company. Handsome, smart, well qualified, an engineer with an MBA to top it, he was sure he would just breeze through. 'Come in,' a familiar voice sang, as he knocked on the the door to the room where she sat, behind the big ebony desk with CEO written in bold letters on a placard kept on it. Their eyes met and he was dismissed immediately with a wave of her dainty hand without another word;she was his ex-girlfriend.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px;">(5 sentence story)</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-69408686158233206532014-05-21T18:44:00.001+05:302014-07-18T13:10:32.047+05:30Mai kaisi lagti hoon..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'Mai kaisi lagti hoon?'asked this upcoming pretty young actress.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I happened to glance through her FB profile the other day.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'Wow.Kya baat hai!'</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'Hot'.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'Super'.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">The comments followed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Then she would appear in another avatar.In the next photo.Another day.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'Ab mai kaisi lagti hoon?'</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'Waaah'.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I scrolled down her page.She didn't have any other topic.But this.Sometimes a religious photo would wind its way in.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">She is so pretty.I don't blame her.And the guys,her die hard fans.About 9000 of them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">But I wondered.Why did she not put in one intelligent post? Only pictures of herself in various outfits.She's plainly addicted to those comments,I realized.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">But then,it came to me.How could I blame her?I would end up like the fox who couldn't reach the grapes,so it complained that it was sour and walked away.</span><br />
<br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">To be honest,I wouldn't mind having so many fans myself.But not for my looks.Then I wouldn't be able to age gracefully.I'd have to botox myself every fortnight.Constantly worry about competition from other pretty young things.I'd have to look young,though actually I'm not.Like poor Shahrukh has to in his films.With comic results.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I really want to be known for wit,humor.Godly values,sheer humaneness.In my writings.But yet,I must admit.I am as vain as she is.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I do look for those red notifications.I'm kinda addicted to them.I love them when they're aplenty.They make my day.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I'm no different from her,I conclude finally.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'Mai kaisi likhti hoon?'</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-28957415276929475892014-05-21T18:42:00.001+05:302014-05-21T18:42:20.917+05:30A saree state of affairs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Its the most versatile garment.Can make the plainest looking girl look drop dead gorgeous within minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Saree's voted the most attractive garment in the world.It totally flatters your figure as none other can.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Sushmita Sen immortalized it, as the sexy,saree clad, chemistry teacher, whom Shahrukh found impossible to take his eyes off,without humming a tune,whilst imagining her twirling around in the breeze,hair flying,pallu waltzing in 'main hoon na'.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">How lovely reel goddesses look,as they tiptoe down red carpeted aisles,hair cascading down their waist,kanjipuram or chiffon clad,then up the steps to collect their trophies!</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Vidya Balan's my favorite.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Yet, to the uninitiated,wearing it can prove to be a complicated process.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I did have my struggling days after my marriage.Wearing it to functions ensured I began at least an hour in advance.Finally I'd walk with trepidation,fearing I'd trip somewhere and self consciously waltz along,neatly picking up the pleats a foot high,while climbing steps.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">But the fear was always there.About when the darn thing would slip off,though I knew I had secured it everywhere with pins and all.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">But the effort was worth it.Compliments did arrive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Some time ago,short of time, I'd worn it carelessly.I regretted later.For the flimsy thing slipped off me,in public,to my utter embarrassment.Luckily,there were just a few of my friends around, who laughed at me.No males anywhere in sight.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I rushed to the rest room and did it all over again.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">After years,I can now wear it confidently within minutes,though during some bad days,I'd still struggle. My poor hubby would patiently wait. And wait.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Nowadays he sighs at its mere mention. 'Oh,that? Just wear something else'.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Saree fascinates westerners.Leaving them totally stumped.I remember a white woman behind me in a queue at the airport,describing a saree clad woman in front of me to her male companions. 'She's worn a small shirt,to go along with the rest of her flowing attire.'</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">She meant the infamous blouse.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Saree has evolved over the years. Starched,crispy cottons,matched with long sleeved blouse, worn by old fashioned women of old have given way to flimsy chiffons, defeating the very purpose of a saree. Reveals more than it hides.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Designer blouses keep shrinking in size by the day. Backless variety is the latest norm.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">How then can we poke a finger at a western woman, accusing her of seductive attire?</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">So much for our double standards.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Wearing a saree's truly an art at what to show, what not to.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Still it remains the most attractive attire on an Indian woman.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">And the compliments keep coming.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">And coming.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-65590969169736795472014-05-21T18:40:00.001+05:302014-05-21T18:40:43.686+05:30Masterpiece<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;"> </span><img src="http://www.writerbabu.com/images/uploads/users/posts/961.jpg" /><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I was shopping one day, when I came across this do-it-yourself kit, in the stationery section. Caught by the design on its front cover, I brought it home.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">There was a thin, metal sheet inside, with an engraving tool neatly lying in its slot. A rough design could be visible on the sheet.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I couldn't wait. I picked up the tool and began carving out the already etched design onto the metal sheet. I had to scratch fine lines,and as I did, metal dust began to form, which I swept away with a damp cloth.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I continued carving. A petal became visible, then a flower..finally in an hours time the entire bunch of flowers.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">All golden in color. Wow. I loved the effect.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">It wasn't difficult. Only needed carving. Persistent.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I framed it and its now hanging on my wall.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'Did you do it?', they ask me, as I proudly nod my head in affirmation.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">As I looked at the picture, a thought flashed through my mind. That God is trying out a pattern too in our lives.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">He had a preplanned picture of us already in His mind, when we were created. He expects us to humbly yield ourselves to His hands, as He keeps busy carving out the already etched, unique design for each one of us.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">We need to only trust Him, that He knows what He's doing and allow the process.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">It's different from a painting where the colors can fade or be washed away.But engraving? Its permanent.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">The process isn't easy. Its quite painful, lots of our ego will be have to be dealt with firmly.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Hardship in our lives would give way to some shades of grey here, some white there.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Overall the picture would be perfect.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">If we keep our focus steady on Him, eventually He'd have a masterpiece in His hands!</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-5466124042890107212014-05-21T18:39:00.001+05:302014-06-26T21:06:54.349+05:30The woman in yellow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">It was a chilly,wintry December evening.We were at the station in Delhi,waiting to board the Rajdhani express.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">My bro-in-law was to get engaged the next day in Mumbai.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 24.1919994354248px; text-align: justify;">The train arrived.People scrambled from all directions to get into the train.They know its not a Mumbai local,which starts in only a few seconds.So why this tearing hurry to get in? I wondered.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 24.1919994354248px; text-align: justify;">We found our way in.Discovering we had the side seats,(which we both hated),we soon parked our baggage under it.I held on to our two year old restless son,as hubby kept himself busy arranging our bags.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 24.1919994354248px; text-align: justify;">The people kept pouring into the A.C compartment.Peak holiday season,I supposed.A well dressed woman soon appeared.She was tall,dark with good features.Her lemon yellow saree with zari border was accentuated with gold around her neck.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">A man,shorter in stature,was ahead of her.She bent low, and asked me our seat numbers. Satisfied,she moved on.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">It was departure time.The train began moving slowly.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 24.1919994354248px; text-align: justify;">Looking outside,I saw this woman walking alongside the train on the platform.She seemed to be in a tearing hurry when she inquired of me,but now she's moving away,I wondered.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 24.1919994354248px; text-align: justify;">The train picked up speed quickly.The crowd had dwindled.We both relaxed in our seats.Hubby looked cool in his rich,brown overcoat.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">We looked around.There was this Marwari family traveling with us.They were busy talking.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 24.1919994354248px; text-align: justify;">A good thirty minutes passed.My man suddenly got up from his seat and looked up at the berth above.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'The briefcase is missing',he declared in his quiet, unassuming tone.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 24.1919994354248px; text-align: justify;">'What?'</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I couldn't believe.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'You mean to say,you kept your briefcase on top, just like that?' I queried.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'Yes',he replied with a sheepish look on his face.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">The Marwari lady spoke up.She had seen a man clutching the briefcase handle as he stood in line to move on.He fit the exact description.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">He was the woman's man.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">The woman in yellow.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Her accomplice.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Their modus operandi-the attractive woman distracts a gullible victim,while the man walks away with the belongings.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">The Marwari lady wasn't to be blamed.How could she possibly know the baggage was ours?</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">The T.C shrugged off our complaints.'Nothing can be done',he admitted.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 24.1919994354248px; text-align: justify;">I looked at my man.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'It's all because of your overcoat',I cried,exasperated.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">'Of course not',he replied indignantly.How could his coat attract attention?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">On estimation,we discovered we lost no cash,but the clothes he was to wear at the function the next day,a pair of leather slippers and a yashica camera.The camera's loss was rued,it was a good one.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 24.1919994354248px; text-align: justify;">We helplessly resigned ourselves to our fate.So cleverly conned by experts in the field.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I wonder where they are now.Are they still in operation?</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Friends,do watch out if they ever come your way.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14139726178413259756noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961098320198372941.post-52006521174895489532014-05-21T18:38:00.001+05:302014-05-21T18:38:03.143+05:30Like old wine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;"> </span><img src="http://www.writerbabu.com/images/uploads/users/posts/876.jpg" /><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I'm going down memory lane</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">along path strewn with rose petals</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">though here n there a few thorns</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">life with you's been never really a pain.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">They beckoned that we talk</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">When I first met you at our home</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">as we reached the room's door</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">was dumbstruck when you said,'Pehle aap'.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">My heart said you're the one</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">we said yes,they went ahead</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">blessed by Him,wished by many</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">how quickly things were done.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Life began on high note</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">hasn't diminished a wee bit </span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">cause you my precious</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">haven't changed a bit,I vote.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I remember on that train</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">when rough guys barged in</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I began to cry,they left me</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">as soon as you called out my name.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Now we were three,then four</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">you learned your job so well</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">feed them,change them</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">so I could rest my back so sore.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">So practical,always looking ahead</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">very discerning</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">you knew people instantly</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">while I by feelings was led.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I look for words in your silence</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">am now adept at noting every frown</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">only your beautiful smile</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">can speak of volumes so very dense.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Out on work,you go outstation</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">how I miss you,honey</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">each day,every second</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">becomes so difficult to mention.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">You working so hard, </span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I not as much</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">but you tell me</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">to this pay no regard.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">You're gentle,so caring</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">I the queen,you the king</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">are words I reply</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">to those who ask how I'm faring.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">Years have passed</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">our love still grows</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">as old wine gets sweeter</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">am sure very long it'll last.</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">No words can truly say</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">how much you mean to me</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">my sweetheart,my hubby</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;">you truly make my day!</span><br style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 24.191999435424805px; text-align: justify;" /></div>
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