…but only just.
The family came and went. The computer workstation finally arrived in a nail-biting climax minutes before I left for the airport. Amit was sitting (dharna) at the shop in Comm Street threatening dire consequences if the damn thing, which was supposedly sent by auto ages ago, did not land up at our house [...]
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Two weekends ago, Amit and I had a long and serious conversation, at the end of which we decided…. Wait for this… that we really, really needed a second workstation at home. The reason was that, when we both work from home (whether working hours or evenings or weekends) one of us gets the workstation [...]
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Not that Women’s Day is around the corner (as far as I know), but somehow I got to thinking of all the things I admired in many of my women friends, and I realized how many “women of substance” I have in my friends’ circle. Here’s to the women…
Who, coming from a strictly orthodox family, [...]
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It started on Saturday with an omelette for breakfast (Amit’s culinary contribution for the weekend) followed by a mundane lunch of dal-rice, enlivened with fresh peas made with lots of oil and lots of onion. From then on, things just got better. An evening of extensive snacks (while watching Bridget Jones’s Diary) was followed by [...]
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Despite being technically born into a Brahmin family (a classification which both my parents conveniently ignore) I have been a confirmed non-vegetarian from a young age. In those days, we could not afford non-veg more often than once a week, and that made the weekends really special. Back then, mutton was cheaper than chicken, so [...]
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Sigh. End of the year. Start of the year. Time to look back. Time to look ahead. Time to make resolutions… and to break them. Most importantly, time to make nonsensical lists, like those that follow.
Things I Want To Do in 2007
Get pregnant
If not, then ALL of the following (in any order):
Lose weight
Improve at tennis [...]
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