A Sordid Affair

It seems Amit is having an affair. Yes, after ten long years of faithfulness, apart from the odd fling or two, he’s now having a passionate and rather noisy affair, which is being conducted blatantly right under - or rather, right above - my very nose: in the upstairs neighbour’s apartment.
In their bathroom, to be [...]

How to Lose ~40 GB in Minutes!

Do you want to lose ~40 GB off your hard drive? Here’s how I did it.
You’ll Need:
1 Microsoft Vista Home Premium (a flavor of Windows that is particularly lousy)
1 Ubuntu 7.10 (a flavor of Linux)
1 Hard disk (in my case, 250 GB SATA hard disk - you’d think losing a mere 40 GB wouldn’t hurt, [...]

DON’T!

It’s not so much fun being a toddler, I think. There’s so many things you’re not allowed to do. For instance:

Don’t touch that (about 25 times a day for phone, computer, broom, dustpan, dustbin, and mop, dirty diaper… Don’t open that clothes cupboard
Don’t open that kitchen cabinet either
Don’t put your hand in [...]

Evening Out

Last weekend we went out for dinner with friends. Once upon a time, this would have been commonplace. Now, it’s a rare occurrence. Of the two other couples we went out with, one has a son a couple of months older than the twins, the other is expecting their first baby in a couple of [...]

The “Easy” Way Out ?!

It’s almost five months since the twins came home. Time has passed quickly, but we’ve also come a long way, as have the kids. I do miss some things about my former, but some things I definitely don’t miss. Gone is the sense of hopelessness, of want, of exclusion from the club of happy families, [...]

A Long Way to Go

The twins have been with us for over four months. Someone I met recently who had adopted a baby girl in December 2006, told me that the paperwork for their adoption had been completed in four months. They adopted from Belgaum (Karnataka), and had to make one trip back there to complete the process.
For us, [...]

Certified Medically Unfit

It’s been crazy here the last few days. It all started with Mrini’s fever and vomiting episode last Thursday. Well, I suppose you could say it started the Friday before that, when she first developed the cold, but until that Thursday, it was just an ordinary, everyday sort of cold with runny nose and that’s [...]

Back from the fishing camp, without any fish, but without drowning or getting eaten by a croc

Perhaps a wilderness camp is not the easiest place to take two small kids for their first holiday. Staying in a tent, no electricity for much of the day, no hot water… At least we had a limitless supply of Cauvery water, which is more than you can say of the water supply at home.
This [...]