A friend of mine got engaged a few months back, in the ‘arranged marriage’ way. Several questions rattled around in her head. One of the real biggies was: “Should I tell him about my past?” All the people she discussed this with (all women) advised her not to. I on…
My 14-year old cousin thinks the Indian Idol, Abhijeet Sawant ‘has nice eyes’. She has his album carefully tucked away between her best clothes. And she thinks the contestants of Fame Gurukul are soooo lucky because one of them got to sing a duet with him. Ah….it is beginning! My…
Not a week goes by without one of us having a problem with a bank. Login access problems, wrongly debited entries, incorrect charges…the list is endless. We got to thinking of some ways to keep our money safe and out of the reach of those moolah-monsters…. SNC: I think I’ll…
There was a death. And I watched who was allowed to grieve and who was required to show strength. It made me ponder masculinity.
Talk to meand feel yourselfflooding my vacuumAnd when you feel hollow,I will pour into you,words and inspirationnot my ownIn your darknessI will shine lightDo you knowit takes blackto define white?You can throw your sorrows at meThey will stay in meand I’ll hardenAnd when you cryI’ll hold youwith your strengthYou feel…
A lot of us confuse love and lust. I tend to think men do that more often than women. All my aware life, I have been hearing about how men distinguish sex from love but women equate the two. Real life shows the contrary. True, at least in our early…
It was a cool evening. A lot had been happening recently and I need to clear my head. So I picked up the phone and dialed the number. The one I knew I could call anytime and yell “What the hell is wrong with the world?” and he would say,…
Note: SNC (Someone From the Next Cubicle) and I sit adjacent to each other at work. —–Original Message—–From: Smith, IdeaSent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:05 PMTo: S N CSubject: Wossup? Not seen you around today…————————————————————————– —–Original Message—–From: S N CSent: Monday, August 08, 2005 4:06 PMTo: Smith, IdeaSubject: RE: So…
Let me tell you about my recessive gene. It involves idlis, questionable pronunciations and the Great South Indian Software Dream.
