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  Gift
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Gift

    June 26, 2007September 17, 2023
    12 Comments

    When you stir to wakefulness today, just before you open your eyelids, what is the first thing you will think of? What thought will you shade your eyes with, for the day? Will you see the day starting slowly, without your assistance and not needing your reassurance either? Will you notice how the stage…

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    Books | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Manguide 3: Hobbies & Interests

    June 26, 2007March 30, 2025
    10 Comments

    From reading to music, travel to gaming, here’s presenting a Manguide on what makes their hobbies unique and how they can impact relationships.

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    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Xena Was A Princess Too

    June 24, 2007March 11, 2023
    2 Comments

    Conversation with a colleague: Him: I think women (at work) come in two types. There are women like you – independent, strong-natured type…you know they aren’t going to burst into tears because you tell them you don’t like their work. Then there’s this other type you have to be careful…

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    Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    I’m Every Woman

    June 20, 2007March 11, 2023
    7 Comments

    I used to be a tomboy, fairly genderless inside my mind. Now I find I’ve come so far from there, I almost can’t relate to the male mind any more. While I will probably never be a princess, I’m a woman, undeniably.

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    Map Of Emotion

    Un-suicidal

    June 20, 2007March 10, 2023
    8 Comments

    I want to lay me down in the wet, squishy mud and let the moisture seep into my bones, the cold engulf me, numbing every nerve, blocking every vein…till the blood stops running, the breath slows down…slower…slower…slower. I wish life wouldn’t snap on and off like it usually does but…

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  • Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Telling All

    June 19, 2007April 14, 2024
    4 Comments

    For Shreyasi, who understands what I don’t say as well. And for the person this conversation happened with. ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ How are things? What things? You know…are you dating anybody? I haven’t heard you talk about any women. I haven’t liked any women. Turn left here, it’s around the corner. What…

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    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Little Girl With Big Dreams

    June 19, 2007March 23, 2026
    1 Comment

    I might have missed this news if Best Friend hadn’t told me about it. I was horrified. I knew her when she was still a starry-eyed teenager. She was one of those tall, slender girls who carry themselves straight-backed and everyone else thinks they’re being snooty. But she wasn’t. She…

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    City | Roving I

    Tropical Sky

    June 17, 2007March 29, 2025
    3 Comments

    I know this is a slight bit late but what’s a week in a season of three months? My last impression of summer…doesn’t this look like one of those colourful photographs you see in Readers’ Digest about exotic Asian countries? Umm..of course we’re exotic and Asian as well. But I’m…

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  I Style! – Designer
    City | Pop Culture

    I Style! – Designer

    June 15, 2007March 11, 2023
    9 Comments

    I saw a girl on the train carrying this bag that caught my eye. I asked her if I could take a picture of it and she agreed. A little surprised perhaps and guarded as anyone would be in this city of callous strangers but agreeable nevertheless. K (I forgot…

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  • Relationships

    The Mummy Returns

    June 15, 2007March 30, 2025
    1 Comment

    Even after my own parents throw up their hands in despair at my marital status (or the lack of it) and stop bugging me, there are others who will persist, good intentions intact. The results are sometimes howl-a-rious. See here: Oh dear, who will tell her that saying “I like…

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