Grinding My Teeth In Frustration !!

We have a fire drill in the office building next week. Rather a harmless event, given that we are forewarned (unlike real instances where we need to act without prior intimation) and forearmed. In my company (the one I belong to, not the one where I sit) I used to be a fire-marshall, or the [...]

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WTH Statement Of the Day

Comes from a colleague of mine in office, an engineer by education and an IT personnel by profession. Age,22-23 years. “I’m grateful to my father for letting me live. He always wanted a son. So he had my mother tested when she was pregnant. When he found out it was a girl, though others asked him to [...]

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O(b/s)ama and Me

I could write a funny little couplet with the three characters , Obama, Osama and me, but I won’t. Because though funny thoughts do creep up my mind, what I’m posting today is far from it. I’ll be writing about Osama and how he changed my life. I’ll mention Obama, who must have have faced [...]

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“Here’s 26 for me, 81 for you”

According to certain analysts in the United Kingdom, that’s how a working mother in their country divides her time for self and her kids. For the record, it is, 26 minutes for self. 81 minutes for their children. For the former, I think they are being too generous. For the latter, far too stingy. Frankly, [...]

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On being 30+

No, this post isn’t about me. (although I agree I’m on the other side of 30 !) This is about my friends who are 30 plus and what they are facing in life today. For the record, my BFF group has two members who are 30+ and still single. Which isn’t really something bad. Both [...]

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From the NEWS…….

So US President Barack Obama said he won’t be able to visit the Golden Temple after all (for whatever reasons!) Apparently, this has made a lot of people unhappy. Unhappy enough to start a campaign to persuade the man to at least have a dekko! A web campaign to persuade the prez to visit the [...]

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Why should little boys be just boys?!

More on that in a moment. Let me first speak about the little girls . There’s a reason mothers feel a different kind of draw towards their daughters. The main one being that we women are still girls at heart. And when we have a tiny baby with big eyes and silky hair in our arms, [...]

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Our contribution to the environment

Toxic waste escaping the broken dam in Hungary   There is so much damage that we are responsible for! When do we stop? When do we accept that the Earth may not be able to bear our torture any more? When do we realize that the place we leave behind for our kids is not [...]

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“Doctor Dies of Wrong Prescription”

Funny, isn’t it? I mean, I would have found it a wee bit funny if it was printed as a headline in a newspaper or a magazine. But it wasn’t. And its funny in the least. My aunt, a qualified , practising doctor, died of Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TENS)  ,also called as a severe form [...]

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As Easy as Parenting!!

Remember my earlier post on child leash? The one where I felt offended with the device called “Child Harness” ?!! Well, a few days back, a good friend from office sent me a mail containing a set of snaps of the same child harness. Just looking at the snaps strengthened my belief that this device is [...]

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