tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63862288943607215572024-03-12T18:20:13.596-07:00 Wander Bay~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-64870602094543245062021-06-10T04:03:00.006-07:002021-06-10T04:14:58.275-07:00The wonderment of watercolor<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The peacelilly I've been eyeing,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">the one that sways when the cool wind blows,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">the one that's so precious white,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">perched in my neighbours balcony.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Greeting me every day, a good day</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">acknowledging the oncoming pouring of cold slanty rain.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Breathing the wet sand and the darkest clouds</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">in the thunder, whiter as ever.</span></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uUPX-1IwlX8/YMHw8RX3T7I/AAAAAAAAFtc/UihbilHl0bwHbh8o1pjo60IM70tN9QjvACPcBGAYYCw/s2048/waterc.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1364" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uUPX-1IwlX8/YMHw8RX3T7I/AAAAAAAAFtc/UihbilHl0bwHbh8o1pjo60IM70tN9QjvACPcBGAYYCw/w266-h400/waterc.png" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Art work by Gayatri - December 2020.</span><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Watercolor on canvas.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div>~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-988973738212428002021-05-28T07:19:00.008-07:002021-06-10T04:18:52.608-07:00This. Me.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pq-yP7mb8UE" width="388" youtube-src-id="pq-yP7mb8UE"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">DCFC has always been a favourite band of mine. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But this song - "I'll possess your heart" is the most cutting of all. It's sharp but extremely subtle. Ignoring the stalker-ish-ness of the singer, I relate to this traveler in the video- a lot. <br />When I went to Seoul, one day I woke up really early morning around at 4:00 am. I made coffee in the coffee-machine in the hotel room at Gangnam, sat on the window pane, opened my playlist on my comp, overlooking the posh cityscape, listening to music, sipping coffee and only to realize that my window faced the east side where the sun rose. <br /><br />As the orange fringes started appearing, cutting through billboards and tall steel structures, this song began in the background, catching pace. I cannot express the sheer joy I experienced in that moment- the calm, the morbid pleasure in it all. <br />If this particular moment from 4 years ago is so vivid for me, you must understand how significantly this has impacted me! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Do yourself a favour- wake up early morning, as the sun comes up, keep this song in the background and take a deep breath!</span></p>~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-12720066152101384062021-05-28T06:01:00.003-07:002021-06-10T04:04:24.278-07:00Morocco Tales<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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അപ്പഴല്ലേ ഗുട്ടൻസ് മനസിലായത്! എന്റെ അച്ഛമ്മ പക്കാ തമിഴത്തിയാണ്! മധുരൈക്കാരി. അച്ഛച്ചൻ (അച്ഛന്റെ അച്ഛൻ) ആണെങ്കിലോ.. തലൈമന്നാർ ആണ് പുള്ളീടെ സ്വദേശം. അതോ, അങ്ങ് ശ്രീലങ്കയിലും! പകച്ചു പോയി ഞാൻ! ഇത് വരെ അറിഞ്ഞേയില്ല! ഇടയ്ക്കിടെ വീട്ടിൽ വട്ടളപ്പൻ എന്ന ഒരു പലഹാരം ഉണ്ടാക്കാറുണ്ടായിരുന്നു.. അതും കേരളത്തിന്റെ മാത്രമെന്ന് അഹങ്കരിച്ചു നടന്നിരുന്നു ഞാൻ. ഈ ചരിത്രമൊക്കെ അറിഞ്ഞ ശേഷമാണ് ഞാൻ മനസിലാക്കുന്നത്; അതൊരു ശ്രീലങ്കൻ പലഹാരമാണ്. ഞഞ്ഞായി ! </div>
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ഇതെല്ലാം അറിഞ്ഞ ഞെട്ടലിൽ നിന്ന് മോചിതയായപ്പോഴേക്കും ദാ .... അച്ഛൻ ജനിച്ചതോ അങ്ങ് ധനുഷ്കോടിയിലും .. അതിപ്പോ കടലിനടിയിൽ ആണ് താനും. അച്ഛന് അഞ്ചു വയസുള്ളപ്പോളാണ് ആ കൊടുങ്കാറ്റും പേമാരിയും വന്നത്. അവർ അന്ന് ക്രിസ്തുമസ് വെക്കേഷന് മധുരൈയിൽ ആയിരുന്നത് കൊണ്ട് രക്ഷപ്പെട്ടു ത്രെ! വീടും, കിടപ്പാടവും, കടലെടുത്തു. എല്ലാം നഷ്ടപെട്ട അവർ പലായനം ചെയ്തു തൃച്ചിയിലേക്ക്.. അച്ഛൻ കല്യാണം കഴിച്ചത് ഒരു കോയിക്കോട്ട്കാരി മലയാളിയെയും. </div>
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ഏതായാലും ഈ കഥയൊക്കെ പറഞ്ഞത് വെറുതെയല്ല. ഞാൻ ഒരിക്കലും ഒരു പക്കാ മലയാളി ഭക്ഷണം വീട്ടിൽ ഉണ്ടാക്കിയിട്ടേയില്ല.. എപ്പോഴും ഒരു കോമ്പിനേഷൻ ആണ്. അവിടുന്ന് കുറച് , ഇവിടുന്നു കുറച്... അതായത് ഉത്തമാ... സാമ്പാറിന്റെ കൂടെ ഏപ്പോഴും കൊണ്ടാട്ടം നിർബന്ധാ..!! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ചോറ് , മോര് കൊളമ്പ്, ചീര വഴറ്റൽ (തമിഴ് സ്റ്റൈൽ, പപ്പാസ് റെസിപ്പി), പൊടി ചട്നി, അയല വറുത്തത്.. !! </td></tr>
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-28828228143763219592017-02-08T21:54:00.001-08:002017-02-10T00:59:45.740-08:00What I ate in Seoul, Korea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The tasty Bento box a.k.a Lunch Box- This contains a fine assortment of fish cakes, filleted Salmon and rice/ noodles to go. Fine dining at Samseong</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mandu - Dumplings with fillings of beef, pork or both, mostly.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A Prawn dish made of batter-fried prawns, topped by a poached egg on a bed of white rice. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dakgangjeong - Korean honey fried chicken; less spicy, hint of honey, comes with drinks.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tofu with Kimchi, a Korean “anju”( a type of dish that generally comes along alcohol)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Golbaengimuchim - Spicy whelks with noodles. A typical Korean Anju</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spicy Seafood noodle soup - clams, mussels, fish cakes and soy noodles in a chilly filled broth</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Manjoo. A roadside sweet made of waffle batter and filled with Limecurd/ Beanpaste. I liked the beanpaste flavour better. The Limecurd was more like egg yolk; hardly any lime flavour. Jamsil station UG shopping centre.</span></td></tr>
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-54349762554843370092016-11-06T21:22:00.001-08:002016-11-16T23:04:52.863-08:00The W Files.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It has been a while that I have actually written something here.<br />
Mostly because I have turned into a lazy lump (except when I jump into the swimming pool; then I swim as though all the alligators in the world are chasing after me). Teehee.<br />
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Ever since I plunged into the dating stint, I have been muddled with this question from everyone around- "When are you marrying?" Suffices to say that I have been rolling my eyes at that question for a long time, evading it, brushing it aside and changing the topic to food.<br />
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Not until R proposed a few weeks ago. R and I have been seeing each other since a while.<br />
Errr...<br />
Should I mumble the "meeting" story here? Oh well, what's there to lose?<br />
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R and I met in 2008, at a common friend's birthday party held at Bangalore. I was on vacation from Mumbai then, and took a train from Kochi to Bangalore, because Bangalore weather was enticing enough. Duh!<br />
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I was sipping some berry punch at a quite spot in the hall of the Sankey Tank apartment when this tall dude walked in. We were introduced and began to chat. Unlike popular thoughts, no, we didn't hit it off in the beginning itself. He was from Faridabad he said; typical Haryanvi, I thought.<br />
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He spoke a lot, and generally didn't like him much. We moved on. A year later, I met him at Ahmedabad unexpectedly while I was shopping at Law garden for Navratri bling. I was bargaining at a stall and I hear this strong "Hai" behind me. He took me by surprise. And again, we casually spoke.<br />
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<i>Howareyouhere?whatareyoudoinghere?</i><br />
<i>Iamfineandyou?</i><br />
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Since I was wandering alone that day and so was he, he asked me if I had visited Manekchowk for the yummiest food. I told him that I had heard of it but never got a chance to go and so he offered to take me there. Great offer, I thought in my mind.<br />
My brain whizzed with many questions simultaneously at that point.<br />
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1) I do not know this guy much, what if he is a psycho?<br />
2) He is talking about food. How bad could a man be if he is offering to take you to Manekchowk?<br />
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Food won. Eventually.<br />
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He took me in an auto to the best Halwa Puri wala at Manekchowk and we gobbled food like starved turkies. We stall-hopped; from jalebis to amazing cheese idlis, it was like food gods blessed us for real. We spoke randomly and ate as though there was no tomorrow. He told me that he was a malayali who was born and brought-up at Faridabad. I told him about my home and little silent life.<br />
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We spoke and ate, and it turned from 5:30 pm to 10:30 pm.<br />
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He dropped me back to where I was staying and took my number.<br />
That was the only beginning I remember.<br />
It was followed by coquettish conversations and coy smiles.<br />
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But, I also remember a "brief" END. Which was not so brief.<br />
It was so because after 2 years of <i>sort of </i>dating, from 2008 to 2010, I got an internship at Kochi and not Bangalore. Or rather, I decided to be at Kochi and not Bangalore for my internship despite me getting offers in Bangalore.<br />
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I chose Kochi because I missed my home and familiarity so bad. I thought that with my salary a month I can buy my grandparents some treats and pizzas, help my home; and I just generally wanted to be with them. But that decision broke R and I apart. It broke our hearts and relation to bits.<br />
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After the internship, I dreaded to get back to Bangalore. Which explains why I jumped at the offer I got from Chennai. From August 2012 to March 2013, I was at Chennai, trying to balance my wits.<br />
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In early February 2013, I decided to move on and start afresh in Bangalore once and for all. I am glad I decided so.<br />
So, yet again, I met R at Costa Coffee at Brigade Road in April 2013 just "as friends". We decided to keep off for a bit, and focus on our lives. He was kind of seeing someone who I knew and although that hurt me to bits, I was happy too; happy that he was happy.<br />
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The truth is that I never got fully over him. Neither did he. We shook hands and bid goodbye, tearing apart our hugging hearts. We made sure that we tugged hard at our leaping minds because we had our respective egos to please.<br />
I just didn't want to date anyone and wanted to be at peace, relax for a bit, travel,watch movies when he called me one day in a cold late October 2013.<br />
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"G, I want to talk to you. Can we meet?"<br />
I ask him what was this catch up for. "Haven't we moved on?"<br />
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"I request you to make it, because I have to do it some day and it better be today".<br />
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I am someone who hates being pressured and coerced into doing something. Although so, I obliged because yes, I wanted to meet him desperately too!<br />
Shh, don't tell him.<br />
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So we meet at Costa that evening, where he tells me that he is going to the US for 2 months for work. I felt really bad when I heard that because in all honestly, the knowledge of his presence had kept me sane all that while, although we never spoke in months. His regular FB posts made sure that I get him somehow and made me feel loved by someone other than family.<br />
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I said good luck to him. And then he told me the words that I wanted to hear for so long.<br />
"Do you want to try this for one more time?"<br />
Straight-faces turned into teary smiles and we ended up sharing more than hearts that evening.<br />
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He left for the US and the two months tried us in all possible ways. We argued and we fought over phone, late night calls and beautiful surprises came to us in multitudes.<br />
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Just that this time, we held each other in our heart walls. In early December he came back to Bangalore.<br />
We met for coffee. I'll never forget that day when he took me home to his apartment where he couldn't let me go, held me closer to him than before, as we conversed, hugged, held each other for hours, like there was no tomorrow.<br />
We began living in by the end of 2014, hiding that trivial fact from our families. We told our curious neighbors that we were married although neither of us ever harbored any notion of that sort. Or atleast I thought so.<br />
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Until R proposed. A sentence it was. Sweet and simple but made me the cherubic young lady I was, when I fell in love.<br />
"G, I am thinking of getting married, and I know for sure that you'd be the best mother to my kids".<br />
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He told me one day while we were on a brunch date.<br />
"Are you sure?" I asked him.<br />
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He brought his chair closer and told me that I was his best friend.<br />
That was enough for me. Enough for my heart to pour out the love.<br />
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Getting married is a big responsibility. I cannot wait to start a life with my handsome bestie- Not Living in, but Married.<br />
Now please don't ask us when we're making babies.<br />
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-67778191902022166792016-10-20T02:43:00.001-07:002016-10-26T02:28:21.361-07:00When you walked back in<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When you both left us one day,<br />
into your heavenly abode,<br />
it felt numb; spaced and cold<br />
Like a thousand roses suddenly turned to bricks<br />
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Shutting my doors tight for days.<br />
not letting even a ray of hope to let go,<br />
falling back again into bursts of grief palpitations,<br />
I held on the memories that you gave; with every heart strand of mine.<br />
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I couldn't believe the absence of your presence,<br />
I shook my mind in disbelief, as though I heard a big lie,<br />
Letting go off you and your memories is not easy.<br />
Until one day when you surprised me in my dreams.<br />
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I saw you both, sitting on the verandah of our home you so loved;<br />
I saw you both in your usual attires, hands folded on your laps<br />
Creased hands, white hair;<br />
smiling at happiness of being back there,<br />
Waiting for us to come and talk to you, with that familiar starry eyes,<br />
but wet with tears- for you'd moved away from us.<br />
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I saw you clearly and began gallopping to the love you were.<br />
I was tired but that didn't matter.<br />
All that made sense then was the fact that you've come back<br />
As I leaped onto your laps and asked you, 'are you going to stay?'<br />
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You touched me with your cold hands,<br />
My forehead; that which was burning with sweat.<br />
and the tears that ran down my heart,<br />
with all my might, I asked you again,<br />
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"Come back just once?"<br />
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"we can't"; you replied. You replied slow that it rang my ears for sure,<br />
"We aren't allowed to"; you say, as I sat looking at both of you, deep grief on your face, with glistening tears in your eyes,<br />
"<i>they </i>won't let us come back; <i>they </i>have never let anyone go back, so you should know"<br />
As I wept on clutching your fist close to my heart.<br />
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You let loose your hands and went away,<br />
I woke up suddenly and felt my heart go astray.<br />
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Grandma and Grandpa, I will never let your memory go.<br />
Miss you every single day.<br />
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-58892392344257763142016-09-28T04:10:00.001-07:002016-11-06T21:34:01.588-08:00Italiano!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Italy; what a magical place to be!<br />
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It has always been a wish in my heart to visit this phenomenal land ever since I jealously chanced over a friend's Facebook profile, who was honeymooning at Rome! x-(<br />
And now when it was my chance with my R, I couldn't have been happier! Venice, Padova, Rome and Vatican; Thankyou and I am happy!<br />
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Some photos to share and care<br />
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-74240892577415736882016-09-27T03:40:00.000-07:002016-09-28T03:48:40.227-07:00To Stop Waste<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The sense of waste that dawns to you after you have crossed a convincing age is miraculous. To some really old humans, such a sense has hardly ever dawned and hence, do not even consider such exceptions.<br />
I am talking about the educated, well-read humans, with at least some sensitivity to the world and people around, to who the dawning of 'waste' is a mere matter of time.<br />
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Waste is inevitable if you are a living being. And because we are humans, our wastage is exponentially macabre. We dump waste at every nook and cranny of our earth and nature and it pretty much holds up as to why we are termed by ourselves often as the most destructive of all species. Well, if you think of it even dung beetles love the shit they roll in, except for us humans; we throw 'em all.<br />
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And it looks like I am in that phase of realization; that phase where I realize that I belong to this species that can only destruct and destroy. And that ain't a good feeling. So, I have decided to take a step back from worldly progress and begin with 'self-waste- reduction'.<br />
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India is a populous country. And say, atleast 40% of the country is women. Within which, the women of menstruating age is atleast a good 25%? Now, I don't expect all women in India to be using sanitary pads and hence those who use sanitary pads are say another 15%? That itself is such a huge number!<br />
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Every month atleast a tonne of sanitary waste is dumped in every city in India and it breaks my heart to see that I was also a cause of that waste accumulation.This turning point in my life comes from this fact; that I am not ready to use non-biodegradable period blockers anymore. Enough is enough. I am going to shift into an alternative that could range from cotton cloth to mooncups, both of which sound utterly uncomfortable.<br />
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On second thoughts, 'the discomfort' is all a matter of 'getting used to' as afterall, humans are indeed creatures of habit.<br />
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-77146205376197447122015-12-29T01:42:00.002-08:002015-12-29T01:42:27.733-08:00My share of Chlorine juice.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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From the time I have been swimming regularly for about 5 months now ( I started swimming regularly from 2013, had to take a break after 8 months, continued barely in 2014, and now this stint since August), I have felt an increased urge to lookout for the holistic well-being of myself and my dears, with each passing day. I can state with conviction that when we find one 'activity' that we feel suits us the best and follow it religiously, it let's us maintain our physical and mental well being for a long time to come. It boost<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">s the morale, increases confidence and lets you prepare well.</span></div>
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-91235773225253552602015-04-01T01:53:00.004-07:002015-04-01T01:53:35.569-07:00Early morning musings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is Hikkaduwa and its hot outside. Aroma rises from nearby shacks and shops to serve customers. It's early noon and I am at my prim. Last day in the island nation and I wish it never turned 'last day'. The song 'All good things' rush into my mind, when I think of parting with this form of natural beauty. Which probably explains why we all try the possession of beauty into a tangible form; like a souvenir or a piece of jewelry. Such possessions keep alive the memory of beauty; and not probably the beauty itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was such a bittersweet year-a total mixed one; with precious gains and unimaginable losses. Gains so like coarse honey and losses that last a lifetime. It seemed so true when people say that as you gain so shall you loose. But with 2014, there was no beginning or an end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rewinding is not a good idea. But at this juncture when a new year is dawning, I need to sit back and re-look at what I have gone through, what I cherish, what I miss, what to keep close, what to not let go!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1) <b>Love</b> came by my way; and I knew when I met that soul</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2) <b>Lost </b>two most important people from my life: and I never expected them to vanish so soon: grandma and grandpa. Always stay etched in my heart you two, and bless us from where you are.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5) Got an opportunity to travel to Alappey; wanted to, since long. Houseboats, valloms and God of small things mega-rushed into my brain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7) Wrote a book: being appreciated on it just makes my day, every day.</span></div>
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-53197501943364234332014-10-07T00:38:00.001-07:002014-10-07T00:55:38.176-07:00ഒരു പിടി ഓർമകളും വാടിയ പൂക്കളും<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
അച്ഛമ്മേ ... എന്തിനാ എന്നെ വിട്ടു പോയത്? എന്നെ ഇഷ്ടമല്ലായിരുന്നു അല്ലെ?<br />
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അച്ഛമ്മ ഉള്ളത് കൊണ്ട് മാത്രം ഞാൻ സ്നേഹിക്കപ്പെട്ടവളായി. എനിക്ക് കൊതി തോന്നുന്നതെല്ലാം ഞാൻ കഴിച്ചു... ഞാൻ കരയുമ്പോൾ, എന്റെ കരച്ചിൽ കണ്ട് വിഷമം തോന്നി കരയുന്ന ഒരാളേ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നുള്ളൂ, അച്ഛമ്മ. എന്റെ കണ്ണീർ തുടച്ചു തന്ന് മുഖം കഴുകി തരുമ്പോൾ, എത്ര മ്രുദുവായവ എന്ന് ഞാൻ ആശ്ച്ചര്യപ്പെടാറുള്ള അച്ഛമ്മയുടെ കൈവെള്ള ഒരിക്കൽ കൂടി കൈയിലെടുത്തു മുഖം അമർത്തി കരയണം എനിക്ക്. കരഞ്ഞു തീർക്കണം എനിക്ക്.<br />
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എന്റെ കൈ പിടിച്ചു ഡാൻസ് ക്ലാസ്സിലേക്ക് എന്നെ കൊണ്ടുപോയിരുന്ന അച്ഛമ്മ. എന്റെ പല്ല് പറിചപ്പോൾ വേദന കൊണ്ട് പുളഞ്ഞ എനിക്ക് ഐസ് ക്രീം വാങ്ങി തന്ന എന്റെ അച്ഛമ്മ. <br />
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ഞാൻ സ്കൂൾ വിട്ടു വരുന്നതും കാത്ത് എന്തെങ്കിലും പലഹാരം ഉണ്ടാക്കി, സ്കൂളിലെ വിശേഷങ്ങൾ അന്വേഷിച്ചു, അനിയത്തിയെയും ഒക്കത്ത് ഇരുത്തി ഊട്ടി, ഉമ്മറത്ത് കാത്ത് നില്ക്കുന്ന അച്ഛമ്മയെ എനിക്ക് ഒന്ന് കൂടി കാണണം. ഒന്ന് കെട്ടിപിടിക്കണം. ഉമ്മ തരണം.<br />
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ഞാൻ എത്ര ഫോണ് വിളിച്ചാലും, വിളിച്ചില്ല എന്നാ പരാതിയുമായി എന്നും എന്നോട് പരിഭവം പറയാറുള്ള അച്ഛമ്മ .... ഞാൻ ഇനി ആരെ ഫോണ്-il വിളിക്കും ? ആര്ക്ക് വേണ്ടി മധുരപലഹാരങ്ങൾ വാങ്ങും? ആരുമില്ല. വീട്ടിൽ ഇന്ന്, ഈ നേരത്ത്, ആരുമില്ല. ശൂന്യം.<br />
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-13712852920843704892014-09-17T05:11:00.000-07:002016-12-12T23:31:04.396-08:00Bittersweet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Very recently, I went on a houseboat at Alappey with my handsome bestie. </div>
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The journey was calm, much needed in dosage and the experience was sweet and serene.</div>
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water, boats, daily life, bridges, kettuvalloms, canals, trees, glorious food tasting, awing at the size of lobsters, wading ducks, rowing a boat, paddy fields and the calm punnamada lake.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">just get into my mouth already, sexy! <br />
This was all mine safely, because my company was a fraud mallu boy</td></tr>
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Punnamada lake and houseboats was much needed. I also waded through the water on a small boat, rowing across the vast 'kaayal' (lake), sheepishly looking at the life outside. May be I'll visit with my family next time. Sure that sounds.<br />
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-34044385366231504952014-08-25T11:05:00.003-07:002014-08-25T11:05:39.883-07:00Madurai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It began pouring honey. Coarse honey. Although I get salt and pepper thrown into my eyes every now and then occasionally, the honey I gulp down my throat, the very same honey that life has given me, I can't part with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have been extensively writing for<a href="http://www.theworldreporter.com/author/gayatri" target="_blank"> The World Reporter's </a>Travel section. And I enjoy every bit of the writing process and sharing my photographs. I have always wanted be a travel writer and fulfilling my dream step- by step. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Reading: Reading has taken a slight backseat. However, I am reading The Cleft by Dorris Lessing. It can be called a book from the feminist angle slightly. But, since I am just reading through, I'd rather not judge.</span></div>
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~AND_http://www.blogger.com/profile/01692431938456959309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386228894360721557.post-31199614732055407212014-04-10T02:36:00.001-07:002014-04-10T03:09:02.446-07:00Cheats called FAB BAG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A friend vents her anger at a <a href="http://www.fabbag.com/" target="_blank">CHEAP SHITTY SERVICE</a> called the Fab Bag, that doesn't deserve any praise. Let's see what she writes!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Does this count for in any angle, any way for a whopping 599/- , okay round up, 600/- INR?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These are, let me explain, the infamous and <a href="http://www.fabbag.com/" target="_blank">shitty FAB BAG</a> products I received after subscribing to their crap of a claim.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1) Cetaphil moisturiser and Cleanser lotion - samples- drugstore items that I can buy off the pharma store right opposite my lane.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2) Vivel - with an <b>expiry date of May 2014</b> - and something that is absolutely rejected by every single woman I know. (Kareena Kapoor endorses it, she gets paid craploads, we know!) </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3) Tommy G Lipstick - slightly fine, but does NOT suit the Indian skin tone with it's ridonculous Neon Orangish-pink shade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hi ********** - We are extremely sad to hear that you dint like the products which were allotted to you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our customization team surely puts in lot of efforts to send in best and closest three products according to the questionnaire.You have made the payment for three months subscription, we surely dint want to ruin your subscription experience with us as we surely dint want it to be like thisAs per the policy we wont be able to refund your amount for March bag but can cancel and refund the amount for the coming months bag ie 1499-599=900 will be refunded.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The second point makes me fume in disgust at her sheer audacity to justify the kind of awful service. Had it been the case as she has written, I'd get products according my questionnaire I gave them filled. Nope. That wasn't the case. and aunty Mamta wouldn't herself use any of the products they had sent me, and I am not keen to waste my money on the horrible/ waste company. They're just going to run down soon!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Good riddance, that I am NOT GOING TO SUBSCRIBE to this SHIT. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cradle</span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> me in your palms, touch my hair, enlighten me, blow me a kiss</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">for its my wish for long that it has been and can't swap.</span></div>
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This time over, I am sharing an excellent example of unprofessionalism from REAL LIFE, which I encountered and probably, had I not have had 3 years of professional experience/ had I been the newly passed out naive graduate, would have fallen for and bam bam bam, be cheated. </div>
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So, I get a collaboration request/ work inquiry in mail as a design consultant from a 'very famous' company (as they claim it) 'P**** S***********, at 7:00 pm one Saturday. I am curious and I always look forward to designing. </div>
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I read the mail I got and decide i need time to think about it. i do not reply immidiately because I don't think that I should jump before I think, in my profession, taking up everything and not being able to deliver anything at all. So, at 5:00 am the next day (<i>ahem, a.m and unprofessional identity numero uno</i>), I get a mail from the same guy that demands that I 'start work immediately' and 'awaiting my reply soon', '<i>ASAP</i>', etc; a kind of insisting a forced employment. I had my doubts but yet, I reply positively inquiring more on the kind of work and requesting him to send me a job brief of my tasks. </div>
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He does not send any contract or brief of job but instead requests my number to 'discuss over phone'. Ok, that's alright, although I prefer mail contact if I haven't met one. But he doesn't stop there. Instead maintaining a professional code of ethics (use of words, and addressing) I get bombarded by phone calls in just hours of my reply that asks me to 'come online now', 'I have to discuss something important', on a sunday afternoon. I really don't mind that. I love my job, I will.</div>
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What pissed me off most importantly was this; he sends a mail as I go online, that has a long word doc that describes the 'PROJECT' i have to accomplish, wireframes and visual design work <i>[ For 10 effing webpages, yikes!], </i>and<i> </i>all this even before I sign any form contract/ even before I get a job description for my designation but only with his terms of work <i>(again, no contract whatsoever)</i> in blatant mail text. </div>
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1. I need copyright free work comparable to top websites like facebook or twitter or behance or any other inspiration given <i>[I LOLed at this one, classic!]</i></div>
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2. Watermark with copyright symbol and send me the Jpeg. Once approved you can send me the PSD. If we take the PSD only then a payment is done.' </div>
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<i>[unpro ka baap, numero duo]</i></div>
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No advance for my effort, nothing. </div>
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Ponder. </div>
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So, I reply stating that 'I would need an advance payment after I send the jpeg which could be half of the entire compensation, to make it fair, for my time and valuable effort and keeping in mind certain bitter experiences I have faced before. Also in case of need of task flows (etc) additionally, that will increase the compensation provided, accordingly'. I say that because it is perfectly legitimate; because, you see, the last time I checked, no task-flow, nothing; nothing is made out of air. Every work in the creative field requires thinking, and a lot of effort, patience and appreciation. </div>
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<i>'I am not sure if I would like to recruit you or have you work as a consultant.'</i></div>
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I ask an advance after I send the jpg, and he pees in his feeble brains. Urrrmm then what about my time and effort, mr. invasion?! </div>
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As though there is no effort AT ALL, to make a design and send jpeg for 10 web pages. I simply thought that his attitude was Plain Selfish and nothing close to a professional work ethic. I would do any design for my friends in a heartbeat, I know them well and they, I can turn back to. But this, was an utter disgrace to call a work culture with a man, who even before setting a contract with a professional, demands valuable time and effort from her for no payment, unless approval of the final design, which he'll juice out of me if he likes changes in the design. As though any designer has no life and he's free to work, no matter what time of the day it is!</div>
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Honestly, my immediate reaction was NOT, 'oh, there goes a good opportunity' but instead, I was actually relieved, 'thank heavens that sh*t is gone'; as I was smiling when I thought about how I was saved. </div>
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Companies and people like that, please. Do not go to designers thinking design is an easy word/ world, if it were, you'd design and that. You don't. So make it fair and keep it straight and neat. Get a contract and work diligently, eloquently. Stop being an a*sehole.</div>
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I have worked with startups that have been extremely well informed and professional in the way they deal - even if they didn't like my work, they definitely compensated for my effort and time. And that too, a good amount from the entire compensation offered. </div>
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But this, this is shame. </div>
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If you think this is just another boring rant, please feel free to ignore. but I had to share this; of nonsenses one puts up with, as a design enthusiast. I imagine this to be a fair world, but it isn't. </div>
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Major thing missed: <b>He was the CEO of the company.</b> OK.</div>
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