Category: Slice of Life

  • BLOGGER MEET ETIQUETTE

    Image Courtesy:Google To quote Wikipedia, etiquette derived from the French word ‘étiquette’ is a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class, or group.  Yes, we all have certain rules to follow within the framework of respective obligations and occasions. You abide by these…

  • Getting Knotty…

    Genesis Well, that is what it said on our wedding invite!  No prizes for guessing, ours was a love marriage. It really was a simple love story. Boy meets girl. No sparks fly. He is her boss. She has no choice! But then again, in a nation such as ours, where a marriage sounds like a ‘family and…

  • Silence is golden?

    Google Image  I was all of 4. We were returning from the market, my father and I. He stopped to buy some fruits. I plucked a few grapes from the vendors cart and enclosed them in my palm. Close to home, my father chose to hold me by the other hand seeing the oncoming traffic.…

  • Rain on me

    We’ve been taught that Indian monsoons visit between June and September and so we believe.  A stray shower here and there, beginning June and social network forums were abuzz with welcoming the rains in their full glory. I received ‘happy rains’ sms’ too.  But I’ve known from experience that till the skies are not downcast for…

  • My dear wannabe actor,

                                           I write to you since the last 10 missed calls on my cell phone remain to be yours, diligently, for the past week. Having proved your pursuance and determination, I’d like to add a few skills…

  • Creative, Economically Speaking!

    I wrote the title and then sat back and stared at the screen. It seemed apt, but how was I to ever summarize all that my parents had taught me in one post? I am what they call a cocktail, a heady one at that. Born to a Punjabi father and a Catholic mother, my…

  • Mere Paas RajMAA hai!

    This post won me my first blog recognition award with Blog Adda’s “Conversation with My mother Contest.”  http://forum.blogadda.com/discussion/comment/329#Comment_329 And this is what I won 😀 What Mother’s Day means to a child, can only be fathomed truly by a Mom!   “Tujhe sab hai pataaa…….meri maa”, as the poignant song played on the FM, it touched chords deep inside…

  • Tinkle all the way.

    I love animals! For the longest time as a child I wanted to raise a dog, but the confines of a middle class home hardly provided that kind of a luxury. My parents refused to relent, so I was happy to add a stray cat and dog to my list of ‘pets’. I had separate…

  • Sexy, Saucy and Spicy…

    I completely love my ‘me time’. I walk aimlessly around malls, watch a movie or grab a bite just with my pleasurable self. It is quite therapeutic really, sometimes when you just sit back and do nothing at all. So on one of my solitary dates at a popular eatery, I sat and took in…

  • To the woman in my life!

    Today is a HOLI-day! Dual celebrations raise a toast to colour and femininity.  As I take in the zillion wishes via SMS from people who I don’t even know exist on my phone book, I am left wondering, how much more commercial this can get? Cards, Contests, Diamonds, Dinners, Dates, Holidays, Shopping, Sales……….Interrupting my chain…