to my Santa

Santa, I love you. More than the gifts you shall be bringing me this year.
And you already know what I want this year, don’t you?
No, not that perfume, of the brand that you can never remember. Not even that Pepe tunic that I once lusted for. I want the book I picked at the store [...]

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looking forward to

exploring and experimenting the japanese cuisine 
 
watching 2012 (without believing that the world will end)
 
devouring a tub of caramel popcorn (without sharing with neighbor)
  
picking and reading random books at Crossword (and resisting buying  any)
 
painting at the pottery store (among other kids)
 
feasting on kebabs and rum and coke in the night (and not crying when high)
 
buying and feeding biscuits [...]

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Its beautiful outside

Bangalore is blessed by the weather gods. Truly. All through the year, we have a pleasant weather as against the extremes in the Northern cities and the heavy humidity along the coasts. And this time of the year, that is, at the beginning of my favorite season, the climate is to die for. The temperatures have [...]

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a hundred and one

Dear Blog,
You are a hundred posts old even before I write this. A hundred random thoughts put into words. Beautiful words.
A little over six months ago, I was contemplating over having you. I was so overwhelmed by what I saw and read in this virtual world. So many people, from different places, all incredibly talented. [...]

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my dream home

Like everyone else, I want a beautiful house. But not like the one you dream of, the palatial ones with rooms so many and so wide that you are lazy to walk across. Neither do I dream of that beautiful lawn with a coat of green velvet. I do not fancy chandeliers, carpets or leopard [...]

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my newest passions

drinking thick creamy cappuccino instead of tea. eating chocolates wrapped in colorful papers and liking them. doodling on paper napkins instead of discarding them. eating vanilla and pineapple pastries and not the usual gooey chocolate ones. reading interesting things on wiki and shutting the novel. cutting paper in pretty shapes and making bookmarks. typing in lower case [...]

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the good food times

Here’s a tag I picked up from Chandni. Its to list down five of your most memorable meals. Five is a small number when you are talking about food but let’s try.

Beautiful old memories of plain lunches and dinners come to me. The simplest foods eaten with my family in our old rented single bedroom [...]

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