Elevator Revelations

Author : The Good The Bad The Smugly      Blog : Soumya      Date : 5/16/2013 6:01:01 PM

'No I’m not a stranger to getting lost in the neighborhood or subways or the mall! Nope. Not new. In fact when it comes to the drill, I am quite an expert. Check Google Maps. If that doesn’t help (which in most of my cases it doesn’t because hello! who charges phone!), follow Plan B – ask just about anybody who […]'

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Thanjavur

Author : The Good The Bad The Smugly      Blog : Soumya      Date : 2/3/2013 6:34:20 PM

'After all that’s said and done, what’s it that comes to my mind when I think of my little trip to Thanjavur? Such a noisy little town! Buses blare horns shamelessly at double the ‘hoarse power’ and other vehicles don’t feel intimidated to be left behind. That said, people are helpful and at times more [...]'

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What 2012 taught me.

Author : The Good The Bad The Smugly      Blog : Soumya      Date : 1/7/2013 7:19:02 PM

'Friends and family act stupid. So do you. Run away for some time, that’s all you can do. Make ‘Merry’ your middle name, coz tomorrow They may bring out rules and make it ‘Sorrow’. Travel, fight for your rights, dance with two left feet, Tip your maid, unless you want food dressed with [...]'

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The Office Loo

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 12/3/2012 7:31:58 PM

'Sobs, each after the other at an interval, echoed about the clean, blue toilet walls. Pale lights on roof intensified the gloom that accompanied sobs. After a long time, one of the doors opened and a smartly dressed woman came out. She went straight to the mirror and started fixing her eyes and hair. When she paused for a [...]'

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Sleepless In Saidapet

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 11/22/2012 8:15:39 PM

'Sometimes it’s 1 in the morning(night??) and I can’t sleep. Then I do these. Watch ‘Gangam Style’ and search for Psy’s biography. There must be some event that happened that made him, Him, right? Fb-stalk savvy people. Steer away from too savvy ones. They give you heartburn. Not good for sleep. Online shopping, which you [...]'

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I like them rare, thank you.

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 10/14/2012 12:21:04 PM

'Pinterest! That little IE window which brings in a fresh current of art and creativity to an otherwise stale, corporate-jargons-laden existence, I owe this post to you. It’s a regular activity – skipping through the pictures in Pineterst and oohing and aaahing at all those creative thinking levels and comparing them to my [...]'

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New Leaf

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 9/28/2012 7:38:34 PM

'“For the tenth time, Ma, I don’t know which cheese to pick!” Did the raised voice bring down temperature at the dairy isle of supermarket they were in? She wouldn’t know. She was tensely watching her mom’s upright figure bend very little and pick Mozzarella slices from the freezer. She went on with the grocery [...]'

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Things I am thankful for which I wasn’t when I was just a teen

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 6/30/2012 9:18:09 AM

'Family. Need I say more? Small town upbringing – to make me see choices galore. The knowledge, among other things, that if I can’t live with myself, nobody can.     Or that friends are seasonal and should enjoy their company without any 5-year plan. Getting over the fact that my hair is never going [...]'

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Road to discovery is strewn with lettuce leaves…

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 6/1/2012 7:24:04 PM

'Not really. But I thought I’ll keep the title a bit vague this time. Mainly because the recipes I’m posting here are too. Well, these are those 5 minutes recipes which even a half-boiled cook can whip up. They deserve a post so that they are preserved for posterity. 1. Sprouts and dates Salad – [...]'

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Bright-Colored Chocolates

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 5/8/2012 3:14:16 PM

'Ammu skipped down the steps of her home and ran towards the wall across the garden. She climbed it with ease and sat on top facing the next house. Sun shone down her close-cropped hair and the breeze had little trouble fluttering her frock about her thin frame. She pulled out a small weed from [...]'

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Pepper Kick Smoothie

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 4/29/2012 7:35:13 AM

'I rammed lots of dubious looking oranges and apples into the blender on a hot humid mid-morning. That is, today. The power went off on a vacation and my innocent fruits arrived at their judgement day a few days too soon. So I decided to make a quick job of it when the power came [...]'

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Why a girl won’t make a good James Bond

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 4/24/2012 3:42:50 PM

'Cannot escape from the call from mom asking if she is with a boy and if not then what is she doing out in the middle of the night. Has to stop every 5 minutes and take picture. In different poses/ hairstyles/goggles. Would even want a few with the villain she is after. Has to [...]'

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Happy or not?

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 4/22/2012 7:38:50 AM

'You know why girls dig ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ right? We just so identify with the whole ‘be happy with yourself first’ theory that we hog on chocolate, dress up nice and get drunk to feel good about ourselves. Does that work? Eh..sometimes. Well, most times. But when life hands you just sour rotten lemons [...]'

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Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 3/12/2012 3:38:43 PM

'Hospital stay is not easy. Especially if you have been feeling top of the morning everyday of your life till one fine day, you find yourself having injections for breakfast. It reminds you that you too are vulnerable, nothing but a body of matter heading fast towards the end. That as you speak, your body [...]'

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Lip lock with Havelock

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 2/15/2012 9:48:32 PM

'Just like the sweet, short summer romance that we read about in novels of romantic nature, me and my friends came upon and fell in love with this little island-paradise on earth, Havelock. Nestling quietly among its more well-endowed counterparts in the Bay of Bengal, this island is one of the most happening ones in [...]'

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Pappu & Me

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 1/24/2012 4:22:35 PM

'It was one of the sunny weekends of 1996 which saw me grumpily doing school homework when a relative of mine walked in with a cardboard box saying ‘Horlicks’ on one side and ‘This side up’ on the other. After lunch and lot of polite conversation, he casually mentioned, “Oh there is a puppy inside [...]'

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Attempts at writing Haiku (HA HA HA)

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 11/9/2011 7:11:54 PM

'One of those awfully sunny afternoons, while sitting jobless at my desk and trying to look like working hard and browsing for nonsense double hard, the word Haiku and a website containing tiny, little poems popped-up in a very inexplicable way, which can only be explained in the cyber world as… ok, stop. Move back [...]'

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Little Red Rat Babies

Author : ikeepwondering      Blog : Soumya      Date : 9/27/2011 7:19:33 PM

'I was home for the weekend after 2 months. This wide interval was deliberate. My suspicion that my folks were taking me for granted fortified when they made my room a store-room of sort and explained that I live in the living room couch anyway. So that fine early morning as i bounced around home, joyfully [...]'

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