Posted by: inbavalli on: September 21, 2007
Aiyo! What’s this world coming to?
Come to think of it, it doesn’t seem a very bad idea. If the marriage requires to be renewed every seven years, maybe there would be fewer beer-bellied men and pear-shaped women.
At least in the last year or two of the seven-year tenure, the couple would try to behave their [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: September 14, 2007
This happened about 10 years ago. Paiyan, then three, had chucked me out of the bathroom with an “I’m a big boy, can bathe myself now” order. I went to office that day feeling like a used and thrown diaper.
Then it happened. The phone in our cubicle rang – it was for my senior and [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: September 7, 2007
I just lost a good friend. Caring, compassionate, trustworthy and affable – there aren’t too many people like friend R these days. And I just lost her. To Amway.
From now onwards, I’ll be suspicious if she calls me over to taste her Chinese fried rice. If she calls up at 10.30 in the night to [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: September 5, 2007
MadMomma, Boo, Poppins, Moppet’s Mom… these and a lot more are mummy blogs I frequent and take absolute delight in reading.
But I do have a question – aren’t there any Indian mums of teenaged and pre-teen kids blogging? I would like some sage blog advice on what I should do if Kutty doesn’t eat her [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: September 5, 2007
Since I can’t possibly write this on a stamp paper and get it attested by a notary public, I will do the next best thing. I will put it down on my blog so that my kids can always point it out to me and ask me to behave if I turn cranky and crazy [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: September 4, 2007
Yesterday, I polambyfied about having to cook endlessly for festivals. Today, as Paiyan and Kutty gorged on the seedais and murukkus — all hand prepared by me — I was filled with an immense sense of satisfaction. Feeding Bakasuran and his kid sister is no joke and to actually have the in-laws go “jora irukku” [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: September 3, 2007
Why does every festival, function and event have to translate into more time in the kitchen? Happy occasion? Make sweets. Death? Makes sweets and a dozen other items for that also. It beats me.
Tomorrow is Krishna Jayanthi. I spent a solid 3 hours yesterday preparing some batchanams. Will spend another 4 hours tomorrow making [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: September 3, 2007
Every time I begin to blog (yeah, that’s quite often these days) I imagine I would do it regularly once I begin – that it’s just the starting trouble that needs to be taken care of. That once I set off, the words would just pour forth, filling paras and paras of new posts.
As [...]
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