Posted by: inbavalli on: July 23, 2009
I like Kalam – I consider him India’s most non-embarrassing President ever. Highly knowledgeable, no controversies, no scandals, no faux paus, the works.
But I find this huge fuss about Continental Airlines frisking him a little stupid. Bad enough VIPs guzzle taxpayers money and stop the traffic routinely. Should they also pose a security threat? Between [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: July 20, 2009
Given the proportions of my size, age and gargantuan wisdom, 25 points are not enough to cover all the highly important facts about myself. Here are the critical leftovers:
Before I die I would like to find out the purpose of the Insert button on the keyboard.
I wish someone would find a more effective and less [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: July 20, 2009
I’ve been repeatedly tagged on this by various bloggers as well as on FB. Here goes:
I love…
1. Eating, sleeping and reading, more or less in that order.
2. Watching movies in the theatre
3. Listening to gossip – it’s strictly one-way – I never do the talking
4. Idling on the verandah
5. My parents’ house
I hate…
6. Wheat [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: July 14, 2009
I’m eating my words and no rice. After all the noise I made about dying without rice, I wish to inform that, thanks to a vrat, I’m off rice for more than a week. And alive and kicking enough to type these words.
The puja requires that I give thamboolam to sumangalis. Paiyyan wanted to know [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: July 12, 2009
Normally I’m quite pro-privacy. Never ask needless questions, never look through door gaps, the works.
But when I travel by train I’m shamelessly curious. While speeding past houses along the railway track, I eagerly look into open windows, greedily drinking in the sight of the kitchen, drawing room or verandah. In a fraction of a second, [...]
Posted by: inbavalli on: July 3, 2009
I have been sitting on this mother tag for what must be at least a decade. Some bloggers have written on the joys of motherhood and some on the challenges it poses. I’m right now in a rather charitable mood so I’ll write about umm… err… the ‘benefits’ of being a mother:
Free child labour: With [...]
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