Category: bringing up mother
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Karachi Biscuits.
The lock down has been great, I have run out my standard nibbles. So I decided to try out making the Karachi biscuits at home. Essentially I modified the Nankatai recipe. Ingredients: ¾ cup plain flour. ½ cup powdered sugar. ¼ cup custard powder ¼ butter ¼ cup tutti-frutti. 2tbs broken cashew ½ tsp baking…
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Toast to the world’s first programmer.
My workspace seemed to filled with IT personal and people speaking of AI for while I assumed AI was Air-India then I learnt it was artificial intelligence. I am told by these kids who create computer programs that computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no…
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Refusing the Laurel’s Wreath On Mother’s Day.
Mother’s day With all that hype about Mother’s Day… I would really loved someone sharing the play “Thai Retire… whatever” but the Magna Mater rules the world. A very spiritually inclined acquaintance shared a sermon by some Bramhachari Lynne … I do not know who this Bramhachari Lynne is and I frankly could not care…
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Ten Commandments on No Housework Day
April 7th is celebrated in the land of Uncle Sam as No House Work Day. How wonderful. Today being Sunday which is most people’s catch up with the week’s stuff day, it is rather ironic. the definition of housework is work done in housekeeping especially cleaning and tidying. It would be an interesting carrot to…
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The Bedmaker’s Help
During the Landmark’s Forum’s SELP program, I declared myself as, ”infinite possible” so BlogAdda decides to challenge my infinite possibilities. It was invent words last week, it is invent gadgets this week. Hmm. What is the one thing that needs to be done every day but I don’t feel like doing it all? I do…
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Mothers On The Mom
It’s Friday so breakfast is with mom, over telephone of course. My mom is commenting on the new advertisement of some refrigerator, the tag line is,”maa hoon” this has made her angry. Amma’s stand is very clear, she says the advertisements work on subconscious, kitchen mom is incharge, so much so women have become territorial…
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