Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • Pep-up for a new day

    Pep-up for a new day

    Maximize your freshness “No my friend i am not drunk, it is that I have been to the dentist and I need not go again for six months, thats a beautiful thought” this is a quote from my favourite character, Hercules Poirot created by Agatha Christie Remember dentistry is not expensive neglect is. Truth be…

  • My Den

    I would like my house to be unique to me. sure, I’ve bought plenty of things out of the local ferry sale, or picked up second hand furniture from my grandmother, but the way I put them together in my home is special.  I mean we might buy a sofa at major decorating store, but…

  • Being funny is serious

    Being funny is serious

    “There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There’s the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns…

  • Finding the answers within

    The conference of birds is a lovely book, where this bird goes in search of the divine, only to find it within itself. Somewhere our fundamental questions of life are the same, we are looking for answers without.  When I say answers outside it is not about question and answer sessions but issues that we…

  • Attaching meaning

    At the Landmark Education forum we were made aware that events just occur, the meaning we attach to it influences the quality of our life.  And the meaning we attach to events we choose to call our voice of reason. When we experience something, we tend to assign a meaning to it, we could call…

  • Let parents be Parents

    I was musing over this input. Actually my parenting beliefs are very unconventional; my sister-in-law says I am a failure as a mother because I have not insisted that my daughters go to four and twenty classes that every true Indian child attends. My daughters I am proud to say are extremely mature beautiful girls…