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Tag: post 2011

  • The Town with the Nicest People

    On the way from Udupi to Karkala Small towners tend to be wary of new comers and city dwellers and townies indifferent unless you have someone to introduce you to the community. It’s always your hometown which is the most open to you and any one you decide to bring into the fold. They are…

  • success

    Believe in success and work like you have got it, seems the new mantra. Yet you don’t see successes the way they should be visible. Many a times I think it’s because the perception of success is not ours, we are gauging it by someone else’s standards. If we sat down and figured what we…

  • Toy Fads From My Childhood Days

    Toys It is really interesting there were no must have toys. Of course the blond walkie-talkie doll that my father sent from England was treasure. But we played with available stuff. When our mothers went to buy steel utensils, the shop owner at times gave us miniature ones. broken crockery, scraps of dress materials all…

  • Books Versus Their Movie Versions

    Jeeves and Wooster for DS Are books better options than movies? To me yes, for the book tells a tale, but the visuals are mine. I can add minor additions of mine like the Jeeves finishing his chore for the day and curling up with an Agatha Christie novel or a mass murder winding up…

  • Dotage

    retire is a verb that says, to go away to seclusion, does one really want to retire unless to bed? Retired in France When is the perfect age to retire and how I know that I am ready.  Well Plinky makes it very clear which retirement she is talking about. I hope it is…

  • cow day

    The bay area behenji’s are here with their kids for a holiday. Their husband has finished up the three weeks leave and is working from Bangalore/Pune/home/or returned to Uncle Sam’s land. The behenji’s are sharing India with their kids, the n relatives to be met at Bangalore, Chennai or udupi or urban India. Then it…