Posted in Friends, Humour, Life, books, love, tagged ancient times, babe, Bernadine Avaristo, book, books, classical, Friends, immigrant, journey, marriage, modern woman, poem, poetry, Roman, Rome Londinium, sex, slave, street lingo, Sudan, The Emperor's Babe, transvestite, verse on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had been to the library yesterday to return the books that were due, borrow new books and to meet my friend who works there. While going through shelf after shelf of neatly stacked books with yellowed pages…I chanced upon a book that could only be called…quirky…
Bernadine Avaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe was an astonishing find! [...]
Posted in Friends, Life, books, movies, tagged adventure, Alaska, Armenia, Armenian genocide, book, books, British Council Library, Genghis Khan, Into the Wild, Istanbul, John Man, Kevin, kids, language, library, movie, murder, parents, prison, The Time Traveler's Wife, time, Time Magazine, Turkey, USA, woman on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, I’ve already defaulted on my August goals. I bought the following two books on Sunday:
This book was suggested to me by my friend Atul Sabnis. Well the cover looked promising to me too. It said:
Genghis Khan – creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen – is one of history’s immortals. In [...]
Posted in Humour, Life, Work, books, tagged bedroom, blue, book, books, bookshelf, cement, color, drilling machine, green, home, house, Life, paint, renovation, room, stone, tiles, wall, yellow on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After three agonising weeks spent amidst sacks of cement, bits of my old wall, piles of tiles and the constant din of tile cutting and drilling machines…I can now finally smell the fresh paint! Yes my room is ready and done! What a relief that is!
Here’s what it looks like now:
Yeah that’s my bed and [...]
Posted in Life, books, love, movies, tagged addict, art, Benicio del Toro, book, books, drugs, DVD, fire, Halle Berry, junkie, Life, love, movies, obsession, passion, sex, sexy, Things we lost in the fire on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other day while surfing TV channels, looking for something, anything remotely interesting to watch, I finally settled for some movie on an English movie channel. Little did I know I was going to fall in love…
The movie in question is ‘Things we lost in the fire’. I is a moving story about two people [...]
Posted in Friends, Humour, Life, Work, books, love, tagged bathroom, bedroom, book, books, bookshelf, creativity, house, inspiration, Life, love, renovation, repair, stone, tile, tile shop, wall, wood on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My house is now halfway through renovation…which means…there’s much more cement flying around than there was earlier, there are concrete stains all over the place, half the walls are drying, I’m not allowed to step in my loo , and my bathroom will be demotished today too . But it’s all [...]
Posted in Beauty, Humour, Life, books, love, tagged beads, bedroom, book, books, building, color, colour, earrings, film, grocery, house, jewelry, necklace, one liners, orange, pink, purple, rain, renovation, scarf, society, summer on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the moment, my room and my house in general is in a mess. My society has undertaken this massive renovation of all building where moist walls are being replastered and stuff. So basically my bedroom wall has been scraped off all it’s peeling paint and ancient plaster and has been stripped down to bare [...]
Posted in Friends, Humour, Life, Rainbow, books, food, love, tagged art, book, chocolate, coffee, Fannie Flagg, France, Fried Green Tomatoes, friend, happiness, holiday, Laura Esquivel, Love Story, Peter Mayle, Provence, Pu La Deshpande, rains, solar eclipse, Spain, sweetheart on July 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Today is one of those rare days when I have the day off during the week. There was supposed to be a total solar eclipse today due to which it was pretty dark outside. But now it’s also raining and I am kinda happy coz I love this gloomy weather. It’s so cute – perfect [...]
Posted in Humour, Life, books, tagged book, crime, dream, nightmare, S J Bolton, Sacrifice, sleep, suspense, thriller, victim, villian on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone who knows me a even a little knows what a major bibliophile I am. I love reading books, buying books, collecting books…I even lend books to friends albeit grdgingly as I know most books are never returned to me! So yes, as I was saying I love reading books and usually read before I [...]
