Posted in Humour, Life, Work, books, love, tagged august, books, credit cards, diet, dress, fashion, goals, money, painting, september, sulking, Work on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hmmm so here’s an update on my August goals and a list of my September goals as well:
Arrange books in new bookshelf – DONE!!!
Work on new inspiration board – DONE!!!
Make regular blog entries – FAILED MISERABLY!
Revisit my book and add chapters to it! – FAILED MISERABLY!
Try and have more ‘me’ time – FELL SICK SO [...]
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 language, movie, book, books, The Time Traveler's Wife, USA, Genghis Khan, John Man, Into the Wild, Alaska, library, British Council Library, murder, adventure, time, Kevin, prison, Istanbul, Turkey, Armenia, Armenian genocide, parents, kids, woman, Time Magazine 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 Friends, Humour, Life, books, love, tagged advertising, appreciation, Billy Joel, books, contemporary issues, Crazy, Facebook, ideas, Man, management, Mirror, Mumbai, Mumbai Marathon, music, nature club, notes, Old, political science, success, Sudhakar Sir, teacher, treks, Wilson College, xerox on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The actual blog post that I had planned for today was something else, but I couldn’t stop myself after reading about Professor Sudhakar Solomonraj in Mumbai Mirror today – the man who changed the course of my life. Here’s the article:
All books, no worms
The welcome note to the well-populated Facebook group, ‘The Sudhakar Solomonraj Appreciation [...]
Posted in Life, books, love, movies, tagged Life, love, movies, sex, fire, art, book, books, passion, Benicio del Toro, Things we lost in the fire, Halle Berry, drugs, addict, junkie, sexy, obsession, DVD 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 Health, Humour, Life, food, love, tagged books, butter, chicken, chilli flakes, cholesterol, cinnamon, coffee, contest, food, France, happiness, Health, herbs, honey, Life, love, milk, mustard, prize, Provence, Rebecca, salad, summer, toast on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was mostly an univentful day except of course for the time when I found my prize in my mailbox. I had recently participated in an cute little contest online. I was super excited because blogger Rebecca was sweet enough to send me the prize all the way from the US. Thanks Rebecca! Here’s what [...]
