Four Years and Counting

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Che and me on 24th May 2014 :D"][/caption]Che and I completed four years of marriage last Saturday. We've been together 6 years now and I can't believe it, someday's...

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Book Review: The Bad Touch by Payal Shah Karwa

Title: The Bad TouchAuthor: Payal Shah KarwaPaperback: 208 pagesPublisher: Hay House Publishers (2014)Genre: Non-FictionRead: PaperbackStars: ****/5Buy On: Amazon | FlipKart Summary: (Goodreads)Real-life stories of victims...

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The A to Z Challenge in Review

Phew! I'm finally done with the A to Z Challenge. And I was so happy about that yesterday that, when Che asked me to take the day off and chill with him, I did, forgetting all about my post. Freya, bad girl! :DWhen I started...

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Z for Zulu, Z for Zero

"Along life's journey,May it ever be your goal,To keep your eyes on the doughnut,And not upon the hole."The first time I came across these lines was in my 2nd PU (12th) scrapbook. Those days scrapbooks with questions and...

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Y for Yankee, Y for Yummy

I am almost at the end of my A to Z Challenge with just 'Y' and 'Z' left now. And Y and Z fall into the 'difficult to find words, wait for divine inspiration' category. So I duly waited for that stroke of enlightenment,...

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X for X-ray, X for X-factor

I spent all of yesterday and today thinking of words starting with 'x', I searched and found quite a few words too, but all them were exotic and unusable. I was starting to contemplate writing a post about not finding a word when it all fell into place, x-factor was my word. The electricity went out...

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W for Whiskey, W for Wisdom

I remember the first time I came across the Serenity Prayer, it was way back in school on a bookmark sold by the Sisters at the annual charity book sale. I bought the bookmark and still have it somewhere buried in all my...

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V for Victory, V for Vitality

The dictionary defines vitality as 'the state of being strong and active; energy.' I think someone with vitality is someone with lots of energy and high levels of activity. And the first example that comes to mind of someone...

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U for Uniform, U for Unique

Yesterday was a crazy day packed with stuff and I didn't a chance to write all day. And at the end of the day, I was just too tired to type. So, here's yesterday's post today. :)Unique has been playing on my mind since a...

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T for Tango, T for Time-out

There's been so much to do both on the house front and the work front in the last week that I just haven't had much time for anything else. Over the years I've realised thatnbsp; taking a day-off makes the work-load of the rest of the week easier. This was easy to do in the corporate world where I had...

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S for Sierra, S for Silence

Silence is golden they say, maybe that is why it seems so loud sometimes. Keeping quiet doesn't come naturally to me, I have always been a talkative one. Haughty strangers may make me shut-up warily for a bit while I chatter...

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R for Romeo, R for Rastafarian

We have this little Rastafarian doll at home that I really like. He's a constant companion sitting on a ladder near my table. We've had him for a while now but I've never given thought to rastafarianism, comfortable in the...

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Q for Quebec, Q for Quirky

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="415" caption="Photo Credit: Chenthil"][/caption]I consider myself a quirky person, someone who is strange/not normal but cool or strikingly unconventional or as Google describes...

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P for Papa, P for Positive

Years ago (feels like it) when I was a kid in the 90's, way before brands, the big store in Bangalore was Kidskemp. Wearing a Kidskemp dress to school on your birthday was the in thing. I have a lot of memories of that place,...

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O for Oscar, O for Orgasmic

Ushoo... I said the taboo word... :P Agreed orgasmic means 'able to achieve orgasm' but informally it also means 'very enjoyable'. As in an orgasmic new drink or orgasmic fresh strawberries. And I really would like this...

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N for November, N for Nature

I've always wanted to have a garden, not the pretty kind but the edible kind. :) Growing up we had a garden for a few years but those were my college years, who wanted to garden then. Later over the years I never had garden...

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