Shopping - Therapy ???

Shopping is therapy only for the first ten minutes.After that,its a mad,tedious world of choices and confusions and discounts and bargains and frantic euro to rupee conversions and wondering if the little item in question would be priced the same or lesser in India.I wish I had never known that One Euro is equivalent [...]

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The perfect Indian Dinner

Eleven months in Deutschland and I am yet to utter one complete sentence in German.But,but,but, that has never stopped me from watching German TV programmes.The TV is hypnotic.Even if I don’t understand a single word of whats being said,just turning it on turns “house” into “home”.”Loneliness” into “lazing happily on the couch”. And thats precisely [...]

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Snow White !

Nice to see,
A view to behold,
But when you get out there [ I tell you],
Its really cold !!

Last weekend’s one day trip to a nearby town called Winterberg.As the name suggests,and as do the pics,you can guess what its famous for. Seriously,snow looks great as long as you are either sitting,all bundled up in [...]

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A greeting a day.

Of late ,I’ve only found reasons to crib about being in this cold city.Stinging wind,freezing cold,no good Indian [athuvum South indian Saravana Bhavan-like] restaurants,unable to communicate with most of the natives except through sign language.And ,yea,the lists pretty huge and still growing now that I’ve kind of reached my breaking point .
In all fairness,I should [...]

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Waterworld

A visit to the aqua zoo last weekend, and I learnt a few new facts.
1. You have a bigger chance of winning the national lottery than being eaten by a Shark . [Screw Jaws,Open Water and all other shark movies,man.Anyways,I have no chance of being eaten by a shark.I guess I would drown before the [...]

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The appointment

I might die sooner than I might get an appointment with a doctor here.Or so it has been ,so far.An appointment, that was requested two weeks back, has finally been fixed for the next week.Luckily,I am not on my death-bed ,so I can manage to stay put for three weeks,but I wonder what happens to [...]

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Yuck.

“Rain rain go away.
Come again another day”
What wisdom ! Rain looks good only in the movies.And only when pretty heroines are prancing around or chocolate-boy heroes are dancing about it. I fit neither category.
One can’t step out. And even if one does,the rain makes you all soggy and slushy.Just can’t stand it.
Next,this chill weather.Freaks me [...]

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Pretty.

Nothing more relieving than entering shopping malls on weekends to escape the chilly cold outside.And seeing some beautifully decorated Christmas trees as well .

Now,don’t ask me why the hell I go out on weekends in that case. Its basic instinct .

The way the decorations are presented at the shops just make them so very attractive [...]

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Italyil Idli..

..romba miss pannen.Enna irunthaalum namma idli, dosa pola varaathu.I remember the times during my childhood when I used to avoid idli like the plague.Every single day of school ,just seeing that plate of 2 idlis used to make me go eww.It was a humongous task for my mom to make me eat just half an [...]

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Italy,here I come !

Preparing to go on a vacation is way too hectic.Paranoia strikes after you read about the umpteen instances of pickpocketing and thefts that take place at your destinations.Then you start to read about how to carry your belongings safely.Its when you read other travellers’ accounts that you realize,thankfully,that you’re not the only one who is [...]

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