Return to innocence

"Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul."Friend's Mom to Friend's Dad: Wonder what little R will look like five years from now(Friend's Dad looks amused)R: Auntie , I will marry a PunjabiAuntie: Why a Punjabi , little R?R:Thats as wild as I want to be and as north as I can ...

A rose by any other name

I have been tagged by HHG , so here goes!There are 3 rules.Rule 1. The rules must be mentioned in the beginning of the tag.Rule 2 You must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had.Rule 3. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag.Ok , since my middle name is quite unmentionable , I (cringe) choose one of the pet names that my sister Altoid has erm bestowed upon me?And the name is..is..*HOWL*"Anshuman"Ok , now shut up with the laughing and read on...Atmais something we all have? I'm sorry , I thought over this "a" a zillion times , ironically a is the...

Sights while on a "Pleasure" trip

Blame the bad resolution on my 2 Meg camera phone , but this happened to be an evening when the sun was peeping coyly from out of a cloud on one side and the rain man decided it was going to be shower time on another side , but what did the weary traveler see ?A beautiful rainbow!God forbid , but if this Cab was involved in a hit and run case , what would a genius of a witness see ?W:"Poleeceman , the car's number was a Chinnu cab owner who said a Hi to Chethan!"P:"Sounds a simple case , we will get cracking!"Seriously , is this allowed??I feel guilty as hell for taking a picture of this man without his knowledge , but what to do :( , these are dire circumstances , aren't they??Ok people , any idea where such cute wind cheaters are available?Cute-bunny-man...

Game

“Hello?...Nalin?”“Akki , meet me at 8 for dinner?”“Ok..Khej”“Done!” At 7:30 Pm , Akanksha shut down her computer , signed out and started towards the parking lot . It would take a good twenty minutes to drive down to Indiranagar , with just about 10 minutes buffer time for the Airport road signal .RADIO CITY! blared the FM.“Welcome back to Route 91 and this is Darius” blared he.The next request is from Varsha who says “Hey Darius ,I’m madly in love with my ex-boyfriend and I would like to dedicate a song to him and he is currently going out with my best friend.So, I’d like to request a song from Bewafa….”. Akanksha slammed down the accelerator and cruised down the inner ring road. 8:15 Pm :“Aks!Sorry am late..left office a little late”“Lemme...

Yes , Ma'am

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun Here’s wishing a Happy Teacher’s Day to all my dear readers!Why the wishes even though you aren’t really a Teacher? It does happen to be a vocation all by itself, but tell me, aren’t you also one if you happen to be a Father/Mother/Sister/Brother/Friend? Aren’t you one everyday? Aren’t you imparting wisdom to someone each day like I am to you now? :D The mention of a Teacher brings Amma to my mind, or rather Amma forces herself into my mind .Amma kept insisting that I had to be logical and methodical like the pesky sis , now could I help it if I was born minus the left brain? It also worked as a great...