It has been a year of travels for me. And I am so glad. Well, it is a fact that most of these travels (eight to be specific!) took me to-and-fro between Delhi and Hyderabad but it was in this very year thatI visited Rishikesh for rafting, a temple in a remote district of Rajasthan (twice),  Mcleodganj, Vaishno Devi, Singapore, Penang, Kuala ( Read more... )

When I am blue, I forget about the little things that make me smile, so I lifted the idea from Compulsive Confessor and made a list of warm fuzzies...

Books that grow on me midway; smell of old paper; spilling over bookshelves; spicy noodles; mustard; cheese; oregano; pizza with extra cheese; rain; pitter-patter on the tin roof; sound of water ( Read more... )

The universe may not always play fair, but it sure has a great sense of humor.

“There is a lot to be said about suppressing one’s emotions. If you do it long enough, you do not feel anything.” - Excerpt from Neil Gaiman’s American Gods

I read these lines more than a week back but they’ve stayed with me. I know that one can condition oneself to reach this state of numbness but I still don’t agree with the philosophy. Do you?

“When I grow up, I want to be a newsreader!” the eleven-year-old Anupma would happily announce, often ( Read more... )

Repeated viewing of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset has made me relate to Celine from the first movie. I see a reflection of my thoughts in her ideas. Her romanticism, her beliefs, her faith, her insecurities - all seem to be so me ( Read more... )

Whatever I may do, I cannot deny being a gizmo-crazy girl. The gloss and compactness of hardware gives me a natural high! (Is one supposed to get a natural high from material possessions? Umm…think not ( Read more... )

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin. - Ivan Turgenev

Nothing better than a cup of coffee to start a day that promises not to end.

”Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.”