I am fast asleep
When the phone rings.
It's my beloved daughter.
Calling from halfway across the world.
Often, neither of us is free
To talk, really TALK
When the other calls.
Today...both of us have the time
We exchange words, while across the earth
Our hearts and souls reach out
And touch each other.
We think alike on some points.
We laugh together about ( Read more... )

The speed of the fingertips...I belong to a generation which was sent for typing (and shorthand too, but that's another story) classes in the summer vacation as a matter of routine. (I went to LCC or Lake Commercial College...Kolkata oldies might remember it on Lake Road in south Calcutta ( Read more... )

I was walking to my daughter's home yesterday, and stopped to buy iddli batter. As soon as Sri Palani recognized me as Anjana 's mother, he asked me why I was walking in the hot weather, and dropped me the rest of the way on his scooter ( Read more... )

Summer holidays, and K2 likes to make his own lunch. He scrambles two eggs in butter, and uses sliced cheese and tomatoes ( the last two prepared by the sous chef)


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Herr Otto Korekt at work again ( Read more... )

Google maps, google maps,
Where have I been?
On my way to my destination,
The whole world I've seen.
When there is, to journey's end,
A short road, straight and true,
Google maps ensures that I
Travel an extra forty-two...

Nokia maps are better by (to use an apt word) far!

Since yesterday, the internet on my mobie has not been working. Several calls to tech help etc did not help. I am doing a night bus journey tonight, going to Manipal, and returning by night tomorrow. I thought I ought to get the problem rectified ( Read more... )

That's the past tense of "simplicity ( Read more... )

Losing one's mobile...and trying to get a duplicate SIM card...is an Utter Pain.

But all of it has not spoilt the serenity and beauty of the Nimishamba temple in Srirangapatna, that Vittal took me to visit, today. More about it later...back to the STUPID paperwork right now!