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When we go to a place that serves chaat here and ask for Paani Puri, you get Panni, Puri, Potato and Channa all separately. Thats the most annoying way to eat Paani Puri. Two weeks ago Balu told us about a place in Fremont which serves Paani Puri just the way the street vendors in India do and all of us were listening to him, mouth watering as we ( Read more... )

Diwali is usually all about shopping, lights, food, sharing, fun and crackers...This time we had it all except for the crackers...

Shopping
On a Sunday before Diwali we went and got ourselves some clothes and stuff that we needed. My parents had sent us nice tops for me and T-shirts for Bhasker

Lights
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Just felt another small one about 5 minutes ago when I was sitting on my bed and we ran out. The neighbour said she hadn't felt anything but just when I came back in, thinking my imagination was running wild, my friend pinged me and asked if I felt it too...this is freaking me out. The details are in the link below...
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There was an earthquake at about 8:05 PM. We were in the kitchen about to make rotis and the whole kitchen started shaking and Bhasker stood there rooted, asking me what was happening and I had to yell to make him run out and I ran out too...Neighbours had already come out by then, This was a major one with a 5.6 on a richter scale and the ( Read more... )

What started with a plan to go camping ended up in a one day trip and what started at 6 people ended up at 4...but that didn't lessen the enthusiasm (except for Rohini getting up late and depriving me of my half hour's beauty sleep). We had breakfast at Subway (aaaargh!!! I swear I won't be eating there for a long time) and packed a sub for lunch ( Read more... )

Last Saturday we were supposed to go on a trek to Point Reyes. We played cards as usual on Friday and the next morning I wasn't up for it and we dropped out. I met Farida, my school friend that day after 7 years...Ya long time...She came home with her husband and then we went out for lunch. It was for a short time, couple of hours but I kinda ( Read more... )

I love the rains especially after a dry summer. The first showers soothe the sun-scorched earth as they gently touch it and the smell that it invokes is simply amazing.

Rains bring back a lot of memories from my childhood and school days like purposely leaving behind the raincoat while going to school in spite of multiple reminders from my ( Read more... )

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"Look into the ocean and you will see what you wanna be."

It was a long weekend because of Labor Day. We planned to go see some place for the weekend. After a lot of debate, San Diego was finally agreed upon. Seeing a new place is something I always look forward to and this time was no exception. I was literally counting days to this weekend. ( Read more... )