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Maui is back home
Maui was discharged from Manipal Hospital yesterday. She is recovering. Thanks to all your phone calls, blogbacks, SMSs, emails, beer toasts.... thanks much.
One of these nights, I wrote a few poems on the lounge sofa on the 11th floor of the hospital. The floor, aptly named, "Deluxe" is pretty swanky for a hospital. So, here's one to the other ( Read more... ) -
Maui unwell
Maui had to be hospitalized yesterday following an unrecovering bout of bronchial infection. Her situation has not improved, but then, it has not taken a tank either. The only room in the pediatric ward that was available was an Ultra-Special and this costs an arm and a leg and then some. Clearly more than the standard 3/4 star hotel rooms in ( Read more... ) -
Chicken Recipe # 17
Che liked tricks. One of his favourite was to give his regimens random numbers like 28, 29, 31, even when he had three, in total. Radio-interceptions and captured soldiers served to confuse the opposing forces, who would believe Che had far more soldiers in his possession than he really did.
This is recipe #17, ostensibly to make you believe that ( Read more... ) -
Was F.I.N.E before I met Belle Starr
The roads are empty and the car is on overdrive. The white dashed roadpaint of the Koramangala Inner Ring Road vanishes briskly under the left wheel of my car. Maui is asleep and Letu is busy reading the mythology book we picked up from Hippocampus a few minutes back. Seems like Bangalore is bee-lining for the Aerosmith show this evening. This is ( Read more... ) -
Beating heart and Bonaparte
A week ago, I started going to the gym. My biggest challenge was to be able to make it for 5 days to the gym. So, today I feel accomplished. The good news is that my cardio vascular characteristics are shaping but a bit better than I thought. A week ago, my heart-rate was that of a 65 year old (Ouch!). Today it is close to 25.
It was Niranjan and ( Read more... ) -
Early morning goodbye
Logged into orkut, morning 6:11 a.m. No, my life is not that bad, seriously. Have been awake for the last hour doing things that are never credited to their true extent by humanity. Like collecting plastic bottles from around the house and putting them in a plastic bag. Tapan, yes, Tapan from Murshidabad - I met him the otherday at the chic grocery ( Read more... ) -
"Gordon to base. Coming in with four"
The flight from Boston to Cincinnati got delayed due to, first, security reasons and then, they realized that somebody forgot to put the checked in luggage into the hold of the plane. Missed the connection to Milwaukee. An unholy motley crew: Ben, an attorney from Tennessee (the most mild-mannered lawyer you'd see), Dave, an ex-jail supervisor ( Read more... )
