Wal-Mart is a place for savings. It conjures up crowds walking about the stores with kids running all over the place, the staff looking forever dazed; you just want to get out of there as soon as possible. But the last few weeks, it has brought back some very pleasant memories of yesteryears. Their new ad for cosmetics. I wish I could find a clip ( Read more... )

Maybe it’s the “dating” phase of the relationship.  But it’s the little things that have always made me happy; actually ecstatic.  I get a happy tingle that lasts for several hours and no matter what news hits that joy in my heart still flutters. Mom has always pointed that out about me.

The story she would share with me dated back to when I was ( Read more... )

After 19 years of living in apartments, my parents were looking forward to be living in a house on the ground floor with a garden. They were so keen on having a garden that they even built an indoor one for the wintry cold days (well, wintry for Bangalore standards). But the attachment to gardens roots back to the garden we grew up with in ( Read more... )