It’s been ages since I posted something on this blog, so I thought today would be a nice day to post some updates. It seems to be an auspicious day given that we have a string of 11′s in the day’s meta description. So here are few updates and teasers:
Read this post →I am back in Toronto. Home sweet home. Right from the time I exited the самолёт (समल्योत = aircraft) to the time I arrived home (90 minutes), I must have received 12 Thankyou’s and 5 Sorry’s, approximately. Quickly I panicked to restore my North American ‘polite’ avatar which I had, after intensely painful efforts, buried for over 3 months. This…
Read this post →Since it’s new year’s eve, I can talk about myself.. Time doesn’t stop, right?. I vividly remember welcoming 2008 in a pub in Israel paying $10 cover and welcoming 2007 serving food at a party in Toronto earning $15 an hour. But the best things in life cannot be bought or sold. This year I am going to spend time…
Read this post →The view of the window from that night is printed in my memory… This incident goes back to December 18, 2003 at 03:15. The picture above shows the windows of my room (my parents place in Mumbai.) My bed is about 3 meters away from the window. I left windows open at night but there was a window grill that…
Read this post →Very hard to describe what I saw in the subway today. She looked like any other 35 year old mom with her 3 year old son. Yet, something was very different about them. The two were lost in deep conversations with each other, totally oblivious to the world around them. She was very mom-like, yet spoke to her son like…
Read this post →I was strolling in the park yesterday with my friend. Out of nowhere, a red maple leaf came flying by and landed on his hair. “Oh …, I guess Fall is really here…!,” both of us exclaimed as I took the leaf off him and blew it away. It flew again for some distance and fell on the ground after…
Read this post →“Your website looks great, do you use Dream weaver?” I get that question sometimes and it always used to bother me. But I don’t get annoyed anymore. Instead, I quote the following story: :::: A photographer was invited to a dinner and he took along some photographs to show the hostess. She looked at the photos and commented, “These are…
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