1 July
2016
30 June
2016
Should I take this personally?
29 June
2016
Nikispeak: What is a foochka? (golgappa or paanipuri for others)
Before going to bed, I was catching up with the two daughters. Nikita, of course, wanted to chat for a long time and get all the details of my day. She is fairly curious that way – especially if that can distract her from all the homework and chores her mom has given her 🙂
When I had just come to the point of “I went to have foochkas”, she interrupted me…
“What is a foochka?” Before I could try to explain, she remembered something and continued…
“Oh! Isn’t that the thing where you poke a hole and have with really yucky water?”
And for good measure, added.. “No offense”
🙂
29 June
2016
Notice something funny with my mom’s phone dialpad?
As it is my mom is completely oblivious of all the advances in phone technology. She does not even look up the address book to call somebody. She has no idea how to increase the volume while on a call. The only thing she has been trained to do is press the buttons (stemming from her land line days) and wait for the other person.
Even that, looking at her phone, how she does it, I do not know. Looking at her keypad, I can only conclude that she has never attempted to make an outbound call!! And she has had this phone for at least a couple of years!!
24 June
2016
Royters News: EU and immigrants
24 June
2016
Trump’s reaction to Brexit – “America is next”
9 June
2016
Nikispeak – tips on Happiness
There I was in my bar trying to study up what cocktail to make for the evening when I hear the following conversation going on upstairs…
Sharmila (yelling): “Nikita, why is your room still in this shape?” (I assume she walked into her room and everything was in sixes and sevens)
Nikita replied, very calmly: “Mom, here is a tip on happiness. Don’t worry about what you cannot control”.
And I was like – “Sit down with me, girl. I don’t need no alcohol to entertain me this evening” 🙂
8 June
2016
I am a walking-talking-fashion-disaster :-(
Remember how, a few weeks back, I had forgotten my shoes and had to come to office in office clothes and bright neon colored running shoes? Well, let the records indicate that I am nothing if not a quick learner. Let the records further stipulate that I learn only one thing at a time. So, while I have not forgotten the shoes ever since, I did forget the socks today 🙁
Black trousers, black shoes and ankle high white print socks it is then!!
31 May
2016
From everything I have gathered so far…
27 May
2016
New office dress code?
You would think that after years and years of having the same routine every morning – go for a run, go to the gym to take a shower, drive to office – I would be able to pack my gym bag in my sleep. Apparently, I can’t do that even when I am awake!!
I certainly had remembered last night while throwing in stuff in the gym bag that it was going to be a Friday today and therefore it was going to be casual clothes for office. However, in the bargain, I completely forgot to throw in my shoes 🙁
Sitting in that gym bench in the locker room, I contemplated for about a minute, weighing in my options. And then finally just walked out in a pair of understated jeans, a casual black shirt and a decidedly garish neon pair of running shoes 🙂
After walking into office, I went from door to door asking people how I looked 🙂 Most were polite 🙂 Some even suggested that if anybody could pull it off, it would be me 🙂
Which kind of makes sense. As unseemly as those shoes look, without the shoes, the rest doesn’t look much seemly either 🙂
Bidisha – this one is for you – #100ridiculousdresspact 🙂
