And so all of us in relationships ( with men of course ) would have no doubt at some point agreed with John Gray and applauded his brilliance for discovering that Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars and together they dwell on Earth. The real inhabitants of Earth then are those in no relationship with the opposite sex. That discovery of the ( Read more... )

I suppose the telephone rang for quite a while before I actually heard it. That's the thing with wake up call requests in hotel rooms. Always promptly on time. I had slept at 3am last night.... wait ..... wasn't it this morning actually ? I had requested for a wake up at 5 am, which means I had woken up even before I started to sleep. But that is ( Read more... )

Have you ever wondered how as children we almost always believe everything we hear. We have no doubts about Santa Claus giving us the presents we want, if we are good the whole year around. Well didn't we spot him chubby and smiling and all at the local store year after year. Easter bunnies ??? ....Of course they existed. And tooth fairies who ( Read more... )

" A birthday is a great day for a new beginning ". Said the thinking balloon as Ivy got off the train and onto the platform. A slight breeze caressed her face, wiping off the tiredness of a one and half day journey, rejuvenating her briefly.She turned around to see if there were any coolie's around to help her carry the two grossly out-of-shape and ( Read more... )

( This has been my entry for Week 20 of Lj Idol where 4 prompts was given to us for intersection with a participating writer. I chose Shibusa and was honoured to partner with the creative and wonderful Eternal_ot. Her entry on InterSubjectivity ,which forms the second part of our Intersection Effort can be found here - Read more... )

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Once upon a time ..... really long-long long ago , man's life was not complicated , his woman was not complicated. Life was simple - Period. Then man learned to walk straight and began venturing out of his cave forced by the then 'only' complications in his life - how to start a fire and what to eat. When men got out of the caves, the women got out ( Read more... )

I am moderate movie freak and I watch all kinds of movies - the good ones, the bad ones and sometimes even the ugly ones. In case of the latter two categories I do wonder in my postmortem thoughts - how did the script writer come up with such hideous dialogues , what was the screenplay guy seriously thinking of , where did the director leave his ( Read more... )

Emraan had been careful to time his plan. But her presence caught him by surprise. He had been clocking her movements for the last one month and she never returned home before 9pm on Fridays. Looking around the room , he just couldn't understand why any woman would have so many pictures of herself scattered all over the walls of the entire house. ( Read more... )

Last week, I decided to take the three younger of my 4 children to the movies. The older teen decided to meet up with friends. The husband was away as he always seemed to be and the younger two had been having Amazing Spiderman 2 on their wish list for what now seemed like ages to them. And so Mommy decided to finally go on the webbed adventure. I ( Read more... )