Jan 7th 2015, Jan 7th 2015, Jan 7th 2015. I woke up with a start and realized I was sweating. I must confess no other date has troubled me as much as Jan 7th has. What’s the deal with the date, do you ask? The other day, my fingers typed out my livejourjnal url out of their own volition as my eyes went to the top right hand corner. I knew it’d been ( Read more... )

The family and I had been to Mangalore some time ago. About sixty four seconds into my vacation, I felt the familiar itch. I picked up my smart phone and imagined how my organization had gone bankrupt because I had been unreachable for the last three thousand six hundred and sixty four seconds. But the phone had decided it needed a vacation just as ( Read more... )

I’ve had my heart set on a Duster for a while now. It was love at first sight for me. Can someone really explain why you fall in love? But as with all love stories, convincing the family that the choice you’ve made is the right one for you and getting them to give you their blessings is a long, arduous journey. I’ve had to extract every cubic ( Read more... )

We’ve all been in sticky situations where our less-than-glorious lies have been exposed leaving us red in the face. But there are certain times in life when awkward situations cease to be awkward and the man who is about to beheaded at the altar experiences a moment of joy that makes the soon approaching death seem funny almost ( Read more... )

Mysterious are the ways of a woman. Even more mysterious are the ways of a woman inside a restroom. I play a guessing game every time I’m outside the door of a restroom to predict what unnatural sight will greet me on the other side. I’ve modified my definition of unnatural based on some of the goings-on inside. The short walk from my cubicle to ( Read more... )

A friend called me the other day and asked if she could visit us in the next half hour. I told her I’d be delighted to have her over. My husband and daughter, both dressed in overalls, immediately came over and told me, “Husband and daughter reporting to duty ma’am”. He’s been married to me long enough to know the drill. My daughter, by virtue of ( Read more... )

As a child, I used to get terrified of horror movies. Yet, there was such an immense pull to watch them that I’d sit in front of the TV, but behind the sofa just to prevent the ghost from jumping out of the TV and sucking my soul. I’d stay behind the sofa until I’d feel a hand on my shoulder, then scream and jump and sit on chair kept against a ( Read more... )

The family had decided to drive to Mangalore some time ago. About 80 kilometers into the highway, we had a flat tyre. In the process of fixing the tyre, my otherwise gentle husband managed to pull the head off of a nut, which meant that we couldn’t use the wrench to unhook the deflated tyre. Cars whizzed past us with nobody even slowing down. About ( Read more... )

I was looking for a mail I had written a long time ago, and the only word I was certain the mail had was “love”. I confidently put that in the search bar and what do you know, the first hundred mails were all from my bank! My curiosity aroused, I opened the first mail. It was a nice mail around how the bank would miraculously take care of all my ( Read more... )

What does it take to be a great saleswoman?

#1: Create a sense of scarcity

1. The child refuses to eat healthy food that’s put on her plate. The seasoned saleswoman comments loudly to her unwilling-yet-forced-into-subjugation partner how that was the last piece/ blob of healthy food available on Earth.  She does this without so much as looking in ( Read more... )