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Monday morning, at work. Half a day of work and half a day of training. A long coffee at Starbucks talking about astrology and palmistry. A trip to the Jubilee market in Covent Garden only to find it closed. Two and half days of work and half a day of training. Second trip to Covent Garden to find the palmist closed. Catch up with the continental guys, first house party. An entire day of training and an 9 to 5 schedule. Come home to take a quick nap. Second house party to meet up a whole set of new people. Here comes the weekend. First day of the year out without any warm clothing. Spend half a day at the charity. Ride the Boris bike for the first time. Don't realise it has gears, cycle too hard for too short and walk the rest of the way back. Hope to play some Catan. End up playing Temperature and Drawesome. Try to go to an exhibition on Bond Street. Instead end up walking the sunny crowded streets of Camden.  Sit by the canal...

So you don't have too many zindagis ok, you just have one. Just one. That too you won't get again. So you need to enjoy it. Go under water even when you can't swim. Jump off a plane, chumma. And best, get killed by a bull. Like step one step two and step three ok. And after that also you don't die then you go make a movie about how you tried to kill yourself. Because I mean really you have only one zindagi you know. So make movie. But remember, before that you have to dump your fiance a couple of months before the wedding. Why? Because bull didn't kill you. If you are a cat you don't need to worry. Because bull cannot kill cat. Because you keep getting zindagis. So you can lead normal lives. You don't need to try and get killed. You can make boring money. Boring investment broker zindagi you can lead. Making boring 2000quid in a few mins. And you can cry when your payslip comes to you. But if you are not a cat you need to go under water. Because underwat...

A Lovely Saturday! The London Transport Museum was awesome, just as most museums in this city ! They had lots of display models. The fun part was when they have an entire scene in a glass box as a model (of building or running tube lines) and they have little magnifying glasses with a speaker above them, as soon as you look through that piece of lens you will a small scene of the model and you can hear a fictitious conversation ! They have many trains where you can pop in check out the train. In one such, they have a man standing there just to say Mind The Gap ! :) (I actually got freaked out when he said it) Then there are the posters of course! Lovely posters. The tube always had the best posters! They have a room that has various posters projected on its floor, ceiling, anywhere,... They have a brilliant animation of the tube maps and the changes across the years - 1863 - 2003. Check out this youtube video that someone captured. Watch with mute. ...

A header for my first snow !!!

A very persistent woman asked me to review her book. It was hard to ignore her ( :) ) and even harder to ignore the book once you have started it. A Calendar Too Crowded , a collection of short sketches, attempts to capture the spirit (or the lack of it) of the various "days" set aside in the global calendars for recognition of the women kind and the social evils suppressing them. A very strong theme but a very tough theme too. Each sketch brings to light a different problem faced by women. Not all external, not all the cliched atrocities against women. At every step, a women's decision is questioned, if not, her powerlessness against a decision. Sagarika Chakraborty (the author) brought out a great many faces to a woman. However, there are many more and that's how it will always be. Nevertheless, Sagarika tried to show the world the strength and weakness of a woman. The language and the narrative changes from story to story. Sometimes it seem...

Lots of blogs have written about this and everyone seems to have two cents to spare. So here I go, two pennies. If the pen is mightier than the sword, and two pens are war, there is bound to be blotches all over. To put things in perspective. The Times of India came up with campaign directly hitting at The Hindu Wake up to the Times of India: And as a reply to that The Hindu came up with an ad campaign and lots of mudslinging. Stay ahead of the Times: To which yet again Times of India replied with the following print ad. The funny thing is that all the ads are telling you the same thing. The Times of India wants to position itself as a very fun newspaper with all its interesting news bites and attracts the young to stay young. The Hindu wants to position itself as a very serious newspaper that encourages the young to stay informed about current affairs. Living in the south, even as a schoolgirl I knew The Hindu's perspective was seriou...

The Immortals of Mehula had touched me and a lot of others and the Shiva Trilogy continues. So I waited ernestly for the sequel The Secret of the Nagas . I had this pic as my background for ages, in fact it still is.  I pre-booked it on Flipkart and it reached my house two days after I left for London. So my mom read it but I had to wait till I went to India a couple of weeks ago and spent my first two days simply reading it and staying at home. I liked it but not loved it. Shiva in the first book was rough raw and normal. Just a man with responsibilities. In the second book he was Neelkanth. He accepted his destiny, demanded his respect and worked with it. But nevertheless, Shiva is Shiva as ever. Striving to be better than himself. A couple of interesting revelations and new twists. Some moments emotional, some that make you think again, some that bring out new things to come around. Especially, the moment of truth, the reason behind his blue throat and how his de...