After much delib­er­a­tion (that’s why the delay!), I decided on a bas­ket of flow­ers for VJ, who won the Best Female Blog­ger at the Indiblog­gies. The painting’s done and get­ting packed right now, all ready to fly all the way from Mum­bai to Chen­nai. Do hope you like it!

I had received an email some time ago from a new blog­ger who wanted advice. He wanted to write freely about cer­tain things, and yet he was not sure as to how far he should go. Also, he did not want to blog anony­mously. Melo­drama also writes about the prob­lems that she’s run into as […]

My sis­ter called from the UK today say­ing she had received a packet I sent con­tain­ing some pho­tos, let­ters and doc­u­ments in a really sorry state. I had sent it about a week ago by reg­is­tered post from the Borivli post office. I was shocked when she said that from the state of the package, […]

Finally con­nect­ing from home. Phew! After a month long wait for the phone con­nec­tion. And then another 2–3 days fig­ur­ing out ‘modem’ prob­lems! Today, I make a ‘save me, I’m des­per­ate’ call to ‘cus­tomer sup­port’ where a help­ful guy says I have to clear the ‘wait for dial tone before call­ing’ option from two places […]