Early morn­ing, on Sat­ur­day, I found myself on Avenue Road, Chick­pet along with a bunch of around 10 other enthu cut­lets. I had never before ven­tured into that side of town so it was an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence, I must say. I will write about it some­time later, but mean­while, I really liked this pic­ture that […]

The cel­e­bra­tion run at the marathon on Sun­day morn­ing turned out to be the great­est fun! I reached the sta­dium around 8.30 am when the crowds were begin­ning to come in. Some of the full and half marathon folks were just cross­ing the exit line. The full marathon was won by an Indian so that’s […]

Mem­o­ries of a rainy day:

Grow­ing up in the lovely hill sta­tion of Shil­long, I remem­ber the rains. It would go on for days. And days.

So here’s some seem­ingly good advice, I should have received about 5 years ago!

When I was in the ninth stan­dard or so, I decided to try my hand (and feet) at clas­si­cal danc­ing. There was a dance teacher in school called Mrs Dhin­gra, who would take classes at her home. I bravely enrolled.

Blog­camp 2006 is hap­pen­ing at Tidel Park in Chen­nai on Sept 9–10, a two day packed event that is bound to be infor­ma­tive, fun and will have loads of inter­ac­tion, which is exactly what you’d expect from an event involv­ing blog­gers. Here’s a clip from the web­site: “Blog­camp hopes to pro­vide a forum where bloggers […]

I remem­ber: Sis­ter John: She was our Eng­lish teacher at Loreto Con­vent, Shil­long. Orig­i­nally from Ire­land, she instilled in us proper Eng­lish can­not be taken for granted and made sure we’d dot our I’s, cross our T’s and put the apos­tro­phe in the right place! And of course, we had to pro­nounce every­thing cor­rectly. She […]