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The difficult decision

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

She was sweating profusely. She didn’t know what to do.Decisions can sometimes be so hard to make, she thought. She then brushed aside the thought and started thinking again. She must not waste any more time.She reached out for the box of tissues on her table and wiped her face. And before she knew it, she had already wasted precious minutes.In her anxiety, her fingers unconsciously went near her mouth. Slowly, and with ferocity she did not even realize, she was biting her nails, in a maniacal ...

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Random Scribbling - 3

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

One week since I posted and I'm already getting impatient, thinking about what to post next; topics, again, range from the A.R.Rahman concert in Singapore that I will miss because it's horrendously expensive, to the-saree-wearing-singing-hungama that happened on Wednesday, to cursing my heavy, burdening, workload.And then, it struck me; one thing I would be ready all my life to ramble about for as long as possible - dear old Chennai.Every time I looked at the name of my blog, I would feel pretty ...

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The tale of the Upanayanam

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

11-year-old Aditya went up to his mother."When are you going to have the Upanayanam ceremony for me?" he asked.His mother was confused."Why, oh, well....umm, soon, dear!" she said."Why are you delaying it so much? Amma, I'm 11 ! Innum podalena thappu!!" said he."Nee ipdi kekarche podaama iruppoma? We'll do it soon. " said amma. Adi smiled and left.Adi's major reason to ask his mother to hold an Upanayanam ceremony was because he wanted to get some attention to himself. Somehow he had felt that ...

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How air-cons ruin my life

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Well, yes, they do ruin my life. What would should have been a blessing turns a curse. And it's all here, in Singapore, where day and evening (thankfully, not the nights!) they torture me into slow illness.As I sit through lectures and tutorials everyday, slowly, air-cons freeze me into numbness. Yeah, physically and mentally. To such an extent that beyond a point I feel like a body just made alive by thawing after being frozen as a part of some cryonics study. As soon as I'm free to go out, I ...

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