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A trip to Trichy became memorable when

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**My 4 year old nephew almost cried himself hoarse one day screaming ‘V-A-N-I Vani Vani’**Sitting on a huge see-saw made me feel like I was in the sky**I laughed so much sitting high up on the see-saw I was sure I would die laughing**I went on the giant wheel for the first time in my life – and enjoyed it too!**Nearly died laughing looking at the videos of all the antics 4 grown-ups had done in a children’s park (umm, yeah, grown-up includes me too! :) )**Visited four temples in two days ;)**We ...

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A hai!!! for an eye

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Yayyy! A check up for my eyes after almost 18 months of glasses revealed that my power hasn’t gone up. I’m delighted! I’ve been such a good girl, considered the complaints I made for wearing glasses.Blessed with the comfort of having an ophthalmologist way too near, it took almost the end of my vacation to get my eyes checked. Busy gal, you see.Boy, this doctor is all sophisticated (well, she is the only person who’s checked my eyes, but nevertheless). Random machines doing things I don’t know ...

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Rakshasa

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“Rakshasa!” is how even my mom calls me now. This ‘nickname’ was given and popularised by my elder brother 10 years back, when I was a brat who refused to learn to swim.It all began one fateful day when dad decided swimming was one essential thing left out in the plethora of extra-curricular activities that I was in: tennis, modern dance, carnatic music, painting and sculpting. My brother Vipul, well-established (so he claimed!) swimmer (all because the guy who crossed the English channel was his ...

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Velai irundhum slight-a vetti

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After playing minesweeper for hours losing every minute, I decided to give up. Luck wasn’t favouring me at all (well, only in the case of Minesweeper, Lady Luck!) and every guess I made was going wrong. I was getting bored and thought of going to the kitchen to see what my mom was doing. One look convinced me not to near the area: she was making ‘pori urundai’ for the Karthigai festival this evening. I had done my part of the work: I’d peeled and powdered tens of cardamom seeds. That done, I have ...

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When things go awry

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Before I go to the things which went awry, some nice things:My blog’s worth $22,181.68!!!!! (Ok, maybe a digit in the end is wrong…)Yippppeeee…ma blog’s gonna be makin’ me rich!!THE SUN’S SHINING!!! :)Gosh, am I thankful for the last one! After what seemed to be eons of rain, Chennai is back to its warm and cosy self.I undertook a spiteful trip to the terrible-as-ever Ranganathan street to get some craft work stuff for my cousin, two days back. Thank god, I came out alive!The road was horrid. We ...

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The doll house

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"Vidu, can you come here?" yelled mom from the kitchen.It was 8 in the morning. I was sitting on the floor in my room, newspaper spread out, sipping warm Milo. The MetroPlus section had something about Madhavan and I wanted to read it at the earliest.I got up and went to the room where she was."I have to get that carton down. The dolls are in the carton," she said."Hmm.." I nodded. The day after was the Navarathri festival. My mind was busy thinking of all the work that I would have to do for the ...

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