blog-related

Awards!!

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Yup, finally, this silly blog of mine got remembered by a new indiblogger blogger friend, Nishita, who was deceived by me so gracefully, that she ended up awarding this blog, the Nicest Blog Award!! 😀

I know, you are thinking, how do you rate a blog as nice? I also don’t know. But anyways, awards and gifts should never be rejected. That’s my policy!! 😀 so thanks a lot Nishita, for giving me, my first blog award!!! 😉 I know its a bit tooo late to accept this award and say thank you’s, but still better late than never!! 😀Continue reading →

Mélange – Random Tidbits

Mélange – Random Tidbits VIII

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Hello guys.

Things are indeed happening in life even though the post frequency has reduced. There were lot of topics to blog about, but whenever I start writing, I do not get words beyond 2-3 sentences. I thought of collecting thoughts on each of the topics to form great posts, but it never happens. So here I am, again writing some tidbits, which most of the time goes unnoticed, and looks more of a personal rambling than a blog post. Nevertheless, I guess its better than having no updates on my blog.Continue reading →

Personal

A surprise post!

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This blog has become quite infrequent for some months. Inspired by Hari Shanker, I thought of taking up this risk of recording my own voice for the better or worst. Alas, this time its in Malayalam! I will try for hindi next time!

The song below, is the famous “Aaro Viral Meeti” (if at all, you did not realize) from the film “Pranayavarnangal” sung by the renowned K.S. Chitra.Continue reading →

Articles/Relationship/Thoughts

Pen pals or Tweetpals?

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Prologue:

Recently, I saw this website, Letters of Note in my Google Reader. Then there was a tweet from Shashi Tharoor on World Literacy Day. Along with it, this post by Sanjukta about Twitter. The era of letters, posts, stamps, inland covers, flashed back onto me.  Mixed thoughts streamed into my mind and got squeezed out to form the final words currently being penned down.

Loss of Pen pal system

Long back, there were inland letter posts from aunts and friends to my mom, following the traditional way of keeping in touch. I never got one, except for greeting cards and one or two anonymous love letters. I was grown up in the telephonic era. Not the mobile, but the old faithful land line. The times when the 5-digit numbers were used instead of the current 8-digit phone numbers.Continue reading →

Stories

The glowing aura

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The morning sun splurged through the windows. The sun light awakened both of them. He got up lazily checking the time on his watch, which was lying on the table. Though awake, she remained in bed, watching him gathering up his scattered clothes.

He closed the door without a sound and went out. The table, which carried his watch, now contained few notes of five hundred…Continue reading →

Stories

Raindrops

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The rain started drizzling all of a sudden. The streaks of water drops were lashing and swaying amongst the winds.

It was getting cold. I remained lied down in bed. As though my mind was sleeping and body awake. I closed my eyes and some blank and white images got rendered across them. I opened my eyes. I couldn’t survive it anymore. I enabled the songs from my walkman. Loud. So that it could drive away all the sleepiness from my mind. I closed my eyes. No images now. Great. I succeeded. It was then the rain started. Continue reading →