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Last day of my leave – it is back to work tomorrow! It is not the usual – I will just be visiting my study again! I had a chat to my college friends today. We became friends in the first few days of college and remained thick as thieves after that. We were reminiscing…

I am officially sick of isolation – it is not staying at home bit that is troubling me. Most days I am happy to stay at home. It is the lack of freedom that is annoying. I am missing out drives, our clubs and restaurants and interactions with friends. I am looking fwd to the…

Today was a tiring day – I was woken up by yash at 230 am this morning and after I patted him to sleep, I was wide awake. The only positive was that I chatted to my cousin in US at that time. It was good to chat to her and catch up on our…

My two weeks leave is coming to an end and I am not sure how/what I am feeling about going back to work. A part of me is excited about having a routine and brain simulation and a part of me is sad about additional stress and disruption in these strange times. We have been…

I woke up in a pensive mood today. I have been reading the positive comments on my old pictures. It reminded me the time growing up. Like a lot of Indian girls, I am dark in complexion. I was forever compared to my fair sister and made to feel ugly. The comments that I got…

It was a cooking kinda day! I cooked most morning and I had 2 vegetables – gobhi aloo(cauliflower potato) and baingan bharta(mashed eggplant), a dal and fresh home made idlis to show for my hard work. It was quite satisfying. I do love cooking but it is the washing up afterwords that does my head….

“It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated.”- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince We completed 6th Harry Potter movie. It is a family favourite and we never get bored! I love the books much more and have read…

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility – Leo Tolstoy We complete 20 years of marriage today. It certainly wasn’t smooth sailing all these years but our mutual respect and love conquered any challenges that we faced. When I tell people…

“Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” I continued with my digitising project today and completed my wedding album half way. It brought back so many memories not just of our wedding but the people who came and memories associated with them. I remembered my bua…

Today was Good Friday and as a friend reminded me, it is about Hope! Hope for a better tomorrow and a better future for us and our kids. It was a cold rainy day today which meant that I had 2 adrak chai instead of one. It was also the first day of the school…