'The' sign!

There is this funeral home a little further from office. They have a board put up at the entrance that reads- ‘One Way’. Every time I pass by I can’t help but wonder if people who ‘got in there’ really need that! :O

Location: Groveport, Columbus.

d taste or d memories!!?...

Had cranberries for the first time ... & it tasted something like I had never expected it to!! Does the taste cranberries give a cocktail, come from this stuff??!!! :o// .. & now when I think back to what I expected it to taste like, I don't have any answer!!

When Iwas just about to pop one, Snig told me that it tasted like tamarind(Incidentally, we ate them a lil' before they were ripe ;)).. I ate my first carnberry with childhood memories of filling up sacks of tamarind in the estate... a helper would climb the tree to pluck them & I would happily contribute my share by picking the fallen ones while munching on a pod- with looks of glee & little shreiks when the tartness hit my taste buds...

I told myself that I would surely like the crans & wasn't disappointed... :) I sometimes wonder if it is the taste that I actually like or the memories that go with it...

I luv neem leaves too...When we eat neem & jaggery for Ugadi(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugadi), I always end up with more than the quantity one would need to have as per the custom... & yes, they are real bitter... but I still luv them...It brings back memories of granpa- me settled on his lap, out on the portico, telling me stories & making this bitter stuff go down my throat with ease!!.. Granpa passed away when I was at an age that didn't make me realise what 'passing away' really meant... many memories that left a mark... lots of stuff that trigger those memories.. Though I don't usually talk much about him, with every phase of life, I stop & say to myself- "Granpa would have been real hapy bout tis!!"..

Hmmn.. do I really luv the tartness of cranberries?... do I luv the bitterness of neem?... Or- is it the kindled memories that make me luv them?..

Want v/s Need ;)

Vishu was asking me if I'd like to get something from India since somebody was coming over... lotsa things came to my mind at once... I tried shortening the list and realized that there was nothing I really needed & all that had been listed were wants!!! So I ended up telling him that there was nothing I needed(If Pa,Ma & Poon could have been valid on the list, they would be right on top!! :D)
I've been subconsciously using this for quite sometime if I've had to decide something... & it works!!!! :)
But then- Helllpppppp!!!! dunno why I'm blogging this!!! Hope I don't end up in self-realization classes!!! :o//

Lil' bro's b'de cake... :)

This is the cake I baked for little bro's b'day... :) Wish I'd tried baking one for him when we were staying together!!!
Miss you Poon!!! You are the best bro ever!!!... Muuuuahhh!!! :)

My Snowtym Wishlist! ;)

Itz SNOWIN”!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D
I’ve waited for this forever & during this wait time, automatically made up a list of things I wanted to do when it snowed!
A few of tem I did & a few I couldn’t 'coz of the limited snow. But before winter ends, I’m gonna try to make sure that this list will no longer be labeled ‘to-do’… :)

Penning down most of them if not all!... :) So here goes-
- FEEL snow.. I mean hold and feel it & see how long it takes to melt on almost equally cold hands
- Eat it… err.. d snow I mean & not the hands! ;)
- Walk on a frozen lake
- Make snow balls n throw them with all my strength at any available breathing target (Slytherin ended up as the bait here)
- Stuff a breathing target with snow & watch the target shudder n scream (Snig was the target here but I must admit that I got back equally with a nail scratch as bonus!)
- Make a snowman, snowwoman & snow kid .. Hmmn.. guess I should have just used the word family!
- Gather snow, make it into a ball, poke a stick through to make it look like a lolly & add some fruity syrup on top n slurp slrup.. ;)
- Scoop some snow into a bowl, add some fruity syrup on top n then slurp again! Something like a snow cone?.. Dunno if thatz how it would be! Never had one! But wanna try this! :)
- Make a teeny weenie snowman and keep him in the freezer (Snow'man' intentional. I wouldn’t be able to torture anybody of the same gender ;) & anyways, since the female of the species is relatively ‘hot’, it wouldn’t stay frozen for long!)
- Write on snow fallen over my car and take pictures (the pictures part is still pending)
- Go for a walk when it is snowing
- Wade through knee deep snow
- Snow tube & ski which show up in the basic 'to-do-lists' of almost everybody!
- Skate with shoes.. as in just glide along like we would do in school corridors with our sports shoes
- Turn on the heater, curled up cozy and with a mug of coffee, read a novel with the blinds pulled open so that every time I look out of the window, I see the snow fall.
- Or just replace the novel above with good music! :) the novel gets brownie points, though!
- Would have loved to have a fireplace to set the Christmas mood- something that I’ve grown up believing in, but since this is not feasible, I can do without it! :D

The warmth still remains...

It was a real foggy Monday morning... a perfect setting to match the gloomiest day of the week!
I was driving into oblivion.
Just got to the only mounting road on my way to office and the sun shone through- bright n warm, clearing the fog....
Made me smile :) A great start for the week. Itz snowing now... but the warmth still remains.... :)
Pik: Clicked by Vishu when we were out camping near the Grand Canyon.

Q time!

Q: In the movie... ‘The Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor' in almost the last scenes...the daughter sees her dad (who is awakened from the dead) for the first time..

But she still doesn’t talk to him.. Any idea why?.. ;)

hmmmn... herez Y!! :)

When the daughter first saw her dad- she din’t know how to address him- papa/MUMMY.. :D :D