Tagging along

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/16/2013 3:32:00 PM

'When I joined B.A.P, Vijayawada for studying L.K.G, my mother was already a teacher there and the elder sister was in first class. My sports-loving, artsy, creative parents decided the kids were getting none of the things they love at the small school and decided to shift the kids to Nirmala High School. One at a time.I went first. I was 10 or something. Just a month after, the old school people were going on a picnic, which meant my Mom and sister were going and your(...)'

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Day 17 - Mailbox a.k.a Postbox

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/16/2013 2:34:00 PM

'The Kid had a great day at work, great day in the sense - absolutely no work, just checking mail now and then, picking up chocolates and sweets after scouring 'Sweets@desk' mails and reading the much-ignored library book for which she got chided by the The Adult (PM's those are called in this context). In the evening, The Kid also attended a meeting, just to make itself feel important. One enterprising kid took the dignitaries on Campus Tour and brought with himself the bouquets he (...)'

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Day 16 - 7.00 pm Unhealthy snack time

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/15/2013 4:56:00 PM

'Mostly. But, switched to sweet corn these days. Should see how long that will last :D'

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Day 14 - Need

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/14/2013 6:03:00 PM

'All I need is some good old-fashioned, mild rains so I can go trekking again.Wadgaon, PuneOr does that come under 'wants'? Whatever people, I'm just too tired to care!'

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Day 13 - Sunset

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/12/2013 5:43:00 PM

'Place : My hometown Vijayawada - Prakasam Barrage.Date : Nearly an year back.'

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Day 12 - Mother

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/12/2013 5:39:00 PM

'I don't buy this Hallmark thing of celebrating Mothers Day, but the challenge says the pic should be about Mother and I think I'll have to go with that.I'm a lot like my Mom when it comes to having fun. Even at her age, she is the quirkiest in her friends' group and always thinks up of fun-things to do which, mostly, seem blasphemous to her friends. I take after her in this respect and hope to remain like that till her age and beyond. Of course, we are pretty different in many other(...)'

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Day 11 - Smiles

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/12/2013 5:28:00 PM

'Best friend. Partner in crime. The love of my life.'

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Day 10 - Stars

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/12/2013 5:21:00 AM

'Gobsmacked! Damn, there are no high-end cameras in my life till now who could capture stars and I couldn't get myself to put pictures of the family and say they are stars, because that's too cheesy and it would cramp my style :PSo, I was going for stars with this lame attempt. You may or may not humour me :)These are called Star Lillies in my office and I don't know what their actual name is.'

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Day 09 - Snack

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/9/2013 4:47:00 PM

'Damn! If I had known that we are going to food posts, I wouldn't have wasted all my food-pics on that F thingie...damn, silly me.Anyhow, here this one is from my recent trip to my Mom's hometown Guntur. There's this old place called Royal Ice Parlour near Sankar Vilas where they make the most wonderful fruit salads, complete with amazing jellies and of course, tons of fruits and 3 scoops of yummy pista, vanilla and strawberry ice-cream, all for 45 bucks. Total paisa-wasool. P.S(...)'

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Day 8 - Shapes

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/8/2013 5:15:00 PM

'Umm..shapes, as in...everything..wide range of possibilities..it's like the freaking super-set...but, unable to choose one...so my humble-pen-stand it is. I think it's got a shape and cute one at that too :D'

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Day 7 - Food

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/7/2013 3:56:00 PM

'Food. Why should I be left off from this. I'll put my favourite Coffee pic, considering it helps me much better with my migraine than Migranil does :PAin't that cute? Choco frappe it was.Chocolate cup-cakes my sis got home one dayI wanted to do a Food, Friends and Fashion post....but I'm just too lazy. Yawn :D'

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Day 6 - Broken

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/7/2013 3:42:00 PM

'Old spectacles. Couldn't find anything broken, that's mine :('

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Day 5 - Paper

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/4/2013 6:56:00 PM

'Okay, I can't jaw enough about my compulsive shopping habits. Clothes, books. Always. I buy almost twice or thrice a month, I get weekly reminders from the shopping sites with messages like "We haven't seen you in a while, okay this and this are up on the site and up for grabs, check them out!" When I get them, I feel really  bad, like I-know-this-is-a-commercial-ploy-but-I-still-like-it kind of bad. So, when I bought these socks for 85 rupees, in my eagerness to use them,(...)'

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Quiet Conversations

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/4/2013 5:37:00 PM

'I did my graduate studies in a village that was 3 hours away from my hometown. Most Saturdays, I bunked the  half-day college (my college attendance is dismal ! :P), breakfasted leisurely, packed my bags and left for my hometown. My parents would be resting in post-noon slumber and I'd come home starving like a refugee. My Mom would sleep deeply or feign sleep, I know not which. My Dad would cook for me right away and would regale him with my college stories, like who ragged me(...)'

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Day 4 - In my Cup

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/3/2013 7:34:00 PM

'My day starts with Elaichi tea, ever since I was a child. My parents believed that tea was good for health and   Elaichi Tea-drinking is definitely one of the early morning rituals we all bonded over. I still remember the days we had silly conversations, while drinking this one :-)Anyhow, I digress.Now, I have this in the morning. And 2 cups of green tea, once before lunch and once after. Tetley Green Tea- Citrus and Spices. I also love Twinnings Green Tea & Lemon.'

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Day 3 - This is really good

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/2/2013 6:55:00 PM

'Enough said.Pretty much self-explanatory, but I'll explain a bit because I'm nice like that. For someone who wallet is post-holocaust wasteland right after first week of salary crediting, I make myself proud for still having some considerable moola in the card, this month. And that makes it....really good :)P.S : Not materialistic, just awed at my skill of udao-fying money by the first week itself every.single.month.  '

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May Photo-a-Day Challenge Day1 - I bought this

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 5/2/2013 5:51:00 PM

'If I have to say about what I recently bought, on most days it would be clothes or books. I'm a compulsive shopaholic and buy books like crazy. My reading speed is nowhere close to my buying speed, but I keep buying like crazy. The library membership isn't working either, I'm finding books that aren't available in the library and buy them and tell everyone that I badly wanted to read it, but it wasn't available in library, so I had to buy it. My Mom changed her evening-walk time jus(...)'

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Zodiac Signs and the science behind it

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 4/30/2013 4:44:00 PM

'Or the lack of it.Do you consider every Scorpio guy to be a playboy? Or guess every fun-loving, happy-go-lucky girl to be a Capricorn. Do you like it when people consider you as a "typical <insert appropriate star-sign>"? After having scoffed sufficiently at the zodiac/star signs, one fine day I found Linda Goodman's book, and found it surprisingly accurate. Almost.I do have a lot of classic Sagittarian attributes - lacking tact, extremely outgoing, etc, etc. But only my (...)'

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Yes, we're done

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 4/29/2013 5:16:00 PM

'Almost :-)There's no better day for us bloggerni's than today. Err, tomorrow I mean. But hey, I promised myself that I'll think hard for my last post. So, today it is for me.We huffed, puffed, pouted, frowned, but finally bamboozled our own little blogging universe with our diverse and unique posts. While there's tons of wisdom in some ladies' posts, there are two cute, smart kids shoving fodder for our thoughts and then there's wonderful poems churned out everyday, that i(...)'

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eXhausted -eXcuse please

Author : Nandana      Blog : Cheerful Tornado      Date : 4/28/2013 5:16:00 PM

'Oh, well! Yet another cheat post. Beyond shame now :DMurudeshwar Beach, KarnatakaYeah, if you can't tell by now, I'm big sucker for sunsets, especially near beaches. In the evenings. When you are alone and nobody can interrupt you when you think about a million inconsequential things. A random Friday afternoon@office, Amphi-Hyd DCPhotographers, pros at that I mean, might oppose vehemently for this one (and many others on this site :P )- afternoon - harsh light, no details, yada(...)'

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