Adieu

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 3/9/2013 3:32:00 PM

'After a lot of deliberation, I decided to move base to Wordpress. No reason to finger per se- the spam here was getting a bit too much, probably.And the options that Wordpress offers.I was fully intending to port this entire blog there- then I figured it would be an insult to the memories that this blog has given me.So, here you will find me, if any of you come looking for me- that is.Opinions and MoreLooking forward to meeting you in the new place! :)'

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Turning Point...

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 2/13/2013 5:54:00 PM

'So. This is a chain love story as a part of CBC (Chennai Bloggers Club) chain story relay. In this we write a love story as this month is for love. 20 Bloggers will write one chapter to make a beautiful love story :)  How do you know it will be a beautiful story? Think no more- especially today :) Because Love stories are always beautiful!The story starts with episode 1 and then flows here. What happens next is captured in this episode, a(...)'

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To- my ladies :D

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 1/31/2013 7:33:00 PM

'I have some friends who vehemently swear that a girl and a boy can never be ‘just friends’. I have no comments about that. I have some other friends who swear that two girls can never, ever be friends. Now, that is very lame, I say.Most of us have been through phases where the number of friends of the opposite sex outnumber the number of friends we have in the same gender. That is when we have really steep learning curves. We learn what to say, what never to say, what to ask and wha(...)'

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13 things I will NOT do in 2013

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 1/9/2013 7:07:00 PM

'Like someone rightly said, the first few weeks of ANY new year will see one sure-shot conversation starter: What is your New Year resolution for this year? Ofcourse, I strongly recommend that nobody follow this, because seasoned conversation-ists will look you up and down with arched eyebrows and walk away. Instead, ofcourse, you could try the title of the post. So here we go- 13 things I will try NOT to do this year. PS- This post is rumination for a write-a-post contest condu(...)'

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Chennai- For me :)

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 1/4/2013 6:02:00 PM

'This post is published as a part of the CBC Tablog.CBC, for everybody  is the Chennai Bloggers' Club, which I am honoured to be a part of. Over 35 bloggers from Chennai are taking part in this blog tag- we take turns to write about Chennai and what it means to us.This tag is perceeded by Sowmya Swaminathan, who blogs at myspace-ss.blogspot.in Chennai is my city and I am proud of it.I look at the Cooum with disdain. I complain about the sweltering heat in May, but will(...)'

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When I Don't Understand..

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 1/1/2013 7:47:00 PM

'Communication- is everything. Social beings that we are, it is of supreme importance that we understand what is being relayed to us, and in turn be understood.I have been in many, many situations where- I have failed to grasp what was said to me- in a language that I can follow (and subsequently, made a fool of myself). I have also been in situations where I was unable to fathom what was told to me, because of a language barrier. Like- one fine day, I was travelling in a bus in Mumb(...)'

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Awesome Blogger & Liebster Blog Award – I’m tagged

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 12/16/2012 7:08:00 PM

' So I had been thinking it was a while since I scribbled, too many things happening, nothing too solid to type. That’s when my good friend Kalyantagged me in my first ever Blog Award :DSo here are the rules:1.If you are tagged/nominated, you have to post 11 facts about yourself.2.Then you answer the 11 questions the tagger has given you & make 11 questions for the people you are going to tag.3. Tag 11 more Bloggers.4. No tagging back.5. Person you tag must have < 200 fol(...)'

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Today.As of.

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 12/4/2012 8:13:00 PM

'This post is nothing but an assortment of thoughts swishing around my head at the moment.Read on, some more confusion won’t do you any harm :PAt the moment, I am terrified that the world will come to an end. Yeah, yeah, a lot of you might go, ‘Yeah, whatever, grow up!’ but look at it! Nobody is saying anything! NASA is mum. Yesterday my mother freaked me out by saying there is going to be incessant rain for 3 days and God-Knows-What is going to happen. All that NASA (or whoever) say(...)'

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Until Then..

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 11/24/2012 4:58:00 AM

'Foraying into new territories. Novice attempts at feelings-y, short story writing.“Trrdwwing”Listening to the familiar notification alert, she absently touches the whatsapp icon on her sleek new smart phone.“What’s up, Dumpy?”“:(”“What what?”“Had a bad day dude. Made an utter fool of myself today with a couple of Mumbai wala managers :|”“Who who?”“One Anand Pandey and one..something Phadnis”“Nikil?”“Yeah..your floor?”“Yes. Both are fools.”She allows herself a little smile.“Ahan? Why(...)'

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She loves me.. she loves me not..

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 11/17/2012 1:54:00 PM

';;;;      So, it is 12 am here, and I am sipping sugar less milk and typing away about something that has been troubling my head for all of the past few days. Last night I had this TALK with a friend that stretched into sunrise- about how, plainly how stupid most of us can be at times, with respect to this cannot-do-without something called relationships.     I have a friend named Arjun who told me something really sensible way back when we we(...)'

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Circle of life ;)

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 10/23/2012 7:37:00 AM

'Last weekend saw me enjoying myself at my first live standup comedy show. It was an Evam production and my (so called) friends lured me into it saying this famous blogger was going to be there. Now Local Tea Party is the name that this celebrity blogger goes by- he even tweets under the same name. And there have been many vain attempts at trying to figure his identity out, and hey, he writes pretty funny stuff, so I, erm, just went to check him out- and of course, have a few laughs (...)'

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Of Lives and Purposes

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 10/12/2012 8:15:00 PM

'The first time I noticed him was when he was showing his moves off in the basketball court. I never did get to see him much afterward, but a couple of days later he and a bunch of other trainees were assigned to my boss. My boss being busier than usual around then, delegated me to be the mentor for this bunch of very enthusiastic, very difficult to keep busy, fresh out of college folks. Anyway, I used to run into him on and off, and sometimes used to see him walking around work area(...)'

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Bye-bye time- Once More!

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 9/29/2012 9:23:00 PM

'I have never been good at handling adieus. Though I can never get weepy and clingy, inside me, my little heart would be doing a washing-machine spin, counting days down, letting the distance sink in, and then, finally, letting time take its course.My first bye-bye was to Gautham who went away to Germany to study machines (like he doesn’t know enough already!) So Gautham is my trekking-cum-lets-check-this-new-restaurant-out buddy. He was working in Chennai for a year, and for one yea(...)'

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Faith- in what?

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 9/22/2012 8:55:00 AM

'Indian history speaks about a famous mathematician and astrologer named Bhaskaracharya (1114-1185). He is often referred to as the greatest mathematician of medieval India. He is known for his treatises on Trigonometry, arithmetic, Algebra, mathematics of the planets, etc. Bhaskara's work on calculus, it is proven, predates Newton and Leibniz by half a millennium. Now Bhaskara had a daughter named Lilavathi. As Bhaskara was a renowned astrologer, he studied Lilavathi’s horoscope him(...)'

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Staying Foolish

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 9/11/2012 7:14:00 PM

'So post Goa, yours truly has been very very restless indeed.The ‘Oh what the hell am I doing here’ phase came back with a vengeance, oh how I so hate this phase!So on a whim, I applied to some totally out-of-the-box  jobs- that I would so LOVE to do (which, once my mother heard of it, made her rush to the temple to pray for my sanity). To give you an idea- story telling/amateur theatre/script writing- these are the ones that are in the safe, sane side of the spectrum. So I did (...)'

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Go-A!

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 8/20/2012 3:25:00 PM

'Goa is such a misunderstood place.The moment I voiced interest about visiting it, down swooped the parental protection force, spewing me with reasons as to why it was such a dangerous/godforsaken/ crazy place to visit. But in the end, righteousness prevailed ( :D ), and that’s how I set off on one of the best vacations I have ever had till date.This post will not be an itinerary of my trip; it will not even be a list of the ‘must-do’s in Goa. Goa is a place where one has to simply l(...)'

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The First Flight

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 7/21/2012 7:21:00 AM

'My mom never fails to remind me of what a traveler baby I was the first few months of my life. I was born in Mumbai, then after a brief brush with the royal treatment that only the first-baby-in-the-family gets, I was flown back to (then) Madras, to where dad and mom had set up home.  I remember everybody coming up to me and going “Ooh what a lovely, beautiful baby! She is the prettiest baby we have ever seen!”. So I really have no recollection of my first flight. But that was (...)'

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Scaling New Heights!

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 7/7/2012 5:46:00 AM

'A friend, who doubles as my trekking partner and fellow gourmet-experiment enthusiast, was taking me to lunch. As we were digging into some authentic Korean food, we got talking about the two years that had just gone by. Two years in the corporate world, two years of financial freedom, two years of responsible work. But the first thing that flitted across minds when we looked back on these two years? Not achievements, not promotions, not the new car or the now bike that we had purch(...)'

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Not at all what it seems!

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 6/22/2012 6:07:00 PM

'We grow up fed with a lot of ideas about things, in general. A lot of Indians would like to believe that we keep the culture flag flying high, Americans have no values, a woman who prefers traditional sarees to comfortable western wear is ideal wife material any day, men who smoke and drink are bad people who decent girls ought to keep safe distance from, and oh yes, dating is scandalous.In the same vein we Indians love to tear our country into bits, and have inane ideas about the d(...)'

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Stilled

Author : gitanjali      Blog : Mirth, masala and more...      Date : 6/17/2012 4:15:00 PM

'I have been reading Eat, Pray, Love. This is one of those remarkable coincidences, where a book lands in your lap, exactly when you need it. In fact, the past couple of weeks have been a bundle of coincidences- myriad paths- taking me exactly where I wanted to go, but had no idea that the place existed - I landed on this amazing blog, which I keep going back to read, time and again, and I have started to reconnect, with a lot of old friends, and God. (Kind of Déjà vu, still)Today, I(...)'

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