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Dear ex-Blog Friend,
If you want to tear down my blog posts, then at least have the decency to include a trackback. Don’t tell that you are such a coward! I don’t understand why I should agree with all that you’ve got to say about movies and books. Surely we have different personalities. If you can’t deal with some differences, then I don’t see how you will survive in this world. Grow up!
The blogroll at WP.com has become a joke. List anyone who visits your blog. Unlist them when they stop commenting or when they don’t agree with your viewpoints!
I’m thinking of removing my blogroll all together. For good.
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Such pretty flowers at the grocery store
I had no doubt regarding the fact that the madness does.not.end after you get a job. In fact, it starts all over again. And that is exactly what’s been happening since last night. I don’t think I’ll survive in the corporate world very long. I long to go back to school and study some more. After all, we live only once. Better use it to do something that you want to. I should probably chalk out a plan to save enough money to go back and get a PhD, and hopefully, start next Fall.
For one of my classes, our teacher asked us to jot down a few sentences about what we thought our writing style was. This led me to think about what I think the perfect and ideal combination of styles would be:
- Haruki Murakami’s brilliant and edgy sentences (Kafka on the Shore)
- Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
- Khaled Hosseini’s social and human portrayals (The Kite Runner)
- Anita Nair’s beautiful images (Mistress)
- Audrey Niffenegger’s, Anita Shreve’s & Tiffanie DeBartolo’s romance (The Time Traveler’s Wife, Fortune’s Rocks, God-Shaped Hole)
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s philosophy (The Little Prince)
- Philippa Gregory’s historical details (The Other Boleyn Girl)
Maybe I’ll think of more later. Or maybe I’ll change my mind and take some authors out. But to me, that would make for an AMAZING book.
Having read Murakami, Marquez,Antoine de Saint Exupéry and Hosseini, I can attest to the fact that they are brilliant. I even like Paul Auster, JM Coetzee, Arundhati Roy, Albert Camus, Naguib Mahfouz and Margaret Atwood.
Just logged into Facebook and saw that they’ve introduced Facebook Chat- nothing new concept-wise. I have lots of friends in my Facebook account and not many of them are in my Yahoo or Gtalk account. But still, I don’t see myself using this chat feature. I log into facebook to scribble short messages or to respond to messages, whenever it is convenient for me to do so. But remaining stuck to that facebook page just because someone wants to chat with me….is really not my thing. I think I will disable it.
Get your “Go Green” fix with the new Flock Browser: Eco Edition. Check it out! :)
Very cool idea. I’ll download it soon.
Haha! Yesssss…
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Too soon to show so much of affection. Keep them on a leash ;)
A friend’s Swiss ex-husband found it annoying when she and I pranced barefeet around their pristine flat. He thought we were behaving in an uncivil manner. Oh well, pardon me for being from a civilisation that is only a few thousand years old!
Those, who never walk barefeet, also never experience the wetness of sand standing on the beach, the dryness of the sand off the beach; the coldness of the floor in the bathroom, the warmth of heated tiles in the living room; the rough touch of tarmac outside the house when you run after your pet, the soft touch of a silk carpet you step on first thing in the morning.
And some are lopping off toes to squeeze their feet into Choos and Manolos? Sorry, I forgot I am from a civilisation several thousand years old. May be lopping toes is what ‘civilised’ people do now.
I don’t like it when people walk in their dirty shoes in my house. And I don’t see any need for house slippers, if you have a carpeted flooring. I know that there are some people (like my mom) who have to wear house slippers because they can’t tolerate even a minuscule speck of dust. But if your house is extremely clean, then using shoes indoors would be ‘uncivilized’ in my opinion. By the way, who decides what is civilized or what in uncivilized? Not all of us come from the same civilization anyway!
I don’t have much cabinet space in my new kitchen. But I can’t complain because I have a free dishwasher installed. :-) As long as I don’t have to wash dishes by hand, I really don’t care. I’ve started putting away my pots and pans in the oven-something that I never used to do.
Have been reading this book since the past two days and sadly, I’ve been let down. It’s not that great a book. Lahiri has beaten the topic of Bengali Indian American immigrants to death! There is no juice left. And on p. 179, I can’t believe that she’s actually gotten two of her characters confused. :-\ Have to wade through some 50 more pages. Will write a detailed review on my blog soon. I don’t think I want to read another book by her.
And somebody needs to survey employers to arrive at this self-evident conclusion?
Here is a better idea - ask women in child-bearing years about the sort of side-stepping questions about if they are married, how long they have been married and if they own their house etc that are asked.
Women themselves are no help. A friend who had a child at 19 or 20, when she was married to a trader, now goes into job interviews and offers proactively the information that her son is now at University and therefore she is not as the risk of being pregnant on their time.
This sounds like that job interview that I had (and I told you about). The funny thing is that not many women even realize that they are being asked illegal questions or that they are willingly providing information that they absolutely don’t need to.
Didn’t we always know this? I’m interested in finding out the steps which businesses are taking to mitigate the problem. Such an article would be more interesting.
Saw this at the grocery store yesterday
We shall not cease from exploration …And the end of all our exploring …Will be to arrive where we started …And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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