tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post924947172700412836..comments2023-08-10T13:05:31.411+05:30Comments on The Woodchuck Chucks: Potatoes with the meat – the side order memories of boomUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-22335901195570358632010-05-27T03:02:14.984+05:302010-05-27T03:02:14.984+05:30i remember when mother teresa died, that day we ha...i remember when mother teresa died, that day we had celebrated "Treacher's day" at school, and i knew then i'd never forget the date mt died... <br />see, i still rememberrajatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-75081117010736223362010-05-26T12:44:35.442+05:302010-05-26T12:44:35.442+05:30Queen: Hey hey, you emerged again:), how's it ...<b>Queen</b>: Hey hey, you emerged again:), how's it go? My apologies for being a slow poke and not replying. Often I get conscious about blogging/commenting from work and it seems rude. But really, you remember all of those days too? Damn, and here I was thinking I was the only one with a blessed memory :P<br /><br />As an idea, I'm sure the roulette wheel worked well, the execution left a lot to be blah blah. Oh but the cake. Yep, gooey cake = good cake. <i>Smacks fingers!</i><br /><br /><b>The Mystic</b>: It's not that easy is right, but I know at times I've quietened my conscience by just donating a piddly amount. PM's relief fund, long live.<br /><br /><b>Bald G</b>: My mother was an air hostess. She would always say plane mishaps happen three in a row. So, if the plane carrying the Polish prez was the first, and the Mangalore crash the second, I don't want her to be right about a third, but I don't know anyone with sharper instinct than my mother, ex-air hostess, with Air India, might I add.<br /><br />I don't want to see any more pics of the victims either. That orphaned 4-year old at her parents' funeral? What about the aged parents leaning on the coffins of their son and daughter? Na, no more pics.<br /><br /><b>Un B B</b>: Mother Teresa had a chip on her shoulder about condoms?! Wow.. the things one learns.<br /><br />I don't at all envy you having a first-hand view of the twin towers going down. Goose pimples just thinking about it. Sad hug for you.<br /><br />Green slots 0 and 00 is news. I'll remember that and I know me, I'll use it in conversation somewhere.<br /><br />It's not just the wealthy who leave a mess. In India, you don't have to be rich to have an <i>ayah</i>. Every middle class household has a servant it can't do without. Either a part time maid, someone who comes in at 5 pm to chop vegetables and make <i>chappatis </i> for dinner, or a sweeper who at 8 a m does <i>jhadoo-pochha</i> -- sweeping, swabbing, often even a full-time housekeeper, a driver, a gardener, a car cleaner... domestic help is very common. Labour is cheap. And here, people in the government -- the defence service, the police force, the Indian Administrative Service and foreign service IAS, IFS -- have the nicest bungalows allotted to them, will have domestic help, but may not necessarily be the richest. Bankers, lawyers, the private sector guys -- oh yes, loaded. I should've put up the photo of the maid with the huge back side, but you get the picture -- lots of people to clean up after you.<br /><br />P.S: For the writing compliment, thank you. It made my day. =)Nimpipihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15971502879277219728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-35498058806299223882010-05-24T17:06:51.594+05:302010-05-24T17:06:51.594+05:30Random thoughts:
I’d like to point out that the s...Random thoughts:<br /><br />I’d like to point out that the sainted Mother Teresa taught her poor minion that the use of contraception was a sin in God‘s eyes, thus, adding to their misery. Church rules, you know.<br /><br />I watched 9/11 unfold live and in living color through a midtown Manhattan conference room window. What a long day THAT was!<br /><br />The roulette wheel cake is inaccurate. The green slots are always 0 and 00.<br /><br /><i>…trashing the place, and leaving the mess for a mother or a maid to clean up.</i><br /><br />Isn’t that what wealthy people do? Bankers? Governments? etc.?<br /><br /><br />My Lord, you’re a good writer!The Unbearable Banishmenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704208968630911021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-82306107792853296532010-05-24T13:39:21.196+05:302010-05-24T13:39:21.196+05:30Another blogger who lives in Mangalore took some p...Another blogger who lives in Mangalore took some pictures of the bodies too and put it up on her blog. Very scary pictures. Now I wish I hadn't seen that blog post. Damn.Ramit Groverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09969175001122372257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-34629784010125379992010-05-24T13:39:21.195+05:302010-05-24T13:39:21.195+05:30There have been too many plane crashes in the rece...There have been too many plane crashes in the recent years. Scary. So much so that each time I touch down, I cross my fingers and pray till the plane stops and the doors open.Ramit Groverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09969175001122372257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-83650478038943354712010-05-24T11:22:20.311+05:302010-05-24T11:22:20.311+05:30At times when I read about these things I feel lik...At times when I read about these things I feel like we should be doing something more to somehow help out or even pacify the situation. But, its not that easy and when life moves on, these incidents just become remembrance and nothing else... btw the Russian roulette cake looked nice :)Miss. Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08983500002180032474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26829926.post-12912167657208451522010-05-24T10:59:13.987+05:302010-05-24T10:59:13.987+05:30Gosh. You took me on a trip down memory lane. I re...Gosh. You took me on a trip down memory lane. I remember each of those days so clearly as well...<br /><br />On the other hand, a Russian Roulette bday party, now thats a wild idea. And PS I love the cake :DQueenmatraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10028135290830157457noreply@blogger.com