Category Archives: Humor

Love in the Time of Cancer

  I tell you, this Carol has a knack for puncturing the balloon of my sweetest fantasies.  Having  failed at finding true love in the last 20 years of my single life, I have devised a cute way of fantasising about  it instead. I smile into the sky and off I go into a Time …

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Carol Charms Rapunzel

Today Carol took me on a trip down memory lane. Once upon a time, several decades back there lived a happy-go-lucky girl. Her pride was her long hair which reached right up to her knees. It was jet black and flowed down straight like a never-ending stream. In the fantasy world the young inhabit easily, she …

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Planet M

  It is my conviction that while looking down at Earth from the heavens, the One Above must be bemused by the name we earthlings have given our planet. With the human species’ obsessive preoccupation with marriage—the making, the tolerating and the breaking of it, wouldn’t a more apt name for it be Planet M? …

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The Legendary Thai Massage

<a href=”http://www.blogadda.com&#8221; title=”Visit blogadda.com to discover Indian blogs” > <img src=”ht   To me, Bangkok is a city of sharp contrasts. On offer is the base as well as the divine. The sublime as well as the ridiculous.  In ample measure. The divinity is outnumbered only by the depravity. There are as many temples (over …

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Zipping Through Bangkok

<a href=”http://www.blogadda.com&#8221; title=”Visit blogadda.com to discover Indian blogs” > <img src=”ht           With just two days left in Bangkok and myriads of shopping opportunities lying unexplored, we felt exactly what the famished Hansel and Gretel must have felt on reaching the chocolate cottage.   Being adventurous by nature, we decided to forego the …

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Please Not Entering the Water If You are Having a Heart Attack

<a href=”http://www.blogadda.com&#8221; title=”Visit blogadda.com to discover Indian blogs” > <img src=”h  I will never forget the beauty of Pattaya. The resort, nestled amidst lazy palm trees and lush greenery was a delight to a Mumbaiker who had lived amidst tall…taller… tallest… concrete for so long. Add to that the cushiony hotel bed (that’s why I …

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How May I Have You?

<a href=”http://www.blogadda.com&#8221; title=”Visit blogadda.com to discover Indian blogs” > <img src=”http://www.blogadda.com/images/blogadda.png&#8221; width=”80″ height=”15″ border=”0″ alt=”Visit blogadda.com to discover Indian blogs”/></a> How May I Have You? It took just a little impassioned ‘sales talk’ to get my high-spirited elder sister, Poonam, agree to become my co-traveller. My partner-in-crime was born barely two years before me, but …

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