Life - or something like it

As I stepped on the tarmac with tired feet and luggage which was growing heavier by the minute….I was hit by muggy and humid air which sat on my body like a wet blanket. Entering the airport terminal, the cacophony of countless voices and the jostling bodies made it all seem surreal. The sour faced policemen were herding all of us like cattle with their baton and looking down at us with disdain as if we were more of ‘dharti pe bojh’ than 'humans’. Hubs looked at me and said ‘Welcome to India’. The word ‘NRI’ (Non Resident Indian or Non Returning Indian or Non Required Indian)  lost its importance the moment ‘IT’' boom pierced the eardrums of Indians in the year 2004. The frenetic pace at which the ‘IT ‘crowd hauled abroad actually spoiled chances of ‘Non- IT’ people like us, to stand out in the crowd. Now, nearly each house  has someone in ‘pardes’ (foreign land) working for a software firm or doing a Masters in USA, UK or Australia. With the increasing economic develop

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please Write a Caption for the picture below    All the Best. P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check here .

Apologies for delay in announcing the winner. I am still recovering from my move across the continents. Thanks for your patience friends :) There were so many wonderful entries this time, it was quite difficult for me to choose the winners. The winners of the 11th  edition of the caption contest are : Ritu  :  "Damn! Look at his beer belly, I'll pass" Ravi  : ' Damn - They don't make it as strong as they used to :(' Congratulations !!! Please drop me a mail at   and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you all this Wednesday for another round of Caption Contest.

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please write a caption for the picture below All the Best. P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check  here .

This is caption contest  ‘You think you are funny?’ The winner of the 10th  edition of the caption contest is : The NRI :  ' Oh come on, SMILE....' Congratulations !!! Please drop me a mail at   and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you all this Wednesday for another round of Caption Contest.

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please write a caption for the picture below All the Best. P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check  here .

To boldly go where no man has gone before A movie from bygone era when ‘Clerks’ or ‘Sarkari Babus’ were still honest and do gooders and thought taking Baksheesh to push paper was so not kosher. Manoj Kumar plays the part of a poor patriotic clerk called (so clichéd) ‘Bharat’ at the Ministry of Defence. The one who always had a hand on his face and has played a ‘Bharat Maa ka beta’ in most of his movies. The movie starts with ‘ Pitaji’ , Ashok Kumar writhing in pain because of a heart attack. The family is distraught as they don’t have money to pay ‘ Doctor babu ki fees ’. Bharat comes to the rescue with the perfect medicine for a heart attack. To hell with modern medicine..if you have a couple of pencil cells and ‘Azad Hind Fauj’ ka song, you will have the patient singing and marching in no time. The doctors just fool us all with CPR and hospital bills. Daddy deario starts singing and marching in no time as the wifey and baccha log look on with pride. The miracle of a few

I am sorry friends for not responding to your comments on my posts. I am quite tied up with packing and will read all your wonderful posts once I have safely landed in India. Thanks for being patient. This is caption contest  ‘You think you are funny?’ The winner of the 9th  edition of the caption contest are : 1)  Hayaah : " Oh Boy! That's definitely not gonna dry when we land!" 2) Nalini :  " I see dead people" Congratulations !!! Please drop me a mail at   and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you all this Wednesday for another round of Caption Contest.

It is time for change and  time for a new beginning. Time to pack up the whole house and move back home to India. In a week’s time I would be sitting in a Jet Plane flying back home with Hubs by my side. Right now, I am sitting squashed between mounds of clothes and the sharp book ends and  knick-knacks lying around are digging into my posterior.  I have tons of stuff to pack and do a lot of scrubbing and cleaning, all that work has put me over the edge. I swear, I have just 2 strands of hair left on my head..rest are all lying scattered as I have been pulling at them in frustration. Is it possible to be happy and sad at the same time? I guess its possible…I felt somewhat similar when my eldest sister got married and left for Mumbai and I finally got Mom and Dad all to myself… This is the longest I have stayed in one town, the longest in any single home and the longest at any job (after marriage) hence I am feeling a bit wistful. But I am happy too, I am excited and thrille

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please write a caption for the picture below All the Best. P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check  here .

This is caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ The winner of the 8th edition of the caption contest are : 1) Rosebelle : “Super hero and super broke, hope no one sees me doing this...” 2) Laxmi Gopa : "You think crime doesn't pay - well neither does crime fighting." Congratulations !!! Please drop me a mail at   and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you all this Wednesday for another round of Caption Contest.

Online Chatting is like having a conversation with someone.There is same amount of investment of emotions, time and instead of voice you are belting out your thoughts on the chat window through a keyboard. Just like in a face to face chat there are some etiquettes and rules which need to be kept in mind on an online chat. When I first started chatting way back in 2000, there were very few people who were into chatting and the people on my chat list was less than 10. The only person I chatted with on a regular basis at that time was my older sister who was living in USA. We did not need to follow any particular etiquettes, neither did we know any acronyms like LOL’s or ROFL. But we had fun chats which felt like actual conversations, we fought, laughed and shared our life. These days with the explosion of internet in every corner of the world, my chat list is bursting at the seams. The rules have changed and chat etiquettes have been forgotten. Over the years, I have seen people