Month: December 2005

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Technorati

I’ve seen references for it recently and even though I’d heard of it before, I thought I’d…

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Cataracts.

So*, I mentioned to my oldest brother (8 years older than me) that I have cataracts and…

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Tom Yum Goong

We watched Tom Yum Goong last night, and I gotta tell you, it isn’t worth watching if…

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Stuff we have here that you don’t have there

A question came up recently on a forum I frequent after I complained about all the things…

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More on the floating book fair…

They apparently have more than 6000 titles on board, and Fahim’s dad called yesterday to tell us…

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Fighting Mad in Tamil Nadu

Vijayis considered one of the top male actors in Tamil Nadu, along with Ajith. There’s a fierce…

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Sachin

Fahim and I watched the movie Sachin tonight. Well, no, to be accurate, we started it two…

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Book Ship, the Doulos, aka floating book fair

Yesterday evening, Fahim and I went to his parent’s place. While we were there, we learned that…

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Spices in the Freezer?????

Yeah, it occurred to me that I probably haven’t explained my rationale behind this move. So, I…

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Oh, for the update…

I found out that my brother actually did send out an email announcing his marriage and the…

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Chilli Powder and Red Pepper Flakes – Yum!

So*. We went grocery shopping yesterday. Yay! Since I’ve recently started storing my spare spices in the…

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Gallery2 and Photos

I’ve been working on organizing my huge mungo amount of photos into something more cohesive, and to…

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More on the new maid

Thilika gave Fahim even more of a song and dance about the eye surgery. Turns out it’s…

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The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey

We watched The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey tonight. It’s based on the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857…

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The New Maid, Part Deux

So*. She, the new maid, speaks no English, and it seems she understands very little as well….

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The new maid…

The new maid starts today. The old maid, Girllie, hasn’t been here since before my sister and…

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Warning: Grossness ahead.

Not grossness as in mold or bugs in the food or worms in the garbage kind of…

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So*. This is how I find out my brother got married…

A few months ago. I’m on MSN, chatting with my oldest brother. He mentions it in passing…

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Problem solved!

It was a corrupted font – Arial and its incarnations. I did a Google search on the…

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Still in italics. Ugh.

At Fahim’s suggestion, I used a program called FontExpert 2005 that checks fonts to see if they’re…

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I’m seeing everything in italics…

And it’s driving me nuts! It’s in FireFox, Internet Explorer, and some other places that I don’t…

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Are you ready for Christmas?

I am. But that’s because… a. I don’t mail gifts overseas for the most part. No one…

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I am a terrible, terrible wife.

So*. I did it again. Not with the curry powder this time, although I did run out…

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Les Fils de Vent

We watched an Asian French movie today. Thai film, filmed in Thailand with mostly Thai people speaking……

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Telephone Directories

And now that we’ve had our land line connection for a year and two months, we FINALLY…