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Happy, er, New Year?
And already, the noise of partying has been going on for hours. Firecrackers, loud music from a…
More on shoplifting
When you’re shopping for something here, if the salesclerk doesn’t know the price or how to handle…
New Years Eve…
And the fireworks and yelling and partying started, uh, a couple of hours ago. It’s now only…
Fahim narrowly escapes life in prison
We went grocery shopping tonight at Food City, the grocery store at the end of our road….
Technorati
I’ve seen references for it recently and even though I’d heard of it before, I thought I’d…
Cataracts.
So*, I mentioned to my oldest brother (8 years older than me) that I have cataracts and…
Tom Yum Goong
We watched Tom Yum Goong last night, and I gotta tell you, it isn’t worth watching if…
More on the floating book fair…
They apparently have more than 6000 titles on board, and Fahim’s dad called yesterday to tell us…
Fighting Mad in Tamil Nadu
Vijayis considered one of the top male actors in Tamil Nadu, along with Ajith. There’s a fierce…
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…
Spices in the Freezer?????
Yeah, it occurred to me that I probably haven’t explained my rationale behind this move. So, I…
Oh, for the update…
I found out that my brother actually did send out an email announcing his marriage and the…
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…
Gallery2 and Photos
I’ve been working on organizing my huge mungo amount of photos into something more cohesive, and to…
More on the new maid
Thilika gave Fahim even more of a song and dance about the eye surgery. Turns out it’s…
The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey
We watched The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey tonight. It’s based on the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857…
The New Maid, Part Deux
So*. She, the new maid, speaks no English, and it seems she understands very little as well….
The new maid…
The new maid starts today. The old maid, Girllie, hasn’t been here since before my sister and…
Warning: Grossness ahead.
Not grossness as in mold or bugs in the food or worms in the garbage kind of…
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…
Problem solved!
It was a corrupted font – Arial and its incarnations. I did a Google search on the…
Still in italics. Ugh.
At Fahim’s suggestion, I used a program called FontExpert 2005 that checks fonts to see if they’re…
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…