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And already, the noise of partying has been going on for hours. Firecrackers, loud music from a block or two…

Of course, Fahim later tells me he was pulling my leg. He was never serious about stealing it. He just…

When you’re shopping for something here, if the salesclerk doesn’t know the price or how to handle a situation, one…

And the fireworks and yelling and partying started, uh, a couple of hours ago. It’s now only 8:47pm, and downstairs…

We went grocery shopping tonight at Food City, the grocery store at the end of our road. We’ve been going…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thilika gave Fahim even more of a song and dance about the eye surgery. Turns out it’s Rs.8000, or about…

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

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

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

Not grossness as in mold or bugs in the food or worms in the garbage kind of grossness. No, this…

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

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

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

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