Organic Art
There’s a cool little flash thingie that you can plug a URL into and it’ll create a funky little… plant…
We’ve been hit! We’ve been hit!
(I’m really hoping those sounds I’m hearing aren’t firecrackers hitting our house.)
It’s a revolution!!!!!!
And the fireworks are going like mad. Mad, I tell you! Crazy! Stark raving lunatic! It’s 2006, folks! And the…
Church bells? What the heck?
Not only do we have some really really bad karaoke happening, we now have church bells going off. Oh, and…
Happy, er, New Year?
And already, the noise of partying has been going on for hours. Firecrackers, loud music from a block or two…
More on shoplifting
When you’re shopping for something here, if the salesclerk doesn’t know the price or how to handle a situation, one…
New Years Eve…
And the fireworks and yelling and partying started, uh, a couple of hours ago. It’s now only 8:47pm, and downstairs…
Fahim narrowly escapes life in prison
We went grocery shopping tonight at Food City, the grocery store at the end of our road. We’ve been going…
Technorati
I’ve seen references for it recently and even though I’d heard of it before, I thought I’d check it out….
Cataracts.
So*, I mentioned to my oldest brother (8 years older than me) that I have cataracts and that I found…
Tom Yum Goong
We watched Tom Yum Goong last night, and I gotta tell you, it isn’t worth watching if you like silly…
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 we can’t get…
More on the floating book fair…
They apparently have more than 6000 titles on board, and Fahim’s dad called yesterday to tell us that we can…
Fighting Mad in Tamil Nadu
Vijayis considered one of the top male actors in Tamil Nadu, along with Ajith. There’s a fierce rivalry with the…
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 the Book Ship…
Spices in the Freezer?????
Yeah, it occurred to me that I probably haven’t explained my rationale behind this move. So, I will do so…
Oh, for the update…
I found out that my brother actually did send out an email announcing his marriage and the fact that he…
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 freezer, it’s opened…
Gallery2 and Photos
I’ve been working on organizing my huge mungo amount of photos into something more cohesive, and to that end, I…
More on the new maid
Thilika gave Fahim even more of a song and dance about the eye surgery. Turns out it’s Rs.8000, or about…
The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey
We watched The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey tonight. It’s based on the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 in India against…
The New Maid, Part Deux
So*. She, the new maid, speaks no English, and it seems she understands very little as well. Poor Fahim has…
The new maid…
The new maid starts today. The old maid, Girllie, hasn’t been here since before my sister and the kids were…