Trying to connect the dots.....

6.30 PM: Watching IPL match - Royal Challengers-Bengaluru vs Mumbai Indians at a cousin's place 6.40 PM: My baby sister(cousin/not so own..lol) tries to snatch the TV remote to change the channel 6.41 PM: My brother(own!) screams loud enough to shoo her off 6.43 PM: Dejected cousin asks, "which team is ours?" 6.45 PM: My brother gives a what-the-hell look and grins," Bengaluru". 6.46 PM: My sister further says "red or bleau?(concentrate on phonics please):-)" 6.47 PM: RCB lost a wicket and my brother gives a all-because-of-u look and my sister picks her nose and very gently places the matter found on my brother's jeans{Eeeww i saw it;-( }and satisfies her fungal revenge! 6.48PM: My sister repeats her question, "red or bleau?", this time looking at my father and my father replies "Red chinna"..pulling her nose which gave her further irritation and she picked her nose again![matter not found...phew!] 6.49 PM: My s

I have a habit of scanning my blog every now and then to check if I have committed some "OMG" mistakes because by the time you pen your thoughts and post it, you will be saying Ohhhh Myyyy Gawwwd( In Janice style @ F.R.I.E.N.D.S). So, it is very human to commit such mistakes. Yesterday, I noticed that the most commonly used things in my posts are "lol" or "hehehe"!!!! I started wondering why do we use them so often and I found only 2 reasons. 1. The writers/readers actually experience "laugh my ass off" situation while writing/reading something so they want the world to know. or 2. It is just another higher degree of communicating the emotion of a less cool phrase "just kidding" expecting/hoping for the people to take whatever you have written in their stride! I must admit that I have used these expressions mostly for the first reason, but have used it for the second one too at many instances... Hmmm when you ar

It is new year for kannadigas and if I am not wrong for Andhraites and Maharashtrians too... As a kid I used to be excited prior to almost all the festivals be it Sankranti, Ugadi, Deepavali or Ganesha-Gauri festival.Firstly, because there used to be a holiday and secondly because it was fun to go out for shopping with mum-dad to buy clothes (totally inappropriate for the occasions though). I strangely enjoyed and still do (unfortunately nobody believes me)joining my mum in cleaning up the house or in preparing some desserts that require heavy labour (holige, yallu-bella,etc). The best part of the festival day would be "meeting-the-bhai bhandus"! My dad is a firm believer in networking so he tried his best to enrich our social lives on those occasions( he has given up now!). He always says, 'you have to be amidst all kind of people (good, bad and humans) to know yourself better'. It made no sense to me then dad, but now I couldn't agree with you more. To be ho