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Boston 2007: New England Aquarium The New England aquarium is a treat for all animal lovers! We were surrounded by beautiful creatures in water. My favorite spot in the aquarium was the Penguin habitat. There were these cute penguins- a few swimming in water, a few stretching on the rocks and some lazying around. It was an incredible feeling to be so close to them.  One incident which caught my attention was that of an instrument that was placed on the rails, for the spectators to use. It was shaped like a telescope and the end of its mouth was shaped like a fish. When it is switched on, it would act like a torch and will light up in the form of a fish under water (where the penguins were swimming. Don’t know how many of u can visualize such a thing!  This torch was basically used to fool the poor creatures. Whenever someone lighted the torch, all the penguins would swim fast to the light, assuming it to be a fish. The torch could be moved up and down, left and rig...

We celebrated New Year ( Malayalam New year called Vishu ) yesterday April 15, 2010. At 5:00 AM IST, mom woke up everybody and took us to the ‘kani’ ( kani is an idol of lord Krishna along with a plate filled with raw rice, fruits, money, gold, coconut) . The ritual is to go till the kani with our eyes closed so that the first thing we see for New Year is the lord. As I had a project delivery, I was working from home. It felt good multi-tasking with work and cooking. There were many cooks involved in preparing the ‘sadya’, but contrary to the saying, many cooks did not spoil the broth ;-) We ate from banana leaves in the true spirit of Vishu. I would like to share one of the recipes of a special dish we had. It was mom’s experiment for New Year. Nutty Chicken :- Ingredients : Chicken (cut into tiny pieces) - 1 Grated coconut -1 cup Cashew nuts – 1/2 cup Onion- 4 Tomato- 1 Ginger Garlic paste – 2-3 teaspoons Chilly powder- 2 teaspoons Turmeric powder- 2 pinches ...

It was a lovely sunny day, on the morning of August 21, 2008. The day I will never forget. The day everyone would dread to live through. The day which gave me memories for life. The day which gifted me my permanent tattoo. I was travelling with my favourite aunt with whom I have had fun times together. We luv each other’s company. We don’t leave a chance to meet each other. That fine morning, we had travelled to a place, which was 80 km from home, by bus. After we were done with our work, we found an auto to go to the bus stand. We were surprised at how huge and spacious the auto was, never realizing that we wouldn’t reach home that day. At a turn, our auto hit a Honda city (driven by a lady without a license) and it tumbled and fell sideways onto the side of the road. It all happened in less than a minute and the next thing I knew was that my whole right leg had turned numb and my aunt was lying on the ground outside. Then I saw the sight, which anyone would dread. There was a ho...

Who thought that in 2010 I would get lucky and be able to fool a few friends on April 1 ( which is not my lucky number )……Let me give a few instances which will prove how good I was at it! Episode number 1:   I find Vi, my best pal’s husband, on chat and I tell him that the petrol prices in India have risen to 68 Rs/litre and that I suspect the UN had something to do with it…..He works for the UN…..He was surprised with the fact that we are at par w.r.t the petrol price in India and Europe and empathized with me- which establishes the fact that he bought my story :-P Episode number 2: Another friend K is in training and has access ONLY to the training network ( which means that he cannot browse the internet ). Me: Hey, why didn’t u tell me that u had a movie named after u? K : What r u talking about? Me: Dint u watch the trailers? K ( totally stunned now ): Which movie? Me: I m surprised dude. Jolie is in the star cast and u dint notice it! K ( about to d...

                                2 days prior to joining my present company, I received a call from the HR Operations manager requesting me for a reason as to why I did not report on my first day. I tried explaining that my DOJ was set for so and so date and that he had made a mistake. He did not budge an inch and told me that the records have been updated with that day’s date. I was confused and said that I will confirm the same from my offer letter and asked him to hold on for a few minutes. I was a little panicky and after pulling down the contents of one shelf, I finally managed to get hold of the file where my important documents were kept. I was happy to see that I was right and I conveyed the same to him. That is when he broke into peals of laughter and wished me Fools day, even though it was NOT April 1. I dedicate this mont...