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My cousin was coming to Bangalore on a vacation and asked me if i wanted something from Dubai. Since I have a baby and it is quite natural to think of getting something useful for the baby when someone extends such care, i told him to bring a particular baby moisturizer. The name was Mustella and i whatsapp'ed him the name. He agreed to bring it for his little niece. The day he landed and handed over the moisturizer, he narrated a story about how he got hold of Mustella. He enquired in about 10 shops without luck and started wondering if such a  brand existed. He showed the name of the brand to his friend, who confused him even more. The friend suggested to read it as "Must alla" which means "it is not a MUST" in English. Mr cousin was wondering if I actually meant telling him that i needed a moisturizer, but "it is not a MUST". Holy crap! P.S. Mustella is a baby moisturizer which has a lovely smell.

As Winston Churchill once said, “you make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.” This is exactly what the Sustainability team @ EMC aims at. We consider it a pleasure and a social responsibility to give back to the community we live in. And what better than provide a chance for the unfortunate kids to go to school, meet new people and get an understanding of life. The organization, that we are connected with, helps to bring in people with similar visions to donate money for the children’s education, healthcare & family counselling for a year. By giving them education, we are helping to build a “foundation”, which in turn helps in building the future of our nation.  Here is the story of an interesting journey of an individual and a TEAM. The beginning was interesting and someone caught me in the hallway and conveyed his opinion, which was that I could lead the initiative. God knows what he spotted in me? I was never inspired enough to get involve...

This is for all my girlfriends, who are normal, love-to-shop and would not miss a chance to pamper one-self with the ultimate beauty experience available in the city. I wanted to share a fascinating experience in a parlor that i tried last evening. It is located inside a shopping mall- which justifies its rates being on the higher side for a beauty experience. It has a feel-good setting inside. The staff is hospitable. The service was provided without any delay. All of these could amount to any good local parlour close to ur home. I spent close to 1.5 hrs there.  What i found different was- my manicure session. There was a long list of manicure services to choose from, fruit manicure, french manicure, spa manicure, to name a few. Since my hands were begging for some royal attention, i decided to go for a fruit manicure service. The girl went to work immediately and requested me to sit in a push back massage chair. Yeah! Can u believe that?!!! They have massage chairs ...

           It has been long since i penned down incidents in my life. The reason behind which is NOT because nothing fascinating is happening in my life. There have been too many good memories to jot down in the past one month. TOUCH WOOD. ( I have always wondered why we use the term "TOUCH WOOD". Basically, i am a lazy bone who does not want to go to the Google website to fulfill my everlasting doubts, unless i am in the mood for it !) . I am not going to brag about wonderful things in my life and bore the world. This should be good reason to continue reading this post without yawning your head off.  It is so true when they say that every journey in life would involve us learning something new and teaching someone else a new thing. Similar was the journey i had last evening with my bestest ( its an invented word- so do not waste time by grabbing the Oxford dictionary and looking for it !) pals.  Things that i learnt : 1. ...

The probability of my uncle sending me a sms is very rare. So the sms came as a surprise, one fine day, when I was working late in office and was frustrated. He wanted to let me know that there is a guest at his home and the guest was longing to meet me. I begged him to tell me who it was, but he did not budge. I requested him to give me a clue and found that it was a special person. When I asked where the person was from, he replied ‘Persia’. Many things were going through my head. I even wondered if it were my parents giving me a surprise visit, which was far too much to hope for. I gave up and thought that it might be one of my relatives who must have travelled down from the Middle East. The next day was my off and I decided to go visit this special person. I called my aunt to let her know (Uncle was away at work). The conversation went like this: Me : Hi Aunty, I am coming over at 11 am. Aunt: Oh yeah, I was expecting your call. Uncle had told me that you would be here to me...

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 ...