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Pain – physical and the other kinds….
There’s pain in the left shoulder. It starts as the arm moves up, showing up just as it gets orthogonal with it. The doctor gave some fancy term. Happens due to stress and the “software job”, he said. He got … Continue reading
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The cat rescue chronicle
Sleep proved elusive. Different incidents playing up in dreams as I wondered if I had bouts of sleep or was fidgeting around all night. The previous day I had done the 22 Km drive all the way to Hebbal, waited … Continue reading
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Ramblings…
The feeling’s back. That of floating around in a different plane, wafting along from day to day, weekend to weekend, seeing weeks flow by, at an oddly slow pace, but feeling like a short time when viewed with hindsight. Happens … Continue reading
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Tennis courts and the lack of them
So it was that over a few months I managed to come up with a weekend routine involving tennis in the mornings. It took some time convincing a hapless colleague to play with me, with promises of training him. Once … Continue reading
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Of thatte idlis and rural bike rides
It was something that had been on the radar for a while. Different things kept putting it off, but one fine winter morning I donned the jacket and the helmet over the head scarf and stood on the road by … Continue reading
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Cat tales…
She sits there on top of the casing for the motor, cleaning herself. If not cleaning, she’d sleep, curled up in all kinds of ways, head pointing in different directions or curled up under her body. Any sound would wake … Continue reading
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Waiting for Siddha…
“Go drop the vehicle off and I’ll ask Siddha to come pick you up.” offered my dad. Being almost obsessive-compulsive about rejecting offers for favours I said “No, I’ll take the bus on the way back. Why send him there?”. … Continue reading
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The bus home…
I stood there at the bus stop, the comfy Volvo having mercifully ejected me out with dodgy knees suffering from the lack of space and the driver’s penchant for speeding not seeing fruition due to errant drivers on the roads … Continue reading
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Stop and go – Nagarabhavi Circle
It was close to 7 PM as I got down from the bus at Nagarbhavi circle. This was much later than usual. I love it when it is close to 6:15 or 6:45, when there are options that take me … Continue reading
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Vehicle worship??
The first instruction from my parents as I headed out with my cousin to collect my car was – “Get the poojai done on the way”. I was happy to accede to that order and told them so, as long … Continue reading
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