It is usual for that bank branch to conduct a “branch-all” employee meeting every month-ending-week’s end, just to discuss about the month gone by and some official gossip time for ladies after that. Being a new joinee, my wife didn’t know about the meeting and also that she had a role to play as part [...]
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Happy X’mas, gifts and clicks
Come Christmas, a lot of unexpected visitors knock my door every year. This year too, announcing the season, a few Xmas cards flew in from different parts of the world and settled on our shelves. We already had a Christmas carol service sang in our house last night and a couple more are due to [...]
Success and Failure – different takes
“If you win you need not explain…
But if you lose you should not be there to explain”
-Adolph Hitler
………….. a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal. It was a big failure.
That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, [...]
When “someone” is more important than “something”
Suspense apart, I got married last summer, May 3rd to be precise, and things changed radically thereafter. I started seeing, interacting, talking, joking, suggesting, guiding and being guided by, a new person all of a sudden. My priorities somersaulted and I had to always wait for my better half’s suggestion before taking the next course of action on anything, as I was told so by my parents and also as instructed more than once by the parish priest during the ceremony. Days passed by and I was mustering strength to master the art of husbandry and I was completely lost in that and slowly I forgot about my adopted baby, my blog, waiting for my attention.
Lent, rules and me
Christians, almost all factions, observe lent now. Though it is to prepare to commemorate the brutal pains, the passion and resurrection that Jesus went through, nowadays all people seem to celebrate it. As urban culture prevails, people need some days to celebrate themselves, and hence all those “red calendar days” are marked for celebrations, including [...]