Sing You Home
“Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There’s another that reminds me of tagging along with my father on Sunday mornings to pick up the New York Times. There’s the song that … Read more
Guide To Being A Bad Guide
I read a feature article in the local newspaper last week (Yes, I do read the papers when the odd bout of madness seizes me). Anyway the article was about an expat guy who hated the task of taking his visiting friends/relatives around Singapore. You know, the general ‘Sentosa Islands – Botanical Gardens – China … Read more
Durian – the Forbidden Fruit
“Durian fruit – where even the bravest nostril fears to tread.” Exaggeration or not? Well perhaps a little. The original post was supposed to be about 10 weird things I find at the local supermarket at Singapore. I started off with the Durian fruit, but had so much stuff to say about it, that the rest … Read more
Keep a Lid on It!
The closed Jar. The Curiosity. The trembling fingers. The opened lid. The swarms of Them. The ominous humming. The Despair and Disease. The Malice and Hatred. The gasp. The fumbling hands. The closed lid. Too late. Too late. Too late. Trapped in the jar, Hope remains. Never to escape. Oh! Pandora what have you done? … Read more
A Religion called Cricket
This post was selected for BlogAdda’s ‘Spicy Saturday Picks’. I am writing this post fully aware that I might be at the receiving end of some well-aimed over the waist no-balls or yorkers soon. So the World Cup fever is on. Burning bright. Sachin is once again God. Ow! That was the first no-ball of the day. Let … Read more
Five improbable Facebook pages which made it to the Top
American Idol is not one on them. So take a wild guess before you read.
Dinner-time at Singapore
To read the first part in this series, click here. 4 years of hawker centre dining in Singapore has brought out the food enthusiast in me. I have mastered the art of eating with chopsticks, grown to tolerate tofu in large amounts and have a new-found fondness for soya milk. But there are days when … Read more
Tea-time at Singapore
I have never blogged about food before. Well yeah, there that was offhand entry about my salad nightmares with the family, but other than that nil. So when I was asked to write about my expat life at Singapore, predictably enough the first thing I thought about was the local food. Not much of a surprise … Read more
Backward Movies
From ‘Happily Ever After’ to ‘Once upon a Time’. Your favourite Hindi movie plots played backwards
