TAG 1Bibli·ophi·lism Background:bib·li·o·phile also bib·li·o·phil (-fl) or bib·li·oph·i·list (bbl-f-lst) n.~ A lover of books.~ A collector of books.bibli·ophi·lism n. bibli·ophi·listic adj. So here goes. Books I own:****************For Gods sake!!!! You don’t expect me to remember all of them, do ya?!!!Ok, rough guess here. Might have around 200. Not counting the ones that have been begged,…
Ruminations on a Rumbling Stomach
It is 1’o’ clock in the afternoon. I am in my office. . I have just shown a client out and await the next one who is scheduled to be here at 2.There is 1 whole hour in between. Too long to do nothing, and too short to rush home and grab lunch. Visions of…
Silver Rain
I have never liked the rain much. In spite of being a June baby. The 6th of June was the day Mumbai unfailingly welcomed the monsoons each year. And the rains played spoilsport each birthday. Due to the debuting downpour, my birthday parties were invariably ruined. Which is why, I never liked the rains much,…
The Beach
As kids summers meant Sundays spent at the beach. At the crack of dawn my sister and me would be up, waking our favorite uncle (only for the beach Sundays, please! We could afford to be picky. We had 5 uncles you see!) from the deep slumber he had fallen into just a couple of…
Phobias
My Phobias have plagued me for a while now. Got into the way of me seriously enjoying life. I remember how scared I was of heights. Oh yeah! Really scared! Avoided so many places, didn’t do so many things.Fed up, I decided to tackle the problem head on. And in great style too.I went parasailing.Just…
Midnight Musings
You never feel so alone as you do when 1) You are the only one in the room who does not get the joke 2) You are lying wide-awake in the middle of the night, while the whole world sleeps. My bedside clock tells me its 2:12. It’s ok. I like even numbers. I switch…
The Girl and a Prince : A FieryTale
Written on the 7th of April ’05 at 5 in the everning. The weather in Mumbai is horrible at the moment, 38 degrees and climbing. The humidity is energy sapping. Does not help either when you are immobile due to a bad back. The result? This story below ! A mish mash of my bad…
Love marriage
I recently posted my version of a ‘what-happens-next’ to a story on a writing forum and the feedback that I got for it was anything but about the story.Infact, the comments people left made me re-read my version. Was there something I missed out perhaps? No. The comments were all about ‘marriage’. A topic that…
Why Diemos?
Hi Everyone! Welcome to my blog! In case you are wondering what Diemos means, it is Greek for ‘Terror’. One of the 2 moons on the planet Mars, the other being Phobos, which means ‘Fear.’ So, now that I have done my bit for humanity by adding something to your GK, lets move on, shall…