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Standing Tall
2008-12-15 17:30:00 Being young and single by choice in a country where the search for the search for a suitable boy is a national pastime has its perils. One of them is encountering suggestions of a 'suitable match' from all and sundry.An acquaintance of my grandpa plays matchmaker and, to may consternation, calls is social service. He even maintains a database of the eligible men and women he knows in his little black diary and graying head. A few weeks ago he fired his first salvo at me."You see, he is a son of member of the Legislative Assembly. About to get his MBA. They are very rich. So, what do you think?"I'd have replied in irritation that I wasn't game for such arbitrary suggestions but my curiosity was piqued. With a little probing I discovered the 'eligibility criterion'."You see, he wants a short bride. He is just 5 feet 2 inches tall.""In that case I don't fit the bill", I replied with a sly grin, "I am five three, you see." More About: Personal , Humor , Marriage , Tall , Standing
Hook, Line and Sink
2008-07-18 08:12:00 Q: What is the only pick - up line that works?A: "How much?" More About: Humor , Line , Hook
Lingua Franca (but that's an Italian phrase)
2008-04-10 15:59:00 Yo hablo españolNo hablo espanolEither way I have to write my spanish exam on Sunday.And I don't know my imperfectos from my indefinidos. Sigh.. More About: Spanish , Italian , Exams
Reversus Quiltera
2008-03-08 11:00:00 The quilter returns. On the eve of the second blogversary.The long blogging drought was caused by the combined efforts of Engineering Esq. and Exams Esq.This post is dedicated to the memory of a test that I took recently and almost flunked. (For the uninitiated, Boolean Algebra is a system of mathematics invented by mathematician George Boole.)
AWOL - 2 (Staccato Rendition)
2007-10-12 11:58:00 Internal assessment tests up. Submissions next. Followed by the grand finale (a.k.a varsity exams.)Will be A.W.O.L till then. Need to get good O.W.L.s.Will be back. If alive.So long! More About: Rendition , Cato
Crazy Quilt on your mobile phone
2007-10-03 10:22:00 Read Crazy Quilt on our mobile phone at this URL. Sign up to get web feeds for your blog by following this link:http://feedm8.com/web/user_signup?re fer=FM8508-88/ More About: Mobile , Phone , Mobile Phone , Blogging
When Love Is M.I.A
2007-09-28 12:51:00 Now that the south-west monsoon is receding, I?m feeling pretty blue. I love the rains.Lately, they remind me an ancient Sanskrit poet?s ?cloud messenger? who delivers the messages of an exiled demi-god to his wife.The rain ?clouds bring me no news from my beloved. The more modern means of communication do precious little either. While Beau is time-strapped meeting deadlines, handling exigencies, jet-setting to places far and near, and chasing his dreams, I do not crib about it. It is losing out on the little joys of being in a relationship that gnaws at my heart.It means more longing and less loving. Walking into a social do all by myself. Dedicating a song for him live on air while knowing he won?t have the time to tune in to the radio. Texting him a good night kiss but not expecting to get one in return. Looking the other way at the sight of couples walking hand-in-hand. Waiting and then waiting some more.I tell myself that this shall pass ? and I hope- before it is too late.It i... More About: Love , Longing , Separation
Robo-tricks
2007-07-31 14:59:00 I spent the weekend tinkering away at assorted circuitry and robot parts with a team of 3 awesome guys at a robotics workshop. It's a simple robot that performs pick-up-and-place tasks but it's the first wireless one I've ever made.The XcavatorWork In progress After the finishing touches Our team leader with our creation More About: Tricks , Robo
Current Mood
2007-07-15 12:53:00 Because:This is my 50th post.It's my favourite season.I topped the Level 1 Spanish exam held at the varsity. More About: Current , Happy , Mood
Laugh and Learn
2007-07-08 12:28:00 I recall having read about Father Kallingal, the late journalist RGK?s physics teacher in south India, in one of the compilations of RGK?s popular column Acute and Obtuse. He writes that Kallingal would raise his right hand and demonstrate the swing of the pendulum with his index finger. ?That?s how it?s?, he would say, ?From to to fro and from fro to to?. The students would laugh derisively. That reminds me of Prof. X who teaches in our engineering college and is our own version of Father Kallingal. Here?s a sample of Prof. X?s unintentional and unwitting gaffes (published solely for laughs.) "Outermost backside? "Your presenty is absenty."(What he meant: You have been marked absent.) "Mere mendu pe burden mat dalo" (What he meant: Don?t burden my brains.) "Let us suppose assume...? Once while assessing assignments, he said, ?This is wrong, W?O-N-G, wrong?. Once he wrote, ?Circuit is connected in delta fassion.? (... More About: Learn , Laugh
Latin Lover
2007-06-24 14:14:00 This is an advertisement I made for the Spanish Department of the varsity. What do you think about it, folks? More About: Lover , Advertisement , Latin
Felices cumpleaños to me!
2007-05-03 07:50:00 Your Birthdate: May 3You are more than a big ball of energy - you are a big ball of hyper.You are always on the go, but you don't have a type a personality.Instead of channeling your energy into work, you instead go for fun and adventure.Witty and verbal, you can have an interesting conversation with anyone.Your strength: Your larger than life imaginationYour weakness: You tend to be pretty scatteredYour power color: LimeYour power symbol: Lightening boltYour power month: MarchWhat Does Your Birth Date Mean?
It's Just Not Cricket
2007-04-01 18:17:00 There are many things that I don?t understand, far more things than what I once thought I understood. I took me a long time to understand cricket, so long that eventually I knew there was nothing much to understand about it. But I still fail to understand why there is so much brouhaha about certain cricket tournaments or why so much money is spent on the game.I will not say cricket is a foolish game for there must be some virtue in a thing that is liked by so many people. For that matter, everyone says politics is a dirty game and everyone likes it. Ultimately, I have come to understand that cricket in India is spectator sport, entertainment, religion, OCD and big business all rolled into one.Like our national game hockey, cricket is an import from Britain dating back to the colonial era. However unlike hockey that is fast-paced and vigorous a full length Test match is supposed to last a leisurely five days. No other sport has the love of form and ceremony that cricket has. The elab... More About: Cricket
High 5 bloggers
2007-03-22 08:16:00 Comeback man, Lord Prometheus simultaneously tagged and nominated me for this meme that doubles up as a blog award.?OMG, thank you, Sir Prometheus!?The meme requires the tagee/ awardee name other thought - provoking blogs.The participation rules are:1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme# Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award'The Thinking Blogger AwardAnd the Thinking Blogger Award goes to:Arbitrary RavingsDisamaji KahitariNovice AcademicianPeaceThe Secret Back-Up Blog More About: Meme , Blog Awards , Blogging , Bloggers , High
First Blogversary!
2007-03-08 11:08:00 Exactly one year ago, I started Crazy Quilt on a whim. My very first post was about the newest member of my family, our Labrador, Sherlock. Over time I have come to love blogging for the priceless joys it has given me. Blogging has made me a better writer (I use the word writer in the same sense that someone who reads is a reader) and a better person. It won me (along with a couple of billion other Netizens) Time magazine?s Person of the Year award. Above all, I made these invaluable bloggerfriends- not in that order- in the Blogosphere:Lizza: who whips up post after post with such amazing frequency I wonder if she is human at all. Her writing is both funny and insightful.Prometheus: who is on an indefinite blog hiatus. His writing was brilliance ?post?ified. I sorely miss his posts.Terra Shield: who has a lot in common with me be it our engineering background or our love of writing and who never fails to complement me for a great post. She seems like a sister to me.Sir Jean: one of... More About: First
Holi and Springtime
2007-03-05 10:55:00 Yesterday was Holi. Watching Holi celebrations makes me feel as if the entire city is taking part in a harlequinade. Though it is not all pantomime since the revelers are boisterous and more explicit in their gestures than mimics would be. I don?t participate in the revelry myself but I am told Holi is the festival of spring. I live in Peninsular India in a city by the sea where Nature sends only a lame apology for spring. Which reminds me of what I was thinking around this time about a year back. More About: Seasons , Festivals , Springtime , Ring
Wedding Belles
2007-02-14 11:07:00 You Will Be a Modern Bride!While you aren't ready to throw away all wedding tradions, you want a wedding with a twist. You're more inspired by celebrity weddings on E! than from bridal magazines. Whether this means getting married on the beach barefoot or a mariachi band for the reception...Your wedding will be a blend of old and new - white dress cocktail, personalied vows, whatever suites you!!!What Kind of Bride Will You Be?Back when I was in high school, I was a fanatical feminist. (I still am one; I have only become a little realistic and less fanatical.) My literary diet then consisted of a generous dose of Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Nancy Friday and the views of our own Barkha Dutt.I had a close friend who was a female cliché. Though she hailed from one of the city?s reputed families, she would speak of getting married and setting up a home ASAP rather than getting ahead in life. This would irk my female (and feminist) ego no end and we would end up arguing. Once after... More About: Marriage , Love , Valentine , Wedding , Bell
Current Mood
2007-02-06 14:38:00 *HUGS* TOTAL!give julia_scissor more *HUGS*Get hugs of your own More About: Current , Rent , Mood
Earn Good Karma in 5 Easy Steps
2007-02-03 10:00:00 All ye bloglings,Nomination s for the Indibloggies Awards 2006 are open till Feb 5, 2007. You can nominate Crazy Quilt for the Weblog Awards in 5 easy steps.Click here for the illustrated 5-step guide.OR1) Login to your del.icio.us account.2) Add the blog by clicking on the post linkwith the URL http://aldebaran14.blogspot.comSite Description: Crazy Quilt andthe following set of tags:ib06 ib06BestIndiblog ib06Design ib06TopicalClick here for the list of Award Categories.Feel free to add you?re own tags when adding the bookmarks. Muchas Gracias!I?ll go prepare my winning speech ;-) More About: Blog Awards , Earn , Karma , Good
Class Consciousness
2007-01-29 12:06:00 What happens when a train of thought derails? Does one try to rescue the capsized ideas or salvage their germs? I was engrossed in thought, traveling by the second class women's compartment of a local train when the loud bickering between a fisherwoman and another passenger made me pull the mental alarm chain and stop my thoughts in their tracks. The fisherwoman swearing like a, well, fishwife said to her meek co-passenger with her nostrils flaring, ?If you wish to travel in such luxury, take the first class instead.? Therein she reiterated a well-established fact. We Indians are a class conscious people.Perhaps the greatest contributors to our class consciousness are the railways. In the days of colonial rule, the vast majority of the natives traveled cooped up in the third class compartments while the thin upper crust of Indian Lat Sahibs traveled first class waited upon by flunkeys and bearers. The railways have affected our ways of thinking and collective psyche profoundly. We ... More About: Humor , Random Thoughts , Thoughts , Consciousness , Class
Love and Longing
2007-01-24 12:37:00 What do I do whenmy love?s awayDoes it worry to be all alone?How do I feel by the endof the dayAre you sad becauseyou are on your own?--The BeatlesWhat does one do when one?s beloved is away in a foreign land? The Beatles? song mentioned above speaks of getting by with a little help from friends. Well, not quite, if you have friends like mine. (?So he lives abroad. Imported boyfriend, eh? Me: ?Not imported, but exported. He?s an NRI, you see.?) But that is beside the point. What I feel is not the debilitating, sickening pain of separation but a teeny-weeny niggling feeling of something being amiss. So what do I do now that I can no longer pick up the phone and have hour-long chats with him or just zip across the city to meet him?I re-read and rere-read his emails. Go over his old text messages. (Packed with as much warmth as can be into 160 characters, each one is a treasure in itself.) Ruminate over our past conversations that were by turns intense, flirty, funny and a lot else. He... More About: Personal , Love , Relationship , Longing , Long
Holy Cross in the Sky
2007-01-21 07:05:00 Crux or the Southern Cross , the most familiar constellation seen from the southern hemisphere, is visualized as a Cross. The smallest of the 88 constellations seen from the earth, it points due north-south. Four bright stars in the constellation form a Latin cross.Thousands of years ago the four stars were revered in the Near East. In the Biblical days, 2000 years ago, they were visible just at the horizon. Over the millennia precession has brought the cross far to the south. It is no longer visible at latitudes north of 25 degrees. Some might find a religious connotation linking its disappearance with the Crucifixion of Christ. Crux was originally a part of the Centaurus constellation but the sight of such a brilliant cross was so compelling it came to treated as a separate constellation in the 16th century.Apart from the cross, the constellation contains a unique dark nebula (Coalsac), a glittering star cluster (aptly named Jewel Box) and a remarkable binary (Alpha Cruxis or Acrux... More About: Mythology , Astronomy , Bible , Constellation
Blogging Kills By Degrees
2007-01-17 18:37:00 After a Ph.D. in Men, blogging has earned me another degree.The University of Blogg ing Presents toJulia ScissorAn HonoraryBachelor ofSelf PortraitureMajoring inNon SequitursSignedDr. GoQuiz.com®Username:Blogging Degree From Go-Quiz.comI am aware most of these ?results? of such quizzes are randomly generated but this one is absolutely right on! LOL! More About: Kill , Rees
Puppy Love
2007-01-12 14:38:00 My pride and joy, the apple of my eye, my buddy, my love, my baby Sherlock turns one today. When I had first set my eyes on the tiny chocolate Labrador whelp, I noticed his coat was remarkably white. I named him Sherlock- the one with white locks. Dad calls him Sherry; to his trainer he is Sheru, while mom calls him by assorted endearments in used to address a darling child. Surprisingly, Sherlock responds to every call. (A few years back I had a Pom, Watson, who would start yelping wildly every time the phone rang. His name was inspired by that of Thomas Watson, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell. The duo had invented the telephone and Watson was the first person ever to hear a phone ring.)Though Sherlock is only a pre-teen going by Labrador life expectancy he is already the perfect gentleman. He?ll kiss you if you extend your cheek in greeting and raise his front right paw in a handshake gesture when you?re properly introduced to him. When we go for a walk he ambles along with his... More About: Dogs , Love , Pets , Puppy
Hail Queen Nerd!
2007-01-08 05:06:00 What can I say? Muchas gracias. Graci Amici. Thanks for the compliment! I'm truly honored.Just one question. I wonder what makes me 1% less nerdy? More About: Nerd , Queen
A Reason To Celebrate
2007-01-03 19:55:00 We are relieved when a year is over. On New Year ?s Eve the universe seems to bristle with infinite possibilities. An absurd question befuddles me. What if the sun loses the gravitational charisma that keeps the earth bound to it? There will be no more new years and time will stop. Newton, Galileo and Kepler will look puzzled but not Albert Einstein because he has faith in his God and he believes He wouldn?t gamble with the years.We are glad we made it to 2007. Buckminster Fuller said ?I am a passenger on this spaceship, Earth.? I wonder where this spaceship of over six billion travelers is headed. After about 5 billion years the sun will expand to eat up our earth which will then wilt away like an ill-made papad in the degchi (kiln) of space. Would global warming and climate change melt down our spacecraft much before these 5 billion years?At least we can look forward to such intriguing things as the British New Year?s honors. Indians and Brits of Indian origin figure prominently in... More About: Celebrate , Reason , Brat , Rate
Merry Christmas
2006-12-25 07:06:00 Merry Christmas to everyone!And don't forget this:Get your own peace globe at http://mimiwrites.blogspot.com More About: Merry Christmas , Merry
Floccinaucinihilipilification
More articles from this author:2006-12-21 12:54:00 The act or habit of esteeming something as worthless. Floccinaucinihilipilification of the great is a favorite occupation for many. Sample this compilation:Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.-PlatoPlato was a bore.-Friedrich NietzscheNietzsche was stupid and abnormal-Leo TolstoyI’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy-Ernest HemingwayHemingway was a jerk.-Harold RobbinsBut,Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime.And, departing, leave behind us,Footprints on the sands of time.-H.W Longfellow------------------------------- ------------------------------Winter BikeThe winter that is usually not has set in (this late) here in Mumbai. Did you say you will be cycling south for winter? More About: Cina , Hili 1, 2 |
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