Tag: dailyprompt

A little about love

What’s your definition of romantic? During my grade 7 vacations, Dad hired a VCR player and rented out a few VHS tapes for us to watch. We were only allowed to watch 2 new movies every day. That meant we got to watch close to 14 new movies a week that would cover the most…… Continue reading A little about love

Taaaatu!

How do you express your gratitude? Teaching gratitude to my older kid was very easy, she would meet your eye, smile, and say a polite thank you. The younger kid, on the other hand, always turned beet red, opened his mouth and eyes wide, and looked down, so getting him to acknowledge and say ‘thank…… Continue reading Taaaatu!

It was never ours.

What are you most worried about for the future? Yuddhakaale shastrabhyasam (last-minute preparations for war) never worked. It never worked during the war. It’s never going to work in real life either. But, I always tried to prove this wrong. And much to my irritation, Dad had ample opportunities to repeat this proverb to me.…… Continue reading It was never ours.

To ma’am, with love

What makes a teacher great? When my kid turned 2, I slowly started looking around for a space where we could leave her for a few hours every day. We considered the franchises. We thought of the stand-alone mom-and-pop places. If the school was nice, the facilities were not up to par, if the facilities…… Continue reading To ma’am, with love

Yours toothfully!

Have you ever had surgery? What for? Back in the day, long before mobile phones became a thing, most of our communication was via word of mouth. For instance, as a practicing advocate, Mum used to go to court every day. The court complex is like a humungous college campus; cases are heard in the…… Continue reading Yours toothfully!

Graze-touch-kiss

What are your daily habits? I don’t know what the practice for other sports’ warmup is, but when we were practicing gymnastics, we had to start running 3 rounds around a 400m outdoor track. At 5 pm, all the students would rush down the stairs and start running around the track to complete the warm-up…… Continue reading Graze-touch-kiss

Start small

Are there things you try to practice daily to live a more sustainable lifestyle? Sustainability takes forever and that’s the pointWillem McDonough We decided to visit Muscat a couple of months before we relocated, sort of like a recce of the place we were going to adopt. We landed at the old airport, which had…… Continue reading Start small

In nom-nom heaven

What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten? It took me almost 6 months to visit my parents after I got married. In all the chaos of going to work with my spouse and reaching the office with the housekeeping staff, I was busy playing ‘house’ not realizing what I was missing. I lived in…… Continue reading In nom-nom heaven

Jean genes

If you were forced to wear one outfit over and over again, what would it be? When I was in Grade 10, my uncle visited India and he brought down a few hand-me-downs from cousins living closer to him. In that collection was a pair of levis, from the men’s collection, but we didn’t know…… Continue reading Jean genes