Shobhana

  Fly on the wall. Observant. Makes mental notes and quotes. Spends too much time on Facebook.  

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Every woman is thin in the future!

Old Jungle Saying

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For Warm Bear-Hugs

In this life I'm a woman. 

In my next life, I'd like to come back as a bear. When you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six months. I could deal with that.

Before you hibernate, you're supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could deal with that too.

When you're a female bear, you birth your children (who are the size of walnuts), while you're sleeping, and wake up to partially grown, cute, cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that.

If you're a mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. You swat away anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat them too. I could deal with that.

If you're a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. They EXPECT that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat.

YUP, DEFINITELY GONNA BE A BEAR!

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Weightloss and Waterworks

Shonda Rhimes characters, especially women, are known to be strong, flawed and complicated. Because of the resonance, I watched Grey's Anatomy for a few seasons. The characters made flawed choices leading to tragic yet dramatic outcomes. At most times in the past few years, I've felt as if she's been writing the story of my life too. So much drama! So much tragedy! So many wrong decisions! And I've done it again. In a moment of weakness (you know,The Boy hasn't been keeping too well, etc. etc), I've chosen to do something that I know I will deeply regret. Yes, please hand me the Darwin Award. Just ordered a weighing scale on Flipkart. With a bitching 60% discount. We know this won't end well. Lot of waterworks to follow. But you can't stop Shonda Rhimes, can you? 

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Vasudha Ka Neta Kaun Hua:

बत्ती जो नहीं जलाता है रोशनी नहीं वह पाता है। ...

वाटिका और वन एक नहीं, आराम और रण एक नहीं।

- Rashmirathi

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Belting it at Onesta, Koramangala

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Gifts from Paris

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Wisdom

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On Writing

"Why do humans write so much? In fact why do they write at all? Is it because they are lonely and full of regret?"

- Mahesh Bhat,Twitter

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High Expectations?

According to Arthur Schopenhauer, we are biologically driven to seek out unsuitable partners. So if you are unlucky in love, don’t take it to heart - happiness was never part of the bigger plan!

Arthur Schopenhauer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer

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Cookie Cutter Mould Kinda Life

In cookie-cutter mould our world is done,

as my life is done in the cookie-cutter mould.

I’ll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

Wherever you are, we must do the best we can.

It is so far to travel, and

we have nothing here to travel,

except the ferries moulded from

the dough in the cookie-cutter.

I hope this works out.

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Parenting Joys

Just in case you’re wondering how rewarding it is to be a parent, please note that my son is upset and cranky right now because I have a very sore throat 🙄🙄🙄

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*BEDTIME*

The Boy: Mummy, I'll teach you how to make soup. Me: Okay The Boy: First you need a pot. After that you wash your hands. Then you need some beans, and then some carrots. Now give the carrots to the rabbit, take the rabbit and put him in the pot.....

^That escalated weirdly 🙉🙉🙉

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What I want for Christmas!

I want Mitosis for Christmas. Through the process of Mitosis, I can be split into 2 Shobhanas. 1 Shobhana will sleep through the holidays. The other one will bake cakes and cookies for The Boy, take him out for fun Christmas stuff and do whatnot to celebrate the festival season. She will also lose weight. Mitosis is all I want for Christmas, that's all :)

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Nonsense! A woman dresses up or down based only on her waxing schedule. Period.

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Lemon cookies <3

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Maa, maati, maanush and mutton!! If I ever go back home and claim a ticket into politics, this will be my game!! Judge not a Bangal in any other measure but by the way she cooks her #koshamangsho

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Of Pets and Baby Elephants

My son has become such a couch potato. I've had to con him to step out with me.

I told him that we are going out to buy a baby elephant. Coming back home without a pet elephant later is definitely going to cause a lot of blood bath. 🙈🙈