• My competitions…

    I love my competitions… I just love them…They make me work harder everyday…They make me take longer strides when I walk…They make me go faster when I run…They make me take risks…They make me go the extra mile…They make me fight for my victories… and make my victories sweeter…Yeah, they make me stronger everyday…

  • Beyond the threshold of no return …

    Originally posted on Melissa on Shuffle: “I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I’ve reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time on what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for overt cynicism, excessive criticism and the…

  • Bit of rain, a good book and a truckload of ideas for writing…

    Summer almost said goodbye… Much awaited monsoon finally giving us occasional appearances… The temperature has come down… there is always a wind or breeze around… What more I can ask for in a place like Delhi/NCR… The weather was perfect again today…. Drizzles in the morning while jogging… Some harmless clouds were around all day……

  • Top 10 favourite books I have read…

    The ‘favourite book list’ is doing its rounds in facebook i got tagged as well… So, i was trying to remember my recent reads… Being a bookworm, it was hard to short-list the ‘favourites’ from a long list of books… Because i had fallen in love with most of the books and authors, especially the classic…

  • Jogged in rain…

    It was 7 am and still dark… I wondered if the clock was showing wrong time…  Got out putting on my run gear only to be in cool drizzle… The condition of roads in a rain was quite bad… so i headed to the park where only a handful of people were walking/jogging… most people do…

  • Raindrops on my window…

    Summer has been hard… It was a killer… crushing spirits, destroying peace… it was hell… Even in August, it feels like May… Survival in Delhi depends on your ability to survive summer which covers 75% of the days in an year…. It was Thursday…. Back in Delhi after a short ‘vacation’, expecting to be fried…

  • A ride through the memory lane…

    I don’t have any friends left in my home town Thodupuzha for me to hangout when I come down here… Also I take a trip to home during off seasons when even nobody comes for a vacation… So it is a lonely ride whenever I go out to the town… Initially, couple of years back,…

  • My dad’s vintage radio…

      My dad keeps a radio at home… it is not a decorative piece…. but he still listens to it… morning news to evening chat programs and various other shows i have no idea about… the same old All India Radio stuff…. It’s weird whenever i come home listens to those AIR tones early in…

  • A train journey after ages…

    I don’t know when was the last time i took up a train journey… Probably during the Chennai-Hyderabad or the post-Chennai days…. Anyways, that was ages ago and those were overnight journeys… Never been on any train trip since i moved to Delhi… Delhi-Kerala train journey takes almost 48 hours; means two full days in…