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You fail to impress Chetan Ji

The man with the Midas touch has done it again.. I'm not sure what the statistics are but, going by the readership of the latest Chetan Bhagat novel "Revolution 2020", it is a sellout and has achieved what was expected of it - to bring in the moolah for Bhagat and his publishers.. But the book for me has been a total let down.. I really liked Bhagat's last book "2 States - the story of my marriage".. the book was well written, with a lot of humor and made for an interesting read.. So it was but natural for me to be enthusiastic about his latest novel.. But alas! R2020 fails to impress.. Firstly the title is misleading. There is absolutely no hint of a revolution, atleast none involving the protagonist Gopal Mishra.. The story is pretty ordinary and the book is missing the 'punch' that usually accompanies Bhagat's novels.. Even the novel "The 3 mistakes of my life" that didn't generate much hype had a much better storyline than &quo

Motherhood - What's fun and what's not :)

Its 3:00 A.M.. My little one (LO) is awake and cried just loud enough to awaken me from my sleep.. Checked to see if she's wet her clothes.. Yup! that's the reason she's uncomfortable.. so I carry her out of her cradle, change her clothes and then try to feed her.. she falls asleep in sometime.. so I wipe her face clean, pick her up slowly , and very stealthily place her in her cradle and just when I lie down on my bed, much to my dismay I find LO is awake and staring at me wide eyed.. Gotcha! is what her look says.. so I groan and pick her up again, try to feed her again and she falls asleep again and I try to place her in her cradle as stealthily as possible and she's awake just as I lie down on my bed - AGAIN.. We continue this pick up and drop game that my LO is enjoying so much till about 3:45 A.M, .. I'm almost in tears, begging her "Please baby, its 3:45 in the morning.. Please go to sleep".. I see the twinkle in her eyes which translates to "T

The 10 day challenge

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Again borrowing this from a friend because I found it to be something different.. Your blog on the same theme was very well written Sharika.. hope to do justice to this one :) Well its supposed to be a 10 day challenge, meaning you've got to spend 10 days writing the blog taking one topic each day.. Well I improvised a bit.. spent 10 days thinking about what i would write and now writing it all down at one shot :) here goes.. 10 Secrets: Well the thing is if I mention the secrets they no longer will remain 'secrets':) Anyway 10) I find men with crooked teeth, attractive. E.g: Ronit Roy - the guy has a terrible set of teeth but that makes him look hotter ;) 9) I'm afraid of people with a loud voice.. Some of you may be amused to know that for a very long time I was afraid of a lecturer and would try to vanish the minute I saw her simply because she had an extremely loud and shrill voice.. :) 8)I love texting.. Its on hold these days for want of other 'like minded'