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Just finished reading Richard Branson’s autobiography. No sleep in sight yet. Can’t believe I didn’t read this book before considering it’s been in the library for years now. It must’ve been all the comparisons between him and the local liquor baron that put me off.  Totally fascinated with this guy and would love to know more from the perspective of his wife Joan and his kids and how they dealt with him being on the phone all the time etc.

The awesome vegetarian legacy that Kerala has been seriously undermined. Everyone goes nuts talking about the non-vegetarian stuff, that you would think there’s nothing much in there for a vegetarian like me. Big big mistake. I can kill for a pathiri from the local thattukada or ishtu for that matter. And from the jackpot that the Onam Sadhya is, my current favourite is Pumpkin Erisseri. Oh and I could eat an entire mountain of Kerala pappadams. They are very different from papads or appalams, in short totally divine. Maybe its the Richard Branson overdose, but seriously there is a fortune to be made here.

I never ever imagined being one of those mothers who shed a tear at the smallest excuse for a baby milestone.  However, the other day while we were travelling in an overnight train, my kid who’s < 1.5 yrs technically, went up to an infant in the next compartment and started “playing” with it, as in how we adults “play” with kids. The fact that he is “old enough” to play with someone younger made my face go red in a fraction of a second and I almost burst into tears in full public view. Also when we go shopping to the kids’ store, it kills me that there are THREE sections of clothes that my kid has overgrown – I mean there are actually clothes now that are too small for him.  I thought we could fit into one of the fingers of my glove. Motherhood is sloppy business.

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