The Yes Zone

Moar! Moar!

January 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

OMG. More of this please?

kthxbye!

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Star

January 12, 2010 · 1 Comment

One of my favourite activities at Christmas in Goa was building the barn for the nativity scene or crib as we called it. We use to whittle bamboo into narrow strips for the frame of the house, and then go out and fetch dried wild grass and use that to build the roof by using the bamboo to hold the grass in place.

And once that was done, we built a star that we would hang in front of the house. Most families built very elaborate stars. We would build a simple one – two five pointed frame tied together with spacers in the middle. It was then covered with tissue paper, decorated and hung.

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I didn’t get to do a crib this year, but I did get to help out with the star.

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2009 Book log

January 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Obviously, I had a lot of time on my hands in 2009.
Most of those books were also under 200 pages.
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Trip news

December 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Finally got some time to write something instead of just enough time to upload photos to facebook. One sister and her family is away at her in-laws. My nephews are watching Kiki’s Delivery Service and mom is frying some fish in the kitchen. Keep reading →

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Bad son

December 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

This morning we were making tea when the gas ran out.
So I helped my dad carry this:

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The gas cylinder weighs about 35 lbs.

on this:

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While riding pillion back to the house, I was really happy that cellphone cameras are not ubiquitous in Santa Cruz, Goa.

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Christmas treats we’ve cooked so far.

December 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

All inside. Keep reading →

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Pretty much how I started cooking.

December 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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That’s my sister and my nephew. He’s 4.

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Jury Duty

December 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Look what my /bin/fortune came up with:

The Worst Jury

A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when
one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the
remotest clue what was happening.
The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any
evidence at all and, when there was no reply, dismissed him.
The excitement which this caused was only equalled when a second
juror revealed that he spoke not a word of English. A fluent French
speaker, he exhibited great surprised when told, after two days, that he
was hearing a murder trial.
The trial was abandoned when a third juror said that he suffered
from both conditions, being simultaneously unversed in the English language
and nearly as deaf as the first juror.
The judge ordered a retrial.
— Stephen Pile, “The Book of Heroic Failures”

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Backyard bird update

November 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

“Hummingbirds are vicious little buggers.” – A friend of mine.
“No, no, no – they’re so little and cute.” – Me.
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Travel tales…

September 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In which I try to answer the questions what kind of toilets do we use in Goa?, do cows really walk the streets?, can vegetables be flowers? and where I try to see if anyone can identify a flower/plant that I’m very fond of. Keep reading →

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