Friday, September 28, 2007
A Happy Meal...
….it was, that we partook of one Saturday afternoon. Piping hot and spicy it was – a simple lunch but somewhat wholesome too.
Note: I had sent this to my "friend's circle" on Mar 2nd, 2007 after my first visit to Matru School for the Blind in Yelahanka Satellite town.
Dear friends and family,
I want to share with you some of my emotions after our first visit to “Matru School for the Blind”.
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
I was filled with a sense of gratitude for all that I have that those 40-odd children do not. But, they seemed to be leading their lives as merrily as they can. They showed no sense of remorse or self-pity. Ms. Muktha, founder of the Residential School, has succeeded in inculcating in them, the sense of self-love, self-sufficiency, self-respect and a “can-do” attitude in all of them, despite their huge handicap – absolutely no vision!
As I mentioned to you in an earlier narrative, I had helped raise some money required for a heart surgery for one 8-year old orphan blind boy of the school. My appeal to a few friends was for Rs. 25K (~$500) but we exceeded that goal, in fact doubled it and rasied Rs. 41K!! One of the donors was visiting Bangalore and she was keen to see the place. So, I went along with her and her two daughters. My husband came along and my friend who lives in Yelahanka, who told me about the org. escorted us there. I was abosolutely impressed and greatly moved by the organization and the wonderful home that Muktha has created in Yelahanka, a growing satellite town to Bangalore, the IT Hub of India.
We partook of their lunch, it was a very simple meal – freshly cooked and piping hot.
A meal of soy and rice mixed up, horse gram curry as a side dish and some “rasam”. There were no fresh vegetables that day. They also gave us papads and ladoos (would be served for snack for the children). It was a memorial celebration for someone (was written on the notice board). I guessed they had donated those ladoos, which we had for dessert.
The children are served 3 square meals a day – freshly prepared and healthy too I hear.
They all sit on the floor and eat. It’s a very clean dining room.
In fact the whole facility is spotlessly clean. My friend told me that the children themselves maintain the facility. The floors, walls, toilets are very well maintained. No dust. It was truly impressive. The dormitory is large – no cots – only mats and pillows stacked away and laid out on the floor to sleep on at bedtime.
The building is constructed with compressed bricks and provides a sort of natural air-conditioning within. It is very airy. The halls are spacious and since there is no clutter of furniture, it looks really sprawling. I heard that the building cost some Rs. 75 lakhs and Asha Foundation of Chicago contribute 1/3 of this amount towards the building!
We visited all the classrooms. Very small sized classes, with teacher-student ratios of 1:5. They all get personal attention. But, the teachers themselves are all blind. One of the teachers used to travel far away to JP Nagar area (where we live) – some 30 km or so each day for college. She stood first among all students – including regular people! What a feat, indeed!!
We noticed that the teachers and students are more than bi-lingual. They speak fluent Kannada and immaculate English. I guess they know more languages too – and brail of course!
A young boy, Srinivas, in 2nd grade I think, stumped us with his speech on Hellen Keller and another one he was going to give at a function at ISRO (Indian Satellite Research Org.) – all about space (and the final frontier). This same little kid, is also very good and excited about working on the co
mputer (see pic). He walked right out of his classroom and into the commuter room and quickly typed out a “Welcome to Matru” on the computer. A bystander would never have guessed he lacked “vision” as we know it.Another thing about the classroom – it’s very very clean – no clutter of papers or projects or posters… it would not make sense or be of use to those children or teachers, would it?
All in all, it was a weekend well spent. I felt at peace with myself, encouraged and motivated by the folks over there. I walked away with a deep urge to contribute my mite and effort towards this cause….
-Sri
Monday, September 17, 2007
Yet another Sunset
Note: I had sent this out to a few friends on March 7th, 2007. Placing on this Blog now (so I can link it from another narrative I'm doing in Sept 2007!).
Dear friends and family,
I was coming back home in the auto one evening. Yes, I’m still communting in these “put-puts” - single engine very noisy and dusty popular commuter vehicles --- signature of Bangalore city. What would we do without that noise, I wonder? But, most all of them run on natural gas – so can’t say they are polluting the air as much J
Yonder was a beautiful sunset… across on the horizon from the military camp just next to the EGL SW park…(The Embassy Golf Link Software Tech Park that NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, Target, ANZ, LG Soft and so many other companies are part of…Yahoo soon to join)
A cool breeze was blowing, amist the noise, I began to reflect upon life…. There was so much life around … crowds ….. But recently, I had heard of many lost lives…sudden deaths…news of these almost one every week, for the past several weeks now. It’s quite shocking…
A senior manager at work lost her husband – he was just 40 years old. A simple ailment led to some complexities I was told. The office poured in for help with blood donations, but it ended in his tragic demise, after all.
A colleague’s cousin, a young woman, mother of 2 little girls succumbed at her job. She was a 32 year old school teacher in Kerala. My colleague was to go on a North-India trip and had taken a vacation. He told this story when he returned, having to cancel his holiday trip and attend a funeral instead!!
A couple of weekends ago, a bank reprentative was to visit our home for an appointment. He did not show up or call for a couple of days. After a week he told us this tragic story. A young 27 year old man, married 2 months ago, dropped dead while playing cricket. He was batting, hit two runs, took a break due to shortness of breath. They rushed him across to St. Johns hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival!
A nephew told us about a 30 year old employee at his company – a manager. He just swooned at work and died before they took him to the hospital.
Middle of Feb, my sis-in-law called saying that the 90th birthday of her dad was cancelled. Because her cousin passed away in his sleep. He was the yongest of 4 brothers and dear to her dad. He had a heart ailment but was recovering well and had learnt to live with the condition for a while now.
There was a news article – quite shocking. A 50 year old artist – bharatnatyam dancer, was on the stage, playing the beat (natuvangam) for her student or another artist. In the middle of the concert, she got up and went to the bathroom. Never came back we heard – succumned in the restroom itself. Her name was Padmini Rao.
And we followed some of Anna Nicole Smith's funeral news – she dropped dead at 39! And was laid to rest next to her son Daniel in the Bahamas on Mar 2nd. The story of her death may be very different from other “ordinary” people though.
Is this all due to our current way of life? The pressures, the stresses, the environment, the food we eat and our diets, also our jobs and lack of the physical exersions? It’s very shocking, indeed!
Maybe this is just a sign of more to come…. Unless we act now, and act fast?
Time is the best healer…. For our tragedies, of losses of near and dear ones. Eating well has become so very important. “Wellness and Wellbeing” are becoming very familiar terms over here and all around the world, I suppose.
….. And then there was a centenarian. My nephews’s great grand uncle – died a few months before his 104th birthday this Feb.
There was another lady who died at 104 :
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1220913.mostviewed.104year_old_alice_dies.php
(Centenarian Wiki page! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian)
I found this interesting link on the web: Where people live longest and why?
http://www.nohypehealth.org/dakoma.html
Health, Wealth and Happiness – what’s the latter two without the first? There seems to be a huge “Focus on Health and Wellness” now
Wish you all the best of health!
The dawn of a new day is always a new beginning and brings hope. I’ll end this relfection with a picture of one morning’s sunrise from the east balcony of our flat.
- Sri Lakshmi (Cheema)
Dear friends and family,
I was coming back home in the auto one evening. Yes, I’m still communting in these “put-puts” - single engine very noisy and dusty popular commuter vehicles --- signature of Bangalore city. What would we do without that noise, I wonder? But, most all of them run on natural gas – so can’t say they are polluting the air as much J
Yonder was a beautiful sunset… across on the horizon from the military camp just next to the EGL SW park…(The Embassy Golf Link Software Tech Park that NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, Target, ANZ, LG Soft and so many other companies are part of…Yahoo soon to join)
A cool breeze was blowing, amist the noise, I began to reflect upon life…. There was so much life around … crowds ….. But recently, I had heard of many lost lives…sudden deaths…news of these almost one every week, for the past several weeks now. It’s quite shocking…
A senior manager at work lost her husband – he was just 40 years old. A simple ailment led to some complexities I was told. The office poured in for help with blood donations, but it ended in his tragic demise, after all.
A colleague’s cousin, a young woman, mother of 2 little girls succumbed at her job. She was a 32 year old school teacher in Kerala. My colleague was to go on a North-India trip and had taken a vacation. He told this story when he returned, having to cancel his holiday trip and attend a funeral instead!!
A couple of weekends ago, a bank reprentative was to visit our home for an appointment. He did not show up or call for a couple of days. After a week he told us this tragic story. A young 27 year old man, married 2 months ago, dropped dead while playing cricket. He was batting, hit two runs, took a break due to shortness of breath. They rushed him across to St. Johns hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival!
A nephew told us about a 30 year old employee at his company – a manager. He just swooned at work and died before they took him to the hospital.
Middle of Feb, my sis-in-law called saying that the 90th birthday of her dad was cancelled. Because her cousin passed away in his sleep. He was the yongest of 4 brothers and dear to her dad. He had a heart ailment but was recovering well and had learnt to live with the condition for a while now.
There was a news article – quite shocking. A 50 year old artist – bharatnatyam dancer, was on the stage, playing the beat (natuvangam) for her student or another artist. In the middle of the concert, she got up and went to the bathroom. Never came back we heard – succumned in the restroom itself. Her name was Padmini Rao.
And we followed some of Anna Nicole Smith's funeral news – she dropped dead at 39! And was laid to rest next to her son Daniel in the Bahamas on Mar 2nd. The story of her death may be very different from other “ordinary” people though.
Is this all due to our current way of life? The pressures, the stresses, the environment, the food we eat and our diets, also our jobs and lack of the physical exersions? It’s very shocking, indeed!
Maybe this is just a sign of more to come…. Unless we act now, and act fast?
Time is the best healer…. For our tragedies, of losses of near and dear ones. Eating well has become so very important. “Wellness and Wellbeing” are becoming very familiar terms over here and all around the world, I suppose.
….. And then there was a centenarian. My nephews’s great grand uncle – died a few months before his 104th birthday this Feb.
There was another lady who died at 104 :
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1220913.mostviewed.104year_old_alice_dies.php
(Centenarian Wiki page! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian)
I found this interesting link on the web: Where people live longest and why?
http://www.nohypehealth.org/dakoma.html
Health, Wealth and Happiness – what’s the latter two without the first? There seems to be a huge “Focus on Health and Wellness” now
Wish you all the best of health!
The dawn of a new day is always a new beginning and brings hope. I’ll end this relfection with a picture of one morning’s sunrise from the east balcony of our flat.
- Sri Lakshmi (Cheema)
Review of few books from my reading list
Note: I had sent this out to a few friends on March 10th, 2005. Placing on this Blog now (so I can link it from another narrative I'm doing in Sept 2007!).
-Sri
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Dear friends and family,
I am not a voracious reader…like some of you perhaps are.
My daily commute by public transport has gotten me into the nice habit of reading. I’m enjoying this time very much – half hour in the morning and another 30 min in the evening too. I seem to have the time to read the newspaper too, over here. And there definitely is a lot of news
ASIDE: The other day, I saw a lady reading a small, very fat book. This was in the bus while I was returning home from work. I thought it might be Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. And it was! This was a young college girl. I remember to have read that book too during my first years of college. It was quite an exhausting over 1,100 pages. Perhaps IF I re-read it after my sojourn in America now for 1.5 decades, I will conjure up different pictures and perspectives of that book and its philosophy. I noticed a 35th anniversary edition of the book available on amazon.com. It’s been THAT long??!!!! I had heard of “The Fountainhead” and gotten around to reading “We the Living” too, by the Ayn Rand. But, I don’t remember anything about “We the Living”, except that is was so much smaller!
I finished the book “India Unbound” and wrote to you about it – including some snippets from the book in some of my E-mail updates. It educated me on the “reforms” that opened up India for free enterprise, free trade etc. and has allowed the nation to increase the size of its middle class. A sure indicator of national prosperity! There is no going back. PV.Narasimha Rao (passed away late last year - 2004), the then Prime Minister was the phenomenal leader who made this happen (to his own pleasant surprise, I think). On his cabinet was Manmohan Singh as Finance minister. Now, we have Manmohan Singh leading the nation as Prime Minsiter with the able Chidambaram (a Harvard graduate I think), heading Finance. I enjoyed Guru Charan Das’s writing style too. Now, I look for and read his regular column in The Sunday Times.
Last weekend, I bought two books at “Landmark”, the big book store in the Forum Mall in Koramangala. It’s not quite as huge a store, as Barnes and Noble on 185th Ave. in Beaverton, but large enough!
I also bought “Peace Is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End” by Deepak Chopra. It’s a new 2005 year publication. I saw events on the book-reading across Bangalore city a few weeks ago. Wanted to go, but had other engagements, unfortunately. The attendance cost some Rs.1,000 (including book signing by author I suppose), while the paper back copy of the book is less that Rs. 400. I am yet to read the book, just skimmed thru the excellent comments about the book by Nobel peace prize winners and other celebrities.
The other book I bought last week at the mall was “Dollar Bahu” by Sudha Murthy. She is an engineer, with an M.Tech in Computer Science. She had a good career and gave it up to take other responsibilities, when her husband’s new venture took off. Narayana Murthy, her husband, is the founder of the very successful Infosys software giant in India. Sudha is multi-talented. She’s a writer and social worker. Currently she’s the chairperson of the Infosys Charitable Foundation. The book is wonderful and I related to it absolutely. Many of you will too. Get a copy and read it! Original is in Kannada and this is the English translation. It’s a fast read and a nice fiction. The stories described in the book are very real- down to the exact words in the conversations. Sudha must have spent considerable time in America to have captured all the nitty-gritty details of lives of Indians there, inside our homes. It’s too real, to be a second had report/story.
I’m also reading “Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want” by Wayne W. Dyer. Dr. Dyer says that "Within you is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need to desire..." . A friend gave this to me when I left Portland. Said I would really like it and indeed so. I’m enjoying this also very much and reflecting a lot. Have not started meditating yet!
I read a large part of “Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time”
by Paul Rogat Loeb. It’s about social involvement. “…recognition of the economic and political imbalances in the world will likely result in either cynicism or activism. But only activism, or social involvement, is consistent with our democracy and can result in psychological or spiritual growth”. I am yet to complete it, though. This was gifted to me by my dear friends at SAWERA, before I left. There was a book-reading by the author at Powell’s City of Books in Portland last October. Not sure if any of you Portlanders attended.
We bought a very nice children’s book titled “Younguncle come to town”. I read the whole book the day I bought it. My daughter did too. The author Vandana Singh is a good friend of mine. She was a Portland resident and a co-founder of SAWERA too. Some of you know her well. A fascinating story! You must get a copy. See: http://users.rcn.com/singhvan/publications.html for more details about this nice book.
“Little Prince”, the little booklet was a favourite of mine, growing up. I chanced upon a copy while at “Crossroads” the book-store in the Shoppers Stop Mall in front of our apartment complex. I immediately bought a copy and read it quickly. The small book with short chapters, showed me a different world view than I’m sure what I had seen earlier - before my college days and travels overseas to experience other cultures and peoples. You too, (re-) read The Little Prince -- by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Illustrator), Richard Howard (Translator) and see what you think.
My 11 year old daughter, is also reading... I asked her to read “Little Prince” and let me know what she made of it. She promptly refused to read it L even for my sake! The current book she is reading is “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” by Otto M Frank. She bought in school book exhibition; I asked her why she liked sad books and she promptly said this was not a sad story. I have not read this diary and know its about the holocaust period.
[ASIDE: While in Portland, she ardently read Lemony Snicket books on Series of Unfortunate Events]
Instead of placing a bookmark to show her where she stopped, she has put “doggy ears” throughout the book. This marks her reading for each day. She’s already programmed how much to read each day! I am task oriented, but I thought she took this to the next level of “exactly quantifying” the task (of nighttime reading)!
My daughter did a survey as part of the English Language Home Work/Project in her class. She had a questionnaire she distributed on “reading habits” of people. She was able to collect about 20 completed surveys back. She gathered inputs from quite a spread of people – a high school student in her school who is her bus stop friend, us – her parents, her friends/classmates at school, her friends in our flats, parents of her friends, perhaps a teacher or two… I gave a lot of details in her survey; others did too. She was even gathering data on how reading patterns have changed for people (or not). As for me – I’ve moved from fiction/novels to non-fiction/spiritual/activism and such type of books. My husband was amused that I included spiritual among my preferred reading these days J Her teacher told her that her survey data was good!
On her first trip to the Landmark book stores, my daughter bought a copy of Narnia. She read some parts of it but did not complete it. I had taken her to see the play “The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe” at the NW Children’s theater in Portland when she was 5. She bought “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown at the Landmark book store this weekend on our trip to the mall. She’s enthusiastic about reading this fat book, but has not started as she has already scheduled the Anne Frank diaries reading J I noticed that my husband had started to read “The Da Vinci Code”
A friend showed me this small book at work this week. “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” (with a photo of a panda bear ….shooting at a restaurant J ). It’s about punctuation! Very interesting. I’ve added it to my long and growing reading list. “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss "Either this will ring bells for you, or it won't..."
I saw a notice for a “Literary Club" at Mantri Elegance Club house – the flats we live in. I could consider joining the group perhaps if my work-schedule would permit (IF somehow, the late night and evening meetings all days of the week go away, magically!)
Send me your favourite book picks and I will add to my long wish list of books I would like to read, in my lifetime…voraciously when I retire J
-Sri
-Sri
-------
Dear friends and family,
I am not a voracious reader…like some of you perhaps are.
My daily commute by public transport has gotten me into the nice habit of reading. I’m enjoying this time very much – half hour in the morning and another 30 min in the evening too. I seem to have the time to read the newspaper too, over here. And there definitely is a lot of news
ASIDE: The other day, I saw a lady reading a small, very fat book. This was in the bus while I was returning home from work. I thought it might be Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. And it was! This was a young college girl. I remember to have read that book too during my first years of college. It was quite an exhausting over 1,100 pages. Perhaps IF I re-read it after my sojourn in America now for 1.5 decades, I will conjure up different pictures and perspectives of that book and its philosophy. I noticed a 35th anniversary edition of the book available on amazon.com. It’s been THAT long??!!!! I had heard of “The Fountainhead” and gotten around to reading “We the Living” too, by the Ayn Rand. But, I don’t remember anything about “We the Living”, except that is was so much smaller!
I finished the book “India Unbound” and wrote to you about it – including some snippets from the book in some of my E-mail updates. It educated me on the “reforms” that opened up India for free enterprise, free trade etc. and has allowed the nation to increase the size of its middle class. A sure indicator of national prosperity! There is no going back. PV.Narasimha Rao (passed away late last year - 2004), the then Prime Minister was the phenomenal leader who made this happen (to his own pleasant surprise, I think). On his cabinet was Manmohan Singh as Finance minister. Now, we have Manmohan Singh leading the nation as Prime Minsiter with the able Chidambaram (a Harvard graduate I think), heading Finance. I enjoyed Guru Charan Das’s writing style too. Now, I look for and read his regular column in The Sunday Times.
Last weekend, I bought two books at “Landmark”, the big book store in the Forum Mall in Koramangala. It’s not quite as huge a store, as Barnes and Noble on 185th Ave. in Beaverton, but large enough!
I also bought “Peace Is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End” by Deepak Chopra. It’s a new 2005 year publication. I saw events on the book-reading across Bangalore city a few weeks ago. Wanted to go, but had other engagements, unfortunately. The attendance cost some Rs.1,000 (including book signing by author I suppose), while the paper back copy of the book is less that Rs. 400. I am yet to read the book, just skimmed thru the excellent comments about the book by Nobel peace prize winners and other celebrities.
The other book I bought last week at the mall was “Dollar Bahu” by Sudha Murthy. She is an engineer, with an M.Tech in Computer Science. She had a good career and gave it up to take other responsibilities, when her husband’s new venture took off. Narayana Murthy, her husband, is the founder of the very successful Infosys software giant in India. Sudha is multi-talented. She’s a writer and social worker. Currently she’s the chairperson of the Infosys Charitable Foundation. The book is wonderful and I related to it absolutely. Many of you will too. Get a copy and read it! Original is in Kannada and this is the English translation. It’s a fast read and a nice fiction. The stories described in the book are very real- down to the exact words in the conversations. Sudha must have spent considerable time in America to have captured all the nitty-gritty details of lives of Indians there, inside our homes. It’s too real, to be a second had report/story.
I’m also reading “Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want” by Wayne W. Dyer. Dr. Dyer says that "Within you is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need to desire..." . A friend gave this to me when I left Portland. Said I would really like it and indeed so. I’m enjoying this also very much and reflecting a lot. Have not started meditating yet!
I read a large part of “Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time”
by Paul Rogat Loeb. It’s about social involvement. “…recognition of the economic and political imbalances in the world will likely result in either cynicism or activism. But only activism, or social involvement, is consistent with our democracy and can result in psychological or spiritual growth”. I am yet to complete it, though. This was gifted to me by my dear friends at SAWERA, before I left. There was a book-reading by the author at Powell’s City of Books in Portland last October. Not sure if any of you Portlanders attended.
We bought a very nice children’s book titled “Younguncle come to town”. I read the whole book the day I bought it. My daughter did too. The author Vandana Singh is a good friend of mine. She was a Portland resident and a co-founder of SAWERA too. Some of you know her well. A fascinating story! You must get a copy. See: http://users.rcn.com/singhvan/publications.html for more details about this nice book.
“Little Prince”, the little booklet was a favourite of mine, growing up. I chanced upon a copy while at “Crossroads” the book-store in the Shoppers Stop Mall in front of our apartment complex. I immediately bought a copy and read it quickly. The small book with short chapters, showed me a different world view than I’m sure what I had seen earlier - before my college days and travels overseas to experience other cultures and peoples. You too, (re-) read The Little Prince -- by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Illustrator), Richard Howard (Translator) and see what you think.
My 11 year old daughter, is also reading... I asked her to read “Little Prince” and let me know what she made of it. She promptly refused to read it L even for my sake! The current book she is reading is “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” by Otto M Frank. She bought in school book exhibition; I asked her why she liked sad books and she promptly said this was not a sad story. I have not read this diary and know its about the holocaust period.
[ASIDE: While in Portland, she ardently read Lemony Snicket books on Series of Unfortunate Events]
Instead of placing a bookmark to show her where she stopped, she has put “doggy ears” throughout the book. This marks her reading for each day. She’s already programmed how much to read each day! I am task oriented, but I thought she took this to the next level of “exactly quantifying” the task (of nighttime reading)!
My daughter did a survey as part of the English Language Home Work/Project in her class. She had a questionnaire she distributed on “reading habits” of people. She was able to collect about 20 completed surveys back. She gathered inputs from quite a spread of people – a high school student in her school who is her bus stop friend, us – her parents, her friends/classmates at school, her friends in our flats, parents of her friends, perhaps a teacher or two… I gave a lot of details in her survey; others did too. She was even gathering data on how reading patterns have changed for people (or not). As for me – I’ve moved from fiction/novels to non-fiction/spiritual/activism and such type of books. My husband was amused that I included spiritual among my preferred reading these days J Her teacher told her that her survey data was good!
On her first trip to the Landmark book stores, my daughter bought a copy of Narnia. She read some parts of it but did not complete it. I had taken her to see the play “The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe” at the NW Children’s theater in Portland when she was 5. She bought “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown at the Landmark book store this weekend on our trip to the mall. She’s enthusiastic about reading this fat book, but has not started as she has already scheduled the Anne Frank diaries reading J I noticed that my husband had started to read “The Da Vinci Code”
A friend showed me this small book at work this week. “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” (with a photo of a panda bear ….shooting at a restaurant J ). It’s about punctuation! Very interesting. I’ve added it to my long and growing reading list. “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss "Either this will ring bells for you, or it won't..."
I saw a notice for a “Literary Club" at Mantri Elegance Club house – the flats we live in. I could consider joining the group perhaps if my work-schedule would permit (IF somehow, the late night and evening meetings all days of the week go away, magically!)
Send me your favourite book picks and I will add to my long wish list of books I would like to read, in my lifetime…voraciously when I retire J
-Sri
