How to play Bridge?

Might be based on a true story. No offense to Bridge players!
Have absolutely no idea of Bridge….you have only heard about it, never played.
When the teacher says Bridge is complicated, say you know more complicated games.
Keep thinking about how the new coffee table looks so nice and perfect in your living room when the other [...]

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US Open Humor and some thoughts….

What is more important than the match?
He: Wow Del Potro is playing really well!
She: Yeah he is, isnt he? Well, let’s go to the gym now and come back so we don’t miss……
He: why do you want to go now, let us go later……
She: oh I want to come back in time for the presentation ceremony!
He: [...]

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Pappa, I want a pen.

Rememebr the days when you HAD to write with a pencil and how those who were allowed to use pens were considered higher mortals? How passing 5th class and graduating to the 6th was all you wanted because you could now write with a pen? And how parents refused to give you a pen because [...]

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The family that keeps giving

The family is so much fodder for blogging that I don’t have to even think for a second about what I would write about!
I am sure everyone by now knows about what Ashutosh Gowariker said when he received the IIFA Award for best director in Macau:
Priyanka I love you, but I don’t know how you [...]

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Not my cup of tea…..

The past Saturday morning saw us paint balling with a bunch of the spouse’s colleagues. To say that I felt like the odd one out is an understatement. For 3 hours, I was armed with a gun, a holster with paint pellets and a face mask, running around shooting people(well running around shooting people is [...]

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Happy Gandhi Jayanthi!

(This is not an essay on Gandhi)This evening while channel-surfing we happened upon Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi on AMC and started watching it. Aside from the fact that it is such a wonderful movie that encompasses all nuances of the Mahatma’s personality, and India’s freedom struggle right from Champaran to Jalianwala Bagh to the Quit India [...]

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