Mummies with tummies
The oddest thing happened last Saturday. Every where I turned I saw pregnant women. My eldest niece, darling little Hannah, came as usual for her dance class. The dance studio…
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Fancy Hotel
Last Saturday, we went to a fancy 6-star hotel to celebrate our service award win. Yes, it was good fun, the food was good and the company even better. But…
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My aunt’s animated face in full color jumped out at me when I flipped through yesterday’s newspapers. “She’s writing again?” Hey, don’t get me wrong – I love my Aunty…
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Tell me – should I be worried? No? Well, my panic level just went up a notch last Monday at the PHD orientation. Prior to the orientation, I had asked…
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Yesterday, I saw a flock of five white egrets flying by just as I started my morning walk towards the bus stop. They glided by with an elegance only we…
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Last weekend, I went on a date. (Yes, librarians do go on dates too, you know). Somehow or other, this date seemed to have generated quite a bit of interest.…
Continue readingThe Beauty of Charcoal
Museums rock. You can not possibly leave a museum without a sense of awe. Especially art museums. Beauty, even if it is in the eye of the beholder, is never…
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Can you hear that? No? Shhh… listen…. Nothing? Nothing at all? It’s the sound that a vacation makes. No students, no lecturers and the best of all, two of my…
Continue readingLearning III: Travails of Citation Counts
So, the anvil went clunk, right? Well, it wasn’t so bad after that except for a little soreness, life with times cited went on… One of the secretaries thought she…
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Something hit me recently. I am considered a real klutz (it goes with “blind as a bat”). You would think I should have seen it coming. It felt as if…
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