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soundbites

Raita-toueeee

By popagandhi | Published: 31 March, 2008
Some time ago, I was eating dinner at an Indian place in a back alley somewhere in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. I raised my hand and said to a waiter, “Can I have raita?” He nodded, and scurried off. Ten minutes later, I still didn’t have my raita, and I noticed he hadn’t even entered the [...]
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About Getting Things Done

By popagandhi | Published: 11 March, 2008
Maybe many of us geeky types live in our own worlds where we take for granted, as ‘normal,’ the things we know and love (or things we hear about a lot). Like GTD(Getting Things Done), for example. I’m not a huge practitioner of the GTD philosophy, but I read enough blogs about it, and as [...]
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Diwali Dinner, Last Night

By popagandhi | Published: 8 November, 2007
Surreal: Someone came over saying, “I got Italian Vogue for the both of you!” He skipped past us, the only two girls in his line of vision. Two tall dashing boys picked up the magazines, flipped through them excitedly, occasionally saying things like, “Is that Galliano’s latest?” “Amazing.” “This dress is so hot.” I love [...]
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Throw Some Sheep

By popagandhi | Published: 11 October, 2007
This afternoon, somebody added me as a Facebook friend while I was next to her. She took a quick look at my profile and asked, “WHERE’S THAT THING TO POKE YOU AND THROW SHEEP?” I didn’t have it.
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Completely Random Conversations

By popagandhi | Published: 11 September, 2007
The conversation took place among a collection of random people at my university who were going to graduate in the next 80 days (including yours truly), and concerned itself with what our respective plans were. They had job offers and such, and concrete plans involving the moving of cities/countries in exciting jobs. A: “I don’t [...]
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