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A tag's calling out to me .... :-) :-)

I have a perfect excuse for picking up a tag this time around!! My last tag-based blog post was in 2012. I know!! Right!!! :D :D Am actually quite proud of myself as well… well even if I didn’t write as much as I’d like to, I still didn’t succumb to the pressure of blogger’s block with a tag! :D :D And that’s saying something considering how many tags I was doing at a point of time, evidence of which is in this blog !!! And what’s funny is how, most of my tags revolve around books and reading and the like! :) All I can say in my defense is, old habits die hard! :P ;) And hence, we have one more book-based tag coming right up!! Here you go! Picked this up on my one of my random blog hops …. Seems like this was quite a popular tag sometime back! Take it up if you like it! You have to associate each of the questions with the title of a book you’ve read or which you can relate to! And so we learn that … In School I was: A Stranger in the Mirror People Might be surprise...

Summer's here!!! So is Evam's Workshop for Kids! :) :)

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What did summer vacations mean to you? The months of April, May and June… To me, it was all fun, trips, mangoes, get-togethers, lots of sleeping, eating and driving the parents up the wall saying that we were bored :P Today though, there are so much more options, I say! Kids these days have a lot more options than any of our generation or the ones before us had… and I mean that in a good way!! Have you seen what the kids of today are capable of?? They are street-smart and are much more adept at using technology and gadgets while we still sometimes struggle with our smart phones… they dance like they can give stiff competition to the world’s best … they sing effortlessly and put many a talented singer to shame and some of them are so advanced for their ages that they give the older generations (including me!) a huge complex…   Bunch of talented youngsters we have I say… It’s heartening to see the expanse of talent that is both explicit as well as hidden in most of the kiddos t...

What have I been upto?

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Hello there all you lovely people…   How ya all been?   :) How is life treating you? :) Its already 5 months into the NEW YEAR (Err... can we call it the new year still :P) how has it been so far?   Exciting…   Good … Bad… Ugly?? Oh, you’re asking me how mine has been. ;-) 2013 has been very exciting so far. Very very exciting. Filled with lots of opportunities and happiness and peace of mind…   E.X.C.I.T.I.N.G.!!!! :D :D :D Before 2013 started, I had a checklist... In my mind… stuff that I want to start doing, stuff that I wanted to close out and stuff that I wanted to keep continuing...   That checklist is thriving … pretty much on track I must say …   :) By the way, did you listen to these two songs?? Badtameez Dil   - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani     & Yaaram – Ek Thi Daayan Both contrasting… one peps you up and the other lulls you down!! And love the lyrics of ‘Yaaram’… there’s a nice earthy feel to it.. As for th...