K , walked in with a package tucked under his arm and I assumed it to be from India or from a cousin which is on its way!!

Ta da daaa…. The look on his face told me it was something else.. His eyes sparkling and extremely careful about the package he set it down gingerly and opened it with utmost care and lo so many goodies!!!!

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Lost in my own world, I was never a social butterfly. True to my Gemini self, I would be rushing for the exit when my name was called out. However 3 days back, I was pleasantly surprised and honored when I received an email from Dear Madhuram about this surprise on her blog, Thank you Madhu for making my day special. You truly are one of the few friends I have found in the blogosphere.

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My site was down on and off for a while, as I was trying to upgrade to wordpress 2.5. I totally messed it up during the installation. It calls for deleting the WP- admin file and Wp- Includes and replace the same with the new version. IÂ did something wrong( not sure what though) . I almost thought that my site wont be up and I went back to the forums and read that though the stable version has been released , there were some errors still popping up.

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My Virtual Kitchen turns one today! This culinary journey has been amazing with a lot of twists. There were many burnt pans, sometimes even holes, disastrous outcomes. sometimes surprisingly amazing and we survived the journey!

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Bhogi mantalu,Colorful muggulu, radham muggu on the D- day, pattu langalu, perantalu, haridasulu, gangireddulu,patangulu,fights over them, bommala koluvu, bhogi pallu, cheruku mukkalu, 5/10paisalu that go with them, 10 days of school holidays, Gobbemmalu, For the boys… of course waking up at 5am on a cold winter morning to escort the women to collect cow’s morning offerings was a pain … Reward was they were included in what was supposedly ‘girls only party on the final gobbemma day, their own maanja making efforts, Dear ol’ ammamma hiding old furniture fearing we might put them in bhogi mantalu

What memories ! Indeed are priceless!

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