"Next week is my birthday and remember to wish me", "Where is my present on my special day", my old man would interrogate a week prior.  He was always excited to celebrate his birthday. It's the same enthusiasm I see in the kids pestering...

Last year, 2014, was an year of more sorrows than joy. Though the year was not a great start it wasn’t a great year to end, having lost my dear father, who was much more a friend and a guide, on whom I...

It is hard to find good friends and when you find one, its equally important to maintain friendship. Friendship blossoms as young when we are kids in school, neighbors or even cousins. Though, I don't have any siblings, this special friend at school...

Today is friendship day, a day in an year to greet the old, new, connected and unconnected buddies. I am not a follower of such days but I am gentle in replying to those messages I receive, though I prefer to speak or...

Last October, in 2012, I was on a vacation on my way back from Melbourne to Bangalore at Singapore for 3 days. I must say, Singapore is the safest city I have even been. Being a woman, I was able to cover most...

Fathers are always close to daughters and daughters have a special untold attachment with fathers. My mother still narrates an incident I used to fall sick when my dad used to travel or not at home. My father has been the man behind...

You loved me ever since I was a tiny cell and nourished me until I was able to take care of myself. You taught me to speak the little words, held my arms when I first started to walk, fall and hurt myself. You taught...

Dear Daddy, You taught me to talk holding me in your arms and walk when I was a child, holding my tiny fingers, when I had a fear of falling. You were always protective even while I was in the mother's womb without...

April 1 is called fools day after Steve April. He was born on 1-Apr-1579; he did 125 businesses in his life time and lost all of his father’s assets. Everyone started calling him “Father of Fool”. At his age of 19 he married...

In continuation with my previous post.... An incident occurred at my workplace that made most of them giggle. One of my teammate is always a scapegoat. :)  V~ was undergoing initial training and flunked his exam couple of times. Since this was the first time...

Two friends who are also good neighbours online at 9:15pm gossip through messenger logging into their respective laptops. ;) The duo hear and discuss the honking of vehicles, kids playing and their immediate neighbours. And, thats called iGossip. © Manasa. All rights reserved....

Wishes to a friend on her first wedding anniversary who always cribbed after wedding. "Congrats dear..! You survived one year of your marriage." "Thanks, dear.. Hoping to survive one more year." Listening to this, her husband nearly faints! PS: Couldn't think of a...

Last Saturday, I visited my cousin who was here on vacation from Malaysia with her 13 month old angel. Here are few pics I clicked from my 2 mega pixel camera in the night without flash. :) Though, the little one never came...

For the past one week, I had been receiving emails for Friendship week; forward it to so many people, if you get 5..10 back then you have ... friends. Well, I don't believe in forwarding chain mails and I detest the idea that...

It was an year ago, I commented on his blog and later on we became good friends. A true, caring friend whom I address dada--elder brother in Bengali; the person whom I respect a lot. Sudipta's encouraging words helped me to prove myself...

Don't you feel happy and trustworthy when near and dear ones come to you for advice or suggestion? Now-a-days, so many people ping me asking for suggestions/advice. I'm loving it :))) A couple of months ago, a close friend of mine rang up...

More often, I see this status message whom I have added on my office communicator and some people with busy status on yahoo/gtalk/hotmail. Whenever I notice anyone with the status message “Do Not Disturb” or “Busy”, I am inclined to ping them. I...

You might not understand this post if the people you whom you say “close buddies” would have ignored or backstabbed you. I have a question which I decided to ask finally: “Why do friends betray you?” Most of us or all of us...

The title of the blog highlights what this post is all about. This incident happened a couple of years ago. And yes, its one of the most funniest incident which I can never forget:) It was around 6:30 in the evening, Shilpa and...

Feb 6th was the last day of last vacations of engineering. This time we had vacations only for 19 days. It was the time to enjoy. First and foremost, my school friend Varsha and I decided to visit Flowershow at Lalbagh. It was...