by Devina There are people cloaked in gold robes. They take and receive the best things in the world. And you sit on the dirty, cold ground, wondering what did you ever do wrong? Why am I being punished? Some will argue and tell you, don’t listen to hopeful words, don’t listen to talks of…
Aggies stick together. Now this is something I truly hold onto. Call us fanatics, but we’re family. So on the last full day in Mumbai, Daniella and I headed to the Train Station to meet Yogashree, our Aggie friend who lives in Mumbai. We had told Aunti, our close friend’s mother whose house we stayed…
Day 7 is here. One thing I never truly liked that much: shopping. And that was basically almost everything we did in Mumbai. Shopping and over eating. Not that I could complain. The markets were fun to visit and explore. And the foods were to die for. So on the 8th day, we woke up in…
I love henna. I have always adored tattoos, but I’ve also been so scared looking at how it’s done. I mean, it looks so scary. There was this one video shown to me few years go of the zoomed in process of real tattoo making. I cringed. I might look brave from the outside, but…
By Daniella Djiogan So, this year like the previous one, has been one without the turkey. It’s been somewhat of an unspoken decision we made in recent years because of my families sudden interest in health. No, perhaps we rarely roast the turkey these days because it is just too unbearable to finish the whole…
By Daniella Djiogan It’s been a few months since I came back from my one year teaching experience in China, and I still have mix feelings about the whole thing. Sometimes I miss Sichuanese food like crazy…especially the street food, sometimes I miss my roommate [we’ve been through thick and thin in a foreign land], sometimes,…
By Daniella Djiogan It’s been awhile since I have seen myself in a traditional outfit…PROBABLY a heck of a long time. I rarely wear them these days because…well I only have about two of these gorgeous babies; clearly not enough to wear them all day every day. Plus, I probably didn’t wear them for so…
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