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		<title>Pancake update!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pooja has been my inspiration to make pancakes. She makes excellent banana pancakes herself and I followed her instructions blindly and made my own guesses for proportions. Plain Pancakes:  You will need - 1 egg Quite a bit of flour (maida) About a cup of milk  Pinch of salt Pinch of baking powder About two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rayparoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563832&amp;post=581&amp;subd=rayparoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On hopes and tomorrows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you just need hope to get through one single day. One single night. Sometimes you just need that one thing to look forward to the next morning. For me, I am looking forward to tomorrow morning. I have a breakfast date with R. We are making pancakes, sausages, scrambled eggs and filter coffee. After [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rayparoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563832&amp;post=579&amp;subd=rayparoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this evening when I cannot smile.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother is leaving tomorrow. And that is all I can think about while I sit in the drawing room and stare with a blank look in my eyes at my mother’s figure moving deftly around the open kitchen frying some fish, adding saffron to the chicken and checking the salt in the daal. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rayparoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563832&amp;post=576&amp;subd=rayparoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The wind this morning.</title>
		<link>http://rayparoma.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/the-wind-this-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, in the morning, I woke up to a sound of a flower pot crashing. When I rushed out to my balcony I saw it was not one of mine. I opened the balcony doors, the windows in the bedrooms. Things fell, photo frames collapsed. R stood around trying to balance a vase in his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rayparoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563832&amp;post=573&amp;subd=rayparoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On having a blackberry. Or maybe not.</title>
		<link>http://rayparoma.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/on-having-a-blackberry-or-maybe-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 18:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I have been wanting a Blackberry for the longest time. Various petitions have been made to R and a few friends, much effort put in with &#8220;I am the only one left without a Blackberry&#8221;, &#8220;You guys are always on BBM and all of you have stopped replying to my messages&#8221;, &#8220;You guys are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rayparoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563832&amp;post=566&amp;subd=rayparoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That thing called beauty.</title>
		<link>http://rayparoma.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/that-thing-called-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 05:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The following post has been written for the  Yahoo! India and Dove &#8220;I Believe in Real Beauty&#8221; under the topic &#8220;What does real beauty mean to me?&#8221; Hop over to the yahoo page here to read more on Real Beauty.  And you can vote for me too- right here!  I.   “Uma! Hurry up. They will be here any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rayparoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563832&amp;post=563&amp;subd=rayparoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy thoughts!</title>
		<link>http://rayparoma.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/happy-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 09:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, no actually you don’t know, my mother is coming tomorrow. Wait. I need to say it right. MA IS COMING HOME TOMORROW. TOMORROW! MA IS COMING! Such a happy thought! Heh. And I am such a mother’s child, I tell you. If my mom listens to this she will roll her eyes, very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rayparoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563832&amp;post=561&amp;subd=rayparoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Great Gatsby</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last book I read, I liked. I loved. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Now I am no literature major but you see, I thought this book is just so skillfully written. Jay Gatsby with his dazzling parties and a secret longing that is not fulfilled till the end is portrayed in such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rayparoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563832&amp;post=559&amp;subd=rayparoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the little things in life.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 11:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am borrowing this tag from SMM who borrowed it from Monika. It seems like a good exercise to list out the small things in life that makes one happy. Here are mine -          A cloudy rainy morning in the middle of summer -          Coming back home to R -          A long big lazy brunch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rayparoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563832&amp;post=557&amp;subd=rayparoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I need</title>
		<link>http://rayparoma.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/i-need/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) Your prayers. Lots of it. R&#8217;s mum is in the hospital again. (Yes, she was discharged only in mid March after her month long stay the last time). Please send lots of good cheer, sunshine and positive thoughts her way. And for once in my life I am not being able to feel bright [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rayparoma.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563832&amp;post=548&amp;subd=rayparoma&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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