Gift-wrapping is something that I love doing. My earliest memories are gift-wrapping empty boxes to be kept as decoration underneath our plastic Christmas tree. The gayily-wrapped gift boxes of course didn’t have anything in them. But one of my little cousins, unaware of the illusion, proceeded to tear open the gifts under the tree the [...]
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Gift-wrapping
Posted in The Muses, tagged Christmas, Christmas tree, Gift-wrapping, gifts on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My birthday’s round the corner :-)
Posted in The Muses, tagged 1984, Ayoodha Pooja, biriyani, birthday, cakes, Chennai, Christian kid, Christmas, communal violence, Diwali, former PM Indira Gandhi, Gandhi Jayanthi, killings, October 21, pan-Indian, Pongal celebrations, Ramzan, school, school uniform, secular India, unrest, Vijaya Dasami, violence on October 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy Birthday Sister by my_dew Hi, Since I’m still on the right side of my twenties, I need not hide the fact that I’m going to be 24 in two weeks time. October 21, 1984 was the happy day I was born on. There was widespread unrest, killings and violence soon after I was born. [...]
Unanswerable questions
Posted in The Muses, tagged angels, Christmas, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus born, Joseph's wife, manger, Mary, Nativity scene, pastor, Santa's birthday, Vacation Bible school, vacation bible school teacher on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For a short time, I worked as a vacation bible school teacher in our area when I was 18. I was totally unprepared for the amount of questions the kids asked me… For starters, we were reading the Nativity scene. One of the kids ask me: How was Jesus born? Me: Jesus was born in [...]
