Bay Area Underbelly

This Is How To Ask For A Day Off

2008-04-15T22:00:00-05:00

I had to call in sick on Monday.

Had been out all Sunday in the rain and sat through a miserable movie in a cold theater all drenched and so naturally I was sick. Also had to wear this moldy life jacket while practicing for a dragon boat race.…

Don’t We Have Enough Enemies?

2008-03-20T22:20:00-05:00

This blog posting has nothing to do with Tampa Bay, but here goes.

We have a saying in my country that when two people fight, it always benefits a third party. The people who are in the fight always lose.

This story in one of the Indian…

Video Takes A Dig At Arranged Marriage Concept

2007-09-21T17:52:00-05:00

A colleague sent me a link to this video story(less than 5 minutes long) about arranged marriages. Like every other woman from India we have had this conversation or gone through the experience in some form or other.

So needless to say this resonated somewhere inside.…

Mangoes From India Still Have A Ways To Go

2007-05-30T20:55:00-05:00

TAMPA - The mere mention of mangoes evokes within me a range of emotions. A series of images flashes in front of my eyes and I can almost taste the ripe, plush flesh of the fruit that is so popular in India.

Nothing drives home the fact I am…

The Battle Of ‘H,’ Hummer vs Honda

2007-04-09T19:09:00-05:00

As I see my neighbor ride home in that honking big Hummer of hers while I slink by in my beat up jalopy, I wish I had the invisible mirror technology of James Bond on my car so that no one could see it.

Don’t get me wrong. I…

Have Car? Will Buy

2007-04-05T16:34:00-05:00

And now begins my nightmare of buying a car. Not a shiny, glossy, new one; but a used one that gets me from point A to B.

So I start with the classifieds in the paper and online searches. I am just browsing at the moment. I have…

The Friendly Neighborhood Snapper Turtle

2007-04-04T21:01:00-05:00

A week ago, my path crossed a snapper turtle’s. She was on the side of the road, all curious, adventurous and ready to cross the mighty road in front of her.

Her curiosity, unlike that of a cat, probably saved her life. She paused to look at my car,…

Gone Exploring

2007-01-09T19:38:00-05:00

I can feel my bosses breathing down my neck. Haven’t updated the blog in a while and I am wondering if my year-end evaluation will have a sentence or two about it, or maybe not.

But lately there was so much to read all around with

‘Live And Let Live’ Applies To Animals, Too

2006-12-04T18:17:00-05:00

We have has so many animal abuse stories lately that it has affected even my tough heart. My usual reaction to pain is to tell my brain not to think about it. If I don’t dwell too long on the thing causing me extreme pain, I can usually stifle my…

Making The Ordinary Extraordinary

2006-11-06T20:14:00-05:00

Forgive me blogmaster, for I have procrastinated. It has been a month since my last blog post.

And in the blogosphere, that is an anathema. So my salvation is hanging by the thread.

My life has been so mundane in the past few weeks that I…