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		<title>Happy Memories are made of these&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smitha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I have no business writing a post, when I have not answered the comments to the previous one(s) and have not even reached half way on my packing, but some moments need to be recorded, don&#8217;t they? It is not everyday that one&#8217;s only child participates in her very first public appearance, after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsndreamz.wordpress.com&blog=7205846&post=951&subd=wordsndreamz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Tis the season of giving.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smitha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something about Christmas time that I really like. The whole atmosphere changes. The bleak winter evenings light up with Christmas trees peeping out of every house.The malls and shopping centres buzzing with activity. There is a feeling of anticipation, excitement in the air.
Every year, this time is spent shopping. Shopping to go to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsndreamz.wordpress.com&blog=7205846&post=944&subd=wordsndreamz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday Wishes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smitha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birthdays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday wishes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s somebody&#8217;s birthday today!
He is a certified JKG, a dedicated fun dad, a wonderful friend to a lot of us, yes, it&#8217;s Hitchy! It&#8217;s Hitchy&#8217;s birthday!
Hitchy, Hope you have a lovely, lovely birthday!! Have lots of fun and may all your heartfelt wishes come true. Am sure Santa is listening too 



Hitchy &#8211; I did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsndreamz.wordpress.com&blog=7205846&post=934&subd=wordsndreamz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To my soulmate</title>
		<link>http://wordsndreamz.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/to-my-soulmate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smitha</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[wedding anniversary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To you, who completes me, who makes me whole.
Happy 9th Anniversary, Sweetheart. I wish I could say more.. but you know what you mean to me. Thank you for making today a lovely, lovely day!
Looking forward to growing old with you too.
Edited to add- Thank you IHM, for the link. Love this song!

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		<title>Soaps and real life &#8211; is there any real difference?</title>
		<link>http://wordsndreamz.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/soaps-and-real-life-is-there-any-real-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smitha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Rambling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social conditioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regressive soaps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been selected for BlogAdda&#8217;s Tangy Tuesday Picks! Thank you so much, Blogadda, and IHM for tipping   Delighted and honored!

We had been channel surfing the other day when we came across  a serial on Star Plus. It was just something we had switched on and we were not sure of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsndreamz.wordpress.com&blog=7205846&post=919&subd=wordsndreamz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late night reading and Book reviews</title>
		<link>http://wordsndreamz.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/late-night-reading-and-book-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smitha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arranged Marriage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Childhood memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joanna Trollope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marrying the mistress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rector's Wife]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading loads these days. There are days when I sat up reading until late at nights and feeling sick and woozy in the mornings. I am just not a night person, but with a good book in my hand, I can&#8217;t not finish it before going to sleep.
The other day, I read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsndreamz.wordpress.com&blog=7205846&post=913&subd=wordsndreamz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>26/11 &#8211; Hope against hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smitha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[a year on]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[26/11. The day which shocked us all like never before. Far, far away from India, I sat transfixed, watching the horror unfold in front of me.
Millions across the world did the same, felt the same outrage, came out in different ways to express how they felt&#8230;
Outpourings of grief, anger and outrage everywhere..
So many brave people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsndreamz.wordpress.com&blog=7205846&post=910&subd=wordsndreamz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yummy-Tummy Weekend</title>
		<link>http://wordsndreamz.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/yummy-tummy-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smitha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Chronicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicken Biryani]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend was a treat for my taste buds!
Last Thursday, a friend brought over a bowl of freshly prepared dosa batter. I had given up on home-made dosas after all my experimentation.  So it was with a lot of trepidation that I kept her batter for fermentation. For the uninformed, my dosa batter just refuses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsndreamz.wordpress.com&blog=7205846&post=906&subd=wordsndreamz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On about nothing..</title>
		<link>http://wordsndreamz.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/on-about-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smitha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always admired people who blog on schedule or daily or even 2 or 3 times a day &#8211; on a regular basis. For me, these days, doing a post is becoming more and more difficult.
I have ideas for posts running around in my head, but they all disappear as soon as I get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsndreamz.wordpress.com&blog=7205846&post=902&subd=wordsndreamz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The love of books, the joy of reading..</title>
		<link>http://wordsndreamz.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/the-love-of-books-the-joy-of-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smitha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just got back from a whirlwind of a trip to London. It has been over a year since I went there and for me, it was all nostalgic.
On the London underground, I spent all my time showing Poohi all the stations &#8211; my old work place, husband&#8217;s old workplace. She has been on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsndreamz.wordpress.com&blog=7205846&post=896&subd=wordsndreamz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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