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The Moon is our very own tube-light!!

"Draw the blind please!" I begged. Then I jerked back into reality. My bedroom had been my very own terrace the night before! I woke up to the sounds of chirping birds, the warm sun-kissed breeze and breakfast literally in the open! And it was only the night before when I last said goodnight to the burning moon! I haven't been raised in the north, where sleeping on the terrace is something of a matter-of-fact issue. And since it is done so often, they sleep on charpoys (cots with four legs). Here I had to make the experience worthwhile! Being the last two days of my nephew being at home, I had to make his trip worth remembering. So along with baking him Oreo cupcakes and white-chocolate filled home-made, scrumptious chocolates, I decided that we should all spend the night on the terrace and in style! So we bought out our beds, laid out two side-tables, drank up some coke float and danced to music played on the laptop! Lying down beneath the stars and t...

The Morning That Was...

I've never really been up at/till 6.30 in the morning! Today was probably one of those days! Oh I’m not yet into yoga or anything, and not even practising for any upcoming married life! Maybe it’s the Red Bull or it’s probably even psychological! Either way, I made the best of that morning! I started by pouring myself a tall glass of orange juice (No, it wasn’t freshly squeezed orange juice, but Tropicana was the closest I could get!) I then walked up slowly to my terrace, balancing the orange juice in one hand and the laptop in the other. By the way, this was at 5-something in the morning, so I was still in exploratory surfaces. The plan was to just to take a quick peek at what the morning felt like at that hour, but apparently that wasn’t the plan after I stepped foot onto the terrace! It was probably the serene calm or probably even the light breeze that kissed my face. It could have also been that excited group of birds flying back home. It was definitely something t...