During Hungry Ghost Months, humans do the age-old tradition of ancestor worshipping and hungry ghost appeasing as it’s believed that the spirit-world gate opens, and the ghosts return to the living world for a whole month.…
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I have enough quips about changing my surename for someone who wasn’t given any in the first place, but I am my name. It’s my root, as printed on my boarding pass. I want to be celebrated with that name. Before, now and forever.…
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After a 3-hour drive from Melbourne, going around almost four empty towns that reminded me of Timaru in New Zealand, we reached Echuca.…
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Kind of Hindu would make a perfect blog post (it's divided into two stories in the Kindle), but it is not something I'd pay $1.99 for.…
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I can’t believe it has been two years since I met Neera for the first time. She got my attention when she gave the guest speaker at a blogger conference a bag full of Tim Tams, the iconic Australian chocolate biscuit. I remember thinking that I need to befriend her before the conference is…
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There are two types of people in the world: those who don’t get a souvenir when they travel and those who do. I have yet to meet the earlier type. However, everyone I know and their aunts love to get travel souvenirs while travelling. The only difference is the type of travel souvenir that…
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Onam marks the onset of the official Malayalam calendar and the first month of the year. Legend has it that Onam is held to celebrate Kerala's beloved King Mahabali.…
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“I want to go to the Kerala fish market“, I told Fafa. That, of course, didn’t come as a surprise to him. We have been together for nearly a decade now. It was enough time to educate him about my obsession with fish markets. “You have to ask my dad, then“, he replied. “Maybe…
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I just came back from a week-long Kerala trip last week. I have been to India before, to Hyderabad and Goa. Both were for cousins’ weddings, and both were weekend trips. So this Kerala trip felt like my first real India trip. I learned a lot about Kerala culture, ate a lot of Malabar…
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I started and finished Sunday with Sumiko this week ━ during the trip to Kerala India to visit the in-laws.…
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