Amruta's Writing Block!

Trying to find a balance between my need to communicate, to be in control, and to get over my writer's block – all to fulfill my dream of being the new kid (or old lady) on the "writing block"… Yeah, yeah, I do sarcastic comedy on the side! :D

About Me

Musings & Ramblings

  • Birthday + Thanksgiving + New Year Resolutions

    Birthday + Thanksgiving + New Year Resolutions

    This was originally supposed to be a birthday post, where I wanted to talk about turning over a new decade, and entering the 5th one, no less! Like always, life got in the way – work life, to be specific – not the writer’s block life which has delayed (canceled?) so many of my other Read more

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  • 2022 – A year in books

    2022 – A year in books

    So, another eventful year comes to an end, and it’s time for my review of the books I read this year! Thanks to Goodreads, I can properly keep track of them, so here’s a little infographic detailing the 50 books I read this year and stars I gave them: Yeah I read two whole technical Read more

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  • Movie Review – The Great Indian Kitchen

    [This post was originally published in a Marathi magazine called Palakneeti, published from Pune. You can read the original post on the magazine’s free online version here] Once upon a time there is this beautiful girl – educated, trained in Indian classical dance, an expert at cooking; and as she grew up in a gulf Read more

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  • Soothed by Thrills…

    Have you ever felt thrilled and soothed at the same time? Well, I tried skydiving a few days ago. Although the experience merits a whole separate post, there is one thing I’d want to distinctively mention here.  The skydiving experience was by far the most thrilling AND the most soothing experience that I’ve ever had! Why thrilling? That Read more

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  • The Sense of Smell, Part 1 – My Favorites

    The smell of mud as it starts raining…ahhh…It enhances the wonderful pleasure that is called the rains.  I wish they could bottle it so that we could enjoy it year-long! This post about my favorite smells in the world couldn’t have begun with anything else. 🙂 The smells of new books and new raincoats…woww…they cannot Read more

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  • Perspectives, perspectives……… (3)

    Many people think that belonging to a middle class family is a disadvantage; because you can’t climb the ladders of success as fast you would have, if you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth……… I beg to differ….times change, riches can go away in a flash; so belonging to a middle class Read more

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  • Perspectives, perspectives……… (2)

    Just remembered a conversation I had some time back with a friend. He had forwarded me a pic of  10000 galaxies, captured in 1 image using some high-fundoo telescope. And I replied saying it was an ammazzing pic. Not stopping at just that, I went on to add that when we see pictures like this, we Read more

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  • Waiting to write.. :-((((((

    It’s been dayyyyssssss and I haven’t written anything on my blog…. boohoohoo!!!! I hope to change that soon, though! 🙂 Read more

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  • Angry? Don’t count till 10, count the prime numbers!!!

    An age-old practise says, that when you are angry, do not react immediately, wait and count till 10….. as counting till 10 gives you the best thing to prevent anger….time! Once you overcome that one moment of anger without reaction, you realise that the situation did not really need any reaction. Hmmm, quite a true saying,but Read more

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  • The see-saw of the human mind..and tendencies too…

    The minds of human beings are so very fickle…. a sudden incident can make a sad mind happy, and another sudden one can make the opposite happen…. This incident happened today morning…I was travelling by my office transport, a little sad, a little lost… the bus was pretty slow because of the traffic. Suddenly, it came Read more

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  • India is a tolerant country!!!(Is that a matter of pride btw??)

    I’ll start this one with a real  life incident that I happened to witness of late. Our office transport vehicle stops outside each office, and collects passengers, and drops them home. Outside the Rajashri office bus stop, is a Rickshaw stand. For some obscure reason, the rickshaw drivers have a problem if our bus stops there. A Read more

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  • Is money equivalent to Happiness?

           So true is the above sentence, isn’t it!! just happened to see the above picture stored somewhere on my PC, and it started a chain of memories in my mind. Just jotting down a few of them here. When i was in my 3rd year of Computer Engineering, We had a debate in my Read more

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  • What’s in a signature????

    I have always been a big fan of quotable quotes…and have liked collecting them since childhood… It may sound like I am bragging; but yeah, many people have told me that they look forward to reading the signature in my mails, that I change everyday! 🙂 Now for all those people who have encouraged me Read more

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