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A blog of personal and current affairs by a young Malaysian Indian girl. Talks about every topic under the sun - from religion, politics, women issues, fashion and music.

Recent Posts Tagged With 'festival'

  • Deepavali 2008 - How was it?

    Posted on Thursday November 6th, 2008 at 10:08 in deepavali, festival, fridays, malaysia, malaysian indian bloggers, photo, song

    After having a long (actually short :P) thought about this, I have decided to cramp summarize the entire Deepavali celebration in one post. Reasons: 1. Way too many photographs (66) 2. Deepavali mood ...

  • was it NOSTALGIC after all?

    Posted on Friday October 31st, 2008 at 00:38 in deepavali, festival, fridays, malaysia, photo, puchong, song

    Deepavali is the time I get so confused. I don't know if it's time for celebration or mourning. Over the years, my Deepavali has taken various forms - shape shifting from a joyous festival to heart-th...

  • Deepavali 2008

    Posted on Monday October 27th, 2008 at 13:18 in deepavali, festival, photo

    Thank you so much for the wishes guys! As usual, I had a blast! :-) Unfortunately (or is it fortunately?) I took too many photos.. I think I will faint before I can finish editing them all. Anyway, h...

  • Festival of Light

    Posted on Tuesday October 21st, 2008 at 04:27 in announcement, deepavali, festival, photo

    It is that time of the year again.. Time to light up the spirit in you.. Time to bring happiness into home.. Time for sharing and caring.. It is time for Deepavali.. The best time of the year.. Whic...

  • It's Raya break!

    Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 21:02 in announcement, festival

    If there is something that is good and bad at the same time, that would be the fact that I don't have a hometown to go to. Good because I do have to endure long traffic jams driving in our usually-ove...

  • 13.04.08

    Posted on Saturday April 12th, 2008 at 11:08 in festival

  • MIndsblog - Ponggal Special!

    Posted on Monday January 14th, 2008 at 09:27 in announcement, festival, malaysian indian bloggers, wallpaper

    My Thai Ponggal wishes to everyone celebrating it. Too bad I will be celebrating it at my office :( Yeah, I'm working tomorrow. Damn, should have taken off! *sighAnyway, just had time to work on 2 wal...

  • season greetings

    Posted on Saturday December 22nd, 2007 at 10:49 in festival, malaysia

    Spent most of my free time either with my new darling or in shopping complexes :P I guess it is an unofficial competition between the shopping malls on who has the best X'mas deco for 2007! *sigh.. ta...

  • Karthigai Deepam

    Posted on Saturday November 24th, 2007 at 10:08 in festival, malaysia

    Happy Karthigai Deepam everyone!...

  • Deepavali postcards & Nostalgic Friday - 21

    Posted on Friday November 9th, 2007 at 00:10 in deepavali, festival, fridays, malaysia, postcard, song

    Will be back updating as usual next monday. Till then, 'savour' my second instalment in the postcard series. You may find the first one HERE.Theme: DeepavaliThese postcards were designed using photos ...

  • It's Deepavali

    Posted on Sunday November 4th, 2007 at 10:06 in deepavali, festival, malaysia

    I was going through my camera, and I found 2 more photos of the cookies yet to be published - achi muruku & london almond cookies:*almond spelt wrongly in the photo I'm taking a break from bloggin...

  • Deepavali Wallpapers & Nostalgic Friday - 20

    Posted on Thursday November 1st, 2007 at 21:46 in deepavali, festival, fridays, issues, malaysia, malaysian indian bloggers, wallpaper

    Online buddies never fail to amaze me. Whenever I post something, the comments never stop pouring in. In fact, I do receive some crap which could not be published. An usual post in tulipspeaks will be...

  • Deepavali: Muruku Day

    Posted on Saturday October 27th, 2007 at 10:25 in deepavali, festival, malaysia

    It's Muruku Day again. I remember posting on muruku during last year's Deepavali season. Digged my archive and found the post! Hehehehe.. Read my old muruku post here.Somehow I feel Muruku Day is jinx...

  • Deepavali: Cookies

    Posted on Monday October 22nd, 2007 at 07:06 in deepavali, festival

    Whoa! Looks like everyone love cookies!!! Here are 3 more cookies, we did during the weekend:In Malay, this is called Sarang Semut (Ant's colony). Basically this is another form of curtard cookies. Ag...

  • Deepavali : Jam Tarts

    Posted on Saturday October 20th, 2007 at 06:26 in deepavali, festival

    Finally, the moments I have been waiting for has arrived! It's cookies making session again. We started with our favourite cookies, Pineapple Jam Tart..It looks so yummy.. but too bad I can't taste it...

  • Nostalgic Friday - 3

    Posted on Wednesday April 11th, 2007 at 11:06 in festival, fridays, song, wallpaper

    This song rekindles the sweet memories I have. I mean 'micham meethi' memories. :P Beautiful lyrics. It brings out the best out of simple / small incidences in our daily life. Something we don't usual...