I have been away for a long time from my blog. I usually don't believe in a very long hiatus, so much so that only wheels under me can pull me away from something I like doing. Simply because even if I am lazy as a bone I do crawl up to the few, little, routine things in my life and attempt to keep them running. But as I said, I was literally wheeled out of my house, by a car! Hyuk. Yes, I do have a license to drive in Dubai. I am sure it would come as a surprise to a lot of people who know mel. Even I was pleasantly surprised when they handed me the golden card! I could hear angels singing 'Halleluiahaa' (I know I spelled it wrong but hey that's the way they were singing).

Khair, for one month, I was on the road, getting lost and well, getting lost again. Not to worry, each day I wound up home. It was fun though. According to my hubby, I have no 'sense of direction'. In fact it was quite a plus. I got to places he had not heard of, though he had been driving for more than a year now in Dubai. He'd give me wierd looks when I told him at night about some vague detour or dhabba tucked away somewhere or smile whimsically at a tree on some green belt, recognizing it by the number of times I had circled around it, trying to find the main road.

My second big preoccupation was 'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy. I had wanted to read 'War and Peace' but the latter caught my attention so I decided to give it a go.

llicit affairs, quesitons of morality and spirituality, Russain peasantry, sprouting new 'isms', decadent bureaucracy, handsome men with side whiskers and beautiful Anna with lace on her forehead. My silent life would reverberate with the noise of teeming characters the minute I would open the book. I also finished the first book of Alexander Mcgall which was like having a lightest of Tiramisu after a Anna Karenina, which should be allowed to qualify as Biryani or Haleem of the literary word. What a comparison, desi food and English Literature!!! Grotesque. (Scratching head) Well that's me.