Category: storytelling
Toronto Experience: A Scotsman in Toronto
| December 31, 2008 | Posted by caroline under dreaming, humour, storytelling, travels, Uncategorized |
We went on a little bit of a Sunday adventure today. I introduced a dear friend to the Distillery section of Toronto, and came across a Scotsman along the way. This friend is a bit anti-social and I like to surprise him with all the little tidbits of the city he hasn’t been exposed to.…
death song
| November 25, 2008 | Posted by caroline under dreaming, freeform, storytelling, Uncategorized |
The trains are each arriving, one by one, they part ways with my eyes, we drag them along not looking too far, I wait for the smoke and I watch for the grind, I expect a stop and sudden halt, I wonder who it is this time and if they’ll write about it in the…
las vegas gone crazy
| September 13, 2008 | Posted by caroline under humour, storytelling, travels |
I really didn’t expect to like Las Vegas. Sin City, “Whatever Happens in Vegas…”, “Vegas Baby” really aren’t the sort of things that typically woo me. I was expecting a dirtier Dubai, something akin to Amsterdam on ecstasy. But I think it’s the people here that have captivated me. They’re all really crazy, freespirited, ruthless…
strange phenomenon, Queen and Yonge, Toronto
| May 14, 2008 | Posted by caroline under arts and literature, dreaming, freeform, lifestyle, myself, personal, storytelling, travels, Uncategorized |
I was sitting at the corner of Queen and Yonge today waiting for Mutton to meet me for dinner..it was rush hour, everyone was leaving work and I was reading the paper on a bench. Truthfully, I couldn’t concentrate, as there were too many fashionable clacking heels passing amidst the streetcars and out-of-place bicycles. I…
reading
| May 11, 2008 | Posted by caroline under arts and literature, dreaming, personal, storytelling, theories, Uncategorized |
i’m fairly smitten with milan kundera. i am not smitten by him the way i have been caught up in a fine balance, or shantaram, nor the way i whizzed through jhumpa lahiri and unaccustomed earth..they’ve got nothing on him. i wouldn’t say i’m drawn to him the way i was intrigued by gabriel garcia…
middle east
| January 16, 2008 | Posted by caroline under lifestyle, storytelling, travels, Uncategorized |
left bombay, i’m in sharjah now.. spent 3hrs in a cab this morning going home..the streets are flooded..roads to sharjah are closed off, it’s been pouring here..yeah it rains in the desert:P our van was up to its neck in water!!! i went to sleep, though..poor driver..i felt sorta bad making him drive me through,…
the seaface
| January 12, 2008 | Posted by caroline under humour, on identity, on indian roots, storytelling, travels, Uncategorized |
so it’s saturday…story time.. some of the things i’ve been doing here? well..i’ve gone to town a few times on my own, by train.. i’ve gone to a few of the clubs here in bandra, with my cousin and some random friends through the fam.. done a lot of eating..hit up the best restaurants, apparently?…
mumbai senses
| December 13, 2007 | Posted by caroline under lifestyle, on identity, on indian roots, storytelling, travels, Uncategorized |
ok ok i’ve been meaning to tell you about this.. from my cousins’ house, in the centre of bandra “the queen of the suburbs”, i hear a ZiLlIoN sounds..i smell a zillion more other things, but maaaan.. so i’m going to come back here everytime i smell or hear something new.. just now, i heard…
Indian Eating Etiquette
| November 30, 2007 | Posted by caroline under humour, lifestyle, myself, on identity, on indian roots, storytelling, travels, Uncategorized |
alright, so i’m in sharjah, u.a.e… just got back from 2.5hrs at the salon..tiring..can you believe i walked barefoot on the street because i forgot to wear sandals for my pedicure? mind you, it was only a few steps and then i hopped into a car, but..i would never dare tell my mom, and definitely…
