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Well ... hardly anything more to say other than the title about this picture of my wife Nisha !

I have posted about small stuff shopping in DSF ... well ... time for some BIG Bucks spending ...    I bought a TV ... an LCD .... a 32 inch LCD TV ... :)  My brother informed me that the TV at home in India conked off a week ago ... result ... buying of a Samsung LCD TV - LA32C450 - 32"

A few days ago, I came across this nice one … Current affairs in India JJ For the first time in the history of mankind 'Need', 'Comfort' and 'Luxury' are all being sold at the same price in India! Onions Rs.65   Petrol Rs.65 Beer Rs.65 J And then … a few days later … I came across an email forward titled ' The New Engagement Ring' … You gotta see it …  

The DSF started last week on 20 th Jan and I decided to step out with my wife the same evening to check out what was up … We decide to go to the Diera City Centre (DCC) and just roam around … I ended up entering Magrudy's and picking up about 6 books :)…  Reasons for picking these books ... Books seemed interesting I m currently reading Feluda, 3I and Sherlock .. All mystery and detective stuff I needed some other genre ... something different It was the first day of Dubai Shopping Festival :) And … last but not the least … They were all priced at 5 AED (clearance sale) besides some 5-10 other books The books put together were worth 300 AED and since they were part of the clearance sale … I got them for a paltry 30 AED … yep … at 10% of their price. Of course, only after I read them will I come to know if these 30 AED (approx. Rs. 400) were well spent or money wasted … I picked up the following books … Labyrinth   by Kate Mosse Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China ...

  I am sure at some point in time you would have received an email promising millions of dollars either in some raffle draw or lottery or some inheritance … Most would end up in the junk/spam folder of my Gmail so I had not seen any in quite some time. That's why I was surprised and shocked to see not 1 or 2 but FOUR such emails together in my inbox today, each offering me a generous Million Pounds :) What a day !! I am wondering ... should I start preparing my resignation letter and book myself for an extended World Tour … a la 'Around the World in 80 days' !!

2010 was indeed a fantastic year for me as far as reading is concerned. I read and read and read and continue to do so in 2011. I have probably read more in past year than what I might have read in past decade …   So here is a summary of my 2010 reading … January ... 3 1. One More Day - Mitch Albom 2. Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilley 3. Mystery Stories - collection of stories by various authors selected by Helen Cresswell February ....... 4 1. See Jane Die by Erica 2. Love, Rosie / Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern 3. Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot Series) 4. Ice Station by Mathew Reilly MARCH ... 3 1. Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup 2. Area 7 by Matthew Reilly 3. Eight (8) Short Stories by Matthew Reilly 1. Complex 13 2. A Bad Day at Fort Bragg 3. The Mine 4. Time Tours 5. The Rock Princess and the Thriller Writer 6. The Dead Prince 7. Altitude Rush 8. Rewind (a screenplay for a short film) APRIL ... 3 1. RHYTHM by Shraddha Majalkar 2. Can You Keep a ...

  I read a lot during my school days but I was never fixated on authors. The book title and cover page design were the 2 things which helped me decide which books I picked from my school library. After all I was but a child J It was indeed the interesting titles and cover designs which led me to pick up one of the '3 Investigators' as well as 'Sherlock Holmes' books. Once I read them, the character names stuck in my memory rather than the author which I hardly noticed. Now … it has so happened that I have lived my life under the misconception that the 3 Investigators stories were authored by Alfred Hitchcock. It was only recently that I discovered that the author was actually Robert Arthur. This is how it happened. 'The Three Investigators' stories always began with an introduction or foreword which was penned not by the author but by Alfred Hitchcock. I never really cared for who the author was (in school days) so I never noticed the name 'Robert...