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09/17/2010

Dijon

The first time I heard it, I roared with laughter (maybe only the French will find it funny but still):

"hey can you pass me the Dijon please?"

The what?? Ahhhhhhhhhhh! The mustard of Dijon!! So this is how you call mustard in India... By the name of the city where it is originally made!! Well it makes sense in a way, they call "Kolhapuris" the shoes made in Kolhapur for instance...

And the other day, what do I see in the menu?? "Pomfret Dijon"... A fish cooked in mustard then...

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08/30/2010

Today's sentence - Monsoon

One of the most annoying thing with the monsoon rains is when you are getting out of the shower and your towel smells of mushroom....

Getting in a rickshaw to find out that the seat is wet - hence, inevitably your ass will get wet - is also extremely annoying...

But rains are good for the economy so...

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08/25/2010

Who is the most beautiful??

Yesterday, I switched on the TV and what was broadcasted?? Miss Universe 2010! Nice to watch. For 10 minutes.

So Miss France, Malika Ménard, ended up 13th.

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Miss India, Ushoshi Sengupta, did not make it anywhere in the top 15 (among 83 contestants).

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BUT! Only one Miss France was ever crowned Miss Universe and this quite some time back (in 53, one year after the creation of the competition). And India got 2 Miss Universe, in 1994 (Lara Dutta) and 2000 (Sushmita Sen). So...

 

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