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Dreaming of Pasta
This is the glorious pasta with truffles, mushrooms, steak bits, and rocket leaves, that I ate at La Plazza, Hasselt. The restaurant is centrally located in the main town square. I cannot get the explosion of flavors out of my head. This has to be the one of the most scrumptious meals I have ever…
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Buffalo Steakhouse at Scheldestraat
For our first lunch in 2019 we went to the Buffalo Steakhouse. The hospitality of this place is par excellence. Our warm host (who strode in wearing a cowboy hat that looked more genuine than kitsch) made sure we were comfortable and well looked after. They boast of using fresh and finest ingredients, this was…
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Het Amsterdamse Winterparadijs at the RAI
The Winterparadijs this year was warm, festive, and sweet. It had both indoor as well as outdoor arrangements, perfect for the dicey Dutch weather. There were plenty of photo ops and we greatly enjoyed the games. Although the claw, as usual, was a total rip-off. I had fun shooting, and even won a prize for…
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The Last Post of 2018 – a ghazal
I asked him what should my last post be year end He said, reflecting creatively on the year end How boring, no? All year you follow and watch, still on YouTube, endless rewinds declaring the year end I started work in diversity, submitted my thesis, Going to mentor, gearing up at the year end Revolution…
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Eclectic Delights on Atlas Obscura
I have found a fantastic site to share with you. It is called “Atlas Obscura”, and this is their list of strange things to do while in Amsterdam: click here. I can vouch for several of these places being incredibly special. For instance, Cuypers Library is a spell-binding collection of antique books. It is visually…
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Musings after watching Pataakha
I happened to chance upon Pataakha (PT) – the movie, which is now available on Amazon Prime. Vishal Bhardwaj is an immensely talented director, and PT did not disappoint. I gather that it did not perform well at the box-office, primarily due to the release of Sui Dhaaga (SD) during the same time. SD had bigger stars…
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Top 5 games on my Iphone
It is time to come clean, to confess, my guilty pleasure is playing games on my Iphone. I can do this for hours, switching off from the world around, oblivious, and perfectly content. Considering the amount of time I invest in this activity, I wanted to share with you my favorite gaming apps. These do…
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Home – a ghazal
That time of the year when people are heading home A glittering tree, boxes with bows, welcoming you home She stayed back in the hostel This girl from the East, she was not returning home I wish you could see starlings during murmuration, flying home She begged for that stamp on her card No, she…
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Top 5 books I read in 2018
It is almost the end of the year and a good time to reflect on the best books I read in 2018. I try to read as many books as my age, this year had the ambitious 39 figure. I managed to read 33. Falling short of my goal by 6 books, but then it…
