The Spicy Indian Blog

You are walking past a door for the last time... The click of the opening door handle, for once seems so conspicuous, and suddenly seems to trigger off a surge of feelings within you. You hold the door half-way; and look back at your place. Your chest seems to get clouded just as you turn. You try to gather as much of this place within your eyes, and hope that atleast the memories will stay forever as fresh as how you are looking at it now.And that you be willingly able to recall these in your mind anytime you wish to. While you are still reluctant to let go of the door, you wonder, if you did justice to this place when you were here; whether you did justice with the time that you spent here. You know that you are going to miss this place; if only for some time, but you will. As you decide to let go, you know its more than a door that you are letting close, its a chapter of your life that you are closing...Moving on to the next chapter with fresh hopes as well as new apprehensions, and

I think I must say this aloud as I am quite happy about it... I recently carried out some car repairs myself. The left headlamp of my car had fused. And it had to be replaced. So instead of going to the technician to do this, I just bought the lamp from Kragen Auto Parts and changed it myself. Changing the front headlamp is not as straightforward as changing the taillight. However some reading and some dexterity and some common sense helped. Also, since 120K miles on my car had lapsed, I thought of changing the Air Filter too. Before I first carried out my relatively minor reparis to my car, I was indeed a bit apprehensive, this being completely uncharted territory for me. But the headlamp change bolstered my confidence, and I decided to carry out the Air Filter change too myself, as it seemed to be straightforward. The 'Do it Yourself' web sites like WikiHow.com etc. on the Net proved to be of good help in both cases. I would never have had to do this in India, and hence proba