Breakfast menu: Orange Juice, bagels with cream cheese, cereal, coffee and giraffe saliva, served straight from the Giraffe's mouth.
For a while now, I have considered doing away with the cliched European or Caribbean beach vacations and fancied visiting a continent I haven't "explored" yet- Africa. This would mean a jungle vacation in Kenya for instance. Being one with nature, sitting on a tree perch observing zebras and giraffes and lions... Sounds like the perfect African vacation.

A predicament of sorts: To geese or not to geese? Bay area parks are at a philosophical cross-roads - whether to addle eggs or not addle eggs. There are too many Canada geese in our parks, and they honk, and poop, and cause the swimmer's itch. So, to get rid of them, you addle their eggs, i.e., you dip them eggs in oil and fool them dumb geese into trying to hatch them.
Sounds simple enough? Not really, there seem to be pro-life arguments for the geese as well...

My vote is to addle away - as an avid enjoyer of local parks, I don't appreciate having to look where I step all the time, and I think there are enough geese to provide atmosphere already...

Of Ma'am and Mammaries...
One of the most entertaining travel-travails I've read...

This one is for all the self-confessed foodies I know, especially my dear husband who simply can't get over his passion for vada sambar. Growing up in south Bangalore seemed to have deprived me of several Malleshwaram goodies. Time to fix all that this time around...

Bernanke advocates principal reductions for homeowners heading into foreclosure. Whoever heard of such a thing? I doubt if such a policy has ever been advocated any time, any where in the world. Are Fed chiefs progressively getting worse?

The moral implications are mind-boggling. Lie on your loan papers, get into a McMansion and wait for the government to force your lender to bail you out.

But... after the initial outrage wore off, I started thinking if letting the whole foreclosure situation blow up might not be a case of cutting off the nose to spite the face. Do we really want to bring down the whole economy to teach some stupid people a lesson? Also, since home prices are already down, banks will end up taking a loss anyway if people foreclose. They can just take the loss on the principal instead...

All right - Here goes, Teju!

Now, who do I tag that Teju already hasn't....

Mumbaiyya alphabet, anyone?

*Courtesy my dear friend SK.