Shyamala annavarapu

@Shyamalaa (525)

Udaipur, India

Joined myLot 9 years ago

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Childhood memories

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 26 Dec 15

It has been a long time since I have posted anything on mylot. I decided it is high time I started again. I'm traveling at present. I am staying with my brother's family like in old times. I remember as children, we would go to...

childhood

memories

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No more suggestions?

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 26 Oct 15

Has there been a ban on sending suggestions? Maybe I should say suggestions of your own posts which many people have been vehemently opposing recently? I have never received any other kind of suggestions though. After all...

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Do you play Antakshari?

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 17 Oct 15

I love to play Antakshari or even just participate being in the audience! My friends from India I am sure would have played it at some time or the other. For the uninitiated, it is a game played much like word ending that we...

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Navaratri is here!

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 12 Oct 15

Navaratri is one of the most colourful of the Indian festivals. It is also a festival which is celebrated differently in different parts of India. For example, you have Durga puja in Bengal, Garba and Dandiya in Gujrat,...

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How many discussions can you manage ?

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 6 Oct 15

How many discussions are you able to read in a day? I can barely manage 4 or 5 because I like to read all the responses and comments, and maybe add some of my own. I get so engrossed, I don't realise how time flies! And my...

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What is your fitness mantra?

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 3 Oct 15

The importance of exercise in today's life cannot be over-emphasized, what with obesity diabetes, hypertension and other diseases being on the rise. Being a diabetic, I have tried yoga, aerobics, weights, gymming, spot jogging,...

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How do you like your tea?

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 1 Oct 15

Tea, I feel is one of the most flexible drinks. It comes in a variety of forms, from the delicately brewed teas of Darjeeling, Assam or China, to the strong and sweet chai served on roadside of most Indian cities to the milky...

tea

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Digital revolution and India

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 29 Sep 15

Prime minister Modi has been much in the news of late, pitching for digital India in the Silicon valley. But I have been witness to a different kind of digital revolution happening in our country. There is this maid in Hyderabad,...

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Are you drawn to kids?

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 27 Sep 15

The other day, we went to visit a young colleague of ours. I wanted to go to their house because I wanted to see thir 10 month old daughter. She was a chubby child who seldom cried, and always had a lovely smile on her face....

kids

old people smile

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What is your earliest memory?

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 24 Sep 15

This morning I was trying to stretch my memory and see how far I could reach in the crevices of my mind. My earliest memory is of myself standing at a window in our house and crying because I wanted to go to school with my...

memory

childhood

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The pain of discipline

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 23 Sep 15

My father was diagnosed with Diabetes when he was quite young. He was in his late twenties, and was married only for a short time. My mother then took it upon herself to control the disease. She gave him cooked broken wheat...

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How do you cope with your stresses?

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 21 Sep 15

In this strife-ridden world, I cant imagine anybody who is free of stress. The stress could be work related or due to family reasons or any other reason for that matter. We also, with time evolve our own methods of dealing with...

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How much time do you spend on mylot?

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 20 Sep 15

I am not one who has been very active on social media. In fact, I generally feel irritated with people occupied on the phone when in company. But ever since I joined this site, I have been spending unusually long time on it,...

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About working hard

Shyamala annavarapu @Shyamalaa (525) • Udaipur, India 19 Sep 15

My four year old grandson was one day being very difficult. He wanted his mother to give him a hundred rupee note, which she naturally refused. He started sulking, and as a grandparent, I felt it was my duty to explain things to...

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