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A city of L.O.V.E

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It's not Paris, nor is it Venice (hehe.. :) But still it's a city that you'll fall in love with! A young city, teeming with techies But dont forget, a few budding managers too! And right in that city, just out of it though, Is a sylvan beauty, so green and pristine! Those woods that hum with anthills that scare, And all else that's there will stay in your eyes! Snakes are aplenty, peruchalis for their prey :) And to make us jump on a Night Canteen day, Great Expectations, with those you enter, Great surprises, you surrender, you swim, No fun like this, can ever return, A culture of its own, quite usual but dear! Not days of summer, but those rainy MAR(S)ian ones So rainy, so wet, yet you never wanto fret! All the time to discover yourself, And still no time, just if you're lost :) Just step out, So many places to hang out! Maiyas and PVR, those days of yore Blah Blah Blah Blah, not in Singapore And if you still havent figured out, it's

Unlike India

Things that I didn't know I'll miss: (in no order, so don't judge me!) 'Semmozhi' song being played in continuous loops on TV - when it was played yesterday on TV, I realized that I hadn't seen the video in one whole week, almost blasphemous in TN nowadays! Normal Bollywood songs - Set Max, 9X etc.. An interesting Tamil Reality show like Airtel Super Singer - the Sangeetha Maha Yudham is crass! Mixie - at least to grind coconut ever silver tumbler - so that you get that froth on the coffee ever silver karandi - feels very vaaku, these peengon and plastic things are useless thayir saadam - I never knew I'd miss this one Short Power cuts - for that edge of unpredictability that adds spice to life! Time to read English and Tamil fiction - I actually do get it, this is a vetti point Physical Hindu newspapaer - the e-version just doesnt feel the same! Grand Sweets Pepper Rasam mix - it takes painfully long to make the rasam on my own!   Things I ha