Delurking and Dandilsa

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First things first – This is my third attempt at something close to a blog. The previous 2 suffered horrible deaths. While one was gobbled at the hit of a delete button, the other barely saw daylight post registering! However my obsessive compulsive blog reading is getting closer to kilpauk (for non chennai residents -tats were the hospital treating mental disorders is located) with my google reader bursting at its seams. Yet there is the need to talk about somethings to someone – without coming off as arrogant, stupid, insipid, bloated or plain obnoxious..what better way..start a blog! (again!) That’s why I am delurking in the blogworld!

Dandilsa is a word in my family, synonymous with a hog. The story goes that on being nagged by an aunt for more food my grandmother exclaimed asking if there was a dandilsa in her stomach – it being a monster that gobbles up the food leaving you perpetually hungry! To me, the word means family jokes, rib tickling-nicknaming humour that runs in my dad’s side of the family, familiar smells and family gatherings and every other beautiful thing that nostalgia is about. And funnily enough the nom de plume fits perfectly with my OCDesque blog devouring habits. So there – Dandilsa Delurking!

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