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	<description>-a foreign life in South Asia</description>
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		<title>Oct 24 2009 OK I Behaved Like a Jerk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was one of those days when everything just sort of tensed up and I freaked out a little bit. OK I admit I was something of a jerk.
What led to this admission were numerous things.  We planned to have supper at home but Manoj didn&#8217;t do the purchasing for it so we had to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&blog=2891860&post=343&subd=monsoondiary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oct 18 2009 The Carp Comes for a Surprise Visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So for Divali we gave some sweets to the other folks who live in this 4-plex. This includes the landlord and his family, the downstairs neighbors who run the dhaba and Mr.BA and the Carp. I am now going to call Mr. BA the Grouse. So the Grouse and the Carp. I went into her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&blog=2891860&post=340&subd=monsoondiary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oct 17 2009 Divali</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Divali is the festival of lights to honor the goddess Lakshmi. Here are some photos from the evening. We had a good meal. Lots of sweets. Glad I was feeling OK by evening. Had a fun bout with Norwalk virus-if you&#8217;ve never had it don&#8217;t get it! for about 24 hours previous to the evening.
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		<title>Oct 9 2009 Accident With an Unknown Mammal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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House Shrew &#8211; more info on these here
I killed one of these the day before yesterday. I didn&#8217;t realize it until today when I smelled the decomposition smell coming from behind a big trunk.
Last week a black one ran in under the front door and I chased it around for a while until it ran [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&blog=2891860&post=330&subd=monsoondiary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oct 5 2009 List of Necessary Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I come back to India from Canada there is a half a suitcase dedicated to anti-homesick stuff or just stuff I miss when I am here. It is not unlike those Indian travellers that put 4-5 jars of mango pickle and a lot of masala packets into their bags when they go abroad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&blog=2891860&post=323&subd=monsoondiary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sept 27 2009 The Carp Goes Fishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve talked about Mr. BA (Buffalo Ass) and his wife The Carp on a couple of occasions before. Well not much has changed. He&#8217;s still assing and she&#8217;s still carping.
The rare few times I&#8217;ve met her she&#8217;s  been the most inquisitive type. One time I was going towards the car as we were going out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&blog=2891860&post=326&subd=monsoondiary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sept. 26 2009 Ram Lila Chief Guest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They have this festival called Navratri here and it goes on for nine days. During that time they run a serialized play every night called the Ram Lela which basically means Ram&#8217;s play. It is about his adventures as told in the Hindu mythological text Ramayana.  Ram is a god, Sita is his wife [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&blog=2891860&post=316&subd=monsoondiary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sept. 21-22 2009 About the Earthquake</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my other blog I have been writing about the recent earthquake in Bhutan and also the secondary one experienced in Uttarakhand. I am putting all that information here as well as it was reported there.
Post 1 Sept 21, 2009
Just felt the ripples here in Mussoorie Uttarakhand India of the earthquake in Bhutan. Happened about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&blog=2891860&post=313&subd=monsoondiary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sept 20 2009</title>
		<link>http://monsoondiary.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/sept-20-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would be really happy to leave Mussoorie today and never come back.  Maybe I should just leave the country. I&#8217;d really like to go to South America for a look. But maybe just back to Canada will be enough. Usually it takes 2 months and not 2 weeks to get this feeling. Maybe I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&blog=2891860&post=311&subd=monsoondiary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May 16 2009 The Carp Goes Visiting</title>
		<link>http://monsoondiary.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/may-16-2009-the-carp-goes-visiting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 10:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NellaLou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numerous times I&#8217;ve made mention of my neighbor Mr. Buffalo Ass but only made oblique references to the rest of the family. You may notice that I am calling him Mr. now instead of just Buffalo Ass. Well a while back I encountered him-the first time at close range, face to face since Ive been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monsoondiary.wordpress.com&blog=2891860&post=308&subd=monsoondiary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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