(Oct 19, 9:03am)

Na*a*ia says it is only when I sport a thicker stubble that I look 24... Clean shaven, she's happy to imagine I'm 20, or at the most 22..

Don't tell I'm bragging.. I'm quoting, you see...

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It was her idea that I visited Tower Bridge on my next trip to London two days back.. She asked me to wear the red pull over..

I wore the red coat, though... She even suggested the exact point, from where I could get a captivating full body shot, with the bridge making a perfect and complete background..

The pic actually turned out well... Will make it my DP on Tuesday.. Or, may be Wednesday...

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Oh, yesterday was Kojagori Lakshmi Pooja...

Unlike the rest of north Indians, who celebrate Lakshmi Pooja on Deepawali, we Bengalis do it on Sharad Poornima..

That's the fifth day from Vijaya Dashami..

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(October 14, 8:10am)

N*ta*$a still is reluctant to believe I am more than 20..

"You must have faked the birth certficate in order to qualify as research scholar," she argues..

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Meanwhile, Happy Bijoya Doshomi to all of you...

Burn the Ravana in you! And make merry with friends and family... Good Wishes, always!

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(Oct 11, 5:29am)

High fever.. cold and caugh...eyes burning... and an annoying discomfort in the throat.. it couldn't have got worse at this critical juncture of my paper..

Meanwhile Durga Pooja miles away.... It's Saptami... !!

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(Oct 6, 7:51pm)

I'm looking like a jungle boy... Stubbles have volumed the face from all sides, and the hair disheveled..

The research paper is proving more complex than I imagined... The more I interview, or collect field reports, the more it tends to meander...

Hmm....

Im looking really ugly.... But this has to be like this, till at least three more days into the week.. After which I might be able to take some break..

And shampoo... and shave... and take a bath properly..

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(Sep 29, 10:37am)

I have become very good-looking and stunning these days... wherever I go, people talk about my looks and my dressing-sense...

It's precisely back to my high schooldays, when I was used to compliments...

Whether it's friends calling up after a gap, or old aunties searching for bride grooms, they surely do talking about me...

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Sometimes it's annoying... I mean when friends compliment you, you obviously feel happy... that's pretty natural...

But aunties... I wonder if they had had a free hand, they would start marrying off possibly everybody...

Even boys or girls who have not yet attained puberty..

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The girls sometimes leave me blushed.. I am anyway very shy and introvert... unless I am in my own circle of pals..

Na*aI*a, my flat-mate from Cyprus, keeps checking out on me... The other day she asked me how old I was.. and when she learnt 26, she was like "Oh noooooooooo.... I thought we were just around the same age..."

"Why, How old are you?"

"19... I thought you were 20..."

"Hmm, I can't help that..."

"You don't need to either... You still look just as good.. I'd continue believing you're 20.. he he he (with pretended blush)..."

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(Sep 28, 7:18pm)

Very very hard times... running against time, in fact... to complete the research paper...

The body always in pain.. and tired...
The mind benumbed!

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(Sep 25, 7:57am)

London trip was amazing... Clicked 58 photos with Madhuri Dixit.. And 94 more exclusively hers..

You know I had in fact taken quite a few blazers and t-shirts with me.. just in order that they had changed Dixit's ensemble, and my attire wouldn't be in contrast with her's...

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And it was such a blessing.. she actually was wearing a pink, I was in red.. a fashion faux paus it would have been..

But I promptly changed to a black coat... the dark shade made her pink outfit look even more ravishing... scintillating rather...

And then, anxious that it might not work out so good in print/screen as it did in real, I again changed to a royal blue Giovanni coat, and then to another algae green pull-over...

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But that has left me flummoxed rather... I am just not able to decide which one is looking the best.. which one should rightfully be the facebook DP...

Hmmmm

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