1. Finding a laundry guy who'll come and pick up the clothes to be ironed twice a week and will also drop them home...
2. Gita Aunty. She's Bharti Kaku's childhood friend and dropped in while we were having dinner. She one of those who can bring life to any drab topic of conversation. She speaks with crisp clipped tones and looks like the kind can scold a lion into meekness! And she always has the most amusing stories to tell and acute and merciless observations to make...
3. Finishing Kiran Desai's 'Inheritance of Loss'. She writes with a feeling that instantly touches a chord and her eye for detail is an absolute delight. There's a mix of tenderness and cruelty in her style and one is left wanting more even when the book has ended, for one falls in love with the characters so much...