For as long as I can remember, Amma and Appa had a routine when it came to the consumption of tea and coffee in our household. They would have coffee bright and early in the …
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Appa’s Cup of Tea
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Appa’s Love for Music – Part 3
Author’s Note: Catch Part 1 and Part 2 before you read on! As I continued to pick what I felt were Appa’s absolute favourites that should be showcased and celebrated as immortal and evergreen musical …
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Appa’s Love for Music – Part 2
Here’s a link to Part 1 in case you missed it. Appa sang lullabies to us when we were growing up. Later, we would hear them as he held one of the other of his …
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Appa’s Love for Music – Part 1
Author’ Note – I have included a YouTube link of Appa’s top five songs. Do listen to them to fully be part of the music experience that was Appa. With all the talents that Appa …
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Appa and Expressions of Love
I am inwardly laughing here… the beginning of this tale is similar to the one I wrote about Appa and his art of diplomacy – there wasn’t any diplomacy to write about! Well, you’re just …
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Appa and the Fifty-Fifty Toaster
I grew up in the 80s, that period between the slow 70s and the booming 90s when the world was near perfect. Technology was unheard of, everything was done by hand and took a lot …
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Appa, Me and One Night at The Hospital
Growing up, I always adored and looked up to my father. He was my role model and a symbol of perfection. He was also a superhuman in my eyes, someone who was invincible and who …
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Appa’s Not-So-Easy Chair
A lot of things have changed in the years since Appa passed away. This house that he lived in for nearly a decade before he moved on from this world has turned on its head …
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My Jobs, Your Reactions
If you were still alive Appa, you would have been 80 years old tomorrow. Tomorrow also marks the tenth anniversary of working where I do. And when two special dates like that coincide, I can’t …
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Tough Love
I adored my father. Unfortunately, it was to his discredit that for a long time, I was the only one among the five of us who did. It’s not a fact that surprises me though. …
