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Name: Merril
Gender: Female
Interests: MUSIC (jazz, chorale, a capella, live, tons more), BOOKS, CINEMA, DANCING, WHITE WINE, BLOGGING, SWIMMING, RIVER RAFTING, WHIPPING (as opposed to cooking), TONS MORE...
Expertise: writing, managing, editing, crooning
Occupation: Features editor, writer, croon
Industry: Online media
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Member Since:
6/28/2004
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Finally, I have my own domain! Am posting my usual snippets at
www.merrildiniz.com. However, I don't end up writing that often these
days. Since, my office has relocated 500 miles away from my home, life
proving to be one big blur when I am not in office! The good news: you can leave a comment on my new blog by login in with facebook connect!
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| THIS week I discovered THE most mouth-watering, flavourful food EVER, which does not cost the earth. I sincerely hope no one reads this review and actually visits the place, for fear of the accolades going to the chef's head, following which he shall raise the pricing and start charging the earth. I went over to meet a friend post lunch with the intention of just give him company, while he ate. But after tucking into a morsel, my taste buds went berserk. We had tenderloin carppaccio and smoked oyster, and some sort of to-die-for cheesecake.
Update:
On a crowded Saturday, I had a bit of a tiff with the manager, post which he apologised. However, the service was not up to the mark. The waiter could hardly pronounce anything on the menu. But the flavourful slivers carpaccio was still to-die-for. So is the chocolate fondant, which oozes chocolate sauce that mingles with some creamy white concoction, once you tug at the crusty exterior. | | |
| SO, my extra-curricular life has moved up a notch from Youtube and Facebook. We
headed to Ruby Tuesday in Sector 18, which seems to be the epicentre of
consumer activity in Noida.
It has most of the restaurants, club/ pubs, banks,
street food, banks, shops and the like.
We had mojitos and shots, quesadillas
and chicken wings, cigars and cigarettes. And post, we spontaneously landed up
some a certain person’s house, and had some very good North Indian type of
khaana at 1 am.
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| MY social life has moved from clubs and house parties and
plays and movies and dinners and dancing to Youtube and Facebook. SOS!
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| SO, I spent all of yesterday mucking around a pretty big mall called The Great India Place.
I visited a hair salon, where I received a very interesting tip from the gal
who did my eyebrows: use aquagaurd water to use your face, not regular water.
Apparently, the cold weather coupled with the hard water here in Noida, makes one’s skin very
dry.
Post the retail therapy (I can’t stomach too much), I walked towards the line
of green and yellow autos parked outside. There were two guys sitting in auto
no 1, both dressed a tad too nicely to be driving an auto, I thought. They had
good skin, too.
I proceeded to haggle. But they both looked at each other and at me and each
other, again, before bursting into wide, quizzical smiles. It turns out that
they were two random guys, probably waiting for girlfriends or wives to finish
shopping. I smiled back. 
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