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Digital Marketing Consultant works in disability justice. Wannabe Plant. 🌈 #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

Chennai
Joined November 2020
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Imagining a sapphic video for Vigilante Shit where TS is MUA for scooter’s ex and accompanies her everywhere. WOULD BE SOOO GOOD #TaylorSwift #MidnightRain
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the only career advice I will ever give anyone is: learn to use excel.
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@stressedpakoda
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Shaved hands and legs with Gillette mach 3 and never going back to those pink and aqua coloured disposables ever again
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@stressedpakoda
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was telling cousins who work in sweden I am quitting cos of burnout, they asked if we don't have mental health support at work 😂😂😂😂
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@stressedpakoda
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As the American abortion laws take over our TL, please know that medical termination of pregnancy act in india allows women to get abortions upto 24 weeks of pregnancy. So umm get that abortion. HMU if you need support in chennai
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First ink of 2022
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The roads are that bad, yes
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There is a reason, I haven't been able to leave this city. ♥️ Bangalore.
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Wore saree, will post about it.
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We just made garlic butter naan at home and OMG
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Happy my Divorce Anniversary to you all! May you make good decisions that serve only you despite what the world says
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@stressedpakoda
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So last week my therapist confirmed that I am autistic which has shocked me and most people I know. It has changed the way I now look at life, think about it as having nee glasses to view your past life. That much clarity.
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@stressedpakoda
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Everyone: how’s living with your aunt? Me: 🤷‍♀️
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@stressedpakoda
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Niece got her period and omg look at her in her chaddi!!!! 😭😭😭
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@stressedpakoda
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So often divorced women are told things like you know divorce is like kintsugi - you break apparently during divorce and then you join yourselves back with gold paint and become whole and beautiful again. (This was told to me IRL) +
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I really wish I could believe this we are the last generation to have moms who are this way. Every week I come across a woman my age who has a baby and an unsupportive husband. A situation she can’t get out of because of lack of funds and gaslighting
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Naina 🌺
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Correction: we are the last generation who have moms who were suppressed, infantilized, got dominated, forced to end their careers, did manual labor all day, got no respect no freedom no appreciation for their hardwork, were forced to stay in unhealthy marriages by patriarchy
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Divorce anniversary is coming up. Going to host a party of deliciously single women this time and there will be cake and Bollywood. (Has to be approved by flatmate)
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@stressedpakoda
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I don’t have too many Ws to post but bought a car last year and drove it from chennai to Kashmir this year This one’s for my friend who did 50% of the driving and has become default roommate for the near future
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I also sunflower
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Somedays feel like not being married means I will fall through the cracks of some friend circles where it’s onlycouples 30-something’s who are single, how you all deal?
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@stressedpakoda
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Posting now, cos what if I actually don’t end up going for pride? (Don’t ask why I am ready so early)
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Accidentally look very hot. Would hit on myself. Now wondering if I have the guts to leave the house.
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@stressedpakoda
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Doc said I don’t look my age. 💁‍♀️ Told her it’s the result of being unmarried and childless at 32 💅
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I am attending a wedding in chennai ki epic heat, so please appreciate this attempt to not melt
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@stressedpakoda
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Hope 2022 is the year you all make great friendships across the internet and get to maybe meet them also.
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@stressedpakoda
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Now that I am back. Please see curtains i repurposed from a saree. Sat and stitched by hand.
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@stressedpakoda
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Please look at the guts of this beautiful chocolate cake with whipped ganache and salted caramel. Very pleased with myself.
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@stressedpakoda
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House hunting in chennai, tips for ladies bachelors: - wear your most covered to cover all tattoos - have long hair so you look umm not unlike other nalla ponnus - u less asked, don’t mention you eat meat or have a social life - Adayar times is your friend
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Chennai Twitter, very hesitant to ask this. But like where the queer chennai women at? Bumble is so dry. So so dry. 1 week main one lone woman appears. I am very new to this, and trying to learn more about myself and the community, also see if I am part of it.
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Going to be absolutely disgusting on social media for birthday. Not at all sorry. It has taken one pandemic (ongoing), one divorce, one abortion, one resignation, and lots of stress to get here. 2022 has been a beautifully weird year and I will be disgusting about it
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Happy my divorce day to everyone. It was a nice quietly social day of books, food, cake, walks and gelato. Now to do walking and beach once I am home
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@stressedpakoda
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I was whole before my divorce, I was whole during it, and I am grown person after it. It didn’t break me, it broke the flimsy construct that is marriage. My identity and an identity of any person isn’t just married or single or divorced. It is supposed to be just you
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@stressedpakoda
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So this year, I bought a car (second hand, no biggie) Re-learnt to drive and drove myself to The Farm and brought back reward.
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@stressedpakoda
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Bougainville baarish
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Not a single cut, nothing.
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in case you all thought I was trying to rank MS office products, I am not. we all know that OneNote is truly winning that battle.
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All sabyasachi brides: she wears a vintage red lehenga with gotiwork in silver done by pre pubescent children in the light of the full moon, she wears an uncut diamond of 345 carats inlaid with pearl from oysters shucked on new moon night All sabyasachi grooms: he wears clothes
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@stressedpakoda
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I moved to chennai in 2019 on a whim, and since then have been floating about trying to find friends I can call my own. This city has circles that can be difficult to break into. but this year, I spent christmas eve and day with some amazing people feeling right at home.
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have come to the city I dread for a friend's significant life event which isn't a marriage or a baby but is, in fact, her performing on stage after many years of learning contemporary & belly dance got her a gift, plan to dress up also, please tell about more such life events
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Been living at my aunt’s for over a year now, cohabiting about 3 months (we both travel A LOT). As I am finally moving into my own place and updated her that I bought veggies and stocked my fridge, she looked up shocked: “YOU BOUGHT VEGGIES? I need more time” Me too, me too. 😭
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@stressedpakoda
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Can we please add Podi Powder to the list of double words like Chai Tea and Naan Bread?
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@stressedpakoda
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Can watch Alicia Souza’s baby on IG all day.
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@stressedpakoda
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And as for the broken pottery analogy - I much rather be a ginger, constantly growing, changing and spicy
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@stressedpakoda
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People: where did you grow up? Me: bombay. People: where in bombay? Me: Navi Mumbai People: that’s not bombay. When 50 cent comes to Navi Mumbai People: 50Cent to perform in bombay 😑😑😑
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@stressedpakoda
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I am shocked every single day that people in the super deadly second wave think it is a good time to get pregnant.
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@stressedpakoda
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I got “nose stuff”
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@stressedpakoda
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Happy Divorce Day (D Day) to me!! May I continue making decisions and calling it quits and saying no to institutions always.
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@stressedpakoda
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Sister let me do this on her jeans. (I need lots of practice but it’s going to be my thing for 2024)
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@momentsofence
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flower embroidered jeans 👖🌻
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@stressedpakoda
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Hello from me and my very full stomach courtesy of the lunch at the farm chennai. Pork ribs Smoked roast chicken platter Roast beef Christmas fruit cake
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Which to me is bizarre because all of these women should be shown enough examples of others who went on to lead great lives without having to get married. Celebrate re-marriages, yes. But we have to stop shovelling them down the throat of people like they are the only option
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Got started on a potential chest piece and one for bachpan
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@stressedpakoda
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I am travelling for the foreseeable future with a friend and one of his many bags is a book bag. Cos need physical books and not kindle.
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@stressedpakoda
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The Chiron reading on @chaninicholas is basically the summation of 3 years of therapy.
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Of course I am privileged and am able to voice these things without repercussion, but isn’t this the seed of thought we should be allowing every divorced person (women mostly) to hold and nurture? A lot of divorce talk on social media here always celebrates second marriage +
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@stressedpakoda
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People in chennai when outside of chennai: ugh that city is so incestuous we HAD to leave it Same People in chennai: only dating and making friends with the same people they went to school and college with 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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@stressedpakoda
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Going to gift this to everyone when they get married so they know that they can and should walk out. Just like breakups are normal, so is divorce. The men won't stop with the hate, cos marriage only benefits them.
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Shasvathi Siva
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Almost at the finish line 🤗🤗🤗
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@stressedpakoda
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Found @iamdatemike in her natural habitat. A stationery store
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@stressedpakoda
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Shared TN govt guidelines on crackers as being 6-7am and 7-8pm on insta. And all my Amit friends are DMing asking why morning time. DO PEOPLE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE REST OF THIS COUNTRY?
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@stressedpakoda
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Happy 5 years in Chennai to me!! Longest I’ve lived in a city as an adult and haven’t felt the urge to bolt at the 3 year mark.
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@stressedpakoda
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Other life events been stressing me out so forgot to say that I attended first wedding post divorce and the family didn’t mention it, or ask about my husband. So yay!
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@stressedpakoda
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@halli_billy @MrNarci It’s missing the pink flowers of Bangalore that people get stuck in traffic to take photos of
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@stressedpakoda
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The number of people an ad goes through from conception to our in the world is atleast 50 (if not more) - let’s assume in house marketing and a lean production house. No one, definitely not the writers and the marketers thought the kachra ad was wrong. +
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Success. Done at 20% cost of happy in the head
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Attempting to bleach and colour hair by myself. Doing the back is soo soo difficult.
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4 years since I went to a bar in Chennai in my first week here and then almost blended in with the wallpaper and one nice photographer fellow came and introduced me to his group of friends thankful to that nice photographer fellow for being kind to a super social anxious person
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Hello! I am a digital marketer with a decade of experience looking for work. what I can do: set up digital processes for companies just starting, digital and social branding, brainstorm ideas with your agencies to reach certain goals DM me to see work samples!
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@stressedpakoda
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Decathlon in Perungudi has all these swimsuits for clearance because this display has been untouched in over a year because no one in Chennai will buy or wear these Quickly go and get off
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Hello! I’ve started consulting now that I am not working full time and I have about 2 days of work per week that I would like to take up. I can do digital marketing, social media, project management. I want to work in employer branding & DEI. Please to RT and DM with leads?
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@stressedpakoda
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It is a tree which almost fell but then sprouted another tree. I spoke about this tree for a month after seeing it.
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@donellamafia
Donella
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You ever see a tree so good you just start understanding life
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This @pepsiwithastraw has completely and utterly floored me with this pesto. It is so creamy I want to slather it on me. Made spaghetti.
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Been 2 weeks since we moved in. 👍😌🙏 I am back in shorts and tank tops, contemplating haircut cos summer is setting in
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Slept on bed with a 11 year old golden retriever, with him managing to occupy 80% of the bed.
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Made a reel of me making my lunch and also cleaning up post lunch Insta has cut all the fun audio 😭
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New variety of Bougainville spotted in bangalore.
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Want to apologise to the world of people I am disappointing by being on a long road trip with a male friend and we are not in any way “involved”. This is an experiment in the “pyaar dosti hai” era
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Going to move out of my airy beautiful flat after 2.5 years and I AM SO DUCKING SAD. This home has been the first place I’ve lived alone, it has held me during the pandemic, a breakup, loss of pets, many breakdowns. Will forever love this place and this neighbourhood
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I have gotten one of my most beautiful tattoos yet. I look at it and can’t believe it is on me and not someone else. Based off a drawing a friend made for me, adapted by the artist to be tattooable
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Why this absolute gem of a human must be protected at all costs. Thank you to madras and Twitter for bringing one bootiful human into my life. Thanks to her parents and law degree for birth and trauma which gives us an excellent human with an excellent sense of humour
@iamdatemike
sleepy cat || @[email protected]
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we went to the narrow street. Pleaded with a plastic bommai salesman if i can park the vehicle next to his shop Went inside the olddddd building complex. Second floor. Rickety lift. People speaking in Tamil and Hindi Nestled between an optometrist showroom and the wall was this
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Very excited to have run into twt sensation and influenza @darthdevi
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@stressedpakoda
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Hello from senior Oscar Sridhar Most important person in my father’s life and the only one he will ever share food with
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Went to expensive sandwich shop which is worth it if you has the money and wanted to know what joey meant by pastrami sandwich
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Very upset we don’t have this in india. I would truly prefer doing this to make lots of money and then live life just studying the various thing I want. Want to study psych, coding, neurodiversity, sociology
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Narayanan Hariharan
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Find of the day.
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NCPA clothes but make it Shreya
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Also wish this was satirical- but I legit did these things.
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absolutely hate having to watch videos to learn things. They should all just come with transcripts. 😭😭
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Brown sugar cake with berry frosting. Swiss meringue buttercream takes a whiiiile to make but is worth the effort
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It’s happened. #Birkenbitch
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@gaachburi I have managed to form a group of only these people in the city I currently live in
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One cousin has booked Rina’s venue for wedding next year and only the words of @iamdatemike rang in my head. “Alandur family court jurisdiction”
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@awtitty Fun and all, but OG is Tony’s chocolonely
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It gives me comfort that I can come home and order from theobroma and end my day like it is 2008. To all those who say it’s overrated and too sweet, just don’t appreciate the joy of having a baked good that tastes the same across the country
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Friends in bangalore went for a recent scam that was a picnic, hosted indoors, where the other met was a foot next to yours and they had to pay for very expensive food. In chennai we go to the beach for for free.
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Table for one at farm Chennai. Been a while
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Really leaning into the tattoos this past year. This is my 5th in 9 months. Hit up @ / borderline tattoos on insta people. She is epic and makes you so so comfortable
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@DietPravda I was warned about it, but I’ve moisturised a lot a lot today. Planning to move to old school safety one soon
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Hai @mkstalin if the soaring temperatures this year weren’t bad enough, the Adani port expansion will make it worse. #StopAdaniSavePulicat
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It is helping me understand my periodic burnout from jobs, why I have to know exactly what will happen, and who will be present so I can mentally prep for conversations.
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One of the first things I discussed with my therapist during divorce was community living. Was a great idea then, remains one now. Have a bunch of single friends I would do this with, now only to find money to buy land
@neerjadeodhar
Neerja
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I hear there's some charcha about marrying early and pitying singles in their 30s and 40s? Last I checked groups of Indians are now choosing to age by themselves or with friends and having the best time of their lives.
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ok #Chennai please help me and a male flatmate find a 3/4BHK in mylapore, besant nagar, adayar, thiruvanmiyur, neelagarai. no leads of brokers, I am on nobroker. want to move in september, starting super early cos we know it will be difficult.
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My bestest bumble match has moved from chennai to Thailand. We met at the beginning of the pandemic (wasn’t a thing in india yet) which stranded him here. Met only 6 times over the course of 2 years and we both are the best things to happen to each other then
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Can you tell I am 30?
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A very well-meaning friend recently told me that I should approach ADHD assessment with caution, because everyone who goes in for an assessment gets it. You know why? Because we do our research. That reel/post/meme we saw has sent us spiralling down many rabbit holes. +
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At my divorce-versary this song got even the hardcore madras girls to stand up and do the hook step. Such is the power of kajra re.
@MrNarci
nico jackson stan account
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now, the Grand Finals [1] Kal Ho Naa Ho: [3] Mitwa (from KANK): [4] Kajra Re:
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