The Unruled Notebook

Motivated by an Italian who collected Australian coins; my interest for Numismatics began as a competition. Anto, my Italian friend used to collect these 2 dollar coins, specifically. He had a huge collection of other coins too, but at that time, his fascination was confined to this. As an instinctual move, after seeing his passion for these 2 dollar coins, I started collecting them involuntarily . Every time I got coins for change, I checked for 2’s and made sure I saved them in a separate purse. After a while, when we were at home, eating the yummy pasta ricotta cooked by Anto himself, I showed him my collection. He was completely impressed. :) He was so impressed that he shared some of the doubles he had and also gave me some exotic coins from other countries. That was the starting point for me!!! After that incident, I became a coin collecting maniac. When I used to travel a lot and when I saw people from different countries, all I wanted to ask them was to give me o...

Being an Indian, I always thought I was very used to diversity in general but little did I know that I would live with people from all over the world in this little granny flat in Sydney. Ana , a single mother of 2 kids is a Maori from New Zealand, Teresa , her husband Sebastian and their little son from native Australia, Amy and her little son Mion from Japan, Amy’s boyfriend from Cambodia, Landlord Eddy and his Father-in-law who came to be my friend both Chinese, Versha my friend an Indian and a few other fellow Indians and Anto , an Italian. I reckon that sums it up; we were an assorted pack of exotic chocolates in a box.   Picture sourced from Google Maps Read a recap of my awes and gnaws  here I turned around astonished at the use of some strong statement made in some unfathomable language. There he was, Anto, a perfect Italian blend I had thought at the first sight of him. Deep set ocean blue eyes with a twinkle, some freckles on his face showing that...