Time to Crib

1) You are sleeping peacefully. He gets a phone call. The time is 6:30am. He happily starts shouting into the phone and walks all around the house (If it is a mobile, chalte chalte baat karne ke liye haina?), making a point to walk through your room before walking into the balcony. He doesn't bother to close the balcony door and the ice-cold winter air floods the room and invades your blankets! Now, you are NOT sleeping peacefully. AAAAAAAAAARGH!


2) Time is 11pm. He is hungry. He is now the most inspired cook in the world. CLANK CLATTER! CLONK! ...searches for the non-stick frying pan.... heats the oil and adds the onions in one go: HISHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Stir well, or the onions will get burnt!! CLITTER! CLATTER! CLONK! scrape! crape! He scrapes off a lot of the nonstick coating with a hard metal spoon. So what do you have here? Teflon Bhurji! Is it YUM YUM? No...it's EEEOWGGHH!

THE AFTERMATH: You wake up to find that there was either Jackie Chan fighting with someone in the kitchen... or was there a bomb blast? NO! Your room-mate has just cooked. All the plates lay unwashed and he has fled to the office!! @#$%&!!!!

I feel sorry for the girls who will marry such men!

I Have a Dream

I Have a Dream

I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I’ll cross the stream - I have a dream

I have a dream, a fantasy
To help me through reality
And my destination makes it worth the while
Pushing through the darkness still another mile
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I’ll cross the stream - I have a dream
I’ll cross the stream - I have a dream

I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I’ll cross the stream - I have a dream
I’ll cross the stream - I have a dream

-ABBA

Burden not Shared

As we returned to Pune, my colleague from abroad remarked that all along the way she observed only women carrying things while men were mostly burdenless. I suddenly realised that was so true... it was always this: either a baby, firewood, or hay... the women would be carrying something or the other while the men walked along hands swaying in the air.

But after travelling for many, many kilometers we did come across a man carrying something and we thought, "Ok, there are exceptions"!

Fond Remembrance

At this hour of sorrow and loss, I stand by your side and share your grief. Let that roll of film rest in peace. And may that roll, which was one of the only witnesses to the amazing time we had, which is all frozen forever on it's undecipherable surface, go to film-heaven and exist among those great slide films which never saw the light of the projector. Amen! (*sniff!* *sob!* *sob!*)

-I dedicate this to my friend who smiled relentlessly to a film suffering from severe amnesia.

Plantain Leaf

A couple if weeks ago, I sat down for a lunch at an Andhra restaurant off Brigade road, Bangalore. The meal was served on plantain leaf. It had been like ages since I had a good meal served on plantain leaf... or three days to be precise ;-) . I just remembered I had such a meal at home for Diwali lunch. And for once, like a good Andhraite, I got to dig into 'mountains' of rice! The flavour that the leaf adds to the hot rice and dal curry is unmatched!

The leaf in the picture is from our garden in Mysore.

It's Either Mysore or Bull

At Mysore, we visited Chamundi Hill and on the way to the top, we saw this interesting sign. It shows the way to Mysore city and the diversion to the Nandi statue. But the English version has more meaning than intended! ;-) I actually agree with that interpretation too. If you're not going to Mysore, you are missing a lot.

Hmmm... I Got Tagged

Well, I thought so few people apparently read my blog that getting tagged would be as likely as finding life on another planet!! But I got tagged by Flickering Flame. So, finally there is only one more thing left to do: find life on another planet.

(I wrote these last week and some have changed)

7 things I plan to do-

1. Watch the movie Hanuman (I did!).
2. Gain a couple of kgs (of muscle!).
3. Buy a Samsonite (I got VIP instead, I mean the suitcase! ).
4. Meet more beautiful minds (Not ignited minds, they are a fire hazard).
5. Travel to Goa (And see the portugese architecture...).
6. Conduct further research on what women want.
7. Kick a few assorted butts.

7 things I can't (or won't) do-

1. Hate Arunima.
2. Not ROTFLMAO after reading Dave Barry.
3. Get my dad to sell his 25 year old (young?) Bajaj Chetak.
4. Get my LG phone to recognise the numbers of friends who call me often (the dumb chunk of silicon and plastic!).
5. Get rid of my LG phone --I am married to it (rather to a service provider famous for their non-'reliability'! <:- (...
6. Remember names of people I am introduced to 2 minutes ago (Yes, that's pathetic).
7. Tag anyone.
   

7 things I say most often (in no particluar order)-

1. Hi!
2. Thank you
3. Sh**!
4. Oh my God!
5. Wowww!
6. Great!
7. Ya!