Black and White

'I just laaaave him!'

The above pic suddenly reminds me I havent yet inaugrated the new Canon Camera I bought for myself last week!!

Holidays....

Too much of anything aint good and that includes holidays too , esp holidays where you aint got anything worthwhile to do!

D*E*C*E*M*B*E*R

Its December – the holiday season and the winter has got almost all its tentacles wrapped around the city, slowly getting colder day by day with occasional chilly rains and skies veiled with grey clouds.
It’s the time to get sweaters out from those closets and to sit at home, sipping - piping hot coffee or tea with yummy ‘pakodas’ to compliment!
It’s the time to snuggle up on a couch while staring out from the window or balcony to the soft sound of music outside as dreams find their way to merge with them into a warm slumber...
Another year around the corner ….. yet to unfold with its mysteries.

Cheerio

And so they said...

Far away in New Jersey, the psycho guy enter a church with a revolver and shoots his estranged wife and in the process kills one person who tries to save her and injures two others. All of them including the psycho and his wife are from Kerala – settled in the US.

Now let’s see few of the comments posted by certain people in the US in response to the news. This including the whites and the ‘immigrant’ keralites and Indians – according to the vocabulary of the whites.

‘In India, he would get away with killing his wife for leaving him. Only problem for this perp, he is not in India and will now have to spend some time in prison. This is just another example of how arranged marriages work. If she doesn't stay and take abuse, kill her. Every American should have some say in who is allowed to come to our country. It is time that we be allowed to vote on where we want migration to our country to come from and have say in who we want as next door neighbors. Immigration is not the problem; it is who we are allowing to migrate that's become our problem’ - by DH

The following guy was born and bought up in the US – a keralite. Such a dumb ass and ignorant dimwit

‘First off as a Keralites I do not see this as an honor killing. Second off finally Keralites have something to be proud off, finally a mallu who has done something that puts him in the news with out it being winning some stupid spelling bee. Third god rest her soul she probably had it coming because I know off alot off women South Indian who marry for there green card and leave their husbands. How do you know this girl did not do it for the same reason? She comes to the east coast and from what I hear she was pretty tight with the guy that got shot. Her husband being a man just could not take that. And finally the I am sorry to say the rest of the malayalees make me sick here you have 200 people in the church this guy comes in with a hand gun and no one else jumped in to nab him? He probably had 3 shots left. No instead your crying and weeping like that dude on the picture what a loser. You may be my people but you make me sick.’ – by AT

‘To AT, mister tough guy, I wonder when you get pulled over by the cops, do you mouth off at them or do you just sit quite like a wimp. Do not judge other people, unless you were there yourself…….’ – by KK

‘Yo KK, I do not know you and you do not know me. I am a tough guy and all that and people respect me for it do you know why?? Because what you see is exactly what you get. I am a tough guy because I earned my self respect!! When and if I get pulled over by cops I use my judgment and if the cop is a a **** then HELLLZZZ YA i am gona mouth off to him or her. What you never fought and beaten cops? I have fair and square in NYC in the boxing ring. SO BACK OFF IF YOU DO NOT KNOW ME!’ - By AT agin.

‘judging by their last names they sound like a bunch of immigrants. I wonder if theyr all here legally’ – another idiot

‘ Hey man you may know of only a few Indians, and as you said every Indian is different. You do not know me at all to say I have insulted my race. You have your view I have mine in this blog or forum I have expressed myself. Who are you to say that I am wrong? Who are you to judge me? I can mouth off when I want to the laws of this country give me the freedom to do so and I will mouth off when I want to and if I feel I am right. As far the Indians who you know that do not mouth off to cops or what that is their choice. I was born in the USA and raised between India and USA raised with both cultures, I have taken the best of both worlds. I learned in a young age man to defend what you believe in at always because its better fight for what you believe in and die for it rather than just exist. Going to school here where I was the 1 of 10 Indian kids you learn to fight and defend yourself very quick and as far as mouthing off I do that when its necessary.’ – AT again

I feel sorry for guys like AT. Neither here nor there!

Bits and Pieces...

Due to my infamous indolence, even though I had a couple of things to write about, I did not bother to sit down and write: ‘no tomorrow, no tomorrow……’ I keep saying to myself and it goes on an on till I zero in and do it at last!

Coming to the nitty-gritty of the ‘happenings’, here are some of them:

* Cartoon land: Sources say that AA has not left Dubai as he had claimed he would be instead he has joined another company and is killing people there with laughter- his laughter!

* Twinkle Twinkle little Star, how I wonder What You Are?’ – The company is currently decorated with stars hanging themselves from the ceiling as an indication of our latest promotion – intended motivation for employees to perform better for the quarter – but with a lot of loopholes to ensure that none of them get the money promised. Very tempting prizes like a company paid trip to Thailand etc etc! However, the promotion has been baptized with an apt name – ‘Star’ Promotion- something that you can’t reach!

* Got my ‘visum’ ATLAST!! My much needed break is therefore around the corner for SURE.

* Incase anyone of you want to meet King Khan i.e Sharukh Khan, all you got to do is call up this radio station in Dubai where they have a contest running for the most extraordinary love story! So incase you feel your love story is extraordinarily extraordinary – call the RJ and you and your partner can fly along with her to see Mr. Khan – provided you win and your story is not extraordinary just for you but for the others too- because we all tend to feel our love story is the greatest of them all and extra – ordinary!!!

* The winter has finally arrived in Dubai with the rain. And they were playing such boring songs on the Radio – chak dum dum – chak dum dum from Dil to pagal hai – give me a break!! They play that every year! It was followed by a string of flop songs. I switched off the radio and drove home peacefully listening to songs on my ipod.


Chak dum dum chak!!

Swim away...

While people were celebrating at the Atlantis and its sponsors and owners possibly petting themselves in contentment of their grand opening; I and friend DD were going for our first swimming class. That was yesterday evening. We reached there to be informed that due to some program that evening, the classes are cancelled. So we had our first swimming class today.

As we stepped out from the changing room ready for the swimming class, we looked like twins.

‘Do we look like we are going for a swimming race?’ DD quizzed as we both looked at our end result on the mirror that covered the entire length of a wall.

We did have a hard time selecting a swim suit and the end result was a full sleeved swim top (if that’s what it is called) of the same color, tights – same color again, swimming cap and goggles- different colors!

The first time we set foot in to the waters, a shiver ran up my spine – the freaking water was damn cold!
The water lapped slowly towards our head while Guru-ji instructed us on the underwater breathing and thus we got introduced to the new world- the miniature of the one ruled by Posedion and it clogged my ears and nose and I heard DD say among gasps ‘this is not going to be easy!’

However, we learned to float and we grinned with gratification! The Instructor was pleased too, he asked us if we are from UK to which we replied ‘no, we are from India – Kerala’.

‘That’s what I meant by UK – United Kerala!’

I couldn’t stop giggling – the cold water, my nervousness, DDs attempts to float plus the instructor’s poker- faced jokes kept me tittering and in the process drank a lot of water.

As I walked out after the classes, the weather was beautiful and we both went to have coffee at dome. Now I must say their moccachino is one of the best you can get out here and that biscuit they give along with it is tasty too!

The day was great and Iam looking forward to my next swimming class…. : )

Cheerio

Atlantis...

The richest party in the world happened at Dubai Atlantis yesterday. Now I understand the reason Rani Mukherji was here. Looks like she was one among the famous personalities from Hollywood and Bollywood invited to the party! The £1.5 million party ended with one million fireworks – almost 10 times the scale of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, with the organizers claiming the display was visible from space.

I did not get to see a thing though not even the fireworks! I guess a lot of them are debating on if the party was on bad taste to be held at a time there is an economic crisis however even though in a way it is true , it is better than killing millions in Iraq and wasting a lot of money on warfare!!

I guess am kind of sleepy and can’t bring myself to write more. I wonder why they did not invite Will Smith though!! Kylie Minouge was the Star of the show and our dear Priyanka Chopra had to pose as the Goddess of Atlantis while the fireworks went off around her.

I have just one regret that I couldnt be one of the guests to experience the Atlantis opening ceremony!!!

Rani & me..

I met Rani Mukherjee today at the MOE. I don’t know if am supposed to put an exclamation mark after that sentence however all that I know is I did not feel anything particular when I saw her standing behind me at the Jane Norman store checking out some dresses.

Its her famous or infamous husky voice that made me turn around , my reflex to who is this lady with a familiar voice after which it instantly registered on my mind that it is Ranis voice and even though I saw her , it took sometime to marinate into my brain that it was Rani Mukherjee. The first thing I noticed was that she looked pale without any makeup and her hair combed back with a band on top of it. She was dressed simple and was beckoning this fat ugly guy to come and check out the clothes.
I walked up to her
Me : ‘ Rani Mukherjï..?’
Rani: ‘Yes’, a fake smile or rather a tired smile adorned her face instantly
Me: ‘Hi !!’ And I shook hands with her. I don’t know why I shook hands with her!
Rani: ‘Hi.. .’
Me: ‘Came alone?’
Rani: ‘No, with family’, she smiled again

I then bid farewell and walked off to the fitting room. That was it. I later came out to find her gone and to find her mom outside the store with the same fatso however Rani was no where in sight. Her mother dressed in black, kind of plodded on to the Clarks store where she flopped on to the seats there. Looked like her weight was taking its toll on her with all the walking in the huge Mall.
I later went to Baskin Robbins and treated myself to yet another scoop of ice cream! Now that is more worthy than this but not if it was Will Smith instead of Rani who I met at the store!

They would have then had to call an ambulance to transport me back home!!

Scoops of pleasure

A soft scoop of yummy ice cream can make my day! AA came to meet JJ and me after which we took the meeting forward to MOE (Mall of Emirates) . The smells of caramel, nuts and chocolate smother your senses and ask you to come to them , come-on, come to me baby!! And I went to them followed by AA and JJ.
The pure bliss of the chocolate ice cream melting in my mouth and the sheer pleasure of having my taste buds pampered left me happy and content. Seeing me eat the ice-cream with glee, JJ quizzed if the chocolate ice- cream tasted that good. What can I say? It was heavenly.
Starting with the creamy chocolate to the sweet cone that balances it all, am looking forward to have one more scoop from Baskin Robbins !!

RRRRrandom!

Today is one of those days when everything around me seems to put me in a positive mood and makes me take things in a positive spirit that am even ready to forgive people who have hurt me for a lifetime, though I wonder for how long this mood is going to last!
Ok, we are going to watch Dostana ATLAST! The movie has already bagged four stars and am eagerly waiting for the 8:15 show today!!

' Black' James Bond

I know the title of my blog may make people think that I have some intellectual stuff put up here however – that’s not the case!

This is how I see the world through my eyes though I may not be doing a very good job as I still can’t seem to be quite open about my feelings and write them down for everyone to read!
I just can’t seem to understand why all this fuss is being made about Obama – his name resembles Osama, a difference of a letter! He hasn’t even started doing anything yet and all this fuss about the color of the skin just makes it obvious that a colored skin being a president is like something that won’t happen often! Should we do that? Now Akon wants to be the first black James bond!! I wonder if he has the strength to even hold a gun in his hands! And how is he planning on doing that famous introduction?

Convict (echoes), James Bond Convict!! And should he make it so obvious by saying ‘First Black’ James Bond? He could have said ‘First Puny’ James Bond!!

Will smith would make a good James Bond though!! Drooool!!

Flu and Sun signs

And so it succeeded in conquering me! The Flu! I tried the so called tactic of ‘mind power’ to prevent it however it invaded the wall of my sheer will power like the Trojan – cunningly.

The day moved on with me visiting the doctor , the pharmacy and later settling down on the couch with Linda Goodman’s ‘Sun Signs’. Why the interest in that particular book when the virus was torturing my nasal and respiratory passages? Its simple, I suddenly found myself interested in reading about the different sun signs and how according to Goodman, the male and female version of the same sun signs can be different from each other.

I did not read the whole thing but which ever part I read, I tried relating the characteristics described for each sun sign to the people I knew under the same sign.

The Taurean rage of the bull especially for men – my dad ; the Libran charm and how their smile can melt anyone especially women – well what came to my mind was a friend I knew, my teenage crush , my brother and …oh yeah amitab bachan – err. His smile…was it enchanting? I sometimes do speak as if he – Big B were my uncle.

The Taurean lady is described as a ‘tall lady’ though many of them I know are short but then as I read I realised that the ‘tall’ meant as in emotionally strong! Yup, I agree with that too. Leo – likes to be treated as royalty and demands to be the centre of attraction – snobs! Scorpio – ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, due to which they seem to be like these dark characters as in when I think of a Scorpio, it reminds me of dungeons! And the Virgos – cleanliness freaks and people who can get a nervous breakdown due to their tendency to fuss and worry over minute details!!

My health doesn’t permit me to write more and in humour of what I read however I am going to read that book again some other time and write a post on that soon.

Till then

Cheerio

Antartica in Dubai

AA has left the company and now a new one called moon-moon has joined in his place. AA has however pledged to return as AA part 2 , like bat man returns this could be titled as AA returns and a tag line attached to it that says ‘ with more laughter!’ . Well, we surely then will have a laser show to indicate his return.

I received a book as his parting gift with a tea set for the manager as the goodbye gift. ‘So that she thinks of me every time she drinks tea in it’, grinned AA.
‘ And laugh while having it?’ , I thought on my mind looking at him.

The day has started and am feeling under the weather. I wonder what the day has in store for me today. I promise myself to reduce the intake of coffee everyday however the moment I step into the office and with the air conditioner turned up to make us feel we are living in Antartica , I find myself moving towards the coffee shop or the coffee machine automatically. I remember seeing it once on a website, I guess it was the emirates website, where people who were travelling to the UAE were advised on carrying sweaters to keep themselves warm inside buildings as the air conditioners in them are in good working condition.

Cheerio

Lisey's Story

I guess I have made another bad purchase on a book! Stepehn Kings 'Liseys Story'. I just cant seem to bring myself to turn the pages or get myself interested in that book! Looks boring!For some reason I was under the impression that the story is somewhat related to the likes of movies like ' Gothika' and 'What lies under', but when I started reading, I felt that this was something else and 'click', my interest in it just switched off.Just like that, like a 'click'.Now it lies on the table, unwanted with its red cover and a outline of a spade on it. Now that explains it. I saw the spade and read the summary of the book on its back and thought that the story is so and so... my mistake!

Maybe the book is indeed nice but I guess that I will have to wait for one of those days now when reading anything will suffice to pick up this book again.

Cheerio

Movies...

Am back to blog again and I have the music of Akki bhai’s ‘Singh is King’ on the background.

I and my friend were looking forward to the release of ‘Dostana’ and unfortunately the same is only releasing on November 14th. For some reason, I was under the impression that the release date was somewhere last week and so was disappointed when I came to realize that its only next week. Looks like my activities have currently and for the time being zeroed down to ‘watching movies’!! What a disaster however I enjoy watching movies and make sure that I enjoy it to the max – which is the reason I don’t like any sort of disturbance while watching it at the movies. I have to have my nachos, popcorn, coke, chocolate whatever and I should be there even before they show the promos of other movies. From the beginning to the end, I want to watch it all PLUS no sort of disturbance please which includes wailing kids and untimely ringing of mobile phones!!

I went to watch ‘Fashion’ last week and enjoyed it however there was this kid with a couple seated back of me which was wailing and beating and making noises occasionally . Now, even though I love kids, at that particular moment, I wished I could throw the kid out!! I was irritated and amused at the same moment; amused at a couple of guys sitting in the same row as I and laughing at parts in the movie which wasn’t funny at all and one of them was falling on to the lap of the other guy and guffawing. Some people are really weird…

Cheerio

November

November has set in and the weather too is shifting from the hot lethargic sunny days to the cool days of winter. A light breeze gives you company if you are out for a stroll and the day ends faster with the night setting in sooner. However the traffic is still the same in Dubai. That will never change and we have to wait and see if the metro will ease this as promised!

Am in no mood to write but felt bad seeing the blog not updated for quite sometime now; the reason for this short post.

Cheerio

Today..

I had given up posting short stories on my blog ( I used to do that on my previous blog) as I came to realize that I myself did not like what I wrote! I felt it was so soapy. Yeah, that’s the word that comes to my mind as an adjective for my stories. Soapy stories. I don’t know if that makes any sense to you though.

My short stories are usually not short. They tend to elongate and sometimes even come to an abrupt halt. Anyways, I will surely put up a couple of them in the future whatever I may feel about them.

Cheerio

Give it on to me...

They say that surrender all your worries to God and he will take care of it.

You are on a small holiday on this planet and God wants to make sure that you enjoy each and every creation of his and to compliment him on the same in your prayers. If you were to have worries and problems during this small stint on earth then you will spend your time on that. So give your heavy package to god and he will only be happy to hold them for you even for the rest of the time you spend your life on earth.

Certain times we know all this and still it is so difficult to put that in practice. I wonder why is that so.Am no different from this. There are times when I have purposely given certain problems to God to worry upon and I have seen them all working out in miraculous ways. Yet, at certain times, Iam so stubborn that I say I want to carry the package by myself and don’t want to share it with someone else or give it to God to carry on his shoulders.

But there are certain times when I feel am so lost and then feel a warmth take upon me when I think of God.

Life is really simple but men insist on making it complicated - Confucius

Pop goes the Balloon!

What am I supposed to feel when someone tells me on a particular day that I look cute and like a kid because of the way I had pinned my hair up and all that I need is balloons to complete the look?UGGGH..!

I tried imagining myself with balloons in one hand and ice-cream on the other and it wasn’t a very tasteful picture. Someone comes and pops all my balloons and I start wailing!! Ugggh again!

The same person told me another day that I look like a ghost reason being my hair again! Sigh!! I simply couldn’t make out if the kid with the balloon look or the ghost look (maybe sexy ghost) was a better one. Meanwhile at cartoon land…

* JJ calls someone on phone and says ‘Helloooo dirty Harry!!! Where are you?’ and AA starts laughing. It’s like a switch. JJ says something and AA starts laughing.

* JJ continues his one-liners

‘The girls won’t come with coffee for you because they want toffee’ .AA laughs even louder. No one else was laughing .Did you feel like laughing after reading it?
I didn’t!!

*AA starts singing some song(its supposed to be song) ‘Beautiful woman walking along…’ (Has anyone of you heard such a song?) When a pretty female walked past us while we were having breakfast at the food court. Incidentally, she wasn’t fair and puny this time!

I might again go to Gitex tomorrow! Hope there wont be more embarrassing moments like yesterday!!!

Gitex update

Went to Gitex today and …. Well it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be though I would need a good foot massage after all those walking and standing!!

And it’s not everyday you fall down and a handsome guy comes to your rescue!!

I was giving way to him while coming down the stairs and missed a step (yeah, maybe I was drooling over him, maybe I wasn’t. After all am a human being too!!) and he pulled me up and said ‘don’t worry , only I saw it’ and then added ‘ but am going to tell it to everyone!’ and he laughed.
This is the second time my glamour goes down the drain.

Food for Thought

'Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be,since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be' - Thomas a.Kempis

Office Updates

Ok, back to cartoonland and here are a few updates

* Colleague AA records the snoring of his roommate( poor chap)without his knowledge and takes it around to everyone in the office and laughs about it!!( Laughing for him is like breathing. He does it at an interval of one or two minutes for some reason or the other)

* Colleague JJ hears it( snoring of the unknown victim) for sometime and says that he sounds like a pig to which I asked if pigs snore? I felt it like something else!!

*Colleague UU tries to butter some guy on the phone and after disconnecting the line curses him and says 'I have to keep lickign asses!' duh!!

*Cranky receptionist rr sends a mail titled 'office atmosphere' and asks everyone to not use the meeting rooms to store goods as it will lead to cockroaches, bugs and rats!!! What does the atmosphere have to do with it?

*MM replies to her mail saying electronic mice are indeed a problem! Am I missing something here?

This is never ending and am sure there will be more updates like this!

Cheerio

Gitex!!

The Gitex has started and am in no mood to go there. I do not want to go there and waste my time!! What happens there? You have a whole bunch of people coming there all dressed up in the name of business though I feel only a few of them actually do any business!!
We have a whole bunch of wannabes esp. from certain vendor companies with fake accents and garish dressing and mostly with a head which is filled with hay!!

However, not all is bad about it too! The atmosphere it creates is quite nice and for a moment I feel good being in the IT business and not everyone dresses up bad and not everyone is dumb! If you have your schedule written down and if something fruitful does turn out for you from this entire thing, it indeed is a nice thing and not to forget the complementary stuffs you get from each stall!!

Am a star!

Iam very bad at giving directions especially if you catch me walking in the hot sun as if am some movie star and you have actual movie star looks.

Well a lady did walk up to me who had this movie star looks and ask me directions to the hard rock café while I was at this pedestrian crossing.

For a moment, I went blank becoz I knew where the hard rock café was , I even knew they had two gigantic guitars in front of the café leaning on each other however I did not know how to get there!!! All the image I was building up while walking down the road as if am some super intelligent supermodel came crashing down when I started stammering with the directions.


‘Take left and you will reach a parking space…’

‘Parking space?’ , the lady had a question mark on her face , ‘ you mean a parking lot?’.

Shame on you!! I scolded myself.

I then gave up and asked her to go straight turn left and then someone there will guide her. She thanked me and started running on the pedestrian crossing bringing a lot of cars on a sudden break. They saw me standing there not knowing if to pass or not and asked me to pass too..hehehe…

I darted across with an embarrassed smile.

After I reached my office, I asked a friend the way to the hard rock café and well friends, its entirely opposite to the one I gave her!

Damn!! Anyways, its ok this is how you learn!! I told myself

She must have found it out by now that I gave her the wrong directions and probably must be cursing me too. Sorry!!

Coffee yikes!

Ok. Back to it again.


* Colleague who likes fair puny gals, lets call him A.A was mouthing to me to check out the hot chick (no prizes for guessing – fair and puny. sigh) that was standing next to me while I was ordering sandwich at Subway. I don’t know what does he think Iam? Makes me feel like I swing the other way round!

* The same colleague A.A was trying coffee the other day for the first time at this new place which had opened up in Internet city (coffee bytes). I thought the coffee was too strong and had difficulty drinking it. A.A bought it coz the Filipino guy at the counter informed me that the coffee is free since they were opening for the first time just the next day. He buys the coffee and the Filipino asks him ‘ where do you work sir?’ , to which he replies ‘ we work in Microsoft’ ( which was a lie) and I suddenly see A.A give a small yelp , close his mouth ,dart away from the counter and come back again. Well what happened? He tried drinking the hot latte using a STRAW. And the full concentrated hot latte hit the tip of his tongue and burnt it. The poor fellow couldn’t taste anything for a day it seems. One cup of coffee was gulped down with one bottle of mineral water. I don’t blame him, the latte was so bitter and he had a burnt tongue to couple with it. This is what happens when you couple a lie with a straw.

* Ahmed Bin bond! Yeah, that’s the name an RJ gave to the James bond from Dubai. Clever, aint it!

Yallah! Iam Bond… Ahmed Bin Bond.

Coma

I got to read Dr. Robin Cooks ‘coma’ at last and 25 years after its publication!

It sure was interesting and kept me on it until I reached its last page however he too goes too much into details, and his usage of medical terms sometimes got the better of me that at times I could feel my head tighten up coz I was getting frustrated with the different terms in the book. I wasn’t happy with the climax of the story. All throughout the story he would go to describe the minutest of details, like the bend on the nose of one of the characters and the eyes set in , poke marked face due to teenage acne etc , however when it came to the climax , I felt like he was in a hurry to get over with it and to get it published that he left the climax… just like that …don’t know how to describe it

Kudos to the guy though because from what I read, the guy used to sit down to write the novel after his long day at work as a doctor! Now that is not an easy thing if am right. Look at me, I am not a doctor and most of the time I laze around in the office and yet am sooo lazy to write down something even for the blog once I return home! Oh, but then I must mention about the one hour drive from Dubai internet city to my home. Now that is not a small thing and also the drive in the morning. That kind of kills my time and my energy!! I wonder if the Dubai government realizes that it is killing a novelist in me because of the traffic disaster in Dubai. Do they know that they are actually killing fame from the country!! Gosh!! Whats happening here! These, ladies and gentle men are the indirect effects of having traffic in the country!! He he..

Ciao

Random does it again!

It was a slow week and I can say proudly that I did not do anything useful!! Even at my work place! Sigh! Nope, this blog is NOT about me complaining about my laziness and NOR is it to rant about my ‘ I wil be doing so and so in the future about so and so’ .Then what is it about?

Well, any clues ? I have no clue myself…sigh . Certain things to be noted …

* Friend called from France…forgot tooth brush, used face wash instead…and then laughs saying ‘I felt like Mr. Bean’.

* I felt like strangling that RJ in that Hindi radio station when she interrupted a beautiful song that I was enjoying before it could end (I love the music at the end of that particular song), with some bullshit she had to say in her ever so cheerful and LOUD voice, god she keeps on ranting otherwise and puts a hell lot of advertisement in between, she could have waited till that song got over!!!Arrgh!!

* In another radio station they asked to spot a helicopter carrying a code for a property development company . The one who spots it and calls up first , wins! I saw the helicopter but not the code as it was sooo far off and if I were to concentrate on that more, I would have ended up under some other car.( I was driving)


* My colleague is now flirting with another fair puny girl . That’s his taste..white , puny girls and keeps telling me ‘ its hard to understand a girls mind !’

* Today was Dussera and all Indians were supposed to come girls in salwar and guys in khurtha and one of my other colleage says out loud that he should have worn a khurtha with just a VIP frenchie(underwear) inside , the slits would have shown off his legs it seems!! Sigh! He is about 60 and still desperate.

* Hearing what this guy said, the colleague who likes ‘fair puny females’ is the only one who kept on laughing long after he said that. Infact, he is still laughing like someone sprayed laughing gas onto him!!! Poor guy!


That’s all for today guys and as long as am in this world with more people around me, I will have more postings like this along the way!!

Cheerio

Random post again!

Am not keeping it up again!! Lazy!! Lazy to the bone Iam!!

Four days of leave including the eid holidays was wasted doing nothing! When will I ever learn? The only thing that happened was ‘shopping’. The shopping was supposed to be for a friend who was going to France however it ended up with me also busting a lot of money! The devil sits on my shoulders and whispers on to my ears ‘ ahh.. you can spend a little more !!It wont hurt! Just imagine how good you would look in that…?!’, and my hand slips on to pick it up (clothes, bags, shoes whatever!) and before I know half of my salary is gone, poof!!into thin air!

My other weakness is books. Not books, ‘fresh smelling, new’ books! Before I know, and after I get my salary, am digging my way into the Borders bookshop, digging into the books there and carrying three to four books in one buy to come home to my mom standing with her eyes wide open ‘ you bought books again!!!’.
Sometimes I have to smuggle the books inside the house.

The sad part is the books don’t last long. Four books, I finish in four days L
I sometimes feel I kinda eat up the books! Talking about eating, that’s something else that happened in full swing on the holidays! Sigh!

I read Stephen Kings ‘Misery’. It was interesting though at times his writing did test my patience as I was sooo impatient to know what happens next that I wanted to jump past the words in front of me like crossing a bridge, crossing all the detailed descriptions to reach the plot of the story,! And sometimes sitting like that to read in one go cramps my neck and in between I slept off to find myself narrating the rest of the story though I don’t remember what was it that I cooked up!

I wonder where does he come up with ideas for his books.

Cloud number nine!!!

Such magic!

A random post!

Am damn sure all of us would have had their own teenage crush! I had one too!

I remember that I always found it difficult to talk to this particular person! And all that I used to do at that time was make sure I looked good whenever I went out of the house or walk as if I did not care whenever I passed by him! Now that I feel like laughing at myself when I think of it!! It so happened I was one day wearing this dark blue dress which was kinda short and made me very uncomfortable and so my otherwise weak confidence was even lower by a few notches this time and I prayed I do not run into him that day.
The moment I saw him coming I did not know what to do (what must I do otherwise also? Nothing!). Just sometime back before that ,I was playing some stupid game on the terrace of our building!!

He came, I came, I din look at him, he passed by me and then I looked back!! I saw that he was also turned back to look but he made a funny face and seemed to be laughing at something! I did not like that look on his face and wanted to hit him!!! Anyways, I forgot about it and walked with my pride held high to my friends house.

When I went inside , her mom asked me what was on my back!!

Then she showed me that there was soo much of white dust on the back of my dress which I think came while I was on the terrace .It was even very evident because of the color of the dress. Sigh!! But is that something so funny?!!! I growled even more inside when I thought of how I walked around like am some princess in front of him while looking like a total idiot!!

I guess we all have our moments of embarrassment too, don’t we?!!

Modern Mahabharatha

I had promised myself to keep udating my blog regularly and to write whatever comes to my mind randomly so that i can keep up the writing habit and also improve it. But from the looks of it and my laziness, its just not coming up to the mark i wanted it to be!

Nothing to do yesteday, was lazing around after comign back from work when my friend came over. Thats when we got into the topic of abhimanyu( dont remember how!) , the guy who learnt to get into the chakravyuh while he was a baby in his moms womb but did not learn how to get out of it because his mom slept of while his dad was about to explain the same!! For those of you who dont know wht is a chakravuyh , its an ancient war method(mentioned in mahabharata) , a spiral battle formation by the enemies against their opponents which i guess is hard to break into!!not going into more deatils of it because I dont know much in depth about it but as the story goes, since abhimanyu did not know how to get out of it, they killed him inside it and that also by breakign the laws of wari.e by attackign him from all sides. Manipulation and betrayal existed even then!

Now thats not what i wanted to say, we were discussing it when i asked my friend 'if bollywood were to make mahabharata into a movie...which actors do you think are best suited for the various characters!' to which my mom who was watching tv turned to look at me and say 'dont you have any other job!'

nope i did not, i was jobless! And for some reason, i found this exciting!!

so it wen tlike this . Actually we couldnt do a good job .

We felt that Amitab Bachan can do the role of Bhishma. He had that strong personality

We couldnt actually decide on the rest of them to be frank! For krishna, the main character, she wanted to put sharukh khan!!

'he can charm anyone! he has those dimples' drooled my friend!! sigh! My mom suddenly interested said the name of a mallu actor who we both hated and our reaction was also the same! Shock! Then it became abhishek bachan and then the current fav .. Farhan Akhtar!

'How about Rajni kanth?' my friend laughed! oh yeah, i thot, all his othermovies also treat him like a semi god! But we dont want him, he will put tartar on the name of krishna though he might do all those flipping scenes this time with the flute !!

Panchali - First we thought of Priyanka chopra and then we heard my mom saying, panchali has to be someone sexy , strong and beautiful like bipasha basu!

Karna - hrithik roshan( my moms suggestion again .dont forget that in the begg she actually critisied me and now she is more interested than me)

Kunti - Rekha

Bhima - Sunil Shetty

others , we still couldnt decide on anyone !

'John Abraham and Arjun Rampal is also good !'.... my mom went on....

Krishna and Christ

Such a beautiful picture... For me, be it Christ or Krishna, whenever am there praying ,it is bliss and a feeling of security...

So yesterday...

So here Iam, on an other day, yesterday being quite eventful in its own way!

Its amazing how sometimes a persons character gets revealed to you. The way they think in general, the way they think about you and how sometimes they can be totally , utterly blind or idiots! Its true that when we talk , we should be careful as it reveals a lot about our character, who we are and all that in general. But then we have the really smart ones out there who know how to put the mask of perfection while inside they might turn out to 'totally opposite', the funny part being, not many people know who they reaaalllly are!

Coming back to me, yesterday, had a late night coffee at this starbucks joint with a friend. I forgot to take my wallet and my friend was dressed as if she just woke up from sleep. The guy at the counter kept asking me what she wanted and me wanted andgave the bill to me to pay . It looked funny when its she who pulled out her card to pay! Sitting at a coffee place or a restaurant, its interesting to watch people around you and especially to listen to conversations! yup , yup, am an eaves dropper. Of late, to be precise, i been an eaves dropper. yesterday though, there was nothing much to see around. We had three diff groups of people. One was an Indian guy with a Filipino girl , to which my friend kept asking me over and over again as to why Indian guys are always out with Filipinos? Was it like that?? Never noticed that much!

Then there was this mallu group sitting to our side , two men and a gal. One of the guys was bald and kept sipping out of his cup with a straw making all sort of noises with it. The other one , a nerdo kept talkign about his work and the stock market though I couldnt make it out much. Just one sentence he said that we both heard 'Just coz a company is blacklisted doesnt mean the company is black...' .
For some reason, the way he said it so seriously and other guy kept nodding to it, seemed too funny that we both started laughing and the laughing went on.The girl with them looked bored and sleepy.

After the coffee, we went to this lebaneese restaurant on the other side of the road, just on instinct.... the same reaction kept coming there too, people were staring at my friend coz all of them were dressed quite well, while she had this disheveled hair, unironed clothes and a sleepy look on her face. Again the waiters approached me and again it was she who took it from them and gave the card. We had nice kebabs and sheesha from there with no much interesting people around other than the guys who sat behind us, one of them kept getting messages on his phone to which he kept laughing and saying 'she is send a message again!' duh.

And so it happened....

I remember the first time I shared a connection with God. I , my mom and my little brother had gone to India during the Gulf War, and things were not pretty bright at the home front with mom being in India and Dad all the way back in the Gulf.
I was 6 years old then and mom used to be pretty upset and angry during that time because she was tensed about what was going on across the seas with Dad.

I was a topper when I was in my school in Dubai, and for some reason, I couldn’t keep that up when I came back to India. I had joined this Convent where the girls were not very friendly and the syllabus was more advanced than the one back in Dubai. I couldn’t cope up with it and kind of slided down on my studies which upset my mother all the more. That’s the first time, I started talking to God. He was the only one to hear me at that time. I know its kind of a very small thing but still, for a kid who is 10 years old, everything that happens to her will be a miracle.Being in a convent, we had a morning ,afternoon and evening prayer. There was no one to tell me like how I hear today about god and how we need him in our life , it was just an understanding that came by itself to me then…. And I remember this chapel in the convent which I used to love going to, the different feeling that you get when you walk into gods house.

I remember by the end of the year, I thinking I will flunk and during that time, it was something very huge for my little heart to think of, almost like dying! I really knew I would flunk for one paper because I did not write anything much in it.

I kept that secret to myself and everday I prayed to god, telling him how things will go bad at home if that happens, how everyone will be upset and how I wish I could go back to Dubai. The marks are going to be soo low!! Nosy relatives and neighbours will be there to put a finger on their nose and say ‘what a shame!’ (now a days, I don’t give a damn though!)

The report card was to be send to me via mail. We had no open house for the year end. It came the day my dad had come to kerala and things were getting better on the Gulf front. I got it in my hand, did not inform anyone and remember running to the puja room ( a small room in most of the keralites houses where we do our prayers),praying hard and opening the report card.

It had no marks, or comments just a single line that said, congratulations, you have been promoted to the sixth standard.

I jumped with joy! Ran to my parents and told them excitedly that I passed and I remember seeing their puzzled look which said what makes you so happy, there are no marks mentioned here!

Little did anyone know then about the little fear I had shared with god. Very soon after that , god made my next wish come true. We went back to Dubai as the Gulf War came to an end.

It’s a very innocent thing but during that time, it was something really really huge for me!!

Even today, nothing makes me feel better rather than sharing a conversation with God, my secret keeper J

The start....

Welcome All .

Thanks for peeping into my Blog.

This is my new blog, the old one ended on an abrupt note and I feel starting afresh is an indication of fresher days to come and of a fresh new page in life.I have no idea what am going to scribble down here but I hope atleast thisss time I can keep doing this on a regular basis!!

I have this tendency to write something only when am at work!Yes, I still cant figure out why that happens!! Nothing inspires me to write much than when am at work , the sad part being, writing is not my job profile!

Now back to work for the time being

Cheerio!!

NR