Friday, October 19, 2007

Of Dard-e Disco and 4 year olds

Of course, Om Shanti Om and SRK have been in the news for SRK's abs and more.
I have been watching rushes of OSO , with the detached involvement of a channel surfer- at breakfast and other meals in front of the TV.
With my friend's 4 year old- its been a lot more, I figured.
While driving for lunch, the cute li'il fellow, decided to quiz me.
Bemusedly, I decided to enlighten the kid.
So I said , " Go on".
He says, " Do you know my favourite song?".
I said , " No Sam - you tell me".
He says, " will you sing it, if I tell you?"
Thinking, it must be some popular ad jingle or Cartoon n/w theme song, I urged him to go on.
He said, " Dard-e Disco!"
Me, "What?", thinking I heard him wrong, never heard of '...Disco' something.
He latched on to it, and chuckled, "YOU DONT KNOW- DARD E DISCO!"
After expressing his shock and joy that, I " don't know anything", he proceeded to sing - " Woh haseena woh neelam pari, kar gayi kaisi jadoogari, Dil me mere hai dard-e disco".
He had me repeat after him, until he was rest assured that I had learnt the 2 lines.

So then, I saw the song on TV yesterday for a whole 2 mins and was surprised at the kid's accuracy.

Sow sure has an absorbent sponge for a son.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

so... I am back from my vacation

Tra..la..la..la!
My birthday gift was 5 days in Thailand, and what a gift it was...
Of course, we still argued every 150 seconds on the last day of the trip and it was allowed, because, my birthday was technically just over.
And of course, my husband proved,to be just as easily irritable as mom says, dad is.
But of course, this doesn't take away from him the pretty garnet ring and other sweet things he got me.
He is such a stickler for airport rules, in a weirdly fanatical manner.
"you are allowed only one piece of cabin baggage-so shove your handbag inside your backpack."
Other people who lug around some 6 shopping bags are just rule breakers, who say "Sawatdee Khaa" and flout airline rules. That the airline doesn't mind, as this is a relatively empty weekday late night flight, hardly matters.
Sheesh!
Also, the husband shall not experiment with Thai food, cos we burnt our very intestines one day, with authentic Thai food(its all the wife's fault - you know).
Husband will only eat chicken variations from bloody KFC (no offence, but KFC... oh please)or Mac D's - the wife on the other hand can experiment with other variations of Thai food, because she is a " retarded culture soaking extremist", who wants to drown her self in "local stuff", all the time. And oh , did we mention, how difficult it is find to find vegetarian Thai food in pork, sharkfin,seafood, beef loving Thai Land! But hell, the extremist wife will seek the very hard to get things.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Of Shoelaces...

Did you know, its rather impossible to buy ONLY shoelaces in Bangalore?
Rather, impossible to get.
I scoured the "you get anything here" areas of Bangalore and just about every shoe shop (huge brand, chinty shoe shop etc.) for a specific color -type (cream/blue- thin round)for A's ID shoes.

You only have the plump broad black/white ones, which a) dont match with a weird blue and crean shoe and b) more importantly-don't slither thru' the shoe eyelets

Damn those shoes and damn the woman (ME)who insisted that the shoelace be pulled off, when the shoes were washed and also the woman (ME AGAIN) who , while fidgeting with the lace, pulled the tag thingy that lets you lead the lace thru' the eyelets.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

My Aura

Your Aura is Blue

Spiritual and calm, you tend to live a quiet but enriching life.
You are very giving of yourself. And it's hard for you to let go of relationships.

The purpose of your life: showing love to other people

Famous blues include: Angelina Jolie, the Dali Lama, Oprah

Careers for you to try: Psychic, Peace Corps Volunteer, Counselor

Monday, September 24, 2007

maybe i just should stop questioning, the purpose of my life.
may be i just need to understand that i have no hidden role in the larger scheme of things.
may be i should focus on reading with my heart and soul. And not just flip thru the pages.
totally out of focus- there is a heavy fog in my head. its a fog that envelopes the direction of my thoughts and life. My bubbly exterior is slowly dropping its visage to reveal a completely clueless, unfocused thought process.
I don't know if its the new job , the cold, or the fact that another birthday is fast approaching.
I take stock periodically (period varying by degree of happiness).

Thursday, September 20, 2007

storybookboard

1. Wee Willie Winkie- Rudyard Kipling
2. While the Auto Waits - O'Henry
3. Witches Loaves- O'Henry
4. Salmon fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday(in progress)
5. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai (in progress)

Thursday, September 13, 2007

UnSiblings and such like...

I used to have an imaginary younger sister.
I created her, on the fly, each morning, her supposedly annoying antics et. al.
I wonder what people with siblings feel about me...
Not having a sibling was the worst thing that could have befallen a kid in Class 6, except maybe, having to wear glasses. Now that was worse- but in a whole other way.

I think i tried to evade glasses, until, the teachers would catch me squinting at the board or copying notes from the neighboring kid and force me to put them on.

I think I had a pretty traumatic kidhood.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Rest of weekend

Shopped !

nice laceup sandals...from 6th Block, KM

A is soooo lucky, he gave Sivaji a miss...

Laila and Mariams ghosts have been put to rest.

Am on Linbaba now.

'Sivaji'

i saw it...

really nothing more to add...

EXCEPT, Rajanikanth can get away with bull crap...

EXCEPT, i spent the longest 3 hours of my life, watching 'Sivaji".

WAS almost thulped for announcing the above, in public.

WILL dig down into the Rajani archives...JUST!

Friday, June 22, 2007

A Perfect Fri'day'

Cold, wet, morning

  • Hair set successfully, despite rushed morning. :-)

  • Task mails, quickly dispatched

Drizzly rainy afternoon

  • Hair still 'well set' :-P

  • Awesome pepper paneer fry in Shezan made with lotsa 'kadipatta'

  • Window shopping thru' Pantaloons new collection (happiest moment)

Rest of office time well spent in listening to Radio Indigo.

Packs many splendid 'reads'

I have been tripping through Khaled "Kite Runner " Hosseini's 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'.
It has been a compelling read and has been keeping me up till dawn even at the end of really tiring days...

I am anxious, to get back to Laila and Mariams life, later tonight.

Among other noteworthy events, lined up for the weekend:

Rajanikanth's Sivaji.

Shopping for shoes/ bag/clothes.


heehawhaw

Friday, June 15, 2007

Trainspotting!

Mark Renton, the narrator:

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life...

But why would I want to do a thing like that?

I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin?

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Anyone, who talks about missing the good old days- has obviously not seen the stationery, thats out there these days.



Its so cool- I want to hoard stationery period.

I quite like this philosophy myself!

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."

~Charles M Shulz

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Updates as of 3:00 pm IST


A bad throat infection is setting and nothing can avert it, from its destination of choice.

BBC Entertainment Rocks!

This conversation between the protagonists of My Family, the show on BBC, is a carbon copy of my conversation with the better half- only thrown in with more abuses and insults..

The scene : Husband and wife, on a Saturday evening, wondering what to do.

Wife (repeatedly, to the husband, who is ignoring her and reading newspaper) : We should do something together, you know.

Husband (after much nagging): Why cant you just 'be', honey, and not 'do'- we are human beings after all; not human doings.

Wife : you are a human doing, you know, and not a necessarily good one, at that!