I just checked... it's been over 2 months since I blogged! Wow! I must be getting really busy (or really happy). Either ways it's a great thing
Just thought I'd check in & say "hi" & that I'm alive & life is speeding past... it's not all beautiful but somehow I can't find a single thing to complain about tonight... it all seems to be going so well... (except the 30-week plan)
*sigh*
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Topsy-turvy
This one’s special,
I can totally tell
So I’m gonna draw up a list
And be sappy as hell
Since I’m “head over feet”
This one’s a topsy-turvy treat
How I feel from Z to A
(Coz I’m breaking the cliché)
Read on…
Zzzzz... dozing off on a lazy Sunday afternoon on your shoulder, getting a crick in my neck, still waking up with a smile
Yayyyy... my 1st reaction each time you say "I'm getting free a little early today (interpret as: 9PM), wanna go daaru-drinking-liver-shrinking"
Xoxox... being sappy-mushy-embarrassing over silly BB messages is such a blast, especially coz u blush beet-red
Wolfie... the fangs maketh the man, and ALL the other goofy names we have for each other (ONLY the ones that can be proclaimed amongst friends please!)
VPST… the name says it all, let’s get you a killer shotgun to go with it, Mr. “Free Love” Believing Zamindaar!
Unplanned, impromptu weekends; whether we stay in town or decide to get away for a couple of days! The chaos and nearly-disasters make up 83% of my memories with you… being unpredictable is such a change from our staid-working-lives
Therego... inventing new words just coz the 100million words in the oxford dictionary aren't cool enough... get with it, will ya?
Sarcastic verbal volleys... just to spice things up a little bit and get our wits warmed up for the real fights :P
Rock’s not dead, with you & I alive \m/
Questions that randomly pop-up in my head, multiple choice, Cosmo-style... arbitrary EQ-testing trick questions that you manage to tiptoe your way around like an expert.
PDA (no, NOT the technology!)I'm learning to hold hands in public; you’re learning to resist temptation more (or at least that’s what I think)
Our Offspring will be 100% confused & complexed (“you’re such a great singer… you MUST audition on a national talent hunt” *muahahhahaha*). We aren’t going to be party to bringing up one more screwed-up generation, that’s why we prefer the canine kinda children (hypothetically, DonVito- the lab & Basanti- the golden retriever)
Neighbours- They are either deaf, or possess super-high tolerance. Bet they know your name (at least) by now ;)
Modifying my outlook towards things, for instance, the M word, which has commitment-phobic me sprinting in the opposite direction from perfectly stable relationships. Your persistence, patience and faith, despite my frequently frenzied panic attacks, has induced me to open my mind to the possibility of a future with you (watch out!) Things I never thought of before, I now blurt out to you with surprising consistency (like how secretive it'll be, where I wanna take off to, how much thinner I need to be :D)... the fear still grips me sometimes, but I'm a whole lot more prepared to deal with it with you around.
Lingering, never-ending past-midnight conversations on every damn thing under (and over) the sun…we’ll never run out of conversation and I said NEVER :) (thank god for BB messenger!)
Keeper, you are (and Yoda, I am)
Judgments are reserved for other things- over-dressed-hideous people, retarded movies, pathetic books (the I-graduated-from-IIM-therefore-I-write), pop music and fake accents
Impossible to stay 7 minutes without some sort of physical touch if we’re in the same room (For you, it’s 2.5 minutes, but I’m working with a mean tendency here, pun intended)
Honest-to-god-forthrightness… so honest that I know for a fact, if I leave you and come back when I’m 40 (still hot!) and we’re both single, you’ll just say “no”…
Games people play- my King of Hangaroo, Lord of Ludo, Crossword Knight, and even “India-Pakistan”
Fun-fun-fun! You manage to transport me to Funkytown, it’s a mad carnival out there!
Eloping plans, just because an elaborate wedding ceremony amidst 25000 “well-wishers” gets me hyperventilating and freaked out. Goa, us, those who really matter (and are crazy enough to approve) and beer seems so much better instead… I just hope you can figure out directions :)
Demented-song-singing (while driving, over the phone, in person, over mail…) We specialize in the late 80s, early 90s Bollywood era of cheesy, hilarious prancing-around-trees-equals-the-forever-kinda-love songs. It’s what brought us together “hum baney tum baney… tra la la la laaaa”
Clandestine love is the best kind… of course, there’s the library tale of how-i-met-my-lover (ewwww)… books fell, eyes met, we checked each other out, hooked up and it was true love… and then, controversial love is even better ;)
Bombayyyy, so many things that have taken place there, and so many more places that you have to introduce me to. Therego, this is a whole new bullet point.
Angelina Jolie can adopt all the babies in the world; Megan Fox can wear the tightest spandex outfit; Scarlett Johansson can lean forward in a corset as seductively as she wants; Anna Kournikova can serve an ace (or not!) with those killer legs; but none of that compares to how hot I think I am when you check me out as I walk into your place
---
The Beginning
I can totally tell
So I’m gonna draw up a list
And be sappy as hell
Since I’m “head over feet”
This one’s a topsy-turvy treat
How I feel from Z to A
(Coz I’m breaking the cliché)
Read on…
Zzzzz... dozing off on a lazy Sunday afternoon on your shoulder, getting a crick in my neck, still waking up with a smile
Yayyyy... my 1st reaction each time you say "I'm getting free a little early today (interpret as: 9PM), wanna go daaru-drinking-liver-shrinking"
Xoxox... being sappy-mushy-embarrassing over silly BB messages is such a blast, especially coz u blush beet-red
Wolfie... the fangs maketh the man, and ALL the other goofy names we have for each other (ONLY the ones that can be proclaimed amongst friends please!)
VPST… the name says it all, let’s get you a killer shotgun to go with it, Mr. “Free Love” Believing Zamindaar!
Unplanned, impromptu weekends; whether we stay in town or decide to get away for a couple of days! The chaos and nearly-disasters make up 83% of my memories with you… being unpredictable is such a change from our staid-working-lives
Therego... inventing new words just coz the 100million words in the oxford dictionary aren't cool enough... get with it, will ya?
Sarcastic verbal volleys... just to spice things up a little bit and get our wits warmed up for the real fights :P
Rock’s not dead, with you & I alive \m/
Questions that randomly pop-up in my head, multiple choice, Cosmo-style... arbitrary EQ-testing trick questions that you manage to tiptoe your way around like an expert.
PDA (no, NOT the technology!)I'm learning to hold hands in public; you’re learning to resist temptation more (or at least that’s what I think)
Our Offspring will be 100% confused & complexed (“you’re such a great singer… you MUST audition on a national talent hunt” *muahahhahaha*). We aren’t going to be party to bringing up one more screwed-up generation, that’s why we prefer the canine kinda children (hypothetically, DonVito- the lab & Basanti- the golden retriever)
Neighbours- They are either deaf, or possess super-high tolerance. Bet they know your name (at least) by now ;)
Modifying my outlook towards things, for instance, the M word, which has commitment-phobic me sprinting in the opposite direction from perfectly stable relationships. Your persistence, patience and faith, despite my frequently frenzied panic attacks, has induced me to open my mind to the possibility of a future with you (watch out!) Things I never thought of before, I now blurt out to you with surprising consistency (like how secretive it'll be, where I wanna take off to, how much thinner I need to be :D)... the fear still grips me sometimes, but I'm a whole lot more prepared to deal with it with you around.
Lingering, never-ending past-midnight conversations on every damn thing under (and over) the sun…we’ll never run out of conversation and I said NEVER :) (thank god for BB messenger!)
Keeper, you are (and Yoda, I am)
Judgments are reserved for other things- over-dressed-hideous people, retarded movies, pathetic books (the I-graduated-from-IIM-therefore-I-write), pop music and fake accents
Impossible to stay 7 minutes without some sort of physical touch if we’re in the same room (For you, it’s 2.5 minutes, but I’m working with a mean tendency here, pun intended)
Honest-to-god-forthrightness… so honest that I know for a fact, if I leave you and come back when I’m 40 (still hot!) and we’re both single, you’ll just say “no”…
Games people play- my King of Hangaroo, Lord of Ludo, Crossword Knight, and even “India-Pakistan”
Fun-fun-fun! You manage to transport me to Funkytown, it’s a mad carnival out there!
Eloping plans, just because an elaborate wedding ceremony amidst 25000 “well-wishers” gets me hyperventilating and freaked out. Goa, us, those who really matter (and are crazy enough to approve) and beer seems so much better instead… I just hope you can figure out directions :)
Demented-song-singing (while driving, over the phone, in person, over mail…) We specialize in the late 80s, early 90s Bollywood era of cheesy, hilarious prancing-around-trees-equals-the-forever-kinda-love songs. It’s what brought us together “hum baney tum baney… tra la la la laaaa”
Clandestine love is the best kind… of course, there’s the library tale of how-i-met-my-lover (ewwww)… books fell, eyes met, we checked each other out, hooked up and it was true love… and then, controversial love is even better ;)
Bombayyyy, so many things that have taken place there, and so many more places that you have to introduce me to. Therego, this is a whole new bullet point.
Angelina Jolie can adopt all the babies in the world; Megan Fox can wear the tightest spandex outfit; Scarlett Johansson can lean forward in a corset as seductively as she wants; Anna Kournikova can serve an ace (or not!) with those killer legs; but none of that compares to how hot I think I am when you check me out as I walk into your place
---
The Beginning
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
her time
swirling in self-obsession
arms outstretched to the heavens
pleading her case for attention
waiting for the rain of time
surroundings merge into one another
a teary-eyed blur until she disconnects
still she twirls harder
spinning faster on her ankles' axes
someone up there must be listening
so she takes in one sharp breath
and screams to her heart's content
once, sharp, piercing... placating
the rain dancer slows her circling
as the clouds darken upon her scream
she smiles up expectantly
stretching her dainty neck beyond
her porcelain face lights up
as thoughts of droplets permeate
her soft lips motioning a countdown
baited breath locking her diaphragm
"three, two, one, rain"
sun rays peek from the dark clouds
blinding her eyes, melting her smile
she screams once more and doesn't stop
collapsing on her overworked ankle
she falls in a heap upon the floor
her flawless face is cracked in shards
and time has passed her by...
arms outstretched to the heavens
pleading her case for attention
waiting for the rain of time
surroundings merge into one another
a teary-eyed blur until she disconnects
still she twirls harder
spinning faster on her ankles' axes
someone up there must be listening
so she takes in one sharp breath
and screams to her heart's content
once, sharp, piercing... placating
the rain dancer slows her circling
as the clouds darken upon her scream
she smiles up expectantly
stretching her dainty neck beyond
her porcelain face lights up
as thoughts of droplets permeate
her soft lips motioning a countdown
baited breath locking her diaphragm
"three, two, one, rain"
sun rays peek from the dark clouds
blinding her eyes, melting her smile
she screams once more and doesn't stop
collapsing on her overworked ankle
she falls in a heap upon the floor
her flawless face is cracked in shards
and time has passed her by...
Sunday, January 17, 2010
retail detail
Indulged in some long overdue retail therapy today... splurged shitloads... felt good!! Bought my first LBD (except it aint so "L" after all)... and my 1st ever "expensive organic" haircare products... and my 1st pair of lace-top stockings... and tons of super-hot lingerie...
Walking about with 4 big bags of apparel joy, I realized there never WILL be enough money for me... so why focus so much on salary/ raises/ savings/ investment? Let me rephrase that, why whine so much about lack of salary/ raise/ saving/ investment??? I might as well be happy with my monthly pay-check and rare tax return check from the Gov't of India... coz whether I earn 30K or 300K a month, I'm still gonna want a lil bit more!
PS: DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY gonna do a trip someplace this summer! By the time May comes around, I would have been working for 2 years... wow! I might as well go screw my meagre savings on an awesome vacation! Hoping to hold that thought for the next 4 months now...
Walking about with 4 big bags of apparel joy, I realized there never WILL be enough money for me... so why focus so much on salary/ raises/ savings/ investment? Let me rephrase that, why whine so much about lack of salary/ raise/ saving/ investment??? I might as well be happy with my monthly pay-check and rare tax return check from the Gov't of India... coz whether I earn 30K or 300K a month, I'm still gonna want a lil bit more!
PS: DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY gonna do a trip someplace this summer! By the time May comes around, I would have been working for 2 years... wow! I might as well go screw my meagre savings on an awesome vacation! Hoping to hold that thought for the next 4 months now...
Sunday, January 10, 2010
slurrrrrrppp!!!
kashmiri mutton yakhni... sunday lunch me made (mom directed)... can't cook so this was a first! finger lickin' awesomeness stewing in a giant bowl on my kitchen counter!Here's how it's done (why is the recipe posted online? coz a. my mom wanted me to note it down and keep it safe, and I lose all documents & papers I possibly can, b. if the 3.5 people who read my blog are inspired enough to cook it, I've done my good deed of the day (since it's super-easy and super-quick!), and lastly & most importantly, c. I wanna show off... so sit back and let me "get my kicks before this whole shithouse burns up in flames"... a la Mr. Mojo Risin')... so (hip hop voice) mofos here's the dope on how you can get with it!
What is it, in brief???
Well, (clearing throat self importantly) yakhni is a yoghurt based traditional Kashmiri mutton gravy broth, which goes best with steamed rice. It's a light but flavourful dish that was apparently brought during the Mughal Era from Persia.
What you need and how much:
Yoghurt (smoothly blended)- 2.5 cups
Meat (boneless/shanks advisable)- 750 gms
Fennel seeds (saunf)- 2-3 tbsp
Sun-dried chillies- 3-4 nos.
Dried ginger (powdered)- 2 tsp
Mustard Oil- 4tbsp
Cloves- 3 nos.
Black cardamom- 2-3 nos.
Green cardomom- 2-3 nos.
Peppercorn (to taste)
Salt (to taste)
Potatoes (optional)- 2-3 nos.
Saffron- Garnish
Stirring up this bad boy:
Step 1: Dry grind fennel seeds, chillies and dried ginger powder together, henceforth to be termed as Killer Masala (just coz I say so!)
Step 2: In a heated pressure cooker, add mustard oil and fry the cardamom, cloves and peppercorn. Add meat and stir. Add 3-4 tbsp of our Killer Masala, salt to taste and water as required (2 cups should do). Shut the lid and let it simmer for 7-8 mins.
Step 3: By this time, the meat would be half-cooked. Open the cooker and add the blended curd/yoghurt and stir.
Optional Step 3b: Add 2-3 potatoes (sliced lengthwise in big chunks), 1 tbsp more Killer Masala and water if necessary.
Step 4: Cover and cook for 2-3 mins. Garnish with saffron and serve over steamed white rice.
... or in my case, serve yourself, watch TV and call someone to boast about your newly acquired culinary skills...!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
two-uh-oh-nine dekko
Just a backward glance to capsule two-uh-oh-nine in my life (self-involved me- i me myself mine... je moi mon ma mes... mera mujhe main... ennakku naan... me mio mi) getting THAT out of my system, here's what the year was like seulement pour moi:
Books I Read in 2009 (off the top off my cuckoo head):
~ Tales from 1001 Arabian Nights
~ The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories- F. Scott Fitzgerald
~ Roald Dahl's ultimate treasury (stories, illustrations, poems, excerpts)
~ Ground Beneath Her Feet (Salman Rushdie)
~ Ravan & Eddie- Kiran Nagarkar
~ Potpourri- Ruskin Bond
~ Under the Banyan Tree & Other Stories- R.K. Narayan
~ The Vagina Monologues- Eve Ensler
~ Five Past Midnight in Bhopal
...And then there were some that I'm currently reading (3 books at a time- so one is placed by my bed, one is carried to work and a third is in the living room in case I get bored of the tube... can't handle more than 3 and invariably I focus too much on one as it grips me by the forearm and yanks my yielding whole into the myriad world of life love laughter lust lamentation)... digressing, digressing! Yes, so 3 books that overflowed to 2010:
~Saadat Hassan Manto's Bitter Fruit (heart soul slice of 1940s Indian filmdom- breathtaking, letters to Uncle Sam- wry, witty and hilarious),
~The second is Chowringhee (by my bedside, but somehow I carry Bitter Fruit from bag to bed shamelessly, it's almost done now so orange-covered Chowringhee is where I'll dwell next), and
~The third is Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (2nd Dostoevsky I'm sinking into!)
Next is what (Samsung's random ad campaign... why would I want to write that... but not allowing myself to mentally delete-format-edit... verbal vomit and you get to read... evil huuaahahaha)... Movies I watched in the past year (mostly everything that released @ DT VK, PVR Select):
~Aloo Chat- surprisingly awesome, we went due to lack of choice bestfriend-crazyluvboy-me, walked out laughing our asses off and recommending it to the rest of the world. Yeah, we're 31% responsible for the word-of-mouth publicity and subsequent success of this low-on-budget, high-on-humor film
~T3- why god why????!!! I asked a logical question during the interval (on the travelling into the past and future and landing back continuum) and my friends shushed me coz "ours is not to reason why, ours is just to watch & die"
~Blue Oranges- Yeah, we thought we'd follow up Aloo Chat with another one of those low budget wonders... only the boy who took us to the movie "liked" it, but I saw him yawn exactly 12 times in the 1st half (I dozed off in the 2nd half)... and I counted the yawns as I was so grateful for him to let us experience this movie marvel, that I couldn't take my eyes off his face (laser beam eyes going thru his cerebrum to determine whether torture-my-friends section was bouncing with joy yet!)
~ The Hangover- Walked in 15mins 36 seconds, thus breaking his golden rule of arrive-3o-mins-before-a-movie-buy-popcorn-n-finish-half-before-you-reach-your-seat... angry glares throughout the movie... secretly saw it a 2nd time and loved it both times :)
~Blue, Ajab Ghajab- sad sad sad, can't tell you how much
~Wake Up Sid, Pocket Mein Rocket- nice nice nice (if I say it three times, it counters the lukewarm effect the word has, ok!)
~Planet Terror (on DVD)- mixed emotions, funny by the end of it, takes awhile to get used to the scum (for me atleast)
~How can I forget Inglourious Basterds- words are not enough... from the poster to the intro scene to the apple schtrudel bit to the drunken German scene to the revenge of the giant face and the last laugh with Brad Pitt... Tarantino is genius and for once he WASN'T celebrating the evil...still managed to get it through without looking preachy/goody!
Misc. Stuff (Very Important Misc. Stuff)
~Bought my car back.... it's mine mine mine all mine (just need the RTO authorities to concur now, but never mind that!)
~Fell head over feet over & over again (never-ending fucking abyss, absolute, amorous abyss)... he'd already won me over in spite of me...
~Lost "friends" a.k.a. they were gone when I turned around to see "what's up?"... scampered away surreptitiously... little rats (I AM allowed to say that now, I KNOW! Trust me, I'm allowed to say that!)
~Found the ones that truly accept me for my madness, my whims, my choices, my happiness! My precious... :)
~Genie's last surgery happened... last attempt to curb the cancer... another tumor and she retires in peace! But for now she's flouncy and excited as ever, will to live is admirable!
~Switched career paths... pays less, keeps me happy more (since disillusionment hasn't set in just yet), it's awesome, as I said, I'm happy
~Started trading & saving: courtesy SuperDad! Shares, markets, demat accounts, articles on buy-sell-hold etc etc.... he's got it all analyzed, I just sit there while he talks and wait for "bottomline- buy it"
~ Became a regular contributor of a women's webzine- Savadati, featured on their "Best of Sa"
~Saw best friend leave the country, we're in touch (not a big fan of keeping in touch, me, but I try coz it's the only way)... miss her more than ever
~All-girls trip to Manali, Rohtang times two, scoring, balcony overlooking the loud-raging-Beas, bonding, marriage-vs-spinsterhood (word exists?)
~Boy(s) trip to Rishikesh, Udaipur-Jaipur (original plan: Udaipur only, got to Jodhpur House so late, no direct bus to Jaipur), "Sohna-hahah-ha", Doon-Masoori, last but not the least, Bombayyyyy (going mad with horns @ Juhu Beach, next time I'm getting alien horrorscope done, losing my Leos virginity, BadeMiya chicken on Marine Drive, parental pressure, kisses from 1st to 11th floor, Sea Link, lighter checks at both airports, love all over again)
~ Bought acrylics, painted... random shades, themes, nothing even remotely nice, but felt good to hold a paintbrush once more... next up, painting my moods away :)
~ Shifted homes... nicer, sexed out terrace, my OWN room (myspace.in)
~ Got a crazy haircut- curly all over, diagonal front bangs super straight, blufer died of shock, concealed it with a grunt and "hmm..so how long does this last?"
~ Goa-secret-pledge *dreamy smile*
Twenty-ten has been here for a week and I already have:
~ Painted some more
~ Attended a typical Delhi rooftop party NYE night
~ Broke my Juhu horns :'(
~ Won two tickets to Sherlock Homes exclusive screening (luck strikes after 23.93 yrs), went with Mommy
~ On my way to paying back SuperDad all that I owe him
~ Wrote an article for a website-startup (cash register ringing in me eyesssiessss)
Ok byebyethanx for now
Wishing for another crazy year and hopefully a giant vacation outside the country (save-save-save-spend-spend-splurge-shop-shop-sleep-savor)
Books I Read in 2009 (off the top off my cuckoo head):
~ Tales from 1001 Arabian Nights
~ The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories- F. Scott Fitzgerald
~ Roald Dahl's ultimate treasury (stories, illustrations, poems, excerpts)
~ Ground Beneath Her Feet (Salman Rushdie)
~ Ravan & Eddie- Kiran Nagarkar
~ Potpourri- Ruskin Bond
~ Under the Banyan Tree & Other Stories- R.K. Narayan
~ The Vagina Monologues- Eve Ensler
~ Five Past Midnight in Bhopal
...And then there were some that I'm currently reading (3 books at a time- so one is placed by my bed, one is carried to work and a third is in the living room in case I get bored of the tube... can't handle more than 3 and invariably I focus too much on one as it grips me by the forearm and yanks my yielding whole into the myriad world of life love laughter lust lamentation)... digressing, digressing! Yes, so 3 books that overflowed to 2010:
~Saadat Hassan Manto's Bitter Fruit (heart soul slice of 1940s Indian filmdom- breathtaking, letters to Uncle Sam- wry, witty and hilarious),
~The second is Chowringhee (by my bedside, but somehow I carry Bitter Fruit from bag to bed shamelessly, it's almost done now so orange-covered Chowringhee is where I'll dwell next), and
~The third is Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot (2nd Dostoevsky I'm sinking into!)
Next is what (Samsung's random ad campaign... why would I want to write that... but not allowing myself to mentally delete-format-edit... verbal vomit and you get to read... evil huuaahahaha)... Movies I watched in the past year (mostly everything that released @ DT VK, PVR Select):
~Aloo Chat- surprisingly awesome, we went due to lack of choice bestfriend-crazyluvboy-me, walked out laughing our asses off and recommending it to the rest of the world. Yeah, we're 31% responsible for the word-of-mouth publicity and subsequent success of this low-on-budget, high-on-humor film
~T3- why god why????!!! I asked a logical question during the interval (on the travelling into the past and future and landing back continuum) and my friends shushed me coz "ours is not to reason why, ours is just to watch & die"
~Blue Oranges- Yeah, we thought we'd follow up Aloo Chat with another one of those low budget wonders... only the boy who took us to the movie "liked" it, but I saw him yawn exactly 12 times in the 1st half (I dozed off in the 2nd half)... and I counted the yawns as I was so grateful for him to let us experience this movie marvel, that I couldn't take my eyes off his face (laser beam eyes going thru his cerebrum to determine whether torture-my-friends section was bouncing with joy yet!)
~ The Hangover- Walked in 15mins 36 seconds, thus breaking his golden rule of arrive-3o-mins-before-a-movie-buy-popcorn-n-finish-half-before-you-reach-your-seat... angry glares throughout the movie... secretly saw it a 2nd time and loved it both times :)
~Blue, Ajab Ghajab- sad sad sad, can't tell you how much
~Wake Up Sid, Pocket Mein Rocket- nice nice nice (if I say it three times, it counters the lukewarm effect the word has, ok!)
~Planet Terror (on DVD)- mixed emotions, funny by the end of it, takes awhile to get used to the scum (for me atleast)
~How can I forget Inglourious Basterds- words are not enough... from the poster to the intro scene to the apple schtrudel bit to the drunken German scene to the revenge of the giant face and the last laugh with Brad Pitt... Tarantino is genius and for once he WASN'T celebrating the evil...still managed to get it through without looking preachy/goody!
Misc. Stuff (Very Important Misc. Stuff)
~Bought my car back.... it's mine mine mine all mine (just need the RTO authorities to concur now, but never mind that!)
~Fell head over feet over & over again (never-ending fucking abyss, absolute, amorous abyss)... he'd already won me over in spite of me...
~Lost "friends" a.k.a. they were gone when I turned around to see "what's up?"... scampered away surreptitiously... little rats (I AM allowed to say that now, I KNOW! Trust me, I'm allowed to say that!)
~Found the ones that truly accept me for my madness, my whims, my choices, my happiness! My precious... :)
~Genie's last surgery happened... last attempt to curb the cancer... another tumor and she retires in peace! But for now she's flouncy and excited as ever, will to live is admirable!
~Switched career paths... pays less, keeps me happy more (since disillusionment hasn't set in just yet), it's awesome, as I said, I'm happy
~Started trading & saving: courtesy SuperDad! Shares, markets, demat accounts, articles on buy-sell-hold etc etc.... he's got it all analyzed, I just sit there while he talks and wait for "bottomline- buy it"
~ Became a regular contributor of a women's webzine- Savadati, featured on their "Best of Sa"
~Saw best friend leave the country, we're in touch (not a big fan of keeping in touch, me, but I try coz it's the only way)... miss her more than ever
~All-girls trip to Manali, Rohtang times two, scoring, balcony overlooking the loud-raging-Beas, bonding, marriage-vs-spinsterhood (word exists?)
~Boy(s) trip to Rishikesh, Udaipur-Jaipur (original plan: Udaipur only, got to Jodhpur House so late, no direct bus to Jaipur), "Sohna-hahah-ha", Doon-Masoori, last but not the least, Bombayyyyy (going mad with horns @ Juhu Beach, next time I'm getting alien horrorscope done, losing my Leos virginity, BadeMiya chicken on Marine Drive, parental pressure, kisses from 1st to 11th floor, Sea Link, lighter checks at both airports, love all over again)
~ Bought acrylics, painted... random shades, themes, nothing even remotely nice, but felt good to hold a paintbrush once more... next up, painting my moods away :)
~ Shifted homes... nicer, sexed out terrace, my OWN room (myspace.in)
~ Got a crazy haircut- curly all over, diagonal front bangs super straight, blufer died of shock, concealed it with a grunt and "hmm..so how long does this last?"
~ Goa-secret-pledge *dreamy smile*
Twenty-ten has been here for a week and I already have:
~ Painted some more
~ Attended a typical Delhi rooftop party NYE night
~ Broke my Juhu horns :'(
~ Won two tickets to Sherlock Homes exclusive screening (luck strikes after 23.93 yrs), went with Mommy
~ On my way to paying back SuperDad all that I owe him
~ Wrote an article for a website-startup (cash register ringing in me eyesssiessss)
Ok byebyethanx for now
Wishing for another crazy year and hopefully a giant vacation outside the country (save-save-save-spend-spend-splurge-shop-shop-sleep-savor)
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