pHotOgENic

if you've crossed 22 and your an indian female, i'm pretty sure that at some point, some well meaning person has asked you for your photograph.

usually the well meaning person is your mum. and OBVIOUSLY the reason she wants your photograph is .. well ... you know.
btw i hate shaadi.com and their relentless advertizing on sony and zee. i just wish. just wish my mother had never heard of internet marriage sites. if not, i wish she didnt know enough about the internet so that I could tell her that you don't get shaadi.com in the US.
like sun tv.

"no ma, its available only in india. i CANNOT upload photographs from P_______"

i wish i was that lucky.

i really hate that whole process. ya know? u are supposed to go to a studio. pose in a natural way , that looks totally artificial. saw a couple of my snaps of my friends. man its so undignified.
you know those christmas postcards where they make the dog or cat wear a santa hat or antlers or something. and you feel sooooooo sorry for the undignified state of the animal.
THAT's exactly how i feel when i see my friends , my dear dear friends in those snaps.

The one and only time i had ever taken one of those was the result of blackmail.
i wouldn't be given funding for my US trip if i didn't get that snap.
it was a total italian mafia deal.

"i'll sign 2 documents if you'll give me 6 snaps in different poses"
"sign 2 documents, 4 snaps and i get to choose the poses"
"done"
"done"

after that, i've managed to ignore all pleas, threats, blackmail attempts, crying dramas, the wrath of god, etc
ofcourse i'm condemned to atleast 127 years of bad luck and heaps of korean and brazillian curses now.

:-/