ok so i've started. blogging from vancouver as we speak.
the last one week has been packed! with a capital P. meetings , working lunches, more meetings and team dinners. listening to a lot of ppl speak, talking and getting bludgeoned. :-/
on the bright side, we had the meetings in a golf course on tuesday and it was gr8! was on the driving range for the first time! :) ha! it was hilarious.
omg i don't know what i was thinking when i booked my flights! 6 hrs layover in vancouver, 4 hours in seoul, and then reaching beijing 24 hrs after i depart. on the way to india i have god knows how many hours layover. something's wrong with my brain. it just doesn't convert flight timings, landing times and flight durations correctly. mebe that's why ive been telling ppl i land 2-4 hours after i actually land. its a disaster if i have to be picked up.
its one of the main reasons i hate to book flights. have this horrid fear that i might have booked the wrong dates. also i'm getting a creeping thought in my head. did i leave the gas range on?? how will i know?? i don't have any recollection of switching it on. but then i dont have very good recollection now, do i??? aaaaaahrgh.
vancouver isn't so bad. larger population of chinkis than i'm used to. but nice empty airport. and nice open spaces and no ppl around. ok so i admit that's what i like best about a place :D no ppl around.
ok now i hope they don't arrest me for taking pics of the airport! gtg!
have you ever stopped to wonder how the world has changed ?? i mean not since time began, but since the last 100 yrs or so? ok mebe from lil more before ??
i'm watching VH1, and i'm thinking to myself.. wtf??
ok so we came from being primitive tribal ppl, to some kind of .. normal looking ppl?? i dunno. ok then the victorian wierdo phase where everyone was covered up all over. ok ok am talking of the western world, not exactly "we" but its easier for me to tell a story this way, so hang on before you start spamming me about how i'm forgetting i'm indian. but i digress...
and now. NOW, we have something like lady gaag on tv, with beyonce, wearing bikinis and thongs and looking butt ugly and not caring. and prancing around ( helloooo that can't be dancing?? are you serious?? ) actually i like the song. don't get me wrong. but the videos??? :O
wat the eff!! its all semi naked women, and outlandish wierd clothes. and man is she butt ugly. and then all of them wearing wonder woman kind of costumes and...
oh man this is a sad sad century. don't think i'll switch on VH1 for a long long time !
Well what do you know, I'm blogging from the new iPad !!!!!
Aw shucks now I know what I said earlier.. But ....ok so I'm still on the fence a bit. It's very cool and all, and I can surf and type as fast as I can on a normal keyboard (ok let's go back and heck the typos :P) but I don't know if I really want to carry this around with me along with my laptop and phone and wallet and iPod. Phew thats a full bag.
But still its a really fancy we browsing device.
:)
Ooooh ooh btw I walked bout 6 miles today. Ran a little, walked a little.. But I feel good :)
Work is getting more hectic than ever. Actually, losing my mind is more like it!! Oh well. Oohh ooh btw off to china end of the month. Looks like it s happening. Found out I need a Canadian visa to transit through there. Which is stupid!!!!! Ok Canada transit visa check. Book hotel check. Pack clothes check.
FAA. I wish I cud take my net book with me when I'm traveling. Wud be cool.
with my once neat house now looking like a gollum's nesting bed... well with it looking like a natural disaster survivor's zone.. i just want to hide under the bed.
sigh. made panneer bhurji ( ok what I call panneer bhurji) the other day. came out pretty nice. not so nice were the questionable chapatis that i made. admittedly, they were more than a few days old. and i was taking a 'risk'. but when they turned out orange.. well i was really skeptical. but what the hell. i'm going to china.
who knows what i'll end up eating there !!
so .. i ate the rusty colored orangy chapatis and well. its been 2 days. i'm still alive.
speaking of peanuts, why the heck was i pouring milk INTO my peanut butter jar???!!??
oh wait, did i tell you that story already??
or about how, i was sending pictures of myself in my new clothes, that i shopped for yesterday and i started off, with one pic of me in my old clothes just so i could "baseline" the results???
:O
its very clear.. i'm losing my mind!
i might be going to beijing, but it couldn't have happened at a worse time.
its exciting, but what do you do when the universe makes the process as miserable as possible. i mean ok, its I***** thats making me as miserable as possible.
sigh.. its a long story and i shall tell u now.
week 1 - memorial day , a wonderful weekend for fun. family coming to pdx. plans all set. outlook is good. next week going to india, booked the tickets, outlook is good.
week 2 - manager comes with plan to go to beijing, says no other dates available. think of cancelling which on hindsight i should have done. but think of making superhuman effort and managing both beijing and india trip. really stretching my abilities here..
week 3 - find out, now i need to cancel memorial day plan too. life sucks.
week 4,5 - amex quotes 4k for new trip. admin will have coronary if i book it that way. so do some searching find the best possible deal online and book it off. phew one big prob is solved.
week 6 - book the hotel instead of reserving it. oops. didn't do enough research and ended up booking a hotel at thrice the price listed. major ooops :(
week 7 - find out that transiting through canada on my cheap ticket and need a TRANSIT VISA even if i stay on the darn tarmac. call the super expensive hotel and find out, i need to call china to cancel...... aaaaaaaaaargh......
sigh. ok the weeks may not be really weeks. more like my own timelines. but watever. u get the point.
i ask u one thing. when ARE the good times supposed to start?? shouldnt they have started by this time ??? huh? huh???
oh man, i am sooo living up to my name as the QoD :(
i have seen the face of the kernel and let me tell you this...
IT'S NOT PRETTY!!
gaaaah. last week was so frustrating. one side was P the abominable and the other side was V the weak.
let me tell you a story.. there was once a manager called P. and she was a lil.. ok a lot crazy. and then there was her minion V the one with the weak chin.
while one complained of the tyranny of the other, all i wanted to do was learn how to work and get it done. after lying dormant for 4 yrs, finally my workaholic self surfaced and wouldn't take "lets just chuck this and go home" for an answer. late nights in the office, and many-many-hours-sacrificed-to-the-lab-daemon later...
well the work got done. and the daemon was satisfied.
PHEW. now my head aches and i want to take a week long vacation.
whoa kernel level s/w debugging is hard. REAL hard. the rest of the stuff?? its peanuts!!
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wait a sec!! i just won a netbook in an office raffle. that is WIERD man! i mean i'm normal! i've never won anything!!!
:O
what's happening ???? and why is the universe trying to screw with my head???
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was reading pibgorn comics over the weekend. as my love of books is rekindled.. then i feel... i feel like i'm meeting an old friend for coffee and chatting over all the past yrs we've spent apart.
^_^ yaaay!! i shall leave you ppl to do the exciting things like skiing and ... and... skiing. and dancing. leave me to my books and i shall be forever content.
hmmm. i dunno. i'm still iffy about it. i still think its very cool. it was smaller than i expected. the only reason its bigger is coz of the screen size. i dunno how i would carry it around or hold it while standing to read.. i mean almost all the ads show ppl propping it on their laps right?
hmm well i still dunno.. mebe its just coz i expect so much from them. i really wanted to see holographic 3D projector displays this decade :P
now THAT would be cool.
but still right now its really cool to read magazines and comics on the ipad. ( i still think its a stupid name ) i can't wait to think of all the stupid variations that clueless men will come out with.. i mean the other companies, including the one i work for. like smartpad. i mean "WHAT the Heck!!" can't u guys just pick a better name!!!
these days i have a new pastime. ( oh my ADD does come in handy sometime )
its fun to learn something just becoz you want to or can. so i asked my mom what she remembered about my learning dance during childhood. and she was like - "ummm.... your face was good"
uhhhhhh
"what!!"
"you mean to say i learnt dance, for 8 yrs and thats all that was good in the end??"
"my Face!!"
"i mean COME OOONNNN!! my face is usually just wierd smiling grimace or stoic in such dances. i mean what about the rest , like the hands or the legs.. aaah phooey. "
well A, has started a dance club. i'm like whoa! thats new. what do you guys do out there? and apparently the first class was all about the rules. how only A would put the steps and the rest would show no dissent, and how the rules would not be broken and everyone would be very dedicated.... I was vaguely reminded of high school or was it elementry school, when there would be the couple of popular girls and they would always... i mean ALWAYS start a group. and that group would be soo coool. and everyone wanted to join... yeaaaaahhh.. i think i'm a lil too old for high school again and playing dressup.
anyways its good, but i politely declined. besides its not my thing u know. the organized listening to a leader thing. :P and i know.. i JUST know.. i'd be itching to lead the first mutiny across ranks :D hehe
and A's bf bought a beemer. well!! apparently the red color Z4 which they flew to salt lake to drive back was quite the bargain at 24k. i'm like... amazed!! he sold his honda civic and bought the beemer. brilliant idea, why didn't i think of it??
and now he has a yamaha bike, a set of skis, an electronic drumkit and a bmw. lives in a nice independent house , with his gf and best friend. hey, some ppl live lives, you know what i'm saying? life couldn't get any more perfect. ( touchwood ) and yes i am touching my head to ward of any evil eyes. ( oh reason! so easily defeated by dumb superstition )
wonderful weather, lotta work, crazy days, beautiful skies, friends getting engaged/ falling in love, having fun, what more can one ask for?
Happy b'day R, and congrats on getting engaged. congrats S on ur baby. congrats M&D on ur new baby congrats A on ur baby. ufff too much happening around me. makes me feel like burrowiing myself deeper into my cave.
ok so i moved, and ok so it sometimes feels like a cave. fffffpppffft
huff man this baby shower is going out of hand, ya know. baby showers are not really my thing. i mean all the baby food tasting games ( uuuurgh ) and a whole afternoon of baby talk and baby stuff. its gonna be a very painful weekend.
sigh. ok. i shall brace myself. take a deep breath and somehow survive this weekend.
is it me, or has there been a glut of ads showing women how to solve their bloating, gas, constipation, irregularity , etc etc problems.
why is the US suddenly obsessed with the ... uhhh.... regularity of women?? and what the heck are they trying to tell us?? its even more confusing coz it comes directly after an ad for hamburgers.
really?? activa. blah blah beano, and its all for women!! wat exactly are they trying to tell us???
:O
************ this part was supposed to be a full post wall by itself and it would have been called - why does my friend have 3 cabbage heads in his kitchen? but mebe thats a bit too long. i mean really? why does someone who lives alone, find the need to go out and buy 3 std sized cabbage heads? ( i will not exaggerate, its not super large or anything, just normal sized) isn't one good enough? this is just cabbage hell.
this is real life true btw. yup yup yup.
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i am now completely integrated into my team. total intel person, team member. that's me. i look like a sleep deprived crazy person with my hair sticking in all directions. and looking a little dazed and i'd blink in surprise if you pushed me out of the building into the sunlight.
well heard it on the radio - the script. and i kinda like it.
its been a hard couple of days for almost everyone i know. its been a hard couple of weeks for almost everyone i know. its been a hard couple of months for almost everyone i know. ok its been a hard couple of years for everyone i know. sigh!
well here's to hoping the rest of 2010 isn't as crappy as the first quarter. and really if its just gonna get worse, then i can't take this till 2012!!! u know... coz the world is just gonna end then. :D
today even the security guard of my building noticed that i walk with my head down since the yr started. ofcourse its usually work and i'm thinking about how to solve my next thing on my todos or making a mental tally of what i have going on. but since this is the second time, that someone has asked me to not look like i'm walking the last mile....
i don't really remember having carefree days, i guess i'm just not the kind of person to not have cares. darn cares!! but then i wasnt the kind of person to be not smiling like a cheerful idiot either.
oh well till then we have music and mebe u should just go carpe the hell out of ur diem.
oh btw a russian guy sent me a rose today.
ok ok only a picture of a rose. but it WAS a nice rose.
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honest to god, this was an ad on craigslist.
$40.00 OBO This TV stand made me popular, this TV stand changed my life, and I want it to change your life as well. When I got this stand I was a short weak little man... Now I am strong like Moose. Let this stand change your life... Invite it into your life and will will change you, put it down, put your TV on it, and watch the good times come rolling in. It has 3 amazing glass shelves that can hold anything... Like Glitter, DVD's, Hopes, Dreams, Wishes, Stereo Equipment...I will also include with purchase all rights of awesome that may come about due to purchase of this... But I will take no responsibilities for any misuse of it's powers, or ill ju-ju that comes from the purchase, like if your wife, girlfriend, husband, boyfriend, gardner, pool boy etc... start to love this more than you...
like seriously, wtf?? lol *****
i have a few questions to my roomie. namely why are there 3 large cabbage heads in the fridge. like seriously, wtf?? who's gonna eat all that cabbage???
so i got my car serviced today. and after a reallly long time, it actually runs like how it's supposed to. in fact, to use inappropriate metaphors like Dan Brown, it's as smooth as dark soy chocolate milk flowing down your throat on a hot summer day.
ha! u thot i was gonna talk about K purring like a kitten. didn't you?? weeeellllll, i can neither confirm nor deny that rumour, and neither can i confirm nor deny the involvement of a large containment of chocolates that might or might not have exchanged hands for my silence on that matter. oh ha! you'r not gonna get any info THAT easily. but yumm these chocolates are deLISH!!
on another note. i DID get my car serviced, my ISP moved over. shifting is well under way. the total cost of me getting bored and moving out of my house is turning into quite a large number 200 to cancel verizon 400 for my car - ok its not really related. but i just like adding large numbers 300 for my tooth - wat exactly does this have to do with me moving again ? xxx for new bed ? xxx for new couch ? i wonder what's a good price. should i buy, shouldn't i?? aaaah decisions decisions.
i also signed up for a house on the ground floor. and all those who know my penchant for forgetting to lock doors, close windows.. [ mebe declaring this on a public website and one that's SO widely read isn't such a great idea.... ] wooops.
but i'm excited. finally moving to MY space after ... uuhhh lets see. FOUR years. well that took awhile. phew!
and finally have a proper kitchen for the first time in my life. [ i don't consider one counter, or a kitchen that i share with other humans, as a proper kitchen. ] only I shall rule in MY domain. :D muahahahaha [ oh that's just something new i've picked up.. my evil laugh. hillarious isn't it?? i know !!]
ok so. i shall set this house in my image [ oooh not pretty ] and i shall set this kitchen to reflect my food habits [ which means bread, jam and pasta in the pantry? ] and the living room shall be a sweet haven of comfort [ currently have NO living room furniture except for a floor cushion. ppl who come to my house, be ready to sit on top of each other on the floor cushion. ] and the bedroom shall soothe even the most tired person who will be lulled to the land of dreams... [ i don't like the thermostat, so its usually freeze-ur-butt-off-cold-ass freezing in my bedroom. ]
maybe I envy you. you with your smiles and charm and the ability to say the perfect thing. or maybe you even care? i wouldn't know... I was like that till the mid 2000's. with the usual. "oooh nice outfit", or "ooooh nice wall hangings" or "oooh nice pulao, you cook awesome food".
with the being polite, and the constant lying. all the time, white lies to make ppl feel better. and observing more and more ppl, doing that and getting disillusioned coz it was almost like second nature. it didn't even bother anyone. a white lie here, a wihte lie in their day and they didnt even give it a second thought. so ingrained in their lives, and nature's that it came out .. all smooth as better and so what if it was just empty words that basically was just sound to fill airwaves??
ENOUGH.
and THAT's when i gave up, turned around, looked them dead in the eye, and said .... "ugh, i hate coconut. no i wouldn't like to taste those macaroons." "it doesnt look good on you." and sometimes the "you look ugly in pink" "WHO made that swan crochet thingy??? its hideous!"
whatever came to my mind.
ofcourse it didn't make me POPULAR. it made me a social nuisance. coz i wasn't playing the games anymore. all the stupid games ppl play. ofcourse i had awkward moments. and ok i didn't lose my sanity completely, so i didn't say EVERYTHING on my mind.
but i lost that natural ability to be charming and say those lil white lies. now it's natural to me to say the truth. and THAT's dangerous. coz no one wants to hear it. not even me from other ppl.
and since i can't bear to take the responsibility for any of my actions ( :P childish and immature, yes yes ) and yes, maybe its coz my tolerance for stupidity is really decreasing to new lows.... i completely blame this on all the ppl i was hanging out for the last couple of yrs. continuous exposure to fakeness and fake smiles and showing fake concern, i think THAT's wat really snapped my mind.
and suuuuuuure i embarrass myself sometimes. boy!! do i!! i dunno if i really want to be like you again. i'm not sure i want to go back to uttering those crappy inanities. what i really wish, was i genuinely liked those things or genuinely cared about it. N was like that, and that's why i used to like him. until he got a gf and she tamed him. zero social skills. its a surprisingly light way to live. where your not bothered by the layers and layers of complex social skills, that we learn from childhood, so we can be one of the herd.
aargh hate being one of the herd.
but once again, i'm just rambling by now.
so anyways, i'll go back to at least controlling my truths to myself. i mean who really cares if i think ur center pieces are hideous. u didn't ask for my opinion right? and i need to make it an instinct to keep my mouth shut. and i guess that's the next step. sigh.
so much to learn, so much time to goof up till i do!!
poor S. trying to make me watch some show on TV, or read it online in the manga format for the last couple of months...
poor S, doesnt know that constant pestering and insisting i do something doesn't make me more inclined to do it but in fact WOULD make me more inclined to hiss, spit and claw some furniture...
dude, really give it a rest. i'm NOT gonna watch a show that has 400 episodes and has still not finished.
***** gosh this has been a long week. and only coz i spent last week on stumpleupon; god's gift to procrastination. :P
got my yearly review back from M who as u all have already met is my manager. after the usual complaints, that i shud do this and do that ( less procrastination ) he said one of the main comments he had was my written communication skills were poor.
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< awkward silence >
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< crickets chirping >
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< me staring blankly at him >
really? REALLY? my spoken communication is good? and my written communication is terrible??
sigh... i wonder where i can go to learn some written "formal" english.
ps: the only official stuff i've written in a yr out here is my status reports which goes like this. today i did this. yest i did that. and the day before i tried this and miserably failed.
******* i wonder how he can do it. the guy sitting next to me, i mean in the next cubicle. How he can go from meeting to meeting repeating the same information to different ppl. so much for being a planner. ha! if he had planned it better, he cud have said what he had to say ONCE or put it clearly in an EMAIL in "very proper formal english".
really i might just stab him in the eye one of these days with this fork.right this very fork thats on my desk right here.
aargh, go to a conference room you... you... planner!!
:D
******* its sunny out today. and seriously! its hard to stay in a foul mood, when its sunny outside. and while i blink slowly and turn towards the sun, like a sunflower, just so i can soak up some rays. i feel a little less like a vampire.
^_^
yaay sunny days are here again. i don't care wat mother nature says, its officially spring in my book and i'm packin away my winter gear!!
many ppl , that is really many many ppl asked me many questions about the wedding. one of them was - "whyyyyy aren't you smiling in any of the reception snaps??????? it's ONLYEEE once in a life time [ well we don't know that, and while chances are that i wouldn't want to go thru THAT again, it cud be arranged.. mebe a second reception !! :O ]! and you'll never get that day again!"
well, the short answer to that is - i was reaaaaaaaaaaaallly tired as the reception was the next day and i didn't have time to recover from the wedding.
the long answer is - i was actually frowning in concentration trying to decide if i was gonna faint, and if i did, the best angle to do that. see, now when skinny ppl faint, they look all airy and dainty and fragile. when .. ahem 'healthy' ppl faint - that too on stage, they look like a sack of burnin hot potatoes. and then i'd have to field the inevitable questions, and wise ass remarks. "i hope the stage didn't crack" "i hope the earth didn't crack" "did we just have an earth quake?"
haha very funny guys. yes , so i was calculating many things in my mind. there are lots of logistics to fainting u know.. right side, left side. away from the crazy person who just grabbed my hand to shake it. back at my seat? falling towards K is surely a recipe for falling flat on my face as he seems to be busy shaking random person i dunno #447's hand. hmmm..
so u see, no wonder i wasn't smiling in any of the pics.
so you saw the announcement. for the first time i actually actively refreshed my pages every few seconds to get the live blogging and live twitter or watever updates. now as a technophobe , i don't generally like dpoing that, but in this instance i reaaally needed to procrastinate in the office and pretend i was working.. but not actually work...
so iPad. hmm.. can't say i really like the name. i mean what was wrong with iSlate? that sounds so cool.. like some transformer robot. but iPad? reminds me of my ahem... crazy days of the month. [ yes yes my period, can we grow up? ]
iPad. iPad.. hmmm.
oh well. it still feels like a mutated iPod. iPad.iPod. egad. its getting worse. i dunno. after seeing the stuff that i'm working on and knowing a bit about the future of this market. i'm ... hmm.. not really impressed?
i mean its ok? but guess i just have impossible expectations. and this isn't gonna change the world or anything. its another step. doesn't feel like a major leap like the ipod was. [ can you spell "w-a-l-k-m-a-n" ??? ]
looks like the kindle is out. boy on behalf of the trees, i thank both the maxiPad ...ooops i mean iPad and the kindle for saving our lives.
ps: and b4 u start screaming at me, yes the title was taken from some random comment i saw online about the iPad announcement. aargh i hate that name!!
After years and years of brooding about marriages, poking fun at relatives ( yes including my mum ) and berating the system. now i'm a part of it.
and i always suspected that after the dooms day, i'd not have much to say.
well just as i supsected , hic, i was right. i'm all out of.. hic, steam.
that reminds me of things that happened while i was back home.. it wasn't too bad. except for the endless line of instructions on how to sit. what to wear, how to stand, how to walk, what to eat. wat to say and what not to do. it was a continous tug of war, between my free will to live and ppl who wanted me to be the perfect bride. a bridezilla. yup the perfect bride is a bridezilla.
so i was supposed to take a head bath everyday in under 10 min and tie my wet hair up... to get a headache and ...[ hey! i paid close to half a grand for my awesome hairstyle. u show me the money, before i let u anywhere close to it... ]. but anyways i did. so i was supposed to wear a bindi, wear bangles, wear a heavy chain and basically be a walking temptation to all thieves. so i did. so i was supposed to be happy 24x7 even with ppl telling me that my husband would now be my god, and i depended on him for realizing my happiness. [ ok i did not/ could not do that, but i didn't hit them on the head either... so i think i'm even steven ] so i was supposed to wear sari's every day. well.. ok. i did. but then they were like.. OMG, we can see ur stomach. HELLOoooo its like.. a sari??? and itz umm like HOT?? like a 100 degrees in here.. and helooo its my stomach. even u have a stomach. why the heck are you freaking out ??? heyy.. no touching me.. all hands off...you know shows less skin??? SALWARS or bloomin shirts and trousers... >_<... HEYY i SAID hands off of me!!!
so i was supposed to do this and do that.. and if not, the wrath of hellfire on my head. well mostly the wrath of this ONE aunt of mine. and after everything was done. "where's the flowers" "what flowers" "you are a bride to be. u gotta have half a kilo of flowers on ur head everyday" so i did.
and after 3 years of living on my own, on basically being this social outcast and not caring wat ppl said i did and doing my own thing, i found it REEEEAAALLY hard to listen with a straight face and not smacking someone. so i HAVE to thank L, for being there so i cud vent to her. and for being my maid of honor kinds and letting me blow off some steam.
and so i walked around advising my younger cousin sisters to elope and generally trying to create other kinds of mayhem by not combing my hair like they wanted me to.. [ yaaa i'm a rebel, i refuse to plait my hair.. jeez man. haha u can't catch me.. ha! i refuse to eat rice.. i'll starve but won't give in. oh its the little things that make life worth living ]
but otherwise it was good. note to self: never EVER get married again. or next time, just elope.
i don't understand twitter. i understand wanting to follow some famous personality through their day. yup i'd be interested to know wat AA had for breakfast and if i could have the exact same thing and feel good about myself.
ya riiiiight.
so anyways i kind of fried my computer yest. it started off with a virus ( i think ) or internet explorer. one of the 2. and i tried to fix it by installing something called bit defender. but after that my computer did like... nothing for an hour.. so then i tried to delete symantic.. and a bunch of other stuff. and my computer .. like crashed a couple of times... there was some ... swearing and some ppl got a lil upset ( me ) and finally i ended up doing something after which my desktop does not show up. neither does the taskbar or the quick launch. and then i tried somethign and now i think i deleted the network drivers.
what i REALLY think happened is that symantic and bit defender were having all out war and they fried my computer from the inside. had nothing to do with me going and removing files willy nilly. oh no no no , not at all.
anyways its a good excuse for me to get ubuntu on my comp.
note to self: swimming with dolphins, sillhoutte. i just like the name of the group coz i want to swim with dolphins too.
note to self : saltwater room, owl city nice lyrics.
saw a movie yest. ok i admit it i'm like REALLY behind on my movies. luck by chance. interesting. its nice to see such movies if only for the fact that they're experimenting. and they found a realistic way of introducing songs into the movie, other than the usual dreaming sequence and sudden cuts away from the story line.
right now i'm thinking that i'm glad i haven't gotten into the habit of calling K , hubby. the word is too close to chubby and dubby. and really.. why wud u put someone u actually like through the embarrassment of being called "Hubby" in public?
i'm thinking i'm also glad that i don't call him "pooh bear".... seems to be there's a lot i can be thankful for.. and it looks like K has even MORE to be thankful for. ;P
yes yes i know i'm supposed to be wishing you a happy new yr.
i'm supposed to be doing a lot of other stuff too. like writing my '10 goals and writing this driver software thingy so that the other thingy works.
and i'm supposed to be finding some stuff i really really want, online. like a second hand guitar. < hint hint to anyone who wants to buy me a second hand guitar, here is my address... oh shush u know you'd like free stuff too >
but i don't want to specifically wish you a happy new yr. thats kind of like saying i wish all the ppl i don't know an especially crappy new yr. i mean why can't i just say, i wish the whole world a happy new yr and go back to sleep? makes it a lot simpler doesn't it.
pffft OFCOURSE i'm rambling coz i'm trying to find a way to kill time at work, after i'm done for the day. get back to watever ur supposed to be doing willya?
oh and i guess i wish you an ecstatic new yr [ just cz u read till here :P ]
true true. and while anything i say will just sound like a soppy bunch of excuses [ bunch of soppy excuses? ] , it IS true that the weather has been very very dreary, and i seem to be competing with local bears on how much more sleep time i can clock this winter ( 15 16 14 15.5 hours this last 4 days ). Even actually managed to weather some pounding on the door from concerned roommate, several calls from ppl wanting to know wat i'm up to [ i'm SLEEPING. now go away ] and missed mealtimes. if that doesn't make me an hororary Oregonian bear, i don't know what will.
meanwhile on the topic of the climate, we have blah.. and just more blah heading towards us for the next 4 months. i toy with the idea of going to the coast to storm watch, even toy with the idea of setting off towards the west till i hit the coast and just throwing myself over [ for the sheer heck of it ].
on the wedding front. like i said last time , a whole bunch of ppl asking me how the wedding was. [ seriously? i've just blocked it from my mind as a traumatic experience. ] i also made myself highly unpopular by grabbing hold of passing by younger cousins , looking at them with a crazed look in my eye and screaming at them "when its ur turn, for the Love of GOD, ELOPE. run like the wind when they come for you!!! aargh" this was right before they dragged me through another long and leg cramping ritual.
i also did my best to whine, sulk and in-general make my husband's life miserable during the process. just as a precursor to how his life wud be for the next 50 yrs... [ hey u drag me through 40 districts to various places in 2 weeks, i'll just return the favor and make it as unpleasant a journey as possible ] so we have one month down and 49 years 11 months more of annoying-my-husband-out-of-his-wits-days to go. yaaay!!
aaah marriage... fun....
well so back to the India trip. i didn't keep notes and everything is now just a hazy blur... so i can't tell for sure.. but ofcourse there was drama. ofcourse there was an epic journey leaving tirumala, hours before a total Andhra meltdown, being sick ON that journey and being very filmy about it. and ofcourse there was suspense and comedy and drama and some women got all senti and cried in the wedding. [ i've heard women do that. get emotional i mean ] and ofcourse i almost cried too [ when they removed my headgear, i cud have wept for joy at the sheer relief of it ]
and ofcourse there are pics. and more pics and gifts and wierd pranks that cousins tried to play on us, and flopped unfortunately. [ for them i mean. i mean whoever heard of talcum powder over a fan. that thing disappeared like fairy dust dood ]
then there was the journey back. which was like some purgatory punishment from God, for HE knows wat reason. we stayed back in the darn airport for 24 hrs , i'm sorry am i repeating myself? well watever we got back.
and then i slept for a week and got up 8 days later.
ooooh i never told you bout my crazy uncle's one who dressed up as a very good looking transvestite and the other in a burkha and came to the wedding reception and freaked quite some ppl out. now we know where the crazy gene's come from. that was fun!
well its almost done. i can see the finishing line. and as the dust of the past few days settles, i look back at amazement at all the travelling/ eating/ meeting and greeting that i've done.
and yes, i've been getting the questions, how is married life. when is the wedding ( its been 10 days AFTER the wedding ) , how is it being happily-married, how is s*x, how is... the great indian tradition of asking questions. of asking wierd questions, embarrassing questions, of funny , mundane, leading questions.
and the great indian tradition of eating. eating eating eating, feeding and eating.
well the wedding was good. chaos as only i cud make it. i was confused & dazed as only i cud be. and mebe i surprised more ppl than u or i cud count, bout how disinterested i was in some aspects of the wedding. like the eating part. and the dressing up in 3 kgs of gold for a week after the wedding part.
but i'm just being a whiner. it wasnt all that bad. i'm sure there were plenty of fun moments... umm... gimme a min while i try to rem. :P
oh ya. there are stories, and a good lot of posts after today are gonna be updates on the stories. and mebe i shud start at the very beginning so i dont miss stuff. but then i suspect my true nature is gonna takeover and its gonna be a hodgepodge mix anyways..
but trust me. the stories when they're finally out... they're gud ;P
they shudnt have put me in charge. i mean i really am not the best person to be doing this.. but ya... ur right.. it IS my wedding...
but wat can u do, when ppl tell u so sorrowfully that they can't make it. heyy, dude its totally ok. i mean have you ever attended one of our weddings. can you SPELL B-O-R-I-N-G??
well if ur coming u better come with ur posse....thats the only way u'd ever have any fun. and also that cask of blue gin rum watever. now even though I know everyone there, I'M reconsidering attending. shhhhhhhh don't tell the groom.
but ya. so here it is. it's my wedding. yaaay. ^_^ and i'm inviting ppl. friends. yada yada yada. and some of them really can't come, u know.. and i started turning into a classic bridezilla and sulking, but then i think to myself.... come ON. this person doesnt even KNOW anyone else in the wedding party. they will be SO TOTALLY bored. so mebe we shud have this las vegas party thing after all.. but then half my friends are teetotallers.. gaaah
lets think about it next yr.
here. i'm getting married on dec 2. see if u can make it. and if not, i'll see u around?
hmm well ... i meant to tell you. i mean i thot i did. didn't i??
yeah i know i know i've been very tardy.. and really busy.. no no i havent been blogging someplace else. i mean i cud hardly betray u that way, cud i? wat do u take me for?? yeah i know i haven't been around. but i promise, its all gonna be different now!!
well anyways, here's what i've been working on, all this while.... and really!! u gotta believe me, when i say it took me 2 months to recover from the brain damage caused by someone visiting me.. staying with me... driving me literally up the walls.... :P
but see here!! what i got!! the most exciting link of em all !! New and exciting info
so consider urself invited. and mebe we've never met. and as long as u promise to play nicely, with the rest of the ppl there, u can come too ^_^
looks like my creative spell has passed. u noticed it too??? ever since a certain someone landed on this continent say.. oh i dunno.. like 1.5 months ago??? i haven't been writing so much??
coz u know..office has been busy. and at home, then certain ppl insist on reading this and then u know... uhhhh.. like THAT's not happening... not like when i'm still alive .. and kicking... i mean its not like i'm 7 again and i write on the first page of my journal.. my personal journal mind you.. that 'WHOEVER READS THIS IS A DOG' and yet ... this certain someone [ how pesky ] person will read it. and since i knew that this someone would read it, i spent the next 40 pages writing how bad this person was and how much like a witch in wizard of Oz and cruella from the little mermaid cartoon.. and so on.. but its not like those days u know.. and this time i got passwords and stuff... to protect myself :D
but other than that, uve noticed it too?? huh. the lack of posts these couple of months? well partly its coz its summer. and partly its coz i've been running around a lot.
ooooh did i tell you how awesome crater lake was??? ooooh it was AWESOME. and so was the top of multnomah falls. u shud def go there if ur ever in this part of town!!
oh buck up. winter is almost here. and the blog will be up and running full speed again very soon, when this certain someone leaves on the ... well lets just say very soon. and soon the insanity that is the wedding will start.. and soon you'll end up hearing all about how i have to wear freaky head gear on a day that now looks to be not a day for me at all.....
oh btw reminder to self. gotta give an Ankur 3 min talk tomoro. at this fund raiser.
i'll admit. i've lost a lot of things. phones, watches, spectacles, myself. now dang it. i've gone and done it. i've lost my mother.
well so here's the thing. we were supposed to go on a walk see? and she wanted to walk slow. meander almost and i wanted to test my new awesome seinheiser headphones. see? and so we agreed. we agreed that in some time i'd meet her near this bench. and we went in opp directions.
and an hour later, i come back and ofcourse she's not there. and i'm like yeah... i'll just wait here and she'll be along any second. and yet she's not here. so i think.. hmm mebe if i follow the path she took, i'll find her. and i go.. and i keep going and i complete her mile and by now i'm exhausted and i'm thinking to myself. gosh i know, just know where she is, she's gone back home and its getting dark and i daren't go back without her.. and i wonder if i should be calling 911... hmmm and i wonder if she's lost and wandering around by herself..hey wait isn't that her out there?? coming from my house??? i KNEW IT. she HAD gone home and was EATING HER DINNER!!
and i've been wandering around for the last 45 minutes searching for her !! :O
some ppl just don't know how to keep secrets. now wait. that's a bit harsh.... i mean they don't know how to shut up... i mean.. ok here's wat i really mean.
so its a sad sad day when i got to listen to ... ahem ... tips from my mother on how to spice my ... ahem ... life. and yet thats precisely wat she insists on doing!! :O
and if THAT isn't bad enough, now i gotta listen to hearsay bout the lovey dovey phone conversations, my neighbor's daughter has with her fiance. apparently i need to learn a lot!! :O now i don't understand how my mom even KNOWS wat that girl talks with her fiance. lets call him F.
so S talks with F and comes and tells her mom everything. and i mean EVERYTHING. and this mom picks and choses the less racy stuff and tells my mother. who finds it hilarious to share it with ME and watch my face slowly turn an interesting shade of puce or purple, depending on the time of the day.
"oh haha, do you know wat S says to her F everyday? u shud do the same... let me give you a few tips on what you should be doing ..."
me: " oh good lord. heavens above. my ears. my poor ears. they're gonna explode. what have i done to deserve this? to listen to such stuff from my own mother..." [ me getting a lil over dramatic, hoping she'll stop. nope. no such luck ]
"oh u HAve to listen to this. apparenlty he's even suggesting that they elope! can u imagine. he must have got the itch" < her laughing hysterically at my expression >
me: "aaaaaargh my poor ears. my pooor brain."
"ohhh haha, see the moon. its so nice. do you feel romantic coz of the moon. u shud call him up and talk romantic stuff. do u already do that? wat do u say? why don't u tell me, i'll tell u if ur doing it right"
"!!??? are.... u......sputter..... sputter..... INSANE!! leave me alone. that's the last thing i need. a bunch of middle aged women in mlore, sitting around and discussing they're daughter's love lives and the conversations they have with theire fiances or husbands or anything!!!" [ aaaaaaargh i need my noise isolation headphones ... like 10 minutes ag... aaaah blessed silence ]
i look at her , she's still saying something. but now these headphones are great!!! mebe i can like permanently fix them to my brain or something. i smile at her. nod show her a thumbs up and walk away. whistling merrily.
man! i shud have thought of this sooner !!!
ps: S. STOP TELLING UR MOM EVERY DARN THING U TALK ON THE PHONE WITH UR F. are u crazy!!! have some pride girl. really. the rest if us have zero interest in listening to ur coochie cooing. ugh.
at a rate of 1 drop per second, a leaking faucet wastes bout 900 gallons per year. now extrapolate that information to calculate exactly how much I'M LEAKING.
i'm leaking at the rate of ... 9 litres per day !! :O
ok ok.. i'm not gonna be leaking ALL day.. pffft. but still... i think i'm entitled to feel sorry for myself ... sniff...
anyways.. after 3 days of ... wait a WEEK of feeling like crap. and after the horrible escapade of the mad b'day bash.. and after sleeping for 26 hours straight all of yest. i finally feel... remotely that is....... human. hey hey HEY. i know i know. i'm NOT human. we all got THAT part.
but i feel human. isn't that enough?? can't you give me that much also???
got a busy couple of weekends ahead... yes yes wildwood park was gr8. amazing. the water was freezing cold. yes yes. the person who said the water wud be too cold. foudn that the water was too cold. the person who said naah the water will be fine, stripped and got in and had the time of they're lives.
apparently attitude is everything. and u pretty much decide how much of a wuss u wanna be in life. also apparently all humans are annoying pests.
esp when u've all left for the picnic. everyone is on they're way to wildwood recreation site, welches OR, 2 hours behind schedule and you get this call from the other car, with an annoying pest telling you "heyy are you sure bout where we're going?? aren't we supposed to go to SALEM?? are you sure we [ meaning me ] booked it in the right place??? and then you can spend the next happy hour freaking out.. that mebe you've just booked one spot and paid 60 friggin dollars to boot and then ur taking 20 people to another county !!!
ooh ya. happy days aren't they.
finally turned out , i had booked the right spot and was taking everyone to the right spot. why she thought we were supposed to go to the county in the opp direction is beyond me. why she decided to screw my happiness all of sat, is also currently beyond me. and why some ppl who are the fussiest and most difficult to please insist that you make their plans and then proceed to happily change everything.. is sooooooooooooooo effing beyond me... it makes my eyes bleed.
right. right. need to calm down. stress is doing my leaking no good.
neither is ending up with 12 green bell peppers and 6 colored bell peppers. will someone please tell me WAT THE *&%&!@ i'm supposed to do with 12 large bell peppers, 15 large tomatoes and an entire lettuce head and WAT in the good lord's name was i THINKING when i got so many???
i hate b'days.
i hate humans.
i hate humans who have b'days
ps: weather was gorgeous. forest was gorgeous. if not for the weather and eternal cooking, even the trip wud have been gorgeous.
so guess what. we're having an INTERNATIONAL air show. in hillsboro, OR.
dude.. its INTERNATIONAL man... how AWESOME is that !! >_<
this 2 cent doo hicky town is having this amazingly awesome show :P
I LOVE IT. i'm soooo buying the tickets. actually i can just sit in my office and see it... how cool is THAT !!!
so we're having this BBQ picnic, tomorrow. booked this place and all.. woodland... wooops i mean wildwood picnic/recreation site. one thing is i hope ppl turn up. another thing is i hope we have fun. another thing is i hope the weather is awesome!
and yet another thing being.... phew too many things.
man my manager is gassing too much man. i kid u not.. wats with all the phrases.. like u need to step up. hit a home run. i mean really wats with all the sports metaphors??? ok ok to be fair to him, ive hardly been working hard. [ just coz i haven't been blogging so often recently... dood i got other things on my mind dood ] and just coz ive been catching up on my comics collection... dood. yeah.. sigh.. i need to work a wee bit mroe..
here's to gr8 weather tomorrow... hic ... tomorrow.
if you've been wondering why i've not been blogging... well don't. wonder. just be thankful you've been spared me ranting and raving about those blooming idiotic moron.. "friends" i have around me.
well hi. yes. yes. am all glad to see you too.
hufff. yes i'm annoyed. and if you were in front of me, i'd bonk you on the head. why? juzt COZ i NEED to bonk someone.
so i went on 2 hikes so far. aaha !! didn't know that did ya? and i went running... ok ok walking [ who am i kidding? ] a couple of times.. last days of summer. gotta catch those last rays of sunshine.
other than that its just A and her gang who've been driving me up the wall. and then the PMS. yes. mother nature is visiting me. and boy do i wanna kick her in the behind. ok she's not yet visiting. she just sent her calling card. oh btw my mum is back this friday. from cali. yes. 14 subway sandwhiches and 2 weeks later i'm ready to have her back and eat awesome idlis. [ obv i'm exaggerating doofus. or... mebe not ] its unfortunate. how the palate gets used to this crappy food and ur going along happy in ur life thinking. oh wow this canteen food is gr8. this sandwhich or this brown rice with stuffed chille is gr8. but then u eat 2 weeks of home cooked meals and then ur like. oh crud this tastes like a horses behind. [ its called a METAPHOR .... or mebe not ]
so a few days ago. A tells me. she , her bf P and H are planning to move downtown so i gotta make some plans about where i'll stay. yes!! finally!! am rid of the crazy energizer bunnies.. ok so by itself this is a gr8 plan. but wait. they wanna go there only for a month. so that they can try it out and see how they like it.
exactly. huh?
and then they're gonna come back and move into a 3 bhk in the suburbs and since i'll be leaving to india anyways in a month after that. [ nov 19th btw which is another madness... ] then i gotta move in with em to save on rent.. and then after i'm married and back in hillsboro i can find a place on my own.
huh?
riiiight. and meanwhile. ive been the personal maid of 2 spoilt kids who refuse to clean up after themselves or throw the trash or vaccum the house.. so ur saying i shud move in with one more like u and become wat? unpaid nanny of the century no wait, this eon?? riiiiight.
uh uh.
then ofcourse its my mum's b'day this week. and since she's obv gonna wait for some insane party, am thinking.. well lets have a picnic. u know. thats not too hard to arrange. i can do it. this is easy. and i'm in my own lil world. la di da searching for parks , right? and stuff. and looking around and am thinking no big deal. if we don't find any place. we just gotta go to the library park and have some fun out there... right. a whole bunch of ppl. some cake. some games. will be good.
and then i get this ping from H or someone i can't rem and this person says, since its the last days of summer S wants to go camping.. so is that ok... and am like.. ok.. am not sure who that person is, but i think my mom will like to camp.. i think so.. so u tell me where we're going and i guess i'll just get a cake and rest of party stuff out there.
and ofcourse the most logical thing happens the next day.
K. not my K , another K pings me and starts asking me about the details of the camp and where it is and if he can get someone else along.
I KNOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!! WTF.
here i am not even sure who S is.. and wondering if i'm invited to that camp and then, out of the blue i'm the sucker who's arranging the whole circus. WAT ARE U GUYS??? ALIEN FREAKS. no wait. i'm the alien. ur the HUMAN FREAKS.
aaaaaaaaargh. my poor head will explode. how did it turn from a 2-3 hour picnic into this whole 3 day FEST in another state?????????
aaaaaaaaargh. i just feel like kicking someone. hard.
>_<
STOP LAUGHING WILLYA??? ITS NOT IN THE LEAST FUNNY. HUFF!
so we rented the club house of one of the appt complexes and we had a bollywood bash night and everyone came dressed up in ghaghras and cool clothes and stuff and we had music and a fog machine and colored lights and the smoke alarm went off and the firefighters came but before that we had her blindfolded and got her there and cut the cake and everyone danced and my mom and kaushik's mom danced and we ate pizzas and stuff then party was over and we cleaned up but the firefighters came and we had to switch off the fog machine and they left after making sure everyone was ok.
then we went to the friends place who lived there in that appt wait not over yet and then while everyone was having the rest of the pizzas and wine oooh we had plastic wine glasses and wine and while everyone was eating i went back home and set up another cake for midnight which A's bf had got and then ppl left from S's place and came to our place and he got her in the end and S had to make it before P [ A's bf ] even though she had to leave after him !! and she did and we waited and when A walked in there was another cake for midnight and some gifts which i wrapped 3.45 minutes before and we cut that cake and the whole of next day she got gifts all day long in installments and the next day when she reached office H had decorated her cube with 100 flowers and balloons and a soft toy and then i went to drop my mom at the airport in the evening [ cali trip ] and when i got back we all wore nice clothes and went for dinner but all places were closed so we reached exactly 10 minutes late to 2 places and cudnt get seated and went to a 3rd place and there wasnt much as the kitchen was closing but we ate some awesome appetizers and filled our stomach and came home and collapsed in a heap and so i was late to office today
shhhhhhhhh don't tell her now, but i think my cough has got worse. errr. yes yes i know she was threatening with dire consequences if i did something stupid to make it worse when it was finally on the bend... i mean mend.
and i know i know running through sprinklers on the lawn, to get some blasted relief from the blasted blinkin heat DOES officially qualify as stupid.
and i know, i know. mebe it was monumentally stupid. but it felt soooooooo gooooooood. we were walking back to our place at 11 in the night. the 3 of us. and suddenly the sprinklers in the park go off. and well, you can guess what happens. obviously we run into them :) man did we cool off fast. its AWESOME !!
ok shhh cough..... err... lets not mention this itty bitty thing. i'm sure it'll be fine tomorrow... cough...
no idea what they're saying, but who cares !!! :D its still hillarious !! in more formal language, thanks to K for the video :P
on another note, i'm slowly baking out here. with temperatures now reaching 108... its official. my brain has fried. i've taken to sleeping on my deck chair. like a mummy. with my hands folded on my stomach and not moving an inch all night. coz a. i'm gonna fall off the chair b. i'm gonna fall off the chair...
and if that isn't funny enough for u. at 7 AM bright and early i can hear her all bright and ready and chirpy and sunshiny. groan.
"hey, wake up." [ prodding me on the shoulder. ] "mmmphhpppph." [ me emitting muffled protest to this manhandling and unearthly hour wake up call. its only 7 for god's sake. let. me. sleep. ] "heyy, wake up. u gotta eat this raw onion with honey." "gaak. groaaaaaaaan. gaaaaaaaah." [ my mouth will stink all day. i absolutely refuse to eat it. ] "heyy wake up. u slept for 9 hours already!! get up. that's way to much. now you're just being lazy." "mmph" [ can't rollover. but i'm rolling over in my head. let me sleeeeeeeeeeep. ]
"here. just eat this. then u can sleep" [ who are we kidding. ur whole system will be so on fire, you'll run to the bath and sit under a cold shower. ] "no no let me sleep. 15 minutes more." [ groooooaaaaaaaan. ]
"u know, then in ur husband's house, u know wat ppl will say? ppl will say ur the laziest... < voice trailing off >" [ oh god not again. think happy thoughts. think happy thoughts. murder is a sin. murder is a sin. murder on a wednesday is a sin. ]
"heyy get up. or i'll kick you" [ kicks/kinda pushes me and finds out i don't budge that easy or roll over or fall of...i'm just too walrusy embedded kinds ]
"ok i know how to make sure you get up. for sure sure. if u don't get up this very minute, i'm gonna come there and give u a big hug and a kiss"
"WHOOOOAAA hold on a sec" [ i'm up. and locked myself in the bathroom. pheeeeew narrow escape. sheeeeesh ]
so imagine if you will, what happens, when my mom-force collides with my roommate A-force??
oooooooh
hehehehehe
its pretty good. female dynamics was always interesting. [ trust me its hillarious. like watching 2 alpha wolves fighting for supremacy over a wolf pack ]
now on one side u have someone who's used to being the alpha female for the last couple of yrs. one of the only females in the group. [ forget alpha some ppl wudnt even classify me as female... ] and on the other side u have .... my mom. who's just plain darn used to getting her own way. everywhere.
so then when u have A telling my mom not to use that glass in the microwave or not to use something else here or not do something. or giving instructions.
hehehehe well someone isn't pleased.
and me? i'm just sitting back and enjoying the undercurrents.
its even more hillarious when they start discussing coconut. whoever heard of arguments over coconut powder???
:D
"ha!! who needs her coconut, i can buy my own coconut", and my mum rushes off to the store. "ha!! as if i've never seen a microwave in my life! who is she to tell me i can't put her glass inside a microwave?? gimme 500 dollars. i'll go buy all the stuff i need !!!" "aaha! i've been using all this even before she was born!! i've forgotten more about this stuff than she even knows in the first place"
aaaah thou female. so complex. so convoluted. so passive aggressive. how can we live with you?? how can we live without... no actually the first part's it.
its like a knife being stuck in my stomach and someone is sticking it.
no no no its not emotional. its the physical pain of it.
its the pain that we go through for the wonderful ***** privilege of progeny later on.
now i'm sitting on the couch. in the middle of a bleedin heat wave [ its a bleedin 103 outside today ] and then u have the absolute gall to come and tell me , since i'm getting 'on' in years i shouldnt practice birth control the first yr of my marriage and have a kid IMMEDiately?????
so i calmly looked at her and said, u know biologically one does not need to wait for the wedding. the wedding date can. in fact. become the giving birth date. turned my head back straight and continued to watch tv.
yup. lady. if u think u can continue for the rest of my life to tell me what u want...
WAT? U WANT KIDS??? ABSOLUTELY IMMEDIATELY?? THEN JUST GET USED TO THE IDEA OF A SOMALIAN OR KOREAN ADOPTED GRANDCHILD. coz lady, don't push me hard. i'm this close to losing it and walking into the pacific ocean.
someone pour me a vodka.
ps: all hillsboro shops are out of air coolers. out of stock. zip. nada. there are no ACs in the houses here, coz apparently the weather is so wonderful, it NEVER gets too hot. u know? with all the trees. ya right.
wat we need right now. is a good global level ________________
oh god. egad. atleast before? i was woken up at 5 AM only on sundays.
now? now its EVERYDAY.
so there its barely light out, and i'm being shaken to wake up and take a bath. apparently 'girls' need to do that. wake up at the crack of dawn and take a bath and say a prayer and touch ur husbands feet and then enter the kitchen. that's how 'girls' get bodily strength [ ?? ]
[ frozen horrified expression as i was listening to this. sorry K, but if you're ACTUALLY expecting this... welll oh ha ha ha. boy are u in for a reality check ]
meanwhile, my mum goes on and on.. bustling in and out of the room and folding clothes.... and walking in... and walking out.... and i can hear chopping... chooping? why is there chopping sounds?? why is someone cooking so early in the morning ???? i open one eye and blink at the blinkin clock... groan its not even 6:30 yet!
and while i'm still half asleep, i keep getting these vague home remedies for cough thrust in my face.
"here, take this. this is good for u" take it and down it without a second thot. someone needs to leave now. "oh god its bitter. wat the heck is it???" "fresh cut ginger with honey" "gaaaaaaaak. ok i'll get up in an hour" < and i just roll over >
"here take this." i ate something else and now i can't rem wat it was.
"here eat a tomato" [ ?? wat?? ok ok don't ask too many questions. its only 7:25. i'm eating that darn tomato if it means i can get a few more minutes of uninterrupted sleep... ]
"here , eat breakfast" "waaaat. shudnt i atleast like... wake up first. groan. just leave it here"
8:00 AM. my mom is done with all her work for the day and is sitting on my bed and staring at me. i open my other eye.
oh so you thought , mebe the QoD had no more disasters to report. mebe that's why she isn't online so much. mebe that's why she isn't writing anymore ? oh ha ha good one Wilson. that's a good joke.
now lets see... how can i put it?? briefly? succintly? in sublime fashion? in short? my. mother. is. here.
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oooooooookaaaaaaaaaaay. now that you've fallen off that chair and managed to climb back up again... she's been here a week. I've cried more times this week than i had the first half of the year. i've had severe acidity, or what not. severe side effects from my hormonal meds. oh i had hormonal meds. oh i was soooo hormonal. then i got this mild cough, which turned into a major cough. and then a major fever with all the shivering and works and laid up in bed like a 14th century maiden from medieval england. mother nature visits and this time i'm leaking like a blinkin broken faucet on steroids and oh! what's this? there's no water in the house coz a pipe in front of the house burst !!!
:O
okkkkk. now take a deep breath and relax. move those shoulders. rotate them around. ppl have started calling me irritable these days. now now now, i admit i've been a lil off my game..... i've got a few things going on my plate here... and i don't chose to write when i'm like that. or like this or watever. but u got to admit. this has been a reaaaallly bad week. i mean REALLY.
but its pretty funny. few weeks ago, while i was basking in that glorious sunshine and reading my book... and generally relaxing... if u had told me bout this week, i'd have spit in your face, picked my books and run away screaming!!!
but (hic)
here's to monday. which is tomorrow.
mebe the next week won't be so mad... i mean bad. eh?
now i don't know if these are actual questions in you're brain that you are curious about. or you're just asking them to get my goat.
so i'm gonna list all the questions i've heard so far and i'll keep coming back to this till dec.
-"omg, how can you go only a week before you're wedding!!?? what about shopping??!! what about your sari??!! u need a min of 6 weeks" [ honey , its called an EFF*** JOB. i don't have vacation. and who the heck wants to spend 3 months shopping!! ]
-"so should i book the mehendi guy?? omg ur not at all showing any interest. i seem to be more interested than you" [ are u kidding me??? its frickin 6 months away. chuck the mehendi. there will be NO mehendi ]
-"so what about the jewelry...i'm thinking this..." < eyes glazed over > [ omg i havent mutated to some earth human female creature who's actually interested in this ... this... omg get her off of me! ]
-"so how's the wedding prep going"
-"so how's the wedding prep going"
.. .. ..
-"so hows the ....." [ 98461th time i've been asked in last 2 months. the accurate response wud be "uhhhhh wat prep?", what i really want to do is hit someone on the head.... ]
wat? just coz i'm getting married, you thot i had morphed into this giggly dreamy eyed girl who'd sit and pore over bridal .. clothes? gowns? skirts?? flowers? you thought that i'd be dreaming of this day since i turned 12 or watever and sigh and plan my dream wedding?? < gag > or you thought i wouldn't hit you on the head, if you talked about shopping for more than 20 minutes in a day?? [ oh u thought wrong baby, let me just find that pan ]
sorry. my violent tendencies seem to have increased. marriage has unfortunately not made me softer or calmer or smoother even in temperament. in fact while i'm bombarded with endless questions for which i most definitely have zero answers to. i'm left wondering.... should i chew a rope in frustration or should i just take up kick boxing. maybe i should do kick boxing. oooh i shud so do kick boxing.
and you wonder , why i'm taken to grinding my teeth and giving that pained i-wish-i-was-anywhere-but-here smile. well. wonder no more my friend. but in fact if you were truly my friend, u wud kindly take a hammer and knock me on the head unconscious for the next 6 months.
yup.
oh god. u know the situation is bad, when ur hoping to be out unconscious for the next 6 months.
oooooh ur just watching me squirm and laughing ur head off aren't you???
******** sorry. no can do. can't write amazing witty and funny posts when i'm cranky , irritable and feeling downright mean. being sick does not sit well with me. no nopes not at all. i'm just gonna sleep. sleep it off.
ok so this is nothing related to the song, the spirit of the song.. nothing... nothing at all.
so we go to a dace club/lounge something sat night. was i just complaining that nothing really happens to me nowadays???? :O
9:15 PM well i was all tucked in my bed, reading this mystery...exhausted after my day spent basking in the sun in the library park on a blanket and with a pillow :P and i get this call. from P.
"heyy, how bout a dance club?" "uhhhh... not really. am in the middle of this ..." "oh god!! will you.... like look alive. come ON" "hmmm , [ i did promise to be a 'yes man' from now on.. and i had this heavy dinner that i need to burn off... ] oh all right. i'll do it" "yaay. k get ready. we're leaving at 10:30"
10:56 PM still no sign of these guys. am almost ready to turn in , when they all barge in and hustle me out the door. the 5 of us. we're out the door , on our way towards portland downtown and to a dance club!! each of us tries to one up the other... "i've been here for 2 yrs and this is my first time to a club!" "i've been here 8 months and this is my 4th time going to downtown for anything" "i'm better than all u losers, atleast ive been here only 4 months"
sooo.... we go there and there is this line like half way round the block. our jaws hit the floor. and my knees already begin to ache. [ jeez man i'm just growing too old for this ] but we stand , and chat up. and the only way we get ahead is that at 15 min intervals, the ppl in front of us, give up and leave. [ yaay! ] when we're 3 groups away from the door. we suddenly overhear the 'guy' telling someone else, they take only cash :O waaaat
11:43 PM we don't have cash!! uh oh. ok one go to the left, one to the right and 2 ppl stay where we are to hold our place in the line.
S: "where r they going??? [ at P's retreating back ] they accept card man. i know that they do most places" me: "yeah, but u see the guy just told they don't. so these guys.." S: "no, but they accept cards man. i'm pretty sure ..." me: "yes, but that's what i'm telling you.. right now they don't.." S: "but they.." me: "god woman!! they said they don't!! wat r u arguing with me for?? i'd happily accept your card you know!!" S: shuts up. phew.
uh oh. we're next and 3 ppl are missing. and uh oh. now wat. and while i start almost hyper ventillating. the guy kindly sayas they got an ATM inside. [ dude didnt u just send my friends on a wild goose chase searching for an ATM the last time we asked you , if u had an ATM inside?? ] so we call these folks back. right on time. coz they hadn't found the ATM and were about to get in the car and drive off to find the nearest ATM [ really?? ] so we're in. we've paid. and all that stuff.
and we go to the dance floor. oh god.
12:15 PM look at all these ppl. and the lights. oww my eyes. u know if i had epilepsy , these lights are just seizures waiting to happen... but b4 i cud yell that joke in S's ear...i'm bumped by these dude grinding against some dudette. "oh sorry. < bump > excuse me. sorry. < bump > excuse me < shove > sorry. excuse me < push > oh god. too many ppl. must. get. out."
well then. H tells us the back wud be less crowded and we manage to get there. in one piece. without accidentally feeling anyone. [ thank god! ] and there are the liiights and the music. and i feel the beginnings of a mild headache. but i'm determined to enjoy myself. [ heyy. this is supposed to be fun and i'm no oldy poldy aunty figure ] so we dance... which is nice for like 5 minutes. coz we have some space and we're doing ok. and i like to dance.. [ yes yes i do. now stop rolling on the floor and laughing will ya? its not THAT funny!! ] and the dude's decide to get a drink. so they try to tell us, and we don't understand, so they tell us through the age old sign language. and we're like ok. that's ok. go get ur drink. we'll be here. so we nod our heads.
now its S, A and me. the girls. while P and H have gone to the bar. and we're dancing. this is nice.... and we dance.
..
after some time i see A has closed her eyes to get into the spirit of things and is dancing away to glory. moving her ass in all her joy while she doesn't know it, but she's kind of giving 2 black guys behind her a really nice show [ my back is to the wall. hey! i'm AWARE of who's around me 360 deg ALL the time babe ] and i'm like 'shhh u better come this way, u don't wanna give a free lap standing dance to random folks in the club.. and girl.. she's refusing to come this way.... and i give up. i mean what do i care, if this black dude, thinks A's coming on to him. ooops wait u better come this way RIGHT NOW. he's really looking at ur ass. so i bend to her ear and yell. "UR ASS IS IN HIS FACE" sorry needed something drastic to get her attention.
on my other side S is swaying like a graceful willow and routinely bumping into passing guys.. [ now i don't know if the guys were passing coz she was swaying like a graceful willow.... ] and then this guy comes out of nowhere and holds her hand.
oh yaeah... she freaked out.
and i turned to look watsup. and this black dude is standing there and asking her for a dance. now i'm confused. A still hasn't opened her eyes. and i don't want to butt in and answer for S and tell the guy to shoo away. so she looks at me with a grimace and i really can't read her. so i'm not sure if she's willing but i'm busy shaking my head in a no.. and he's like "come oonnnn one dance. you're in a club, just one dance" and she's like smiling and we're trying to say no. the 2 of us. and then A opens her eyes and by now he's like. "all 3 of u. just one dance.." and we're like. oh god how do we get rid of this dude.. and we're like.. "uhhhh okkkkk" and he's right next to me and starts dancing. and i'm like "DUDE WAT THE F*** KEEP YOUR CROTCH TO URSELF" :O
ok now i'm in a standing fetal position. hunched up on myself. :O
gud lord. i thought u meant DANCE. not .. now... watever ur doing.. < me spluttering > and A sees my horrified expression frozen on my face. and finally comes alive, leans towards the guy and says "our boyfriends are at the bar, we're just waiting for them" which is like VERY GOOD A. and now the guy says "aah ok. theh enjoy urself ladies and walks away"
PHEW! EEWW.
well it wasn't as bad as all that. prob just not more than 3 seconds. but still.
eeeeew.
and then S taps me on the shoulder and says, lets go to the middle of the crowd. more ppl there. and i'm like " ARE U INSANE?? why wud u want to gyrate with random strangers rubbing against u. ugh. really? i mean really?" and she reads my look pretty accurately and shuts up. [ obv i don't belong in a epilepsy siezure causing club ]
and then H comes back and i grab and hold on to him for dear life. ok ok we're going to sit at this table, coz P is really hungry and hasn't had dinner... alright. but heyy isn't the club gonna close down in like an hour and we're not gonna be able to da... oh alright watever. and we go to this table. nice. and then the orig 3 ask for snaps. and i'm like really? really? photographs? inside a club? and ur not happy with the one i just took coz u don't look good in it? really?? how good do u expect the snaps with this lighting?? so i try a cuople of different modes in the camera. hit the jackpot at indoor, and take some 'satisfactory' one's. man these photograph maniacs are wearing me thin by now.
so they have the fish and the chicken and watever. and i'm ..actually don't know what i was doing. just ppl watching. i guess. like watching random ppl hookup and hit on each other...S wanted to meet guys and i'm trying to wrap my brain around that concept. these guy? THESE drunk and grinding with other females guys??? she wanted to meet THEM??
1:36 PM so we're finally done eating. we still got 20 min. but now everyone's full and sleepy [ oh brilliant. mebe u want me to burp u too.. u babies ] and we go on the floor. and we had about 5-10 good min of dancing. before the DJ suddenly switches to the slow songs.
damn. none of us know wat to do now. i mean really. wat the.... A and P are the wierdest couple possible. coz A continues to close her eyes and dance with her shoulder to her bf. and unfortunately P is no longer hungry and has some whiskey in him. so he's in the mood, i think and i'm sorry. but i'm busy laughing my head off. :P
and we wait. P thinks there's usually a good song right in the end. while H says naah DJ's winding down. and i'm like.. lets just go. coz..
uh oh uh oh
right behind A. uh oh. we see a guy-a girl-and a guy. and this is NOT GOOD >_< coz they're .. gud lord.
and then i turn the other way and i see 2 women ... lets just say, getting realllly comfortable with each other :O and now everywhere i look its ppl ... uuhhhh doing stuff. which i really don't want to see. and now there's A gawking at the ppl. and her jaw has already hit the floor. so i'm pulling on P's hand. ok that's it. lets go man. lets go. and H is laughing his head off. and i'm like lets all go. and they want to wait for the end of the evening song. and i'm like wat the.... why are we staying back to watch live porn. and this is not chennai clubs dude. dude THERE IS NO fast song in the end..
2:03 PM and we finally leave.
phew.
ofcourse we get a bit lost on the way home from downtown [ i was navigating wasn't i? ] and reach home at 3. all i had was 2 glasses of water in the club and i stumble out of bed the next day with a raging headache. at 11:36 in the afternoon !!!! :O wat the... where did my sunday morning go??? i want it BACK !!
oooooooooh ive been having dreams of idli sambar the whole of next week :D
ooooooh my mommy's coming. i am SO having idli sambar everyday for 3 months. ok 2. as 66 days. ooooooh take THAT you stupid country, u kept me away from my beloved idli sambar for 2.5 years. HA!!
ok ok i know u can get it in any restaurant. but seriously who can bear to stomach that??? i want the traditional udupi style. with the hint of jaggery and all. ooooooohhhhhhh no more idli sambar in dreams.
so for some reason i'm hooked on to that show by tyra banks. heyy models are ppl too you know! and what? u think you're smarter than them aren't you?
well excccuuuuuse me. but any lady who can go from being a model, to almost owning a tvnetwork. [ wait does she ?? ] and producing and directing and inventing and influencing so many ppl... well model or not , she can't be dumb. she sure's smarter than us...
but those shows are interesting. i mean really, not a big fan of reality tv shows. except out here, u can see some interesting photography. AND you can really see how even the most beautiful ppl are full of neuroses and insecurities. and how sometimes even the ugliest girls can look good in a snap. [ oooh good tips there ] :D but see here. a bunch of neurotic, self absorbed girls in a house. almost bordering on crazy, and.. and.. well nothing. i just find it interesting that's all.... besides its summer u know. what can you do, when you're so sick you can't even stand up straight. though i feel a lot better today. not like i'm gonna fall off my chair any sec...so that's when u start watching random shows.. but if i ever start watching shows like hitched or dicthed [ wat the... ], then pls, can u take that gun and just shoot me?? or hit me on the head with it ??
still got half the summer left ! yaay ^_^ ooooh gotta post those pics of east OR and rest of the places. i really need a better way to organize my pics... hmmm... ooh oooh guess what? i'm headed to the library today !! YAAY!! after so long :)
***** so my mom's coming. oh god. no further comments.
***** so L's coming to stay with me :) that's so cool.. nice to have ppl around.
****** on another note, i can see my dreams of an idle life just fade away. pace picking up. oh god is this what they mean about being sucked into the vortex of life? gaaaaaaaaahk.
:P
****** almost had an argument with N the other day. well... managed to fob it off, in the very last minute. well the whole thing started with her assertion that Pepsi as a company does NOT need to exist. well now, i don't know about not needing to exist. i mean come on. atleast they're 100% energy friendly. they like self sustainable or something. and wat about the ppl they employee. sure thing they're happy pepsi exists. and what about quaker oats !! :O i love my granola , with honey and nuts quaker oats cereal. i'd be very very sad if THAT went away.
my assertion was that pepsi like most of the stuff man has come up with [ in his infinite brilliance ( stupidity ?? ) is just part of the natural cycle of civilization and destruction.
heyyy sure we're destroying the planet, but i've made my peace with it. i mean u DO realize the world is coming to an end in 2012 right? until then, i dont care. make all the pepsi bottles u want... [ u can clearly see, the strain of worrying over the planet has finally cracked me in the head. and left me with a gaping hole in the middle of my head... ]
but yeah... can't really say Pepsi needs to disappear like thin smoke. Holy baloney, if something REALLy needs to go, its underwear. i mean who the heck invented that??!! or cars, [ oh apparently cars are NECESSARY to go from one place to another .. ] or computers... or airplanes or ...or....KFC... i mean why stop with pepsi?? everyone just quit they're jobs and go back to farming for they're own food. you DO realize that's the only TRUE planet friendly option we have??
hmmmph. yup i narrowly managed to avoid a fight with N :P
google and its OS and its ambitions and the very notion of running microsoft out of business?? imagine a world without microsoft. aaaaah. i actually can't. guess its been around all my life. almost.
imagine a world with no ibm, or no microsoft or no intel. no really, i can't!!
:O
but this is cool. google. the OS. the web apps. they're really cool u know. all those apps i mean. for all the sharing and all the editing them real time together. really neat. i don't know why companies don't use more of it. oh ya right the security thing.
i'm kind of tired. so won't be writing too much till i get better. ok? toodles.
now b4 u jump down my throat and rip me to shreds, u pls note that i try to read something everyday. as much as i can stomach.
but really. u tell me, that i'm much better informed. now that i know that half the world is filled with sex offenders and the other half of the world i busy dying through some kind of genocide/tyranical regime and collectively everyone is causing our planet to self-destruct. yes yes i know, that's the price of civilization. in fact the price of our existence. more and more it looks impossible that we can live with any kind of harmony with the rest of our world. and yes more and more the 2012 end of the world i've been telling you about looks inevitable. but jeez, do you have to try so hard to make the deadline??
note to self: nayan tarse, dev d.
man , have you read the news. there are SO MANY of these sick ppl around !! its a wonder.. actually help me out here. remind me again, that we're supposed to be what? better than animals? like higher intelligence.
ARE U EFFIN KIDDING ME??? are we even ON the same planet? LOOK AT THE NEWS!! go ahead. go on. yes yes there are stories of hope , in some remote corners of the page. but instead , what i got as headlines is some rubbish about how sat-navs are scaring britishers coz they're offended by the female voice spitting out instructions "don't turn there u moron" [ well boo hoo to u ] and then 3 stories of how these abusers were prosecuted and then the one where the kyoto protocol is not working [ oh big surprise Einsteins, even a brain dead chimpanzee knew THAT one ]...
JESUS CHRIST.
tell me again, why knowing all this is good. and how i'm so much better off to know in minute detail of what's happening in the world as compared to my ancestors who were only concerned with what happened on their street?? oh sure, half the problems we're in today is coz our ancestors only bothered with what happened on their street. and sure its gud to know the current news at the exact same moment its happening. but this unhealthy obsession you seem to be having in keeping up with the news and then deriding people for not doing the same? yeah. you'll know about the world ending exactly 3.4 seconds before i do... wooo hooooo_______ < abrubtly cut off >
10 years and counting and we haven't managed to remember it even once... [ we as in, me and the voices in my head ] actually if u consider my mom, then that wud be 16 years and counting. haven't managed to remember her b'day.
oh dear. when is THAT one again??
you know.. call me heartless....its not so much as forgetting that bothers me... it's the guilt trip you're kind of forced to take [ yes yes i know. i'm scum of the universe. i forgot to wish you. oh gud lord, someone gouge out my eyes. ok my ears. can you stop the incessant weeping?? ]
ok so i feel bad. i forgot to wish you. and ur looking at me with those big wounded eyes that's piercing a knife through my ... errr... now i want to say heart, but u know.. come on. who are we kidding?? [ it's already been established numerous times babes, i HAVE no heart. some ppl even think i'm not human... just landed on the planet in a pod from outer space ] so anyways. yes i feel guilt and here, u can have my watch. wait i already gave that away, here take my phone , something, anything. just stop looking like i ran you over with my cool car. which by the way gives an awesome mileage of 36 miles/gallon. :O
i know!!!
so the weekend was good. fell sick. major heat wave. wilted like a limp noodle and didn't do all the places we were supposed to. some really nice stuff to see in east oregon guys. u shud do the travelling. i mean if there's one thing i know. its that we're all gonna die some day. [ ok so i'll prob have to leave on the escape pod.... ] so since there's the whole limited time angle going.. [ gud lord i shud be writing travel brochures. come to alaska. ur gonna die some day. do alaska b4 that !!! ]
A and co went to montana, the glacier park. :O OMG that was awesome. as far as i cud tell from the pics of mountains which were in the background. one thing about these guys taking pics, is that they prefer to take a lot of 'patel' snaps. u know where ur standing in front of the mountain and so what if u look like a puny insignificant gnat where the mountain can crush u like a bug. and so wat if the light is behind u. so that ur face looks like a person from east africa and ur basically ruined the pic of the mountain. u'll still take it that way...to show that you were here, and there , and there, and here too. so i try to see as much as possible by ignoring the ugly humans and trying to focus on the awesome waterfall or mountains or glaciers [ which are OMG FANTASTIC btw ] and sigh. so that's one more place, i gotta do.
so this weekend, went to see the painted hills [ pretty neat. diff colored hills. red streaks, gold, lavendar, black and brown ) 3 sisters [ gorgeous mountain peaks ] drove thru columbia hwy river gorge. [ ... no words to decribe it :P ] saw the panther creek falls [ not touristy at all. very nice. cool. and can get close to icy water and fantasize about jumping in :P ] multnomah falls , horse tail falls [ nice, but touristy. too many ppl ]
A and co went to glacier national park. montana did the 10 mile hike to see the lake in the middle. did the horse riding did the staying next to a lake at the base of the mountain thing. seen the pics, its mind blowing. don't think they have any nice landscape pics, most of the 4 GB of pics was 'patel' snaps.
R and family went to vancouver. nice place. small town. awesome indian food.
another R and co went to yosemitte. no details yet :P
end of report. now get back to work !! will post some pics soon :D
ps: still sick. feel like falling down. but shhhhhhh don't tell my mom. she's coming on the 17th anyways.
oooh ooooh so i saw something on my trip to the beach the other day, which i hadn't seen before.
oh man if ONLY i had a camera. with zero shutter lag :O or even video!!!!
ok let me try to explain what i saw.
so there we were standing on the beach. looking at the vastness of the pacific ocean. glad the sun was out. tried the water. oh GOD, no thank you.. its FREEzing. so we're standing, there. look the ocean is so nice. so big. wish we cud swim in it.
and then we see it.
a row of birds. flying in a line. on behind the other. and then they form a small arch. kind of a 'u' or a hook kinds. and the first one dips and then the second one dips behind it and so on. all of them one by one go so close to the waves. and then rise up. they're doing the wave!! :O
and we're all spellbound. stopped in our tracks. stopped in the middle of raccous laughter and staring at what's happening. as again and again the birds dip and rise. in a graceful dance. going alternatively towards the ocean and away from it. smoothly, gracefully, serenely.
< choke > it was beautiful u know. :P
the low frequency sine wave formation :P that's what i'll call it! he he. wonder why they do that?
they looked happy. those birds.
or mebe it was just me. projecting human emotions onto them. i'd like to see that again some day. u shud see it too.
