A look alike? Freaky!

I have something so freaky to write about today...Ok, on second thoughts, its not so freaky...but...anyway here it is...College is fun...attending classes, hanging around etc. But I haven't actually gone out of my way to make new friends in my Class. Thats the way I am...I hate making an effort for anything. The friends I made in the first few days are the ones I'm comfortable with. But then today everyone from Class were together and I suddenly saw this chap frm Class in a new light/angle(!) He resembles my ex 8-O Even his expressions and the way he walks (in a nonchalant way). No, it isn't my imagination. Its just weird. I'm wondering what I'd do to the look alike if I walked into class tipsy...What do you guys think? ;) I was thinking more in the lines of a kick or a punch! :-P

How's the week coming along people? Just 2 more days and the weekend's here. Payday? 11 more days. I can count the days in my fingers now! Yay! Yes, I live for Paydays! :-D

Take care people!

Connected once again!

Much to my chagrin my net connection was down for the past 6 days. Had to check my mails either at work or the net cafes. I hated using both. My vivid imagination would make me wonder if the last person who used the comp had clean hands or not or wonder what kinda weird stuff had he touched! :-/

Celebrated my dearest friend's birthday yesterday even though we didn't plan to celebrate it together on the same day. But luckily I got off work early and we made it on time to give the last order at this late night restaurant. We made do with a dark chocolate with orange desert as the cake and a drink hot chocolate. Made a rucous singing him the Happy Birthday song. Fun :-)

Flirting or attempts made by men to flirt with me makes me smile and shake my head and think that all men are so similar. Its the same routine work - smile, look at the other person surreptiously, make a sarcastic comment and try to sound intelligent...Sigh...Yawn...But its time I moved on and now I'm game ;-)Take care people!

Birthday Wishes...

Nupur,
You and Me
Cheese and Chalk
Bhija Mekuri and Bengi
Laughter and Tears
Best friend and Worst critique.

Happy Birthday to one of the bestest things that could happen to me!

Lotsa love n hugs,
Me

Unusal Visitor...

Found this Lizard across my bathroom window some days ago. Talk about being a smart snooper. I never thought I was scared of them until I saw this one. Now I am. You cant blame me for that. (I just noticed the window looks really dirty. Let me reassure you, its dirty from the other side and not my side!)

Have had another very irritating visitor, pigeons. They continuously build their nest in the ventilator in the bathroom. Despite keeping the ventilator covered from my side I still get bits of their nest most mornings.

Start of another week of Work & College...Argh...At the start of every week I keep comforting myself with the weekend and when the weekend eventually comes, it just zips by before I can spell WEEKEND! :'( Last weekend I was nursing my hangover :-/ not a good experience. I also dropped my phone into a bucket of water! 8-O I can't even think of telling the parents. Dad could/would kill me. The phone by the way, went dead but thankfully the Best Friend could revive it back with some brains and an effective hair dryer the next day. Thank God for the Best Friend and the Hair Dryer.

How'd your weekend go people? Have a good week!

:-)

Oops...

Oops I did it again! :-/

Have you woken up the next morning regretting having done the dumbest things the other night?

Yeah, thats how dumb I feel now!

Argh.

Another time, some place else? No way!

A start of another week with a holiday in between! What more can I ask? :-D
The past few days have just passed by with so many things happening-work, college, people. I feel like I'm in a constant Whirlpool! But then again, its only once we're young and working our asses off! I should stop complaining.

Happy days rather, gloating days are here for me. Why? I had gone out Jeans shopping last weekend with some amount of trepidition. I was worried that I'd have to ask the sales person to give me a waist size 30" :-O But, then guess what? I fit into a size 28" quite fine. That, despite the paunch which makes me look very pregnant, is an achievement! YAY, to me & low waist jeans! :-D

Well, here's something that I came across when I'd gone out for dinner the day.On that note, take care people. Have fun receiving rakhi's and gifts (!) tomorrow!
:-)

Another to the collection

The other day I was out looking for new pair of Kohlapuris when I tried these on. They didn't look too bad and I wonder why I was never taken into them when they first hit the market some 3 yrs ago? Maybe coz every body seemed to be in one! Anyway, I'm very happy with my purchase...Hang on, theres better to come...it cost me only Rs 110...now that, my dear friends, is a Steal! :-D And the ghoongroo makes me feel so pseudo feminine (in the nice way.) Anyway, heres to a start of another hectic week where I hardly get to sleep, all thanks to me talking some really "wise" decisions. But I guess I'd have to stick to them for sometime. Adding on to my sleepless problem is one of my very good friend, whom I consider my "buddy buddy" friend who decides to talk abt the "relationship" we are having and abt him and me and where the relationship is going. Thankfully a phone call from the Best Friend saved the embarrassing moment! Its so discomforting now...where we would only msg for work or dumb forwards, he msgs me, asking me how my day is going all the time and so many other weird stuff that "buddy buddy" friends never do. Argh...its so weird and irritating. Simply coz I don't want to spoil what we have and I am so not ready for a relationship...Yeah, yeah, I'm the quintessential anti man! :-I Lets see what happens next. Keep me in your prayers people!

Off to sleep and then classes...take care and have a good week! Oh, and its a holiday on Wednesday...Yippieeee! What plans? No prizes for guessing what I'd be doing - I'll be sleeping.

Ciao.

Back after a hiatus

Thats right. Im back after a long hiatus. I stopped opening my Blog page or even visiting/commenting in the Blogs I regularly visit. I know it seems very selfish on my part when I have some of my Blog friends have been so consistently encouraging me to Blog etc. Thanks guys :)

Classes in the Univ have started. Quite like it to be back listening to lectures. Still have to get to know people around though. The ones I know are, um, ok. One of them was very impressed that the Professor used a word like "SCANDALOUS." What? Yeah, that was my reaction as well. According to this guy people have stopped using such "good" words and they can now only be found in Literature. I was wondering if I would like to be bitchy and mean and make an ass of him or just be not bothered? I let him off. I know, I can be kind "sometimes."
One of the professors in the other hand, persistently uses Hinglish. I do feel bad for the foreign classmates who look so lost when he cracks a funny joke in Hindi.
Guess im going to take some time getting used to being a student once again.

Sometime last week my favourite(st) teacher who's also become a friend asked me about the 'sullen young man' she had met last year. I told him he was history and was she glad. So am I. Yes, I am getting on and much happier now and ofcourse, grateful with what I have :)

Off late I have become addicted to Ugly Betty and That 70's Show. Have been downloading them from the Net :-D Boy, am I pleased with my collection! What are you guys watching on TV? Anything good that I can download? ;-)

Take care people.

Bhutta, anybody?

Bhutta's are here but where are the rains along with them? They make a great combo, don't they?Experimenting by adding my name in the picture. I want to believe that people would like my pictures enough to copy them or else, they're vella! :-)

Why isn't Blogger allowing me to put a title to this post?

Sleepless

Can't sleep thanks to some very bad sleeping habits.

The Monsoons should be here tomorrow according to the Met. Dept. Lets see. Despite my love for the monsoons I still have some complaints against this weather.
For one, I perpetually have bad hair days everyday. How? My hair is forever frizzy! Getting it in place is a marathon task which is accomplished by using huge dollops of Hair Gel.
Apart from that I have been trying to finish washing all my dirty laundry which has been piling up for a very "long" time (not worth mentioning since I'd only scandalise some of you :-D) Does anyone know how to get ride of the smell that comes from the not so dried clothes?! I totally hate it but can't get ride of them in this weather. Pls do not say that I should use a clothes drier (Like Ricky!). I am the washing machine and the erratic sun the drier.
Also, I can't wear my favourite suits/churidars since the muck gets all over them!
Grumble, grumble...I'm so glad the heat is going to be history. It was absolute joy to get caught in the rain last Thursday! Not just once, but twice (I never said experience makes me wiser!)
Anyway off to try to sleep again. Good night people. Take care.

Birthday wishes...

Happy Birthday to dearest Ronmi! Here's to you, life and our friendship. Yeah, 6 years is a long time-of fun, friendship n sacrifies. Its been a long time since our boring free periods at Amry School, monday tests, studying on the phone, getting into DU, hostel life together, window shopping when we're broke, Friends at Hudson Lines and my pointed shoes! Remember the times we got drunk and debated whether 3/4th or 1/4 was more? (All that while the rain poured over us in a shady lane of Outram Lines?) The hours spent together, fights and heart breaks havent just made us both wiser but also brought us closer. I owe you so many thank yous - for just being the shoulder to cry upon, whine just before an exam and facilitate clandestine meetings for me so many yrs ago (!) LOl. What would I do without you screaming at me to get a grip n start studying? Or to forget the jackasses in my life? Or your attempts at rectifying my so called fashion faux pas? Or to still believe in myself and be able to overcome any hurdle. It could also be only you I could probably admit all my follies, fantacies ;) and insecurities.

Well these 6 years dont seem like 6 years at all. They feel like a life time. I feel I have known all my life. Here's to us and growning older and still comforting and encouraging each other with our (mis)trials in losing some weight!

Here's to you and your dreams, beliefs and smile. May you have the best years of life coming with more laughter, happiness and sunshine. Love, M.

"Hey where did we go, days when the rains came?

Down in the hollow, playin' a new game

Laughing and a running hey, hey!

Skipping and jumping

In the misty morning fog with our hearts thumpin' and you ...

My brown eyed girl

You, my brown eyed girl" (Billy Joel)

:-)

Bored to death...

well...nearly. I should be doing some important reading right now...but what the heck, I have always been the last minute person...yet to pay for that...maybe its this time!

I'm so bored...ok I said that before...what can I do to get a life? Hmmm...no, I can't arbitly ask my neighbour to start performing for me...I can't listen to music all day long either. Sleep? I do that most of the time. Eat? My extra large figure says it all!

So why am I so lazy? Its not like I don't do stuff. I was out of town last week, partied some days ago. That reminds me, I wore heels after all most 2 months and I couldnt walk for 2 days! My feet were so sore! Anyway, im digressing. yeah, what do I do? I was treated by a friend to a sumptuous breakfast a few days ago...I go out for cold coffee almost everyday...I have friends visiting me...but its still so boring...I get online and see the same people, um...friends actually...and I get so tempted to just erase them all from my contact list...but for what reason? I don't know. This is so weird. I would have never dreamt to have felt like this but here I am, saying it out loud. I sure hope something happens soon...Do I sound selfish and unsatisfied? I don't know.

I was thinking...
1st...best friend.
2nd...pychopathic.
3rd...heart breaker and bastard.
4th...I wonder.

Something I saw when I was out on a walk the other day:
Float away...

escapism...elusion...recoil...evade...runway...forget...erase...obliterate...whatever.

Disc playing Sulk by Radiohead right now: You bite through the big wall, the big wall bites back. You just sit there and sulk, sit there and bawl

How Apt.

Its raining, people!

Was it the pre monsoon showers or what but it rained today. Going out should be a pleasure now. Have suffered enough by being told by the folks and friends back home of the continuous showers there! Yippieeeeee! :-D More rains to come?

What I do best-corner a guy and force him to buy me flowers! :) This time it was my neighbour.

(Taken with the cam of my phone. I think the pics are awesome. I dont even miss carrying my digi cam.)

In the summer time...

What is it with Levis and trying to sell nightie like dress cum tees? They're only perfect to wear in the winter for that snug feeling. I'd find them too much for even the summers. The market near my place is filled with the latest fashion and sadly, everyone who wants to be someone, will be in those latest designs. So one can find loads of prototypes around the University, so much so that it does get suffocating! Lets see how many wear these nightie thingies by next week. Anyway the summers still here. Well, except for some wind in the evenings which does provide some much needed respite. I'm constantly gulping down loads of juices, shakes and cold coffees and good old H2O :)

Sigh...

Wish I could drift away on one of these...The heat is killing and all I can do is whine about it!

Place: Gobardhan, Guwahati
January, 2007

Get working people!

The new 7 wonders of the world is coming out on 07/07/2007...

...how abt voting for the Taj Mahal? Would take about the same time as reading somebody else's scrapbook (actually, much lesser!) ;-)

www.new7wonders.com

Birthday Wishes...

for a fellow blogger and friend:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEHAK!!! (crackers bursting and trumpets rolling)Wishes from some of us :-D

T (!):

Mehak...she is fragrance of my life. Didnt even realise that its been more than two years since we got married... and we have enjoyed every day togeather...!! Writing this, I go back in the memory lane...our days trying to set up the house together...the cribbings about bangalore traffic and autowalahs (not that they have stopped now...)...riding the bike around the city...setting up houses time and again from one place to other....lots of smiles and some fights... Though I have to follow many strict rules from the master of the house, i just love being a brat in front of her :):)...and yes.. she has transformed to a great cook...(though she is too modest and critical of herself to admit that ;) ) I am glad that we are a couple!!!...wishing her a wonderful birthday and joyful years to come...(Well...that also means wonderful years for me ;-) ) Here's Ricky (!):

Mehakooo - I don't know what to say about her. She is a fighter...errr...she fights with me all the time. Right now she is chatting with me talking about blogging or rather not-blogging...lol. On a serious note, she is my first and best friend in the blog-world. We may not be blogging but always keep in touch with blogs one way or another. I cannot wait to meet her on my trip to India and fight in person :-P
This is her third birthday since I know her but it feels like we have been friends all our lives. My only wish is that she always be the way she is and all her dreams come true (ok these were two wishes but thoda adjust toh chalta hain).
Happy Birthday to the most beautiful person inside out. (Bas main thak gaya taarif kar kar ke)

Me (!):

What can I say about a Blog friend who's also become a good friend whom I can call anytime and have a chat with? What can I say about this friend who's always reminding me to be studying? Who threatens to spill it all to my parents someday soon? Who's always concerned about your welbeing? Well...a PAIN...but a good one...! And I wouldn't want to trade you for anything else in the world (Well, except for Wentworth Miller, JOKING!) Here's wishing a great birthday that'll be filled with loads of chocolates and flowers...And the entire new year filled with love, fun and peace. These pictures are from use but the real and tangible gifts is T's responsibility! (Haha, passing the buck now.) (PS-transformation to a good cook is good news for some of us!) :-p Have fun! *hugs*

Some more flowers....

This picture was taken with my new phone. (Not bad, huh?)

Its all about phases, my friend.

*Loads happening at the moment, from subsidary exams to entrances. And they arent going great. I studied an entire night for a subsidary only to reach the exam centre and be told that the Univ didnt send the paper. I'll know when the exam will happen next week. Fingers crossed. All I can do is despair and wait for the "exam/entrance" phase to go.

*Many familiar people are leaving for different reasons. These are people with whom I made so many pleasant memories. Now I might never meet them again. Its sad.

*Old friends making STD/ISD calls just to find out how I am makes me feel special and SMILE.

*Making plans of meeting up with friends I havent seen in "some" time excites me at the moment. Especially since I know that its going to happen very soon!

*Some things can never get better, they can only get worse. I have to stop begging Him to be just a friend. But I can't stop myself. Its a horrible feeling and phase.

*I wish getting fat was a temporary phase. Oh well, Im resigning myself to my not-so-temporary "fatness" phase.

*Im going through the "Superwoman" phase. Why? I flew all over town rescuing my non Delhite frm the airport and keeping him safe until he boared his next flight. Yay! to me.

*Im totally addicted to "Prison Break". I'm told its just been released in India but guess wat? I have both Season I and II...haha...Its should go without saying Wentworth (Drooooool) Miller is my latest crush :-D

Some of my fav. earrings. Tell me which one/s did u like best? My fav.? I loooooove them all :-)
Untill my exam/entrances phase gets over, take care people!

Of Proposals, Vokda Golgappas n Marriages...

Just when you think life couldn't get more boring with an injured knee, impending entrances and the heat, I got a proposal. Not just any proposal, this person has proposed to me thrice before and each time I've said no. Why would I do that despite the fact that he's gorgeous, tall n nice, if not anything else? I dont know. Maybe coz I still think I love someone else, just not ready to get into a relationship or simply coz I love reveling in my Single status. Anyway so this guy calls me the other day (since we're acquaintances, we catch up on and off) and starts abt how he misses me loads. (Wow! after all these months of not seeing each other?) And says he knew why I said no to him before. His reason-that my persception of him being a Playboy was right but he says he's changed. Here I was loosing my patience, what with my bad knee and having to get up early for work the next day.(Now I know how my ex feels when I call him all senti n drunk! Apologies.) Anyway if all that wasn't enough this guy had to add something like this-"Im sure you'll love me now. I have been working out and I have abs, a flat tummy and biceps. I'm sexy!" Yay! Good for you but I'm just not interested in Body Building! And wat is it, is he like Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest?! Despite telling him abt the accident he wanted to catch up with me this Saturday. Whatever. I was talking to Sandy abt it and Sandy thought I loved every bit of this attention but I didn't! Not when its coming frm the wrong person! Argh! Enough of messed up proposals!

Anyway u guys want to try out something diff? Try Golgappa with Vodka-its great! Not too sure if they serve it anywhere else but I had it in Punjabi by Nature.

Pete's been asking me why I havent written anything abt the Ash-Abhi wedding or why I didnt tell him Ash was getting married. Pete, knowing how much you adore Ash I thought I'd break the news gently :-D And what do I think of the wedding? She's such a kidnapper, Abhi's too young and cool for her.

Anyway I'd better publish this before any other glitches happen. I've had redo it twice! Doesn't Blogger recognise Cont Z button?! I'm off for today. Hoping you guys have a great week ahead!

Some pics of my attempted cooking here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marlees/

Gross.

Reaction by a Colleague on the Virginia Tech Uni massacre was to smirk and say, "Teng, teng, teng"...Ugh...I guess if he was in there he'd not have the time or thoughts to react in this insensitive behaviour :-I

Its weird to know that we don't know whats going to happen to any of us and quietly leave it to God.

Take care people.