He was my first icon; the very guy who got me listening to pop music. It was for his cassette (in those days) that I would get bashed up by my big sis when trying to flick it from her bag… Thriller, BAD, Off the wall, Dangerous… sigh!
I don’t care what the bloody papers talk of him or all the nonsense that’s running in the media 'bout him – the fact is I love him and I am deeply depressed that he is no more… shell shocked!!!
Rest in Peace MJ – you are truly The King of POP no matter what anybody says!!!
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Gemini
The month which is very close to Sundru's heart (and his wallet also!!!). I pity him because the b’days of all his loved ones fall in this month (Zodiac sign “Gemini”). It all begins on the 27th of May and ends on 12th of June. I can’t tell you how pooped he gets at the end of this month…
The birthday calendar is as follows:
1. Mom – 27th May
2. Dad – 1st June
3.Yours truly (me ;) ) – 8th June
4. Sister – 11th June
5. Mom – in –law ( My mom)– 12th June
Phew... No wonder he has a 0 balance account… Am sure no wallet can take this birthday shower :) For more cribbings (from the horse's mouth itself) and for some sadistic pleasure (:) ), visit his blog here!!!
Monday, June 15, 2009
To the Indian in me
Call me an emotional fool but I cry each time our national anthem is played anywhere in the world, my chest just swells up with pride; I just leave everything that am doing and stand still while the Indian in me salutes the anthem and then the tears roll down… I did that yesterday during the start of India vs England match… I can so relate to the aggression shown by Bhajji when the anthem finished. Felt like I wanted to do something for my country!!!
Is that the true patriot in me or just a feeling I don’t know but I do know that I am proud and very proud that I belong to India – there can never be another place like this (if you minus all the bloody corrupt things going on in the country though). Unlike others I do not have this urge to settle down outside of the country – I know a lot of people would give anything to come to India. Sundru seconds me on this – he is a true Indian boy and will never find solace anywhere else. Though I have come across a few opportunities to go abroad, deep down I know I can never be as comfortable anywhere else as here. I still remember; on my honeymoon I missed Bangalore so much that on day two I was ready to come back and chuck all that traveling thing… I am not denying the temptation to take the opportunity to work outside but somehow I am not really bent on it.
When I hear about all the racism stuff all over the world, it makes me wonder whether it is really worth leaving the country for whatever crap the outside world is trying to offer? Don’t we have it here in India? Why should we always have this NRI tag and proudly display it around when you know the kind of treatment you get abroad. What you can do there we should try to do it here… I hear my friends who are settled abroad and keep complaining when they visit India saying that it is something else outside and corrupt here... I am disgusted!!! I feel you have no right whatsoever to say things when you don’t make an attempt to try and change your surroundings – but no, all they want in life is a NRI tag…
Its time to think about it – show these NRIs that India is no less than "their" beautiful outside world…
It is my home and nothing else can be sweeter than home, sweet home!!!
Is that the true patriot in me or just a feeling I don’t know but I do know that I am proud and very proud that I belong to India – there can never be another place like this (if you minus all the bloody corrupt things going on in the country though). Unlike others I do not have this urge to settle down outside of the country – I know a lot of people would give anything to come to India. Sundru seconds me on this – he is a true Indian boy and will never find solace anywhere else. Though I have come across a few opportunities to go abroad, deep down I know I can never be as comfortable anywhere else as here. I still remember; on my honeymoon I missed Bangalore so much that on day two I was ready to come back and chuck all that traveling thing… I am not denying the temptation to take the opportunity to work outside but somehow I am not really bent on it.
When I hear about all the racism stuff all over the world, it makes me wonder whether it is really worth leaving the country for whatever crap the outside world is trying to offer? Don’t we have it here in India? Why should we always have this NRI tag and proudly display it around when you know the kind of treatment you get abroad. What you can do there we should try to do it here… I hear my friends who are settled abroad and keep complaining when they visit India saying that it is something else outside and corrupt here... I am disgusted!!! I feel you have no right whatsoever to say things when you don’t make an attempt to try and change your surroundings – but no, all they want in life is a NRI tag…
Its time to think about it – show these NRIs that India is no less than "their" beautiful outside world…
It is my home and nothing else can be sweeter than home, sweet home!!!
Saturday, June 13, 2009
@29
On the 8th of June, I celebrated my “golden year of the twenties”… I don’t intend to sound sarcastic but unfortunately age does that to you… sigh!!! I just can’t accept this – for a very long time I believed that I’ll never come this far and that my time will just stop; oh crap!!!! What was I even thinking *grump*…
The reality apart, Sunil made it a point that I celebrate my 29th birthday in style :)… That was the only happy thing about the b’day… Keeping the surprise element in place, the celebrations began with my sis Mamta and bro-in-law Mithun dropping in at 12am with a yummy chocolate mousse cake!!! A very sweet gesture!
Subsequently, I was asked to get ready by 9am sharp for the next round of surprises in store… Sunil dropped me at the Ayush Spa for a tantalizing ayurvedic massage along with herbal facial and an awesome shirodhara to follow… was that rejuvenating or what!!! After a quick bath (or baths – it took such a long time as I was dripping wet with oil!!!), I got ready for the other surprises that were in store for me :)
I was quickly zipped across to Café Masala where we had a romantic lunch date together… This was my first visit to the restaurant and I don’t regret it at all – the experience was good (the ambience and the food); just one embarrassing moment though – he made me cut a cake there (again!!) and that too in front of so many people – the sweet thing was that the other diners there clapped while I blushed and cut my cake - there I was, feeling so old as Sunil happily had me indulged in this juvenile behavior!!!
Post lunch, I begged him to give me two hours to myself… I felt so drowsy and sleepy (after the massage and the fab lunch) that I almost dropped dead and refused to get up before 6.30 in the evening… I was then asked to get ready by 7.15pm for more surprises (by now I was extremely tired!!!) and while I was getting ready, my folks started dropping in followed by friends… I was busy thinking of an excuse to run out of the house (for the plan which Sunil had in mind) failing to realize what the surprise actually was!!! How dumb can anyone get??
And there was another round of cake-cutting (ridiculously once again - come on its time I stop this!!!) and over samosas, kachoris, gulab-jamuns & rasagollas (all nicely organized by Sunil), the last of the surprises came to an end and I can definitely say that my 29th birthday was the most memorable of all… Not because I cut so many cakes (guffaw!!!) but because of all the wonderful things that Sunil did (I never felt tired on my b’day earlier) and these memories will take a long time to fade :):):)
Thank you so much sweetheart… you don’t know what this meant to me!!! Also special thanks to all the people who took time out to visit me - Mummy, Mamta, Mithun, Appa, Amma, Gayathri, PJ & Rach; Shaatz & Dia and also to all the people who wanted to make it but couldn’t… GPz & Nanz; Barry & Ranji; my soul sisters at Amba – Divs & Vikas (who celebrated his b’day that day as well :)); Rashu & Sid; I know it was a long shot for you’ll but the thought is what counts…people who called in to wish me (Nethra, Dinesh, Pinky, Bhaskar, Divya, Naga); others who smsed and also left scraps on facebook & Orkut; hopefully I haven’t missed anyone and finally a very very sweet thank you to the cutest addition on earth – Dhruv aka Changu for coming home and not getting cranky at all :):):)!!!
You guys are the best!!!
The reality apart, Sunil made it a point that I celebrate my 29th birthday in style :)… That was the only happy thing about the b’day… Keeping the surprise element in place, the celebrations began with my sis Mamta and bro-in-law Mithun dropping in at 12am with a yummy chocolate mousse cake!!! A very sweet gesture!
Subsequently, I was asked to get ready by 9am sharp for the next round of surprises in store… Sunil dropped me at the Ayush Spa for a tantalizing ayurvedic massage along with herbal facial and an awesome shirodhara to follow… was that rejuvenating or what!!! After a quick bath (or baths – it took such a long time as I was dripping wet with oil!!!), I got ready for the other surprises that were in store for me :)
I was quickly zipped across to Café Masala where we had a romantic lunch date together… This was my first visit to the restaurant and I don’t regret it at all – the experience was good (the ambience and the food); just one embarrassing moment though – he made me cut a cake there (again!!) and that too in front of so many people – the sweet thing was that the other diners there clapped while I blushed and cut my cake - there I was, feeling so old as Sunil happily had me indulged in this juvenile behavior!!!
Post lunch, I begged him to give me two hours to myself… I felt so drowsy and sleepy (after the massage and the fab lunch) that I almost dropped dead and refused to get up before 6.30 in the evening… I was then asked to get ready by 7.15pm for more surprises (by now I was extremely tired!!!) and while I was getting ready, my folks started dropping in followed by friends… I was busy thinking of an excuse to run out of the house (for the plan which Sunil had in mind) failing to realize what the surprise actually was!!! How dumb can anyone get??
And there was another round of cake-cutting (ridiculously once again - come on its time I stop this!!!) and over samosas, kachoris, gulab-jamuns & rasagollas (all nicely organized by Sunil), the last of the surprises came to an end and I can definitely say that my 29th birthday was the most memorable of all… Not because I cut so many cakes (guffaw!!!) but because of all the wonderful things that Sunil did (I never felt tired on my b’day earlier) and these memories will take a long time to fade :):):)
Thank you so much sweetheart… you don’t know what this meant to me!!! Also special thanks to all the people who took time out to visit me - Mummy, Mamta, Mithun, Appa, Amma, Gayathri, PJ & Rach; Shaatz & Dia and also to all the people who wanted to make it but couldn’t… GPz & Nanz; Barry & Ranji; my soul sisters at Amba – Divs & Vikas (who celebrated his b’day that day as well :)); Rashu & Sid; I know it was a long shot for you’ll but the thought is what counts…people who called in to wish me (Nethra, Dinesh, Pinky, Bhaskar, Divya, Naga); others who smsed and also left scraps on facebook & Orkut; hopefully I haven’t missed anyone and finally a very very sweet thank you to the cutest addition on earth – Dhruv aka Changu for coming home and not getting cranky at all :):):)!!!
You guys are the best!!!
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Of chasing demons and killing angels
Well... not a philosophical post but a quick one on the movie Angels & Demons. A prequel to the very famous Da-Vinci-code, I found this movie to be much more entertaining than its sequel (or its movie prequel!!! well... whatever). This movie is set in Rome unlike its prequel which was in Paris… The best thing about the book is the extent to which the author Dan Brown goes to describe the small/intricate details at such length but unfortunately movie just spoils it all. Am not saying the movie is bad or something... at least it is definitely a much better attempt than Da-Vinci-code, which, if seen without reading the book leaves you baffled & clueless and many scenes which really needed attention were just done so short and abrupt that it kind of made no sense…
But I guess that's the problem when a movie is made out of such books (which mix history & fiction). It’s really hard to put everything into a 2 hour movie. However, the director must be commended for his effort to bring to life this book!!!
Coming back to the movie – the story begins with Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) being called by the Vatican City to probe into a threat note from the church's perennial enemy – The Illuminati, declaring to blow up the entire city by midnight… The movie is thrilling and nail-biting and leaves you at the edge of your seats with the way all the murders are carried out and with such brutality…
Hold on... I think I should stop right here (I hope to have built the suspense already)– you should watch the movie for the rest!!!
Monday, June 01, 2009
Eating out
I know can be risky to health if done on a regular basis but I guess it’s ok to indulge in that sometimes esp. in my case where I have to do all the cooking no matter what time of the day it is!!!
Not that I cannot hire a cook but the main problem is because of the irregular timing that both of us get home making it almost impossible for any human being to adjust to it!!!
Not that I cannot hire a cook but the main problem is because of the irregular timing that both of us get home making it almost impossible for any human being to adjust to it!!!
Therefore the question of an easier option (eating out, what else??) springs up automatically leading us to the various small food joints all over Bangalore… One such joint that I happened to visit last week is Ganesh Darshan, enroute from Sundru’s workplace to home... This is in Jayanagar 3rd block (very close to Jayanagar shopping complex)...
That's me with the so called Famous coffee!!!
Why it's getting featured on my blog is because of its yummy akki rotis and the amazing masala dosas (which is supposedly one of the best in town) attracting crowds no matter what time of the day it is. Also famous is its coffee though am afraid it didn't really score very high on my list of best coffees in Blore... The ultimate coffee choice for me is Brahmins (Basavangudi) and no other place is very close to it right now!!!
As far as eating out is concerned, I guess that’s inevitable sometimes; unless I find a cook who can cater to our diverse taste buds (both Marwadi and Iyer Cuisine).
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