Its raining tags again and I was tagged for this by Homecooked.
1) Last Movie You Saw in a Theatre
One Missed Call
2) What book are you reading?
Black Friday- The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts
3) Favourite Board Game
Game of Life/ Scrabble
4) Favourite Magazine
Reader's Digest, The Economist, Cosmopolitan
5) Favourite Smell
Melting cheese
The smell of a new book or the mustiness of an old one
Clairol Herbal Essences Shampoo
6) Favourite Sounds
A basketball being dribbled
The Azaan
My 7 year old cousin's laughter
7) Worst feeling in the world
Loneliness
8) What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
Why the hell does the bloody alarm clock have to go off so soon?
9) Favourite Fast Food Place
McDonalds. Without a doubt
10) Future Child's Name
I havent really thought about it but I've always liked Ethan
11) Finish this statement- "If I had a lot of money, I'd"
do whatever the hell I wanted to do
12) Do you drive fast?
I dont drive. :(
13) What was your first car?
I don't have a car of my own but the first family car was a Fiat
14) Storms- Cool or Scary?
Cool
15) Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
Never have. Never will.
16) Favourite Drink?
Mangola and Water
17) Finish this statement- "If I had the time, I would"
Play basketball a lot lot more
18) Do you eat the stems with Broccoli
Yeah
19) If you could dye your hair any other colour, what colour would it be?
Black with copper highlights for me too
20) Name all the different towns/cities you've lived in
Bombay!
21) Favourite Sports to Watch?
Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Cricket.... Anything but Formula One, Golf and Billiards
22) One nice thing about the person who sent this to you
Grounded, Mature and from the looks of it an amazing cook
23) What's under your bed?
Boxes of my books
24) Would you like to be born as yourself again?
Yeah, it wouldn't be too bad
25) Morning Person or Night Owl
Despite my best efforts, I'm a night owl
26) Over Easy or Sunny Side Up
Sunny Side Up
27) Favourite Place to Relax
Home
28) Favourite Pie?
I'm more of a cake/cookie person
29) Favourite Ice Cream Flavour
Chocolate and Blackcurrent
30) Of all the people you've tagged who's the most likely to respond to this?
Maybe...Moo
I tag
Whiny the Moo
Mynie Moe
Ace
20:29
00:53
I'm back!!
If anybody noticed that I was gone that is!
And while I'm not really interested in blogging, I'm forcing myself to, in the hope that I get back into the blogging groove.
And I'm hoping that it goes well.
Goa was brilliant. As usual. There were only two things that sucked, the brain-melting heat and the absolute lack of a nightlife.
But they weren't unsurmountable obstacles. After all when your with friends, every thing's fun! And we just tried our best not to venture out to much in the heat.
The food, the company, the surroundings, the water, the people. Every thing was absolutely perfect. I went para sailing and on the banana boat. And maybe it's just my over-adventurous Arien soul but I found the para sailing thing quite boring actually. It was nothing extraordinary to be there safely strapped in and just looking around. I much preferred the banana boat.
Think I need to try bungee jumping or sky diving.
Everything we did in Goa had a bittersweet feeling to it though. At the stage I'm at right now, waiting to see in which direction life takes me, I could be anywhere, doing anything tomorrow and I might never be able to up and go with these very same people ever again.
A random chocolate pancake stop at Infantaria, crunching into a huge crab claw at Souza Lobo's, checking out good-looking firangs at Cocktails and Dreams and Mambos. Everything could possibly be the last time I ever did this with these people. And there were plenty of hugs and I wonder where we'll be 10-20 years from now.
Ok, I'll stop with my obsessing over the future now. I KNOW you've probably had enough by now.
Anyway, I read this post at theMadMomma and like her posts usually do, this one got me thinking as well.
Why is it that we always bitch about the city we live in, all the while taking full advantage of all the city has to offer? Why is it that so many NRI's living abroad, find it okay to complain about the lack of facilities in India and whine about the heat and the terrible traffic while appearing to be blind to the so many wonderful things that have happened instead of staying and striving to make things better.
Like Madhavan said in Rang De Basanti, "Koi desh perfect nahi hota, usse perfect banaya jaata hai."
Where was America when it first gained independence, it recognised slavery and didn't accept the American Indian on an equal basis. They weren't given the right to vote until 1924 and women were allowed to vote only in 1920. It took a hundred years for slavery to be abolished and even then African-Americans did not enjoy the same rights and freedom as white people. That took almost another century.
England's Magna Carta protected the barons from unfair treatment by the king and no mention was made at all of the peasants. Nothing at all.
And these are the countries we look upto as the epitome of perfection without realising that they didn't come into being that way but were made that way. And India is still a young country, it may take her a while but she'll get there eventually. And I may be just an overly optimistic person with excessively rose-tinted glasses, but the way things are going, I see that happening in a few years.
And like the OA's friend did, why not get into the government and be the change that you want to see. Most of India's brain power seems to be going abroad and we are having a serious problem of brain drain.
I love Bombay from the bottom of my heart. I was born in this city and I would be quite happy to die here. Dirt, pollution, heat, over-crowding, traffic be damned. It's my city. And as long as it's given me a place to live and work and eat, why would I possibly bitch about it?
If you're so disgusted by the pollution, dont take your car out more than is absolutely necessary. use public transport as much as possible. The heat? Help the world beat global warming and recycle and re-use as much as you can. Dirt? Stop throwing stuff out of the train window everytime it passes the Mahim creek. It's a river not your personal dumping ground.
And if you're unhappy with something the government's doing, do everything that's constitutionally possible, write letters, file PIL's to find out more about the problem, contact your local ward development officers. Use whatever options are available to you, but for heaven's sake just don't lay back and whine and moan!
Same goes if your happy, it seems to me that a lot of people in government offices and institutions are disinterested in their jobs because it doesn't seem to make a difference to anybody whether they do a good job or bad. And if you appreciate something that's done well, TELL THEM! It won't hurt you to thank them and say a few words of appreciation. It might not make a difference to you but it will to them.
And I swear the next time, somebody complains about Bombay, I'm gonna tell them to shove it where the sun don't shine.
12:55
Like a lot of my other posts so far, this one is going to be one hell of a jumble too. So in all wisdom, I'm warning you off right now.
I'm going through a very mixed bag of emotions right now. And to point them down is very hard but I'll give it my best shot.
My exams got done yesterday. My final University of Mumbai Board Exams. And as I walked out of the exam hall and I saw all the happy smiling faces around me, I felt out of place. I wasn't as happy or as euphoric as they seemed to be. And no, it's not cause my paper didn't go well. It went pretty decently actually.
It was because I realised that this was it. The last exam of my college life over and done with. 3 absolutely brilliant years at Wilson had come to and end. And I can no more be called a college student. And while this might seem like a juvenile rant. It's true. My college life is OVER!
And while I may seem like a stuck record, I have to say this, " I wanna go back and do it all over again."
In case you were wondering that was the sad part.
Now comes the happy part!
This is a tribute to one of the best friends I have ever had. Period.
And in case, you're wondering who it is. It's Mynie.
This girl has always always been there for me whenever I've needed her. She's my Rock of Gibraltar. She's been a friend, mother, sister, been the voice for my conscience and my life would be so so incomplete without her. And her approval means more to me than anybody else's. Always always standing behind me. She's truly been the wind beneath my wings.
Beautiful, wise, funny as hell, intelligent. If I didn't love her as much as I did, I'd probably hate her.
And I've realised how amazing she is especially during these last days of my exam. I constantly called her every minute that I could. Woke her up and made her explain things to me. Took the notes that she so painstakingly put together and studied them. Disturbed her concentration while she was studying to explain all the random things I had in mind. Plans for after exam, after college, the next ten years.. you get the picture.
And if I have a daughter, I would want her to be just like her.
So anyway, this is a big thank you for you, Mynie. I only hope you know how special you are to me.
And in the words of Khalil Gibran- And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
21:05
Is it just me or does anybody else see something wrong with the Indian Idol promos that are being telecast on TV nonstop recently?
The cities being covered are Mumbai, Delhi, Gwalior, Lucknow and Jaipur.
What about the Northeast and the South? Or aren't the people there Indian enough to be part of Indian Idol.
Any ideas?
17:25
I turned 21 yesterday.
Yes, Yes. Thank you very much. And yes I know I can drink officially and all that jazz.
But that's not what this post is about.
This is about a nagging feeling of disconnect that I'm feeling right now. And though this started off as a birthday post, I have a feeling it's going to end up as something else.
Despite the awesome build-up I got about turning 21 and my own over-excitement. I am feeling pretty letdown about the whole thing. I guess I expected fireworks and some kind of great revelation. Which I'm sure is pretty stupid of me but it is what I anticipated. And it is the way I feel. Irrational or unwarranted or idiotic thought it maybe.
Overall, it was a pretty good day with people wishing me from the 3rd through to the 5th. And I absolutely revel in attention. People I never expected to remember and care enough to take the time out to wish did.
I went out for dinner in the night, exams from the 7th, remember? But it was a really nice dinner with family at 5Spice at Pali Naka, Bandra with Crispy Hunan Chicken, Malaysian flat noodles and Chicken Mangolian Pot Rice. And to finish off with an absolutely scrumptious Chocolate Chip Fudge Cookie, which was so good,I had to be restrained from licking the bowl.
And now that the spotlight isn't on me anymore, I just feel old. I'm 21! Me! 21! And if you know me well enough, you will know what I mean. Hell, for my 19th birthday, my friend gave me a tshirt that said 'Hyperactive Kid Inside'. Get the point?
But I digress, I am now 21 and not too happy about it. I'm at the end of my teen years and I am now an adult. And expected to behave like one too. * Sob*. Next year I'll be 22, then 23 and before I know it I'll be 30. Not that there's anything wrong with being 30 but it just seems so old. I want to go back to being 16-17, in my first few years of college, all wide-eyed and innocent.
And to add to the misery, my effing exams are on exactly 2 days from now. TWO! And I am still absolutely uninterested in giving them. Though I have been studying. But not with a great deal of interest.
On a happier note, my family is coming over today for what will turn out be a hell of a noisy dinner with much laughter, rude name-calling and leg-pulling and some absolutely atrocious, make-you-want-to-kill-yourself puns. But they are my family and I love being around them, despite occasional flashes of irritation that I might have. Also there's Goa to look forward to next week, plenty of sun, sand, surf, seafood and lots of cheap alcohol. :) I'm leaving on the 14th with Mynie and some other friends and like she says, the bunch that has meant the most to me the most over the last three years and who's support I cannot do without. And it will be an awesome trip I know that.
Now if only I can get out of this blue funk I seem to have sunk in.
Oh well, here's to great gifts! :D
P.S : To EP & MF, I love you more than I could ever tell you and thank you for making this birthday so special. I'm wanting more litchi and caramel cake now. To Goa and all the memories we have together.!
01:07
I had a whole birthday blog planned. On turning 21. And I even wrote around half of it.
But then I came across this at the MadMomma and I had to provide a link about it here. I'm one of those people who doesn't really see the point of waxing. I have better things to do in the hour or so it takes to wax my arms and legs. And I am the butt of ridicule by my friends for this.
This is not to say, that I don't wax at all. I do, but it isn't a religion for me. I don't feel ashamed if my arms and legs are covered in hair and I couldn't care two hoots about what other people have to say. And I say this despite the fact that I live in shorts
Anyway, I think I'll stop blabbering now and let you read it. All about why you don't really need to wax. Because she says it all ever so eloquently.
12:19
My Blog finally has a new link thanks to a new Header courtesy Bloggernet. And while I love it, I would love to know what you guys think of it.
Does it go with my blog personality. If not, why?
P.S : This is my 21st Birthday Present. A blog header. I've been coveting one for a while. And finally here it is. Yay!
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