The gender game

I am not much of an observer. Nowadays, I cannot help but look at all the beautiful people around me . Now, now.......I am not a feminist either, nor a masculinist ..... these are just some nothings....

...A boy receives a phone call and the girl who is with him is wondering that there must be another girl who called him. She questions him upon who called and the poor guy tries his best to prove that it was his mother.
Generally women tend to be more suspicious...

He is looking elsewhere , not her.....and she thinks that he insensitive. Now she is looking elsewhere, not him....all he does is just smile at her...
Women, most of the times are over sensitive and too emotional..

He doesnot want chocolate icecream for dessert and she cannot survive without 300 grams of chocolate per day.... Is that a problem??
Most women like chocolates and icecreams......oh, yes ofcourse also the colour pink......who invented this colour anyways??

When he is late home, whether she expresses it or not, she is thinking.......she is thinking why he was late.
Women, as said, think a lot about the 'not so important things'

She promised him that she would be on time...He waits atleast for more than an hour.......
Women are never punctual

He does not remember the day he met her........and "Oh God! That is soo thoughtless of him!!" says the woman. Controvert to that, she knows when his grandmother was born.....and that is too thoughtful of her...

More to go......

These colours.... 

Rang barse

Holi is not a festival that our family is accustomed to. I always wanted to play Holi, so we celebrated it this time. It was not a large scale event but it was nice and colourful. My hands are all still painted green and I hope that I am not looking like 'Feona' from Shrek now......the picture should say everything!
For a long time, the moon too has not appeared as beautiful as today...
Hope you all had a fantastic time.......Happy Holi!!

Down the same old street

It was during my school days between 1999 and 2002. I was at high school.....an all girls school, the best in Bangalore....Dad used to drop me on his way to the office and Mi picked me up after school. Once in a week, specially on saturdays [as it was half day at school] she used to buy me Baskin Robbins icecream. Other times we used visit 'Veena Stores' - the best Idli Chutney available. The school still has those pink and yellow flowered trees. I used to wait for Mi under its shade with a couple of gud'ol friends. I remember the day when I stopped speaking to them because of a silly misunderstanding......We had a huge fight and the class teacher too came to know about it. God! those were such kiddish days.....I decided to catch up on them. It came as a surprise/shock to her when I knocked on her door. It had been 4 years and few days since we had spoken.
The first birthday I celebrated away from home, the time we spent chatting by writing messages on a paper while classes were still on, the lunch we had on the steps of the playground, the out of class trips, all these remain a distant memory now......

My days here

The way back home was not that terrible afterall! Bangalore's population has doubled ever since I left. The other day when I was at the 'Forum Mall', which is the only decent shopping mall in Bangalore, I felt the floor below me trembling.....the mall cannot handle these many people!! Not many were there to shop. Movies at the PVR cinemas on weekends should be planned a week in advance. Even a flop movie is a sold out on weekends....so I would better resist the idea of going to the forum mall on a weekend. I watched the movie Black, on recommendations made by even the flight attendent.....but nothing impressed me except the little girl's and Amitabh ji's acting. I would not say this movie would go all the way to win an oscar. The script and direction may not contain the oscar winning material. Its just too emotional and sentimental...........

At this time of the night

2:21 in the morning and I should have been sleeping, but I'm not! Finished a cup of hot chocolate an hour ago....now I have camomile n honey flavoured tea in my hands which is supposed to bring me sleep. Spilled some hot milk on myself like a kid on top of which the water boiler had to breakdown today :( Afternoon flight from LBA, a total 11 hours of waiting to do in London and Colombo, a total of 13 hours onboard, travel time approximates 24 hours with junk food to eat...nothing could be better. I will be so tired when I reach Bangalore that the last thing I would expect is my mother to tell me "Archana, you look like you are sick" instead of "How are you? Did you have a good journey?".....She said it the last time and Mi, dont repeat it again please!!

Dual life

On my mind : blank
Music : Yuva....A.R. Rahman

Jitters revolving in my head, the same mixed emotions that I experienced the last time I was leaving for India. I am glad that I am coming to my home country where I always belong but there is a feeling of leaving something behind. It is pretty strange that I miss India when in England and I miss England when in India. England has taught me , in my case, how to live life , whereas India has given me that life. Life is certainly what we make of it and here, I am learning how to be myself. I have a sense of freedom and independence here which would have required another 6 or 7 years in India. A normal family in our society may not send their 18 yr old 'DAUGHTER' out of the country, all alone, to study. I am not saying that my family is abnormal but people around ask my parents, I am told, "How could you send your daughter to study there?? All alone?? Are you not scared??" Hey......scared of what?? Anyways, I am grateful to my parents that they sent me here, though they were skeptical about my idea at first....They knew the 'stubborn me'!!
It is just a vacation of about 5 weeks now, but one fine day, I will wake up in the morning realising that I have achieved what I wanted......and this will be the day that I pack my bags and head home forever.....as I have it in mind, this day should come within the next 4 or 5 years. A very wise friend whom I met here quoted the last time I was leaving for India, "All of us who leave home with an intention to go back have two lives. It is the same for you....you have one life here and you have another life there". This life is temporary, this country is always a second home.....never a first one!

Yayy yayy yippie yippie yayy!!

On my mind : blank
Music : Cloud#9 Bryan Adams

What a fantastic day it has been so far.......two weddings and my tickets!! I have the tickets in my hands right now. Just got them from the reception!!! Spoke to my cousin now and looks like she is getting married :D After a few dark days, the sun is here again and yet again I am on top of the world!! 4 and 1/2 more days to go and nothing more.......I am just more than happy!!!!!!!!!!
Now I have to continue packing. Will write more in the days to come..... :D

From the masterchef's kitchen...

On my mind : coursework
Music : What it is by Mark Knopfler.... He is performing in Bangalore n I missed this one too :( Unable to find his older album 'the ragpicker's dream'.

Its directly from the kitchen, and the food tastes disgusting. My efforts to develop good culinary skills were pathetic. Kitchen is just not the place for me. Tried my hand at preparing mutter paneer....but alas!! Cooking is kind of a science experiment to me. Choose some vegetables and put some spices and salt into it. It is edible as everything is in the right proportion but it still does not taste like it should. Sometimes I get it right and when I taste it, I exclaim 'I am a genius!!' and the other times I tell myself 'I am just not meant for this stuff'. No, I am not interested to learn to cook but God help me!! Give me a husband who is a good cook.....

The last thing that had to happen

On my mind : where are my tickets???
Music : Kehte kehte ruk jaati hain naa jaanay kyun
dono aankhen jhuk jaati hain naa jaanay kyun......from Chupke Se

Yes.........looks like the travel company through which I had booked my tickets ONLINE have lost my tickets or may be they are cheating me!! So much so for my 'feel good' days....My parents dont know about it, days are fast approaching but where do I go without my tickets?? Not only did the company make a mistake by stating my room no. as 3 instead of D3, they also did not send it by the registered mail. Now this is either inefficiency of the company or they are huge crooks. I asked them to reissue the tickets to me and they say that it is not possible because no airline will re-issue the ticket until a week before the departure.....Is it true??Of course I am not going to let them to cheat me.....I will check with the post office tomorrow, I am going to the bank to withdraw my money. Life is so miserable now but I will get out of this somehow.....I have a SIXTH SENSE telling me that everything will be alright........

Me...in Bangalore!!

On my mind : Medical physiology
Music : Gori teri aankhen kahe.....by Lucky Ali

10 more days and I will be home!!!!! :D Cannot wait to get myself out of the flight as soon as it lands there. Its rather frustating sometimes as it takes a whole lot of time for the flight to reach the terminal after it lands. Well actually its 12 more days, no...its 13 more days, but who cares......I am counting the days down!! I am so happy, so happy, sooo haappppyyyyy....First thing I would do as soon as I get to Bangalore is run home and eat [thats after giving my city some kisses].....Mii's food. She is going to cook something special for me I'm sure!! Started packing yesterday, got some chocolates for my baby sister and nothing for my little brother....he is not little anymore!!
One thing is that I reserved the tickets online and I am quite nervous now that I have not received the tickets yet! Hopefully, I will get them today.....keeping my fingers crossed! ;D Too many things to do, too many courseworks to complete and so less time....