Feeling Hot Hot Hot

1. Do you like hot weather? Does it get hot where you live? What is the best way to spend a hot, summer day?
It's scorching! The temperatures rise well into the 50's. The best summer afternoon's are spent at indoor pools with chilled beers or/and pina coladas.

2. Do you like spicy food? If so, what is your favorite dish? What is the spiciest food you've ever eaten?
I do. Not in-yer-face, tickle-me-magenta spicy but a moderate tongue scorcher is the order of the day. I don't quite remember the spiciest I've ever eaten but the food I do enjoy is a nice omelet-pav liberally laced with green chilies!

3. What do you find "hot" in a man/woman? What is the first thing you notice about someone who is hot? Do you ever think of yourself as hot?
A nice smile and a cute butt...in that order. Hot? Who me? Naaaaaah!

4. List 3 hot trends that you secretly (or not so secretly) enjoy:
Gyming, Salsa & the whole low-rider jeans trend.

5. Are you hot-headed or quick to anger? How do you react when you are angry or frustrated? What do you do to cool down?
I wouldn't call me hot-headed..(..ok.. amendment ...I’m not hot-headed anymore!) But when I do lose my temper I turn a bright red and tend to bite down hard on my lower lip..(..I get that from mom!) Taking deep breaths generally helps me calm down.

The Sting & I

This picture was taken after Sting's recent performance in Delhi. I'm never washing those clothes ever ever again!!!

PS Heeheheeheeheee...I luuuuuuuuurrrrrve Photoshop!!!!!!

Happy Happy Meri Jaan!!!

Today is being birthday of most esteemed coozhin and best-friend-in-good-standing, the Fabulous Nish-Pish Koppikar! I am to be taking this opportunity to tells her that she is indeed the most fabulousest of Fabulous and also to be reiterating my undying love and devotion for her! Hapyy Happy my jaanu! Hope this day and this year bring you joy beyond words and make all your dreams come true...

Muuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaahhhh!

Mememememememememe....

Monday Meme 14 : 2005-08-22 : Pick Four

1. What are your four favorite beverages?
Beer, Baileys & Chai! Not necessarily in that order! Oh yea...but nothing beats a nice glass of icy cold water on a warm day!

2. What are your four favorite tv shows?
Friends, Sex & the City, Frasier and Will & Grace! It's Sit-com's all the way although i kinda enjoy watching the occasional Law & Order episode.

3. What are your four favorite desserts?
Oooo..that awesome baked chocolate souffle they do at Diva! Makes me drool just to think about it! Then there's Gulab Gamuns, Waffles and anything with whipped cream on it!

4. What are your four favorite hobbies?
Reading, swimming and day-dreaming. Although right now i'm totally into jigsaw puzzles! The Sistine Chapel is almost done and i'm starting another one of Michelangelo's "Creation of Man" panel.





Also, here's a link to an interesting article I found about the "Creation of Man" panel. Wonder where this fits in the "Da Vinci Code"!!

5. What are your four favorite musicians?
Sting, Bjork, Zakir Hussain and Siddu!

Page 3...Hoo me???

Ok so its been quite a hectic few days and when I say hectic I mean jammed-with-so-much-to-do-I-don’t-have-time-to-scratch-my-arse hectic! Really baaaaaad! And all the more fun for it! So now its time to take a deep breath and blog about it! Here goes!

One of the most fun things I did these past few days was the beer guzzling thingy! (Yup, there you have it! It’s official! Varsha can do a much faster bottom’s-up than I can! But then again I’m excused on the grounds that the last time I won a bottom’s-up I wound up marrying the loser!!! So it's a mental block thingy, really!) On Sunday afternoon the Plaza saw us down liters (Varsha did a staggering 1.2 liters while I just about managed a puny .975 in under a minute) of the vile yellow liquid in an effort to win that golf hat!(..not to mention a meal-for-four at Sampan coupon, a free day at the Spa & a crate of Foster’s beer! But we ain’t greedy folks. We just did it for the golf hat!) And what’s more is the Delhi Times managed to catch me at my worst moment ever and decided to print the picture in the Wednesday edition! Here are some pics of the effort and the offending article! (There's Vinu and Promita and if you really concentrate you can also see the top of Varsha's head!)







Other than that all I can do is put in a diary of all the stuff I’ve been up to. Hey.. I never said my life was boring.. stimulating, electrifying, despondent (in verry minuscule bits) and even bordering on the psychotic sometimes.. but never, NEVER boring!

06th Aug : Was the infamous Monu’s Birthday so Saturday night saw us partying and gossiping away as we always do at her house in Friend’s Colony. After which we went over to Pooch’s house for a farewell party she threw for our very dear friend Rama.(who is going to St. Louis to gather more accolades and is also going to start updating her blog verrrrry soon!) Hope you have a blast babe! And while I still showed toe cleavage (I’ve been nick-named Twinkle Toes!! Can you believe it?) I tried not to flirt too much by my clever non-usage of nail-polish! How smart is that! ( ..or am I sending out the wrong signals? Will someone please educate me on proper podiatric etiquette?)

07th Aug : The beer guzzling thingy at the Plaza. And if that was not enough we got together with Anu and Gauts in the evening for drinks at their house and a most fabulouso dinner at China Garden! (Five decanters of sake, a few Caprioska’s, vodka and beer maketh for a fun evening, Confucious say!!!..*hic*)

08th Aug : Chilled out at home and caught up on some reading.

09th Aug : Party time again! This time it was Deepa’s birthday so we figured we’d cash in on the lovely meal for four coupon Varsha won on Sunday and have a meal at the Sampan. After which we moseyed over to Kasbah for a little boogie time!







10th Aug : Fell asleep at about 7.30 pm. A new record really!

11th Aug : And yet another birthday! This time we went to Noida to wish Seemit. Was a fun evening.

12th Aug : Went to the Delhi Gymkhana for those awesome chicken, chilly ‘n cheese sandwiches with Seema . Bumped into Rohit and Zuli there so moved the party to the Orange Room. Nice place. Must take you there when you’re in town next Nish-pish!

13th Aug : Spent the day at the office working till about 8 p.m. Had to drag myself from work..(yeah! I work reaaaaallly hard people!!) for drinks at Deepa’s, dinner at 360’s (the most amazing Carapaccio that did the whole melt in my mouth routine! Another must-do Nish-pish!!!) and dancing at Kasbah. Seemit joined us at Kasbah and the evening’s entertainment turned out to be this fight that happened when a testosterone-loaded Punju munda made a pass at the resident DJ’s girl! Was fun to watch!

14th Aug : Had lunch at the Taipan with Varsha and Krishnaa. Ate dim-sum like it was going out of style!!! A grand total of 39 portions of fried and steamed dimsum between the three of us and it only lasted about 2 hours! Total paisa-vasooli!! Rocking! And in the evening yet another one of Rama’s friends decided to throw her yet another farewell so we sat on these designer chairs and listened to journalist banter at his house in Vasant Vihar and tried to look knowledgeable (Though how one can pull that off while simultaneously trying to consume copious quantities of an assortment of alcohol is beyond me!!) Rama looked realllly hot in her little backless number though! More power to her!!

15th August : Happy Independence day people! Yet another holiday spent at the office. Don’t you just love deadlines??

16th Aug : After a full day’s work went cycle-shopping at Govindpuri for a friend’s daughter. Saw Meet the Fockers yet again! Aaaassss-oooole!

17th August : Finally, finally started on my jig-saw puzzle! It’s this most amazing 2000 piece 3.5’ x 1.5’ panoramic view of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel! Really been looking forward to it!

Whew! That’s done! That’s the deal. I’ve also been quite bad the last couple o weeks and put on 2 kilos. I really need to get back to the gym! More when it happens! Muuuuaaaaaaaaaahhhh!

Apologies!!!

Sorry folks! Haven't posted on here for ages I know. But it's been a really tough past few days. That's not to say that I haven't been having the most absolute blast but there have been restraints on the amount of time I get to myself these days! Of course I’m going to blog all about it soon ..but not today. For now you're just going to hafta settle for yet another mangy monday meme!

Monday Meme 13 : 2005-08-15 : Reading Rainbow

1. Do you subscribe to any magazines? Which? Are there any you'd like to subscribe to but haven't?

Time & The Archive. Would love to subscribe to The National Geographic!!!!

2. How many books do you read per month? How many are for work?

Oh i'd say about 5-8. None are for work!

3. What is your favorite genre of book (fiction, self-help, etc...)?

Fiction. Minimalist Fiction to be precise!

4. Where do you get your reading materials? Online? Bookstore? Library?

Bookstores, online, secondhand dealers...where ever i can get a fix!

5. List 5 books you recommend people read:

Not again! Please go read my Book meme here!

I was the 46th person to take this week's Monday Meme!

...yet another pointless meme:

Monday Meme 12 : 2005-08-08 : Eye of the Beholder

1. What physical feature do you get complemented on the most? What do you think of that feature?

I used to think my best feature was my smile, but lately, my toes seem to be grabbing the spotlight!

2. What do you like best about your appearance?

The fact that I look so much like my mother.

3. What do you like the least about your appearance?

This one's a no-brainer. My nose!!

4. What is the most extreme thing you have done to try to change your looks? Surgery? Hair dye? Dieting?

Hehehe...I just hang out with people fatter than me! Easy-peasy!

5. If you could look anyway you wanted, how would you look?

Oh...I'd want to be taller.

I was the 61st person to take this week's Monday Meme!

Sigh!!!

It’s been two days now since a certain someone’s been sulking with me for with-holding evidence! Two whole days of no phone calls, no messages, no “woulds” and absolutely no Soy chops! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh! I ish mitting all of that!!!! Consider this an apology and call me baybee! Muuuuaaaaaahhh! (..that is, of course, if you’re still reading my blog…*sniff*)

Ah Luuurrrvvee Cahlveen!!!

Flight From Fancy?

Last week I was asked out on a date. I very politely, but veerrry firmly declined. I did. I don’t know my exact reasons per say, but I did know that I didn’t want to waste a few hours making inane and pointless conversation with this boy. For me, a good first date would include honesty and alcohol. And it was quite apparent that I wasn’t going to get either here. Ok so maybe I could’ve winged the alcohol. But even that didn’t really tempt me. And when that happens, you know you’ve got problems!

I’ve been meaning to get into my reasons for staying single. I just keep putting off making any commitments. I’m getting worried. I’m just too used to being alone now. I like taking over the entire bed. As soon as I find someone I like, I approach the intersection of insecurity and anxious. I’m happy in my own private world, with my small life and circle of friends. I’ve been so afraid of being cornered, for so long, that I’ve forced myself into it. I wasn’t always like this. I was always more of a “wear-my-heart-on-my-sleeve” kinda girl.

Ok so that gamble didn’t quite work out the way I’d planned it. The thing is I don’t quite remember actually planning to be married. It just happened. Like most of my life so far. And when it got to breaking point, I ran! Okay, running, just so you know, was invented to escape bad situations.

Now I’m still running. Running my life, in such a safe, meticulous way, having learned from everything, playing it safe. And the problem is, I’ve left a bit of me behind. The passionate bit, the bit that’s messy and full of heart, the one who doesn’t run. I miss the me that dives in, without reservation. There’s nothing like passion and feeling alive. Sometimes it’s reckless; other times it’s just selfish. But it’s always fun! It’s what keeps me from ever really enjoying “safe.”

When my ex-husband and me decided to part ways, I think one of the last things I said to him was, ”At least we had fun while it lasted!” I hope he understood what I meant. That there will be tragedies, people will leave or die or simply cease to be your friends, but the memories of the good times is what we need to treasure. And by playing it “safe” I’m losing out on memory-making time. I know this and it brothers me.

Except that I can’t help myself! It’s just too much torture to go through the whole process of getting intimate with somebody, when all you can think is “how long is this going to last?” or “ is this really worth it?”. I’ve always prided myself on being an all out optimist but lately I’ve begun to seriously doubt it. I’m getting cynical. I see a happy couple and I look for signs that they’re not quite as happy as they look. And most of the times I’m right.

But I guess in the end it’s all about finding the ever-exclusive mean, that perfect balance. I feel so stupid about not having seen the signs earlier on in my relationship that I now get into analyzing most situations with a microscope. I’m still in the fight but the rules just got really hard and not quite as flexible. And there’s that whole quarantine period that just makes most men throw in the towel. Hell, it’s a miracle that I even get asked out!

But for the now I’m pretty happy. I’ve been blessed with a bunch of really great friends (the kind that make me smile just to think about them), my most adorable mother (..I must have done something really worthy to deserve someone that special!), work that I love to do and a life that actually never gets even close to boring. That’s a lot even by the most extreme sensibilities!

Eventually I’ll need to get out there again. I’ll need to find my soul mate. And hopefully when that happens I hope I stick around long enough to realize it.