Happy New Year people!

Just a quickie post to wish you guys a verrry verry happy new year! It's been ages since i updated but there's just been so much going on i've hardly had any time. Will get to it as soon as i've recovered from tonight so watch this space. tah taaahh!

Par-tehh!

Here's a pic of the girls!

Radi, Nomita, Meenu Varsha et your's truly!

Cover yer Stump!!!

Recently I was asked which one of my designs I liked best. The truth is I really don't know. There's just so many to choose from and each of every one of them is personal in its own little way...siiigh! Don't I just sound so soppy! But Harsh..(he's the one who asked the question !!..duh!!) already knew which one he liked. It's a little mascot I designed for an online comdom company..here's the little fella! Whoever thought a condom couldn't be "cutified" can just swallow ..err...shove it! I thought I did a pretty good job...didja notice the little red veins I built into his eye?

Enjai!



My take on the "one eyed monster" Not so scary now is he???

Happy Happy!

..Damn I'm slipping! Met a really adorable baby this weekend with the cutest little pigtails and dimples! And now I want to have babies!!! (..it’s the MondayMorning BabyBeckonings! Haaaallp!!!) I know my time is running out (...you see, I want to have them while my parents are still young enough to take care of them…) and there’s still no potential Daddy in sight! And even though I’m not quite sure I want to be married I guess it’ll be nice if I could find that one special person I want to annoy for the rest of my life, no?

And of course, speaking of marriage, it was Fabulous Nish-pish’s 5th Wedding Anniversary yesterday! Congratulations baby! Another milestone! Here’s wishing you many many more to come! Love you to pieces…Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaahh!

Euro English

Awesome mail sent by Fabulous Coohzhin Nish the Pish!


The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded thatEnglish spelling had some room for improvement and has accepteda 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English."

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c," Sertainly, this will makethe sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k." This should klear upkonfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when thetroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f." This will make words likefotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expektedto reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which havealways ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag isdisgrasful and it should go away.By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"with "z" and "w" with "v."

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining"ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

De-flowered!

Bought myself two new jackets yesterday, a grey trench and a fawn suede thigh length overcoat. And I went shopping on my lonesome-ownsome! Ain't that something! That's a first really! Can you believe it...I mean I've shopped alone before but always for birthday gifts or household supplies.. this one's a first for clothes!

Yippeeee!

Of Push-ups & Let-downs..

I’m in a somber mood this morning. It has nothing to do with the day so far (my boss gets back from her week-long interlude on the fair, sandy beaches of Koh Samui this morning and that’s sooooo great! I’ve missed the daylights out of her!!!) or last night..(..which was incidentally, spent watching Neal’n’Nikki, the flick from hell!) ..but more to do with a call I got this morning. It was from my ex mother-in-law (The prefix does apply to the entire family right??) She’d called about some keys she wanted back or some thing equally mundane so to speak but it was rather unsettling. Got me thinking about how relationships change. Here was this woman who once swore I was the daughter she never had and there we were making small talk about the weather and things. I guess that’s how these things work out. Hey if you marry the whole family when you marry the man it’s only fair that you have a “collective” divorce as well right? Not that I’m soppy or anything, but it’s just sad that relationships you spend so much time and effort developing must depend on intermediating factors completely out of your control! Siiiigh! C’est la vie people..

On a chirpier note I’ve borrowed Friends Season 2, which is such a pleasure to re-see! I mean they’re all younger and fresher looking and that’s the Chandler I absolutely adore..(..not Matthew Perry detoxing from his tryst with alcohol/drug abuse!!) Also I’d write a review of Neal’n’Nikki but frankly it’s not even worth a mention..(..although the lead couple has matching his and hers stretch marks and Uday Chopra has gone absolutely ballistic with the foundation and Tanisha needs to hone her acting skills a little past losing weight and attaining new heights in the variable usage of a push-up bra and …shit!! Stop it Rush!!!!) ..and as I was saying earlier, it’s not even worth mentioning. Heeheheehee!

So that’s all for today folks! Papa Bear Tarun’s coming over for din din this evening so more when it happens..

Another Most Excellent Review.

I know. I know! I haven’t been updating the blog and I’m not going to get into the whole why-I-didn’t (long time readers will empathize with the me not having the time to do crap all in the recent weeks but I won’t get into that!!) but instead shall type loong article in effort to redeem myself. It’s been a hectic ten days. Ramesh came down to Delhi over the weekend of the 3rd and Deso and Carbon had a birthday and then Aadu decided to visit over the last weekend. And I say weekend under duress really, cos frankly my weekend’s just a Sunday.. all of one day…which in my case in mostly spent sprawled in bed recovering from the ravaging effects of celebrating the fact that it’s the weekend, which as you know, in my case is just a day! Ahhh the complexities of life!

On a brighter note work’s going well. Riti’s been in town for over a week now so its been nice catching up with her. Didn’t get to spend much time with Ramesh during his trip this time but I guess we’ll just catch up some other time. Oh and finally decided that I’m going to be spending New Year in Delhi this year. Unless of course we decide to drive down to Mussoorie which seems to be the only plan that looks even halfway close to coming together.

Also been meaning to post the review of this really disastrous movie I happened to catch sometime last week, ‘Ek Khiladi, Ek Haseena” so here it is..



The movie begins with a very stiff faced Fardeen Khan talking to his soon-to-be-assailant. “Shoot me” he says and as anybody in his or her right mind would, the unknown mystery person does! This is where the movie should have ended or at least where I should have changed channels! But alas the flesh was weak and the blog-review-writing urges had their evil way with me!

So post one slutty number which doubles as the titles the movie then backtracks to show the chain of events that led to the shooting. Fardeen and Rohit Roy are friends who make their money pulling con jobs. After one (rather unbelievable) such job and a quick song Rohit Roy ends up murdered cos unbeknownst to the dynamic duo they’ve ended up robbing Sikander, a villainous don played by our very own Gulshan Grover! Anyways Fardeen must now get 4 lakhs to Sikander in 10 days in order to save his arse..(..the three minutes of the song was when our heroes spent all the money they made out of their little heist)

Ok here’s where Kay Kay Menon makes an entry. He is by far the only value addition the movie has to offer. And by that I mean he is the comic relief, by far the best actor and the only character with any soul. He plays Sikander’s right hand man who is to accompany Fardeen and make sure the money gets home to papa!

But sadly even Kay Kay couldn’t possibly have guesstimated the damage one Koena Mitra could do to this bomb! Mommy, isn’t she too young for botox? Then why doesn’t she have any facial expressions?? She plays a shrink ( the only way I could possibly co-relate the two would be shrink – shrunk – her clothes!!!) who meets Fardeen and his merry gang o thieves as they attempt to collect money at a gambling den. After some more song and dance bits and petty crimes later we find Fardeen and our psychiatrist in a lip lock in a rather environmentally friendly hotel room (…really!! Whoever thought green satin sheets were sexy huh?)


Koena throwing Fardeen her best "Come Hither" look!

So after some more tomfoolery Fardeen now has to use his superfine criminal mind to pull off another heist. This time its 25 crores in 25 days. This is where Feroz Khan steps in. He’s the one they have to hit. What follows is a mish mash of really sordid events that overlap, criss-cross and generally get all knotted up and end with Koena shooting Fardeen with blanks and our heroes walking off with the loot. And me sitting there screaming “OhMyGawdDidIReallySitThorughThisGreatBigStinkingPieceOfShitBomb!”

There’s even one scene where father and son find themselves in an elevator with Anupama Verma where Feroz Khan leans into her takes a deep breath and says, get this..”I love the scent of a woman” …and then hurriedly adds..”Channel?” WTF??

But seriously even all the really bad director’s cuts aside, this is a crappy movie. It turns out the whole band of brigands was putting on an act for Kay Kay’s benefit which leads to the question “Then why were they acting even when he wasn’t around?” And the whole movie lacks soul. The lead actor, no matter how dastardly his deeds needs to have an empathetic audience. That what makes him the hero. That’s what made Satya such a fine movie. That’s what Snatch and Lock Stock and The Italian Job did. Judging by what I saw I don’t quite think Feroz Khan will be even skirting that territory anytime soon..



All in all this film tries to be thrilling and unpredictable and ends up failing spectacularly! My question is the same one that Kay Kay ends up asking after he is forced at some junture of the film to listen to a story about a man and a lion…"Tera point kya hai?"

Still Singing...

More songs that remind me of people…

After that last article I wrote I took it upon myself to make a list of more songs and who they remind me of. Here’s what I came up with.

Varsha One more song like she very kindly pointed out on the last blog entry. Shakira - Wherever, whenever.

Shalini Bombay Rockers - Rock the Party & Neal’n’Nikki.

Neela Enrique Iglesias - Escape & Beautiful South - Perfect Ten.

Ganesh O O Jaane Jaana from “Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya”. Actually this song also reminds me of Abhishek cos of the amount of times we played it on Holi, 1997…was it?

Ajju Pearl Jam - Better Man & that Govinda number “Goriya Chura Na Mera Jiiya”. He had the Govinda double-hair-flick-hip-grind move perfected!

Megha Gulzaar - Mera Kuch Saaman. My introduction to his songs and poetry.

Malika Kylie Minogue - Can’t get you out of my Head & Imagination - Just an Illusion. For all those amazing times at RPM.

Priya Kale Please Forgive me - Bryan Adams…I know its psychotic cos I haven’t met her in like a gazzilion years but I think of her every time I hear this one…and I can’t for the life of me remember why!!!!!

Sandy Dabral We Will Rock You - Queen. His darling kids used to sing along with it and didn’t know the lyrics. “We will we will wakoan!”

And finally….

Ramesh Still N-Sync. Cos he called me in the middle of the night and threatened me with bloody murder after he read the last blog article!!! I think his exact words were..."Take the offending article off or I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fury!!" or something equally intimidating..(Can't remember now it was late and i was tired!!!) Hehehehehhehe!
But to be fair to him there's also all of those millions of other songs he murders when he’s singing along with them that totally remind me of him!!!! Take Stone Temple Pilots for an instance or Pearl Jam or Metallica or Dire Straits or oh baby…I could go on and on and on!

That’s all for now peoples!

Also I’m tagging all of you guys with the Song Meme. You’ll be quite surprised by what you come up with really!

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Something to sing about!!!

Here’s an interesting meme… it’s songs that remind me of people. I’m more of a smells person really…that is, I tend to remember smells more but songs I guess, run a close second on nostalgia value. So here goes…

Mom Chris Issac Wicked games….its not the lyrics but more the fact that I eventually got her the CD so she’d stop humming the damn song. Also Michael Bolton..(…no mom its not Christopher Bolton!!!) and this song from some inane old hindi flick that went..”Jeevan se na haar jeene wale..” that she used to sing us to sleep with. I still get that warm fuzzy feeling when I think about it!

Varsha One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head and the entire Grease 1 & 2 soundtracks! Also “Twist & Shout” from the Ferris Buller’s Day Off soundtrack! And also the Top Gun soundtrack! We’re playing with the boys now baby!!!!

Nish The Pretty woman soundtrack. Tangled & Fallen & Fame!!! Also Johnny Hates Jazz Shattered Dreams. Also every new “punju pop” number that we do our little “DumbInDelhi” bump and grind to!

Riti Woh Lamhe & Superstar. Cos they were and she certainly is!

Anu Sinead O’corner – you made me the thief of your heart. Phati hui maruti, phata hua system, lassi’s and heartbreak. And of course Annie Lennox & Bjork! Love you woman!!!!!

Siddu It’d have to be the entire Mr big Bump Ahead album. Also the best of police. I think it was the fact that it was playing in the background the first time we made out! Also Winger - Seventeen and of course the Colour Blind album…you rock!!

Tarun Gun’n’Roses - Sweet Child of Mine & Bryan Adams - Summer of 69! Love you Papa Bear!

Nirav Gadzooks! The list is endless! Every bloody song we ever heard together in college!!! But if I had to pick two they would be Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd & Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits!

Dhiren & Rohit Stone Temple Pilots, Oasis, Pearl Jam!

The Scandalous Seven Jim Morrison - Road House Blues & a song by some one hit wonder called “Life is a Highway” We danced our asses off to these one New Year’s eve!

Dad Art Company - Suzanna. Flinched his Walkman one time to listen to this song in school and boy he never let me forget it! Also Frank Sinatra - Strangers in the Night & I’ve Had the Time of my Life from the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack. And ofcourse his ‘piece de résistance’ “Bindu re Bindu” from Padosan !!!

Milind The Club remix of that song from “Hero” starring Jackie Shroff. Milind used to be my steady dancing partner when I was married seeing how my ex refused to get on the dance floor! And “Return of the Mac”!

Ramesh Any song by N-Sync..cos he just luuuuuuuuuurrrrrves his boy-bands!!!! Hehehehehe!

Sunila John Denver - Country Road & Annie’s Song. And These Boots are made for Walking.

Also here’s the long awaited update on the job thingy. I’m staying…yea well I guess they just got so tired of hearing me threatening to leave that they upped and doubled my pay cheque! So now you guys are going to be hearing me rant and rave about my loooong working hours for some more time to come! Sorry Nishu-pishu but I did try my hardest to quit. They just made me an offer I couldn’t refuse!!

That’s all for now folks but there’s definitely more to come. I saw “Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena” on cable three nights ago and I’m literally itching to get that review up so watch this space for updates soon!