What the Heck!

I will go back to being numb and blah another day. Today I have six types of desserts in my refrigerator, the radio is playing my all-time favourite songs one after the other, this is my 500th post on this blog, I have decided to chop off some more hair, I have also decided to make some effort to improve my signature, AND an oldie and I made each other very happy. So, here's something that ought to be here.

Three Rs that made me happy...
Robin
It took me very long to feel comfortable around him. But it has been great getting to know him. Like I have mentioned earlier, it has been incredible working with him. More than that, it used to be fun just taaaalking all the time. And the fact that we hated each other every morning because he liked being animated first thing in the morning and I could not stand noise and bullshit at that hour now makes it funny in retrospect.

"So jaaaaa, Robin!"

Ranjan
I cannot describe what a delight it is to have this boy around! The only encouragement during terrible losses at the badminton court (:P), the happiest hugs on campus, endless animated conversations (not in the mornings), a whole lot of positivity, and the best of smiles always came from him and never ever failed to make me happier.
"Teraaaa hone laga hoon!"

Ruhi

She has taken care of me and given me space in just the right amount at all times. She used to save me food (!), keep her door open for me through the night, willingly accompany me to the city for oddest things, fill me in with a lot of SIBM gossip, and took off from the last party of the batch just to give me company on the hilltop.

The two Ss without whom I felt my life was incomplete...

Swetha

She was the brightness, the happiness, and the madness with whom I weaved a lot of unforgettable experiences.

Sahil

In his company I never realised how I changed from being who I used to be to what I am today.

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The six desserts: Homemade firni, ras malai, homemade gulab jamun, a plum cake, a creamy chocolate cake, and chocolates. :D :D

Bling-in-Law

You know how people can be different in the way they look, think, act, talk, etc. My sister-in-law and I too are different in almost all respects. Especially as far as taste in shoes, clothes and bags is considered. If I drool over those big leather bags, she likes them shiny. If I like plain, cotton tees, she likes dresses that are shiny. And if I pick floaters, she picks red stilettos.

While this brings good variety to the family's look, it is rather funny when we go shopping together. Brother along! It happened today. At 44 degree celsius.

At one shoe store: I was looking at the classic black pair of heels that goes with everything. She, on the other hand, to kill time, picked a silver shoe that had a big shiny silver flower on it. I put on the right shoe, she put on the left shoe. The same guy was attending to us both. I asked for a smaller heel in that design. She asked for more colours in her design. And then we both looked up from our feet, in the direction where Bhaiya was sitting, seeking opinion. Oh man! Poor man!

At least the other man was getting paid to see two opposite customer-types together.

And I am getting training on cosmetics too. I will soon be able to tell a lip pencil from an eye pencil. Wait and watch.

Oh My God.. I've Become a Cat!

I mostly stay calm on the exterior now.

I love attention and being loved.

According to people I have bright-ish eyes.

I can choose to be totally mean.

I am temperamental.

I am no more the loyalist I used to be.

OH MY GOD!

Avan, my Catwoman just happened to call. She is happy to know about this discovery of mine, and insists that cats are the nicest 'people' around. I almost want to tip my preferences to the other side now.

Wow, I did not see this day coming.

Muft muft muft!

X-rays and MRIs. Serrriously!

*fuming*

Add ultrasounds and other stupid scans too.

Temme Temme!

Tell me how the blog looks. From the time when I used to change the template every two months or so, this one's come after about three years. I am liking it. Tell me what you think about it. Of course, keeping in mind the Fuchsia context. :-)

Your Brand's Worth?

A funny conversation with a friend today led to the realisation that I have fought/argued with several companies/brands due to bad service delivered. I could recall ten of those, and here they are!

Airtel

Vodafone

HUL - Pureit

Spicejet

HSBC

Barista

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Pizza Hut

Adidas

Hair & Shanti/Madonna/Meghna - all are hair salons in Delhi

The first five were pretty severe wars.

The food/beverage places tend to mess it up a lot more anyway!

Adidas, well, once each shoe of a pair broke into two within a few months of purchase and they offered no help whatsoever!

And the rest for giving me bad haircuts on several occasions. :-|

On the other hand, some brands that have been great experiences in terms of quality of product as well as service are...

Dell

Converse

Costa Coffee

Samsung

Gati

Marks & Spencer

DTDC

Bata Power

Timex

And some doctors that I have been visiting for a long time now. :P

Tell me how often do you fight for the exorbitant service taxes and mad MRPs you pay?

10

1. I went back to driving a car.

2. Met my newest blogger friend :)

3. Saw the sun rise.

4. Took Kanani around for good chaat in Delhi.

5. Wrote something worthwhile after really long!

6. Did some brainstorming too!

7. Deleted useless movies and music from my system. Swetha, still hold you responsible for that 9 GB of unsorted music! Grrr!!

8. Got back to the job hunt after a good 10 days!

9. Met my old love, brown Telugu Hyderabadi no-more-skinny Mansi!

10. Got tarot card reading done for fun. The results made me regret going for it!

Road Trip to Amritsar

My brother and his wife had planned a two-day trip to Golden Temple, Amritsar right after the wedding. But something got into them and they asked all cousins on both sides to accompany them. They insisted, and the party got extended by two more days.

We were 20 people in four cars ready to drive all the way to Amritsar on 24th morning. A very eventful road trip, it had accidents, flat tyres, loud music, lots of laughter, even more sleepy heads, chaat, lassi, punjabi radio, crazy bus drivers, crazier truckers, insane video recordings, and endless drama.

Both ways the drive took longer than expected because of various reasons. One obvious one being way too much coordination required between all the cars.

For a few scores of kilometres, while my cousin Nidhi drove one of the cars, I exchanged places with Swaroop and sat in the seat next to her. The drama that followed led to me showing the finger to one of the many assholes that didn't give way or acted crazy simply because we were two women in the front. Other ways of getting back at them included not giving way after overtaking either. :D

It was my first visit to Amritsar and to the Golden Temple. As expected, there was a great rush and no peace. We stayed there till the time Guru Granth Sahib was 'put to sleep', and then headed out for some nice dinner. The restaurant we ate at, Crystal, also had a bunch of typical punju boys celebrating a birthday over food and drinks. From a distance itself they met the stereotype so beautifully that it amused us. The 'pangebaaz keeda' in me was itching to have some fun but I succumbed to pressure of behaving in front of family members. :P

I did not see the Wagah Border, didn't have any Amritsari kulche or papad, or even buy any punjabi jutti. But I do not know if I'll ever go back there again. Way too much chaos to handle!

One good thing - my monthly tripping is going well. I would like to tweak last month's entry in the list by putting a Pune-Delhi trip on it. :P

Rest is all good!

Oh oh... while we were going from our hotel to the Golden Temple, I saw a man on a cycle-rickshaw enjoying a can of Carlsberg. His wife sat next to him. :D

The Big Fat Punjabi Wedding

Relatives from outside of Delhi came over about a week in advance.

A lot of chai happened even though the temperature was going through the roof.

People noticed every single thing that the groom's immediate family wore at every function.

People checked me for not wearing make-up.

Everyone danced like crrrrrazy. Danced to the beat of the dhol, live music, a DJ, the baraat band, and to whatever else you can imagine.

In spite of a lot of planning and colour-coded Excel sheets, there still were things that we forgot at the last minute and had to run about for!

Chikan and daaru happened!!

Jealous relatives made their presence felt too.

The groom's cousins & friends did compete with the bride's cousins & friends over dance/joote/sarcasm and all things mindless.

Most cousins did not sleep before 6:00 am on any of the days and I hated sleeping earlier than the rest but the day-time responsibilities did not leave me with a choice.

The baraat was not on time.

As our guests increased during the pre-wedding days, the cooks shifted their set-up to our backyard and played punjabi music through the day too.

Bahut saara meetha tha!!! :D

But almost as expected, my parents and I hardly ate at any of the functions or even otherwise. So while people came and told us how the food was, we did not quite taste most of it.

A female cousin of the bride stared at my un-waxed arms at the wedding.
a) I did not have time for that stuff.
b) I had (and still have) sunburns all over both my arms because of all the running around in the heat. :-|

The groom was the calmest person in the house on the day of the wedding.

The whole house was nothing better than a railways platform. Things we managed to keep away before people came, lived. The rest - left shoe of a pair, right shoe of another pair, that watch, those papers, those clips, that charger, and a whole lot of other stuff - is yet to be found.

Power cuts did not cause the kind of problems voltage fluctuations did.

Paisa paisa paisa... so much frikkin' paisa got spent that I killed my age-old fancy for a fancy wedding for myself.

AND the maintenance of a double chin-less face is going down the drain as I am putting ALL the left-over juices/carbonated drinks/mithai/chocolates in my system!

Another back injury

Say hello to another injury of the back before you leave!

Aaargh!!!

Gaah!!

Today I reached the next level of health-related crap. My dentist made me a case study for his resident students. Must tell you it does not feel funny to lie in the dentist's chair and have more than one people looking into your mouth! :-|

Apparently I have teeth of a 40-year-old. Yet again, for no fault of mine. Apparently my stress/anxiety makes me grind my teeth at night and all the grinding over the years has resulted in me having a now useless set of canines with a fair bit of damage to other teeth too. Ugh!

I personally know that it is not just my teeth that have reached the 40-year point. Maybe I should speed up life and do all that I plan to real quick 'coz my body seems to be aging a lot faster.

Come on baby, now don't just give me a job, make me your CEO! And then soon I would like to become a supermom CEO who travels the world for leisure for six months in a year. Who's listening? *puppy face*