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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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5:21 pm - Winters and hot baths
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I absolutely love the russet colors of autumn and the accompanying chilliness.Not to mention the ocassional freak Artic wind that knocked the daylights out of everyone here.
I love it especially when we'r all warm and cosy inside our apartment after my hot soak and sipping on some doodh chai and hot samosas from Green Street!
Talking of hot soaks, S ,being a out and out Delhi'ite brought up having stone cold showers even in the wintriest of Delhi winters,just can't understand the fact thats its a Goans remedy to every malady on earth.
Tired? Hot bath!Tummy Ache? Hot Bath! Anything..Hot Bath!Summer,Winter- Hot Bath. And when I say HOT ,I mean the type that steams up every single surface in the bathroom and has waves of hot steam oozing out of the bathroom,for at least ten minutes after I'm done.
Well what can I say- It works for me!
current mood:  chipper
current music: Mrs Robinson-Simon and Garfunkel
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| Monday, July 2nd, 2007
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5:07 pm
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I've never found the rains threatening.. On the contrary,water gives me a high.
Rains in Mumbai mean spontaneous treks through waterfalls and springs coursing all over National Park near my home in Mumbai.Adrak chai and hot samosas and cosying up.Rhapsodies apart,I've cribbed about the usual rigmarole of traffic jams,overflowing drains,muck all over etc etc .The point being, I've never felt actually threatened.
But the deluge on saturday sent these chills coursing down my spine.It felt like doomsday.Steel gray,icicle like spears battering down ferociously.
From my vantage point up in the sky,it felt like the sins of the city had finally caught up and this was the last deluge a la Genesis.The final reckoning and all that jazz.
Or maybe twas the extra rum n coke courtesy Air India (For which I am grateful for.Thank you very much Madame . Also eternally grateful for the posthaste departure after a 1.5 DAY delay. But have to admit the hotel was GOOD esp the tiramisu)
Joke apart.. our island IS sinking.At least according to the TOI.
current mood:  hopeful
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| Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
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2:52 pm - Homebody
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The best part about travelling abroad is the 'coming back'.
Nothing beats swooping over Mumbai on the return journey ,the queens necklace all glimmering .(I can actually begin to believe the Mumbai-Shanghai stuff at that point).Duty free bags overflowing with too much of everything..the impending feeling of disaster with Custom's..of having lucked out this time round and kissing those bottles of Chivas and Remy goodbye.
But best of all the people waiting for you ..delight barely disguised.The feeling of being back home!!
I'm not yet packed to go and I cant wait to be back..
current mood:  busy
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| Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
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2:15 pm - Engorged..
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I'm not a morning person.. and after a longg weekend ,I dont feel like a person at all.. Feel like a 3 toed sloth. If u've read Life of Pi you would know exactly what I mean. I read it like 2 years back...but the 3 toed sloth description stayed with me..:)
yawnnnn
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| Monday, November 27th, 2006
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10:44 am
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Stephen King is obessesed with breathing life into inanimate objects..
Christine,Trucks..and now Cell.
Some crazy freak sending subliminal messages through cellphones & driving most of the population insane ..fangs bared and tearing each other apart ..It kinda freaked me out.
And to top it..am reading it alongside Transmission systems..Made the whole thing seem all the more doable..how the hell could anyone secure a frequency channel?It's all out there for anyone to use..innit?On the same lines as bioterrorism.
Anyway too much gore to suit my tastes..As S said,if it was a movie you could have switched it off.. if it's a book, U have to imagine the gore to understand and then its imprinted..It is gonna replay if its vivid enough.
I did like Carrie though. The book!The whole telekinesis funda.. too kewl.
current mood:  contemplative
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| Friday, August 11th, 2006
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12:12 am - Omkara
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Mindblowing!
I cant believe women in Pune walked out of the theatre..I was enthralled.
It elevated the UP landscape & the bhaiyas to a la 'Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid' kinda cowboy status.
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| Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
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6:54 pm - Shit!
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My mom,my lil sis, my aunt,my best friend ..so many people I know and so many I dont know.All on those killer trains.
All of them stepping back into those very trains the very next day.
Life goes on .. and Mumbai survives and all that.
But this horrible feeling of helplessness racks me..
current mood:  scared
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| Monday, August 16th, 2004
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6:34 pm - Bliss..
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So now that I have the time to devote myself to things that I've been meaning to do for a lonngg time.
1)Swim
2)Read
->The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
->Angels & Demons- Dan Brown
->Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden
->The Other Boleyn Girl- Philippa Gregory
3)Go for at least ONE of all those classes I keep making a list of.
4)Try the Sushi and Mussels at Harrods.
5)Blow some moolah on a good haircut.
6)Get the Sex & the City DVD from somewhere.
7)Grow something on my windowsill,even if its grass!!!(miniature sunflowers sound like good idea..no?)
8)Mail,Keep in touch with all my friends.
And last but not the least
SLEEPPPPPPPPPPP.
Forgive the horrible formatting!!
current mood:  peaceful
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| Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
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11:46 am - Oooh I cant wait..........
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Waking up at 6.00
Leave home at 7.30
Travel for 2.5 hrs
Plug in at 10.00 to discover that everythings so damn slow and I dont have access to all the things I need at this location.
So end up vacillating between trying to ACT busy and WATCHING other busy people..:(
Its just the sauna,jacuzzi and pool at the hotel, which is where I plan to spend today evening that's keeping me going..:))
Should I go in for the aromatherapy massage??:)
current mood:  complacent
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11:15 am - On of those lists...
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If I were a book, I would be written by: Harper Lee
If I were a food, I would be: Sev batata Puri
If I were a place, I would be: Bombay/ Goa
If I were a taste, I would be: Tangy or tart
If I were a scent, I would be: Elizabeth Arden's Tea Tree
If I were a word, I would be: Esoteric
If I were a body part I would be: Eyes
If I were a facial expression I would be: Amused
If I were a subject in school I would be: English
If I were a cartoon character I would be: The Female Phantom
If I were a shape I would be: Spiral
If I were a number I would be: 3
If I were an item of clothing, I would be: A sea green kimono
If I were a piece of jewelry, I would be: An eternity ring
current mood:  groggy
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| Friday, July 9th, 2004
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7:58 pm - Someone said this was languishing..
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So here I am,after a self imposed hiatus.
Not having access from work to blurty bugs me..:(
Not being able to blog when something interesting pops into my head bugs me !!Especially when I'm in that 'this should go down for posterity' kinda mood.
Well,well well...
Older guys are so much better..past the egoism,chauvinism and what have you.Past playing all those games..
Lol and when I say OLD, I mean really OLD cos those are the only guys i'm around these days!!
Guess I'm turning into an old fogey myself..
Among other things,does anyone have the complete series of 'Sex and the City'??
current mood: contemplative
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| Monday, June 21st, 2004
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2:27 pm - Mind Blowing.
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Idli with 4 different types of chutney.
Ghee rava masala dosa.
Tamarind Rice.
Chicken Chettinad of the really spicy kind.
Small helpings of lemon rice,uttapam and Tomato rice.
Mango Lassi!!
All for £4.
And yeah I can eat that much..:)
current mood: pleased
current music: American Pie- Don McLean
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| Sunday, June 13th, 2004
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4:28 pm - Ilford is home now!!!
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MK is perfect , not a grass out of place on those clean clean roads.
The sky just that perfect shade of blue/cyan/aquamarine with oh so perfect clouds floating just where they should be.
The grass that perfect green like the kind u see on all those postcards ppl send from those sceanic countries that make u wish u were the one sending them.
Picturesque is the word for it!!!!Clean, New ,Sparkling!!!!
Why then do I feel so despondent..All this perfection make me wanna scream.
current mood:  disappointed
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| Thursday, May 6th, 2004
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7:21 pm - Dint ever think I wud /I cud...
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* Survive without access to mail accounts.
* Not check my mail every 5 mins.
* Have to live alone and not be terrified/hysterical/hallucinate!!!
* Come back here. I had sworn I wud'nt the last time.
* Have to sit in a library with a buncha ppl looking over my shoulder into my screen all the time just to check my mail.
* Go back to eating garlic bread ,sandwiches and jacket potatoes for lunch and make do with day before yesterdays dal chaawal and week old bread.
*Survive without my cell.
* Ever miss the chandivali canteen food..Ok I take that back. the food was ok.:)
* Meet new people ,of the likes that I have met, over the past week. And I mean that in a good way (mostly).
* Actually like Ilford.
Strangely, I'm not as miserable as I thought I wud be . I DO surprise myself sometimes.
Miss my mom and dad TERRIBLY :(.
current mood: contemplative
current music: Kabhi!! - Josh
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| Tuesday, April 13th, 2004
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11:17 am - Mercury continues to be retrograde ,,,
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Thats wat MSN Astrology sez...which supposedly has planetary influences of the undesirable type...
Is tat why am in sucha pissed off mood...??
current mood: BLACK
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| Friday, April 2nd, 2004
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1:37 pm - Nice!!
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And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change,
Keep on thinking things will always be the same.
But when we leave this year we won't be comming back,
no more hanging out cuz were on a different track
and if you, got something that ya need to say,
you better say it right now cuz you dont have another day
Cuz we're moving on and we cant slow down
these memories are playing like a film without sound
and I keep thinking of that night in June,
I didnt know much of love but it came too soon.
And there was me and you and we got real blue,
stay at home talking on the telephone, with me, we'd
get so excited and we'd get so scared,
laughing at ourselfs thinking lifes not fair...
And this is how it feels...
CHORUS
As we go on,
We remember,
All the times we,
Had together,
And as our lives change,
Come whatever,
We will still be
Friends Forever...
So if we get the big jobs and we make the big money,
when we look back now will our jokes still be funny?,
will we still remember everything we learned in school,
still be trying to break every single rule?
Will little brainy Bobby be the stockbroker man?
Can Heather find a job that won't interfere with her tan?
I keep, I keep thinking that its not goodbye,
Keep on thinkin its a time to fly,
And this is how it feels...
CHORUS
la, la, la, la... yeah, yeah ... la, la, la, la
We will still be,
Friends Forever
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BRIDGE
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Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there?
Can we make it somehow? (somehow)
I guess I thought that this would never end,
AND SUDDENLY IT'S LIKE WE'RE WOMEN AND MEN
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us round?
Or will these memories fade when I leave this town?,
I keep, I keep thinking that its not goodbye
Keep on thinking its a time to fly...
current mood:  blank
current music: Cloud No 9
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10:16 am - Yeah baby!!
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| Tuesday, March 16th, 2004
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9:29 am - If I cud..
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This is wht my horoscope recommends..
'Take a mini-vacation by turning off your phone for the day. Pull down the blinds, cuddle up with a good book and pretend that the rest of the world has ceased to exist''
LOL..I wish
current mood:  amused
current music: Chinamma Chilkamma
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| Friday, March 12th, 2004
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1:40 pm - Coincidence or wat...
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Stayed up last nite reading 'The ICE CANDY MAN' by Bapsi Sidhwa ..and it was the only thing going on in my head all the way to work..
And then heard the song 'ruth aa gayee re' thrice back to back on 3 seperate radio channels...
And the weird thing is this song is frm the movie 'Earth' which is based on the THE ICE CANDY MAN...
Ok so there's no point to the above,,,so sue me :)
current mood: blank
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| Tuesday, February 24th, 2004
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10:21 pm - Tode's my daddy's b'dayyy..
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