So we were drunk and....

I don't know how it is but all good stories that have u rolling in the aisles hysterically with laughter always but always start with 'So I was pissed and....','So I was drunk and....', 'So we were drinking and...'; It kinda makes me wonder if we ever had lives before alcohol. I know I started drinking at around age 20 - I mean like drinking drinking [drinking 1 glass of wine between 3 girls bcoz u paid cover does not count!!]. I'm sure I must have had fun before that but you sure cannot tell now!

Last night was a prime example of this: 3 girls met up generally to catch up before one leaves for lands far away - across the kaala paani and the talk turned to [for once, not boys] but all the funny drunk stories one has encountered either through personal experience or someone u know. These are the only stories that I know of that are also never 'a friend of a friend' - u know the bad luck stories, the horror situations - those always happen to a friend of a friend where u've heard of it but u don't actually know the person.....to get back to the point, for drunk stories - either u're it or u're supporting it!!

So last night was Bring on the alcohol - demolished 2 bottles of Sula Blush Zinfandel and swapped these crazy stories, most of which we have heard before but never fail to bring a tear to the eye - for laughing like crazy. Most recent example - me sitting and whingeing to everyone - u're making funnome - and then getting vicious and telling everybody else what they do when they are drunk - bathroom stalls with married women and someone else is crying. I'm surprised I did not say '5 minish' which is a staple line of some people if they don't want to leave. One of the other girls ate chocolate, drank wine and then started hopping practice, followed by lots of moaning and pleading - go figure! One of the funniest in recent times is deciding to interuppt one couple we know and then saying in a very serious tone to be absolutely fair 'If her top is off, ur pants should be down' - and not seeing anything remotely suggestive in this statement at all. Another girl in an inebriated state decided if her boyfriend did not want to kiss her she would go find her non-lesbian friend who could definitely 'handle' her. The same one also liked to bite cheeks of said friend when high and then compare it to boti kebab since favourite food! Another girl I know decided that she could not have triplets because she had only 2 nipples so how would she feed the third child? and now she wants to have 4.......I tell u! and this is not even starting on the boy's stories which will have to have an appropriate PG-13 page to itself!

The list is endless - I want to start a blog dedicated to these stories which anyone can contribute to...and the title of that blog will be the title of this post. I know practically every single one of my acquaintance will have a story to tell!

I just saw this facebook and it's incredibly relevant also - please put up ur hand if u have done even one!!

When Girls Drink Too Much...

1. We have absolutely no idea where our purse is
2. We believe that dancing with our arms overhead and wiggling our butt while yelling "woohoo" is truly the sexiest dance move around
3. We've suddenly decided that we want to kick someone's ass and honestly believe we could do it too
4. In our last bathroom visit, we realize that we now look more like a homeless hooker than the goddess we were just four hours ago
5. We start crying and telling everyone we see that we love them sooooo much
6. We get extremely excited and jump up and down every time a new song plays because "oh my god! I love this song"
7. We've found a deeper/spiritual side to the geek sitting next to us
8. We've suddenly taken up smoking and become really good at it
9. We yell at the bartender, who we believe cheated us by giving us just lemonade but that's just because we can no longer taste the gin
10. We think we are in bed, but the pillow feels strangely like the kitchen floor (or the mop?)
11. We fail to notice that the toilet lid's down when we sit on it
12. We take our shoes off because we believe it's their fault that we're having problems walking straight.

My December

This is what the month of December looks like - very happy at being so busy!

• 1st - PG wedding ceremony
• 2nd - Friend's engagement
• 9th - BFF sister wedding; school friend 1st wedding anniversary
• 12th - BF friend budday day
• 14th - Wedding; Surprise potluck for BF's BFF
• 15th - School fried 1st wedding anniversary; catch up at Club IX
• 17th - Margarita's at Soul Fry
• 19th - BFF finally arrives
• 25th - Christmas
• 26th - Friend's sangeet
• 27th - Office Friend's Christmas party
• 28th - BFF brother wedding; Friend reception
• 30th - Friend Wedding in Kerala
• 31st - New Year's!

And this is not even counting the 4 days off immediately in Jan going to Jaipur, Agra and Delhi.
At last, finally I will be able to say I have seen the Taj Mahal!!

In other news, since Friend is going to Paris on secondment for 6 months, have option of going to France in Summer and staying for wedding as well. If Vietnam happens, then no money situation but the options for once seem like a win win situation!

How you doing?

I seem to have had a very busy life recently but I really could not tell you what I have been doing - not watched any movies, or any plays. Did manage to read 4 books tho - some of them quite interesting.

One was an Agatha Christie - 'Easy to Kill' - nice enough story about crime, drama etc. The really good one though was the Clive Cussler one - Trojan Odyssey - very interesting read because it introduced me to this thought that the Trojan war was not between the Greeks etc over Helen of Troy but was fought on the coasts of England for Tin. Apparently Homer wrote the Iliad a 1000 years later so it's a tale that was passed down from generation to generation and we all know how much can get lost in transalation. I always like books that open your mind to new perspectives - which is why I think the Da Vinci code is such a runaway success - the whole concept was so novel that it was eaten up immediately. I have not read Clive Cussler before but he seems to me to be on the lines of Alistair Maclean et all with the adventure story telling and the recurring protagonists much like Jack Higgins for that matter as well.

The other one of note was 'Leaving Eden' - about a girl's search for herself growing up without a mother to guide her - the hits and misses in her life and how painful the struggle is without someone to guide you.

The last book was 'Blood in the sky' which I think was a bit overdone. It was one of those I live in the country and I make friends with the natives and I help solve murder mysteries and I was an ex policemen and I think I ruined lives and I.. I..I..I.. so yeah you get the point!

I have also gone crazy trying to get a 3 column template for this blog. I like to put up pictures, lyrics, photo walls etc on the sides and one column on the left is not cutting it. The alignment of the posts and the side bar just dont match. So I trawled all these websites and found all these templates with the code and changed the code about a hundred times and de nada! nothing has changed - in one case the post column itself disappeared. So I'm thinking will stick with this format only coz minima stretch does not seem like an option anymore on blogger leaving me with minima where it becomes a 4 column blog with the columns on either side being like single colored pillars! If anyone can hand me a solution I would be eternally grateful!

How Well do you know me?

So.....I created this quiz on facebook - How Well do you know me? With trick answers...

To start at the very beginning, 'Supposed' BFF [After quiz one is not sure], created a quiz where she classified Noodles as a food group - now me knowing her so well had chosen Thai since Thai encompasses noodles as well - it turns out she was talking about Noodles from a Vietnamese restaurant - which means the option should have been vietnames no? no....not according to her - it's Noodles! to which my response does she want to eat Maggi? see see! my point exactly!!


So in a fit of pique, I decided to create a quiz with trick answers as well, except my answers are so tricky, only one person has crossed the first class mark [which those of us from Mumbai University will know is 60%!]. Anyhoo, not to be sidetracked, this post is supposed to be an explanation of the answers since 'some people' [read supposed best friends!] are complaining.

Q1. What is my favourite food? Ans.Pizza


Everybody knows I love Cheese and bread - so cheese toast could have been a viable choice since it was one of the options but Pav Bhaji?? this from another 'Supposed' BFF [humph!!]. Far from.... and everyone should know I'm majorly allergic to Soya so that rules out Chinese which I have never been excessively fond of!!


Q2. What brand of jeans refuses to suit me? Ans. Levi's


I keep complaining how Levi's is created for sporty bodies not curvy ones and how I only wear Lee since there is ass room in the jeans but nooo... people choose Wrangler! Tho to be fair, as pointed by out cheater in the quiz [also known as'Supposed' BFF ] , ex-favourite pair of Cord's was Levi's but bought from reject second's so does not count!


Q3. Who is the most stylish on TV? Ans. Summer Roberts from the O.C


This I think was the hardest question on the quiz along with Q9. The options given were also tought, Carrie from Sex and the City, Rachel of Friends and not even an option Betty from ugly betty. Kudos to The Charade for getting this one right so I'm thinking she really pays attention when we chat or she likes too!! which one is it? I think I like her tho coz it's just so put together and cutting edge in a yuppy way which is what I would like to dress like [one also needs the figure - which one no longer has but....]

Q4. Which is not one of my favourite TV shows? Ans. Desperate Housewives

My God!! BFF got this one wrong. My world is shook/shaken/ fallen apart!! She chose.. I can't say it! She chose 'Roswell' - I don't answer the phone during this one much less tell people I'll call them back! As most ppl know esp the escapist, TV watching is priority! Incidentally she got the highest score - yay!!


Q5. What Article do I never wear?


I don't even need to write the answer to this - I have not attempted to wear a watch since 1996! A certain nameless person chose underwear for this.....Grrrr!!


Q6. What is my favourite thing to do? Ans. Reading

The options here were Reading, Shopping, Sleeping and Eating. To be fair, all high up on my list of priorities! but here was the catch, I would sacrifice shopping and eating to sleep and I will be sacrifice sleeping to read esp if the book is good. Case in point Harry Potter, when book 7 came out cousin and baby were in town, no time to read during the day running after baby etc so after putting all to sleep in a very crowded house, I sat on kitchen ledge [only room in house with noone sleeping] and read the book!


Q7. What condition do I have? Ans. Kinetosis


This was a simple matter of elimination. do I have a fear of closed spaces? or open spaces? or an irrational fear of spiders? No right, so obviously I have to have kinetosis, which is a fancy term for Motion sickness - really people!!


Q8. A City I've visited that I like best. Ans Rome


I keep talking about this - I luurve Rome. The history, the culture, the people everything is just fantastic. If I had given Hong Kong and A city to live in then ok but this was really easy.


Q9. Who is my Godfather? Ans. Carl

Ok - the people who got it, got it by fluke I think since I don't really talk abt him much.I should have give who is my godmother? I think it would have improved the score of quite a few people and if you don't know this then u really don't know me at all and do we talk?

Q10. Which is my bible movie? Ans. How to marry a millionaire.


I want to BE Cher. A bible is something you follow - You can be born as clueless. I can be Cher by marrying a millionaire - thus....


So this is the logic - I think it's very sound! Now that you know all the answers go do the quiz - of course to be fair it won't count but still....knock yourself out!

A Thousand Splendid Suns

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs

And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls"

This line is the basis of the book - it captures Afghanistan through it's people, it's customs, it's life. It could be also be written as the "Thousand splendid Sons that hide behind her walls" - a nation of strong men who have chosen to not move ahead with the times and remain locked in their history. In the book, a character predicts, if the Afghan's don't have a Soviet Union to fight, there is always each other. The aggression is channeled not into improving thier lot in life but making sure noone else gets ahead either - and people talk about the Indian Crab mentality!!

The book is well written but I can't help but have the feeling that I have read it somewhere before or something like it. 'The Kite Runner' was really a novel novel - a subject not breached at the time. This one though set in Afghanistan giving it character and surrounding - the story itself did not seem so unheard of. Love between friends, a mother and daughter, illegitimate children is the same across the world and not specific to Afghanistan. Kite Runner on the other end, the problem is specific to the country, to the choices Amir made. Here, it's destiny!!

Don't get me wrong - I love the way it is written, the details, the world as seen through Laila's eyes, brought up by forward thinking parents or even Mariam, brought up far away from Society. Don't get scandalised - but I don't hate Rasheed - not knowing any better. He was taught that his way is the best way, women are not meant to be seen, they have no value so to beat them is not a great sin. I do think Jalil is a pig - making the easier choices, never standing up for himself. I'm not sure if the line is true that in trouble, a man will always point the finger of blame towards a woman - but if it is, it explains why the term 'Jezebel' originated.

All in all, I liked the book, it did not stir in me the emotion that 'Kite Runner' did where I cried while reading the book in the Crossword in Ahmedabad but I did manage to finish the book in one shot from 11 - 2.30!!

What's been going on?

The perfect Margarita:
2 Parts Tequila: 1 parts Triple Sec: 2 part Margarita Mix

This is how I killed Friday night at home with friends.
Saturday night spent between the airport and Toto's.
Sunday spent tidying house, watching 'M*A*S*H' and first half of 'Don'.
Thursday night was spent in a plane back from Bangalore.
Wednesday was spent in front of the TV as was Tuesday and Monday.
Sunday included church and a walk.
The previous Saturday had B-52's, Blush Zinfandel and lots of auto's.

The week also included lots of long distance phone calls and constant texting.

Shopping of the week:

• lingerie
• bag
• belt
• kurta

Gifts received:

• The awesomest pair of red shoes ever [How I wish I had a camera phone!!]
  
• A lovely pin tuck bronze-y shirt
• a purple shirt with matching multicolored sweater [like a twin set but not twin!!]
• pink and orange OMO top

What I have learned this week that absence does not make the heart grow fonder - it makes you realise how fond your heart already is!!

Movie Mania

I have decided I am just going to chronicle my favourite movies and the movies I have to watch. The problem with me is that I like to see movies in a theatre and then when they come on TV - I cannot actively go and rent DVD's/VCD's and watch them at home - it is not the same experience!

So anway, here goes:

• Speed - All time favourite.......I can see this movie again and again and again. There is something about the bomb on the bus that I find fascinating - it may also have to do with the fact that Keanu Reeves has never looked cuter. Actually, it's funny coz I never saw the movie when it released, and to be cool in school used to write it as my favourite movie and eventually it seriously has become one of my repeat watches!
• which leads me to Clueless - this movie is my favourite coz I want to be Cher! I mean she has the clothes, she has the house, she has the bargaining skills tho I would rather have my mom than have all that but still...ok I want to be Cher with my parents!
• How to marry a millionaire - the reason to like this movie is obvious - it is every girl's handbook to life.
• Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge - the first Hindi movie that made sense to me. They lived reasonably normal lives, went on holiday, wore the clothes more than once - no excessive drama [the fight scene at the extreme end can be overlooked] so yeah the first movie for my generation
• Dil Chahta Hai - if DDLJ was the first movie for my generation, DCH embodied my generation. That was my life on screen [well I am a girl but u get what I mean], the hanging out, the holidays in Goa, the off beat career options - Its a movie that you identify with. Movies like DCH cross the bridge between Hollywood and Bollywood. At the end of the day, a movie with white people does not reflect 'me' but it is more likely than a QSQT- a movie I can never identify with.
• Notting Hill - this is a really sweet movie - it's gentle is what I would call it. An ordinary guy falls in love with a movie star but he has no idea what a movie star is - so he really likes the person. It's so hard for her to understand this coz for her as well, her persona is larger than her. A little perspective is all that is need to balance ur life - this is one thing the movie can actually teach u! Nothing seems as dramatic compared to missing a step and never being able to walk again!
• Bend it like Beckham - Futball, Shutball, Hai Rabba! This movie is just funny - it has its touching moments but overall the way of life of Indians in England is so typically depicted that the movie is hysterical.
• Sleepers - the movie makes me cry everytime. The sheer waste of childhood, the enduring friendship, the anguished love, the terrible mistake for which they paid with their lives - it's really far removed from my childhood but that makes it all the more poignant and me all the more grateful for the life I've had!
• Terminator II - Hee Hee! I know I know favourite movie! but as I always say - this is a very emotional film - I mean it teaches a robot how to cry?? how cool is that?
• I've never actually seen the movie from beginning to end is what I have realised but it definitely qualifies as one of my favourite movies for the song 'My sharona' but it is a really good movie - sometimes I think I could be Winona ryder wandering aimlessly in my life looking for direction when it's staring at me!
• 2 movies in the same genre [according to me] is 1947 Earth and Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. These are really haunting films - they seem set in Sepia tones but not - it just reflects the colors of the riots and communalism. The lack of color, the lack of thought, the lack of reason, the lack of humanity....
• I like a lot of Johnny Depp movies also - Piratesof the Caribbean, What's eating Gilbert Grape?, Benny and Joon....he generally does vague yet commercial cinema so guaranteed good watch. Here I have to mention favourit...
• 'Edward Scissorhands' - What a movie! What a thought!! It also talks about life in Middle America - where everybody wants to know what is going on but is still very accepting if the new one is white. Winona and Johnny, the style, Tim Burton makes strange cinema - I love it!
• Then there are the classics - Like Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffany's
• The Mummy and The Mummy returns - these are just adventure packed, laugh a minute fun movies. The crazy ideas, the history, the mummy himself all tres cool!
• Crash - this is a slice of life movie I really like - the deep rooted prejudices, the irrational fears, the hopes and desires, the overcoming of it all - I like the sentiment of the movie

So this is pretty much the kind of cinema I like - I've been for only one international film festival in Pune where I saw really good films like Journey up the Sao francisco river [set in Brazil], Together [Chinese movie], Si J'etais Riche but having seen all these movies only once they cant really qualify as favourites. They are just theatre I appreciate which is a list of movies people should see. For eg Clueless is one of my favourites, but it does not necessarily mean you have to see it.

This is gonna be a post I'm going to keep editing as and when I remember more films or decide on a new favourite!

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