The in-between post July 28, 2007

For all of you who asked, I am fine now. Can’t sit for long, but fine, nevertheless.

Have extended my leave for another week following doc’s advice. I now know enough not to take their advice lightly. I also have the bills ready (thanks to my sis) for the mediclaim procedures. Apparently, the money will take anther 3 months to get reimbursed. Sigh.

Vacation has been good in spite of all this. I can’t even begin to list out all the stuff I ate. Mom has been going crazy, cuz my sis, bro and I visit home together only once a year.

Things I missed back in Hyd over the last week:
- Harry Potter movie I knew we would be taken from office. Missed it by a week. (Can I sigh again?)

- Die Hard IV : Have been getting messages and emails from friends recommending this one. It ran for 3 days in Kottayam so missed it too. Will a VCD do justice to the movie or is it a you-can-only-enjoy-this-on-a-big-screen movie? Anyway, plan to get the CD as soon as I am back.

- Prat’s parents’ visit: My roomy’s parents are here. They leave the day I reach. Actually they are there cuz I am away Still.. I missed their visit.

- Countless meetings and stuff which I am sure would have been nice to go to. When I am in office I keep wishing for a vacation and the moment I go someplace, I obsess about work and what must be going on there. I hope things would freeze when I am home on vacation. Like school. Now that would have been fun. I am not looking forward to the 500+ emails waiting in my inbox. (OMG!)

- All the awesome blog updates. Its no fun to read them all in one go so I would most probably read just the last post. Thats a shame, cuz there are some blogs I have been following very regularly.

Anyway, gotta go now. Please don’t forget me. I promise to get back in another week Stay beautiful till then.

Maybe not May 18, 2007

I was looking around for a three column template for my blog (yes, again) and came across this pretty one above. I even uploaded it and stared at how my post looked for some 5 mins. That’s when I chickened out and reverted to my old one. But I lost the link list I know, I messed up big time and lost all your links. I know some of your web pages but not all, so, of you be a darling and do two things for me:

a) Leave a comment with your blog address

b) Also tell me what you think about the above template and and if you think I should go with that. Anyway I have to add all your links and other stuff so might as well do it at one go.

May 18, 2007

Comments link missing for the last post too Any ideas on why this is happening?

May 10, 2007

Why didn’t my last post have any links to comments? Any ideas?

April 10, 2007

I don’t have time to blog anymore.. bawl!! And I never thought I would say this. Really! And I can’t keep posting lists right? I have to have sentences too. Its almost 9 now and I have been in office over 12 hours. I can work overnight and still have pending stuff to do tomorrow morning.

I do enjoy it though. Yea yea, I am one of the rare lucky people. Let me know if you wanna join Google. Its a wheee place to work in

Promise to have some stuff in here as soon as I can. I dislike un-updated blogs almost as much as missing someone I love (which is my most despised thing, in case you didn’t know)

More coming up..

Christmas, Cooking, Weekends and Self-Pity Posts December 18, 2006

A lot of things are going on in my head right now. First I thought I should write about a friend I visited over the weekend. Then I felt some things are best left unsaid and maybe just not worth thinking, or writing about. Then I thought I should write another self pity post. I even had the first line in mind – “When does this pain end?” Hehehe.. would have made most of you proud of me and some of you (those who try real hard to make me happy and stuff) not too happy! Anyway, that post ended with the first line, so rejoice everyone.

I was thinking of something to do over the weekends, you know. Sat down yesterday evening and thought about what I could possibly do that interests me and that would be atleast a little useful (I know some of you are thinking ‘get a life’ and some others are thinking ‘awww’. For the ‘get a life people’, you don’t know me so shush. For the ‘awww’ people, I know ).This rules out embroidery, , crochet, dance, music, musical instrument, nib painting, emboss painting, hmm painting in general, and all the other related stuff (cuz I don’t think they are particularly useful). I asked a friend and he said “learn a language”. Hmmm.. too much work and too expensive. And I really don’t want to stress out myself. It should be fun! So, after contemplating for around half an hour, I zeroed in on cooking classes! Tadaa. Now thats useful! Did related searches in Google (where else) but the results were disappointing. Got a contact number in Secunderabad but its too far off. (Ok, I am lazy, I agree). Sigh.

What with Christmas around the corner and all that, I am wishing I was home. Its more ‘Christmas-y’ back home with cakes and puddings and good food from all the neighbours and friends. I even used to make butter cookies and give it out to them as a return gift. And those were pretty popular. Hey!! Maybe I should conduct cooking classes instead of attending one!! Wow!!

Hmm.. but then again, I think participants may want to learn something beyond butter cookies (v.good), sambhar (pretty good), rasam (sometimes good) and omelette (generally good).

Ok, I was just being modest here, I cook pretty well though not too often. Ask my roomy

For a lost post.. November 2, 2006

I was typing my heart out when I had to step out for a meeting. I get back and my post is gone. Now that gets me thinking. Whenever I write (or type) I crib or feel sorry for myself. Why the heck is that? Hmmm.. probably becuz I am so tuned to turning to my diary whenever I wanted to cry to myself, ever since I was a little gal. Habits die hard, right? So I guess thats why. Even now, if you notice, my tone is going all melancholy and self-pitying.

On a lighter note, its halloween party tomorrow. Office has nice costume competition but I can’t take part. Unless I want 12 trainees staring at me thinking “are u sure we can trust this black-eyed lady with a weird tee on”. Oh yeah, Moo wanted the three of us to blacken our eyes, and wear a funny tee that has the picture of a tee and says “pea” (duh!) so that when we three walk together, we are the Black Eyed Peas. Sounds good but whats the use when I am in a different building under the gawking eyes of 12 people who have no idea how crazy (and oh so fun!) Office can become. So now I guess Prat and Moo will go ahead. After all, even two individual pea can make peas if they are together. Ok, now this again is going to the self-pity category.

Collecting coins to save enough and buy Baskin Robbins flavour of the month. Its more fun that way and makes me feel less guilty for spending so much on so little. Also need to buy a denim jacket. Beginning to get cold here. Maybe I start collecting coins now, I can buy it in Dec, 2010.

Orkutting- Is that a verb yet? October 17, 2006

**WARNING**

Orkut specific language in the following post. Please do not read if you don’t know what Orkut is or haven’t used it more than thrice.

Ok guys, I give up, I confess, I am an Orkut addict!! It started out an obligation initially. Its a Google product, I work with Google, Blah blah .. Then I started comparing my profile with my friends’ and I realised I am short of a couple of 100 friends in my list!! I madly accepted all the friend requests till I reached a not-so-bad 225 friends. Then I realised that all ‘cool’ people have a line in their ‘about me’ column that said ’strangers don’t add me’ or different words messaging the same thing. Now, that got me thinking.. Hmm… I want that too.. makes me sound a little haughty and professional, if not, hard-to-befriend. So there I was, deleting all those people who I didn’t know. At the end of the hour and a half process, I was left with 78 friends and my ‘fans’ list of 23 had decreased to 6 (I was NOT happy with that). But hey, I wanted to be haughty and serious and all the rest of it so I sat down for some serious ‘friend hunt’. To my surprise, I found around 20 people I had completely lost touch with and furiously scrapped them all. Next day.. Voila!! 23 new scraps, 8 new fans and 3 testimonials!! Wow!! This thing is great, to say the least.. Not only does it boost my ego with all those fans, but I also get the pleasure of saying no to all those guys (and rarely girls) who send me friend requests. Hahaha.. poor souls.. But I have to say that sometimes I feel I am turning down some great looking guys (if their profile pic is to be trusted) with interesting communities listen in their profiles. But then I have to be fair to all of them, however cute they are, right? Sigh..

Life’s Like That..(you alternate between fat and thin) October 12, 2006

Update: My jeans which was 2 inches loose is fitting snugly now I have put on weight. I hate sounding like those girls who are stick thin and yet don’t eat. Somehow it was nice to lose some weight without doing anything much about it. Guess those days are over, sigh.. I can’t diet for nuts. The longest I have gone is a week where I just had salads for lunch (don’t even ask about breakfast and dinner, I hogged)

Today, to my utter shock, I realised that the distance between my tummy and my jeans has decreased considerably when I stick my finger between them. For the past few weeks, I had prided myself in the fact that all three jeans I own have become really loose and looked terribly ill fitting. It was a moment of pride when I bought my first belt and though I hate wearing belts, it was a time for exulting. For the first time in my life, I fit into a pair of jeans 2″ less than my normal size. Well, thats the past dahlings! Welcome back to today. The ‘gap’ has reduced considerably. In a valiant effort to restore it, I had a whole bowl of the most healthy food on the planet. Why is healthy food so tasteless anyway? Ok, so there I was with a bowl of salad which had carrots, lettuce, beet, cucumber, tomatoes, sprouts (I hate ‘em) and olives. I think the mistake was not healthy food, but the salad dressing. In an attempt to add some taste, I put too much of it, no doubt. Anyway, this left me feeling all queazy an hour after lunch and I had to rush to the first aid box for a Pudin Hara (Kudos to Dabur for coming up with that green thing!). Hardly an hour after the tablet, I felt remarkably better and hmmm.. slightly hungry. Again a trip to the snack table with the most innocent expression on my face. Now, after 4 oreos, 3 brownies, 1500 pistachios (93 to be precise, I think..) and a coffee later, I feel much better. Now all I need is to stop thinking about the ever decreasing ‘gap’. Hey.. maybe another Oreo would help..

The tenses October 11, 2006

They say we should not regret the past or worry about the future. Live in the present! Well, I love the past. That’s what made me. It says so much about me. Though I feel like diving back there and reshaping things a little, its really ok. Everything that happened. Including you.. Now the past means from the day I met you..

The day I saw you looking all serious and stiff, trying to explain something to that guy.

The day I saw you in the parking lot with that bag over your shoulder trying to find a way to get home. I thought you were with her that day.

The day I came to see you and the place.

The day I thought she was right about everything she told me about you. You were proving it with each and every thing you did.

The day I realised maybe there was more to you than what she comprehended.

The day I spent over an hour looking for it because I knew it was important to you.

The day I knew you wanted to get to know me better and the way it brought a smile to my face.

The day you first got angry with me cuz I was too busy to reply to that message.

The day you smiled and said I will make a great wife.

The day you waited for me to message you first and the way you admitted you were waiting for it.

The day you came to me and said ‘wanna eat together?’

The day you came to me to show your new haircut and how funny it looked.

The day you opened your door with that smile on your face that said ‘hmm its her’.

The day you said ‘can we hug now?’

The day you said ‘I think there is chemistry between us’.

The day you said ‘I think we can work out something between us’.

The day you said ‘I need more time to get over the past’.

The day you made me cry for the first time.

The day you forgot my birthday and made me call you to remind you to wish me.

The day you said you need more time.

The day you held me silently while I sobbed in your arms.

The day we cooked together.

The day we sat on the balcony and watched the moon.

The day you told me you might need to move.

The day I realised maybe things may not work out after all…