I should have closed my eyes

I wish she never had to see her world through my eyes.

My most favourite thing in the whole world.
Hot water bath.

Status: Away

Sepia

Horn ok please

Sunil Chandy was grooving. He was at a Lounge Piranha rehearsal watching Rohan intently, picking up all the bass parts he would have to play in place of Rohan in the coming weeks. At the moment Rohan was on fire,stretching his bass playing abilities to their limits. Everyone was impressed. "Now where'd you learn to slap and pop like that young man? Just curious...", asked Sunil. "From you Sunil. From watching you day and night for three years", Rohan replied bowing respectfully. "Is that right? And what have I gotten for everything you've learnt from me?", to which Rohan didn't have much of an answer. "Do you not think I deserve guru dakshina?", Sunil persisted. "Of course you do", Rohan replied."Well how 'bout that very talented right thumb of yours. Do you not think that would be fitting?". Without a moment's hesitation Rohan chopped off his thumb, went down on one knee and presented it to him .And pocketing it with a satisfied smile, Sunil turned around to face a very shocked rest-of-Lounge-Piranha and said, "Come on band let's rehearse"

What?

Seagrams Fuel Bandwagon - Lounge Piranha feat. Sunil Chandy on bass

Where?

Maya, Wednesday, 10th Jan 2007 [Bombay Store, MG Rd]

Hint, Friday, 12th Jan 2007 [Bangalore Central

How?

Print the invitations attached to this email for free entry

Why?

I doesn't know

Horn ok please?

... and www.loungepiranha.com for one cup sykosis...

... and www.myspace.com/loungepiranhamusic for one plate music

On chastity

[Warning: Graphic post.]

Quoting an Iranian girl, translated to English.
'A girl is not like hole of the toilet. She is something valuable'.

Girl

Ippath Aidhu

I decided
not to define relationships
but to let them instead
define themselves.

In winter I become the conservative that I really am.

I got two presents this Christmas.
I loved them both.
Thank tha thank thank.


Additional: Call 2592071 for yours!

Four somewhat known things about me [Because I'm bored. I hate Sundays.]

-I always thought I liked photography, music, french and something else. The truth is I don't. What I do like is football and drawing.
- I can't bear cold water baths, even in summer.
-I always answer my phone [when I hear it ringing, which is more not than often]
-I have a very unconvincing fake smile.

Plugged in.
Played.

Some days I feel like being a long sleeved, dupatta, slawar girl.

When I was little, I couldn't wait for my front teeth to fall out.
Firstly, so that I could sing 'All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth'.
And secondly, so that they'd grow into big bunny teeth just like Joanne's.
I did and they did.
:)

Christmas Goodies, Cheer and What not

So Sneha's [My Born Again Believer roomate/Landlady] church, girls youth, is going carol singing this pre Christmas weekend and as usual they're forcing the girls [ie. Me] to cook some Christmas delights that they intend to unleash on the unsuspecting. In, mind you, exchange for moolah. It doesn't stop there. Next the the unsuspectings have to listen to us sing. Have you ever been in a room where your ears tried to close themselves? Or make themselves go deaf? I'm not kidding. My ears tried. So hard. And I'm one of the singers.
So back to the 'Christmas delights'. It started with the three of us who were assigned the ordeal of Chutney sandwiches followed by a quick, 'Do any of you know how to cook??' No, none of us can cook. So I say, 'Chocolate Fudge!' thinking how difficult can that be. So it's decided and we decided on a day to make it. Then one of the three can't make it, so the two of the three decide to get on with it.
Only, when one of the two of the three [Me, that is] is in the supermarket, her eye happens to fall upon Ready Make Cake Mix!! How cool is that?? Three boxes are excitedly picked up and a hurried phone call to inform the change of menu.

Conclusion?
They're getting bakery biscuits from Mr. Baker opposite my house which we're going to pass off as home made.

Three unopened boxes of Instant cake mix anyone?

List of questions to annoy the Mother of the Baby

-Do you think we can tan her [the Baby]? She's so white.
-What colour are her eyes now?
-Does she look anything like me [the Aunt]?

------
The answers to the above, in case anyone's interested:
-She is not soo white and no I don't want to tan her, thank you very much.
-Brown.
-No, but she does tend to act like you. For eg. she can't go to sleep without having a bath and she likes to put her legs up and cross them.

December resolution

To pick fights with people, just like that.
Like that annoying born again believer girl for a start.

Mood: Gleeful

Check List

-Finish Christmas gift shopping
-Post Christmas gift shopping
-Buy a bit of land
-Cook
-Visit mangy relatives and answer annoying questions about future life plans
-Pick up vitamins
-Make chocolate fudge with two little girls. Dammit! I forgot.
-Tell Mamma I'm going bald [I'm not, but I might be]

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Enjoy!

Southpark. Psychotic.

http://images.southparkstudios.com/games/create/

On chain smoking

He just doesn't say going for a smoke anymore.
He says he'll be right back [and inserts an approximate time frame]
As if I dont' know.
:)

The new baby

He- Is she perfect?
She counted her fingers and toes. Ten. Ten.
She- She is!



:)
[For Megan Sitara Bouvier]

No one believes in God.
But I missed the rain.
And it did.

Me- I wish you were here. It's damn cold.
He- So what would we do if I was there?
Me- [in my head] Get under a quilt and make out you idiot.
[aloud] I suppose we could build a fire.





:)
[I'm messing around!!]

Category: Fiction, mostly

Do you know how it rained?
Like mad.

Goondus :)

Love, love, love them.

[Brandi's puppies. I missed them :S Don't they look like seals?]

LoungeP starring in Maya as themselves

... and upon seeing all his near and dear ones across the monitors, George put down his drum sticks, and in a voice filled with apprehension asked his charioteer, "Do I see things Lord Kamal? Are these the very people who pinched my cheeks when I was a little child running around in Kotayam? I can't play drums in front of these people Lord Kamal, please turn this chariot around and take me home". Upon hearing which, Lord Kamal jumped out and facing his drummer said, "Mr George, life is fleeting. You are born, your cheeks get pinched, you steal mangoes, you grow up, you go to school, you bunk your way through college. Some become engineers some become daacturs. Some become rich and some become artists and musicians. Look, check this out." And Lord Kamal became small small small until he was not visible anymore to George's naked eyes. "Now check this out", he continued and became big big big big, soooo big, and when he laughed, the bedazzled George could see the entire universe in his mouth. And returning to his normal size Lord Kamal spake thus, "So you see George, this is Maya and you're the drummer. Now pick up your sticks and play".

And that did the trick.

Lounge Piranha is playing at Maya (above The Bombay Stores, MG Road) today and they are absolutely awesome, don't believe me? Check this out PIRANHA

Soul selling

The last time.. I remember.
The last time was that day,
We were both pissed off with the world and life in general.
[Boys, what else.]
We were lying down on the circular rug in the centre of your room
And then we started to take pictures of ourselves, for fun
And it was :) we couldn't stop laughing at each other.
You can be pretty funny looking you know.
Your mum popped her head in
'What's the matter with you girls'? she smiled and went away.
Yeah, that was the last time.

Me:Advertising has taken over the world..
I don't know if I'm pleased about that.
He:Don't be.

We broke the bed.

The official reason:
He sat on it. It broke.
Yes,just like that.

The real reason:
He was talking to this girl on the phone, trying to impress her and telling her that he was born and brought up in Bangalore when I loudly yell that he's lying and that he was born and bred in Kerela and that he had to go to a special speech school to fix his speech.
So he says. 'One minute' to the girl and then..believe it or not, he tackles me!
And that's how the bed really broke.

These boys these days!

I Need
I Want
I Feel
I Don't



[.]

Category:Fiction

'This hair cut suits you! You look so happy. Not that you looked unhappy before [a hurried inclusion], more, like you were missing your family or you were heartbroken [her face was searched for a sign or an indication]'.

She smiled.
'Ironic',she thought.

For the first time in years, she had cried herself to sleep the night before.

I feel like sitting in a box
And staying there for a while
Or forever
Doesn't matter


[Note to self: Make air holes]

She always dreams of rain.

Crap Photographs

I know.
It's just that.
It's been so long since I laughed like that.
:)

[Side note: I was trying to take a picture of my new haircut to show everybody. The stupid JUST wouldn't let me]

Like, when you see a rainbow you'll know it's raining.
-Law Castelino

:)

Cool Aunt Marlene [temporary stand in for Cool Aunt Kiran] and our celebrity baby

There were a hundred thoughts racing across her mind.
A thousand words waiting to escape her lips.
She chose to say nothing at all.

When she says that something is ugly
Like a fish or a person
I tell her that they probably think she's ugly too
She can hardly bear it.

It amuses me to mess with her head.

Lilliputs

Since I was around a bunch of little girls this weekend.

I also

Got a beany baby cow for Megan.
And by the time I send it, she might even be old enough to play with it!

My weekend: The little girl

-We established that she was my most excellent fan.
-Painted pictures.
-Untaught her to say Shit and taught her to say Oh Dear! instead.
-Tried teaching her to say, 'Barbie sucks'. Not too much progress. Yet.
-Took a couple of pictures.

Do you remember? :)

I broke your red bubble bath fish.
It was an accident. I promise. It really was.
I only stood on it.
I didn't expect it to break.

And then. You broke my blue whale.
It was intentional. Wasn't it?!

You horrible, horrible girl.


:)

I looked at the photograph and said, 'The colour of your skin is different from his. It's..orange and his looks white'.
'Bronze!', she said and gave me a dirty look.
'Yeah, bronze', I laughed.
But I was still secretly thinking orange in my head.

:-)

I've only ever been attached to two 'things'.
The first was a blue carabiner.
The second is a thin silver chain that I wear around my waist.

She would wistfully say that she wished she was taller.
Like the Russian women, so tall and slim and beautiful.

I,in turn would say to her
It's better to be like us.
Women were meant to be shorter.

She understands now
When she's around her boyfriend.
She's so much smaller than he is.

We're so much easier to hold.

It wasn't really something new.
Just something forgotten.
And then remembered.

Sadia

She said she had a barbie doll and that it was inside the trunk. She never took it out.
She offered me Marie biscuits. I refused. I said I didn't like them at all.
She said that she was my best friend.

I didn't know any better then.
I know now.

I hope she's alright.

You asked how things were going

They're not.
And I never expected to cry.

My bad.

Are we all really that full of ourselves?

This was one of those mornings
Where all my body wanted to do
Was curl up in a patch of sunlight and sleep.


Still does.
Sigh.

He held me
Because I was cold.
I let him.
Because I was.

One Thousand Steps

I think I just walked.

I think I'm good

She and you.
You were the same.
You and me.
We're different.
Good for you.

Bonus

Laura was talking to Dadda once and he said,
'When Joanne was born we got a car
And when Laura was born we got a house.'
[smiles all around]
'What about Kiran?' she piped.
Then he said, 'By the time Kiran was born we already had everything we needed.
She was bonus'.

Bonus.
:-)

Let the full weight of who you are fall on people and let them deal with it.
-Emmanuel Rasquinah

Unintended.

Want, Don't

I'm not afraid you'll tie me down.
I'm afraid I'll tie myself up.

The two things I hate most in the world

Being sick
And thong underwear
[and that second revelation was entirely unecessary]

Joe and Ninan [my sister and brother in law]

I think God gave them Brandi to test their parenting skills.
Needless to say,
They failed miserably.
:-))




[side note:They locked Brandi baby [their year and a half year old Labrador puppy] up with the downstairs neighbour's dog Spike. Yup, she's having Spikelets as Joe likes to call them :)]

'Don't fight with Sikhs', she said.
'They carry knives'.


:)

I don't know what bothers me more.
That I might be jealous
Or that I might not be.

Spare

People, feelings
change

Me :-)

And it's alright.

Gomateshwar

She [the six year old] pointed to his, er.. willy [That's what Mary calls it ]
She looked at me. I looked at her.
Ha ha
ha aha ha.

'Stop it!' her mother glared at us.
:)

Kitten of Kittermenteringer

Photographer:Kamal Singh

Takes one to know one

You're a nice person.
:-)

Love

From:http://xkcd.com/

Do you know what happens to people who go to hell? They fry.

I asked you if, when I went to hell, you would hang out with me.
You said yes.
So I told you to pack your fireproof vest
and we set off.
See you there.
:)

Don't you know how when you like a boy
You see pictures of hot guys
And your head insists that they are
But somehow, they just don't quite cut it.
And then you see this ass ugly picture of the boy you like and you go
'*Sigh*, isn't he dreamy?'
He he, yeah, dreamy.
:P

My baby

In one of those rare moments when the world stopped whizzing by, when the breeze stopped blowing and all the papers fell to the ground and stayed there, in that moment there was time to breathe and time to wonder, about life. Where the hell had it gone?
There were days when the only thing to do was to walk down a somewhat crowded sidewalk and breathe in the scent of champak trees, swaying gently under cloudy skies. To smile at the thought of that diluted battery acid they liked to refer to as coffee, slowly sipped at that same old run down coffee house. To stop and look at windows with books in them and think, 'someday i'll have enough to buy as many of them as I like.'
Those days, seem so far away now. Bitter sweet memories of lighter times, when the world was younger, the air was cleaner and dreams were easy to hold on to.


From: www.notesinmypocket.blogspot.com

There's a Persian saying that goes, when an apple is thrown into the air, it turns many times before it comes down again.



[For Ganapathi]

Falling
Falling
Felled

It occurs to me now and again to be careful about what I say.
Most of the world hasn't learned to pause to consider before taking on themselves someone elses point of view.
And then I'll think to myself how different I am, how special!
And then baldly say to everybody else. 'Please, I'm just like the next person.'
And I am.








Ha!
:-)

The good news:
The appetite's back!

The bad news:
So is the boss.

So we walked to the creek, she and I
Teaching each other dirty insults in our respective languages
And congratulating each other heartily when one or the other got the accent and intonation right.

Love letters scare me.

You

You're my bouncy ball.
My shiny star.
I love you.

Gah!

He indulges me

When I praise myself to high heavens
He agrees with me
Sometimes

The funniest thing he heard all day- [A conversation in a conversation]

Me [to Sunil]: Laura's trying to teach me to say no :)
-----
Me: Laura: Repeat after me
NO
No is a good word
Come on, say it
No is a good word
I must say No
Are you saying it?


Kiran: no..


Laura: Very good
Again
-----
Sunil: :))))
Me: Crack myself up don't I
Sunil: Funniest thing I've heard all day.

I tire.

Marriage- a conclusion

I was going to write about it.
I think a better thing to do instead would be to not bother about it at all and quietly enjoy my milk coffee instead, aye?


----
How the day flies :)
Off in a bit.

I realised that

I'm CLEARLY not prepared for motherhood.
This makes me sad.

I'm getting very annoyed with the world.
Yes. The WHOLE world.

Words inside my head.

[Entire conversation me to me]
Me1:Please, please, please, please, please
stop talking.
Me2:[he he me2 :)] Ok.



[silence]






Me1:Now wasn't that nice?
Me2:No.
Me1:*Whack *
Me2:Fine, YES you stupid, yes!

Unbalance

Boys. The ones I know.

They are so.
Indulgent.
:)
I've only ever known one Jackass [personally]
Only one.
Everyone else.
Everyone else was perfect.

Check this out, check me out! :))

I can't stand sunglasses normally. But THESE, they cracked me up. I insist on wearing them.

Quote Law:"I think they cracked you up a little too much".

The worst thing in the world

When you can't find something
And you're getting pissed off
And you're looking around for someone to blame?
And there just isn't anyone around [that's just bad]
Except yourself.
Now THAT's the worst.

He sent his father a [not improper] nude picture of himself [just to mess with his head]

His Father responded:
that it was nice, he should have shaved his legs, and not to do such things again, it does not reflect well on his mental state.

Home,a place

It isn't.
It never was.


[For Andrew Kelly]

I promised myself once that if anyone ever wanted to be friends with me
I would be
And I will.
As much as I can.

Leaving myself alone

Why do I have to be the way I can be.
It makes me want to cry sometimes.

Searching for the signs

That BIG UGLY GREEN stone, set in a silver ring setting.
I can't wear it on a chain round my neck anymore.
A CLEAR indication that I'm in the wrong job.





Searching for the signs.

Obituary

Mary [my colleague] was telling me yesterday about a training she had to do where they had to write their own obituaries. Insight on how the world views you and all that. So I came up with two alternatives for mine.

Option 1:
She couldn't have meant anything to a lot of people
But she meant the world
To us.
She saw light and beauty [what did you think I was going to stop there??] in everything and everyone, etc, etc
[Heap on the praises....]
.....[some more]
May her soul rest in peace.
Amen



Option 2:
She was as funky as she could be.





We'll go with the second, yeah?
:)