My daily Time Pass!

I'm one of those emotional sensitive ppl who cry during the movies. So? I think it's weird when ppl ridicule this coz in my opinion, it's they who lack emotions and not me who's being over sensitive :). I am also the one who probably laughs the loudest and passes the craziest comments! And oh, yeah u'd catch me swaying to the music if it's that good :) ... Suchi, Uttara would know ;) after our crazily fun time during one such movie which wasn't anything great but I guess the fact that we were three very emotionally driven girls watching made all the difference to the atmosphere around! If the people at the theatre found the movie lousy, they had a good time just watching our enthusiasm :P

I hate people who just turn their nose up at bollywood masala movies. Agreed there's a lot of nonsensical movies but then again there are some wonderfully entertaining movies also. Just coz it's 'desi masala' fare doesn't mean it's not fun or interesting!

Not that I got here to defend bollywood movies. God knows they make enough money with or without my appreciation!

I just saw "Saas, bahu and Sensex"... it was ok...I can't critique any movie in my present state. I just have all this time at home that any movie is ok to watch!!!

I kind of like Farooq Sheikh...maybe coz the first movie I saw with him in it was "Ab aayega mazaa" (so so many years ago!) and I had a good time watching it! And of course, the movie "Chashme Buddoor" and one of my all time favs "Saath Saath" ... wonderful songs in this one! So it's not like Farooq had a great role or did wonders in this movie @ "Saas, bahu and Sensex". I just got nostalgic watching him after so many years!!!

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I wrote the above yesterday and then got busy with the baby. It's not easy to get back to the same topic a whole day later. *sigh*

I hang around FB (facebook) a lot nowdays. A lot of family is there too besides friends. It's so convenient to keep in touch, share pics and some of the applications are fun. It's a good mix of serious communication and fun time pass. And nothing beats the excitement of discovering long lost friends!! Believe me, some friends I was sure I would never come across again. I even found my lost penpal....who I was in touch with via good ol' letters back in school and lost touch with for the last 15-16 years! I was thrilled to find her and then even happier to get a reply to my msg to her :) ...

Speaking of convenient things...I'm glad blogger came up with this "follower" option. I log into blogger and there are all the updates from my fav blogs in my dashboard! Earlier I had to depend on my blogroll or google reader...and I hate navigating through a zillion screens!! *hmmpfh* but now with this option, browsing blogs is a better experience :) ... I hope blogger keeps coming up with more such features!

Ok I can go on and on and on ... infamous as it is for super long posts :P but I'm hungry and have to get something to eat! I'm always hungry nowdays!!! :D

::: the song playing is from the movie "Saath Saath" ... ~tumko dekha toh~ ... one of my fav ghazals :)

Kismet Konnection...

What are the odds that my usually regular broadband connection would go off *kaput* when I finally decide to get back to blogging??? It just went off suddenly yesterday afternoon and is still not back *sigh*. I’m just typing this out on word for now….

And not just blogging but also stay off on a day when I HAVE to get my ticket bookings done to visit my parents for Christmas!!! We had to use Rajiv’s laptop and his connection to book the tickets as soon as the booking time started (why can’t Indian Railways have 24X7 bookings??!) and would you believe it there were just 19 berths left! We can book 90 days ahead and we got here exactly 90 days ahead and that too in the first hour of booking and ONLY 19 berths left?! WOW *pheww*

Anyway, we got confirmed reservations and so it’s gonna be Christmas at my parent’s new home :) and mum’s also excited about having the lil one’s “Annaprashan” (first rice eating ceremony) one of the days while we’re there. I’m also looking forward to visiting mum’s ancestral village and the holy seaside city of Puri. My folks are in Bhubaneswar (capital city of Orissa) now, which is also known as the City of Temples! A city that suffers a rather treacherous summer but is quite pleasant in winter! John I’m sure hates the place coz he had to go visit at the height of summer *heh he he* … although I did warn him!!!

Right now, Orissa’s suffering from severe floods. Last month it was the state of Bihar and now Orissa. And even our very own Delhi had flood warnings issued the past couple of days. The Yamuna River which is usually in quite a sad state, has for the past few days been looking like a REAL river! Fortunately, since last evening the water level has receded. The last time we had a flood threat here in Delhi, I was still in college and I remember we could see the river from Suchi’s old home. She lived on the 6th floor flat and there wasn’t so much construction around our area back then, so we could get a rather vivid view of the river.

The one time I saw floods was when I lived in Assam. Though the area we lived in was in the suburbs and on higher ground, other areas of Guwahati city weren’t so lucky. One day we went into town and there was a bridge we had to cross to get to the main city…the water level of the river was so high…the water was flowing at the bridge level! And the next day, there was no bridge!!! *Hmmmm!* The following year they built a parallel bridge higher than the old one!

Moving on to other stuff…. V’s got the part of Meghnad in his school play. They’re staging the Ramayan for the festive season. He’s pretty excited about being on stage :) … I’m happy he’s happy! I don’t see myself going out much for the festivities during Puja because of the lil one. But I hope to get to see some of the celebration in our local Puja Pandal. And since this will be our first Diwali in our new home, I want to make it special esp. for V who’s keen on having a whole lot of fun! :) … we started it off already by buying new clothes for everyone!

The other day we got a lovely gift for baby from our very own Uttsy mausi (Uttara) which included a pair of very cute silver baby anklets and I promptly put it on and took pics to send her! But now I’m stuck waiting for the net connection to come back *hmmmpfhhh*

Time to get back to the kids and their constant craving for attention! Ishi the blogger signs off while Ishi the mommy takes over.

Bye all!

Pssstttt… I used dial up to finally get this post up! Ssshhhhh…don’t tell R!! :D

Movies, food & holidays....

I finally watched "Rock on" at home sadly coz I can't go watch it in the theatre with the lil one. Needless to say I wasn't disappointed at all *the song playing in the sidebar is from the same movie*. The movie was just the way I'd thought it would be :)... I laughed insanely when I saw KD's version of the 80's hit "I will survive" :D. Now that I have the movie in my laptop, I watch this scene whenever I want a good laugh! While we're talking movies, I've seen a lot of them off late...saw "Phoonk" (blah!), "Bachna ae haseeno" (liked the songs esp. 'ahista ahista' and the title remix) and "Singh is Kinng" which was mindless comedy but hey all I wanted to see was Akshay and that was enough :P

Yesterday, I saw "1920" which is supposed to be a scary flick...uhm..yeah it had the usual scary stuff but some bits made me want to laugh esp. the expressions of the lead actress who gets possessed...*unbelievably weird*!!!

Anyway, Rajiv saw the movie "Wednesday" and insists I should watch it. Maybe tomorrow.

Oh ok...I changed the template while baby slept. I liked the muted colors. Green is also soothing for the eyes I've been told...read somewhere that if you color the walls a pleasant natural green, it's good for your blood pressure but I guess it's better to just take a walk in the park and watch the trees! Can't get more natural than that :)

Today, the lil one was unwell and the older one has his school evaluations on the whole week *sigh* ...

Since this was one of the rare days when baby slept well, *guess coz of the medication he's on* I stepped into the kitchen. Also coz the cook's been absconding for the past couple of days. Tried making "Rajma" for the first time...not bad at all and made my usual chicken curry (dad loves the way I make it!). Lets see how R and V react at dinner! *fingers crossed*

I'm looking forward to next month! It's the festival month with Durga Puja, Dusherra, Diwali, Bhai Phota to look forward to! Yes Yes... I'm getting the usual wardrobe ready.( Also coz nothing from before the pregnancy FITS!) *damn* ... We thought we'd make a short trip some place close by (the hills) but changed our minds coz we have longer trips planned out for the year end and the coming summer. I kind of miss spontaneous trips but with two young kids one can't just take off from home ...

But for now it's time to take off from here ... more later!

Back!

Helllooooo!

After a long hiatus, I'm back to where it all started and about time too! So much has changed since...so much has happened since. And one would obviously change with passing time and circumstances and maybe I have too. But essentially I think I am still me. I still have nothing fancy and imaginative to write about. I'm still all about writing about what concerns me...people around me...my life, my family, my friends and occasional flashes of creativity! :D

The break did me good. Most people close to me know why I was away. And for those unaware it was because of the new addition to our family. Now two months since he came along, I've settled into a comfortable routine which will allow me to blog and surf once in a while *so i hope*

Besides moving to the new blogger, I changed the url of this blog too. Seems my old one got taken as soon as I let go of it *sigh*.

I was blogging occasional in my pvt. blog but that too was severely neglected like all the others :(

Besides looking forward to renewing this space....I have several holidays/breaks I need and will indulge myself in. The year ahead is exciting and did I ever tell you how much I love planning things? esp. vacations/trips? Sometimes the whole planning bit is more fun that the actual vacation!!! :D I can spend hours surfing the net collecting info on the places I intend to visit, on getting the best deals, reading travelogues, viewing pictures... packing!

Which is what I'm getting back to once I put this post up. Besides my lil' baby should be up any minute now.

The weather's been strange all year in Delhi. For the past couple of days it's been raining and I have the most irritating cold! I hate being sick but most of all I hate being sick with a cold! My head's all stuffy and my nose running. Isn't it simply terrible when one can't smell the food one's eating...it takes the whole joy away from a good meal!

But like all bad things this too shall pass and with that positive thought, I'll be back...

but of course ;)