Yes! it happened again after 3 months. We met again on the excuse of using a gift voucher from Splash which was about to expire today.
We met in Spalsh on MG Road. RN & were already there when i went. S used her voucher and i had used mine way back in May itself. S picked up 2 tops & a pant then we walked to trinity circle where S's father was waiting for us and he dropped us off in J'nagar - we had decided earlier that we would shop and then go back to our side of the town for dinner. So, we went to Eurasia for a yummy meal of Pizza & Pasta. We started off with awesome Crostinis and progressed to pizza that was so light & tasty and simply out of this world. The Chefsdon Pasta was the chef's special which was a gooey pasta with all the veggies thrown in with creamy cheese sauce. We decided to forgo the dessert as we had already overstuffed ourselves. between all this eating there was constant free-flowing chat punctuated with hoots of laughter ;-). yes, now coming to the topic of the blog - the 4 of us have been friends for ages now - may be early 90's hmm..to be exact - for 22 years. so the 1st point is covered. ( We miss you cats!) and ofcourse i covered the 2nd point in the beginning. coming to the 3rd and last point of the topic header when you have been friends with someone for so long that you dont remember how many fights and tiffs you have had with them, then you will have so much to talk,refresh and reminisce about. so, the chat went to all the places and back again. we started off from the time when we met S for the first time, she was on the bicycle and was a pretty little girl with 2 plaits. she was all of 8 yrs and her aunt got her to where we were playing on the road and introduced us asking us to include her in our evening play time. RS and I (we were neighbours)took an instant shine to this girl and RN we met in school. RN just lived 3 roads down and the curious cat that she was, wanted to know where we stayed, which school we were from and what we did in our free time etc., this to be put in 2 words which was our life history.
Now, about RS and me. In the beginning RS was such a snobbish little creature with greenish blue eyes and she was very cautious with this girl who was her neighbour whether she liked it or not! i would stand in my compound and see her do stuff but as soon as she saw me observing her she would run inside and lock the door. It took a lot of time on my part to thaw her out but in the end we have all stayed real good friends for most of our life and hope we will remain the same for the remaining years. only RS is not here for the last few years where she has been in Singapore for 7 years and now is in the US. but we still miss you especially during times like these when we meet once in a blue moon!
I can put up more posts with all that we reminisced over dinner. May be I will!!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
The 7-year Itch!
First of all before i start let us try and de-code what is "The 7-year Itch"...
1. I think according to the scholors, it is the inclination to become unfaithful after 7-years of marriage.
2. It is the title of a 1955 Marilyn Monroe movie which is even now famous for the image of her white dress blowing up over a subway grating (white dress, red lipstick, super hot blonde) wow! what an image...
but in this super fast day & age when marriages & divorces are going hand in hand, the 7 year itch has lost several years..has also become 1,2,3,4,5 0r 6 years. :-)
for me it is not so much an itch to look at something or someone new but it is an itch to just have some breather or space away to spend on my own.
I keep threatening my husband sometimes ( all empty threats ofcourse) ;-)
I am 100 percent sure i would not want to swap him with anyone else as he is what i would have wanted and had the good sense to go for( even in the face of all the opposition and people breathing down my neck - hey R2 & S are you guys listening???). He doesnt question me, doesnt stop me from doing what i want and he is such a good one that he comes and picks me up from wherever & whenever I go drinking and partying with my pals. :-) ( this is a huge bonus)
And also there is this major thing - to get to know someone again in the smallest possible ways and understand...I am too old for all these games.. I think! and that is what i keep telling him all the time.
So my version of the 7-year itch is actually just an empty threat when i get irritated that things are not going the way I wanted.
1. I think according to the scholors, it is the inclination to become unfaithful after 7-years of marriage.
2. It is the title of a 1955 Marilyn Monroe movie which is even now famous for the image of her white dress blowing up over a subway grating (white dress, red lipstick, super hot blonde) wow! what an image...
but in this super fast day & age when marriages & divorces are going hand in hand, the 7 year itch has lost several years..has also become 1,2,3,4,5 0r 6 years. :-)
for me it is not so much an itch to look at something or someone new but it is an itch to just have some breather or space away to spend on my own.
I keep threatening my husband sometimes ( all empty threats ofcourse) ;-)
I am 100 percent sure i would not want to swap him with anyone else as he is what i would have wanted and had the good sense to go for( even in the face of all the opposition and people breathing down my neck - hey R2 & S are you guys listening???). He doesnt question me, doesnt stop me from doing what i want and he is such a good one that he comes and picks me up from wherever & whenever I go drinking and partying with my pals. :-) ( this is a huge bonus)
And also there is this major thing - to get to know someone again in the smallest possible ways and understand...I am too old for all these games.. I think! and that is what i keep telling him all the time.
So my version of the 7-year itch is actually just an empty threat when i get irritated that things are not going the way I wanted.
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