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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Of childhood friends, dinners and reminiscence ;-)!!

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!!

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.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

The much awaited get-together!!!

We ladies from school have been planning a get-together for some time now...and it only happened a fortnight ago! After discussing for what seemed like ages and many fone calls later, we had decided to go to a resort with our respective kids in tow...but again a last minute change..had to happen with the five of us from different parts of town trying to meet at one mid-point so it will be easier for all of us to commute and make good time.
We had decided to go to a resort for a day outing 5 ladies and 3 kids, but the weather had changed so drastically that there was incessant rains everyday of that week.
Finally on the day before in the evening we decided that we will just meet (only us no kids!) in the morning go for much needed (think shopping) and then may be have lunch somewhere nice.
Even after all these discussions there were still last minute changes and 3 of us met in the morning at 11am in Com street, and were roaming the streets in the hot sun (of course we shopped-those details will make for another blog itself ;-)]
We went to Splash on MG Road insearch of some good stuff...one of my friends ended up spending a bomb there( did you not R??)
We took an auto from here and went to UB City for lunch....we were ravenous by now that we could easily have eaten a horse.
We went to Toscanos and there was a wait of about half an hour there.
Finally the other two ladies joined us here. We had stimulating conversation over good wine and melting-in-the-mouth watering food. After all this we were still not satisfied with the conversation we had or the topics we had yet to discuss so we went to Corner house for yummy ice-creams. After an hour here and so much more talks we went our separate ways promising that we shall meet again soon!!!!

Its Holiday Time Again!!!

I have been thinking of this holiday for 2 months now planning everything behind hubby's back (this is supposed to be a surprise for him) I have told him to take off 2 days from his work schedule. I had to tell him that much atleast as you cannot try and ask a business man to take off just like that without prior notice....I will be more surprised when he says he cant make it :-)
So, finally after a lot of dilly-dallying I decided to arrange this outing for our anniversary but then again advanced it to a week early and thought it will be a good birthday gift for dear hubby and a much needed and awaited break from the concrete jungle..
So, i am off tomorrow to this jungle and also trying to cover a beach when we are there. My hubby did not ask me where we r going or what we r doing? so going really good till now!!
Anyways I am going to have a great holiday by letting my hair loose and the best part is no cooking this weekend ;-)!!! c ya all

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Peace Within!

When you feel like you are going to scream, take a few moments to get away from it all if you can. Breath deeply, try to see things in perspective and come out and face the world again when you are ready----
At the pace that i am going screaming my self hoarse, i dont think I will be ready to face the world again for some time...
I am trying to kind of balance things out but how much can you try too..it is extremely frustrating to play both the roles without anybodys help especially when you have horrible people around you who are always frowning and dont appreciate what you are doing for them...
I am truly irritated with the whole thing but I cant change it anytime soon
I feel like I am going into this deep vortex of depression from where i dont think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel let alone the end of the tunnel :-). Will i ever see it in the near future. I always thought I am an optimist but i dont know anymore..... these things always happen in a cycle so should i console myself and say there will be better days????
May my distrubed and distorted soul find peace soon! Amen! to that.....

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Foot (Wear) - Fetish!!!

I am kind of in a daze these days and being pulled by colourful and cute, fancy footwear. So, I thought I will write a blog on them with some pictures of course!!

The first set of chappals that started off this fancy for me was one purple braided chappal that Anu was wearing one day. I was so impressed by it that the first picture was taken for this blog but unfortunately i dont have the picture anymore.. She took us to this shop - "The Shoemaker" which has branches in the city. We went to the Jayanagar shop and i was mesmerized and bowled over by the collection they had in the smallest sizes (my size). Most of them fit me!!! the tiny little feet of mine I was overjoyed and decided I will go there soon. Shoe-Maker here I come!!

So here are a few sets of feet in a variety of chappals..... May the foot fetish continue!!!