9 odd hours to go

Super-freaking-thrilled.

Next 10 days are gonna be a laugh riot.

Ab Bolta Kya!!

There was lotsa dancing. And a lot more of .....dancing and then the footballzz, the last session outdoor, now everything moves indoors.

And then haaf course, the biggie: Anfield, Liverpool. My stadium, my team. All those cocky ManU sods had to swallow their words, pretty hard at that. :-)

5 more days and then Madu comes. We hauv partayy! We hauv Halloween and then we hauv Maryland/DC.

Good skill.

There is this scene in "Wake Up Sid" when Sid is taking photographs of his neighbor's son and at one point the mom wants to take pics with her son and she starts tickling him so that he will laugh in front of the camera. Then she hugs him. kisses him and asks him with that motherly affection, "Why do you trouble me, beta?"

I am sure that exact scene resonates with most of our lives. I missed my mom so much after that. If nothing, that movie is worth its weight just for that scene. It taught me a lot of things, am grateful for everything :)

But just, for that one fleeting moment, I wish I could go back, that one moment I could experience again. I am my momma's boy.

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

I intended to clean my house, I ended up cleaning my vacuum cleaner(VC). The instructions on the VC say that after rinsing the filter and the likes, I need to dry it for 8-10 hours before using it. Really?

Either way I ended up doing a late night clean up of my house, yeah my neighbours and the people upstairs mustn't have appreciated it but I would have felt pathetic about what I set out to do and ended up doing. Apologies (but not really)

Add to that, this was a Saturday night activity. Yes, I know, my weekend hasn't been the best.
But I played football and scored twice which pretty much made up for an otherwise lousy day.

It's almost like I've found Kryponite. Thanks Gagan.

Unrecogni(z)sable!!

Except for some obvious stuff like "color" and "colour", the difference between US English and UK English seems to be fading for me. Not a good situation to be in. The Americans think I am flaunting my UK style of speaking, especially with words like "aluminium" and the opposite is true when I say "education".

The one thing that will always remain unchanged is "football". There is football and then there is American football. Bas, nothing else. Again, there is football and then there is American football. Period. Do I hear someone say "soccer"? One final time, there is football and then there is American football.

Bad Genes

Just a collection of brilliant status messages that people have on gchat:

"The greater the demands on me, the more I need to sustain my inner calm and stability.
"Never Will my Ambition soar below the sky...Eagle was I Born Eagle Shall I Die!!!"

"Dont drink water, fish have sex in it!!"
"To think I had given up on things.. Huh..But I perfect perfection. And it's my time now..!! So you better run and hide..!!
"Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high. There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true.."
"I stand in the center of loneliness letting go of all my ties.. Filling this truth with madness.. And this madness with lies..!!
"I stare in my face as I hear your voice. A rush of blood a quiet surprise.. I wonder how long has it been.. no sense of place and time..!! This pulse so loud pounding through my veins.. as I sit and watch this play in rewind..!!"
"To judge and be judged.. You're eyes are but just human.. You're anger is but just human.. My pain but just human.. I'm but just a bag of flesh and bones.. and you can't break me anymore than I can walk on water..!!"

"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life"

"Let's see who is paying attention .... Every single one of you are on my Friend List as a result of a conscious decision. I am not only glad to count you as friends but also as family! Let's see who in my Friend's list actually pays attention. Copy and paste this in your status. I will be watching to see who really likes to read things"
"Winners win by pushing their limits until their limits become the norm"
"Sometimes and actually most of the times my best friend has been melancholy."
"Dont know, feeling like I am in a maze with self-obstructing and deceitful paradigms"
"I took a heavenly ride through our silence. I know the moment had arrived. For killing the past and coming back to life"

I wish I could be as cool as them. Bad genes. Just bad genes ... ;)

This post will always be a "work in progress" post, will keep getting updated.

Yeah Baby!!

And I wrote a little too soon. :)
Aachaey is happening. Madu cometh, we hauv partayy!!

So I planned a lil early but what the heck! Since India won't happen, I might as well... :)

Sigh!

The bad news is that Aachaey reunion might not happen now, not yet given up on it but it's better to be realistic. I am still hoping Madu gets the visa but knowing how the American embassy works, it's most definitely a race against time now. The good news is that my Thanksgivings will be in Richmond. Add to that the Christmas trip and I really coudn't do much more in terms of making up for the lack of India trip this year.

One of these trips I want to try and squeeze in a Raleigh trip, it's a 3 hour drive from Richmond and I really want to meet some of my old friends. But leaving my kids is a daunting task, nevertheless I think it's the thought that counts, no? I know for sure Ashish will agree with me, we hauv wonly benevolent thoughts :-)

Looks like 2009 will have a rather sane ending. So much for my "Decembers in India" theory, alas another New Years will be wasted in US.

Sigh!

Lack of playing football makes me frust, and that's something I can't revert. To add to that, winter is coming, everything moves indoors. :(