I swear!

Union Cabinet- Swearing in...I wonder why they call it swearing in...I know they do a lot of swearing during their tenure in the Parliament..we see their misbehaviour all the time on TV, when they fling chairs, yell, swear...but the very first task..to be swearing...?? Maybe changing the lingo would change them...hmmmmm...worth trying...

Bak Bak Bakwas

43 posts in less than a year? What have I said so much? And I dint even know. Why dint someone tell me not to blog so much.
That makes me wonder ...why do people blog so much?
Well as for me...
I kiss spouse goodbye at 8 in the morning and don't see him till 8 in the evening. That leaves me 12 hours to do what I want. And what I want I can't do it here. I can't go for my veena classes, I can't go mall hopping, I can't go and browse in any Crossword book store (there aren't any) I can't go for a movie..(there are no theatres here)..so that leaves me with the TV, the comp and reading the same old books I have (until the next jaunt). Well there is only this much and no more of the TV I can watch...I mean how much of the saas - bahu serials can you watch or the news or the music channels.... and hence it is the Comp which has all my attention.

Well someone here would say what about being a housewife with chores? There are no chores to do here..at least not much...This is not amchi mumbai ..so no dust..the house will be sparkling clean even after say 20 days...no kids to mess it up in any case...and then I have my faithful lady Friday...she comes in alternate days and leaves the house smelling of flowers and pine.

Then what about cooking did I hear you say? Well cooking and I are not exactly compatible. My technique here is more the wham bham ...if you know what I mean. Nothing which takes more than half an hour of my time. Mind you, I am still considered a good cook by all and sundry. I even have a trophy to prove that...you don't know about that? Let me fill you in....We had a cooking competition conducted by 92.3 FM radio, in our building in amchi mumbai.....we were given a 20 min slot..and allowed to bring in precooked rice, or marinated chicken etc....And guess what I made...Puliyogre Rice (tamarind rice to the uninitiated).....using MTR Mix!!!. It took all of 5 mins, the mixing of the powder and rice...and I WON....Thanks MTR..
Then again I always wanted to write a novel.....many a times I have won the Booker prize..the whathaveyou award for the best fiction by a modern writer, in my dreams.....I just think I have nothing to say that will fill a book. Still 43 posts is quite some...and lol! this has been my longest post.
What exactly have I said????
Chumma Timepass, that's all!

Fish Talk again

My gold fish looked bored all alone in the special bowl we created for him..(maybe its a her, don't know). He would lie quiet not moving much and seemed very lethargic. We transferred him to the main aquarium. And now its a sight to see him vigorously swimming in the tank. His wonderful tail has been nibbled away by some of the other fishes, but still he seems more happy in the tank than he was in solitary conditions.

It is amazing how the fishes sense you are going to feed them when you sit by the tank. They all rise to the surface and jostle each other to get the first morsel. Sometimes I just sit so, without actually feeding them, just to see the bustling activity and then when they think you are not going to feed them, they go about their business as usual. And thats when I drop in the feed to watch them all scramble back! Fun!

I will miss my fishes when I leave this saturday. Dovidenja moja ribe, till september.

Thank you God for me.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder what it would be like to be in someone else's shoes. Not that I don't love being me...i do....I mean I love myself despite my many imperfections....Still... I mean to be Mayawati and to have your bust (attractive or otherwise) erected all over town...not because people want it but because you as Mayawati want it...or to be Sonia...to come to a strange land as a shy italian bride and then to become the most powerful woman in the land because you as Sonia made it happen.....or even to become Ash, and be married to the most macho man....(i mean i say that because of his father whose fan i used to be and he is much like his father)....I wonder what it would have been to be in my mother's shoes and have someone like me for a daughter or to be in my daughter's shoes and have someone like me for a mother....The possibilities are endless. In the end I am grateful I am me. I don't know who else is but I am.

Dance of Democracy

I am very happy that we can look forward to a stable government for the next 5 years. If there is anything worse than dynastic rule, it is a hung vote which brings to the fore horse trading and money talk ..as if there isn't enough of that already...Still I would not say that democracy has won in India. I mean, there is a 22% rise in tainted MP count. It would be nice to choose between two or more lettered candidates who do not have criminal backgrounds rather than having to choose between the devil and the deep sea. I would like our governance to have a squeaky clean image...not of course like the one in UK where MPs having been caught on the wrong foot for claiming unwarranted expenses for cleaning, maintenance etc....and are now offering to pay back saying they have made a mistake!!!
I wish someone would also take a poll to see how many of our MPs are educated...I mean truly educated..not just having an official degree (those are easy to come by in India)....but how many of them truly know stuff...like a quiz contest about India, Indians, global affairs etc....and when we are satisfied on all those counts.........i think we can truly say that democracy in India has won! Still, one step at a time.

Too much of a good thing!

I am just back from my 4 day break in Switzerland, Geneva etc.....no, not the Swiss bank issues to be sorted variety.....I wish it was so.......but just a break...

For those who are looking for things to do while in Geneva etc, some inputs:

Well you could go for lazy walks on paths that look like this

I mean you have these paths strewn with flowers of unimaginable colours..It can get very tedious you know, looking at something so pretty all the time especially if your eyes are not trained for such sights...then you could sit down and relax with a book on a lake front like this

And if all that sereness and beauty got to you, I guess you could take a trip to the mountains...and leave your (carbon) footprint skiing or just walking for hours like this, without too much jostling.

Even that you can do for so long and no more, after all we are sun people and the cold does get to us, then you could come down and rub shoulders with the rich and famous like Charlie or Freddie...I mean Chaplin or Mercury

And when 4 days of such blissful quiet gets to you, you can always head back home.

Well I am heading home in less than a month's time to the dust, the grime, noise and I am feeling excited. I wonder why.