Rear View!

These days I have traded yoga for aerobics.....I did not do that because I find yoga too sedate and needed something more energetic....no ...at 50+ yoga suits my body just fine but the timings did not fit in my schedule...

And so I go to this class which is filled with 'older' people as the instructor clarifies...with medical problems, she adds.....(I want to tell her that I wish to be promoted to a younger class!!)

And so I stand at the rear end of the class....I did so on the first day because I did not want the others to see me trip and fumble on the first day while I mastered the steps...(which incidentally keeps changing everyday...and so i continue to trip and fumble.....But its fun standing at the rear....its fun to see the various body types jiggle as we keep steps to the blasting music......I never realised or rather had never given thought to the fact that there are so many 'bum' types!!!!....There are those that are huge and defy gravity and move with a mind of their own...there are those which are so taut and jut so perfectly that you feel envious....and there are those with non-existent ones ....like moi (just like the sunken cheeks).....though i dont know if it is a good thing or bad vis-a-vis the huge ones!
The instructor of course is a pert little thing with a 4 -pack abs which she loves to show off....so all the time she is rolling her tank top up to show us the toned mid-riff....But then she eats only sensible stuff...that's the trade off.

As for me give me the bhel and pani puri and pizzas.......forget my abs...Abs? What Abs?...there are no cheeks, no bums and no abs..so what's new?

Dont' look a gift horse in the mouth!!

The next time you attend a friend's marriage, don't choose your gift, instead give the couple some cash ”at least that's what a survey suggests. The survey found that almost half of prospective spouses would prefer taking cash as the wedding gift.

Well takes me back to my wedding. I think I should have printed 'Gifts in cash only'.

My time, the milk cooker (whatever that means) was a rage. It was a ghastly contraption which emitted a whistle that made you run towards it double quick and switch off the gas, before you and others who heard it turned deaf!... Everybody who had to give a wedding gift bought a milk cooker thinking it to be the 'in gift'. Thus I landed up with 13 milk cookers!!! (I wonder what became of them because when I came back from my 'honeymoon' I din't see them....(I think they were exchanged for other 'sensible' steel vessels, thanks to the local 'steel shop'...talk about resourcefulness!!!). Incidentally, there were many sets of ice-cream cups in steel.....To be truthful, I have never served ice-cream in these cups!

It is sensible to make a wedding registry I think ...like in the west....at least you get what you want....

But what irks me most is when people bring flowers and gifts even when the invite says 'No presents please'. I wonder why?

As for me I never say no to gifts.....even if it means 13 milk cookers!!!