Different Strokes

My second kiddo is all grown up now...she has joined the rat race of working women!....I still remember her in a maroon sack....translate that to read school uniform.....in Trinidad.... Let me admit it ...she was definitely heavier than she should have been.....and not because of her school bag........so the sack added to the woes!
Now, she goes smartly attired in her formals and I wonder if it is the same girl!

Her event management job requires her, amongst other things, to talk to celebrities on phone.....yesterday she told me she spoke to raveena tandon, and namrata shirodkar and a few others...........I am of course not impressed (and neither is she)...........
But I will look at her in awe and in new light the day she comes home and tells me that she spoke to BIG B....that will be the day! At 52, I am still a die hard FAN...

I hope BIG B is reading my blog....

Reality!

Peepli Live should make us cry. Sadly the cinema hall is intermittently filled with laughter....I am sure the Goverment Babus will learn nothing from the movie...I am sure the Media will learn nothing from the movie....I am sure the aam janta will learn nothing from the movie.....People will exit, applauding a well produced movie....The reality of it all will not register....all will be forgotten once you exit the movie hall...Therein lies the tragedy...

Talent at my finger tips!

I have been penning down simple easy-to-do recipes for my son, who I must say has grown quite fat eating all the wrong sort of food in his bachelor existence.....

He had one look at the book and said 'It looks like a drunken scrawl...I will not be able to read it.' Methinks it is just another excuse to get back to his cheese and bread and mayo diet which appears to be his staple...at least judging from his appearance..

But coming back to the handrwriting criticism, I admit I do have a rather pathetic scrawl. Still, I recall the time in school when I was chosen for a hand writing competition....the selection surprised even brattish me!!!! ....for let me admit it, I could not lay claim to even a reasonably legible writing leave alone a prize winning one!...In fact let truth be said ....I always had the habit of copying the writing of the partner sitting next to me on the same desk.....So in effect I aways had a notebook with pages written in different handwriting depending on who sat next to me....

These days there are very few occasions when I use a pen (other than to sign cheques and investment forms!!!). I thinks my fingers move beautifully on the key board....even i f I have to say so myself!....but then nobody notices .......

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!!!

NoteBook Drive....Give Generously!

All those who follow my blog or chance upon it ...Please Help!

The NGO I am associated with , SOSVA – VOLACT (“Society for Service to Voluntary Agencies") is organizing a

“Notebook Donation Drive” in Mumbai
(Notebooks for the underprivileged school-going Children)
Date 15th April 2010 to 30th May 2010

Millions of children in India work!!!
One of the root-causes of CHILD-LABOUR is Lack of Education
How can YOU play a crucial role to ERADICATE IT???
JUST Donate 100 pages Single line Notebooks
Only Notebooks NO Cash Or Cheque

To Help - We have organized various centers across Mumbai where you can donate and contribute to the noble cause.

“Education is a HUMAN RIGHT with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstone’s of freedom and democracy” -Kofi Anan

Do not hesitate to contact Further Clarification

Contact
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Well Done indeed!

I loved the movie 'Well Done Abba'....I mean compare it with a movie like 'MNIK'...rather there is no comparison...very very low key and not hyped like the latter but beautifully directed and Boman Irani....great guy! Must see for all! And they must have special screenings in the hallowed premises of Government offices...hope they feel some sense of shame, though i doubt it...