Show Me Your Kanobi-s!

Have you ever noticed that excessive alcohol makes people either extremely emotional, horny as hell or in the last case, wax philosophical? Well, had a taste of the last part the other night when Beethoven ,Henry and I went over to Penny's to hang out. I unfortunately, am on an anti-alcohol kick so I was bone dry the whole night. Beethoven however, drank like a fish throughout and soon Henry gave him company. While playing dumb charades Henry suggested we give Beethoven a film and then feign ignorance while he kept acting it out. So Beethoven was given 'Moulin Rouge' and the poor guy waltzed all alone and pretended to breasts!

Later we took a more serious turn and started discussing life and passion and whatnot. I am not going to recreate the convo, rather I will give you my views on these issues and let you make your own conclusions. However, this will appear largely disjointed to every one who wasn't present last night...anyway here goes...
I truly feel that it is possible to be passionate about several things at once or at different points in life be it, career options, people or hobbies. I feel like it's okay to dabble in various fields and not zero in on one particular area of expertise. But I feel that to never know passion would be leading a hollow life. As for loving and losing, I'd rather do that, than to never love at all. Because the memories you make in that time could be what sustains you for the rest of your life. As for compatibility, yes It can lead to the most successful marriages. But all arranged marriages do not necessarily lead to compatibility. I think the scariest thing in the world is marrying someone you barely know..What if they turn out to be racists or pedophiles or share opinions that are so inherent to them but completely baffling to you? Yes, I believe in divorce, but the people who normally get arranged marriages are not the ones who think of divorce. This leads me to talk about divorce. Yes, Marriage is something one should undertake with the view of it being 'forever' but what if your husband abuses you? Should you live an unhappy life and slowly die inside for the sake of 'marriage'? NO. There should always be an option in life. That's life how I see it.

Moving off of the seriousness, the night was major fun. The Godfather was analyzed, Tolkien discussed, golden thongs 'slipped' in and a gloriously gossip-y morning was had. Unfortunately I barely hung out with penny at all this time. I mean i tagged along when I could, but still. I really miss her around. I hope she doesn't change on me. Oh well, I live to write another day.

It feels just like ages ago...

Heylo there! So Happy Belated Diwali everyone! It's at times like these that one really starts getting nostalgic about the way things were, back in the day, when life was so much simpler. Diwali has really changed over the years but it's still one of my favourite festivals. It feels a little empty nowadays though cos my cousin Edison isn't around Delhi anymore. Anyway we used to have a helluva time together, bursting crackers and then scouring around the next day for some crackers that people hadn't quite burst. The Blue Meanie and his ex- BFF Mr. Kite used to come up with the oddest positioning for some of the rockets, once bursting one from my toilet! But now Mr. K and the Meanie ain't talkin'. So yeah that chapter is over. Although I found some disturbing she-male porn on Mr. K's comp yesterday, so am quite frankly freaked out. But our annual D-day Barbecue was still good, and the baked potatoes as always were just right.

Today was a brilliant day too. My school friends Henry and Penny Lane are in town so we met up for lunch and dessert, and for some interesting conversation. Henry has a new 'do, which is highly reminiscent of a comic strip I drew in school...hair everywhere! :)
Lunch was yummy, Oak Tree is a really good discovery on Penny's part. And dessert was at our usual haunt 'Sweet Obsessions' . Way too much food! It was just really nice to be around two people I genuinely care about after ages. Nowadays Delhi is like a friggin' ghost town now that almost all my good friends have upped and gone! Penny seems to be enjoying college which is great cos I get to hear some intriguing stories about spirits and kaleidoscopes, but it's a shame my movie buddy is gone.! Really missin' Jude and Jojo and Chuck. While Jude and Chuck are on different continents, Jojo seems to be in another planet altogether and has gone completely underground on me. Martha, thankfully is back soon and Beethoven is coming back tomorrow! Lucy, Penny, Henry and I are all going to ambush him at the airport. This week is going to be hectic, and I am sure to be flaking off on my job (But that's secondary!!) Tomorrow the film Lucy has been working on is releasing so we are all gonna go check it out, so let me plug it here! GO SEE GOLMAAL RETURNS! MORE THAN ONCE! (You're welcome Lucy). Anyway that's my update. I don't have any deep philosophical message to contribute, so until next time...

She's like so, whatever...

Yes, I know....back so very soon....what can I say? Nothing good to watch, no one to bug over the phone and well in a rather upbeat mood cos I just read the blog of my least favourite person whom I shall call 'Yoko'...just like the horrid Ono woman, this Yoko is a confirmed slut, doing every and anyone she can (in fact one of my friends, Desmond, claims that one of her sex tapes were passed around his school). Yoko and I were once close, this was when we both began college yet over the years our friendship really disintegrated into barely concealed loathing. The fact is I started to see thru her. Well, in Yoko's latest blog, she whines about her lack of attention from her ex - BF Epstein, one of my college friends as well (although I use the term 'friend ' loosely as that a-hole always held a grudge towards me cos I became Prez of the club he wanted to be in charge of) and well, Yoko, being Yoko got super drunk. And that girl CANNOT hold her liquor. I mean give her half a beer and she's flying....so as per the usual she got tipsy, started bawling and made a scene...and was comforted by her new BFF Mrs. Mustard ( who is only in that position due to Yoko's knowledge that Mrs. Mustard and I were sworn enemies since college)...and well basically history repeated itself cos that girl has made a scene at each and every party she has ever attended.

Take for instance my 21st in May....I had planned a party, nothing too elaborate, but as most girls desire, I too wanted that day to be about me. Anyway, my good friend Pam had flown in from Bangalore especially for the occasion and Pam, Yoko and my other BFF Penny Lane were all going to spend the night at my place after the party. Pam and Penny were NOT looking forward to Yoko intruding on our hanging out time, and neither was I so I kept dropping hints to dissuade her, but completely ignorant tool that she is, she ignored the hints. Come the day of the party. Yoko tried to completely steal the spotlight and flirted with each and every one of the guests including my brother the blue meanie (much to Martha's chagrin!) in front of her then Boyfriend Epstein. Well, needless to say I got really irritated.The icing on the cake came when one of my dearest friends, Jude, spilt a little beer on her by accident. Naturally attention whore that she is, Yoko burst into tears (making it a straight 3 birthdays of mine, where she has cried. By the way we've known each other three years!:) ) and threw a coke at poor Jude. Jude, poor guy tried to calm her down. I was so angry that to draw attention away from her pity fest, I announced that I was cutting the cake. After the cake was cut, Yoko decided to make one last final scene and stormed up to me to tell me she was leaving. I was like 'whatever' and then she tried to pick a fight by whining about how I never fed her cake. ( I think I did her a service cos her thighs are fat enough as it is)...yet luckily this little play for attention on her part made my party mood better, cos with her gone everyone eased up and relaxed and Pam, Penny and I had a lot of fun at our sleepover.

The crux of my 'friendship' with Yoko is this: I cannot stand her, I want her gone. She's attention craving, desperate, slutty, unoriginal, unfunny and every other bad quality there is. Yet She has zero friends so she keeps bouncing back to me. Every time we have fought she comes crying to me saying that I have Pam, and Penny and mostly that I have my BFF Lucy, but she has no one. And I just don't know how to respond. Every time I cut her off, she tries to claw her way back in. However, gradually I'm removing this tumour from my life, and thanks to her, I know never to make the same mistake of befriending someone like her EVER AGAIN.

What it feels like for a girl...

So I was re-watching one of my favourites movies from years ago, 'The Sweeest Thing' *ing Cam Diaz, Christina Applegate & Selma Blair. While I still really like the movie, there are certain portions that tend to offend me just a tad. I mean, i'm not some weird prude but c''mon do women really go around singing songs about 'penises' in public with their BFF's? But still this movie for me was really great back then and even today cos it has 3 very strong female characters....plus it's a complete feel good film (But not in the 'Love Guru-want-to-kill-self-after-watching-way)...


Moving on from such a happy flick, I just watched ' The Shining' a film i've been dying to see for years. As usual Stanley Kubrick deeply disturbs me. But in a good way. I mean, the bear suit scene? genius. Although I am of the school of thought that sees Shelly Duvall as superannoying, yet I feel that Danny is even more friggin' irritating, and I just wanted Jack to kill the kid! I love the maze sequences, those things never cease to fascinate me...the ending is awesome cos there are so many ways to interpet that....Hopefully, our generation will produce a director as worthy as Kubrick...we need more of these kinds of flicks!

Hot N Cold

So here goes: my first post. Unfortunately for whoever reads this, this post comes from a girl who is very, very hung over at the moment and therefore may appear grumpier than usual. As has been established, I have also suffered from Beatlemania for several years and thus, will use them as my shields when talking about my life.
Last night was one of mine and my brother's common friend's birthday (hence the hang over). We all gathered round to celebrate Bungalow Bill's 25th in style.

The booze was flowing and the fact that I can barely ever make conversation with randoms while sober helped speed up my alcohol intake greatly. Plus the presence of my old make out buddy Father Mckenzie (cos he's oh-so faithful.Not.) added to my tension and need for a little binge drinking. Several beers later, I was feeling no pain...The father and I had made up (although our tongues hadn't) and I was having fun after a long time. Then came the bad news.

After Father Mckenzie took off , my brother The Blue Meanie stormed up to me looking for his car keys. However, in my inebriated state, I had given Mckenzie the keys....and he was gone. After a huge melodramatic argument which involved tears, shouting, Blue Meanie's 'girlfriend' Martha's constant interventions and a long walk in high heeled boots, the keys wre found and the drama finally was put to rest.


The divine retribution part comes in today...after being yelled at by the Blue Meanie for being 'irresponsible' ( which is highly hypocritical seeing as how I am usually the mature one in most situations) he came running to me cos he made a mistake. A huge one. He dropped my old laptop breaking its screen, which just got replaced, costing approx. 13 grand. All this after the responsibility rubbish...and to top it all off , my dad Sgt. Pepper has been badgering me for awhile to take the computer AWAY from the meanie, seeing as how he is so immature. Oh, my. Either way, it's lose-lose.