the case of the multiplying pens...

I remember I came to the US with just one pen..to make notes on what I needed to buy after coming here and stuff like that.

Now, two years later....during one of my mammoth room-cleaning expeditions....I realize I have a total of 22 pens and 7 pencils!

so.....I KNOW I didn't buy ANY of them

where do they keep coming from....(?!!)

...and why doesn't this happen with money! ;-)

the chair...

i bought an 80$ chair last year from IKEA with full enthusiasm to use it to sit and study etc.
Its the CEO type swivel chair...black and bulky...very comfy though.
However, ever since then, i haven't seen myself using it too often.
infact my clothes and my portable fan have used it more often than i have.
why the hell did i spend so much and buy it.
why the hell did i have to even write about it actually...stupid post

the MAD bday party...

due to public demand.....finally after almost 2 months..have decided to describe my "eventful" bday celebrations...

18th March 2006....one day after my bday...my first bday away from home, in America, in NY.

Venue- Joshua Tree Bar, NYC.....my favorite bar in all of NY.....they play alll the BEST 80's songs WITH videos on full sized screens all around the bar...I just love the ambience..so FULL of life....no matter what day of the week you go....the place is alwayz ROCKIN' with the groovy beats of those golden years of music....obviously the place is heaven for someone like me who is an absolute 80's nut..for my non-80s-enthusiastic friends however, the place is 'OK'.

Time for meeting up at Bar was fixed as 10.00 pm....i however walk in at 11.00 pm since i was at school finishin off some stuff and then later got held up by my roomie and her drunken friends at her birthday dinner..(yup, her bday on the same day...talk about coincidence )

The usual stuff of meeting up and waiting for everyone to arrive followed.....as usual i had given everyone the wrong address for the place (one street less)...and so frustrated phone calls kept happening sayin "ok so we're standing here on 33rd and 3rd but we dont SEE any Joshua Tree...where the f@#% is this place".. and so i had to direct everyone.

this concludes Act 1 scene 1
.....have temporarily run out of patience....
to be continued......

Act I scene II

So i'm a complete teetotaller....i've tried sipping on all the drinks possible but haven't found any that i 'looove' or would want to have again and again...
i've heard all that jazz about how one must develop a taste for it etc. etc...but NO..i dont understand...why do i HAVE to develop a taste for somethin that reminds me of cough syrup??...or nail polish remover???
so i dont care if i look "uncool" or "non-happenin"..i often stick to the fruit drinks or simple coke or sprite... which can pass off as a fancy vodka or somethin..hehe ;-)

anyway....back to my bday nite!

So the teetotaller that i am...everyone's main aim for the night was to get me drunk.. so then I am taken to the bar counter to get myself somethin...i dont even remember what it was...

(.......this is going to take friggin looong to complete...the action has hardly even BEGUN yet and im already sick of writin....i shouldnt have even attempted this....somebody help me complete it...)

beautiful food

ever had that happening to you.. where u suddenly find the most common things to seem beautiful in a wholly different way?
it happens to me... especially with food
I've had these sudden phases where I find 'toasted bread with butter' utterly irresistible. In the younger days (not that i'm really old now), i remember running back from school yearning to have that evening snack of toasted bread and butter (plus the forgettable HUGE glass of milk that mother would forcefully make me gulp down before letting me head out to play in the park with friends...ugh)
but how heavenly I would find the lovely brown tinge of the bread as it popped up from the toaster..and the way the butter (Amul©) would magically melt and vanish into the crispy whiteness.

but strangely after a while (say a month or so)...the fascination would be gone.

and now the Subway sandwiches. Aaaah...truly gods own creation (2nd to dogs though) the sweet peppers, pickles, extra cheese, jalapenos....i could go onnnn and onnn.
hopefully, this is just a phase too.

am i strangely obsessed with simple food?..or am i just plain wierd?

aah what the heck...i'm me

(end of semester...brain is suddenly not used to inactivity and is having wierd thoughts i feel)...i'm outta here

life's sermons on my MAC...

My new MAC Powerbook (the love of my life) has a Dashboard (for my non-mac comrades - its a thing that when u click on, gets the whole screen filled up with all of one's everyday utilities like weather report, dictionary, sticky notes, world clock, calculators, calendar etc etc)....it just looks so awesome with the whole screen transitions and stuff...long live Apple for knowing how to mesmerize its users!!.

so this Dashboard has a widget that shows a whacky advice for the day that changes everyday...and they're just so hillariously cooll!!... thought of sharing some of them.

*Teamwork is essential. It allows you to blame someone else.
*If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving probably isnt for you.
*It matters not whether you win or lose- what matters is whether I win or lose.
*If something seems too easy, it means you have no idea what you're doing.
*Nobody won by dying for their country- they let the other loser die
for HIS country!
* Don't believe anything unless it has been officially denied.
* Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.
*The golden rule at work is that the boss's jokes are ALWAYS funny
*If your parents never had children, chances are, you may not either!
*If it werent for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
*I know a lot about cars. I can look at its headlights and tell you
exactly what way its coming.
*My brother-in-law gave up his job because of sickness. His boss got
sick of him.
*All inanimate objects seem to be able to move just enough to get lost
or get in your way.
*A bank is a place that will lend you money only after you prove that
you don't need it
*The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the
past, only far more expensive.
*100% of all statistics are useless.
*According to a recent survey of the population, 3/4th of the people
make up 75% of the population (duh!)
*There are three kinds of people...those who can count, and those who can't.
*Everyone thinks i'm psychotic, except for my friends deep down inside the earth
*For Sale* -Parachute - Only used once, never opened, small stain.

........OHHH HOW I LOVE MY MAC! :-)

the visitor....

so the other day....i was having a nice dream...but was unfortunately jolted out of it by the blood-curdling scream of my amreeki roommate...."EEEEEEEEEEEEE.....NAAAMMM we have a mouse in the apartment!!"

nice!...i thought to myself....me, a poor little student (read: non-earning) struggling here in NYC, paying $900 a month (which is considered a STEAL in Manhattan) for my room in a small but cute and cozy 2-bedroom apartment in the East Village...felt nice (sarcasm intended) to know that WITH the deal on the apartment came a mouse too!!

so half asleep, i walk towards where the 'incident' occured and see my roommate. standing at the far end of the room, scared and pointing at her bag lying on the floor, she said....'it came out of that... looked right AT me and ran away'

it "looked at her" it seems...was tempted to ask if it even "said" something to her.

anyhoo i was too sleepy then for any of my wisecracks. So i decided to be this brave girl and lifted up the bag to see if the mouse was in. (really! i am not lying...am not too scared of mice...its the roaches that freak me out, those big ones. eeewww...thankfully none of THOSE here *fingers hands feet everything crossed*)

as i lifted up the bag to see if it was still in there...my roommate screamed again "EEEEEEEEEE.".

"what?" i said, scared this time and leaving the bag with a shock....and she said "oo i was just expecting it to be in there"

(bummer)

anyway...bag was searched and so were room corners and crevices..but no mouse was found
pesticide fella was called the following weekend and the house was duly sprayed. "you should have no problems now ma'am" he assured us.

So thats it....yeah not too eventful...but again, who said blogs are supposed to be interesting.

Both of us now keep our respective room doors shut all the time. Roomie makes sure she doesn't leave cookies and other foodstuff outside as she used to earlier.

and somewhere down there in the drains of this big city, an innocent little mouse must be getting drugged with pesticide..........i hope!