tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368222242024-03-14T06:42:08.351-05:00Pri's WorldPrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.comBlogger414125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-43925037537099179172017-05-15T00:41:00.001-05:002017-05-15T00:41:40.537-05:00Breakfast with my father <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Will you get up in one hour and go brush your teeth and all and come? I will make some breakfast." </div>
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He then proceeds to go do his yoga while he plays this one Buddhist chant on repeat from a cd he bought in Nepal in the year 2002.</div>
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After a shower and trying to force my contact lenses in my Ambarish red eyes I go sit down to a spread of egg sandwiches and fruit. Unfortunately there is a layer of mystery meat in the sandwich. Upon enquiry I am informed it is beef. I tell him i haven't eaten been in 16 years. </div>
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"It's okay what is there, you can eat."</div>
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I scrape off the meat bits and eat the egg. </div>
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"Take some fruit."</div>
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The "fruit" includes one kiwi cut up, one banana, a giant plastic container filled with pomegranate and 6 raw almonds just chilling. I ask about the pomegranate. </div>
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"Where did you get it? Who cleaned it?"</div>
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"See, I buy one kg and bring, then I will clean and keep in the fridge so it becomes easy for me to eat anytime." He scoops a spoonful and munches on it like puri. I'm obviously thinking about biswa kalyan rath's pomegranate sketch and dying. </div>
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I ask if he's ready for his tea. Does he want normal tea or his healthy green tea. I already know the answer. </div>
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"I've already kept my tea bag ready, you can pour some hot water in it and then add milk to yours. Oh and don't put sugar in your tea. Try this." </div>
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He hands me some sort of brown sugar that's stuck together in what looks like sesame but maybe not. He says it's from a plant and it's good for you. I hesitate to add it to my tea because if it ruins it I'll have to start from scratch. Also at this point I'm dying for tea. There's coffee but it's not nearly strong enough. </div>
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Did I mention my dad has been playing YouTube videos of Tamil songs from the sixties on his phone this whole time. The audio plays on his Bluetooth speaker which he was very excited to discover was a thing about a year ago. He watches the video on his phone while he eats his breakfast. </div>
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"Don't forget about the mango you kept in the fridge yesterday. Eat it fast."</div>
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I bring him his tea which he proceeds to drink while reading his newspaper. "My god 15 trees have crashed yesterday."</div>
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"Err, with this much rain aa?"</div>
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"Ya, daily trees will be crashing. Some are very old trees. Oh Mohan has come."</div>
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He introduces me to the new gardener. They talk about the very important transplant that is to take place today. </div>
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"See we are transplanting this butter fruit tree from this corner to that corner."</div>
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"This Mohan is quite good. Better than the last Telugu bugger. Most useless fellow." </div>
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I notice Mohan speaks Kannada. Good luck Mohan, I'm rooting for you.</div>
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"Okay you go get ready. I will go finish shaving and all."</div>
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Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-52289512636291675922012-10-30T18:31:00.001-05:002012-10-30T18:31:51.418-05:00One day after work.I was just getting ready to leave the office when I get an important email about Halloween. It has taken everyone about three weeks to come to a consensus and finally one day before the big event it has been decided that we will wear Halloween t-shirts to work. My first thought is goddamn it, now I can't go straight home. I absolutely hate having to make any stops between work and home. It just delays me from getting to my couch and my sicrit Internet and my tea. <br />
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Now i have no idea where one goes to get a halloween t-shirt. 'Duh Walmart!' I am told. I happen to hate going to Walmart. Every time I go there with someone I lose them. It is inevitable. They're looking for I don't know lamps and I'm looking at band aids and there's aisles of rubbish between us and I can't locate them when it's time to go home. Anyway I decide I will try Walgreens instead but no luck. I try CVS and they have about 8 aisles of Halloween candy but no t-shirts. I stock up on my almonds and leave. <br />
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Now I have a tough decision to make - do I risk going to Target which is inside the same mall where oh about 80% of my paycheck goes or do I go to Walmart? I decide I'll go to Walmart. <br />
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I walk in and first of all no greeters. I'm disappointed because hello that's part of the whole Walmart charm. If there's no 90 year old guiding me towards the right section I am for sure getting lost. Anyway I think i see a giant witch so I make my way towards her and sure enough it's the Halloween section, complete with little children running around and one lady on the phone insisting her ex must have the fortune hidden somewhere. "I know he got it somewhere and I'm gonna find it." I see some fugly purple t-shirts that say witch and famous. I also see some hideous bright orange shirts with pumpkin faces. The little kids' shirts aren't horrible but I'm adult sized so I keep looking until finally i see a grey t-shirt with a super cute owl on it. I grab it and run to the fitting room hoping it fits. There's a woman manning the fitting room (womanning?) and she wants to count my one t-shirt. "How many?" she yells. "Errr one." She hands me a number 1 sign to hang on my door and I proceed to try on the owl shirt. Now technically this shirt should never have fit me but I convinced myself it would and so it did. Don't ask how I managed that. Excited with my new t-shirt I imagine all the times I will wear this again. Never.<br />
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I decide since I am in Walmart I might as well see if they have any of that amazing pumpkin bread. My friend made some for me last year and it was amazing. After looking through rows of instant cakes and brownie mixes I decide to seek help. This friendly looking cross eyed guy is wandering about with a mop and a big smile. I describe the pumpkin bread and how it comes in a giant box with real pumpkin pulp and he's like "Have you tried our baked goods section?" I explain to him that I will be the one baking it. "I'm just looking for the mix" i say. Then he's like "Have you tried home living?" Now I'm no home living expert but I would think that's the section for carpets and sheets and garden gnomes. I thank him for his help and go to pay for my owl shirt. On the way I pass a row of ginger bread mix and sure enough right beside it is the Pillsbury pumpkin bread! Excited I head to checkout only to be met by 4 open counters, each with long lines of people. I get out my phone, scan through my twitter timeline, read some whatsapp messages and some fifteen minutes later it's my turn. My grand total is $8.92. I'm all say what?? and then I go skipping to my car which proceeds to honk at me but that's another story. <br />
Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-4400709367292296092011-11-09T08:13:00.001-06:002011-11-09T08:13:04.427-06:00Saturday night.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>My friend sends me a Facebook invite to a desi baby contest and a fashion show. <br/><br/>"Please let's go to this. It will be terrible."<br/><br/>"You know I hate babies. Wait, there's going to be food right?"<br/><br/>"There will be food but I also hear there's a great Bengali place next door."<br/><br/>"Fine. What time?"<br/><br/>So we get to the damn thing but not before getting lost. We have GPS yet somehow miss a turn and travel atleast 4 miles in the wrong direction. I expect to see lots of bengali people but strangely everyone looks Gulti. I finally realise it's a Gulti function at a bengali temple and no wonder because the awkward guy on stage is definitely speaking telugu. <br/><br/>We find seats and settle in to watch some babies fight it out on stage but instead awkward man is motioning for couples to come forward. 'Aao samosa kaaye' is about to happen. 'Aao samosa kaaye' is exactly what you think it is except for the pronunciation of khaaye. Couples get on stage and try to feed each other samosas in a timely fashion or something. We roll our eyes and look around for familiar faces. My friend suggests checking out the food. We ask a guy what he's selling. "Palav, gobi, biryani-noodles." <br/><br/>We run away before he shows us a plate of biryani noodles. <br/><br/>Just as we're fleeing some type of singing competition begins. This poor little kid comes on stage to sing a medley of (mostly shreya goshal) Hindi songs, complete with her lyrics sheet and giant glasses. You want to feel sorry for her especially because she's way off key. As it gets worse we decide to go for a walk to the temple next door. The temple is beautiful and smells great and oh look a family taking a group photo with Ma Durga. Everytime the door opens we hear the terrible singing. <br/><br/>My friend decides to go ask awkward Gulti man who looks in charge when the fashion shown will start, or worse, if we've already missed it. He comes back giggling. "It will start at 8 and last 3 minutes, it seems." <br/><br/>"So we'll be late for the movie?"<br/><br/>"Fuck it. Let's just go." <br/><br/>We decide to go see his friends backstage first. Well he does. I was not walking into anyone's dressing room. We then get the hell out of there. <br/><br/>"Alright now can we eat some Bengali food?"<br/><br/>"Yes please. You know where this place is?"<br/><br/>"Err no."<br/><br/>We ask random people in the parking lot. No one knows. We try google. Nothing. <br/><br/>"Fine. Let's just go to Annam. It's really close."<br/><br/>"Oh great. Now I have to eat vegetarian oota?"<br/><br/>We get lost on the way but eventually find it and turns out they have an exciting menu featuring gobi manchuri, chapathi and appam. Also chicken! <br/><br/>I study the menu pointing to fifteen different things I want to try. Two different waiters keep walking up to us. We're confused and place orders with both of them. The food is great, well mostly the gobi. <br/><br/>Now stuffed, we have to drive across the city to watch a Bengali movie called gandu. Our problem is the movie is showing in the media center of rice university. We have no idea where the media center is and apparently no one else does. We drive around asking students. One girl gives us pretty detailed directions which I would have followed except my friend sees something and makes me reverse (on a one way street) which I do and take the unnecessary left turn after which we are really lost. <br/><br/>"Let's just park here and walk." <br/><br/>"Oho."<br/><br/>So we walk across campus. It is way past 8 o'clock. <br/><br/>"They're doing an introduction to the movie first so we won't miss much."<br/><br/>Thankfully I'm wearing my comfortable mojaris. Funfact: there's no left or right shoe in this pair. Either one can be worn on either foot. Earlier that evening I had demonstrated to my friend this exciting feature outside the temple. Also luckily it was 65 degrees that evening or I would've had to sit down on the pavement and call me a taxi. <br/><br/>We continue walking for miles singing mohabbat hain mirchi and other random songs until we find the damn media center. On the way we spot many stranded vehicles with blinkers on and no one inside. We wonder if this is a rice university makeout ritual.<br/><br/>When we finally locate the media center we notice tons of visitor parking all around. I am too tired to shove my friend to the floor so I keep walking. Once inside we realise there is just one entrance to the screening room and it is right past the screen. We're already more than thirty minutes late so we decide to walk in shamelesssly and find seats. I try to place my water in the cup holder but there isn't one being that this isn't an actual movie theater. <br/><br/>The movie itself is bizarre like you cannot imagine. It's in black and white and Bengali. It features a rapper named gandu and a sidekick named rickshaw who looks sort of like cut-piece nehra and who worships Bruce lee and practices slow motion kung fu. Lots of sex happens between a neighbour aunty with ridiculous cleavage and her mustachioed boyfriend who insists on keeping his sunglasses on the whole time. Gandu watches them. Gandu gets caught. Gandu thinks about killing himself. And then the credits roll and we're like oh thank god but turns out there's still twenty more minutes of serious porn. There's a rare penis sighting except this movie is too cool for just one flash of penis so we're shown close ups, every angle imaginable and lots of effort by gandu's lover who seems to enjoy meowing. Ten painful minutes later the lights come on and I'm surprised to see the room is filled with desis, none of whom will make eye contact with me. <br/><br/>We leave, sort of in shock, dreading the walk back to the car. No one remembers where we parked. I do remember the direction we came from. I point towards it but my genius friend suggests walking the other way. "It's like a circle. This way we'll get there faster." <br/><br/>Somehow we manage to leave the campus. We walk along the pavement. I fear for my life, happy to see the occasional jogger. Twenty minutes later we're back inside the campus but nowhere near the car. Another ten minutes and voila it's my car. I hug it and sit down to cry. Alright I'm being a little dramatic. I giggle hysterically. <br/><br/>We drive back home talking about how tired we are. My friend has to go pick up his car from my house, drive it to his house, change into clothes appropriate for a gay bar and then drive himself to the bar to hang out with his friends and the straight guy he's been crushing on, who's leaving the country the next day. So that's the plan. <br/><br/>"I will get us home in 15 minutes. There's no traffic at this hour." <br/><br/>Two seconds later we hit crazy traffic. 610 is a parking lot. "Take this exit. I know another easy way."<br/><br/>Magically we're now practically right by the gay bar my friend is supposed to go to. "Maybe we should just stop by and say hi." <br/><br/>"No. Maybe I should drop you off so you can be with your doww and I can leave. I will play mujhse juda hokar as I drive off."<br/><br/>I start to sing it. Then I realise I have it on my iPod. I play it for my friend who is begging me to stop. <br/><br/>We find shady parking by which I mean a guy moved his car, took 5 bucks from us and let us park in his spot in a small store parking lot. <br/><br/>I refuse to get out of the car. "I am not going to a gay bar wearing a salwar kameez. Are you crazy?" <br/><br/>"You look fine. People will think it's a sparkly tunic. And you're wearing jeans."<br/><br/>"No."<br/><br/>"Please. Just ten minutes. I promise." <br/><br/>"Right."<br/><br/>I have never been to a gay bar. This place is gay central in Houston. Every corner you turn a new cloud of perfume hits you. <br/><br/>"Everyone smells so good." I realise I'm sniffing strangers. Lots of well maintained eyebrows are being raised. It's what you get when you're wearing a salwar kameez and seem to enjoy sniffing people. <br/><br/>We meet my friend's friends. I meet tall bisexual guy who owns a boutique for drag queens (true story) and a super friendly bollywood dance teacher and some other incredibly shy guy. Then I spot straight guy who's all the way over there talking on the phone. We bid farewell to the happy desi threesome and walk towards straight guy who, turns out, has an adorable accent. We talk about a range of subjects - how 99% in statistics means nothing, whether or not it is sanitary for the people to be doing HIV testing at night time in the middle of the road, the straight guy's trip so far. The whole time my friend is staring adorably at straight guy who is staring adorably back at my friend. I'm confused. I decide it is best to leave them alone for their last evening (where nothing will happen) together. We come up with a plan. I assure everyone there is no way I'm going inside with them and leave. <br/><br/>My friend walks me to my car which is somehow still where I left it. 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</div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-59151062758930457032011-10-14T22:05:00.001-05:002011-10-14T22:05:16.162-05:00Mommy, let's delay these people for no reason.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><br/>Little kid at cvs earlier today - "Mommy, can mika have some jellybeans?"<br/>"Mommy has to pay for it first hon."<br/>Kid gets on his tippy toes to lay jelly beans on the counter and crosses his hands. <br/>Collective awww at the checkout line. <br/>Lady at the counter stops scanning stuff and starts asking Mika lame questions. <br/>Mika: "I'm 3 and those are my jelly beans."<br/>"Are you going to share them with anyone mika?" <br/>"Um ..." long pause "okay."<br/>Collective awwwww.<br/>Meanwhile I'm trying my best not to yell let's go bitch. <br/>Finally mika and mommy get moving. <br/>"Bye mika. Be good now. Help mommy with the bags okay."<br/>Lady only has one bag.<br/>Meanwhile Mika has just dropped all the jelly beans on the floor. <br/><br/>Alright I just made up my dream ending to that story. <br/>
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</div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-43924565918413605862011-08-02T23:04:00.001-05:002011-08-02T23:12:31.348-05:00I attempt to watch Tree of life.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>I decided I would watch tree of life because I'm cool like that. I usually have a lot of patience with people in movies. I will sit through 2 hours of a guy talking to his table fan. But this movie was a test. And I failed. <br/><br/>Twenty minutes into it I'm a little confused about the depressing family but still intrigued. Then something weird happens. A screensaver comes on. That's right. One minute we're watching people and the next minute we're watching pretty pictures from outerspace. After this a volcano begins to erupt. For like 8 minutes we're just watching bright orange stuff spewing onto the screen. With opera music in the background. Really intense opera. Then they cut to a montage of life under the ocean featuring giant chunks of seaweed. At this point I'm thinking maybe somebody hit the wrong button in the control room. The Discovery channel is on for some reason. I continue to watch because I figure eventually someone will realise their mistake. The depressing family will reappear. More time goes by. The audience of 4 people is getting restless. It has now become a contest to see who among us will walk out first. Then they show a fucking baby dinosaur and that was my cue to walk out.<br/><br/><br/>P.S. If you've watched the entire movie please let me know wtf happened. Many thanks.
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</div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-13395890102053823092011-05-05T19:32:00.001-05:002011-05-05T19:32:18.949-05:00Park Sheraton Zindabad.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Luckily for me the missing suitcase was the one consisting entirely of gifts my mother had sent to everyone she knew in Bangalore city. My stuff was safe so I was able to shower (chennai water ugh but whatever) and change. Then I looked at my address book to call everyone I knew in chennai, which is like 3 people. Merapathi lakshmipathy (who did not answer), Ananda yenanda (who had just left the city the same morning, in fact we were at the airport at the same time and didn't know it) and the world famous Anantha. World famous Anantha answered and entertained me for a bit. Unfortunately he couldn't get out of the office until 6 pm by which time I would've already left for the airport so we decided to meet in a couple of weeks in Bangalore, where it's prettier. I called my worried father and nibbled on my really tiny piece of Christmas cake which was delivered to the room on a giant silver platter courtesy some leddis in wonderfully draped saris - "Merry Christmas ma'am, the lunch buffet has started." I heard lunch buffet and promptly went to look for my shoes. <br/><br/><br/><br/>I had wisely worn comfortable pants since this was going to be my first meal in India after 5 years. To say I was looking forward to it would be an understatement. I walked around the buffet table like I was at some art show, checking out the beautiful creations, reading the descriptions. I didn't want to miss anything so I took a sample of everything, except for the rice and sat down to wait for my naan. I know not to mix my roti and rice, my dad has taught me well. I am not making this up but my eyes actually welled up as I took my first few bites. You forget how amazing the quality of food in India is, you really do. In spite of refilling my plate 3 times I was disappointed in my appetite and then the chef or chief waiter or someone important looking came up and asked me if everything was okay. He may have seen me wiping away tears. I would've hugged him but there were other people in the room, plus i wasn't sure I'd be able to get off of my chair in a hurry. I sure was glad for the elevator. After I got back to my room I took the loveliest little nap before my phone alarm went off and it was time to head back to the airport. I was finally going home.
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"it's too pink. also dark colours last longer." <span style="font-size:130%;">what? </span><br /><br />i settled into my chair and started reading my book which was no easy task because mother didn't think to bring a book. magazines aren't really her thing which meant she was about to start talking any second now. and since it didn't look like anyone else in the room spoke english i prepared to have her talk to me for the next 40 minutes odd minutes, which was why, i was a little shocked when she began talking in vietnamese. mother lived in vietnam for a few years as a teenager and she's very proud of the fact that she can still speak a couple of broken sentences. the girls stared at her for a second before they realized she was attempting to converse with them in their language. once they kind of understood what she was saying they got really excited. and loud. they even got their friend who up until that point was perfectly happy falling asleep against the wall, to join them. they seemed curious to learn where this lady had picked up such refined vietnamese.<br /><br />"your dotah speak too?"<br /><br />"no my daughter useless."<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">wtf? </span><br /><br />at that point mother noticed that my chair was not vibrating.<br /><br />"is your massage not working?"<br /><br />"i don't know ma."<br /><br />"put it on!" she reached over to grab the remote.<br /><br />i hate massage chairs. you have a choice between rolling, kneading and pulse. the latter just hurts my back so i went with the rolling even though it felt like two hands pushing me out of the chair. i was scared i would fall right out and into the water. plus i think it's wise that my foot remain steady when there's a lady attacking my cuticles with sharp objects. mother doesn't believe in not using something that's free. if it comes with the pedicure why wouldn't you use it? she declared that she wanted a massage chair for her birthday. i wondered if it was too late to move to another chair before she started asking for prices. mother loves to buy things that are not for sale. and she'll bargain with you too. just then the door opened and a giant man walked in. he wanted a manicure. nothing wrong with that except mother was staring, mouth covered. i felt bad for the girl who had to help him because he had incredibly hairy hands.<br /><br />now that their spare friend was occupied the girls got back to work and mother was bored again. she yawned in the hopes that she'd be offered some tea. that sort of thing only works in india. mother having realized that turned to me.<br /><br />"remember when you were small and you used to come with me to nefertiti?"<br /><br />everyone turned to look at mother. this was her cue to start the story. "she was really young you know, like 7 or 8 and she would come with me to get her nails done. and while i would get a facial she would sit with the girls and ask them to french braid her hair. she <i>used</i> to have really nice hair. long and straight." she shook her head in remembrance of what used to be my hair. everyone including hairy man turned to examine my hair. i wanted to go hide in the back room. luckily for me two more ladies walked in and mother didn't have everybody's attention anymore. i decided my nails were dry enough and started putting on my sandals in record speed. mother clearly wasn't ready to leave yet and reluctantly got out of her massage chair. her three new friends waved goodbye. she promised to come back soon and learn more vietnamese. i yelled xin chao as i ran to my car before she invited them over for a meal.<br /></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-63915859188371001592010-03-23T22:35:00.001-05:002010-03-23T22:35:37.862-05:00LOVE!<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/WvfFz2f_vs4' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/WvfFz2f_vs4'/></object></p><p>I also really like the voice-over in all three ads. This one kind of sounds like Kumble. </p></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-90822100579025732852010-03-23T22:33:00.001-05:002010-03-23T22:33:22.605-05:00LOVE.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/eNh1zWq_68E' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/eNh1zWq_68E'/></object></p></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-54379269783986969762010-03-23T22:32:00.001-05:002010-03-23T22:32:57.747-05:00LOVE.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/hoIpURAXNOc' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/hoIpURAXNOc'/></object></p></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-69723571762609659642010-03-14T14:13:00.003-05:002010-03-14T14:17:51.437-05:00disco be stalking me at work y'all.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPw7tWmABgbBWNx4H9tYmFbuqNS7B7zpRPFoNckABllXeMuaMzFBo9e29wgoJ3dBPG2pxDoIB5SXZfp1j4RrdFPOO6Zi7G1GVtYfEYq4KesN8Y44daCFi05ZJoxNqQWA4gVL5o/s1600-h/disco.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 152px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPw7tWmABgbBWNx4H9tYmFbuqNS7B7zpRPFoNckABllXeMuaMzFBo9e29wgoJ3dBPG2pxDoIB5SXZfp1j4RrdFPOO6Zi7G1GVtYfEYq4KesN8Y44daCFi05ZJoxNqQWA4gVL5o/s200/disco.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448570666693270050" border="0" /></a><br />i was about to wipe this off thinking it was just moisture from my coffee lid but omg it's disco! awwwwwwwwww! <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-76090237008670149982010-02-23T18:02:00.002-06:002010-02-23T18:10:37.468-06:00sigh.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJLdplg0rqliQVj5o7nqj88rvv6EeeV7-Fqf_RXqhOeUINL0in_XLigUkNCKsFvM9t02rDc9TdcLwg2pQoN3Yo00HFtu9w0qtY1hJz9GZcQGFo-QEjKewDIOmWr5A-emy0fu28/s1600-h/noop.bmp"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJLdplg0rqliQVj5o7nqj88rvv6EeeV7-Fqf_RXqhOeUINL0in_XLigUkNCKsFvM9t02rDc9TdcLwg2pQoN3Yo00HFtu9w0qtY1hJz9GZcQGFo-QEjKewDIOmWr5A-emy0fu28/s400/noop.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441593998941272290" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Hi noopy. I can't believe it's been a whole year since i fell madly in love with you. And here you are again wandering about some street in a sweater [awwww] and really nice jeans but why your hair gotta be so crazy? maybe like wander into a super cuts one day. it's like ten bucks or free even for you. m'kay?<br /><br />i hear you're coming out with an ep next month which is great and all but will it fit in my car? is this like a cd? if not why can't you just come out with a regular cd? also i hear you will be using sitar and whatnot for an indian vibe even though you say your soul is r&b. right so ask a few desi people to listen to it before you put it out okay cause that combination could work or turn out to be incredibly cheesy and you're better than that.<br /><br />hugs,<br /><br />pri.<br /><br />p.s. girls wouldn't it be awesome if there were a real website called <span style="font-style: italic;">boysinsweaters.com</span> which featured pictures of boys looking spectacular in their sweaters? girls everywhere would be able to upload pics of random boys they meet [with their permission of course] and there could be a poll where you could choose your favourite boy in a sweater for that day. and maybe it would start a trend and more boys would wear sweaters and the world would be one step closer to being perfect.<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"></div><div id="refHTML"></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-78131632025378314752010-01-16T22:00:00.002-06:002010-01-16T22:14:49.894-06:00<div style="text-align: justify;">there was this blog i used to read years ago. like say 2005? 2006? i don't remember how i had found it but it was really funny. it was about this boy who lived in the us. he was studying i think and he couldn't cook but he'd try and there was this accident, i want to say with a pressure cooker? and he had roomates. i wish i could remember more. this was back in the day. i knew like 4 blogs. em, filter kaapi, lazy geek and tea kadai. does this sound familiar to anyone? help me find this blog. i dont know why but it's suddenly become very important. kthnxbai.</div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-60708625738116862312010-01-12T21:30:00.003-06:002010-01-12T21:42:56.600-06:00lots of exciting things have happened since i last blogged.<div style="text-align: justify;">i now take vitamins. like every day.<br /><br />after half a dozen people, no one else at the office has gotten pregnant thank god! this is the best thing that could have happened because seriously i thought we were jinxed.<br /><br />i have managed to alienate more family members. yay for me!<br /><br />i have gotten over my obsession with fiesta brand oven roasted cornflakes and now i eat things that are not cornflakes along with things that are.<br /><br />gay cousin who doesn't know he's gay yet came out. i know! not to me yet though. i'm supposed to pretend i don't know. he came out to my other cousin who was visiting. he just randomly told her on the way back from the airport and she was like what?? apparently he's known for 5 years which is odd because i've known for at least 8. i'm so happy for him though and this means i officially have a gay person in the family which is very exciting.<br /><br />also american idol is back! yay. also back are the manipulative back stories. just in the first episode they showed us hallelujah girl with the 4 brothers with down syndrome, girl whose favourite grandma has alzheimer's, boy who had cancer and boy who broke both his arms when he fell out of a tree. now for me, hands down, boy who fell out of tree won that round. he had really bad teeth though but i forgave him because i imagine it must be really hard for him to hold a toothbrush. plus he got points for still smiling a lot, and he could sing!<br /><br />my favourite simon comment from episode 1 - "you sing like a 3 year old girl and you're dressed like latoya jackson with a beard." all true.<br /><br />happy 2010 everyone. stay happy this year. drink lots of orange juice and bounce a lot.<br /><br />p.s. the spam comments have gotten ridiculous lately! i think i might have to get word verification. ugh! i know. and i realize sometimes they can be tricky but you can always say pass or something and you get up to five tries i think so you'll be okay. i'm confidant in your abilities to read and understand gibberish.<br /></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-31046030211934864142009-12-17T20:50:00.001-06:002009-12-17T20:50:20.976-06:00My favourite performance of the entire season on SYTYCD.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/13sdC4xQG6c' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/13sdC4xQG6c'/></object></p><p>Ellenore should have won! sniff. But Russell was incredible too. How awesome is this song?</p></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-44220214170641415302009-11-14T00:57:00.002-06:002009-11-14T01:20:14.669-06:00<div style="text-align: justify;">okay first off i'm devastated that the comment i thought was genuine and sweet was in fact just spam. sniff. my hort is broken. moving along to fashion at celebrity funerals. i don't get why no one covers them. it's the perfect place to check out fully covered celebrities, usually in pretty chikankari kurtas, without make up or pretending to be without makeup. so much fun! imagine waking up one morning only to realize someone famous has died. famous enough that all of bollywood will have to show up. of course you're going to care about how you look. it's tricky here though because you dont want it to seem like you made an effort. you don't want to be judged even though you'll be judging every one else. the safest bet is to put on your simplest whitest kurta and show up with no eye make up. it needs to look like you were up all night crying. i was looking at some pictures from a recent celebrity funeral because what else is there to do? and some of these people look incredibly happy to be at this thing which is quite sad. it must be hard for a celebrity to convince everyone they're genuinely distraught especially if the ceremony lasts a couple of hours. i imagine it must be hard not to be able to crack a smile, especially if you spot like hattrick roshan coming around the corner. of course you're going to be all hey look it's hattrick. he still got his early man face on. smile. oops camera caught that.<br /><br />anyway here's my commentary from going through the entire freaking slide show. yes i need a hobby. the very first picture is of this lady in a really tight white shirt carrying an electric blue channel purse. it's electric blue. it's going to jump out at you. also she is wearing pants to are way too short but who cares? she's not really famous. i'm assuming she's married to someone who is. priyanka chopra is dressed appropriately attire wise but she went overboard with the jewelery. too many rings, giant watch, big ass hair clip. also she cheated and wore make up. aishwarya rai was smart enough to wear shapeless pants with her white kurta giving the impression too much time wasn't wasted planning her outfit. there's way too many people wearing chic looking churidaar pants with their not starchy enough kurtas. gayatri what's her face from the ponds ads and swades matched her bag and shoes. like exact matched. that's never good. although she might be wearing my favourite kurta. some unrecognizable aunty is in a transparent saree [with a semi transparent blouse] that's draped super inappropriately. in the background there's this startled looking driver guy staring at her. it's the funniest thing. you guys have to see. go to filmi cafe.<br /><br />zayed khan's mum and sis are wearing black and white respectively. one with parallel pants and one with lace trim pajamas. heh. they're such an unfortunate looking family. i'm spotting way too many birkins at this thing! some lady is texting with two phones whilst carrying a ginormous louis vuitton bag. malaika arora khan has great skin. flawless. her husband has a mustache. such is the world. he is also texting. ooh tabu's not wearing white. how brave. it's beige. still appropriate. she is holding some weird looking man's hand. please let it not be her boyfriend. she is way too beautiful to be dating him. i love that she has a big giant hair band on her wrist. neetu singh and some lady are clearly gossiping. one is whispering in the others ear while clearly smirking. neetu singh didn't bother wearing her white kurta. she has on a white shirt and is also carrying a more understated channel purse by which i mean it's not bursting with colour.<br /><br />awwwwwww it's juhi. she's still so pretty. she's holding rinki khanna's hand. juhi used to be my favourite actress growing up. anyone who was a madhuri fan i hated back then. i love madhuri now. ha ha there's groups of random people that have gathered in the street to spot celebrities. snakeskin purse! and what the what? it looks like priyanka chopra's kurta might not be white after all. it's a really light mauve. that is so not allowed. ha! sunny deol wore a shirt that is the exact same blue as his jeans. awww more kind juhi. she almost makes me want to be a good person. farah khan managed to find a white version of the hideous shapeless kurtas she's been wearing everywhere recently. this one has ugly pink flowers on it and she's wearing it with tent shaped black pants. ha ha there's an incredibly short man in formal clothing carrying a back pack and wearing floaters. he has a pen in his pocket i'm assuming for autographs that he can later sell. oh wait, here's the man that was with tabu. now he's holding an extremely overdressed kiron kher's hand. i'm guessing he's just the hand holder/escorter type person. good for him. ooh ghastly looking old lady wearing a diamond necklace with a super shiny dupatta! awwwww it's juhi again. she's so shiny and happy i want to hug her. oh wow. the end.<br /></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-48334799417670645772009-11-12T23:45:00.002-06:002009-11-12T23:52:20.576-06:00someone left me this comment earlier today. it was for <a href="http://bengloorgirlindenver.blogspot.com/2007/05/food-glorious-food.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">this post</span></a> written ages ago about what food to eat when you visit bangalore. it just made me laugh so much. thanks anon. i'm glad you googled google or whatever it was you did and found me. everyone else hi and don't be mad. no one blogs anymore!<br /><br /><dl style="font-style: italic;" class="avatar-comment-indent" id="comments-block"><dt class="comment-author" id="c2766084952620327704">Anonymous said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>I found this site using [url=http://google.com]google.com[/url] And i want to thank you for your work. You have done really very good site. Great work, great site! Thank you!<br /><br />Sorry for offtopic</p> </dd><dd class="comment-footer"> <span class="comment-timestamp"> <a href="http://bengloorgirlindenver.blogspot.com/2007/05/food-glorious-food.html?showComment=1258068068630#c2766084952620327704" title="comment permalink"> 5:21 PM </a></span></dd></dl>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-72040672691539368982009-09-17T23:32:00.001-05:002009-09-17T23:32:58.424-05:00'i am a disco dancer' on so you think you can dance.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/QxKEzQhA478' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/QxKEzQhA478'/></object></p><p>this made my evening. it's disco freaking dandiya! loony desi boy part starts at 3:20. </p></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-83540244891954243982009-09-13T14:15:00.001-05:002009-09-13T14:15:46.244-05:00iktara has been playing in my car for a week now.<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/RDOAxX-5dho' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/RDOAxX-5dho'/></object></p><p>that and 'kya karoon'. this movie better be good! </p></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36822224.post-68183377523687079222009-08-26T20:33:00.006-05:002009-08-26T22:31:00.898-05:00i'm realizing more and more what a loner i've become.<div style="text-align: justify;">i went to vegas recently with a group of friends and yet the happiest moments from the trip were the ones i spent by myself. right before midnight on my birthday i had a dessert craving. the room service menu wasn't exciting enough for me so i called the crepe place at the hotel and the fools had just closed. there was one restaurant at the hotel that was open 24 hours so i got out of my pajamas and walked downstairs. i was on the phone the whole time with one of my best friends so maybe it doesn't really count as a moment by myself. it was around 11:55 when i got there and it turned out there was a long ass line to the place. i asked the hostess for takeaway and sat down at the fake park bench under the fake sky inside fake paris and waited for my tiramisu. when i got off the phone and looked at the time it was midnight and at that moment i was genuinely happy. i was beaming actually. the people in line must have thought i was drunk.<br /></div><br />this is what my surroundings looked like. this picture will always make me happy.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9PUjM85220DYYG_5qEsWiuvLHr1pRF4JFm8pidPMDH218I7yyebn-dFeSVkUO_BEBCscnMhBX8aCzGpl3LtNRlVn1FCnXweySRNHtZq91TXZkpsy0IY7M4CBvKr8e6oAAIJS/s1600-h/bday.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9PUjM85220DYYG_5qEsWiuvLHr1pRF4JFm8pidPMDH218I7yyebn-dFeSVkUO_BEBCscnMhBX8aCzGpl3LtNRlVn1FCnXweySRNHtZq91TXZkpsy0IY7M4CBvKr8e6oAAIJS/s400/bday.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374450806552218386" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">if i had to list my other favourite moments from the trip it would be drinking wine in the hotel room out of my new leak proof super cool metallic water bottle [they were taking forever to bring up glasses to the room] getting the most awesome swedish message and watching the water/light show from the top of the fake eiffel tower. for two out of these three things i was by myself. see what i mean? i don't enjoy other people's company anymore! or do i just not know enough awesome people? this is not good.<br /><br />also may i please suggest everyone check out <a href="http://emailsfromcrazypeople.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">this website</span></a> if they haven't already.<br /><br />p.s. it's weird. i write this post and a couple of hours later i read <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://chamkorani.blogspot.com/2009/08/you-were-born-and-now-you-are-free-so.html">chamko rani</a>. </span><br /></div>Prihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.com11