are birthdays meant to make u happy or sad? on one hand its time to celebrate n on the other its really getting closer to death. well, not bad either ways i guess!
had a weird converstion wit a friend minutes before my birthday...for some reason we ended up discussion childbirth n wondered wat wud happen to twins who were born at midnight...rahter if 1 was born at 11.59 pm n the other at 12.01 am...wud they celebrate their brithdays on 2 different days? we also tried to discover the grossest details abt childbirth, but shall not write abt that now, lest ppl fall sick!
my dad wished me at the stroke of midnight n i kinda expected wat he said next....like all (hyper) parents he suggested i shud get married this yr. n that followed the "happy birthday to u"...baba....how can it b happy if ur talking abt marriage?!?! mayb thats another bad thing abt birthdays...specially birthdays in ur mid 20s....it puts immense pressure on u from all corners to tie the 'not'!
oh well! who cares if i'm a yr older or single or anything! as long as i get to eat my birthday cake, i'd b happy. the birthday wen i wont get to eat that, i'd b devastated....but thank goodness that aint this yr! yippeeee!
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
substitutes
if exams cud b substituted with chocolate cakes, life wudn't b that bad. just imagine....a chocolate cake everyday for 10 days in a row, a chocolate cake lasting for 3 whole hrs, a chocolate cake that may start losing its charm n taste ( really sad if that happens, but then great too since i'll get off my addiction!) n a chocolate cake that ur forced to eat! wow! sounds good indeed.
wit exams in 3 weeks, i'm going crazy, n this post may just substantiate that!! but i just cant help but think of a yummy chocolate cake on my desk wen i walk into that huge, depressing classroom of mine. n wen manna sir, the 70 yr old prof. we've got who always kinda gives us a look that says "u ppl r so doomed! u hav to take exams! i dont. i am thru giving exams. its time to enjoy now while u ppl suffer n i make u fail" walks in, i cud jus give him the look that says "u oldie....u r so doomed! u r old n diabetic n cant have this cake but i can"!!
aaah! life's good.
wit exams in 3 weeks, i'm going crazy, n this post may just substantiate that!! but i just cant help but think of a yummy chocolate cake on my desk wen i walk into that huge, depressing classroom of mine. n wen manna sir, the 70 yr old prof. we've got who always kinda gives us a look that says "u ppl r so doomed! u hav to take exams! i dont. i am thru giving exams. its time to enjoy now while u ppl suffer n i make u fail" walks in, i cud jus give him the look that says "u oldie....u r so doomed! u r old n diabetic n cant have this cake but i can"!!
aaah! life's good.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
had quite a wacky puja this time! it started off wit the on a horrible note wit the rains on saptami but i guess i more than made up for that on the following days.
ashtami was fun. pooja n i decided to go to north kolkata. we rode the tram after soooo long! n mayb we werent the only ones who dont take the tram regularly anymore, coz we noticed that we were the only ones on the tram (except the conductors) !
we walked, took buses to places didnt know, asked for directions from the north kolkatans who kinda smirked at us 'south kolkatans', walked, took buses n then pooja's shoe snapped! it was probably the highlight of the day (either this or the sadhu we saw clad in a pink dhoti!!). she walked with one shoe on till we found a cobbler! n then she posed wit the cobblers son to take photographs! it was the cutest craziest thing ever!
went out pandal hopping at 4 am on nabami to avoid the crowd. saw some amazing pandals at behala n around. came back n crashed. went out again in the evening.
ever heard of a coffee shop that doesnt serve plain coffee?? n that too wen its called cafe COFFEE day?!! we were so completely disgusted n taken aback wen the waiter gave us this stupid 'puja menu' wich had none of the regular stuff n everything was horribly over priced. shouted at them, ordered nothing n left! headed for maddox square. i was so disappointed wit good ol' maddox. went there after 2 yrs just to find how it had changed. the old charm was replaced by unbearable noise, tv crews everywhere, beggars n wat not! my friends n i concluded that mayb we were becoming old, coz the school n college kids around us seemed to b having a gala time n we cudnt even tolerate it!! sigh!
left maddox n headed for park street. walked out of 3 restaurants. never thot walking out of restaurants cud b so much fun but we just cudnt deal wit the weird weird weird 'puja menus'. wats wit the puja menus anyway? very irrritating it is. finally had soup n starters at golden dragon n as usual laughed at badly dressed ppl around!!
its dashami today n am feeling sad. tho it didnt really feel like the pujas this time (before n during), am starting to miss the festivities. n this puja will b memorable for a no. of reasons...shall write abt that some other time. till then lemme go wish everyone subho bijaya.
ashtami was fun. pooja n i decided to go to north kolkata. we rode the tram after soooo long! n mayb we werent the only ones who dont take the tram regularly anymore, coz we noticed that we were the only ones on the tram (except the conductors) !
we walked, took buses to places didnt know, asked for directions from the north kolkatans who kinda smirked at us 'south kolkatans', walked, took buses n then pooja's shoe snapped! it was probably the highlight of the day (either this or the sadhu we saw clad in a pink dhoti!!). she walked with one shoe on till we found a cobbler! n then she posed wit the cobblers son to take photographs! it was the cutest craziest thing ever!
went out pandal hopping at 4 am on nabami to avoid the crowd. saw some amazing pandals at behala n around. came back n crashed. went out again in the evening.
ever heard of a coffee shop that doesnt serve plain coffee?? n that too wen its called cafe COFFEE day?!! we were so completely disgusted n taken aback wen the waiter gave us this stupid 'puja menu' wich had none of the regular stuff n everything was horribly over priced. shouted at them, ordered nothing n left! headed for maddox square. i was so disappointed wit good ol' maddox. went there after 2 yrs just to find how it had changed. the old charm was replaced by unbearable noise, tv crews everywhere, beggars n wat not! my friends n i concluded that mayb we were becoming old, coz the school n college kids around us seemed to b having a gala time n we cudnt even tolerate it!! sigh!
left maddox n headed for park street. walked out of 3 restaurants. never thot walking out of restaurants cud b so much fun but we just cudnt deal wit the weird weird weird 'puja menus'. wats wit the puja menus anyway? very irrritating it is. finally had soup n starters at golden dragon n as usual laughed at badly dressed ppl around!!
its dashami today n am feeling sad. tho it didnt really feel like the pujas this time (before n during), am starting to miss the festivities. n this puja will b memorable for a no. of reasons...shall write abt that some other time. till then lemme go wish everyone subho bijaya.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
the indomitable bengali
we bengalis are quite a funny race...it doesnt take much to make us happy, it takes even less to make us angry but it takes a lot to make us non-greedy! the typical bengali man (or woman), his pot belly in place, has to have mangsho for lunch on sunday n cannot survive without his daily share of mishti n regular dose of adda. mind u, this adda may range from anything between politics to cricket to global warming to cricket to movies....(did i mention cricket?!!)...!
i shouted at my poor father the other day n critisised him for his "typical middle class bengali mentality" for he refused to buy a pair of shoes from woodlands...the reason? "paashei toh bata ache"! he, like most middle aged bengalis, has never worn a shoe other than those made by bata in his whole life. wats with the obsession u ask? beats me!!
if u want to savor the real bengali spirit, then u have to get into a crowded mini bus. i once happened to be in one n tho the lack of space almost killed me, i had the most fun bus ride of my life! the bus was moving very slowly n the bengalis were in their true elements. after all the abuses, threats n requests to the driver n conductor to drive faster fell to deaf ears, it was time for sarcasm. of the many funny things i got to hear that day, the best ptobably was "janen toh dada...pocketmar der training deoar shomoi khub mara hoi, jate ora used to hoe jai...conductor der training er shomoi khub kore gali deoa hoi jate orao used to hoe jai"!! i just couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the journey!
no matter how opinionated the typical bengalis is, how greedy he gets about food and how seriously he engages in (mostly useless) adda baaji, u cant help but admire him! n i really feel sad for this one particular bengali gentleman i heard abt. he underwent a surgery n the first thing he enquired afterwards was if he could eat the bhog on ashtami (which happened to be 3 days after the surgery)!! it may sound absolutely preposterous, but i could help but laugh for 10 mins after i heard abt this! poor man, how could he even think of sacrificing the ashtamir bhog, even if it was for just this one time?!!
the indomitable bengali indeed!
i shouted at my poor father the other day n critisised him for his "typical middle class bengali mentality" for he refused to buy a pair of shoes from woodlands...the reason? "paashei toh bata ache"! he, like most middle aged bengalis, has never worn a shoe other than those made by bata in his whole life. wats with the obsession u ask? beats me!!
if u want to savor the real bengali spirit, then u have to get into a crowded mini bus. i once happened to be in one n tho the lack of space almost killed me, i had the most fun bus ride of my life! the bus was moving very slowly n the bengalis were in their true elements. after all the abuses, threats n requests to the driver n conductor to drive faster fell to deaf ears, it was time for sarcasm. of the many funny things i got to hear that day, the best ptobably was "janen toh dada...pocketmar der training deoar shomoi khub mara hoi, jate ora used to hoe jai...conductor der training er shomoi khub kore gali deoa hoi jate orao used to hoe jai"!! i just couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the journey!
no matter how opinionated the typical bengalis is, how greedy he gets about food and how seriously he engages in (mostly useless) adda baaji, u cant help but admire him! n i really feel sad for this one particular bengali gentleman i heard abt. he underwent a surgery n the first thing he enquired afterwards was if he could eat the bhog on ashtami (which happened to be 3 days after the surgery)!! it may sound absolutely preposterous, but i could help but laugh for 10 mins after i heard abt this! poor man, how could he even think of sacrificing the ashtamir bhog, even if it was for just this one time?!!
the indomitable bengali indeed!
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