Lasting weekend creativity ;)

As promised, yesterday was a day devoted to Fish. Let me just sum up ..I am still recovering from the odors of our yesterday’s debacle.

The most hapless thing was inviting a friend, after hauling him with promises of an exciting meal (fish and carrots, doesn’t that sound exciting?). But he went completely regaled with a good evening if not good food.

Am I late with resolutions?

With today, it is exactly 17 days since I had nice home cooked meal. Making coffee is all what I do behind the stove. Considering the fact I enjoy cooking so much.. I shall honor myself to the pat I so deserve.

About time I gave back and made a change. So from now I am not only going to be cooking and eating regular but also cook something new and different every week. It is an earnest promise. And please do ask me on Mondays how did I fare with my bargain.

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Currently I have imparted my reading to some deliberate neglect. So that makes an allowance for not rating so highly in books section too.

Whatever ..I picked up The Selfish Gene yesterday for the second time. Just to reread a couple of things.

What is all so wrong being selfish? As a close parallel to genes, we are selfish too. Each one of us is selfish, which I guess is the good part. Perhaps that is the prime truth. I find it hard to believe in selflessness if something in those terms exists. But with selfishness people are rarely (hardly ever) considerate towards others, which I guess is the bad part. Is it?

Let’s have none

On the heels of yesterday’s news, I am not grieved or upset. I feel strange. My emotional slate is wiped clean. Deprived of a response. It is unfamiliar.

So this post might probably be nothing more than a dull sigh. Sigh!

Somehow the year beginning is so gloomy. It is like the initial months are jinxed to be dispiriting. Not sure if this is any recent acquired/yet unaware superstitious thing in me but I can’t seem to quite the small inner voice laying in wait for some mental distress. And the last two years stand to support my theory, superstitious or not. This year hasn’t been awe-inspiring either so far.

Yesterday my roomie told me, I am one untroubled person she has met. Words certainly fail me if I am asked to explain. It felt incredibly good though.

In future I should bear in mind to always plan my vacation or go home after Christmas.

little update

Counter to my reckon, yesterday turned out to be a very pleasing day with interesting company and 4 hours of chatty talk.

Everyone called. Surprising. Surprising not because they did that seldom (though I am speaking to two of them after 19 months) but I have grown out of expecting anything. Weird me. Perhaps some cosmic conspiracy which furtively read my wish to have everything back as it once was.

So here.. lots of hugs your way for making my day perfect. Umma. What else is love..

And a big thank you for whatever up there which brought it about.

For now have a pleasant weekend you all.

Another beginning

As is his wont with year end, Appa asked me my perception about 2009 yesterday. Here let me sneak my-year-in-review.

Revisiting the last 52 weeks,

• work wise everything was good. Even if a pay hike would have been very much alluring, serves to say everything was more than good.
• moving into an independent apartment was a significant transition (yes I am not enthusiastic about relocation). It was rather a new start with house huunntting, moovving, fiixxing, furrnniishing.
• read a decent number of books and only hope the count keeps mounting instead the opposite way.
• was a year devoted to movies/talks/documentaries particularly the latter half. Cinema saw a lot of me and popcorn. It shall this year too.
• visited Spain and much of north-east Germany. 2010 could definitely see an upswing with traveling.
• was in summer I got my diving license. I feel proud and fascinating. It will be a long wait till summer when I will dive again.
• other interesting thing is learning salsa. I wish to accommodate some more this year.
• met lot of wonderful people and with them the valuable friendships.
• as to emotional face, I had a fair share with being hurt and disappointed (to a good extent), angry and disgusted (surprisingly to a lesser extent).
• wasn’t keeping to a very sound health in my opinion.
• on the personal face, made the best out of my single years. Had been more outgoing and social. Now the dreaded ‘M’ word pops up everywhere.

It is another beginning ..of happiness, of hope, of learning, of love, of friends. Wish you an eventful 2010!

Between here and you

Started with the third milestone at work meaning work over dose the next couple of months. Which isn’t bad at all.

Merry Christmas.

While I am at it..

That is in the spirit of blogging! Yes I surprise myself with such revolutionary feats.

Had a nightmare last night. I woke up to the plummeting thought that my birthday is only less than 2 months away. I happen to be aging at a striking speed. Nearly a nightmare.

Just yesterday was I telling there isn’t anything I would lose sleep over. Have to be careful with what I let out.

Had I stayed in India like all my friends, been serious about placements.. I would have a high-class job (ok I am not whining about the present one). Well in India I definitely will have more people to vent about my high-class job. I would have met some nice interesting chap and singing a love story. Just like in Bollywood. We would be discussing our lives and future in some road side dhaba. Just like in 2 States. A happy ending and over.

I didn’t want to settle for anything ordinary save a queen size life. Everything would have been very different in India. And everything is very different in this side of life too. For now live-it-up-in-style is the catchword.

But the night was fun. My roomie was awake too. We cooked in the middle of the night. Tuna fish and a good big piece of cake and later played cards till morning.

@ loved ones.. your wishes are finally granted. Decided to make your wallets a lot lighter with my approaching B-day.