mtv fully falthoo was one of my fav shows wen i was at home....the name struck me bcoz i recently had a fully falthoo exp..well rak's bday was coming up and i had decided to surprise him.....so yday i went off shopping on all the stuff i needed and came home around 5..rak had called up in btwn to say that he was coming home but i dint quite believe him......he normally says so and comes home after some 1 hr .......so there i was sprawled comfortably on the living room carpet and wrapping up the gifts...some stir in the window made me look up and there stands my grinning rak.......i tot he had seen everything through the window,so i dint make any attempt to hide the stuffs....so i opened the door with a sheepish smile only to see him gape at the stuff inside the room........late realizations!!! our window was not all that transparent and i had mistook him!!!! gosh!!! felt so foolish........but still proceeded with the gifting ceremony......thankfully, i tink he liked d gifts and the card......personally i believe he loves anything in red :D he he.........
the sad part was that..he saw even the caking indredients and the stuff i had planned to bake :(....
but anywise with his bday being today, it was not a big loss toh! i shall try to bake the cake today.....
the most abashing event of the day happend at midnight........we had put on a movie and had pleasantly slept off.......the movie was his choice ...(he thinks my choice were really award films..well his are pathetic comedy..!!)...both were almost wafting through our dreams wen suddenly we started hearing knocks on the door,......thinking to be part of the dream, i jumped off the couch and promptly opened the door.......there stood veeru and ballu and i was so happy to find them in my dreams that i called out to rakesh to come and see......by that time they got inside and rakesh and me sat on the couch grinning at them all the while.......it took a while for them to understand that we were in sleep and they had to shake rak to wake him :D.......i followed his path and soon we were looking at them abashed......... :D
the guys had come with the cake(there goes my plan to bake a cake!!) and as in all happy scenes, rak cut the cake while we sang to glory..ballu kept going with the song and veeru and me had to stare hard at him to stop.......rak got his right of cream smeared across his face (i bet my face wash wont last to see this weekend....times have changed....now guys are more calorie and beauty conscious)......veeru gifted rak with a key chain with our pics inside it ( i was planning to give rak a turtle with our pics in it.. :( )
well it was a warm start to rak's bday and i hope his day goes through fine..!!!
happy bday my lazy fellow!!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
weekend dhamakas
friday nite we went bowling with rak's friends....ballu n veeru.....comp is always amongst veeru n ballu.......rak ends up 3rd and me last.....got many gutter balls.......played 2 rounds.......had dinner outside...........learnt to eat chicken leg with knife and fork.....was from nandos....a famous one here.........their lightning system was gud...they used bottles instead of light shades.....
then saw a movie.....the dark knight.......batman3 series...i dint like toh .. others liked it...i found it sick........and we had icecream too........was 12.20 wen we finally reached home.......
sat went to do some small grocery shopping in the sat market nearby and evening went to the onam celebration by the malayalee association here....oxford malayalee association....oxmas.....he he......initially i found it funny......then i wanted to get out of it......was mostly people from the medical proff....the lectures were so funny.....tht i cudnt help guffawing......it was like some politic fanatic who was banished from kerala and found a mike here to vent all his holed up emotions....he said that the fact that mahabali was stuffed down to hell was a big political move of tht era........even rak cudnt help it...we both started laufing loud......after our merry was met, we slowly turned around only to find people staring at us........funny tht dey dint find it funny!!! (similies hurray!!)
no no i'm not mad....its just the cold....haa then....it was gud to find mallu kids playing around..we get to see mallu adults now n then but mallu kids were first timers......
the only bad part was that the women and men sat separately....the women and the kids sat in the hall while the men lurked around the corners and outside the hall.......i was so used to stick around rak that wen i had to sit alone, i felt angry at the custom and finally broke it after some 1 hr......i fished him out and orbited around him for the rest of the event......one other amusing thing was that in such events you could wish out your spouse even though both dint have cells.....
there were some dance shows as well.....one father and his daughter played some 5 dances.......one of them duet.....others along with others......(this shud inspire chax.......hes so mushy mushy on having people in the same family performing along with u....he cud with his insider!!!)
was gud..saw the traditional thiruvathira kali as well.....after a while i got so tired by the music but rak wudnt budge......he wanted to make the most of the membership fee he had to pay.(:D 10BGP for each.and 4 GBP per month)......and so we had the sadya......it was a big queue and we were ravenous by the time we got our plates filled....the sadya was ok types...but the payasam was g8.....
we got dropped back by biju chettan.......and again it was 12.30 ......
sun was spent at home with an upset stomach......thanks to the sadya, the water bill would go high this time ;)
called up some of our batch mates around.....
yday went to visit another colleague of rak's who had just had a baby.....anika....goddess durga's another name.......we think the baby looks like her mom.......
we had our dinner there and i helped rashi babhi around......shes younger to me but i got the habit of calling all north indian girls as babhis...so cudnt help it.......
i tried making chappthis like her but i ended up in more world maps....someday my day wud come.......
and today yet another day......last week was adventurous with my job at mcdies......i found it v hard and demotivating at first but i dint want to run away from it......i dont like turning away like a coward and so mind wudnt let me......and now tht i am in control, mayb i wud leave it this week.....initially i was hesitant to even mention it..,,but yes the first day was v tuf.......i expected a friendly and easy atmosphere but the thing was full action packed..........missed novell very much......it was my ideal kinda comp......with the ideal colleagues...........it had all the bits and pieces i needed........:(... got a degradation kinda feeling and the s/w engineer in my head was taking insult in every job i was asked to do......moreover the people there hardly knew english.....they were people from nepal and bangladesh and they spoke urdu and broken english mostly.....thanks to rak's lucknow origins urdu was not all alien to me and i cud keep up but the broken english really broke my spirits.....it was something of the sorts of "i coming,i do that,u no do that" kinds.......it was dampening in the sense that i felt i was wasting my time there......but the fact is that with my visa type i'm not getting any software jobs here and mcdies was a gud start to a bank account atleast(cant open one here without a job),,,,,,my colleagues were rite.....sitting at home is v boring and so i've decided to stick along to mcdies till something better comes along......atleast it wud give me a chance to buy something for rak on his bday from my own pocket(hes too lazy to read blogs......he finds this annoying just as i find his games).....reminding of which ,,,initially it was too tuf to ask for money after all the years i've been independent......but now its easy
chethan bhagath's one day at the call center is being made into a movie starred by salman? saw it from some site yday........lucky chap chethan bhagath..........that was so simple a story and it became a best seller and now a movie too!!!
then saw a movie.....the dark knight.......batman3 series...i dint like toh .. others liked it...i found it sick........and we had icecream too........was 12.20 wen we finally reached home.......
sat went to do some small grocery shopping in the sat market nearby and evening went to the onam celebration by the malayalee association here....oxford malayalee association....oxmas.....he he......initially i found it funny......then i wanted to get out of it......was mostly people from the medical proff....the lectures were so funny.....tht i cudnt help guffawing......it was like some politic fanatic who was banished from kerala and found a mike here to vent all his holed up emotions....he said that the fact that mahabali was stuffed down to hell was a big political move of tht era........even rak cudnt help it...we both started laufing loud......after our merry was met, we slowly turned around only to find people staring at us........funny tht dey dint find it funny!!! (similies hurray!!)
no no i'm not mad....its just the cold....haa then....it was gud to find mallu kids playing around..we get to see mallu adults now n then but mallu kids were first timers......
the only bad part was that the women and men sat separately....the women and the kids sat in the hall while the men lurked around the corners and outside the hall.......i was so used to stick around rak that wen i had to sit alone, i felt angry at the custom and finally broke it after some 1 hr......i fished him out and orbited around him for the rest of the event......one other amusing thing was that in such events you could wish out your spouse even though both dint have cells.....
there were some dance shows as well.....one father and his daughter played some 5 dances.......one of them duet.....others along with others......(this shud inspire chax.......hes so mushy mushy on having people in the same family performing along with u....he cud with his insider!!!)
was gud..saw the traditional thiruvathira kali as well.....after a while i got so tired by the music but rak wudnt budge......he wanted to make the most of the membership fee he had to pay.(:D 10BGP for each.and 4 GBP per month)......and so we had the sadya......it was a big queue and we were ravenous by the time we got our plates filled....the sadya was ok types...but the payasam was g8.....
we got dropped back by biju chettan.......and again it was 12.30 ......
sun was spent at home with an upset stomach......thanks to the sadya, the water bill would go high this time ;)
called up some of our batch mates around.....
yday went to visit another colleague of rak's who had just had a baby.....anika....goddess durga's another name.......we think the baby looks like her mom.......
we had our dinner there and i helped rashi babhi around......shes younger to me but i got the habit of calling all north indian girls as babhis...so cudnt help it.......
i tried making chappthis like her but i ended up in more world maps....someday my day wud come.......
and today yet another day......last week was adventurous with my job at mcdies......i found it v hard and demotivating at first but i dint want to run away from it......i dont like turning away like a coward and so mind wudnt let me......and now tht i am in control, mayb i wud leave it this week.....initially i was hesitant to even mention it..,,but yes the first day was v tuf.......i expected a friendly and easy atmosphere but the thing was full action packed..........missed novell very much......it was my ideal kinda comp......with the ideal colleagues...........it had all the bits and pieces i needed........:(... got a degradation kinda feeling and the s/w engineer in my head was taking insult in every job i was asked to do......moreover the people there hardly knew english.....they were people from nepal and bangladesh and they spoke urdu and broken english mostly.....thanks to rak's lucknow origins urdu was not all alien to me and i cud keep up but the broken english really broke my spirits.....it was something of the sorts of "i coming,i do that,u no do that" kinds.......it was dampening in the sense that i felt i was wasting my time there......but the fact is that with my visa type i'm not getting any software jobs here and mcdies was a gud start to a bank account atleast(cant open one here without a job),,,,,,my colleagues were rite.....sitting at home is v boring and so i've decided to stick along to mcdies till something better comes along......atleast it wud give me a chance to buy something for rak on his bday from my own pocket(hes too lazy to read blogs......he finds this annoying just as i find his games).....reminding of which ,,,initially it was too tuf to ask for money after all the years i've been independent......but now its easy
chethan bhagath's one day at the call center is being made into a movie starred by salman? saw it from some site yday........lucky chap chethan bhagath..........that was so simple a story and it became a best seller and now a movie too!!!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
lazy sat
maybe it was the lazy sat sun or mayb i was too tired .....after packing off rak to office, i set out on my usual sprawl......met Mr.Hal's son in the church courtyard.......i kept talking to him without getting down from the cycle......I wonder if the name is Hal..i dont quite remember clearly but i thought it would be impolite to ask after all the friendly gestures every sunday..........went to the highstreet and lurked around the stalls....went to St.Mary's church..its a v old church built back in the 1600's btu somehow it failed to make me gasp......but it did give me goosebumps wen i tot of the old days it portrayed.....there was a flower festival going on and the kind of exhibitions they put up really amazed me.........those were very simple compared to what we would have put up in India. like some little cloth pieces collected,toys etc..new ideas of exhibiting......
and then while coming back,popped into the empty exeter hall and discovered a new way back home.......oo it was so beautiful and dreamworld like.......shady trees on either sides,,,,,birds chirping.,,open playgrounds on either side......moss rich fences.......he he i'm not shrek toh.......
yday gave the biggest party in my life........it was onam and i dint want to make Rak feel homesick........so i browsed up some traditional recipes and made them.......they were (just to rem in my old days)...
kalan,olan,pulinji,erriseri,thoran,sambhar,rasam,pappadam,
sharkaravaratti(flop),achar,payasam,kondattam......
i'm glad to pronounce that i still dont liei them :D
oo my god i got so many guinea pigs and unluckily only one was south indian...the rest were north indians and they couldnt stand my spices......it was funny to see them eating with running noses and running helter skelter for water........:D...i dint have much(brainy me!) as i wanted to be sure of the output......but i cudnt get any obvious outputs other than a messy kitchen......which tuk me 1 hr to clear........
and yaa the homesick part...........both of us missed our families dearily and it was a lossy try......
but ya i was happy...........
2day while walking down a graveyard........a beautiful one.......not ghostly ones........i saw some grave engraved "to my dearest kenny,i simply love you".............i found it so touching and i felt that its a bliss to be in love.......love is a boon........it comes along with its package of troubles and joy but u shudd maintain a cool head to enjoy the treasure.......
every time u luk into the eyes of ur loved one, u feel something glowing within ur heart..........something warm and deep......i rem the quote i had given during coll days to some contest like love is "the bread and butter of the soul" ..he he i used to be v hungry those days and bread and butter used to be my fav.........but yes......once u r in love, ur soul becomes so dependant on it........without it u become famished......
turning out to be so mushy mushy.........better wind up......
ciao senoritta.....;) wotever tht means!
and then while coming back,popped into the empty exeter hall and discovered a new way back home.......oo it was so beautiful and dreamworld like.......shady trees on either sides,,,,,birds chirping.,,open playgrounds on either side......moss rich fences.......he he i'm not shrek toh.......
yday gave the biggest party in my life........it was onam and i dint want to make Rak feel homesick........so i browsed up some traditional recipes and made them.......they were (just to rem in my old days)...
kalan,olan,pulinji,erriseri,thoran,sambhar,rasam,pappadam,
sharkaravaratti(flop),achar,payasam,kondattam......
i'm glad to pronounce that i still dont liei them :D
oo my god i got so many guinea pigs and unluckily only one was south indian...the rest were north indians and they couldnt stand my spices......it was funny to see them eating with running noses and running helter skelter for water........:D...i dint have much(brainy me!) as i wanted to be sure of the output......but i cudnt get any obvious outputs other than a messy kitchen......which tuk me 1 hr to clear........
and yaa the homesick part...........both of us missed our families dearily and it was a lossy try......
but ya i was happy...........
2day while walking down a graveyard........a beautiful one.......not ghostly ones........i saw some grave engraved "to my dearest kenny,i simply love you".............i found it so touching and i felt that its a bliss to be in love.......love is a boon........it comes along with its package of troubles and joy but u shudd maintain a cool head to enjoy the treasure.......
every time u luk into the eyes of ur loved one, u feel something glowing within ur heart..........something warm and deep......i rem the quote i had given during coll days to some contest like love is "the bread and butter of the soul" ..he he i used to be v hungry those days and bread and butter used to be my fav.........but yes......once u r in love, ur soul becomes so dependant on it........without it u become famished......
turning out to be so mushy mushy.........better wind up......
ciao senoritta.....;) wotever tht means!
Friday, September 5, 2008
chilly old day
its been a very chilly morning and for the first time in my life i felt my fingers go numb..cycling was too hard against the wind..the market was also very dull today......but all this bad weather dint hamper the crowd...the crowd was a little less today but the chatri vegetable stall guys were still dere.......
now i have grown accustomed to the salutation young lady as in can u fill in the cycle tube for this young lady? how may i help u young lady? i remember how funny i felt when i had first heard it like in some old english movies..
bot the bday banners for rak..i guess it was a little overpriced but i cudnt resist myself.....
feeling so hungry......lemme go grab something to eat......
now i have grown accustomed to the salutation young lady as in can u fill in the cycle tube for this young lady? how may i help u young lady? i remember how funny i felt when i had first heard it like in some old english movies..
bot the bday banners for rak..i guess it was a little overpriced but i cudnt resist myself.....
feeling so hungry......lemme go grab something to eat......
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