Cat shows and abuse

...all contents of a dance reality show "jhalak dikhlaa ja". I saw the episode this week.
Points to be noted:

Saroj Khan says: "I have seen cat shows" [pause] "in New York"
Point taken. You have been beyond viraar churchgate stretch. Or was that not your point? Also it was quite racist of her. As if our Indian cats are not good enough.

On a serious note:
Sonia Jaffar says: (on abuse in her past relation) "There is a God and he has redeemed me and today I can be here without being ashamed"
Pity we expect the victim to feel ashamed.

Also check out instructions to take care of babies. Will go a very long way in making you the perfect parent.

Damn it!!!

For the fun of it, as I have no work at office, as my boss has asked me to 'look up' AMI and as I have been 'looking up' AMI for past 5 days, I was going through a blog and came acroos this site, which tells you whether you are male or female based on your browser history.

Now, I have known with not much doubt, that im a bit boyish what with my friends telling me things like:

"You are a girl? from which angle?" ..i hope they didnt mean physically, I take efforts to maintain my waist-to-hip ratio.

"I dont like hanging out with girls. With you its ok, you arent a girl anyway."

"How could they make you a girl?"

"very late into the creation process, God changed Her mind and made you a girl. Thats a plausible explanation."

But I was shocked to read the result of the above site:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 31%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 69%

Site Male-Female Ratio
google.com 0.98
wikipedia.org 1.08
blogger.com 1.06
indiatimes.com 1.86
orkut.com 1.08

I wasnt expecting a 97% female or something but 69% female would have given me something to argue over next time my friends commented on my 'girl' quotient. There goes the chance. Damn it!!

Im off to searching for manicure tips.

I would like to thank...

Do you know the feeling when the male ego is crushed? by a female. The feeling when men who if put on a level playing field do not even come up to your shoulder level but still feel you are inferior just because you are a girl? (OK the last rhetoric was only for girls) And do you know the feeling when you very personally crush that cloud of superiority that clouds their vision?

I know that feeling, the smug malicious satisfaction and I can safely say, i love it.

Without getting into details of male delusions of grandeur (one day ill write a book), i would like to thank my mom and dad for making me the person I am, for giving me the oppurtunities so that i can get on a level playing field with men, for making me capable enough to compete with THE 'superior' male..capable enough to compete with him and kick his ass.

score card

as i mentioned a post or 2 earlier, i recently completed one year in bangalore...a place i hated to come to..nothing personal against this village but just generally, i hated to leave mumbai and my family..and the power cuts, the 11pm deadline and the fact that i cant go for a walk alone after 9/10 pm didnt help.

And yet here i am 1 year later..in this village. So, now its time to look back and take stock of the situation..what i have and what i have not managed to accomplish in this past year. Ask me why i have decided to write such a post out of the blue. Answer: its not out of the blue. I have just taken my GMAT and this was one of my primary goals when i came to this village. So i decided to take a look at all the other things that i have/havent done.

1. I have taken my GMAT and managed to do pretty well.
2. I got a learner's license for 2-wheelers. I didnt do anything about it though. I was all set to get a 2-wheeler from a friend but the damn thing refused to start and my dad gave me his car, so i forgot about 2-wheelers.
3. I bought a complete catalog of stuff you need for a house: refrigerator, washing machine, tv, cooking gas, every single thing thats in my house with my own money :)
4. I managed to see the trash collection vehicle after one year of staying here. This part sucks about blore..early in the morning, one guy and one gal and their loud speaker teach you the civility of not throwing garbage on the roads and stuff. AAAHhh it sucks!! its the most depressing thing to hear early in the morning. And it took me close to one year to see the source of this wrath. Though they had disturbed my sleep quite a few times.
5. I havent yet managed to go to commercial street..the shopping mecca.
6. I have become a loyal benetton wearer coz the store is really big, spacious, beautiful, and a 2 mins walk from my house. Also, i love the clothes and colors. One of the reasons why i didnt go to commercial street.
7. I havent gone to nasa..the pub. This was the place i went to when i first came to blore in 1997 with su and maggi. But ive discovered some other good places.
8. Power cuts dont pyshce me any more. The first time i experienced a power cut i went into a depression. The second time, i was like what if the power doesnt come back for 2 days. But 1 year in this village has made me more comfortable with power cuts. When at home, I keep my laptop, mobiles charged and you'll never catch me without candles at home.
9. I am done with my trip to orange county, coorg..another one in my to-do list that i made before coming here. and it was beautiful.
10. I am yet to see nandi hills though.
11. I havent started my guitar classes or dance classes.
12. This one takes the cake: I have got (or shud it be gotten...damn you GMAT) used to driving without wearing the seat belt...it has been a real problem for me..i just cudnt go even 100 mts wihtout wearing the seat belt and i could see that here it was absolutely fine to drive without it. But I could never do it..somehow. But one day after almost one whole year of wanting to do it, I suddenly realized that I had been driving without the seat belt for some days without even noticing. So a good habit..given up.
13. I play baddy and TT and carrom now :)
14. I havent gone for a trek.
15. I sat on my terrace in awesome weather (really f**king awesome), listened to great music and had wine. I even drank in the rain. something i cant even imagine doing in mumbai. first the building has 34 floors and i need special permission to go on the terrace..second, the weather is just the opposite of really f**king awesome. i would sweat to death.
16. I saw a rainbow from the door of my house. Again cant even imagine this in mumbai.
17. I often see monkeys from my office terrace.
18. I have never seen such a beautiful night sky from my window like the one i see here. (for that matter, even day sky)

Cheers to one good year!!

pride and insight

its amazing how much insight almost-complete strangers can give you about yourself. Must admit, before this I was never open to other people dissecting me, but now i dont go all mad if you say something a little nasty but true.

I mean imagine a white guy i met on a bus ride to the airport says something like "you have a lot of pride"..and im like "yeah he may be right..just a tad bit but right" see its like it was cold and he ordered hot chocolate and i took something cold to drink and he suggested that i could change my order..then he offered me his drink but nope..moi stuck to my chilly drink in chilly weather.. and then he came up with that pearl of wisdom and i shall repeat for effect "you have a lot of pride" . i didnt have the brains to order a hot chocolate or even a tea, anything hot..on top of that i couldnt even admit that i could've done better.

My friends have tried earlier to make me realize the same thing, but they were like "you have such a huge ego problem" or "you are such an egoist" but i never thought about that..ego was never an attribute i associated with myself..i was like..no im like damn awesome and amiable and cool and friendly and tolerant and i can put up with a lot of things of a lot of ppl. Lets be very clear here that im not denying that im any of that..i am all that with a touch of pride..:P

and to think about it its not too bad to have a little bit of pride, is it? so now when ppl around me say that you have a very big ego i only say..."its not ego..the word is pride/self-respect" depending on the situation. you know what? a little pride is very essential..you have to value yourself before expecting anyone else to value you..and then how can anyone not be proud of what they have grown up to become? I am.

sad anniversary!!

lately i have been very miserable and snappy..i get irritated and dont take even 2% effort not to show it..i snap at people, cut them out, shout at them, tell them in no mean terms where they can go and what they can do to themselves...i really dont know why its happening coz im generally a person who thinks about the other person before saying or doing something and im generally not rude or mean to people (infact never)...like you might be wearing the crappiest shirt but if you ask me how it is you'll always get "nice". i am not going like "wowwwwwww awesome" but i wont even be "ewwww dude! what were you thinking?"

probably the fact that i had been to mumbai and had an awesome 5 days had something to do with it. i was so miserable back here that i was annoyed at everyone around me. but enough sulking. thats not what i want to write.

what i want to write is how i have never been out of india. So now when my lovely su went to London and got back chocolates and i offered them to my dad, all i got was scornful taunts. in his words "all the kids have been around the globe four times but this girl is a frog in a well. she will never get out".. how humiliating. i should have had all the chocolates myself. but whatever. my time has just started..only one year to be precise..

that reminds me that 3 days back i celebrated one year of staying in blore...i shouldnt use the word 'celebrated'..sulking is not a form of celebration :P

im back!!!

yeah baby im back from my 3 week vacation i couldnt stop ranting about..actually its been quite a while since im here but i was going through a bout of depression..you know after 3 weeks with your favorite people staying alone can be killing. its like the walls want to eat you up or do you want to be eaten up by them?

and no, i didnt jinx my vacation by going on and on about it...it was a purely beautiful vacation...but my car for sure is jinxed...that baby stands at the service centre for longer than in my parking lot. but this time it has gone real far. its been lying with those suckers for 1-week now. On monday it just didnt start...simply.. "abhi mood nahi hai" types. So i thought ok, lets give her some rest. I called the service guys on tuesday, they said the fuel is not reaching the engine...that should be fine in any place in the world except for this village. It seems a fuel filter (which is what my car needs to start) is not available in entire bangalore..what the f!@#? Now really..i dont even know if im cursing the village for right reasons coz i really dont trust these guys also.

So long story short, she is idling her time among the blue-overalled men since 4 days and no return in sight..sigh..and to think the weekend is starting and i have no car...aaargh..meanwhile im getting all sorts of ideas such as....

First i thought ill sell her off and buy another. but my dad snubbed me royally (no i was not asking him for permission..i was asking for money). Then i thought forget it ill not sell her.. just send her back to my dad (so that he also has to open his tap o'money for her upkeep) and ill buy a new one myself. Then i thought that this is a very expensive idea and i need to save for my apps and all that and so ill buy a scooty and keep this baby too.

The only problem with the last idea is that im not too comfortable around scooties (if you read the last post). AND im also wondering if ill ever be as good with biking as im with my car. So lets see...for now..all plans are on hold and im praying TATAs make a better and more manageable car next time around so that no one else in the world suffers what i have suffered. amen.