Ummm .. Err .. Well ..

uhh .. really i'm not so sure why im here trying to write something that's gonna make sense .. been an uneventful couple of days now .. quiet friday evening .. fun saturday - the outing to the Thai restaurant and my fav drink ;) .. sunday has been the usual - full-of-work and meetings kind of day .. in short, nope nothing much to say. tmr is Valentine's day, except for being hopeful about Joe, i have nothing to look forward to on this couples' special day .. the blues havent yet struck me and left me teary eyed .. since i'm going to be busy almost all day running around playing event manager for the annual fest here, i hope i wont have time to moan about my single status and boring (read as non-existent) love life .. besides that, nothing significant to write home about, so wil stop here. adios.

Charles and Camilla - A different take

Dirty Harry, a famous blogger on blogspot said:

"My lack of interest in the Royals cannot be overstated. But if there's a single journalist not so overly-enamored with Diana that they might write a fair biography of the love story between Charles and Camilla, I'll bet it's an extraordinary one. They've been in love for over thirty years and for whatever reasons married other people even as they longed to be together. And now in their late 50's they will finally marry.

I like that Camilla's not a beauty like Diana. That says something about Charles, just like his charming but all too human sons. And who knows if they're the bad guys in this thirty year soap opera or the victims. It's probably a little of both. But it's obvious Charles and Camilla share a bond that survived decades of melodrama not seen since Bette Davis left Warner Bros.

Maybe they're not nice people. But maybe they are, and forces beyond their control tore them apart only to have them triumph in the end. Anyway, it's kind of nice to think of it that way"

I had somehow never looked at this point of view - may be i liked Princess Diana way too much, and had sympathised with her when she claimed Camilla was the marriage wrecker .. saw her as the other woman, but as i read this .. it just strikes me and humbles me to think, finally two lovers unite in holy matrimony, after all thats been done and said about them .. may be they were just meant to be .. together !

The Charles- Camilla love story was never really a fairy tale .. a long drawn romance, the parental disconsent, the age gap, the marriages to other people, children, divorce .. everything out in public, thanks to the very considerate press .. now when the two have finally decided to come together, it seems like it's a tale of two grown-ups who loved, lost, took their lumps, still loved, and hope to live happily ever after, despite everything .. she aint yet getting any crown though, as she'll be the princess consort, not the queen .. with a majority of the brits still mad about their beloved Princess Di .. Much has been written about Camilla's lack of obvious sex appeal, her less than fashionable clothes, her robust laugh. She's not, by any stretch of the imagination, a stereotypical princess bride .. For anyone over 18, this is oddly reassuring !

And so, a happy ending for two crazy fifty-somethings -- with castles, servants and a mother-in-law who really does have the last word. No fairy tale, but a messy, real-life love story.

Gong Xi Fa Cai ~ Happy Lunar New Year !

oh well, in the part of the world i live in, the lunar new year is a BIG deal .. more celebrated than even Xmas and the new year of the gregorian calendar .. preparations for the New Year start weeks before, with the ladies all stocking up festive food and grocery .. days to the new year itself, you see the prices of the lunar new year special, literally sky rocket .. my favorite box of pineapple tarts, a season special goodie cost four times the price i saw it two weeks back .. but well, this place had never looked this festive, ever! this year, the golden yellow and red did not feel like an overdose, and i did enjoy the shopping around with my east asian colleagues .. there were endless specials on TV and every shopping mall played the (in) famous "Gong Xi Gong Xi" song - Gong Xi Fa Cai, i believe means smthing to the effect of may you be more prosperous =)

To me chinese new year symbolizes (usually) a time to realise that its 6 wks into the year, and invariably nothing much wud be accomplished work wise .. so its a time of realisation, if not correction and reform .. most of all, its a good two-three day break from the normal grind, so more than welcome .. then of course the festive season keeps everyone around you cheerful, and i guess, naturally eases any tension that should surround you .. on more casual note, there's all the chinese new year tarts and goodies, various teas and colorful tit bits .. =D

this time round, i had planned to get off this place, tk a flight out to one of the holiday spots close by and spend a quiet few days with a couple of close frenz - turns out quiet is not quite destined to be me, and close frenz .. nopes, none free enough to take a trip out (assuming, i can tk it they'd want to go otherwise) .. a couple of my frenz did go, but i'd be like the sore thumb stretching out in their group, so gave that a miss .. so when i started the lunar new year break all i looked fwd to was a two day break, with no assignments, no meetings - just to relax, sleep and be by myself .. turned out, my life's never quite the way i plan it to be .. so ended up on a wild goose chase at this far off shop where we decided we'd cook some ethnic food .. so we had shop for everything, starting from the utensils and cereals - for one thing 'cos we'd never attempted anything like that - cooking was just so not my thing to do .. and for the second, we were just terribly inadequately equipped .. so there, we spent like more than half a day at what would probably have been the only grocery store open in the whole country picking out things we thought we'd need after a quick perusal of some online recipes .. then began the process - yupz, was putting my (almost non existent) cullinary skills to test as i cooked dinner that evening, well well well .. the verdict - turned out not so bad .. infact, it was pretty damn good! so much so that i was invited to make lunch the next morning =) awesome eh?! my mom wouldnt believe i could actually cook, that too without her being around telling how much of what to put into what dish .. hehe .. but, yoz .. this was done! =) by late evening on the second day however, it reached some kinda summit, where i said enough was enough and ran out to the nearest kentucky's to grab some fries and fast food .. topped it up with some nice dessert before settling in to deep slumber again, for the lunar new year break was over, and it was back to normal, work and toil .. not for long though, for it was friday already - and the weekend was almost there ..

What Alcoholic drink Am I ..

am back happily chking out quizilla.com and taking every other random useless test ... and now they say I am like a Cocktail .. hmm .. ;)


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Oh so you are not "attached", serious?

this is while i blog away the time i'm supposed to be coding the latest customer friendly software as part of my internship .. well, with the lunar new year round the corner, there's that holiday mood and a festive feel - my most convenient excuse to be lazy and play truant ;-) anyway why i sat to put my thoughts down today is i had this interesting conversation with a friend of mine yesterday. this guy, i've known him for a couple of years now .. we were just generally chatting while he was in a mood to give away more than i really expected .. so well, there came some confessions - how he had a girlfriend and the typical boy like non committing attitude .. hehe .. and then obviously came some questions .. about me and my status .. geez .. obviously i told him i had NOTHING going on .. cdnt tell him, i mean of all ppl him about joe ... and pat came the reply .. "oh so you are not "attached", serious?" .. umm now what was that supposed to mean .. ppl thought i was attached?! or was it just trying to be sneaky and get more out of me .. hmmm .. joe sure wud be interested, lets hope so at least .. then ofcos he had to ask about his own ex crush .. probably brought all this up to find out abt her, i tell you he's one sneaky character - really gotto think god knows how many times before telling him smth .. considering he din quite sound too interested abt my own stories, i'm afraid he's nt my channel to get past to my darling .. or cud he just play cupid .. hmm ... lets hope .. its the valentine season and with love in the air and all that, whats wrong with hoping? *winkz*

talking of valentines, nopes, no plans again .. not yet in the blues state, but am pretty certain that's so coming this year, with nothing solid to look fwd to and nothing much really happening i'll be all dreamy and teary i'm sure .. bet we'll have misty adding fuel to my miseries as well .. oh how wonderful ..

oh yeah, did ya notice that "attached" .. a concept i'm still figuring out .. cos what on earth you mean you're attached to someone?! good gracious! heard of someone being gf/bf .. in a relationship/seeing each other .. attached sounds almost parasitic .. and from where i see it .. all the couples i know in college are quite parasitic .. they're literally stuck, to each other .. and seem to have nothing beyond .. no life outside the relationship .. making the whole attached thing look like a tiring, exhausting affair .. i'm not sure thats what they call true love .. i mean i see these "couples" do every damn thing together .. irrespective of interests .. compromise is fine with me, but this seems a little overboard don't you think? might sound really harsh and judgemental, especially coming from someone who's nvr really been "attached" .. but well well .. this wudnt be what i want as my excuse for true love .. i will nvr be able to give up all i have and all i like just for one somebody .. talking of all this, comes up another one of my favorite hot topics .. LDRs .. long distance relationships .. thats one more thing i cant believe in .. i mean, what is the point of being together, if you r sooo not together, you see each other like once in a year or less .. but at the same time the idea does sound damn romantic .. involves so much emotional energy and commitment to be with someone even when they're literally oceans apart .. hmmm.. its a different thing if people knew each other earlier may be, or if they were seeing each other when something came up and they had to part .. but starting afresh .. my pick wud be a strict no no to LDRs .. which kinda has become my simplest excuse to Kay Kay, each time things start looking weird with us .. friends - long distance - yeah, sounds great .. beyond that .. nah, not my cuppa tea!

The MunDaNe WkeNd DoSe!

okay before y'all think im going completely mad .. and start wondering where my journal's going lemme update ya on whats been going on .. work's been the SAME .. nothing new .. havent even made much progress! ouch! the clocks ticking and i better get my ass down to serious work and no more random surfing and wasting time, yeah? then there's joe .. oh well .. really spking, no there hasnt been any joe .. been a long time i saw him, met him at last wkend's party when we met up at a common frenz b'day bash .. but dint quite talk much or anything .. joooeeee .. where art thou ? :-p ushered the weekend with a gd lot of window shopping, an ethnic dinner outing followed by the what-feels-like-usual sticky chewy chocolate dessert .. simply divine that is! saturday's been wasted thanks to my silly computer .. though it seems to have resolved the troubles, lets hope no fruther problems .. looking forward to a fun filled sunday? yeah right .. am off to pray in the morning - then have to meet a fren fr lunch, between those million other commitments .. sometimes really wonder why on earth do i go and volunteer myself into so many million inconsequential things?! phew phew .. anyway better call it a day now if i got to wake up early tmr ... ciaoz ...

Believe in miracles, and God!

okay, first and foremost - No, i am not one of those freaks who goes around wearing I love Jesus T shirts, neither am i some sort of a newly converted staunch religious freak .. but i must say, what happened today did move me .. so much so that i have to put it down in my journal - for lack of any better reason, lets call it just to remember that miracles happen .. and someone up there does tweak around a l'il with your life =) so what happened was as i was complaining earlier, i had this stupid virus on my computer and nothing in the universe helped me to actually get rid of it .. so very conveniently i was at friend's computer, happily IM-ing away when a friend suggested we attend prayers tmr morning, since it had been really long .. since i wasnt planning on doing much else, and there was a little bit of guilt of not having prayed in a long time, i decided i would go .. so returned to my computer and was almost going to shut it down, while a brain wave struck and i did some little trick and it worked .. it may have been pure gd luck, may be a bit of the "tube light" kind of smart ness, whatever it was, i'd like to believe it's something to do with my deciding to go down to pray tmr .. thanks god for all those small favours, to remind us that YOU are always there for us ;-)

Is my life getting too computer-centric?

well, this morning i made the mistake of accepting this e-pic from a friend, turned out to be a deadly virus, affecting my computer - leaving it out of action all day, until a helpful friend found the fix for the damned virus - suddenly i was jobless, i had nothing to do until my comp was back, it was a kind of paralysis .. making me think about how computer centric my life has become these days - i go to work every morning, and before i even sit at my desk i need to switch on the computer .. to be signed in to MSN messenger makes me feel connected, almost like makes me confirm i'm alive =) be it my bank accounts/ my emails/ my personal files every thing is on the computer .. and not having it on a saturday. nearly ruined my weekend! have been tweaking around a bit to kind of fix it .. hopefully its done, and at least my sunday goes off better ..

The easiest way of losing something is by just wanting it too badly ...

so they said. i think it was on TV, one of those sitcoms .. well, then there are ppl talking about being persistant and keep on wanting and trying too hard for something you want .. i probably believe the former .. believe that the easiest way of losing something is just by wanting it too bad - may be you end up making a complete fool of yourself, looking all needy, be it attention/company/ just some fun times with people .. the wanting it so badly ends up making you weak .. you're just so obsessed with it, that it will hurt real bad when you don't get what you wanted .. probably easier way is not wanting anything so badly that it breaks your heart when you don't get it .. am i talking any sense? bleah .. guess its late now, going to hit the sac .. laterz!