Tell me your story

I’m a little bored so I thought I’d analyse Human nature.

I’m going to start a little story and I want to see you continue and when we are done I’ll put it up as a post along with my analysis of you! Absolutely free!!! I know it all sounds too good to be true… but it is. 

 Let us begin-

There was once a little boy who lived in a mushroom.. He was so tired of the place and he desperately wanted to move out, so..

Continue.. Make it as crazy or not crazy as you want but whatever you do you cant hide who you really are.. *evil laugh*

Post-wedding and more

The wedding’s over. My feel still hurt. I’m still a little high…
But it was so beautiful.. Shirley looked beautiful and Arun looked a little nervous but really happy. And the place was so beautifully decorated.. lol.. I told Shirley’s mom how if I could find a groom there I would’ve gotten married. I had everything I needed.. pastor, a fabulous hall, a ring, the food and some cake.. All I needed was a guy.. lol. I could call my parents later and inform them.

but we laughed so much last night.. It felt so great hanging out with the guys after so long.. we formed our own Gujju rap group [?] and Ishan can come with some of the best Gujju rap that I’ve heard.. Is my attitude so hot you can’t jamwaanu .. (I think ‘jamwaanu’ means swallow or something like that.)

Met a lot of old friends. discovered a new side to a few. (Pranati can drive!! and what in the world was wrong with pithu?!!) Didnt eat too much!!!! yay! I did go pretty nuts over dessert but still not all that bad.

Got back home after 12. I can really get used to not having mom around! its fun!  and I was being responsible. No Alcohol. No driving. I did get a real bad sugar high though.. but that could not be helped.. Its a wedding.

Met Tracy after months. It was just great just talking about everything.. and she gave some godly counsel.. which was something someone else shared a couple of months ago- Guard your heart. Really needed that.. Coz’ I was going a little crazy.. just a little bit. I even managed to scare Ishan.. and we had our first serious convo yesterday.. with more promises made of how we need to hang out more.. lets see if he keeps his promise.

It felt good talking to tracy and i’m really going to miss her..Tracy is a lovely person. She’s this total animal freak. She has 11 cats, I think.. and everything about animals is ‘cute’. She wont even kill a mosquito! Plus, she’s really ‘proper’ and very ladylike. She’s often the butt of jokes. but she’s never offended. I dont think I’ve ever seen her angry. I think what I love most about her is that she will not judge you no matter what and it is so difficult to find someone like that these days.. The funniest story I remember is when Zack convinced Tracy that when people were baptized, they were help under water for a minute or two until Pastor was sure they had died and then they were resurrected when they were brought up out of the water. Old man dies, new man lives etc etc. Tracy totally bought that (She’s really naive) and she was so scared about getting baptized after that! lol.. It was so hilarious!  Good times… she has go to kuwait now and I dont really know when I’ll see her again.. I’m hoping God will surprise us once again and bring her back home. We were even thinking of kidnapping her from the airport but we havent really finalized anything.. i’ll keep you guys informed.

I totally forgot about Mother’s Day.. We had a sweet little celebration in Church. I made sure I wished my mom and she was really touched.  :D  I can be sweet if I want to.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers.. Thankyou for what you are, thankyou for all the sacrifices, thankyou for all the love. We love you and God loves you too.
none of my kids have wished me yet! Sheesh….

I’m proud to say that oscar dropped me home last night in his car and I felt really safe for once.. infact he was driving too slowly and I had to keep telling him to speed up.. lol

pithu taught me some chinese when he was acting unusually crazy- ‘Chaichen’ means goodbye.. atleast thats what he told me.. Any Chinese here? i’d like to verify that!

Have a great monday, guys!

Woe to men, I’m here! *roar*

I don’t get it. Why do men hit on me? The thing is I’m pretty naive and I dont usually understand if someone is flirting with me. Someone else usually has to come up and tell me what the person actually meant. Its silly. Its stupid. Go find something else to do with your time.
And why do they stare? WHY? I can understand if they find the idea of a 20 something wearing braces absurd and so they stare but why are you staring at me when my mouth is  shut??!!
I was out shopping yesterday and there was this man shopping with his son at the same place and for some reason everytime I passed him, he would look at me. It wasnt the normal look you give a stranger. I cant explain but I think most women understand what I’m talking about.
I hate it. I hate people looking at me. I’m extremely concious of the way I look (most of the time). I usually dont like being the centre of attention. *Oscar, stop laughing*

Note to all random men who look at me for longer than 2 seconds- I can and I will hurt you.. So Stay away.
Im not going to be taken advantage of.. ever again.

Girl power!

Family and me!

Mother’s day is almost here and there is just so much pressure! Yesterday, Mom called and she asked if I missed her coz’ someone told her that I said something like that. Now, the easy thing to do would be to say- Yes, Mommy, I miss you so much!
But for some reason, I could not! I just could not bring myself to say it. So instead of replying to her question, I asked her if she missed me. I guess she had the same conflicting thoughts that I did and she said- not really. So i said- yeah me too.

 Today, I managed to have an argument with her over the phone. 

What a really nice daughter I am! I’m trying to figure how to make it upto her on Mother’s day because the truth is I miss her. A lot! I miss her every time I sit alone at home with no one to talk to. I miss her when I wake up in the morning and there’s no one to make me a cup of coffee. I miss her when I’m at home eating dinner all by myself. 

I do love all the freedom though. I try not to misuse it though. I make sure i’m home by 10 pm.

Justin and I have not fought bout a single thing! I’m so proud of us!

I’m so not a family person.
or am I?
hmm…

If God made ads-

I thought this was so funny.. and so true! 
                                                

-Please don’t drink and drive,
you’re not quite ready to meet me yet.
                                                      
-How can you possibly be a self-made man?
I specifically recall creating you.
                                                      
-Could you imagine the price of air if
it were brought to you by another supplier?
                                                       
- If you think the Mona Lisa is stunning,
you should look at my masterpiece.
                    In the mirror.
                                                      
-What do I have to do to get your attention?
         Take out an ad in the paper?
                                                     
-Earthlings, Don’t treat me like an alien.
                                                     
-I think you are the most beautiful person in the world.
         Okay, so I’m biased.
                                                     

all about me!

Housework is so hard! 

I really appreciate all the work my mom does now.. All I did today was clean the house. Sweeping, wiping, washing, dusting…
*groan*
I was so tired after all that.. I slept for 3 hours!! and im still tired…
I hate housework..

I went to Crossword yesterday. I love being there. All those books. Those nice seats. i could live there..
I think I’m slowly turning into Lumena.
Someday, when I have a job… and a lot of money.. I will buy Crossword.
um.. Maybe I wont… but I will have my own Library with a fireplace and a really nice chair to sit in and a little fridge stocked with Icecream and chocolate. mmm.. Life sounds so good.

I found “The Namesake” and “Provoked”.I didnt even know they were books before they were turned into movies.. how typical!
 I would have bought them both but I’m scared of what my mom will do to me when she gets back. I bought “Kite runner” instead.

I remember how much i loved books when i was younger.. back when TV didnt rule my life. Thats why i loved India so much coz’ for a very long time I didnt know a single book store in saudi. All I remember seeing were Arabic magazines. India meant going to book stores and getting my hands on whatever I could. Sometimes I’d buy something and then whichever store we went to next I would have nose stuck in it. My mom even suggested that if i finished reading fast enough then we could go and get it exchanged for another one..

Thats a lot of pointless info about me.
Maybe it will be useful someday. Who knows?

oh and dont ever sit in a car with Oscar driving and the rest of the bozos sitting in the backseat. I made that mistake. I was already terrified with the speed that he was driving at and then one of the bozos gets the idea of screaming. All four of them started screaming loudly. Osc hit a hundred. I didnt know coz’ i was too busy screaming at the top of my lungs.. not coz’ I was having fun but because I thought I was going to die. Some people.

Gone with the Wind

I’m having my own little movie marathon. All by myself. Everyone else is too busy.*grrr*  Anyway, just finished watching Gone with the wind. I loved the book and the movie wasnt all that great but it was still much better than KANK. Much much better. I remember telling someone that I’d give anything to marry a man like Rhett Butler. I guess i’m going the Vandana way. lol… She was the one who walked around pretending to be Scarlett.. ok not exactly pretending to be Scarlett… but she loved the book so much that she had to bring it up in most of her discussions.

I have this feeling we’re all slowly turning into Vandana. The first victims have been Eben, Oscar and Me. Eben tells these extremely long and completely pointless stories just like Vandana. After the whole tale of her life, you’re left wondering what she was trying to tell you. For instance, one day she comes up to us and says something like- “X wanted to talk to me about something” Naturally we asked- “What?” Her answer to our question was something like this– “I was busy all day so I couldnt speak to her and when I finished all my work she was nowhere to be found. So, then I went off to sleep.”
Thats all there is. There is no more to this amazing experience. we dont know why X wanted to speak to her. She doesnt know either but she felt extremely obliged to tell us.. lol.. I remember all the times we teased her for the strangest things she said. “I’m 45% male” “people from Jharkand have 90% percent brains” She usually means something totally different from what she said. I think thats where Oscar gets his oscarisms from..

And she has like a major attention deficit disorder.. lol.. which seems to be what I’m suffering from at present. Dont you agree Paras? Have I mentioned how she would not let me pay attention in class.. the professor is going on about something and suddenly vandana would remember something very “important” that she had to tell me.. usually one of her pointless stories. I wouldnt mind if we were sitting on the last bench of the class but we are on the first bench.. right under the prof’s nose. She tells me her entire story and the whole time I’m trying to be polite and listen to her and pay attention at the same time which she makes harder coz’ she insists on making eye contact as she tells me her “important” news.

lol.. I miss her so much. Three years with this odd but really amazing person has given me a lot of memories. I wish things could go back to the way it used to be but everything’s changed and it will never be the same.

Gone with the Wind.

Ever since Mom left, I’ve not really done anything worth mentioning. No surprise there!

The night she left, I spent watching movies and reading murder mysteries up until 5 am. the real reason I didnt want to sleep was because…

…I’m afraid of sleeping in the dark all by myself.

there i’ve said it. 
now where’s that great feeling you’re supposed to get??

I dont know what I’m afraid of. I just cant sleep in complete darkness.. which is why I’m so grateful that this is a city that never sleeps. I can leave my window open at 2 am and still have enough light to walk around the place.
But, leaving the window open just wasnt enough the other night. I slept from 5 am to 6 am with my night lamp turned on. 
and last night I had it turned on the whole night up until 6 am. I’m afraid to think of what my electricity bill will be this month!

I have another confession to make. I love hindi movies. Kill me if you want.But its true. I love how stupid they are, how utterly senseless they can be. I love all of it.
I especially love Karan johar’s movies. *I wonder how many friends I’m going to have left after all this* I’ve watched most of them.. some a number of times.
Yesterday, I thought I’d add one more to the list. I rented “Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna”
BIG mistake. First, the movie is like 4 hours long. F-O-U-R hours!!!!! Second, they had a “reason” for having the extra-marital affair in the first place. Their reasons didnt really make sense to me. I dont think the actors themselves understood what they were doing or why they were doing it. bad bad bad bad. It just failed to capture my heart like his other movies. (I’m glad I didnt pay like 150 bucks to watch it in a theatre!)
But it did get me thinking. About how hard it could be to keep a marriage alive. I take my mom and dad staying together for granted sometimes but it really is the grace of God. Nothing else. Just his grace.
I personally dont think that any reason is good for cheating on your spouse but I cant pretend to be an expert and hand out advice coz’ i’ve never been there. I’ve seen families break down because of it but I still dont know much about it. but the fact is its right there in front of us. its everywhere. and its scary.

Another random thought that popped into my head- this may sound really cheesy. But I’m really tired of getting emails that say that the three most beautiful words are – I love you. 
I disagree. It isnt three words. its four.
I love you too.

Whats the point of having random people tell you that they love you? Everyone does that. But to know that your love is returned… thats a great feeling. 

I miss my mom now. 

This has been quite a long post. I’ll stop here

Have a great day.
Spread some joy.
-Enit
 

Warning: this post may not be of the least bit of importance to you but you’ll find that you’re still pulled towards it….

I guess I’m just on a roll here.. the day’s been really really long but I havent blogged in ages.. i had to write something!

What happened during my three week break?

the Abhi-Ash wedding.. it was everywhere you went.. the news, TV, magazines.. even my mom wouldnt stop going on about it!
They’re not gods! they’re plain ordinary human beings who just happen to have really glamorous jobs (does not mean that they’re good at it or anything) who got married.. Get over it! They didnt invite the whole of Bollywood. They didnt invite the media. So what? Did you bother to invite him when you got married?

Getting back to more important things, for example- ME!
I got a haircut.. my hair’s pretty short now. it makes me look young!
ok, I look like im 15. Justin thinks I look like Sanjaya. So does my mom. Cept’ my smile isnt as wide as his. Plus, mine’s much brighter.. thanks to all the glare from my braces!

I miss the mall.

I want to go to saudi to be with Dad… but every time I leave the country, a part of almost dies… ok nothing that dramatic.. but i just would not be able to bear three weeks in saudi after being locked up for three weeks at home.

I am so not waiting for my results. 

I wonder if God would do a ‘creative’ miracle for me… i.e- create answers for me! that would be nice. But the important thing right now is not to think about my exams and enjoy the next 2 months.

I miss College.

I miss Shruti.

I miss the rains. I hate all this heat. its just humid. its not dry heat.. its the sticky kind that makes you mad at everyone around.

I miss life. Felt like it had come to a stand still.

Isnt it terrible what exams do to you?

Jai Maharashtra!

I’m back.

There is probably a lot more I should add to that..

Finished with my exams yesterday! and the fun’s already begun. Just got back from a church picnic. had a great time, managed to injure my self, survived on veg food all day and I played the role of a mallu wife in a short skit.. I was quite convincing… brought the place down..   oh and I had a lot of choclates

Which reminds me.. Im going on a liquid diet starting tomorrow.no solids. only liquid. Have to lose weight before Shirley’s wedding,12 days from now. I am so happy for her..

Can’t wait for my wedding.. Although Oscar and Chris already have plans to destroy it. Chris said something about being the flower girl at my wedding and wearing a short dress with his ‘beautiful’ unshaved legs.. I’m not sure what my extended mallu family would think of that?!

Mom’s leaving for Saudi tomo night.. One month of freedom. One month of taking revenge for all that justin has  done to me *evil laugh* One month of running a house all by myself… that would mean cooking, cleaning, shopping for groceries, paying the bills, *groan* but I have been given the “permission” to have my church youth over for worship. Really will be looking forward to that!

Tomorrow, Oscar, Shannon, Chris, Eben and some of the other guys are going for their first mission trip to Ahmednagar District in Maharashtra. Really wish I could go, but its an all guy thing for now. I’ll get my turn later or else… i’ll just bring the place down with my rants on male chauvinism!

Today is maharashtra day.. and since this is the land I love so much-
Jai maharashtra, people!

-enit