Been awfully busy at work . If anyone can believe that . I've been at this office a month and the boss finally decided on my designation .. He made me copy writer .. yay. genius.
Anyway.. an uncle from Bombay came over last night . My mom's dentist was over. She's into Art of Leaving and the gyan .. My uncle says .. someone to teach her the 'art of leaving' .... My mind was in a state of shock ..
Wit is not a genetically inherited trait.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
this chicken apparently doesnt agree with my previous post .. tee hee hee ... ok ok .. no more comics .. unless of course . you guys want me to continue it .. then again .. maybe not ..
I love this one .. john and john ... same docotor , cyanide guys .. i looove anti-bush propoganda .. ! .. i wouldnt advocate visiting the site though.. not unless you have one sick sense of humour .. the stuff is funny .. in a sick twisted extremely perverted way .. except a few good ones ........ oookkkk . they're going to get mannny hits now... ahem ... Anyway .. no more comics now ... only loooooong text posts ..... promise .. im sure you guys are getting irritated .. lots of stuff i'll write from next time .. k ?
ooooh. this one is pure evil .. poor sensitive thing , me .. cant handle .. terrible vexed .. must also admit . is terribly funny ! .. yoda san, you never cease to amaze me, wot ?
It seems to have bitten me .. yes ... it does seem so . The Blog Bug ... its bitten me.
This is my second entry today .. fourth if you count both them chicken comics.
This entry is for all ye ignorant .. (read arvind iyer) ..
To read those comics, you have to click on them , THEN they become bigger and THEN you read them and THEN you laugh. you got that ? I'm not going through that drill again . So if you didnt , read the above lines again ...
Allllssssooo .. I'd like to introduce Lady Beryl to this beautiful world of blogging . The Blog Bug .. Its bitten her too , you know. It has. I'd like some more tea please .. and some crumpets.. Oh . i feel so intellectual . Be gone..O! diet coke .. Tea's where its at. ahem .. I get carried away.
Welcome Lady Beryl . No drum roll . I'm not a really a drum roll sort of person . www.ahwonderland.blogspot.com . thats her there.
And i would also like to take this opportunity to .... dramatic pause..... welcome new PSA sec Adeetee Rao. Did i say welcome? I meant to say it makes me so proud that i pass on my legacy to someone like her. Take care of her Saz.
There doth not be any sanity in the PSA and that is the way it is meant to be . Amen
So comes Saturday morning , and Dee opens the morning paper .. We'll now stop this third person thing.
So I read the quote on the top left hand corner of TOI - ' Sometimes I wish that I was the weather. You'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rains, I'd be the talk of the day'. Now is that an awww rendering statement or what ? And it was none other than my cute boy John Mayer. So I sent that quote as a text message to many of them people . Replies: 1, Only John Mayer could say something so corny and make it sound cute. (I sensed the cynicism in that one, dont deny it, Babmi). 2, Sometimes the weather sucks and it's just a conversation filler. 3, What an attention craving man .
See , now .. let me explain something ... by the advice of my dear friend Vorkady who thinks I've only been posting 'thank you' blogs , this one is homage to the part of me that believes i dont care a rat's ass.
I dont care what you think about the afore mentioned quote - I still its awwww-fully cute . (Groan . sorry about that one... I deserve 'pun'' ishment) .. teehee .
Some one also mentioned that Joaquin Phoenix looked awful and fat in Ladder 49. Well, I love him and thats all that matters.
So there . ... this is for all ye cretins. Talk to the hand , cuz the face aint listening .. whoa .. full attitude .
Shannon Wheeler and Doug Savage are my gurus . For those of you who still havent checkout out too much coffee man .. its www.tmcm.com . step to it huh ..
The picture I've added to the blog is the last picture taken of my dad with the family .. actually the last picture taken of my dad.
This is before he left to Tanzania and .. well .. left us for good .
God sure is one mysterious guy , theres no telling when he's going to sneak up on someone you love so dearly and take them away forever. No chance for you to say good bye , no time for you to do all the things you planned to do.
Death is a terrible ,selfish thing -It takes you away to a better place and leaves everyone here alone to grieve your absence .
Its ridiculous to question why these things happen or what we did to deserve it - no one does anything to deserve these things. Its all part of this big plan . That way the cosmos works , where good things and bad things happen.
Positive to negate the Negative and vice versa.
Dad was always an arrogant and cynical man. Didnt think anyone should wallow in self pity. Didnt think it was justified for any reason . Always believed that the most bitter truth about life that it went on - didnt wait for anyone. And that the sooner one accepted that , the easier it would be to live it , respecting its rules and unpredictability.
Trying to live by his advice was the hardest thing for me to do when he left us so suddenly.
I allowed myself time to grieve. I dont know how I got the strength to get through what happened - the shock , seeing his body , performing the last rites, accepting condolances from family and friends , some of whom I hadn't seen in years. Theres not much they could do or say. Not much anybody can do or say. But custom is custom. And it is customary to offer condolances when someone passes away.
There is something i read once at a restaurant that I thought about when I wondered where my sister , mom and I got the strength to get through Dad's death - A woman is like tea - she only knows her strength when she gets into hot water. Thats my family alright - the three of us took woman power to a whole new level !
But personally , my strength I gathered from harsh reality - the need to be strong for the rest of the family , the need to be strong as the oldest daughter facing new responsibilities, the need to be strong to get back to work and most importantly the need to be strong for my father. Because i know he woulnt want me to sit and wallow in the 'why-mes?' and 'what did we do to deserve this'.
I know that he is sitting on some cloud with fairy wings and a drink in his hand (Ballentine's whisky and soda , if its stocked in that big bar up in the sky) looking down on us . And i know that the fact that both his daughters (who he firmly believed would have been better off being boys) , are going on with life makes him proud . And I hope that we continue to live up to that.
Here's to Vijay Ramamurthi ( whom I 'affectionately' called Aurangzeb - because we couldnt listen to the tele or music too loud- it was apparently sensitive hearing .. ahem .. and no one could talk when he was driving) . I'll always love you ,Pa. I promise to drive the car carefully , exercise often, take care of Mom and Juj , fight my own battles , face consequences for my actions and not to steal stationary supplies from the office. And I know that wherever you are , you'll thoroughly scrutinize the boy Juja and I want to marry because he'll never be good enough for us. I love you dearly will miss you always even if time does make some of the pain go away.
Thank you kindly to every one who helped me get through this - you know who you are .. too many to name .. to the phase 1 team for accepting me and being extrememly supportive - you guys dont know what a big difference you made in helping me get through this... and to friends and family .. the people you take so much for granted but are always there ( see .. thats an extension of me taking you for granted again :) ) ...
At the End of the day , without life , all else if just wind and dust.
Long post. Sentimental. End thought.
Picture - Fairy Wings.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
this one is even hotter .. this blog shouldnt become a blooddy joaquin phoenix fan club blog type thing , yeah ? this is what i do at work though ... dont tell anyone huh ?