Of Weekends..

30th has finally been declared as an off (elections!!). Yay!! now we have a straight off from 30 to 3 May. But sadly all my plans to hit Goa o'er the coming weekend have gone for a toss. I had planned the trip in the beginning of April and the airfare was very cheap at that time, however I was told that I may have to work o'er that weekend since some wretched deal documents will be getting executed that weekend, so I did not book any ticks. Now that deal has gone kaput, but the airfare has shot up like crazy and I just can't afford it. The train ticks are not available, and I simply cannot do a road trip (both my last trips in April beginning and in January, were road trips with almost 30 hrs per trip on the road). So now I have to settle for something less appealing like Madh Island.
Oh, and my friend SA has just recently (like day before yesterday) started dating this guy, JM. So SA and JM had invited me over to JM's place in for dinner. SA had made sexy pasta in pesto sauce! I went expecting little but JM turned out to be this really sweet and laid-back chappie. I quite liked him and I am so happy for SA. We had a great time..yapping away to glory, recounting school days for JM's benefit and sipping on (lovely!) chenin blanc. Plus this guys's house was on the 20th floor and just absolutely enjoyed the wind, the music, the converstion, the food, the wine. And oh, I almost forgot, this really hilarious thing happened. The bottle of wine that I bought as a gift for JM, it refused to open with the wine opener , so JM started stabbing the cork with a knife, and finally the cork plopped inside the bottle. When we poured out the wine, all sorts of bits and pieces of the cork were coming into the glass, so we decided to strain the wine. And we strained it right into a kadhai and we were helping ourselves using a huge ladle! It was too funny and we couldn't stop laughing. Well, I know it does not sound so funny when I write it down, but well it was!!
Until then...

Last night I dreamt I went to Mandereley again….

Last night I finally watched the movie “Rebecca”. I have been in love with the novel by Daphne du Maurier from the time I first read it in my 1st year of college. The way Rebecca’s shadow is present throughout the novel, without her being actually present in person is beautifully captured. You are dying to know, soon after the beginning of the book, more and more about Rebecca.

The movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was released in 1940. Though I have not really been able to develop a taste for the old black and whites (no matter how hard I try!! ), I make an exception for this movie. Joan Fontaine is incredible as the meek and submissive Mrs. De Winter who is superbly intimidated by the evil Mrs. Danvers.

Oh, I just loved the idea of the eerie mansion still dominated by the presence of a mysteriously beautiful dead woman. However, as is the case almost all the time, the novel is far superior to the movie.

Another book that I was a spooked a little by was Wuthering Hieghts by Emily Bronte. I absolutely hated Heathcliff’s character and I cannot imagine how can people fall in love with each other in a manner that is all encompassing, self destructing and passionate beyond reason.

Anyhoo, I am proposing to watch Revolutionary Road tonight and lets hope I really like it, because I am looking forward to watch a movie that I REALLY like.

Until then….

Tomorrow I'll be hanging with my head over a bucket..

Went to the gym after 3 months yesterday...my arms are so sore that I could not even push the soap dispenser. To top it all my gym instructor declared (after some very “loud” mental calculation) that I am 2 kgs overweight! I was crushed given that I always thought that my purpose for hitting the gym is not to lose any extra fat (you see- I always believed that I do not have any extra fat to lose) but to get some exercise to build up my stamina. And further still the gym instructor made some signs with his thumb up and fingers curled (indicating that I am piling on all these kgs as a result of excessive drinking). I wanted to strangle him, though all I could manage then was an embarrassed giggle.

What is it with everyone! The other day one of my school friends who I have not met since last August, saw some of my pictures on facebook and called me to let me know that I should cut back on my excessive drinking since all that is directly showing on my face which, according to her (I thought I was looking extremely pretty in those pics..!), was looking bloated.
I mean I just HATE it when people just assume that I am some sot and all I do all day long is drink. And I do not even like drinking…don’t get me wrong, I do have fun while drinking, its just that I don’t like the taste of alcohol.
Let me explain my drinking habits. I love getting drunk when I partying. I enjoy a couple of glasses of white wine when I am out for a nice Italian dinner like to mia cucina or da vinci. I don’t mind a glass of red wine when I am watching a nice flick on a Friday night. But all of the above does not add up to mean that I go to bars or wine shops twice a day to get a daily doze of alcohol! No it just does not mean that.

Ok, I think I have ranted enough. I should get busy now as my colleagues on the left and right side are furtively peeping into my lap-top to figure out what is keeping me so occupied that I have not my mouth in the last 15 mins.

Until then….

Dawn of the Greenhorn

I am starting this thing up for no specific reason...just may be to give it a try. I like that a lot..you know - "giving a try". I know that is really the lamest of reasons for starting this blog..but then thats that.

Until then..