happy happy to me
So I am officially three weeks late putting up my birthday pix - but here they are TADA!!!!
I was really excited to have all this straight hair on my birthday - and coloured too... quite glam
THE PEOPLES INVOLVED!!!
also the husband, noting glam hair at all times (mine's, not husband's)
Of course the wine helped
and the manekshanas
and jharna
and namrata, professional socialite and total darling!!
And then peeps deciding my turning 29 was most excellent timing to discuss very serious world issues (well, mostly murzy)like you know hunger and brad-jen, our dear friends from california!!!
And then J also talked about her time in africa, helping anjelina dahling, before she met brad and found inner peace, because only true love can fill the deep gaping hole inside of you
And geeta also agreed that yes, angelina also has true winning points or is it two winning points?
And on the subject of hunger........ cake-cutting
And blowing, never forget the blowing - most important the blowing!!
And the eating!!!
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And now the greeting with the oberois, who graced us at a little past my birthday,
where brain said think think, to be making erudite conversation and i couldnt since i was now blond on the outside (and also bit of burgundy & pinot inside) so we just took some pix with my new new bday gift - the kodak 10x zoom camera.
(And i have to keep my hair all floppy for three days becos they put fixer to fix it straight and if i pused it behind ears, then it would forever get stuck like that - sort of like your mother telling you that if you made wierd faces, it would get stuck like that but much much more expensive)
stalled
i really really wanted to put up the goss and little bits about the OJ wedding... accompanied by pictures.. but i ish stalled!!! by lack of co-operation of technology. And husband, not really husband except for the fact that we have both deicded at a time when husband was really sleepy that all things shall be blamed on him and he shall apologise for my lack of shoes, my computer back-firing, my cellphone not working and world hunger and inadequate room to take in all the adorable puppies on the street and my inadequate muscle to fat percentage by the time the wedding has come around.... twice a week every monday and thursday at 10am Indian Standard Time.
So, how has technology failed me??? The phone line at my home has conked - ergo, I cannot dial up and get on internet and flop about on internet sofa at home.
At work, there is a problem with the LAN wire, and i have to wait till i can find random errand for merchandiser to be sented to, before i can sit on the one computer at work that does co-operate with me and look all busy and important while actually bogging.
so...wedding was great fun, punju- istyle... not without its little hic-cups as all weddings go. I was designated make-sure-every-random-relative-from-maharasthra got fed, i did kanyadaan, etc etc
more later!!! with pix
Bye Curls!!!!!
You know that rhyme – there was a girl with a curl in her head, when she was good she was very very good, when she was bad, she ROCKED!!!!!?? Yea, well that was me in a former life.
I finally got rid of the frizz in my life – and had my hair rebonded. It’s a Japanese treatment and yes they are acruel race but no, this did not hurt one bit… except for when hair-straightening ladies assitant in overzealousness to rid me of curls burnted my hair little bit. Oh and the 200thousand phone calls from husband for abandoning him on a Sunday morning to get mature and sophisticated… heheheheh!!!
The process of dumbing me down was two-parts…first I wented on 11th august and got my hair coloured. Dark roots banished!!! I was aiming for gorgeous amber chunky highlights… they turned out orange!!! Like Lulu’s favourite colour orange and not a chunky marmalade orange…. Which would still be nice and help me blend in with the furniture at the marriot if I ever collapsed on it totally drunk someday. And provided I was wearing my orange-peachy outfit and had got a lot of sun. So, I was alarmed and ranned to hairdresser woman – after all I had just spent a whole months supply of bubbly money on hair the colour of Tigger!!!
But but it being two-part process I had to go in again last Sunday and finish and get it all swishy and glamorous… it rocks!!! I feel so so grown up and sophisticated and all the hair has these fancy snipped layers that cover my cheeks and altogether make me look thinner (as long as I keep sitting it should work the whole looking thin bit) and also also make me look sophisticated (v.important look for the OJ wedding, to be noting public).
Its weird – I mean I get up in the morning and I know its me, but its still surprising and I do the whole swish swish shampoo ad thingummy every every single day since Sunday. Husband and mother are getting a bit tired of it now.
Of course, husband has warned that this image will only work as long as I keep mouth shut and at all time stay on right side of beautiful peachy-gold (matching my hair) banquet hall and not stroll over to friendly bartender. Actually, just keeping mouth shut is good.
So, I don’t know – I am now one of those women who have glam hair and think the BBC is a place to eat and goss, not like get the news and stuff!!! Have to now get status bag and status shoes and status sunglasses and status dahling accent I think….
Atleast I still have my dimples!!! Heahehahhehaha (evil laugh)
Shoe meme
finally a meme i can sink my feet into (especially in this weather)... i saw it on
petitangalise blog and just could not resist!!!
How many pairs of shoes do you have?
22 including sneakers. Categorised into everyday, weekend, weekend partying, wedding& indian formal
Everyday (2.5inch heel variety to stomp up and down my office in and do quick nestle milk runs to the bania, not much else)
1. Aldo black v-strap with little silver-colour grommets
2. Beige block heels with little silver bar on strap
3. Khaki flower wedges
4. Imitation snakeskin being pumps
5. Denim strappy sling-backs
6. Turquoise sandals with pucchiesque print that have got loads of compliments from women who know shoes and are from BATA
7. Red zari strapped wedges
Sneakers
8. Nike grey & red prestos
9. Nike black prestos
10. Adidas blue & white running sneakers
Fuck-off i'm hot & ready to party 4"heels
11. Black wrap-around with little black shiny sequins on the strap
12. Black s&m inspired wrap-around with little metal chains
13. Beige many thin straps all bunched up at one side heels
14. Copper sequins spyrogyra style wrap-around the ankles
15. Patent leather deep red heels from Century 21 (thanks r&v for that fun sunday afternoon)
16. Beige Animal print wrap-around heels
17. Bronze boots with little crystals/ beads/ sequins in wierd floral pattern to cover up with jeans at all times but were such a great deal (bought with Stupendous Rash)
18. Silver thin straps that wrap around the ankle
(hmmm, i have loads of wrap-around - what would the shrink say to that???)
19. Beige block heels with little rose attached at toes section (worn once, how did i think they were soo hot??? how how?)
Lazy Weekend shoes
19. Denim & red flats that baast frend gotted from Malaysia
20. Plastic strap with funky hula-hoop dancer girl picture on insoles from NYC
Wedding shoes (to be worn with sarees, salwar kameezes and with matching dhinchal bag)
21. Black beaded heels
22. The exact same pair in silver
23. Again the exact same pair in gold
And chunk lace-up tan doc martens which get overworked every monsoon and then retire to their little deodaranted corner of my shoe closet
Most expensive pair of shoes
I would say the ones i am lusting for now will be - but its my birthday, i'm nearly thirty, noweher near my target fat percentage, my feet are still the only displayable part of me so fuck it and just getting those hot-as-hell 4" python print aldos with little bronze disc tie-ups.
Last shoe you bought
Have shown amazing restraint - last pair was in april and the beige animal print heels from catwalk
How many shoes under work-desk
None, but always have spare sneakers in car for possible chance to go to the gym in the evening to make up for sluggishness in morning.
So, i am obsessed little bit little bit but i dont think it is a habit - not untill i can trick the husband into somehow keeping his big fat computer books somewhere else and steal that space as more shoes storage!!!
People I want to tag:
I dont know how tagging works so I will just mentionitis and you girls know who u are
Lulu - becos i know that NYC winters started a boot lust
Rash - becos I dont know what delhi and ritz has done to her but she has definetly gone beyond yellow CATS
Vaishu - will you just start a goddamn blog now woman???
Reemu - plis to be reading above instruction and applying same to yourself
nipple show
driving along in our fine city avoiding potholes the size of craters, outsmarting iodit lancer drivers and insinuating rather loudly but in aircon solitainess of naughty boy that all rickshaw drivers sleep with their mothers sisters and goats - there is a new distraction. mega huge posters of some new jat-in-town called Mohit Alwat - wth extremely steroid pupmped chest and unbeliveable stomach cuts and NIPPLES!!! copper coloured flat ( i ish respectable married woman so will not say lickable, i didnt say it) nipples. Is that our new erogenous mornig greeting then??? becos I didnt get the circular - but very intersting no??? Three cheers for women driving... and also much smaller posters of ex-husband of negar khan also displaying nips but pinkish toned but also same same cteroidal chest and stomachs... woowooo - now i dont know how alwats nips have connection to his movie but goes in tone with the fact that he is RISING this august hehehhehe. must have something to do with steroid. and ex-husband of deported negar-khan(she of lacy cycling short fame in music viedo) is playing male gigolo in some movie so justified to do little window dressing to advertise goods.
And wait wait, there is more - there is being new movie called BARSAAT which is different from the barsaat of the 70s and the 90s becos it is being BARSAAT- A SUBLIME LOVE STORIES... since all sublime love stories start with wet girls (mine did, first met husband drenched like little losted kitten in June 98)there are not one but two drenched hotties - Bipasha Basu and Priyanka Chopra is wet white shirts - but there is NO NIPPLES... belive me i looked very very hard - none, zilch. So i am very confused. I am thinking now suddenly the male nip is outdoing femal nip!!! so why dont i see more of this in my gym? with its 19degree aircon, I am sure something would pop-up??? but noooooooo... sigh!!! what is a girl to do for entertainment?
week since thursday last
On saturday husband and i wented to check out watches at the CRossroads mall - the watch i have been lusting for is the TAG HEUER chrono LINK with lotsa diamonds...so it combines my two aspirations - to be sporty and to be elegant looking - and i think i can get sporty part down but elegant is a much bigger ballgame - it involves getting my dark roots coloured(quite like banyan roots they being 5 inches of borring non-coloured black hair) and moisturising so have elegant hands and new shoes cos the rain has really fucked up my aldos - (oh, oh there is a aldo store in bombay now but fat lot of good it does me since it is all being very expensive... waiting for sale.) and also nice non-inkmarked bag...
so, moral of story of saturday was...
watch is too expensive and i ranned over to MAngo and gotted nice bag - first attempt at elegance succesful. sort of spolied effect when handing over credit card and cashier looked at it, looked at me and said madam we cant use this and i said why not and he said becos it is bombay gym card!!! so with sheepish grin i gave correct card which goes directly to bank and pranced out with new new bag.
this weekend SHOES!!!
hard rain
So it was pouring last tuesday and i was all breezy it'll blow over and well, as we all know now with hindsight that it didnt.... so i got into naughty boy and made him to do a dhanno and bachao not my laaj, but my aldos atleast. and made it to prashanti in 15mins with only two stallings... but husband was in vashi and made slow torturous way into chembur where he was stuck for 4 hours...and then he walkeded back next morning to bandra... so, all i did was have lots of hot tea and tost biscuits...
the next day when the cable came back on, the firt ad was the hutch one which has adorable pug saying he will follow me everywhere just like my orange network. Which got me mad, becos it didnt you know - bad pug dog, now tryingto make good by giving weather reports on sms at discounted rate of rs2. when it should be free cos we all know bloody meteorologist is just checking out meteors and not the weather(when i say bad pugdog i really mean bad network, its called metaphor or similie or some such 5th standard grammar rule).
Finally got back to husband and miaows on thursday morning... had totally relaxo day and gossed with neighbours on which chacha, bhateeji and third cousin twice removed was stuck where and who did what...
so, i didnt get caught in the muchos major rain that hit bombay - but yes, this will sustain me when i have to come with things to say to the O gang's associate LVtoting public when i of course cannot talk about anything to do with
a) alcohol
b) younger men (though this rule does not apply to botox mummies)
c) lack of money for hair straightening and fancy shoes.
Then on friday, finally wented to check out obscenely-priced trouseau collection at abu-sandeep residence with the baast frend and sisterO and had major private laugh at the great levelling this rain has been - cos the biggest deesigners in the country had to wade througfh same letosirosis-infested water as the chaiwallas at ground floor level of industrial estate - all the fur trimmed silk cushion covers in the world didnt help them then, did it???
then also came to work and found out muddy blech water had gotted into office, turned staright around and went for lunch to the BBC at the Marriot with Ms.O and to be MrsO. Where it wasnt flooded but the spa had to be closed because there not being enogh water for people to bathe with or something totally poor-people like that... oh dahling the trauma, hold me till this feeling of desolation passes....
and, its thursday again - a week has gone by - there is a major fear pychosis in the bombay brains now with a little bit of hard rain after what happened...so wierd, cos earlier we all used to be like its raining, so what work comes first and all that.
and poor naughty boy got scratcheded when rickshaw in opposite direction hit a sharp stone that ricochetted off my car - poor baby. he needs lots of work but apparently the hyundai service center is totally backlogged with getting cars started, so i should be happy with my small car, cos u know, the rich people - they have no car.
come rain, come more rain, top goss detective stupendous nish however, heard another juicy titbiit from mouth of botox-mummies:
Botox-Mummy1: You know, dahling Louis Vuitton bags are just tooo yesterday now
Botox-Mummy2: Really, dahling, how do you know
Botox-Mummy2: No, you know, I went to fancy-hotel in london and the porter there just did not give me that much bhav because i had a LV.
Botox-Mummy2: gasp!!!!
Botox-Mummy1: Not to worry dahling, I dashed to my room and switched to a Bottega andwell, then he was all bha-giving again.... i showed him!!!
Botox-Mummy2: good for you!!!!
(names have been changed to protect identities)
Monday Meme 11 : 2005-08-01 : Childhood Memories
1. Colors... What was you favorite color when you were little? What color was your room? Was your hair a different color?
Blue,
Room was yellow and white,
Hair borrrring black
2. Toys... What were your favorite toys when you were young? What toy did you want to get more than anything else?
never played with toys unless you count fake light sabers.
3. Pets... Did you have any pets when you were little? If so, what was your first?
yes, giant darling doggy Rocky
4. Holidays... What holiday did you look forward to as a child? What did you do to celebrate?
summer holidays, where we went to udupi with my grandparents every summer for two months of swimming, playing on the swing, rolling bidis and playing stupid chor-police in our wadi
5. Food... Were you a picky eater when you were a kid? What were your favorite foods? Do you still like those foods today?
very picky, fried fish, rice and dal with lots of ghee.
Just stopped eating meat and seafood but yes still looove the thought of fried fish
I was the 151st person to take this week's Monday Meme!
