are we sane???

i just finished chatting with a friend of mine...one of my school friends and one of my closest....it just occured to me that our conversation to someone else who would have read it would have been something that might you might hear between two people gone cracked...really...so much of mindless banter....leading to no conclusive or monumental end....

but then again isnt that what the best of friends are there for?? to provide the respite in life when everywhere else u are required to be polite and formal and tolerant and nice or atleast feign these dispositions instead of setting of waves of 'that arrogant girl' or 'who does she think she is' or any other remotely animosity radiating thought...

isnt it a fact that the most times we laugh...the most times we enjoy without a thought for whts to happen in the next five minutes....they are all with your closest friends..the ones who know you best.....the ones who look out for you....the ones who are gonna be there when u have moods when you dont want to talk to even person who is alive...when everything in this world schemes to test the limits of your patience...when you go all hyper over a cute guy...when you have this irrational wishes for going to the beach at 1 in the afternoon...when your dead broke....when in the process of becoming broke...when falling off the bike in the middle of the bustling road....when u go through a break-up...whining about weight....whining about the dearth of decent guys in the city...whining....just plain whining.... arent your friends the only ones who'll stick around? not judge you? let you be crazy mad old you...make fun of you but still be there for that hug when u need it....

it wouldnt surprise me to think that if people saw me and my friends walking down the road and thought we were loony...but those are times when i dont care wht the world thinks...so wht if we are loony? u are just jealous!!!! and know wht? i've caught myself seeing other bunches of friends do the same things and think man if i didnt know how it felt like to be where they are....i'd either be jealous or annoyed..

ok....so coming back to the title of my post....my mother personally thinks that when the bunch of us get together....we are just so much noise and so full of it....she thinks everybody on the road must think we are a bunch from the asylum out on parole....well it just struck me as to how true she might actually be..so hence the post... and well...let me not subject my intellectual skills for comment on this post...so all those of u planning on telling me how i am crazy....save it!!

Professor in Floaters..

i dont know to how many people this would make sense or how many people will see the funny side of it, but this had to be written about and so here i am doing my bidding!!

well the head of department of the Marine dept in college takes the same bus i do on most days. he is this really adorable roly-poly little man. plump and shorter than me. he is one of the few professors in college who does as he thinks is right and not as the management might like him to. he has opinions about most things and of what i have heard stands firmly by them. i was part of the team of editors of the college magazine that was doing this get-to-know-more-of-your-HODs thing last year. so we went to interview the marine HOD too. and i he is just too cute!! he was telling us of how he led his college and university in cricket and firld sports and bridge and all and that his biggest regret was not being able to hold his weight!! god u must have seen him saying that all seriously...and the three of us had to wait until the whole thing was over before we could laugh!!! yea well but he's a known disciplinarian too. thing is i think he went on an extended holiday this summer coz he got back only yesterday..and yesterday on the bus...i happen to notice that he was wearing reebok floaters! and then i started smiling to myself!! i seriously never thought he was the kind of guy to wear floaters!! but well the cute old man that he is!!!

ok i just had to coo about this....call me crazy..but can't help it!!!!

jeans-low slung and high raise!!

ok this post, the reason i'm writing this is purely AC's last post. about low waisted/low slung jeans. its just that it brought to memory this incident that happened a couple of months ago at the chennai airport. my aunt was flying back home to the states and we were there sending her off. also leaving were a family-mommy,brother and sister, daddy not in attendence( atleast not visible to me). ok so here was the family all ready and packed to take off but waiting at the foyer off the departure area for something. i have to confess that the guy was kinda cute, for otherwise i wouldnt have been watching..

so here was the mother checking all the papers and the sister playing with the trolley and our man just standing around..and then when finally they start to move...his pants realised they quite like that patch of mother earth, deciding to deposit themselves on her then and there!! poor boy!!! and i was laughing my head off!!! my mom scandalized...it was quite an incident!!!!

and if mr.whose-pants-fell-off...you do read my blog...sorry for having to mention the incident but...it was hilarious truly!!!!!thank u for a good laugh!!

low slung jeans are smart, if you can carry them off. but guys we'd rather not watch displays of anything that shouldn't actually be on display...i guess when it comes to women guys dont mind bending a few rules and visibility of anything is most often least offensive....i guess its ok as long as the women aren't repellingly fat or wearing granny's underpants..

The Half-Blood Prince....

I have to confess to being an ardent fan of J.k.Rowling and her brilliant characters and the wonderful world of magic(maybe not sooo wonderful).

i just finished reading the penultimate book in her series of seven today. did i like the book? i don't know..truly..the book makes sense in a way.. but kind of really kills you too...i dont want to spell out everything that takes place or who it is that she does away with this time around...i dont know how many of you read or like harry potter but on the off-chance that there might be atleast one of you who share my fascination and salute Rowling's imagination, i'll not get into details.but for a few..

harry dates ginny...ron and hermione don't...harry is quidditch captain....theres a new minister for magic...and voldemort does not make an appearence the whole time... the half-blood prince is most intriguing, and to me, a most unsuspected person....
the events occuring in the last few chapters kill you.... i love sirius black...and rowling killing him was most unforgivable..but she did...this time around she does away with another character that makes her seem cold-hearted almost...

i truly dont love the book, a i did the third-prisoner of azkaban- but its a book as rowling says has answers. harry ron and hermione grow up.damn...i'm bursting to discuss and talk about the big things in the book....so i'm going to stop this post right here with no regards for people ignorant of the potter world.....

ok i'm gonna go get some work done..so..

firsts...

today i did something i've been meaning to for a long time... my doggie for all his life hasn't been to the beach and this morning i woke early and drove him to the beach....it was swesome...nice weather and all...except it looked like half of madras was at marina!! anyway they were all on the pavement walking...so me and jojo walked down to the water with him sniffing the sand all the way there...and there he refused to get to the water...like most dogs!! but it was great...

and then the number of couples who meet at marina at 6:30 in the morning!!! god its crazy!! old people walking and couples all over the beach and at the waters edge!!!

anyway that...and then i got back home...did some chemical reaction engg and then me and mommy went to visit this organic sunday market they have down the road...it was pretty nice..an old house and lots of people with the vegetables grwon by them, the chappathis made at home, hibiscus juice with no preservatives and all that...lady's fingers' huge and fat...nice purple cabbages...a bit expensive but..healthy..well that was that!!

and then amethyst at 2:30 in the afternoon..it was no different from the other tims anyway..as many people and as many smoking...as bad service just nicer weather..and nice company i have to say..i met a fellow blogger...thanx venks for a nice time..and like i said chivalry does not extend to friends... so yeah...

thts been the day up until now....should get to the beach again...the weather is just brilliant!!!!

corrections...

ok my previous post was written in the moment..and with no second thoughts...so here's to clarify..

• friends dutch. no chivalry required there.
• chivalry is not a social necessity.
• and like mercury says it is only required of u when we are special to u.
• and not otherwise. and we dont want to ask for chivalry. if its around great..if not..we'll live..
• and no guy of mine requires my friends' approval...sorry if it sounded that way..
• he can be a monkey but my frnds shouldnt detest him..thts it...they should be able to respect him..

and if i need to be clarifying anymore..somebody please let me know!!!

spine...

till today...i assumed that when i did find the guy i liked..he would be one i respected...someone with quite a bit of spine, a decent amount of chivalry and someone who appreciates my friends...

a conversation i had today and another person i met today brought to my notice the jarring fact that not all male species on this earth adhere to the aforementioned qualities i look for ... and thats truly sad...

a certain amount of chivalry is always gonna win you points...c'mon man...there isn't a girl in town who wouldn't like to have her door held for her, her chair pulled out or the car door open...and dutching is great..but the first couple of dates...u pay...after which it isnt fair...

and spine man...self respect...a guy's got to have self-respect...some things you would never do...like starve rather than eat off your girl friends' friends...thats disgusting...at least not unless you know them so well and you know for certain that they aren't gonna mind that at all...

and getting along with my friends...thats quintessential...i dunno why but if they can't take you as you are...there's something wrong...and in this context...the spice girls' song wannabe comes to memory...

and seriously..a guy's gotta be able to afford himself before another person..seriously!! if i couldn't pay for myself..i wouldnt expect it off anyone else [except ofcourse, my parents...but thats ok..]...

i don't why but a guy who can turn face from one person to the next is beyond repulsive...i know i'm talking in the guy context here..coz thats wht i'm thinking off....i'm sure all this applies to loads of women folk too...but thats for some guy to post...i do have things about women that annoy me..but i'll save that for later..

and as abhin and i were having the discussion today..we were thinking if we were having too high expectations...i mean seriously...but they aren't insurmountable criteria!! sure we want the nice guy..good humour..charms..height(hey..we are tall women!!)..athletic skills...and the works with the aforementioned qulities being inherent...when i realised they werent all so inherent and ubiquitous as one may like to think...