photo challenge

I was getting bored with my own posts here :(
Then today i came upon a post by one of the blog dosts!! see here
 It looks totally interesting, a photo post everyday for a month. whoohooo... im excited!!
Hope i can keep up with a post everyday.
So the posts will be based  on the following

the themes are pretty easy, except the one on self portrait  :D

Betrothal!!

This is the reason why we went to Kerala..:)

our coupe' ;)

Friday evening me and ridhima rushed to catch the train to Trivandrum. Eventhough I have traveled in trains numerous times, it somehow freaks me out to travel by myself (without parents :P). After much confusion and hullaballoo we caught the train just five mins before it started. Ridhima says that’s the earliest she has caught a train in her life. In the compartment , apart from two of us there was an old man in a safari suit ,and a newly married couple on honeymoon. Everyone got setlled and started that awkward smiles and intro’s. Suddenly some 5 men came all of a sudden and asked us move to a corner and occupied the seats. Old man in the safari suit told them it’s a reserved compartemt, and that they are not supposed to sit here. They replied that they were railway employees and would get down in the next stop. Next stop was salem after Bangalore city. But since they were railways own employees, they had requested the driver of that long vehicle to stop at dharmagiri where they wanted to get down. It took almost one hour to reach their special stop. And in that time span one of the railway employee, lets call him Mr.Smarty pants, had let us known how smart he was and had received all our wrath.

The first incident: our safari suit uncle who was sitting by the window took out a sharp blade and started cutting his nails.( What the hell, was he out of his mind). The wind was blowing in so heavily, and as soon as everyone mustered courage to tell him to stop, one of his dirty cut nail, flew into our honeymoon brides kohl filled eyes. Her husband tried frantically to blow air into her eyes to take it out. It was certainly a sweet moment to watch but always there will be ‘kabab mein haddi’. Our smarty pants jumped between them and started blowing air into the brides eyes. Her husband’s face turned all red and he pushed him back into his seat. Me and ridhima burst out laughing. The lady then went to washroom.

Second incident: ridhima took out her Sudoku book and prepared herself for a challenging game.  No sooner had she kept the page opened in her lap, the smarty pants  started calling out the numbers. To our disbelief it all turned out to be correct. (so he was an intelligent idiot). Within 2 mins he had filled up half the game. Ridhima ran out of patience. She stared right into his face and asked. I didn’t bring the game for your timepass. He didn’t venture to talk to her again.

Third incident: one ‘vada chutney’ vendor passed our seats, and smarty pants uncle stopped him. He ordered a plate of vada and chutney for all of us. Me and ridhima politely refused. He then asked safari suit uncle to pay for it. Safari suit uncle muttered something under his breath and paid quietly.

There were so many other silly incidents too afterwards until they got down in their ‘special stop’. J

too much news in a week..

So much news in one week. Huh..Oh my god, I cant take in all that. First the royal wedding, then the missing CM, and finally the dead Osama.

 The royal wedding was such a lovely nice affair. Ofcourse from where I saw it (the tv!). They really seemed so genuinely in love. Kate’s gown was superb, when I see such weddings, I wish I have a Christian wedding. Some say the prince looked handsome, but I don’t agree to that.. he is bald and fat . And its bad that he has to wear the official attire for his wedding. If anyone had noticed, its almost like a fairy tale, the tales which we used to read in our childhood days. The prince falling in love with a commoner, the middle class girl becoming the princess. But it didn’t happen overnight. I read somewhere that the marriage culminated after a eight year long affair. That’s a lot of patience gal!!

 The missing cm is still missing when I write this. Whatever the hell happened to him. Nobody cares about the poor old man. The same situation happened I think a year ago, when the Andhra Pradesh CM took off in a helicopter in bad weather. He too went missing for some days and was later found dead. That time it had created quite a stir, but this time the news itself has been killed by the osama killing.

 Dead or alive this man is always in news. But we want proof. How can the president call a press conference and announce that they have killed the most-wanted-man. At least a genuine photo? He says they dumped him in the Arabian sea. What nonsense! All these years they hunted him to shoot and later dumb him in the sea? It also gave an insight into the running of the Pakistani state. It was common knowledge that the ISI ran things around that country but now it looks like even they are not in control. The Americans can get in anywhere anytime, shoot anyone they like. Or is it that the ISI willingly gave Osama in? As they say he was too much of a liability without any productivity :). but this is not the end of terrorism or al-quieda, I can say for sure.

while all this was happening around the world, at work each employee was gifted a smiley ball (don’t knw what they meant by the gesture). As internet is blocked these days at office, the only time-pass is playing with the smiley.

My sweet bundle of love :)

the monster

She dreamed the devil again that day. Its big fire spitting tongue curling around her waist.


It was more fiercful on the first day which was about a month ago. These days it seemed to fancy her. Its claws were like those of the lobsters, the big ones. The monster clawed on her arms, but its face showed a different emotion today. It didn’t want to hurt her . she felt it was saying “ there is no other way darling, I want to feel you, I need to know you, im sorry”.. Its grip around her waist loosened. It was coming towards her face.. the heat was unbearable and she awoke screaming , sweating..
The whole day she thought only about the monster, maybe it was not as cruel as she thought, maybe it didn’t intend to hurt her, maybe once she kisses it , it may turn into a prince.
She went to sleep hoping for the dream to return. That was unusual she thought. She was in love with the monster. The same visuals returned. But tonite she waited for its tongue to approach her face. She was determined to sleep through the unbearable heat.

The next day they found her dead covered in her sweat and blood.

Fashion or no fashion!!!

In one of my friend’s blog I saw this particular tag. It was nothing much attractive but after reading it, first I laughed out loudly and then felt pity on myself.


The tag contained a list of fashion items, must-havs for women and men. I didn’t care to go through the list for men as the women’s list got me exhausted and panting!!

The following was the list:

1. Little Black Dress (small things come in big packages. I cant afford the ‘little black dress’. No doubt I would look gorgeous in it)

2. Black Flats (I have that, the cheapest of them all)

3. Gold Hoop Earrings (it’s the eleventh commandment for a malayali,not just an earring but to own a whole gold mine)

4. Mac Waterproof Mascara .(I had to ask my colleague to understand what exactly is a mascara, since they wrote MAC, I thought they meant an apple PC)

5. A Black Clutch ( I have that , bought from chor bazaar for 100rs)

6. Sling Bag ( I have a sanjhi from my grandfather, does that count as a sling bag?)

7. Gucci /Hermes-Berkin/Chanel/Prada Bag (Gucci, chanel and prada, they are like my team lead, good at a distance but cant afford to have them near)

8. Light-Colored Cotton Saree ( my mothers wardrobe is open for me)

9. Summer Scarf ( ya ya I have that one)

10. Bright Colored Umbrella ( actually too bright, yellow)

11. A Red/Purple/Blue Handbag ( why doesn’t black count here)

12. Over-Sized T-Shirt ( too bad, I thought they were out-of-fashion and gave it to my maid)

13. Pencil Skirt (have pencil as well as a skirt)

14. Solid Wash Jeans (every beggar in the street has one )

15. Sexy Black/Red Stilettos (black, yahoooo)

16. Turquoise Stone Bangles (why should it be turquoise?, I have gold)

17. Ipod ( since everyone has one, I thought not to buy it )

18. Platform Shoes (what in the hell are those? The ones you wear only in railway stations?)

19. Sexy Swimsuit ( as a matter of fact I have a swimsuit which covers the entire body except the eyes, if that counts as sexy, then yes)

20. Toe Ring ( will definetly have one soon)

21. Tattoo ( that one is a long time wish, but in a confusion as to whose name shall I tattoo :-/)

22. Hot-Pants (do they warm these in ovens?)

23. Kajal (It’s a shame that I don’t have one)

24. Banarsee/Kanjivaram Saree (I have one)

25. White Salwar Kameez ( I have pleanty of those)

26. Classic Leather Belt ( I have a purple one)

27. Chanel/Hugo Boss/Dior/Ysl Perfume ( I use a humble dove deo)

28. Pearl Necklace ( not yet)

29. Body-Piercing ( my ears are pierced luckily!)

30. Platinum Band/Ring ( I have one)

So I turn out to be a fashion disaster!