And the trap was in the balcony.
Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh...
Instead of groaning and cussing about it, I am gonna take a cool attitude towards this whole shindig. See pic below.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Mouse Update!
We caught another one! And this one was tinier. Just a li'l baby. x-(
And the trap was in the balcony.
Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh...
Instead of groaning and cussing about it, I am gonna take a cool attitude towards this whole shindig. See pic below.
And the trap was in the balcony.
Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh...
Instead of groaning and cussing about it, I am gonna take a cool attitude towards this whole shindig. See pic below.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Shopaholic Sistahs!
Shopping.....its a word that sends thrills through a gal and chills down a guy's spine. The anticipation of a shopping holiday is filled with such excitement among most gals.
And so it was that two pals decided to take off to Big Bad Bangalore over the weekend. Ze Zombie (ZZ) and La-La Lavs (LL) decided to raid Bangalore of all its textile and handicraft industries at one go!
Between the two of them, they practically emptied out Commercial Street. There are no stalls/shops left there and the road itself has worn down thanks to their marching up and down it all day. The shopkeepers are alternating between delirious shouts of joy and heartrending wails thinking about how quickly their stocks were emptied.
From strapless tops to golden shoes (yes, you read right), the gals returned with arms laden with loot aplenty. From feminine flair (flowery and dainty wear) to macho glares (roadside romeos), they experienced it all. Actually, they were rather disappointed with the apparent lack of goodlooking guys around. That too, in Bangalore! What is the world coming to?? Isn't there any justice left in this duniya?? Two gorgeous gals on holiday don't encounter handsome hunks?! Atrocious, no?
This tiny technicality, however, did not deter these determined-to-shop dudettes! They went about ransacking the best stores of Bangalore and also club hopped to their heart's content. So what if there were more scantily clad babes in the pub than interesting men? Huh! They tossed their (carefully salooned) hair and went about their business :D
LL is from LA and hence very la-di-dah, or so we like to tease her :) She is a gorgeous fun-loving babe with a limitless fun quotient and ability to laugh! ZZ makes everyone laugh with her antics and naan-sense! The two as a combo is rather deadly to beat!
They had separate seats in the train during the journey to Bangalore. LL hatched a plot to get their berths together by adding a twist to the already harebrained plot. She decided to give ZZ the role of a pregnant woman and announced to the people in the compartment that ZZ needed attention and hence she had to be with her in the adjacent berth, just in case ZZ gave birth in the train. ZZ decided to play along and promptly burst into a coughing fit. LL had to nudge her and remind her that coughing is a symptom of TB and NOT of pregnancy!!!
However, the poor men around did not seem to notice the difference and hastily gave up their berths to the one seemingly about to pop! Never mind that ZZ doesn't even have a paunch that can even be remotely mistaken for a pregnant woman's belly!
Ahh...the adventures of girlhood...a must for every young lady to let her curly or straightened hair down :D
More power to wimmin and ya-ya sisterhood! Rock on, dudettes!
And so it was that two pals decided to take off to Big Bad Bangalore over the weekend. Ze Zombie (ZZ) and La-La Lavs (LL) decided to raid Bangalore of all its textile and handicraft industries at one go!
Between the two of them, they practically emptied out Commercial Street. There are no stalls/shops left there and the road itself has worn down thanks to their marching up and down it all day. The shopkeepers are alternating between delirious shouts of joy and heartrending wails thinking about how quickly their stocks were emptied.
From strapless tops to golden shoes (yes, you read right), the gals returned with arms laden with loot aplenty. From feminine flair (flowery and dainty wear) to macho glares (roadside romeos), they experienced it all. Actually, they were rather disappointed with the apparent lack of goodlooking guys around. That too, in Bangalore! What is the world coming to?? Isn't there any justice left in this duniya?? Two gorgeous gals on holiday don't encounter handsome hunks?! Atrocious, no?
This tiny technicality, however, did not deter these determined-to-shop dudettes! They went about ransacking the best stores of Bangalore and also club hopped to their heart's content. So what if there were more scantily clad babes in the pub than interesting men? Huh! They tossed their (carefully salooned) hair and went about their business :D
LL is from LA and hence very la-di-dah, or so we like to tease her :) She is a gorgeous fun-loving babe with a limitless fun quotient and ability to laugh! ZZ makes everyone laugh with her antics and naan-sense! The two as a combo is rather deadly to beat!
They had separate seats in the train during the journey to Bangalore. LL hatched a plot to get their berths together by adding a twist to the already harebrained plot. She decided to give ZZ the role of a pregnant woman and announced to the people in the compartment that ZZ needed attention and hence she had to be with her in the adjacent berth, just in case ZZ gave birth in the train. ZZ decided to play along and promptly burst into a coughing fit. LL had to nudge her and remind her that coughing is a symptom of TB and NOT of pregnancy!!!
However, the poor men around did not seem to notice the difference and hastily gave up their berths to the one seemingly about to pop! Never mind that ZZ doesn't even have a paunch that can even be remotely mistaken for a pregnant woman's belly!
Ahh...the adventures of girlhood...a must for every young lady to let her curly or straightened hair down :D
More power to wimmin and ya-ya sisterhood! Rock on, dudettes!
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Life
So what is it all about?
Its one puzzle no one has cracked yet.
Definitions a.k.a your version/take on life welcome.
Its one puzzle no one has cracked yet.
Definitions a.k.a your version/take on life welcome.
Vande Mataram
What a beautiful song and melody!
Gives me goosebumps whenever I listen to it.
Very proud that it contains my name.
Gives me goosebumps whenever I listen to it.
Very proud that it contains my name.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Who will bell the mouse?
Last night, I opened the bedroom door and saw a li'l mouse jump from a chair and scurry away to a corner behind my comp workstation. Promptly screamed and shut the room door as fast as I could.
A mousetrap was laid for Mr. Mouse with some food in it. Dad then turned on the AC at full blast, switched off the light, and shut the door. I simply HAD to ask why Daddy-O was turning on the aircon for the MOUSE. He said it was to freeze it out of its hiding place and come looking for the food inside the trap. Brilliant idea, no?! Dads !! :-D
Now, Dad had already suspected for a few days that there was a rat in the room. He had heard some "tok-tok" sound on and off and was sure there was something living inside the PC cabinet gnawing away at the wood. Either a lizard or a rat. I'd assured him that it wasn't possible as I would have known if there was one.
However, for some time now, each time I opened this cabinet, I would find 1-inch sized black droppings ALL OVER. Around the keyboard, the CPU, the UPS, etc. I'd presumed these were lizard droppings and that some creepy gecko was residing within the vicinity of my PC and had adopted the cabinet as its apartment. Each day I would throw those disgusting pieces of shit (no pun at all) away and carry on with using the PC.
Back to li'l Mr. Mouse...an hour later we found that it had been caught. Its long tail was sticking outta the trap. The trap was kept on the balcony for the rest of the night as it was too late to do anything about it.
I returned to the PC heaving sighs of relief that the worst was over. Boy, was I wrong!
There was a godawful stink emanating from inside the cabinet. I looked around the UPS/CPU, in the bottom shelves and other top shelves, but couldn't figure out what was wrong. As had become the norm, I found some more black droppings around and threw them out. Eventually, I discovered the source of the stink...
Mr. Mouse had peed all over the cabinet! There was fresh pee right next to the keyboard and near the mouse (the electronic one i.e.). The pee around the electronic mouse was in the shape of a footprint. Apparently, Mr. Mouse had stamped on its own susu and then proceeded to scamper ALL OVER my workstation.
I was completely freaked out by then, as if seeing the poor li'l creature wasn't traumatic enough. Stories about leptospirosis came to mind. Ever since it came to prominence as a fatal disease, it is the scariest thing on earth. Worse than AIDS itself! I slammed the workstation doors shut and ran from the room.
This morning, Mr. Mouse was still in the balcony sunning himself and doing hulahoops inside the trap, with its long tail sticking out. At noon, this man who had been asked to help arrived, and I heaved a sigh of relief on seeing him when I opened the front door and let him in. Informed him that Mr. Mouse was in the balcony.
This guy walks straight towards the bedroom. I politely enquired where he was heading. He said he had been asked to clean the cabinet.
Gritting my teeth, I asked him as politely as I could to please remove the offending criminal from the premises first. Mr. Mouse had already been living in the house long enough as an uninvited and unpaying guest. And after that, could he please come back and clean the cabinet without any further delay. The man gave me a pained look and did as he was told.
He spent the next two hours disinfecting every centimeter of the PC's workstation, with me for company screaming instructions from a safe distance all through, like a background symphony orchestra.
We discovered that Mr. Mouse had chewed away at the cable wires out of sheer hunger or boredom, I dunno which. The internet connection and printer wires had been nibbled at right in the middle of the wires.
Poor Mr. Mouse! Without any semblance of actual food, it had been feeding on electrical wires and the wood panels at the back of the cabinet and then of course proceeding to leave li'l black souvenirs all over for me to encounter.
I spent a good part of last night and half of today screaming my head off.
I dont think I can recover from this trauma for a long long long long long long time.
A mousetrap was laid for Mr. Mouse with some food in it. Dad then turned on the AC at full blast, switched off the light, and shut the door. I simply HAD to ask why Daddy-O was turning on the aircon for the MOUSE. He said it was to freeze it out of its hiding place and come looking for the food inside the trap. Brilliant idea, no?! Dads !! :-D
Now, Dad had already suspected for a few days that there was a rat in the room. He had heard some "tok-tok" sound on and off and was sure there was something living inside the PC cabinet gnawing away at the wood. Either a lizard or a rat. I'd assured him that it wasn't possible as I would have known if there was one.
However, for some time now, each time I opened this cabinet, I would find 1-inch sized black droppings ALL OVER. Around the keyboard, the CPU, the UPS, etc. I'd presumed these were lizard droppings and that some creepy gecko was residing within the vicinity of my PC and had adopted the cabinet as its apartment. Each day I would throw those disgusting pieces of shit (no pun at all) away and carry on with using the PC.
Back to li'l Mr. Mouse...an hour later we found that it had been caught. Its long tail was sticking outta the trap. The trap was kept on the balcony for the rest of the night as it was too late to do anything about it.
I returned to the PC heaving sighs of relief that the worst was over. Boy, was I wrong!
There was a godawful stink emanating from inside the cabinet. I looked around the UPS/CPU, in the bottom shelves and other top shelves, but couldn't figure out what was wrong. As had become the norm, I found some more black droppings around and threw them out. Eventually, I discovered the source of the stink...
Mr. Mouse had peed all over the cabinet! There was fresh pee right next to the keyboard and near the mouse (the electronic one i.e.). The pee around the electronic mouse was in the shape of a footprint. Apparently, Mr. Mouse had stamped on its own susu and then proceeded to scamper ALL OVER my workstation.
I was completely freaked out by then, as if seeing the poor li'l creature wasn't traumatic enough. Stories about leptospirosis came to mind. Ever since it came to prominence as a fatal disease, it is the scariest thing on earth. Worse than AIDS itself! I slammed the workstation doors shut and ran from the room.
This morning, Mr. Mouse was still in the balcony sunning himself and doing hulahoops inside the trap, with its long tail sticking out. At noon, this man who had been asked to help arrived, and I heaved a sigh of relief on seeing him when I opened the front door and let him in. Informed him that Mr. Mouse was in the balcony.
This guy walks straight towards the bedroom. I politely enquired where he was heading. He said he had been asked to clean the cabinet.
Gritting my teeth, I asked him as politely as I could to please remove the offending criminal from the premises first. Mr. Mouse had already been living in the house long enough as an uninvited and unpaying guest. And after that, could he please come back and clean the cabinet without any further delay. The man gave me a pained look and did as he was told.
He spent the next two hours disinfecting every centimeter of the PC's workstation, with me for company screaming instructions from a safe distance all through, like a background symphony orchestra.
We discovered that Mr. Mouse had chewed away at the cable wires out of sheer hunger or boredom, I dunno which. The internet connection and printer wires had been nibbled at right in the middle of the wires.
Poor Mr. Mouse! Without any semblance of actual food, it had been feeding on electrical wires and the wood panels at the back of the cabinet and then of course proceeding to leave li'l black souvenirs all over for me to encounter.
I spent a good part of last night and half of today screaming my head off.
I dont think I can recover from this trauma for a long long long long long long time.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Copying the copycat !
A cool list to remember the stuff one got up to in the course of one's life and also some of the things one is yet to try. Not an exhaustive list though, there were more in the Chicken Soup series.
First saw this at TGFI's space who copied it from Greensatya, who got it from some other blog. Chain blogposts ki jai ho ! By now, its probably all over blogistan. Decided to join the herd (for once :D) and go with the flow.
An asterisk against the lines indicate stuff I'd really like to do and the lines in bold are ones I've already done, been there, done that types, but does not necessarily mean I would/wouldn't do again :-)
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins * (dying to do this!)
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive * (vroooooooooom!)
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid * (is anyone in here? :O)
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone * (ahem!)
08. Said 'I love you' and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped * (freeee falling! what i'd really like to try, however, is to fly like a bird in the sky, soar upward, not spiral downward)
11. Visited Paris * (ooh la la, baby!)
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea * (after the Tsunami, not sure about this one) :-(
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights * (owwissitt?)
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa * (lift nahin hai, kya?)
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables (not grown them myself, though some grew in my garden, does that count? can I bold the eaten part? :D)
18. Touched an iceberg (reminds me of the Titanic, burf ko wahin rehne do)
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon * (flyyyy flyyyy like a bird in the skyyyy)
22. Watched a meteor shower * (as long as they don't fall on me poor head)
23. Gotten drunk on champagne (you don't have to get drunk to enjoy it)
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope * (3D effect)
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight (sheer waste of cake only)
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger (in this day and aids...I mean age?)
30. Had a snowball fight (not a fight, but played enough, and I think snow is overrated)
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can (I can do better though...should keep trying)
32. Held a lamb * (soft soft and woolly wooly -- sheepish smile on face)
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer (4 actually)
40. Visited all 10 provinces
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk (not interested in the least in doing this again)
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales * (NatGeo live!)
45. Stolen a sign (It would be a sign of the times)
46. Backpacked in Europe *
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing *
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving *
51. Visited Ireland *
52. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan * (wanna go there -- with patloon Hindustani)
55. Milked a cow (dun want anyone to ask the proverbial question -- got milk?)
56. Alphabetized your cds (what a nerdy thing to do)
57. Pretended to be a superhero (no pretending business, I want the real thing!)
58. Sung karaoke *
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving * (the sea is incredibly fascinating to me)
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China *
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class * (I wanna take me hiiiiiiya !)
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight (ok, not D&D, but many, many other pc/online games)
72. Gotten married *
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days (3 days, yes)
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice * (will sing Great Gambler songs)
80. Gotten a tattoo * (this should ideally be half an asterisk -- still in two minds)
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark (I'd rather die first)
88. Had a one-night stand (erm...)
89. Gone to Thailand *
90. Bought a house *
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship *
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Created and named your own constellation of stars
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country *
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an illness that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote article for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Petted a stingray (does patting the water in which a stingray was swimming in count?)
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari *
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours * (am soooooooo sleep deprived)
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents *
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat (I'd rather kill myself)
127. Eaten sushi (I'd be buried by now)
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach (eeeeeeuuuuuuugh!)
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey *
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (Not in this life and hope never in later ones too)
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream *
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care (would never stoop so low)
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you *
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life
Monday, August 07, 2006
Change
Change -- the one thing we all resist
But (thank goodness), it doesn't ever resist us.
Changes
David Bowie
I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell t hem to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace I'm going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time
But (thank goodness), it doesn't ever resist us.
Changes
David Bowie
I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell t hem to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace I'm going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time
Friday, August 04, 2006
Happy Birthday, Awoooooo!
Today is an old pal's happy budday. Dear ol' Anoo. What a riot we were together.....always crazy about music and movies, we could jabber on nonstop all day and all night.
She still has "cassettes" of our convos. It was more of a shock than a surprise when she eventually confessed to having recorded our phone convos on tape. There was enough ammo in there to turn into a Watergate scandal (for some listening to those tapes it would have opened the floodgates and let water run freely down their faces).
College days were fun filled, no doubt. There are tons of stories on all the antics we got up to, but those will be reserved for another day, another occassion.
This story is only about Anoo's antics. She came to visit me in my city a few years after we had parted ways. She was surprisingly extremely well-behaved (maturity? naah....only b'coz my folks were around) and looked great, which was also a new one! She came bearing those tapes as gifts and it was such fun listening to old gossip about friends, foes, and other unmentionables. Typically, we stayed up nearly all night yakking away about ze good ole days.
The next morning she went in for a shower and came out looking squeaky clean. I was immediately suspicious :D
She went into raptures about my wonderful collection of soaps and shampoos in the bathroom, all looking and sounding so colorful and exotic.
Now Anoo considers herself a woman of very distinguished tastes. She has traveled the world and many seas and is quite the die-hard designer dudette. Her huge collection of branded parfums and accessories all sourced from abroad or even from Khan market is well-known within her group of gals. So when she went all curious about the soap she found in the bathroom, I had to go and check which one she was talking about. She simply HAD to know what product it was and from where I had got it so she could buy a few dozen for herself at the very least.
I took one look at the soap in question and split my sides laughing.
Poor Anoo stood there gaping and tapping her foot in impatience waiting for me to catch my breath -- and give her an explanation for my inexplicable behavior. Soon I began to howl like a wolf or like the dogs in my street do at night. Anoo didn't pay much attention becoz she knows I'm crazy like that and often.
Eventually, after my laughing fit kinda subsided, I had to inform her that she had just bathed using my cute li'l doggie's bar of soap.
Exotic? You betcha !!
So, here's to you, dear one-of-a-kind Awoooo...oops...Anoo.....have a blast of a birthday and keep shakin' it !
You're our very own Soap Doggy Dog ;)
She still has "cassettes" of our convos. It was more of a shock than a surprise when she eventually confessed to having recorded our phone convos on tape. There was enough ammo in there to turn into a Watergate scandal (for some listening to those tapes it would have opened the floodgates and let water run freely down their faces).
College days were fun filled, no doubt. There are tons of stories on all the antics we got up to, but those will be reserved for another day, another occassion.
This story is only about Anoo's antics. She came to visit me in my city a few years after we had parted ways. She was surprisingly extremely well-behaved (maturity? naah....only b'coz my folks were around) and looked great, which was also a new one! She came bearing those tapes as gifts and it was such fun listening to old gossip about friends, foes, and other unmentionables. Typically, we stayed up nearly all night yakking away about ze good ole days.
The next morning she went in for a shower and came out looking squeaky clean. I was immediately suspicious :D
She went into raptures about my wonderful collection of soaps and shampoos in the bathroom, all looking and sounding so colorful and exotic.
Now Anoo considers herself a woman of very distinguished tastes. She has traveled the world and many seas and is quite the die-hard designer dudette. Her huge collection of branded parfums and accessories all sourced from abroad or even from Khan market is well-known within her group of gals. So when she went all curious about the soap she found in the bathroom, I had to go and check which one she was talking about. She simply HAD to know what product it was and from where I had got it so she could buy a few dozen for herself at the very least.
I took one look at the soap in question and split my sides laughing.
Poor Anoo stood there gaping and tapping her foot in impatience waiting for me to catch my breath -- and give her an explanation for my inexplicable behavior. Soon I began to howl like a wolf or like the dogs in my street do at night. Anoo didn't pay much attention becoz she knows I'm crazy like that and often.
Eventually, after my laughing fit kinda subsided, I had to inform her that she had just bathed using my cute li'l doggie's bar of soap.
Exotic? You betcha !!
So, here's to you, dear one-of-a-kind Awoooo...oops...Anoo.....have a blast of a birthday and keep shakin' it !
You're our very own Soap Doggy Dog ;)
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