Neel aka Jiggy aka Jignesh takes the competition to heart....

If u've been sincerely reading my blog, u'd know whom i'm talkin abt..Jignesh( or call him any of the names i specified above) appears to have taken the competition a lil too seriously...All i meant was that i'd try and update my blog regularly...the guy thought i meant i'd compete with him on the number of posts on our blogs..well..numbers do not count as long as the blog is maintained/updated and not left to rot...

Tell u wot..the other day @office, we'd been waitin in a queue to buy our lunch coupons...we were seriously talkin abt some issues that were a cause of concern and suddenly Jiggy goes "have u heard the story of the Rabbit and the Tortoise"?
I'm like "Ya" . He then tells me that I'm the Rabbit and he is the Tortoise..He went on to explain that he may be a slow blogger now, but he intend sto catch up with me n finally leave me way behind on blogger...
And i was jus wondering, what prompted him to suddenly leave the conversation we were havin mid-way and talk abt competition of blogs..he really left me bewildered...he took my words seriously and is hell bent on givin me tough competition..

Am thinkin he's been tryin hard to think of what to blog next..i had lotsa thoughts on my mind, but havent yet gotten the chance to pen all of them down..should do it sooner..maybe i'll let him post a few more posts and then i'll update mine..dat way he'll be happy that he is catchin up with me...never hurts to slow down if u can make people smile!!!!

But if your solely talkin abt competition buddy, all i'll say is 'Bring it on'!!!

Mama is makin croquettes :(

Was just talkin to my sis and in the course of the conversation, she mentioned that mom was busy makin croquettes....poor me, i love croquettes, but sad that i'm not at home...

I miss the food that mom makes :(
How much ever i try, i can't get close to what she makes...am not dat bad a cook.. i can cook up a decent meal, so that you won't starve..but just don't complain that the food is low on salt and spice...cos that's how i cook...and yeah, i take quite some time to cook...

It was dinner time when i spoke to my sis...Was pretty hungry and the thought of the croquettes made my stomach grumble even more...had a lousy lunch at office (that's the story almost everyday)...anyway, there's nothin much i could do, but stop thinkin about the croquettes, head to the kitchen, fix up a quick dinner and eat.

Meet the Orange's Mom!!!!

Happened to surf the net for some reason and stumbled across this funny image..thought i'd post it on my blog..



Funny indeed!!!

Of nosey neighbours ...

They really get me pissed off..it's good to be concerned about your neighbour..but it's not at all good to spy on 'em..and it's not difficult to find out if your neighbour is really concerned about you or is just really tryin to be nosey..

My work requires me to stay in another state..so i share a flat with a roomate or rather used to..she recently got married and my hunt for a new roomie is on..we used to stay in another society earlier, then moved to a current one..in both the places, we never really interacted with our neighbours..blame it on our jobs..5 days a week we're busy at work..saturday sunday is packed with weekend duties..cleanup, cooking, catching up with friends or the most important part of the weekend schedule---sleeping...as such, we hardly spoke to our neighbours...

But it so happened that one fine day, we spoke to the aunty next door and from then on, it's been a different story all together..i guess we could partly push the blame on the fact that women at home are free, once their done with their daily routine of cooking and cleaning..and most women have maids who come and help them or do most of the house work..that leaves ample time for our next door aunties to kill...and if at all it happens that aunty has no friends around or nothin better to do, she starts pryin on your activities..after all it keeps her busy enough..and she has juicy newsbits for her friends at the kitty party or when she meets up with the other women in the society..i don't know the extent to which the facts are modified just to make the gossip more interesting..but i very much loathe the idea of keeping a tab on what the neighbour does..i have my freedom and would choose to do what i wish and what i think is right...but no, aunty dear is very concerned if i come in late..she keeps wondering why the house is locked early morning and why she doesn't see me or my roomie at home until late evening..

Aunty dear it's simple...and the simple explanation is -- my work requires me to reach office early, and sometimes it does get late to get home, due to work or due to conveyance...and in the evening it's a trip to the supermarket to get fresh veggies or any groceries required to cook up the dinner.. But even if i was partyin and ended up late at night, how does it matter? and even if you spot me with a guy who actually comes to drop me home and ensure that i reach safely, why would you always assume it's my boyfriend?

It would be so much better if people would just stick to minding their own business...i'd stick to a hi, bye sort of relationship with my neighbour..and once in a while, it doesn't hurt to spend a few minutes just enquiring about general well-being..but that's it..it's good to know your neighbour and be good to each other..but it's no way good to let your inquisitive nature force you on to the spying business..puts me off totally..if you are genuinely concerned about me, i'd appreciate it..but i'd hate you tracking everything i do and recording the time i leave home and get back..lady, my life is not all about cooking for the day and ensuring that my house is spick and span..i have my job to go to....and i'd really appreciate you finding some other constructive activity, to keep you busy and away from the tracking business..that would surely do you and me an equal amount of good...

Feel like Alphabet Soup today...

For those who have never had alphabet soup, it's simply a soup with alphabet shaped pasta...

So just drop a few spoons(depending on how much pasta you like in your soup)of alphabets while cooking your favorite soup..

Tell you why i love the alphabet soup...back home, on any given Sunday(sometimes even on other days) mom would prepare soup..she made a hearty soup with lotsa veggies, vegetable stock and a generous helping of alphabet pasta..a spoon of oats would also be mixed along once in a while...sometimes the alphabet pasta would be replaced by spaghetti or macaroni..But when it was alphabet pasta i spent a lotta time relishing the soup...i'd kip picking alphabets that formed my name...i loved the soup as much as i loved picking up alphabets from the soup...I miss the soup...dunno how often my mom makes it now...been away from home for quite a long time now..she does make soup when i'm home, but i can't remember the last time i had alphabet pasta in my soup...maybe it's just that she ends up buying spaghetti or macaroni rather than alphabet pasta..

I really feel like havin alphabet soup today evening...i think there's enough vegetables stocked in the refrigerator..all i need is a vegetable stock cube and the pasta..And i'm hopin i got a packet of pasta on the kitchen shelf..if i'm lucky to find a alphabet pasta packet, i'll stir up the soup and get back to picking up alphabets to form my name or any other word that strikes my fancy while i sip the soup.

Heard of Chocolatica???

I know u wouldn't have..Coz there's no such place..it's just a figment of my imagination...How i wish there was some place where chocolates would grow on trees...I'd name that place 'Chocolatica'..
yeah, I love chocolates..I am what you can aptly call 'Chocoholic'...ask any of my good friends, n they'd tell u how much i dig chocs...and if they don't know abt my love for chocolates, they don't jus know me well enough!!!!

As my friend DD puts it 'Ana was born in a garden of chocolates and fruits' . Yes, dats how much i love chocs..n what inspired me to jus scribble about chocs right now???? the 'Toblerone' m njoyin now!!!


I thought--- why not spend some time writin about one of the things i love so much...Chocolates!!!

I remember chattin to my friend Ric from Australia. He told me that the Koko Blacks they get in Australia are just superb..Simply put by him "you cannot get better fresh belgium chocolate than koko blacks"..Says he "you need to come to Australia just for the koko blacks!" After hearing that,I haven't stopped thinkin about a vacation to Australia...jus hopin that i save up enough of money to make that trip and that I get the required leave to plan a vacation at the right time!!! I'm sure there are many people who are as delighted by chocolates as i am..So much are people in love with chocolates, that there are chocoholic tours organized in Australia..if you don't believe me, check what i stumbled upon on the net --> Melbourne's Chocoholic Tours
Yet another reason i can't miss a trip to Australia...

People generally think that chocolates are the best solution for depression..they say, chocs can just lift your spirits and pop u out of gloom..But frankly speakin, i never ever need a reason to indulge in chocolates...i just eat them cos i love them..a sinful addiction it is...but of course i make sure it don't lead to 'death by chocolate' ;-) ..if i crave for chocolates and have any with me i wouldn't think twice about eating them..I remember my roommate, who abstained from eating chocolate cause she was gaining a lot of weight...Lucky for me, chocolates have never made me fat...Although i'd like to avoid sharing my chocolate,i do end up sharing it...and one person who is ever so lucky is PlanetM...lucky chap he is..

Visiting the claim that 'chocolate is the best prescription for depression' once again..I happened to read the following on the net :
http://mental-health.families.com/blog/chocolate-may-make-your-depression-worse
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1603927.htm
Both these articles say that choc may not be the best food to alter your bad mood. It may in fact, make your depression worse...Not sure how right this may be.. we've long heard about chocolates being a well loved fix for depression..But the articles above talk otherwise..anyway, no worries..I've never eaten chocs hopin they'd drive depression away..I'll still keep eating chocolates...its a love that would last till eternity ;-)

I could go on and on about chocolates..but i'll save the rest of my thoughts on chocolates for another day..right now it's time to get another 'Toblerone' !!!

Fantastic Friday @ Soul ....

Fantastic Friday @ Soul....

After a hiatus, we finally resumed our friday evening clubbing..I should say it had almost turned into a tradition that most of our office gang go out to a club or a good restaurant on a friday evening...well, not everyone from our team joins in, but it's gonna be atleast PlanetM, Neel(i sometimes call him Jignesh,at other times it is Jiggy Boy), Nikki and Me....The last time we went out was ages ago and that was to 'High Spirits'..And yeah, it was a very eventful evening..tell ya about it sometime else...

Getting back to the original topic...it was finally decided that we are goin out that evenin..but next, we got the big question staring into our faces---- where do we go? You ask my party team and they will definitely be able to tell ya how biased i am towards 'High Spirits'..and y not..dats one place there's good music, a good DJ, good seating etc...and best of all, it's closer than most other places... but it's not the only place i love..there's more good places i love..but, we'll talk abt 'em later...

I had been insisting that we go to 'High Spirits'..But PlanetM reminded me that if we decide to visit 'High Spirits' we need to have more gals...its unfortunate that our team has less gals than guys..and among the gals,it's mostly me who parties..sometimes our friend Pretty(not from my workplace) joins us...Today it was jus me, and 4 guys..PlanetM, Neel, Nikki and YT, and 'High Spirits' had a couple entry that day...if we had another gal they'd have still let us in ..but alas...So PlanetM and YT decided that it's gonna be 'Soul'..n i wasn't too happy to hear that..not that 'Soul' is a bad place..it's good...but the last few times we went there, there was just Indian food ..we were told that the chef who cooks Italian was away...In addition,the music has not been upto the mark the last time we visited...n Ana needs music and Indian food was not what she wanted to eat for dinner that evenin...You see, I kip havin Indian food at my workplace...

YT had earlier suggested another place, but i crossed out that option cos the place is just too noisy(no music, just people talkin out loud)..so we decided on 'Soul'..n i was prayin that their chef is back...and what do you know? their chef was back!!! We could now get Italian food, and without delay i ordered 'Garlic Lemon Prawns'...To our pleasant surprise,we see that 'Soul' has a band who'd be playin for the crowd that evening..

I had been irritable that evening..thanks to PlanetM who pissed me off a lil bit in office that day...if u were present that evening, he'd surely complain that i was actin up ... But i was only makin sure i stick to the resolution i'd just made at the lunch table in office that afternoon....the band played some cool numbers,and thanks to the good music,I was irritable no more...The crowd certainly liked the band very much..their guitarist surely strummed his way into the crowd's hearts..He played amazingly well!!!..and their drummer did an awesome job too....I must admit we all had fun..at the end of it all the crowd was pleadin for more...

All through that evenin, PlanetM tested our knowledge about Music...I can't believe i took a lotta time to recognise songs..i generally guess songs pretty quickly..but I seemed to have a mental block that evenin...it was so bad a mental block, that i almost forgot i love a band called Linkin Park...No,i wasnt high on drinks..i drank no cocktails that day..jus good ol orange juice...it was jus the mental block to blame....

All in all twas a lovely friday evenin..time to head back..we ensured that YT got an auto-rickshaw to drive him home...Neel n Nikki dropped me n PlanetM home...well, i shouldn't forget to mention that PlanetM did give us some cool gyan that night..the beer surely made him think wisely dat day :) ..hey,i ain't pokin fun at PlanetM..he wasn't blabberin...he actually told us stuff that made perfect sense and surely made us think..he gave us enough food for thought for this weekend!!!

And finally.......

Yeah!!! Finally,I have a blog where I'd scribble randomly...I've been meaning to blog since a long time, but ended up being the biggest procrastinator times would have seen...And then I was inspired by my pal, who told me to delay no more...reading his blog, I missed havin one of my own...

So here I am finally writing my first post...
Well before I begin posting more stuff, just to let ya know, u'd find in this blog:
-> quite some shortened words(thanks to the sms bug that's bitten evry1)
-> some amount of colloquial/slang words
-> my thoughtz. And they may seem pretty unconvential at times...or probably a lil weird ...but that's me..my thoughtz
-> my opinion. In case u totally disagree with it, no worries..as my buddy would simply put it "to each his own!!!"...
-> anythin i jus wanna speak about

Guess I'm done writin for today..getting started with the blog has been an achievement of sorts..n if u almost laughed at that, it's fine...but let me tell ya, there's one person who'd surely consider it an achievement and it's Jignesh..oops, i meant Nilesh(a pal @ my workplace) ..We both had been thinkin about bloggin..but he's still thinkin...gotta tell him I've stopped thinkin, and finally started bloggin ....

Signing off...