November 20, 2005

This week..

  • I won a tidy little gps unit at a treasure hunt

  • attended a day-long training session in which the instructor kept saying 'Did I mention that I am half-Italian?' every half an hour.

  • woke up late every single day

  • ate a different cuisine every day of the week

  • watched the least TV of any week in the past 6 months

  • lost my sunglasses

  • dropped my cell phone - thrice

  • spilt tea in the car

  • set my microwave of fire - like 'fire' fire ... not just smouldering stuff .. actual fire. (pictures coming soon)

  • got defrauded on ebay for 300 bucks    :-(

    Posted by anya at 12:55 PM Category: etc | Permalink | Comments (8)

    • November 10, 2005

    What do you feel like eating right now?

    I have asked this question to numerous people ever since childhood. More so because there probably is something that I feel like having and can't .. so its like I am checking to see what the other person wants to have. In fact, my sister and I used to talk at length what we feel like eating.. well, I used to talk and she wanted to get the conversation over with and go back to what she was doing. Talk about what is the first thing I am going to eat after my exams are over and the vacation starts, or what I feel like eating after coming back from a nice dinner. Weird, but I never felt like not eating. There would always be some substance .. maybe ice cream or coffee or vada-pav or chicken tikka or something, basically, that I want at a particular moment. Or probably I never thought about this stuff when I was really content.

    Right now, post-lunch I feel like having a Tiramisu, but looks like I'm going to have to settle for a Chantico. Hm; such is life.

    Tiramisu                               Chantico

    Posted by anya at 02:15 PM Category: Food | Permalink | Comments (13)

    November 02, 2005

    Diwali and all that..

    So I was all ready to write a post on how I have been getting tons of emails everyday -- each with a single line which says something like "Wishing you and your family a very happy and prosperous diwali". I was really tired of seeing "12 new messages" every day and then finding that 90% of them are diwali one liners, and the rest are forwards. Maybe its because this is my fourth diwali away from home, that I am missing out on the festive spirit and all. Or maybe its because I hate opening emails to read the same line again and again.

    So, imagine my surprise when my sister sends me this. It made my day somehow. I played around with the lantern and lamps .. they are configurable and look sort of cool and certainly different from the standard stuff. Well, the surprise is actually that she always seems to send the best things .. whether its diwali or my bday or anything else. I have always looked at her as a kid sister .. still growing up, learning the ropes ... I realized something that I think I have been suspecting for a long time. My kid sister has grown up. Recently, I have seen her make tough decisions just as rationally and practically as I would have. And I am glad the way things are shaping up for her. Thats a diwali present if anything.

    So heres wishing you and your family a very happy and prosperous diwali!! ;-)

    Posted by anya at 11:33 AM Category: Me | Permalink | Comments (5)