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Random Ramblings
Posted by SMM
on
10:59
- I can't see too well with my right eye since my lens flew out today which fact I discovered only after reaching office and wondering why the newspaper was so blurred today
- Hubby and me headed toward another solemn step of solemnizing our relation after a year of marriage by opening a joint account
- I am wearing my new skinny jeans today - sponsored by my Pop and hubby (Aren't I cheap?)
- I have already received a compliment that I have nice legs
- I am supposed to be reading a commentary on Res Judicata right now, but my excuse is that the print is too small and I can't see clearly and I'l get a headache if I try reading it
- I had to meet a friend for coffee n adda/gupshup/gossip session/ b**** fest today but I had to postpone it to Tuesday
- I am NOT having a bad hair day today thankfully, which is what I have 5 out of 7 days in a week
- I am hungry cuz I woke up late and ended up skipping breakfast otherwise hubby and me would have got late for office so I'm thinking of eating something. Just trying to figure out what
- Today's a Saturday so we generally have a good lunch in office
- This time next Saturday I shall be on tenterhooks cuz we have the reunion planned for that day
- I love being in the middle of things
- I like organizing parties and meeting friends for coffee
- The last time I bought something was two shirts for office - one was white with black stripes and the other one is black with white stripes (Well I wear black n white 6 days a week so for me that's two different shirts, and well if I took the 2nd one I got a 20% of on it)
- I want to buy a pair of red stilletoes but wonder where I would wear them cuz I'm convinced they are only going to lie in their lovely shoe bags in my wardrobe
- I have two pretty suit material, both in different shades of blue which I have to get stitched
- I am thinking of buying a pair of shoes, but maybe not this month
- I love listening to 'Annie's Song' by John Denver. I made the hubby sing it on the phone for me onetime before we got married.
- 'Annie's Song' is also my caller tune. I have received messages from friends sometimes where they have asked me not pick up their call cuz they only want to listen to the song and not talk to me :P
- My previous caller tune was 'Ya Ali'
- I am brilliant at typos when I am chatting
- I am a poor Orkut and Facebook deprived soul since they have been blocked in office
- I am enjoying the second last week of court vacations and wearing jeans to office
- I had a nice chat with my sis this morning where she said I look good with new haircut :)
- I often end up using legal phrases while talking
- While reading a John Grisham once, I totally forgot that I was reading fiction and started highlighting lines cuz I though I was reading one of my law books
- Once I got over that, I picked up the highlighted lines and used it in one of my reports :P
- I would double my internship assignments as papers for college
- When I get drunk I do weird funny things and know that I am doing them and am being stupid but can't seem to stop myself
- The hubby has seen me drunk twice and had a good laugh both times, and still keeps ribbing me about it
- I am not all that fond of alcohol and can happily survive without it for days
- But I need my Pepsi (yes I know that it's bad for the teeth)
- And my coffee (kya kare - I like the bad stuff)
- I am thrilled cuz I managed to change the HTML code n my blog to upload this blogskin which I downloaded from the net
- My tech savviness is average - the hubby more than makes up for my lack of it :P
- I used to be an extremely loud and fast talker until I practiced in front of the mirror and improved on it. Now my boss tells me that I deliver well in court (he does not know the history)
- I practised for hours in front of a mirror after I was adjudged as a 'poor speaker' in my first moot and for the next moot I was complimented by the Judge on my delivery
- I really loved mooting (a moot is a mock court where students are given a case and a side and we prepare for it just like any self-respecting Supreme Court lawyer would do)
- I get a high everytime I wear my band and gown -it makes the years of study and staying away from home worth it
- I learnt to cook only after I got married - now I am a decent cook. So if you come home I won't send you away hungry at least :)
- I am not fond of the colour yellow in my clothes. I don't own anything in that colour.
- My favourite colour in clothes is fuschia pink/ rani colour
- I wonder how 'Tis Hazari' got its name (its one of the Lower Courts in Delhi)
- I don't like writing in boring colours like blue and black - my notes are made in a rainbow of colours like pink, orange, green, red, purple, gold, silver etc etc.
- The day I want to buy something I never find one thing I like, but the day I plan on NOT buying something, I want to buy out all the shops
- I am pretty-much short tempered and ten minutes later I will be apologising
- However, if I am of the firm conviction that I am not wrong I will not apologise
- Yes I have an ego (but its not a humoungous one)
- I can give attitude as good as I get
- I am a study in contradictions - I can make strangers my friends fast while among my friends sometimes I feel like a stranger
- One of my favourite snacks is Chili Chicken dry
- I miss having vada pavs and dabelis (staples in Maharashtra where I spent 6 years) as evening snacks
- I can have quite a few puchkas (golgappas/ pani puris - puchka is the Cal version) at a go
- I like having tangy food
- My mom makes some really yummmmmmmm boneless chicken
- I was vegetarian for a year in college till my self-respecting Bengali family threatened to disown me since I was not fit to be taken to anyone's house (yes cuz I was a vegetarian)
- I am keeping up my family tradition (the family to which I was born) by not having brinjals
- I have a lovely collection of saris now post marriage
- I wore my favourite fuschia colour on my engagement and on my reception
- I am a complete chocaholic
- I also am an aquaholic
- I think I have mentioned that in my profile
- My hubby is the best - he cooks food for me and gets me ice cream and buys me clothes and shoes and entertains all my tantrums
- Vice versa as well
- I still can't make chapattis
- I enjoy pasta
- I love grilled sandwiches with cheese in them
- I am trying to wake up early each morning so I can run on the treadmill, but rarely manage. I just need to be more focused from tomorrow
- My tomorrow will never come at the rate I hog
- I am a true blue Bong since I have a complete sweet-tooth. I can just not say NO to sweets. If there is nothing available, I will even have a spoon of sugar
- I have become like this only after I left home
- I did not eat food till I was 18. I started eating food only after I got to hostel at the age of 18, and the first time I came home and had more than two spoons of rice my parents and grandmom had their jaws drop down and marked the day as a red letter day
- Give me a choice between chole and chicken, and I'd probably go for chole
- I love green leafy vegetables (seriously)
- My dad and I used to play Scrabble every sunday afternoon after lunch while I was in school. That was MY TIME with him
- I miss my Dad. He's there but he's not there.
- I miss my mom and her regular scoldings as well. I think she invented e-scolding and phone scolding
- My favourite meal on a rainy day is khichdi (a dish which is a mix of lentils and rice) and fish fry and achar (pickles)
- I can't stand the smell of tea and coconut
- I will be going to Cochin in August for a very close friend's wedding and have asked her to ensure that there will be some non-coconut dish in the menu
- I enjoy researching
- Yes I can be a nerd and I can also be a ditsy blonde - that's the Gemini in me
- I used to play the guitar
- My close friends think they know me in and out, but even I don't know myself that well. I can still surprise myself.
- I don't want pity from anyone. I have learnt to live life with a smile on my face even if I am upset about something
- For me tears are a way to let out my emotions. I do not use them as a bargaining tool
- I think I have written enough. Congratulations on your patience and thank you as well for making it so far :)
