one of my old favourites

pustak!

was recently reading about murakami's works and how he ran a pub / bar and then closed it and then ran and wrote and so on. and coincidentally saw his 'what i talk about when i talk about running' on a colleague's bookshelf.
wasted no time in borrowing it and will now read it through my lunch hour.
what would my life be like if there were no books?

the only time i have not read, in spite of books being around, was in goa at chattai last month. couldn't take my eyes off the sea.
and i had 'the hungry tide' in my hands which i had been waiting to read. even so, i who usually read bleddy fast managed about a couple of pages an hour.
simply because i couldn't stop watching the amazing, calm, immense sea and spotless, flawless, cloudless sky above it.
i miss goa :(

hopping mad

other than bad grammar, the one thing that lights my fuse is a patronising attitude. especially if it is gender based.

today an article in the 'economic times' has annoyed me tremendously. the title has a little heart in it and uses the word "hubby".
does the newspaper know its women readers at all? if yes, where does it get off using that simpering patronising tone of voice to these women?

let me quote:

" <3 Ask Your Hubby For A Special Gift Today
Ask your husband for a slightly different gift this time - ask him to involve you in his finances. Well don't freeze in your tracks. We are certainly not asking you to morph into a financial geek or snoop on your husband's finances. No, you also don't have to forgo that expensive jewellery you admired on TV the other day."

excuse me? and the entire article goes on in the same tone. patronising. stereotypical. cliched. i know there are many many women who truly are not involved in managing household finances and therefore would find some eye-opening advice in this article.
my question is - are these women reading this newspaper? really?
and if they are not, why is economic times saying this to me??

yipppeee

i got 20 words on the economic times [the daily mail] crossword today. all by myself. no cheating.

and i got the book i'd ordered from flipkart within 48 hours :)

kya khaak update likhoon

three weeks into my so called 'notice period' i expected things to be different. 
pune beckons but mumbai won't let go.
had a reunion with colleagues and friends from a previous workplace. it was, simply put, tremendous fun.
i saw a bunch of movies - 'yeh saali zindagi' ,  'tees maar khan' [finally. and why??], 'raktacharitra -2' and some other forgettable stuff.
read a bunch of books - 'sputnik sweetheart' by murakami, 'black swan green' by david mitchell, 'the fall of giants' by ken follett and am plowing through 'the new leader's 100-day action plan' which is of course is practically 'abhyaas' for me.
i wore a pretty blue sapphire ring, which promptly changed colour within a couple of weeks. have had to take it off coz it's looking bad. :(
i accepted finally that i am in love with two blogs - 'doing jalsa showing jilpa' which i have been reading for some months now and 'the vigil idiot' to which i was recently introduced.
i went on a 3-day weekend to goa and saw the most amazing horizon. EVER. i also saw a shooting star. :)

i noticed that a lot of the above starts with "i". i am so full of myself.
but then if i wasn't full of myself, perhaps i'd be empty.

then and now

i didn't even know this song existed till i heard it on the radio this morning.

i had only ever heard this version of it.



like i always say, one lives and learns, n'est-ce pas?

crossing the rubicon

i have gone ahead with a decision that indicates i probably will stay away from husband and family for perhaps a year, or even more. at this point, it doesn't feel real. at this point, j and i are both convinced that it is the right thing to do. at this point, in fact, as always neither of us is capable of rejecting progress, of happily accepting the status quo.
only time will tell how this actually goes. like laura branigan sang...
"only time will tell what a heart is gonna do
only time will tell who's the dreamer, who's the fool
only time will tell..."
crossing my fingers.

in other news, i am off on a three-day weekend. without j. with a girl friend for company. and i wonder how come i've never done this before.
before that, tomorrow night is time to paaaarrrrrttttaaaaay!