Come on India, de ghumake!

Looking forward to:
- the match
- and a sure indian victory

Not looking forward to:
- dentist appointment for RRJ, right in the middle of the first innings
- pakistan losing

Well, Pakistan loss has rarely been anything short of an occasion to celebrate, until last friday when RRJ woke up with a swollen jaw. Infected tooth. Needs a root canal at the grand age of 6! Neglectful parents are now worried about RRJ: post-root canal trauma combined with a loss for his favourite team (Pak) would be pretty disastrous. But aren't children more resilient than we give them credit for?

The match is on.... Virendra Sehwag can't be bothered about the pressure and the hype. India off to a flier......

Cup and fans

Amma: So why haven't you been supporting India so far.
RRJ: [Well....] They have been playing good teams. I can support them when they are playing against team like..... Netherlands, you know.
Amma: So in the quarter-final who are you supporting: India or Australia.
RRJ: India.
Amma: India! What happened?
RRJ: If they lose, it would be their last match..... [it is not clear why but Amma appears to be a little relieved]..... but if Shane Watson plays well I will support Australia. He is too much, you know.

The gun shots in the corridor

Wearing new shoes that are spooking me out with their loudness. Feels as if I am walking on a land mine.

Art of life

I don't think I ever understood or questioned why almost everyone in the girl's hostel had a row of wall paper sheets stuck together as an essential part of the room decor. It was almost as if ones degree depended on it. So in my room too there was the mandatory wall paper to declare that I belong as much as anyone else and then to personalise there were some pictures of family stuck on them along with the ball-point portraits of SRT and KD (yes I am that old!). Oh those portraits! Looking at the details of the waviness of the hair you could tell that someone had spent hours on it and enjoyed every moment of it.

The images were selected from 'Sportstar', grid lines were made on the image so that the image became a collection of interconnected squares. A corresponding grid was made on a blank sheet, the squares scaled to be bigger so that the sketch comes out to be a lot bigger than the actual image. Then the actual sketching process began, slowly and carefully the details of each square of the image were transcribed to the corresponding square of the blank sheet. With time the eyes took shape, then the nose and slowly the people came alive in the portraits. It was amazing that in spite of limited skills it was possible to get an image right if one just enjoyed and focused on doing one square at a time properly.

Perhaps life is a bit like trying to create a picture on a sheet of time. You work at the details of a square at a time and hope that slowly an image will come alive that will strongly correlate with the notion of the life you always wished to have. Aha, but there lies the catch...... where is the 'Sportstar' to choose the starting image from.... and what if that this ideal image changes rapidly with time?

Momos.... yum

Have been seeking comfort in domesticity and food. Momos are great that way. Long preparation time and delightfully delicious.

Ouch!

Q: What is worse than meeting a snarling, barking dog in human form as a passport official?
A: A snarling, quieter dog in human form as a passport official.

Q: Why?

And he went away ...

Such a loss. Rahul Basu is no more.

I first met him five and a half years ago as his colleague's wife. And now I feel I have lost a close friend. In this little time and few chance meetings I have had such involved conversations with him that I never felt how different we were as two individuals and I always felt that he cared. Haven't ever met a more accessible and straightforward person. Still can't believe we have lost the access. Rahul we will miss you so much.

Movie round-up

No strings attached: Ashton Kutchner and Natalie Portman are very good news- exceedingly cute and more. As for the movie, light, fluffy and likable. Just like the title suggests, there are no depths involved.

127 hours: Gripping but very gross. The messages that we took home:

• stay clear of adventurous outdoor activities
• anything that gets you stuck in a mess, get rid of it. Even if it is your own right hand.

Mitr: Old movie. Nice and sensitive. And the messages:

• if you have a bit of self worth, then being a stay at home mom can be damaging to your relationships in the long run. The very relationships for which you have chosen this path.
• if happiness is found in many ways, then seeking from others is the hardest.

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Just love this ad. Completely relate to it.