Shut 'em out!

When we were younger, .....(notice the nostalgia at such a young age..ha ha) me n my brother used to have lots of friends around the colony and we would all gather in someone's house in the evening to play cricket or go cycle racing after school..it was'nt so crowded on the streets then n neither were there so many cars parked with their drivers perched on them...now the friends are no longer there as most families have sold their houses in the interest of larger bank balances and traded them for smaller apartments. The builders around have been quick to bring up 3-storied apartment blocks in place of the nice houses and the roads are now crowded with guards, servants, drivers and all their friends who just hand around chatting and peeping into the houses around!!! Eeeeks!
Imagine being stared at everytime u go out to receive a courier or greet a visitor or just to stroll? Even new entrants to the colony are so rude that they will pass by staring at u as if I was intruding in their personal space! How very ill-mannered! Well we decided to work on the problem & add some height to our existing gate and block some view to the house and the result is the additional 2 foot height that u can now see in the picture ...this was'nt so easy u know. Each one of us instantly turned into a designer and had very different ideas about how it should be done. Mom wanted to add a plastic sheet to it and Dad n me wanted to have an iron sheet about 3 feet high and various designs were mulled over and guess what, but the end of this exercise, which lasted about 2 weeks, mom n dad were so fed up that they just gave up n said "Oh just do something with it, we dont care what!" :)

So finally, the additional two feet of gate was put in place last weekend but the painter never turned up until yesterday...and guess what, that was me !! Actually, there was a power cut last evening when I reached home so I was outside as it was cool and decide to go ahead and just paint the gate myself...! I can paint u know..fabric paint, oil paint, water colours, done it all!! Dad helped too...I poured water on it n scrubbed it clean first n then waited for it to dry n then dad started with one portion of the gate n me at the other end !! And typical of him, he quietly sneeked away after he saw that I was engrossed in the work and left me to do the rest. :)

The reason y this is looking an untidy red right now is cos so far it's only had a coating of red primer which I think is reaclly zinc oxide...u do that on iron first cos it's anti-corrosive !! Have'nt decided about which colour I should finally use on the gate though...but wanna do it over the weekend n will show u my work on monday for sure...m all charged up !! You should have seen the looks on the faces of the guards n the rest of their clan !! Haha..that was fun !! I slept like a log last night ...

Next project--the iron grill on the terrace....maybe ;)

Bull Race,Kerela

For the uninitiated, there's more to this country than the rat race we deal with everyday...and I woke up to the fact too today when I received these pictures of the bull race held at a place near Adoor in Kerela...about 175 kms. from the backwaters in Alapuzzha, from a friend Sinu, who had been there on tuesday in the rain to capture the race in his camera !! And look what a great job he's done..I sooo.. wanna be there to watch the race next year !

Just look at the sheer energy involved and imagine the rush of the adrenaline it infuses in the crowds !!


These men look like having the strength of bulls themselves ...wow !

Hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as I did ....and that also reminds me that I must share with the pics I took on my trip to Kerela.... chao !

15Secs

The day so far in 15 seconds.....came in to work 10 minutes late, had a coffee I did'nt really want, checked emails..official and personal and replied to neither, exhausted my yahoo answers limit already, a friend cancelled an evening out today, feel like having a burger now and this blog is a result of complete booredom...and yes, I could'nt type all of this in 15 seconds !

Green Days

End of another rainy weekend and this one rained a bit of money too as I got the cheques for Rakhi already...!! Ofcourse I promptly did a bit of shopping and spent it all too. Once an uncle read my hand and said " U'll never lack money, but u won't be able to retain it too long either" Oh what the hell, as long as it keeps comming !! :)


Another thing I did was to try to landscape the lawns which seem so overgrown and messed up in this season..though I love the bright flowers around me !! I did'nt do too well there though ...I barely ever know what's growing in our lawns! It needs a neighbour to point out some pretty variety of flower growing in our lawns, like this purple flower in the pics here..it's called "Morning Glory" and for good reason too...cos when i woke up on saturday I noticed the lovely flowers but in the evening when I was on my way out, the flowers were all lying in the grass and I though 'what a pity they did'nt last too long, they looked really nice' , but Sunday morning there they were again blooming away exactly as earlier...mom then told me that they bloom in the day time only..!! So much for landscaping....but hey u remember Rans from my office? She can rattle off the names of plants easily and knows exactly when to grow which one and how to treat 'em right !! Well Happy Greens ! and Happy Friendship Day too....ah and today I reached level 3 at Yahoo! Answers...yahoooooo !!!!!!

Injurious to health..

Anyone else around here who's become addicted to any new site? I'm feeling almost addicted to Yahoo! Answers lately...m on level 2 n going on 3 already..that's 1000 points...yipee!! Anyone can guess what's my log in ID there? 10 points for the right answer are up for grabs.... ;)

Warning : Any person, living or dead, related to me in any way, specially Sinu and Sushmita, are barred from blurting out the ID ...got it?

I'm pretty sure you guys remember my ID even if you dnt remember your own IDs...it's a tendency to remember gory details about others and be tempted to reveal them rather than talk about one's own self! Oh wait a minute, what am I saying? I write a whole blog about me.. :( EEKS..



But talking about memory power, I was at a family function recently and they had made a small stage and arranged for a mike and speakers for music and people were being invited to sing ...well some sang well like my nephew, and some were horrible...but almost everyone sang old songs...strange !! Everyone suddenly suffers from short term memory loss when asked to sing ! Quick, think of a song to sing on stage surrounded by boored relatives.... ???.....???