Chutti hai!

Hey I just noticed that it's my 30th anniversary...no i'm not 30 yrs old or married for 30...but I have 30 blogs so far! Never thought i'd make it this far when I began. Well it's friday today n i'm impatient to just get home now..and oh we have a loooong weekend now cos Oct. 2 & 3 is off too so i'm back at work only on wednesday now. There's white-washing going on at home so i'll be busy moving things around at home and so I already have my hands full. I had planned to bring home the beagle pup from my uncle this weekend just for a week initially to see if I could manage to keep it but I think I won't be able to do this now..plus, i'm a bit feverish too today so I'm probably going to have a bad cold by tomorrow :(

And oh ya, my friend Sinu sent me an awesome saree..a traditional keralite saree in ivory with a maroon n gold border...looks cool ! How nice of him to think of me on the ocassion of Onam na? But he's a cool guy anyhow and an awesome photographer too..check out naturemagics.com n u will know what i'm talking about!

Acha toh hum chalte hain...phir wednesday ko milengi...i suspect my net connection at home is gng to expire one of these days too...! Cheers to Gandhiji n German Re-unification!

Sunday...

Sunday's here once more and on the lazy afternoon i'm wondering what contribution to make to my poor blog today which has not seen me around much lately...Well I have'nt really been upto much anyway. Work was a bit busy lately but it's been ok for the last 2-3 days and ive even made two new friends on the net! Both punjabi boys u know..one is this energetic, talkitive guy and the other's a more sober, philosophical guy, but they've been fun to talk to and m enjoying myself...lol!
Then ive been spending a bit of time with the trainee from abroad at office too, guiding her to good stores from where she can shop and check mark her shopping list !! We've also done a bit of shopping together n we got her a saree, some silver jewellery, hair accessories, jaipuri jootis, bangles, bindis and gorged on masala dosa too! oh and in the process I got myself a silk scarf and silver jewellery too. Too bad she's leaving this month end and won't be around till diwali.
And this reminds me, I wanna get a new suit for diwali and am also thinking of picking up a gold bracelet but this time with pretty precious stones...what say?!! Ofcourse there's a lot to be done at home too in terms of preparing for diwali!! Brother's comming home for diwali too...yippee!!
My uncle's built a new house too recently and tomorrow is the greh pravesh (house-warming) party..they plan to move in around diwali. I guess that's pretty much an overview of all that's happened recently...signing out!!

War paint!!

Hey! Like I promised....here's a snap of the gate as it look now after the fresh coat of paint! It's a golden brown shade..we did'nt do the deep red or maroon intended earlier as that looked too bright and reminded me of the paint they do on the gates of some temples! Well, I did'nt really save any money by doing it myself I think...as I bought fresh brushes, two tins of paint, dusting cloth, a primer, etc which the painter would have bought with him anyway I guess..infact, I spent 3 days on it cos first it needed scrubbing a bit to take off the rust which had started to appear at some places, then we had to clean the surface and apply a coat of primer and after that dried, we used two coats of paint!! Actually, I had first bought a litre of cherry red paint but when I did a bit of that, it looked way too bright so I changed my mind and bought a more sober looking "golden brown" ! So this is how it looks now...after three whole days spread over two weekends! Oh and my old pair of jeans graduated to being a working-jeans! Coupled with an old t-shirt and a scarf on my head I was prepared for the task!

I'm proud of my handiwork and it's definatly the largest thing I ever painted too...I can give any painter a run for his money now..lol! It might have taken a lot and is probably a once in a lifetime project but it gave me so much satisfaction n i'm sure it will last much longer than the coat of paint a painter would have splashed on it in a hurry without cleaning the gate and applying primer on it!

So what do u think? Yea, I know i'm kinda crazy...but I meant what do u think of my picasso?

And now if u wanna find me, u know which gate to knock..:)

Update..

Hieeee....I know I promised u a dekho of the spanking new gate but guess what, ever since i've made up my mind to paint it myself...it has not stopped raining !! Just one more week pls...then i'm surely gonna do it...trust me, i've even bought a big tin of cherry red paint for it and new brushes n all...!

The other news is that it was a colleague's b'day at office yesterday n we had a nice little pastry party at tea time...:) He's the kind of guy who's generally liked by people and is usually a genuine person except when he's a bit diplomatic...but yeh bhi ek ada hai! But he had sure had this awesome smile on his face all day yesterday which comes from knowing that people who matter to u love u and remember u on ur special day. That brings me back to the pasteries...4 out of 6 people wanted "something with less fat" when we wanted to make a note of who wanted which pastry...so fruit tart was settled on but unfortunatly the pastry shop did'nt concur and we had to settle for fresh fruit pastries instead ! Everyone's calorie concious now u know...someone's going for regular evening walks, another one's paid a dietician, then again someone has a "fruit-day" and as for ur's truly, I also have some plans....I will soon buy a pair of addidas, track suits, matching hair bands, water bottle, wet tissues, .....n then I will surely loose something, is'nt it?