If there's a place where I want to go on a holiday now ( It used to be rainforests or the Phi Phi islands)... its Milford Track, NZ.

I had seen a feature on the track on Discovery T&L last month and it's supposed to be the best trek in the world! These pictures that I gleaned off the web prove that so right.. Wow!

Saw a cricket match going on at Parade Grounds on my way back home yesterday, and I was so tempted to get off the flyover and play spectator...I miss being a kid and the crazy stuff we did in the colony.. The scars on my knees are a testament to those fun days of berry picking, kite flying (including making the glass-laced manja!), hunting mangoes with our slingshots, endless cricket and skating sessions, hide 'n' seek during power cuts, 'pittu', hopscotch and racing each other on our bicycles.. and of course regular tetanus shots.Yup! I was pretty much a tomboy till I turned into a docile teen. Wish I never grew up.

Don't envy the kids of today though. What with endless tuitions, entrance exams, structured tennis/music lessons and no room to play in these concrete city jungles, their childhood is lost before it begins.. Wish everyone would just give the kids a break!

Game - Set - Zzzzz

So nice..I'm having a " spa weekend" at home ..
...In other words, smearing your face with stuff that one shud've been eating instead, dunking the piggies in a lavender soak, a hot oil 'n' banana mane masque, and a ginger lemon scrub to end it with...I do look like a crazy native in the interim.. sincerely hope to look better in the end :)

Mmmmmm...If it wasn't for the riveting rivalry betn Rafa and Roger at today's Aussie Open ..I would have dozed off ...These guys are running neck- to-neck and its so hard deciding whom to support..I've decided on cheering Federer this time ( to truly enjoy any match, I believe one should pick a side to cheer).. and I'm biting my nails off already..Rafa leads 6-5 in the second set...and M on the edge of my seat.. oh boy!

P.S: How can people watch Golf on TV? Re-phrase that: Why do they watch Golf on TV or even Chess for that matter? Even if you play these games, it seems so boring to watch them passively.

Quirky Stuff I do

Peel mushrooms.
Insist on having my tea cup filled only 3/4ths.. as if I am gonna enjoy the "bouquet" after swirling it around.
Leave creative projects half-done for months on end and suddenly pick them up to complete them all in one weekend.
Say "hi house" when I come back from a vacay or even a long day at work.

Make lists like this one.. I always have a list of things to do. .especially for the weekends :)

Stuff that fascinated me as a kid

Magnets
Magnifying glasses, binoculars and prisms
Maggi (yes,I loved the whole slurping thing!) and wobbly jello and jujubes
Escalators
Dragonflies,tadpoles,goldfish and caterpillars and flies constantly rubbing their legs together as if to clean up before sitting on a trashcan
Ruminating cows (I still wonder what they think of all day long?)
Stray dogs hurrying along sidewalks (where were they rushing off to?)
Kaleidoscopes created by petrol slicks on water
And of course- Rainbows!

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na

Ok! I will club the next person who tells me that the lyrics of Rock On are so cool! and Farhan's voice is sooooooooo well suited to the rock genre..Poor Dylan and Nickelback! Duh!!!! The movie was fine, heavy on DCH inspiration - a cool gang of friends who split, thanks to a misunderstanding betn a couple of them,an uber- rich unhappy guy(Aamir/Farhan), a happy-go-lucky flirt (Saif/Purab), one intense introvert (Akshaye/Arjun), the whole Goa angle, the dark minimalistic apartment , a terminally ill person who brings these friends back together (Dimple/Luke) etc.. I guess the movie again works coz it again takes folks to back to rose-tinted nostalgia and gives some cultish trends for the younger lot to sport ....I am writing all this now coz I am sick of people who go on and on about the songs ...I am not a rock know-it all but puhlease don't tell me that Farhan sang better than that Chakravyuh guy! I loved the nasal smoothness of Dominique Cerejo 's voice in Ye Tumhari Meri Baatein though! And I loved Arjun's long locks in the last concert!

P.S - On the same ranting note, I also totally disagree with people who put Atif Aslam in the same league as Shaan /KK.. listen to him singing live guys! he can't carry a tune to save the whales!! Himesh is much better!! Phew!!! I feel much better now

Why is ?

Bindra the Chompion?
Resume the Résumé?
Kaif Coffee Day ?
Robo the Robot reading News on Fafer?
Panting Fants making you loff?

Woi? Woi? Woi? !!

P.S : Only those who have lived in Hyd will get what I mean on this post

Its Moooo

Martin: Do you keep your patients waiting like this?
Frasier: Oh, just the compulsives.

Frasier: It's supposed to say, "Congratulations, Dad."
Deliveryman: There wasn't room.
Frasier: People have written the Declaration of Independence on a grain of rice!
Deliveryman: Not with frosting.

Kenny: There she is. Now, I gotta warn you, Doc, she's uh, in a eelchair-way.
Frasier: Does her handicap preclude her from understanding Pig Latin?

Daphne: I suppose I like my gents more on the manly side. [Looking at the napkin Niles is holding]
Daphne: Is that a little swan you just made?
Niles: No, it was a B-52.

Frasier: Have you any idea of appropriate baseball-watching attire?
Niles: Obviously, you failed to detect the subtle diamond pattern in my tie

Joey - You're smoking again?
Chandler - Well, actually, yesterday i was smoking again, today i'm...i'm smoking still.

"Cheese. It's milk that you chew."
"Crackers. Because your cheese nedds a buddy."
"A grape. Because who can get a water melon in your mouth."
"The phone. Bringing you closer to people who have phones."
"Bagels and doughnuts. Round food, for every mood."
"Pants. Like shorts, but longer."

Phoebe: What am I sitting on?
Chandler: Top of the world? dock of the bay?

Ross: I just got back from the vet.
Chandler: She's not going to make you wear one of those big plastic cones, is she?

Chandler: I got her machine.
Joey: Her answering machine?
Chandler: No, interestingly enough her leaf-blower picked up.

Joey:... it's a moo point
Rachel:... you mean a moot point
Joey:... no no, a moo point ... like a cow's opinion, doesn't matter ... it's moo ...