can't-sleep-rt-now-and-got-nothing-to-do post

So, among other things just a few I'd like to mention...

I used the 'f' word twice with Ma. She pretended not to notice.
I used 'Bastard' in front of both of them and they were very polite in their admonishings.
I was the only person wearing a dress on any or all of the beaches today. Sure shot way to get noticed!
I just realised that I have had no water but only wine and beer to drink today.
I openly laughed at a couple because they decided to stop dead in their tracks, and break out into sensuous rain songs while on their way down some ancient steps to the beach below. It does not sound so funny now does it..?
For the whole day it felt like it was us and the state of Bengal in Goa. For all their taste in clothes, food and gods... they seem to be lacking severely in restaurant manners. Their kids always cry or talk too much... everyone on general talks too much and much too loud. And all they say sounds like questions coz it ends in a note higher than when it all began to be said. They always complain... the marxist/revolutionary/'I am a lazy ass but will have yours if you so much as take time to blink while getting me my fish which I won't eat immediately anyway because I need to vehemently argue with my 2 year old' attitude.
The couple singing on stairs were from the afore mentioned state.
My ex is from that state.
Do you know a body builder from this state?
All men were thinner than all women. And all men and all women had paunches.
The couple on the stairs did sing well tho.
I am going to read Amartya Sen's 'The Idea of Justice' after I am done with the current reading of 'Stern men' by Elizabeth Gilbert.
The great thing about beng women wearing shorts is that my dad and I can fall over each other laughing watching the uncomfortable gait for too tight an elastic band after too much of lunch... we entered the house today walking just like that one after the other chanting 'cholbe na... cholbe na'!

G Spot!

The day was well spent. The daily Goa diary today has entries for the following spots, (in line with the newly established tradition on the blog... pictures speak a thousand words. Hope you like em!)

1. The sea at Kalangut: It was a rainy day and I cannot thank the forces that be enough for it. It was cool, breezy, pituresque and everything I ever wanted.



2. Bagha: We stepped into Goa at the brink of the tourist/mad frantic crowds season. So rt now we have the advantage of seeing everything and doing it all but without queues and too many people or the air turning into a perspiration soup to breathe in. Its cheap and pretty. Did I smash all my luck for the year in one go or did I smash it!



3. Anjuna: Rocky, rough and rainy. This one had rocks strewn around like some sunbathing champs... all flat and lying on their backs. Dad said it used to be famous at a point of time for Hippies. So much so that he almost missed the bus in the mad scramble to spot some of them. :) Its incredible to imagin this 52 year old man wanting to see hippy women at some point in his life... That might explain somethings I have done tho... must be in the blood. Not my fault then is it? And that's me in the picture trying to do a Titanic on as close as I can get to the real sea.




4. Vagator: My favorite... firstly because I think it's got the coolest name of all. And secondly it had some old world feel to it. I stood on the cliff getting drenched in the rain and feeling one with the place. It was quiet. I was the only person standing on that cliff for a long time... ma and Pa waiting in the car. It seemed like I was with a person ancient and wise... who has just been there waiting still and stoic for centuries now and will be there for all the time to come. Not too many great words for this one feeling I guess. Its a soul thing. More pictures hence...





5. Fort Aguada: DCH moment! cliched but true... me was looking for my boat out there on the horizon. Scenic... and too many people for a change.





6. Random: this is a place we found while hiking a lil on foot and I think it was just incorrigibly quaint. Its one of my fav pics of the day.

1. The new cozy

So a lot has happened since we met on blogosphere (for all I know this statement could be addressed to just one person reading this much abandoned blog!) but anyway... I am breaking it all down into 4 - 5 posts so I can tell all with pics! Happy viewing.



I have shifted houses and the new house is called The Penthouse... in the hope of that particular inspiration translating itself to materialistic reality... and if you thought I want a real penthouse or something then you don't know me. :)

The view from my balcony... Mumbai monsoons from a 4th floor apartment. Its peaceful. I refuse to have a roommate and stand tall and proud against the parental lamentings of all the rent money wasted... Even more so because its a 2 BHK and I love living all alone in it, with a few friendly invisible spirits of course. The latest joke around it being how I can just go for a walk in my own house for all the exercise I need. I look foward to housing friends over, throwing parties and killing people by throwing them over the balcony.

2. Bengaluru... the name sucks

I accompanied ma n pa in the shift from Pune to Bengaluru... some glimpses from the trip. The pay phone on the bamboo pole was charming... The dude making the call posed too! Ha! :)



can you see the smoke from the dhaba's chimney? I had the most amazing omlettes and tea in this place. On the outskirts of bangalore they were all the five stars or such places claim to be and are not. Ambience, food, and scenic too! Completely quaint. It also was the longest car trip of my life...

3. Mumbai Darshan - Ma Pa Me

Ma and Pa came to Mumbai and we visited all the places attacked during 26/11. It was solemn and warming seeing how life has just rushed back. So you have the Taj, Trident among many and my feet... the latter as a momento of all the places we stood on and things we remembered. I love Bombay.




ps: Something with blogger... Dude can't handle placing more than 1 pic aesthetically.

4. Gogoa!!

Yess.... I am in Goa right now. and if the pic attached is anything to go by then this is going to be an awesome trip... We are at a villa in Candolim... the cook's fantastic.. Its just the first day and I am worried about how much I ate. The weather rocks... Its insanely quiet. I have two cameras at my disposal and internet. The best thing is that there are no plans for this week long vacation. Whims shall govern where the feet tread.

5. Crystal Gazing

What were you thinking of reading that title...? Presentations?? I do. Everytime someone says that. B-School has ruined this phrase for me. Anyway... as point no 5 in this list, I am going to be Belle dancing in Istanbul next year in July! And to get technical... please find attached the very first of my collection of belts. I have them in different colours and designs etc etc.. but this is my favorite! Glee!!