After Eight

We all know I'm a sucker for tags :P We all also know you're not, especially when it comes to making out big lists. Soooo, I'm tagging whoever's in the mood/is stuck in training. Knock yourselves out!

8 TV shows/News Channels I like to watch:

• Rakhi ka Swayamvar (I know you hope I'm kidding)
• Gilmore Girls (in memory of Mihir)
• HIMYM
• Cougar Town
• My Wife and Kids
• The Big Bang Theory
• Sex and the City
• All the random Tam serials which don't need to be individually named

8 Places to eat and dine:

• Peter Cat, hands down
• My mom's kitchen, even better than Peter Cat
• Frankie Uncal opposite Prasad's (don't go there, you'll fall sick)
• Hyderabadi Kababs (don't go there either)
• Barbeque Nation (you can go there)
• Little Italy (you can go there too, give those animals a rest for one meal)
• Yoko's
• And, for Abhijeet, Basil, for reasons best left unwritten =)

8 Things I Look Forward To:

• Tons of sleep tonight
• My cousin's marriage (I've a mathaapu color sari apparently, lol lol!)
• Tulsi's sisters' marriage(s)
• Getting reimbursed for my hefty IIM course
• Quitting :P
• Going home... wherever that is.
• Watching (and mocking) My Name is Khan - sorry Karan, you know I'll always love you.
• Abhijeet! :D (Wow, I mention you a lot)

8 Things That Happened Yesterday:

• Dreamed about an arranged marriage. Mine. Jesus, this Iyer thing and Raghu are getting to me
• Heart-melted at Jude's incredible sunshine-smile <3
• Breakfast bitchathon, what better way to start the day
• My pimp (lol) got me on Yahoo!News
• Asked for my IT returns and received Google's instead... interesting read, that
• Skipped joyously homeward at 5:30.. hurray for no-meeting nights!
• Watched the most racist movie in the world, didn't get indignant, realized I've grown old
• Stayed up till 10:30 with great difficulty (it really is these days!) to talk to someone for five minutes

8 Things I love about Winter:

• Samosas
• Stoles
• Bangalore deja vu
• Super-dark sunsets
• Snuggle-in-bed sunrises
• Coming in from the cold
• How no one wants to work
• Looong walk weather

8 Things on my Wish-list:

• 5 kilos ... off that is
• Visa
• High salary adjustment
• Heels higher than any the world has seen
• A new job
• Enough time to do the things I want to do
• One night of solid uninterrupted sleep
• For my room to magically recuperate from the mess I left it in this morning

8 Things I am Passionate about:

Please, I'm a Scorpio. I'm passionate about... like... math, even.

8 Words/Phrases I often use:

• Abrrr.
• Psscth.
• Pfftance.
• Eiii.
• Dei.
• Arrrgh.
• Arghance.
• Ada Rama.

Yes, I suspect I may be an induction motor too.

8 Things I learnt from the past:

• Yes, you can fall out of any vehicle imaginable (don't).
• If you don't know something, it's simpler to figure it out than to wait for someone to explain.
• Google anything you don't know before saying you don't.
• There are two categories of movies: those you watch online, and those you watch in the theater.
• There are two categories of books too: those you read offline, and those that just aren't worth it.
• The easiest way to get over someone is by dating them.
• I don't get irreversibly hurt.
• I can't lie, so I shouldn't even try.

8 Places I would like to go /Visit:

• Pakistan
• Iran
• Afghanistan
• Russia
• Austria
• Sri Lanka
• Bihar
• Varanasi

I wanted to be a journalist, so sue me :P

8 Things I currently need/want:

It's strange, I actually can't think of anything.

Romeo & Juliet, Sittin' in a Tree

Do you know what happens in Romeo & Juliet? Like, the story?

Ei should I say no so you can tell me?

Google it :P

You also dunno?

I dunno homie.

Pair of losers. That's all I know.

Er both died??

Both die. Don't get married. Get some sex o course.

They both die in the end. They are the epitome of the deepest lovers.

Their families are rivals, they fall in love.. obviously not working out.. in the climax when they try to get away.. the guy will pretend lik he is dead to get away bt the gal will think he is really dead and kill herself wen he finds this out he kills himself.. finito :D

Thought for the Day

Men think about sex every 7 minutes. Women think about relationships every 3.5. Funny thing is, I hear both involve the heart and not the mind.

Happily Ever After II

Once there were these macaws who met each other and found out they were meant to be, so they were.

Happily Ever After

S: ei tell me story

Akx: Ei what of

S: life

Akx: Ah that.

It ends.

The end.

.... Side effects of training. Halp! Halp!!

O-Sir-Is

For those of you who wanted to know the story of the play that put me in seven - yes, SEVEN - layers of clothing.

The Sun God, Ra, is furious with his wife Nut (not pronounced synonymously with balls), for begotting a son with the Earth God, Geb. However, astrologers predict the b-word (I'm not swearing this year, fill in the blanks with swear words) will grow up to be the greatest king of Egypt. Thus begins the story of Osiris.

Osiris grows up with sister Isis (later his wife because apparently they were out of women in the land) and brother Seth (later murderer because that's what happens when you kill off all the women in the land). Osiris is a prissy twit and brings agriculture, dams, and other wondrous creations to Egypt, Syria, and neighbouring lands

When he returns from one of his do-good voyages, Seth throws him to a banquet where for entertainment, he asks him to get into a box (Osiris does this because he wants to win the box. What can I say, they didn't have Windows back then). Seth them jumps up and down in his skirt, shuts the box, and throws the box (with Osiris inside) into the Nile.

Isis wanders up and down to find the box, meanwhile giving birth to a son Horus - now, since Osiris has been dead awhile, question to yourself where the boy came from and why he's named thusly. Anyway, between the durations when she finds Osiris in the box and goes to pick up Horus from his babysitter's, Seth ambles on over and cuts Osiris into fourteen parts which he flings in arbit directions.

Isis and Horus wander Egypt, building shrines wherever they found a body part (I'm not sure which shrine was the biggest) and then Horus sets out to avenge his (NOT) father's death. He and Seth fight, Seth first learning he has a nephew, and that's the epic battle between night and day that we see every day. But since the story had to end with something better than 'And night followed day, and day followed night, and then, oh guess what? Night followed day again....,' we had Horus kill Seth and be crowned King by Ra.

Morals of the story:

1. Women cheat.

2. Marriage is futile.

3. Don't just kill, tear bodies down entirely.

4. Don't inbreed, future generations get stupider.

5. I don't really have a fifth moral but I didn't want to stop with 4 and that's how stupid stories are born.