I wish

On the return flight...at the baggage carousel I bumped into A.R Rahman who tried his level best to appear incognito by sporting oversized sunglasses, a bright yellow shit and the most hideous lookin purple cap... :)

I;ve always felt that I'm the sort of girl who can walk up to anyone and strike up a conversation about anything...And Celebrities feature right at the top of the list of 'anyone'.

I have taken an oath that if ever I bump into Abhishek Bachan..i would grace him with a sneak peek at the twins :)Now I know this is not becoming of a girl who is about to get married in three weeks..but I'm a big fan people..have always been...long before the designer stubble and the string of hits...right from his tera jadoo chal gaya days when all he had was his sex on toast voice and awkward dance moves!!!

Digress - pls see this video of AB baby and Ash on the Oprah Show...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHxXuTHKLTw

she's all fake accent and perfect teeth..and he's sooooooooooooo funny and charming and GORGEOUS....swwwwwwwooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnn! :)

ok..im done now..and back to Rahman...

Funnily enough no one gave him any bhaav except one maami who went and took a photo with him....While I'm def a Rahman fan somehow I felt a bit awkward abt walking up to him and asking for an autograph..i felt i was intruding on his personal space...which makes me think..will i ever have the guts to walk up to aby baby and if not flash him...at least ask for his autograph....sigh...I wish!!!!

Take your pick!

When you come to think about it, how different do you think the following are..

Scenario 1: In government offices, if greasing the palms of many middle men from the door man to the security to the peon to the personal assistant in order to get any work done or meet a top placed official is termed corruption; how different is it when in temples, in order to cut the waiting time on account of long, snaking queues, a special entrance ticket is arranged for (which of course comes at a hefty price)...Sometimes, even a priest or a trustee is relied upon in order to bypass the queue and gain direct admission into the sannidhi.

In both cases, bribing happens, people with the deeper pockets triumph...so why is the former considered more dirty and well wrong???

Scenario 2: If cheating on your partner with another person is considered adultery...how different is lying to your partner about seemingly harmless things as drinking, smoking, watching porn or even eating non veg?
In both cases lying happens, behind the back activities happen..so why is the former considered more wrong???

Gush Gush

So its been about 2 weeks since my unofficial engagement! We're having an official function in August! It's slowly sinkin in, that single life as I have come to know and love is officially over!

B is super cute and super sweet. I;m fully happy and am confident have made the right decision! He's gelling well with my immediate family and both mom and dad are fully smitten with their new maapillai

He;s very funny and my type of guy! (No, he doesnt know abt this blog in case some of u out there are thinkin that I;m trying to kiss ass!) :) Oh..and he's very indulgent..he bought me many expensive gifts (who says u cant buy affection ;))

B's family is also very sweet..his sisters are very cool and his mom and dad are also very sweet...i met some of his first cousins...hehehe..turned out..super fun...and all kedi buggers like me...good brahmin boys / girls at home, outha oota kazhudais outside ;)

shopping and all yet to begin, cos there's lots of time left..but just the sheer planning and anticipation is making me giddy with excitement!

but everytime i get excited about moving to a new country and starting a new life, I immediately feel sad about leaving home, my parents and my life behind!

Editted to add (for kiruku's sake)
Don't think I will have to change who I am for B's sake..Vodka and Farts will always be of supreme importance ;)
Our first date as fiance and fiancee (is that a word??!!), we went drinking! Now I'm yet to introduce B to all my friends, however the first person he was introduced to was the barman at one of my all time fav pubs...and he told B "congratulations saar, ivanga romba nalla maadri" ;)
After one drink, I checked with B if he appreciated toilet humour. To my horror he said no...after 2 drinks..i asked him how he would react when one of my maamas lifts a butt cheek and lets one rip...whether he would be horrified (well he really cant really afford to be..cos everyone in my family (immediate and extended) fart with gay abandon!)
At first i think he was a bit shocked and well a bit snobbish..but then he recovered quickly and said..if he was destined to talk about shit his entire life, so be it!

I really am lucky! :)

When the past catches up with you

12 years ago, 4 gawky looking teenagers sat around listening to some good, old fashioned boy-band music (we were 14 then, what do u expect)..so in love we were with the various boy bands, their awesome, soulful music, their clean cut looks, their raunchy dance moves - that we decided to name ourselves after each of our favourite group!! (Please let me remind u once again, we were only 14 at the time, DON'T JUDGE!) :)

so...
S became T.T.S - Take that S
K became - B.S.B.K - Back Street Boys K
N became - M.L.T.N - Michael Learns to N
and I became - A.G.B - A.G Boyzone!

At school the next days, we declared that henceforth we should only be referred to by these names...

Sadly, TTS never caught on..cos one of our seniors (who had just passed out of school) was called TTS..and he was just tooooooooooooo hot! I think the entire school - girls, boys, teachers, peons all had a crush on him! And B.S.B.K and M.L.T.N also never stuck...cos they were toooo long to pronounce as initials..and when shortened read as "Busbuk" and "Mltn" - which were well, SAD! (how much ever u sneer and smirk now, we were coooler than that!)... :)

The only name which did stick was mine...and how...EVERYONE called me AGB...now.. as the name was catching on...it so happened that at the time..one guy in 12th stood for the post of Head Boy in the school elections..in his campaign speech,..he mentioned his friends call him 'KGB' or Kutti Gundu Bonda!!

AGB and KGB was tooo cute to be passed on..given that I was also..well...bonda like...we were massively teased together..Given that I was also dared to walk up to him and yell "Nee K-G-B, aanna na A-G-B!" in one very tamil movie like setting! It was all very silly, yet cute!

Anycase..for the remaining of my school life..read 3 years...i was known as AGB!

Once I came to college, I was introduced to some real music - Floyd, Stones, Pearl Jam, S&G, etc etc...suddenly to be named after a boyband was tres embarrassing! Considering a large gang from my school joined the same college, not only my old friends, but also all the new ones called me AGB!

For the 3 years I was in college...I worked hard to erase the name AGB and be re-christened as Amri! It paid off...hardly anyone calls me AGB anymore..and when they do it is to piss me off!

Now, 12 years later..when the ghost of AGB has long settled, of all the boys in the world, my parents had to go and introduce me to "B", well, whom I like and who likes me back..and well..we're getting married soon! :) (yay yay!!) :)

And I'll be back to being AGB - but thankfully enough..this time around I wont be named after a boy band! :)

Skeletons in the Closet

when ghosts of the past surface
they serve no purpose but to unsettle the dust
disrupt the tangled web we so carefully weaved
till we numb ourselves to once again believe the make-believe!

this post doesn't really have any personal reference or significant meaning...i don't have any particularly nasty skeleton to hide in my closet...however, a recent comment from a friend got me thinking..over time some people really do start believing the lies they told to be the actual truth!

PS - in case ur wondering if i lifted the 4 lines from anywhere...i didn't! it all just sorta came to me as i was laying in bed, trying to sleep...im clever like that ;)

Bizarre and Senseless!

This is not the feminist in me protesting! This is the sensible person in me putting my hand up and asking wat is up with the promoters of Whisper (sanitary napkins for the uninitiated and blissfully ignorant souls)! Me thinks they should fire their advertising agency...

Enough has been said about the whole "Have a happy period" tag line. As easy as it is to abuse the crap out of the person who came up with that (no doubt a guy)...my grudges are a bit more basic...

It all started with the horrendous ad where this annoyingly happy girl (obviously dressed in white) walks by a guy who can smell her period...so "odour control" was the marketing gimmick....though i cringed every time i saw it...i was silent!

Then about 5 - 6 months ago...they started showcasing their pads decorated as flowers..each pad forming a petal of the flower! As sad as I thought it was...I still didn't object...

But the recent ads really take the cake...wherein a couple of pads are walking along masquerading as sandals, stepping into a "puddle" and being super absorbent!

Is it me or are these ads not bizarre?? Am I over-reacting???Do these ads not qualify for a WTF moment???

Lets think out of the box for a moment here..as I'm sure the people who came up with these ads thought they were doing when they came up with such shit...Lets say, God decided to one day reverse roles...and decided to gift men a monthly visit from Aunty Flow (come on men..it's not that bad...think of what all you can get away with in the name of PMS :)

Assuming all the plumbing apparatus for the guys remains the same...the good folks at P&G come up with some suitable measures to help men cope with the ordeal..be it in the form of XL Wings, easy disposable, odour control, ball-ed comfort etc etc...

Would men cringe from disgust if ads of their sanitary napkins are paraded around as snakes slithering away, or hose pipes putting out a fire! (Ladies, got any more "creative" ideas???)

While I genuinely do consider sanitary napkins to be somethin close to the best discovery since sliced bread, all I ask is that they be advertised in a more suitable manner rather than flowers and footwear and anythin else pseudo-ly "girly" -

It truly is bizarre and senseless!

Life Imitates Art Imitates Life

What can best be described as a strategic and political movie, the ruling party decided to show one of my favourite films on KTV this evening...Kannathil Muthamittal

I have seen this film many times before, but with all that is being reported in the press in recent times, it was as if I was watching the film for the very first time!

A couple of days ago, the front page of all the major dailies showed a photo of tens and thousands of civilans fleeing the No Fire Zone. In the movie too, there's a scene of many people fleeing a town called Mangala. Honest to God, the picture splashed on the dailies could have been a still from this movie..

Throughout the film, I kept annoying my dad asking him several times, "Is it really like this", "Do they really do that", "Does all this happen". Scenes of LTTE training camps, women cadets being taught the nuances of machine guns, cyanide necklaces disturbed me no end!

Switch over to NDTV a couple of hours later and the big fight was all about the war in sri lanka! You had representatives from the congress, dmk, aidmk, senior journalists, pro-ltte activitists etc. The big fight lacked a punch, turning into a yelling contest with each panelist trying to out-do each other without even listening to what the other had to say...debate aside, you also had a very sweaty vikram chandra who could barely control the panel and the audience.

As a tamilian, and a proud one at that, the plight of tamilian civilians in lanka does greatly disturb me. However, setting myself on fire or calling a state wide bandh in another country will hardly achieve anything to help their cause.

its a pity that political parties are using this unfortunate situation as fodder for their election manifesto...while it is easy for me to pass remarks without first hand experiencing the problem, an educated solution would be to .............??!!??!!