Acci-dent!!!!

I was in a minor car accident last week. Thankfully nobody was hurt but my dear old car was pretty badly damaged. A drunk guy over ran the red light and boom!! crashed into me on the passenger side while I was turning left. This is my first time and the incident had me pretty badly shaken since I was in another city and did not know know who to call and what to do (ofcourse other than cops , insurance yada yada). More than the trauma of being in a crash, I have been stressed out dealing with the insurance guys. They are slick, rude over confident people - junta working in insurance firms ...plz do not take it personally- but these are the sad facts when your car does not have comprehensive coverage and they blame the accident on you!!!! Whither goes humane talk when you deal with impersonal professionals?
The accident has made a bigger in dent in my heart than on my car!!

Golu ....

Its almost a week since Vijayadashami but I feel that I have to pen my fond memories of this wonderful festival of dolls which is every girl's favourite.....When we were kids me and my bro used to get very excited about keeping golu....I was excited about arranging all the bommai and my little bro used to get excited about arranging the players on the cricket set we had. He would change the positions of all of them everyday! Daily school lenthu vantha suda suda sundal kidaikum....and in the morning amma used to make some paysam or sweet.
Till I was 10 or 11, I used to be excited about inviting everybody to come for golu...I used to wear a nice pattu paavadai sattai and take a fancy kunkuma chimizh and go seeking into our colony for people to invite. Also we used to go to peek everyday at other's golu and sigh if they had an electric train set or lights or something new we did not have.....(after a few years I lost a little interest in inviting all the maamis of our neighbour hood because everywhere I went they wanted me to sing and I was (still am!!) a paatu nayana suniyam !!!). We had dolls which were almost 50 years old passed down from my patti and all kinds of 'sets' - dasa avatharam, ashtalakshmi, ramar seetai, shivan koil, kalayana set, mappilai azhaippu set, navagraham and later on even TV set - where a family is watching TV!!
Here in the US I did not even realise that golu passed quickly!! I did Saraswati poojai tho..need her belssings to get my dissertation done!! In those days, during Saraswati pooja, I would never read anything for the whole day after having kept all the books in the pujai room. And the next day I would read atleast 2 lines from every single subject I had, lest Saraswati let me slip in the one I missed!!!
Those were the innocent merry days.......(long sigh)

Madras nalla Madras

Nostalgia...

• Drinking Saravana Bhavan filter kaapi and coming home to another cup from Amma
• Early morning walk at Marina Beach
• Running for the thani lorry
• Bribing the thani lorry guy to stop for an extra minute in front of your house
• Sutthufying on my Scooty
• Sutthufying with my then boyfriend and now husband, hoping none of my family will see me
• Running to catch the over crowded Pallavan bus
• Feeling of delight when you get a seat on the bus
• Feeling of having conquered something when you get your bargain prize for the bangles in Mambalam
• Drinking karumbu juice from roadside vendors
• Watching Sun News every nite and Chitti before that
• College cut adichu Udayam theatre la padam parkaruthu
• Gift shopping at Landmark
• Go to browsing centres to browse the net

My hot, humid, over populated, dirty but "Singara Chennai"...I miss u terribly!!!

Is cockroach Thai ??

It all started with going to this upscale Thai restaurant yesterday with 2 of my friends for a lesiurely Saturday dinner......I ordered Veggie fried rice and like all desis usually do or rather the desi gals do.....I doggie bagged the rest of the food after a few nibbles.....today when I microwaved the remainder for a nice cosy breakfast and am almost half way thru it when...here's the climax u r waiting for......I found a COCKROACH in the food!!!
Siva! Siva! What do I do? I know this is not uncommon but has never happened to me......I could have called them and yelled at the cute waiter...but what would he do? Reimburse me for the food? What about all the mental trauma of seeing a small bug next to the baby corn...I thank atleast it was not half a cockroach!!!All I can do is to get my vengance by spreading the word among all desi junta here ! I have lost my appetite for rest of the day!

Love me like I love you....

You get hurt in love only when you love with expectations.....this was one of the messages conveyed by Paul Coelho in his latest book 'The Zahir'. Isn't that so true? I have many a time realized that giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back in return (No, no I am not postbreak up or anything...this is a general statement!).......but how can you love without expectations? I expect the person I love to love me back in return equally if not more....am I being needy here? Although a very practical and level headed person, I feel betrayed if the love I place on someone is not requitted......am I just making too big a fuss here?

My rules of blogging

What do I want my blog to be like?

• Short
• Funny
• Not too intimate
• To express my emotions - anger , resentment, frustration, happiness

What do I expect my blog to do?

• Nothing!! (I love reading blogs - so I am just going to experiment)