It's raining Men - Hallelujah!
Posted by lafemmereva in Girl talk, Jest for Jolly, Men, Random Musings
So I have waxed eloquent about movies (Look for articles tagged: With popcorn and friends) and music (Look for articles tagged: American Idol, Britain's Got Talent) but not much about that other thing that captures my fancy. Men. So here's to the beer drinking, couch warming , sports crazy species called M.E.N.
So amigos, forgive me for speaking up for my gender when I tell you that although we love you we will LEAVE you.
When (in glee)- You ask? Sleeping on couch are you? Or considering marrying one maybe?
Here's when.
Eve to Adam: " Honey! Those fig leaves you are wearing are so last season" .
Adam to Eve: "Sure honey! I'll get myself new ones" And he went and got himself a banana Leaf!
Run - For Cover: God made pants. And they were conjoined to the bodies of men from the day they were born.
Okay. Enough nitpicking guys. Just pay our bills. We'll work around the rest. We love you. Sometimes.
Bah!! I bet atleast one guy will backtrack a link to this post and have a spin off post on the quirks of women. Send me a link if you do, no? Let's spread the joy :P
P.S. Pls don't take it personally and send me hate mail :) You guys will see the mirth only no? This is the work of an overworked and bored mind. No offense meant at all. I totally love your gender - all shapes, kinds and color. Me also sits on the couch all weekend and sometimes outsources laundry and all.
Crap! U didn't hear that from me.
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Dear Mother Nature,
I think you have an eating disorder, Aren't you getting too gluttony of late?
Snow for breakfast , Sunshine for lunch , Chilly winds for tea and Storm for dinner?
~ Lafemmereva
P.S Colorado has the lowest obesity rate in the country and of late the most unpredictable weather!!!
Deary Diary,
If I could go back in time to that day when Murphy evacuated his mother's uterus and made an emergency exit into this world, I would take him and feed him to a cannibal. Bah!!! Murphy and his laws ruled my day and just had a blast!!!!
U just wait Mister, I will so come after you and vanquish you!!! Xena - The warrior princess types!!!!
And I will live to see a PS3 game named after our battle.
Amen!
P.S The guy who sits near the copier is cute!
Southener Series - Numero Tres - Torture Element
Posted by lafemmereva in Item Numbers - Guest Appearances, Jest for Jolly, Random Musings
Hi,
I am the Southener. Remember me? I am a day late. Sorry. I was vacationing in Hawaii. I suggest you all also vacation there more often. Natural beauty(ies) in its abundance ;) Lafemereva is planning to vacation in Hawaii this holiday season after seeing the pics I brought back!
Today I write about an Idea that destroyed many student lives.
Everyone was living a life of peace and quietude. Students were passing all their exams, percentage of educated people were rising. One sadistic Russian did not like this at all. So kabooooom one night, high on a lot of vodka and potatoes, he got an idea and developed a table which wreaked complete havoc amongst the student crowd. Some failed, some left academics, many went mad, there was total chaos. The percentage of educated fell at an exponential rate, and till date it still tortures the daylights out of people. I am talking about Dmitri Mendeleev and his periodic table. This is very close to my heart as even after burning the midnight oil I still get confused between Ca and Na. To add to my woes nowadays in movies (Like Dasavatharam (Tamil)) people have started using terms like Nacl instead of common salt. The day is not far when I have to go to an arrack shop and ask for Ch3Oh.
Structure of methanol:
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Good Night - I am sleeping on the couch!
Posted by lafemmereva in Jest for Jolly, Random Musings, single n mingle
I had seen almost all movies worthy of being watched so I decided to stay in and watch my favorite TV shows while cuddled on the couch in my pajamas with my favorite date - Hagen Dazs.
The doorbell rings and she rushed in her saturday night best. She hadn't called on me in a long time and thankfully that didn't stop her from calling on me in her hour of distress.
Looking every inch the chic girl I knew her to be, my friend walked in to narrate a woeful tale of how she went out to a movie with a friend whose husband tagged along as well. What was planned to be a girl's night out turned out to be a nightmare for this friend. The couple apparently cooed and canoodled while my friend was left feeling terrible for the lack of similar attention. Half way through she left the movie and headed straight to meet me and ask - Was she suffering from the disease of being single?
A lot of what I say is what a friend of mine told me a very long time ago when I went to him while being in a similar quandary myself. Very long ago on a friday night I was stood up by all my friends who were cozying up with their significant others leaving me to brave the night alone on my couch. Just me and Hagen Dazs. Being new to this country and being single was a double whammy. So I called a friend of 9 years - Let's call him Mr. Lafayette, whom I thank for being my sounding board on several occasions till date, instilling in me a strong sense of direction.
At the risk of stating the obvious I say it - Couplehood is the most trendy label. Society and hormones enforce it's necessity and subsequent popularity. I dare not disagree. You always have someone to wake up to, talk to, do things with, someone to buy you gifts on your birthday someone to make you feel like a million bucks!
So the million dollar question - why are some of us still single?
It's not because someone left us or vice versa. No we are not dorks, nerds, geeks or social recluses. We are not too picky or foolishly eternally in wait for "The One" to come along. It could be all that too, but in a large majority of cases it is a self made choice.
Being single doesn't make sense as a conscious choice because of its popular association with leading a miserable life ALONE! It is looked at widely only as a transitory phase - a sort of lean period before couplehood rules the roost, again!
Singlehood is truly just that - a transitory phase. Nobody dies an old maid. Not even if you a serial casanova or a resident of the land of commitment phobia. Every single crosses over to the other side of the fence eventually.
Being single, for lack of a better word, can suck. Putting yourself out in the dating scene every friday night can seem a daunting task to many. A huge slap on the face of self esteem but we need to remind ourselves of the principle that got us all through college- To get an admit you need to apply! The best part is you meet some good eggs, some bad ones but for the most part you do meet a lot of bright minds.
Do you know that my best investment is not in Prada, Fendi or Burberry. Its my investment in self improvement. I am a good cook, I manage my finances, I get to spend my money without having anyone to tell me how. I have the time to prep for a marathon, to be with my friend's pets, to visit parents more often, to travel extensively across the country, rediscover old friends and new cultures.
If you have been or are newly single invest all of your time in learning to love and care about that one person who can satisfy all your needs - Yourself. This way you are reducing your sure shot as hell encounter with an overdose of disappointment when your dream of finding the one to fill the void within your soul is unrealized. It is a void that only we can truly fill ourselves. Having a significant other hardly bolsters your stability. If anything it brings with it an extra person , an extra baggage. You need the"other" to complement you. Not fill you.
Foolishly hoping the partner to fill in the gaps results in endless resentment - a vicious state which entails unnecessary extra marital ventures spelling the marital doom.
Like the proverbial dark cloud having a silver lining there are a zillion pros to being single. Discover them through your personal journey. Example?
If you are a girl you can shop all you want and don't have to hide your stuff in the closet and pretend to have had it since ages. And if you are a guy you can do with her not having to borrow your razor for quick "silky smooth legs".
Celebrate being single. Remember that's what the soap Sex and the city showed us! Before you have that unsettling feeling that I am suggesting you romp around your city with no tag of commitment involved, you are wrong. Nor am I suggesting that you all live vicariously through Charlotte/Miranda/Carrie/Samantha. I am urging you all to make your discoveries, learn your own lessons. Become a better you! Trust me relationships are high maintenance and time consuming. Use all the time you have at hand NOW! Love happens when you least expect it to!
So tell yourself - Come date night, will party! Sure you could get stood up or end up feeling left out at times when your friends liplock. That's when girlfriends/guyfriends come to the rescue. Like I went to my friend's today and like my friend came to mine in the distant past!
And for those nights in get a good couch and a pair of running shoes. Hagen Dazs fat free version is still a good 280 calories that you need to burn the next morning!!!
P.S. #1 Friend just drove away , a couple of hours and scoops of double fudge sundaes later, feeling much better, promising to call on me more often:) She is sure she will not die an "Old Maid" now!
P.S. #2 Lafayette asks to be described a a guy who has the bod of a greek god! His email will be made available upon request.
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Bah!!! Murphy's law...On a day when you work from home work is constantly flowing and the connectivity isn't.
Finally 6 in the evening by the time I called it a snow stormy day!
So I go walking (car tires are cooling in several inches of snow) to the friend's home.
Don't believe me? See my footprints in snow here.
Conversation flowed and then she pulled it on me. The 5 minutes. More like rapid fire.
5 questions will be asked in 5 minutes and the target (me) has to answer without giving much thought. And the person asking the question should surprise the target without any advance notice about such an august event.
Only upon completion I will be allowed to devour the delectable masala vada and chai. Bah, like when mummy says brush your teeth , then only breakfast!!!After all these years I assure you it makes no difference - Breakfast/Brushing , Brushing/Breakfast. Trust me, I have healthy teeth. Read this
Okay so,
1. Aren't you afraid of being judged when you make some parts of your life public in your blog. Like aren't you concerned about being judged? (I usually blog a lot at this friend's place, so she is aware of this blog and all, avid fan, you could say)
Lafemmereva: What I write is from my real life but I never let details slip. Period. Even if I did , inadvertently, all I have to say is "I have not done anything that the person reading my blog hasn't done already". So let HIM, the three lettered guy, up above us all in the sky so high do the judging. The rest of us can go back to eating vada, drinking chai and blog browsing.
2. How do you manage to have such a huge social network? Where do you find the time to stay in touch?
Lafemmereva: It is more difficult these days NOT to stay in touch what with being online on Gtalk, Yahoo, AOL, Orkut, Facebook, Twitter, Digg....et al. So despite being on all these portals if you are not in touch with friends and family, you are cutting a sorry figure!
3. Boyfriend/Girlfriend and why?
Lafemmereva: Boyfriends are like earthquakes
You are left in shambles after they are gone
Girlfriends are like cupcakes
The sweet taste doesn't leave your mouth even after its gone.
4. India/US- where will lafemmereva make her home?
Lafemmereva: Home is where the heart is. Salaam India!
5. Favorite option - Restart/Shut down. Why?
Lafemmereva: Shut down. So that I can...
Get out.
Walk in the snow
Feel the chill
Take a walk
Go to a friend's place
Have a hearty chat
Feel alive!!!!
P.S Vada and Chai was top notch!
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The only image more visually enticing than the bank balance at the end of the month, is the one below:
Things to do tomorrow:
1. Sleep in
2. Eat foot long subs in foot deep snow
3. Throw snowballs *intentionally* and apologise
4. Send emails every 5 minutes as proof of *not* working from home
This is *fool's paradise* life.
Many thanks to all ye people for the e-group hug.
The virus felt isolated,
I felt elated.
Mwah Mwah!
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This day, This year, Right here, Right now....!
Posted by lafemmereva in Jest for Jolly, Random Musings
Read *this* first . And now armed with the big story read below.
This day will go down in the annals of history not as World Tuberculosis day.
Not as the day lafemmereva woke up early in the morning to get her skin
pricked because she was guile enough to go to some prick's party and
sportingly hosted one of her own in her body.
She is such a gracious host!!!
The 24th day in the month of March in the year of 2009 in the
Gregorian calendar will henceforth be fondly recollected as that day
when l/reva realized that It's not a man's world after all and sometimes a
girl can have all the luck!
Scene at the doc's. The results are out.
Lafemmereva : Tumhare paas kya hain?
Doc : Mere paas bacteria hain! Tumhare paas kya hain?
Lafemmereva : State of the art, world class immune system
The joke is on the doc who has the flu of the stomach...Me? All I have
is good KARMA! ;)
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Will I live to 89? Yes - good karma and digestion willing.
Will I be blogging? Yes - Internet and good eyesight willing.
Will I be living with my children? Yes. I''ll Drop everything on the floor, not make my bed, hang up the phone just as someone walks into the room, spill my food on the table and when questioned, I'll tell them - I'm giving you a taste of your childhood. I'm doing to you rascals what you did to me when you were kids.
Will I be hale and healthy? Yes. Doctor and surgery willing.
No, not the surgeries of the heart or some such vital organ our biology teachers made us draw in school. I'm talking about the more essential ones -The cosmetic nip/tuck types. A tuck here and a nip there! When nature lets you down technology has to step in, correct?
None of what I said above for *this* nanny.
Did she just wow! you? This Granny is on a high!! Go Granny Go!
Especially this part - "Asked about her election message to voters, she said: "I am upset when I see a lot of youths turning to drugs and there are not enough schools. If chosen, I will make it all better."
A request to the Granny....How about advocating for lowering the cost of dental insurance? We both have that issue in common!
*Obama need look no farther for a face for his drug eradication efforts across the border.
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Santa has a good idea. He visits people once a year - with gifts. So does the virus/bacteria - with fever. See - History repeats.
And the Doc is not even half as good as Santa. The virus is not half as bad as the Doc.
Doc delivered the fab news that I may possibly have a minor virus/ bacteria issue. He said it was the in - thing in my neighbourhood.
A a couple of days ago I went to a bash thrown by a kind neighbour who was leaving the country for good. A "milk" dessert was served. In the toast, I thought I saw a sly grin on his face when he said "I hope I am leaving behind something for you all to remember".
Today is World Tuberculosis day. Bacterium's favorite day. Maybe all the bacteria in the world decided to party in my body and are hungover on the remnants of the milk from the dessert. I am honored to be their host!
Oh! My doc, also my neighbour, was in that party :)
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A tense and stressful 6 hrs passed with concern about an ailing kin today. I usually am a make-up person and smile is my favorite cosmetic. Stress as you know is the worst concealer.
Frantic calls, lots of pacing up-and-down-the-corridor and endless cups of coffee was becoming the order of the day. As things progressed I decided to take mind off things. I walked into my office break room where we all gather to heat our lunch in the microwave unit.
Scene: Two microwave units in the break-room and I am waiting my turn near one of them as both are occupied by two ladies (who sit near my workstation and are remarkable witty. I so so so love them for regaling me with their wisecracks everyday)
Lady 1: "I am going to rush to the restroom while my lunch gets heated in the oven".
Saying so, she times the m/wave unit to a minute and goes to the restroom for doing "it".
Lady 2 and I engage in small talk.
Lady 1 returns from the restroom just as the one-minute timer on her m/wave unit is about to go off. She reaches to take her lunch out of the oven and while doing so sports a "I don't believe this" kind of expression.
Lady 2 (seeing Lady 1 's expression speaks): "You are surprised your food can be so frozen that even a minute in the oven hasn't done it any good?"
Lady 1: "No! , I never knew I could do "it" in the restroom in less than a minute."
Lady 2: Don't tell the manager this or she will time us to do "it" in less than a minute and add that as a performance measure in our appraisal!!!!
:) And just like that I smiled.....again....
And yes, I did time myself during my next trip .....and I'm sure you will too!!!!
Southener Series - Numero Deux - Idea that helped create a multi-million dollar tool
Posted by lafemmereva in Item Numbers - Guest Appearances, Jest for Jolly, Random Musings
Just when you thought I had forgotten about it...Here I come.
Hi,
I am the Southener. If we haven't met before..Pls read this. Thanks!
Foresight:
Our Italian mastermind invented a device which he used to letch at this beautiful girl next door, who moved out to the next locality, so he just increased the power of this device, and then she moved to the next city and then town and then country, and the genius that he was went on increasing the distance till which he could see his old haunt, and very soon abracadabra .......Galileo had created a telescope.
Cya next Sunday.
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Confessions of a shopaholic!!
Posted by lafemmereva in Girl talk, Jest for Jolly, Poems, Random Musings
A shoe, a shirt, a wonderful skirt and a brilliant dress,
if i could buy it all with my cash not becoming less,
is the dream i have every time i dream,
even thinking of it makes me shout and scream !!
I brood and i think on how to make it true,
but the vision of the dress is stuck to my mind like glue !!
Every blink i make redeems the pleasure of the fancy bags,
then the mind tells me "spending drives you from riches to rags" !!
Quietly i sit and mourn the loss of my fancy item,
the woes of it surround me and their grips tighten !!
I sit there silently thinking what to do,
but no idea comes apart from the missed lovely shoe !!
Seeing my woes god did appear,
his wardrobe was made of nothing less than Hilfiger !!
He said "Daughter i do understand your plight,
In heaven Hilfiger is free, but on earth you have to pay for it right?"
I looked up to god and nodded my head,
he looked down at me and this is what he said !!
"Spending when necessary is out of need,
otherwise to monetary constraints it will lead !!
For some people need may be more, for some less,
thinking of that do not take too much stress !!
Reason for yourself how much you do really need,
buy just that, and money will stick to you like a wild reed !!
I agree Dolce is good and Gabbana even better,
but self control is a virtue not a few fancy letters !!
Keep this in mind and judge for yourself,
whenever you see fancy items lying on a shelf !!"
With these few words god did the disappearing act,
but by then i had made in my mind a pact !!
I would judge whats necessary and what is not,
even though it maybe Calvin Klein or not !!
With this thought i went to the mall with friends,
and i was sure i would listen to gods advice and make amends !!
They were all on a full fledged shopping spree,
but i controlled myself and got only what was free !!
Home i came a little depressed,
but the sight of my cash balance took away all the stress !!
For the first time in history I had not spent in a mall,
and in the entire weekend my bank balance did not become small !!
I had learned the trick to spend less and still be content,
necessity was the mother of invention and now i knew what it meant !!
To overcome desires and have self control was no longer a tale,
I had done it and i knew that was the path on which to sail !!
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Over a mango milk shake
meeting up after a long break
A man and a woman, in their twenties, took a journey back in time
to their school days when all they had was a dime
Nostalgia was hanging heavily in the air
memories were swinging in their mental rock chair
Night would soon be falling
conversation was flowing
They both put aside their adult masks
they wanted to feel like a kid again - with no adult to ask
For once from their grown-up routine they did budge
chatting about summer afternoons spent licking chocolate fudge
Catching up on their lives after they drifted away
gamely treating each other to truth/dare for play
He told her about the skirts he chased
she told him about the hearts she did break
They spoke of assets and liabilities as is the fashion
wondering if their emotional ledger needed a re-organization
Way back then fantasy, fun and frolic was their jargon
cut to now it was disillusionment, dilemma and delusion
They asked the maître d' how they could afford childhood again
money was every working class human's most necessary bane
He said – “You may never have the selling price of childhood's exorbitant market rate
but you can always loan it for a few precious moments by re-living it with a mate
The returns of borrowing your childhood for a while
is worth more than the cost of going that extra mile”
So they decided to meet up every now and then when a mate came by
to take off that mask and have a few laughs about the days gone by
Their glasses were empty and their hearts were lighter
frown lines became laugh lines and their faces became much brighter
When the maître d' came after a while to clear the table as was his usual task
he saw they had left behind something else with their tip - their adult mask!
In the same car that the man and the woman came in the dark
he saw a boy and a girl drive away as happy as a lark
"Maybe they are going back to school" - he thought, smiling at life's hand at work
and hopefully this time around they will do their homework!
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I am a girl and you are a boy
Your job is to be cute and mine is to be coy
It was love at first sight
And between us there was never a fight
I always called you day and night
To hear your voice that put away my fright
Long distance never ever made us part
We shared everything between us from start
Every night I sent you my kiss and hug
Which made you sleep cozy and snug
With time however you started to love her more
And the strains in our relation increased it's score
You craved to see her first on hearing the cock doodle
And I had to be happy just playing the second fiddle
Fear of losing you to her crept in me
Depressed and lugubrious i started to be
It was time to salvage our waning relation
It was time to come to face with the painful revelation
I came hurriedly to see you after almost a year
On seeing your indifference to me I shed a tear
I tried to show you how i was always there
With all your love now only for her, you didn't seem to care
I had let distance come between us honey
Because my work commanded me to travel far for money
She comforted me saying you will learn with time
That i was also yours and you were also mine
Because you are too small to understand that I am your aunt
And though I yearn to love you more than her - your mother - I can't
I leaped in relief for she was my best sister and your most loving mother
And you, she and I will make an absolutely fab trio together!!!!
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Tonight's episode of American Idol will be a very memorable one for me for some more time to come. It was a Nashville Grand Ole Opry week.
Nashville - I can probably write a 1000 words more on my first post of entry into this country. Grand Ole Opry - where a devilish roommate once took me, to see an ice show. At the end of the show I literally became an ice maiden myself!!
And the performances on tonight's Idol- You find treasure when you least expect it to. Anoop Desai really put up a good show. But he still doesn't work for me!!! Form is temporary, class is permanent.
A pic from that ice show in Nashville - Grand Ole Opry I went to. Yep! these are made of ice!!! :)
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Girls - Had your minerals today?
Posted by lafemmereva in Girl talk, Jest for Jolly, Random Musings, Woes of eve
Girls,
What did our mothers tell us? Vitamins and minerals make your hair and skin healthy and wealthy. See all those celebrities minting money out of shiny hair and skin!!!
If nature has let you down, let technology step in.
See what a good friend discovered here.
God bless such good friends.
Never trust even your shadow in matters of your money
Never trust even your nanny in matters of your honey
Here's why.
Ouch! Did brad show his other cheek?
Signed,
X.O.X.O (Gossip Girl ;))
wind blow drying my long hair
dressed in the psychedelic colors of spring
rabbits in the grass
munching on the carrots
pigeons flying by
delivering cryptic messages
rhythm of the humming birds
beat of the jogger's heart
warmth of my starbucks green ginger chai
smell of rain kissed leaves
i went topless
admiring the reflection of my enviable youth
in the creek as ripe as the cherry
in a convertible - a car no less!
I was mooching off on a good friend's hospitality in her apartment, filing away the How (NOT) to loose your job series on this blog while sipping the hot masala chai and masala vada she was making, the good samaritan that she is. 2 other friends who were also present in the room asked to read the write- up before I could post them. Having read them they got into a heated discussion.
Female Friend 1 : Men should open the door for the ladies, isn't it?
Male Friend 1 : Why would both of us go to the same restroom?((assumed Friend 1 meant restroom
doors, God knows why)
Female Friend 1 was dumbfounded
Masala Vada and tea making friend collapsed after squeals of laughter.
Darn!! My masala Vada supply is cut!!!
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