Random Thoughts

Piggzie!!

2012-01-20T21:40:00.000+05:30

I wanted to write about my pets in this blog but never got around to it...

That was one of my upcoming posts but something fantabulous happened today that the post had to wait..

Well long story short... PR & I wanted to keep a pet.

Our options were:

Dog - adorable but High maintenance
Cat - Not a Dog!!
Fish - Did have them but that's another upcoming post..

So we finally decided to experiment on Guinea Pigs. No Pun Intended!! :D

Today when we woke up, we had a big surprise in a small package and Voila!!

Isn't this the most adorable thing on planet earth??

And then I went crazy taking pics of this muffin!!

Went all Kung-Fu Piggy on me when it came to food!!

Certainly not camera shy!! Gets that from PR!!

PS: In case you are wondering about the new look.. Some issue with my old template.. Work in Progress. So bear with this one for some time!!!

PurpleBerry

2012-01-15T14:01:00.000+05:30

First of all,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

I hope all of you had a wonderful new year. I'm not going to apologize or give a reason for not updating my blog. Let's just say that I have taken a new year resolution to update my blog regularly and I failed miserably in the first 15 days of this year!! :P

For those of you who know me and people who have read my blog will know that i'm fanatic about the color PURPLE!! I have been wanting to get a purple phone for a long time but none of the companies had come out with a purple phone or the ones that were there were quite blah. Mind you, I'm talking about last year!!

One day PR told me about this phone and it was love at first sight.

The only gripe was that it was a blackberry and for those who have read this post of mine, you would know that I swore that I would never buy a blackberry like never ever.

After contemplating about the phone for months, yes months!!, I was secretly hoping nokia or samsung would come out with a purple phone, I caved in and bought it. It was one of the happiest days of 2011!! :)

I became one of the Blackberry Boys!!

This was a brilliant ad and I love the expression on the suit boys!!

A couple of weeks after I bought the phone and still basking in its glory, I was in the elevator with one of the neighbor's kid, who's probably in the 5th grade and was having the white version of my phone. Our conversation went something like this

ME: So is that your mom's phone?

KID: Aunty.. actually... (stops becuz i'm nearly hyperventilating)

ME: Not AUNTY!!.. Didi!! Call me didi!!

KID: Ok Didi(eyes rolling!!!) This was a bday gift from my parents!

ME: (nearly in tears!!) ok!! :(

This kid was busy updating his Facebook status. He actually had the blackberry service activated. I was flabbergasted. I mean what has the world come to! Kids using business phones!! Crazy!!

I'm still in love with my Purpleberry!!

Though I have eyes on this new HTC Rhyme!! Its also purple but I cant get around to using a touchscreen phone!!

I can always learn and keep my Purpleberry as a backup!! What do you say PR??!!??

Movie Review

2011-10-23T12:51:00.000+05:30

Well this post is not about a review for a movie.. This post is all about how in our family, we used to judge whether a movie would be a good one or not.

The judge for that is our dad and No its not based on his opinion or view on the movie. Its based on when he falls asleep during the movie. :p

The last movie I saw with my dad was Zindagi Na Milegi Doobara, which by the way is a brilliant kick ass movie. I was watching it on TV today and thought of jotting this post..

For those of you, who have read this post of mine would know that my dad could fall asleep in a blink of an eye..

My dad has never seen a movie fully at one ago..

I remember going for Tashan with Dad and my siblings. My dad fell asleep during the opening credits itself and my sis was like, 'Let's just leave now, the movie is gona be terrible.. Papa's already fallen asleep...' I was like, 'The movie couldn't be that bad. Let's just sit through it...' Boy!! Was I so wrong!! That movie was the mother of terrible movies..

After that we had gone for the movie 'Blue' and Papa fell asleep in the first 10 mins and we knew we had to make a run for it before killing further brain cells and which is what we did..

For Zindagi Na Milegi Doobara, Papa fell asleep in btw for 10 mins and was awake for the rest of the movie.

The best bit is, he really is interested in watching movie but can't help himself from falling asleep. When a new movie releases, he'll run around and get tickets booked for first day first show. I remember seeing Dhoom 2 first day first show. My mom,sis and I were the only women in the theater. Rest were all college and school boys, who had bunked to watch the movie. They were howling and whistling throughout the movie, to the point we couldn't hear the dialogues at all and Papa managed to fall asleep right at the Bipasha Basu bikini scene, the only man who could have done that.. :D

Pics Courtesy of Google..

The Ringtone

2011-07-07T11:21:00.001+05:30

So the other day, PR and I were on our way back from work. PR when he married me also got another title along with husband,my designated chauffeur.

We were generally catching up on each others day when we hear music, besides the radio.

PR (in his very sophisticated voice): Sonia, I think your phone is ringing
ME:Its not my phone cuz that is not my ringtone

PR: Its not my ringtone either. Maybe you switched on your music player by mistake. You know how you never lock your phone

ME: I don't have this so called song on my music list either (At this point, we still had not figured out what the song was)

Finally PR finally decides to take his phone out and it was his phone that was ringing. The caller was his friend, Akshay.

Let me give a brief intro of Akshay to you guys.. PR met Akshay in hindi tuition way back in school and they became friends over discussions on a couple of aesthetic(according to them) adult magazines. They have been friends ever since..

Whenever we used to meet up, there was a lot of bromance from Akshay's side but PR never reciprocated.

Case in point are the pics below.

This pic was taken 3 years ago. You can see PR totally fending off Akshay's advances. And then there's me who's got a confused look as to 'Am I coming in between these two??'

This pic was taken in our wedding after party. I have no words. :(

Coming back to the ringtone, by this time I had figured out the song. It was 'Bring me to life' by Evanescence.

ME: You have a special ringtone for Akshay??!!??

PR: No. I do not. I don't know how this happened. I only have a ringtone for you.

ME: What is the ringtone for me?

PR(mumbles gibberish): I'd rather not say

ME: Why not? I'm gonna call you now.

I call and I hear an alarming noise with someone shouting '~~Incoming~~ WARNING!! WARNING!! Its the WIFE!!' with whole bunch of sounds. See ppl, this is what I'm married too..

For those who have not heard 'Bring me to life', the chorus goes something like 'Wake me up inside, call my name and save me from the dark, Bring me to life, frozen inside without your touch Without your love, darling only you are the life among the dead'

Akshay gets that and all I get is a warning message.

PR - I'm quitting cleaning up after you.. Next time get Akshay to do your laundry, iron your clothes and cook your food.. :P

The Ideal App for the Idle Husband

2011-02-25T16:02:00.000+05:30

I was reading Scott Adam’s blog post about a Better Husband App which is hilarious

I decided to share this post with PR and a bunch of my friends.

This is how our email conversation goes...

PR: I know I should logically be offended by this but I do think the idea is a good one... Hear me out... Granted most guys (myself included) would not take advice from a person and would never get a self-help book; However we would gladly install the 'better husband app' simply because its an app and installing apps is cool (personally installed hundreds over the years) ...

Now that we have established the market potential lets look at some of the possible functionality ... The auto prefix text to sms option mentioned below is a good start however this only scratches the surface ... The app could randomly select tasks (from a pre-programmed list) for the 'husband (a.k.a victim)' to do such as laundry; grocery shopping; take wife out shopping etc.

The app could also pull your location data and cross reference that with the wife's (a.k.a. master) list of favorite stores or bakeries and scan through her online wish-list subsequently alerting the husband of a potential purchase decision. This will not only earn him brownie points with the wife for the 'apparent' spontaneous gift but also earn him points which he can then redeem at a lingerie channel partner .. coz lets face it, lingerie is a gift for both partners ;)
(this is also an interesting way for the app developers to earn revenue .. through location based services i.e. pushing alerts to the husband to buy items with registered vendors. Thus was when a purchase is made based on the app's recommendations then the developer gets a small cut from the vendor.)

Next feature would be to sync with the wife's wishlist of must watch movies and check with local cinemas and TV guides to search for a match. Once a match is found it would alert the husband of the match and allow for a one-click booking (for two tickets only) from the smartphone itself. Here again the online ticket vendor will provide a small cut to the app developer so another revenue stream is created.

Another easy feature to implement is the syncing with calender to remember all important dates such as birthdays of wife/ her family and friends (but not the good looking ones), the birthdays and names of her family's pets, etc .. The app could also check with their wishlists and suggest gifting options (once again from registered retailers)..

An important feature the app should enable is the ''call wife randomly and say nice things" option. These calls will be initiated at random times and husband will earn app-points for each call made. These points can be redeemed for discounts from the telecom operator (again a cut of which will feed back to the developer).

The app could also sync with your facebook profile and automatically push your relation status with every female friend request you send/receive (just saying).. It could also sync with your picasa and facebook albums and randomly select a photo of both husband and wife together and put that up as profile photo.

As I am at work and as the name suggests, need to actually do some ... I am forced to end this email here. Guys dont be discouraged, I will soon come up with an idea for a similar app called the better girlfriend/wife app so watch this space.

Abi, interested in codifying this idea? I'm sure we can get some venture funding :)

Did I mention that PR is a tech geek and would take a moment if he was asked to choose between me and his android phone and stick to the phone!! I sometimes think he married me to take care of him but his loyalty and devotion is towards his gadgets..

Abi: :D .. well Sonia is the Resident java expert. She is the only one qualified to do this. I can port it into c# for apple once its done.

PR: Cool, so Sonia ... let us know your thoughts on the feasibility of coding this beast ..

Nina: I'll test the app for free once its ready. sonia girl, get started for the good of humankind :)

Abi: So let me get this straight, You want ur wife to write wat I assume will be atleast a COUPLE THOUSAND lines of code, to make you a better husband, and if it is a hit, Rich.

won't it be easier for her to throw tantrums :P ....

it might not be automated, but she'll at least get what she wants.

1000 pts to Abi for this idea

Kay: OUCH!

ME: I'm sticking to Abi's suggested method. so much easier and less of coding...

Lot more emotional attyachar..

Abi: Actually I meant to say Use her womanly Charm ... :P but watever works ... :D

-10,000 pts for the last bit of this one..

Nina: But no one will get rich that way!!! Sonia u can still use emotional attyachar but u'll also be rich!!! ;)

ME: Since all of you are very keen on me building this app, I'll do it but only on one condition.

PR, I'll be requiring your Android phone up front for testing.

What do u say???

Nina : On prithvi's behalf I say.... Deal!!! ;)

PR: Err .. My phone ... Err ... Well ... Ahmm ... we dont really need the money .. i think i'll stick to your tantrums ... i mean Womanly charm !!!

Hang on .. you can start on Symbian.. No wait that's dead .. ok lets get you an ipod touch ... you can test it out on that ... or even an android emulator that we can run on the PC... There's no reason to harm my poor defenseless phone now is there !!!

Happy Weekend Ppls!!

pics courtesy of Google

Word of the day : Consentment

2011-02-22T09:40:00.000+05:30

ME: Did you know that Adidas bought Reebok?
PR: I thought it was the other way around. Isnt Reebok bigger compared to Adidas?
ME: Nope. Can’t believe they didnt take my consentment in the takeover.
PR: What is consentment? There is consent and then there is consignment. What are you talking about?
ME: I’m talking about consenment. you know to take permission from a person for e.g. me.
PR: There is no such word as consenment.
ME: There is
PR: is not
ME: :P
PR: Thank god you have Mal (my mother tongue) to fall back on when English fails you.
ME: Uh-Huh!! :(
PR: So what is the word in Mal for Consentment?
ME: in deep thought
PR: atleast tell me what is permission in mal?
ME: It is at the tip of my tongue. :D
PR: FAIL!! EPIC FAIL!!
ME: ok smartass. How many languages do you know other than English?
PR: Well I only know English and know it well, unlike some people who know bits and pieces of some languages
ME: :(

So after the above conversation, I have decided to proclaim to the world, the word I have invented

Consentment - to get permission from Sonia..

So all of you have my consentment to use this word. :)

Guess Who's Back

2010-10-26T19:24:00.007+05:30

Guess Who's Back
Back Again
Sonia's Back
With her Blog
Guess Who's Back, Guess Who's Back, Guess Who's Back!!!

Hey ppls... How u been? I know I know I have neglected my blog and the blogging world for months. I had a lot of people emailing me asking whether I have disappeared from the face of the earth and a certain person threating me to update my blog otherwise she'll hunt me down.

First of all, I'm touched by all the concern, love and anger for my blog. :)

Secondly, I have shifted base from South India all the way to the capital of India, well not exactly the capital, you can say very close proximity to it. Its Gurgaon. I was super super excited cuz when I read up about the place I found that they have the largest number of malls in India, close to 40 I think. How cool is that? It was like I was being called back to the mother ship. :)

All my weekends were taken care of just by visiting one mall per day. :x PR wasn't looking forward to the retail overdose.

Its been a crazy couple of months with shifting base, finding an apartment, setting up the house,me being jobless, then working and then back to being jobless. Don't ask.. Its a long story.

To make a long story short I'm currently a temporary house wife.But I have not become the typical house wife who watches all soap operas and stuff. Not yet!! :P I have not yet reached that stage yet and hoping not to.

And yes I do miss Chennai. I miss all my friends. I especially miss the south indian food. I want to go to murugan idli shop, have idli with their awesome chutneys and sambar.

Don't even get me started on the madras filter coffee.. Sigh!!

Ok i'm stopping now.. I'm becoming very nostalgic.. Don't get me wrong, I am liking Gurgaon but I'm sorry to say but they don't have a good south Indian restaurant. At least not that I know of...

I just realized what a big foodie I am.. 8 yrs in Chennai and the food is what i miss the most. :P

Pics courtesy of Google

An Auto Ride

2010-05-03T12:55:00.002+05:30

The other day I left work early, took a metro train, got down at the nearest station to home.

I could have walked home from there but me being the lazy bum decided to take an auto. I got into an auto where initially the driver wanted to charge me 40 bucks for a 10 buck ride. I bargained. He cribbed. Finally brought it down to 20 bucks.

Half way through the ride, he suddenly stops the vehicle, gets out to pick up something from the middle of the road.

He comes up to me with something that looks like a bunch of TNT sticks. I kid you not!!

AD(Auto Driver):‘Madam, I think it’s a bomb!!’

ME (in my mind): ‘Why the freaking beeeep are you bringing it to me you psycho!?’

ME: Please keep it away from me, whatever the hell it is.

AD starts to prod and pluck on the contraption.

I start to hyperventilate. I calm myself by thinking of shoes especially Jimmy Choos. Then I realize I might die right now and would never own a pair of Jimmy Choos ever in my life. I start to hyperventilate again.

AD: Who do you think they are trying to kill? There are no politicians or movie stars living in this area.

ME: Do we really have to have this conversation? Does it matter who they want to kill? I mean REALLY is this relevant? I don’t want to die you moron. Throw … No No I mean gently place the so-called bomb on the sidewalks and drop me home..

What the dimwit did next was beyond my imagination. He shouts ‘Kabooom!’ and throws it to the sidewalk. I’m not making this shit up. He actually did that.

I started to scream and on seeing me he also started to scream. I saw my entire life flash before my eyes. People from the nearby houses came out to see what the commotion was. Then we stopped to scream and realized nothing happened and that we are still alive and kicking. AD looked stupid and I was super pissed at him for making me look like a fool.

I told him to get his sorry ass back in the auto and drop me to my destination.

Another ‘Un-Eventful’ Start to my Day

2010-04-21T14:10:00.007+05:30

6:50 AM – Alarm rings

ME: Sigh!!! Babbby I don’t want to go to work!!

PR: Mumbles grumbles and turns to the other side

6:55 AM

ME: PR is Godzilla a dinosaur ?

PR: Godzilla is a mutant reptile.

ME: Oh ok. I think he’s on the next street.

PR: If you don’t want to go to work don’t go but you can’t use Godzilla as a reason.

ME: Sigh!! (whining like a child) Why not?

7:00 AM

PR gets an SMS which says

' Calmness is not a weakness but strength. Be calm! '

PR: Someone beep beep beep sends me an SMS at 7 Beep AM, wakes me up to tell me to be calm. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!!

ME: :D

7:05 AM

ME: I had a weird dream

PR: mumbles gibberish

ME: I was married to A ( A was this mutual friend of ours who had a crush on me and vice versa. PR just about tolerated A. ) We were on a boat. A couple of friends including you were also there.

PR: Hmmmm..

ME: Then there was this 30 foot wave, like a tsunami, came crashing on our boat. After it hit instead of searching for A, I went searching for you. I held on to you.

PR: Practically speaking if a 30 foot wave hit a boat, none of us would survive, we would all drown and die.

ME: yeah whatever… Ya then the dream drastically shifts to this shop where I see this awesome purple wallet and A buys the wallet for himself. That’s when I regretted marrying him cuz if it were you, you would have definitely got it for me. I’m so glad I married you instead of that purple-wallet-buying-for-himself-moron.

PR: Buhahahahahaha… That dream is so typical you for the fact that there was shopping and the color purple involved. I’m glad I am married to the purple-wallet-30-foot-tsunami-dreamer.

ME: :D

7:14 AM

I had stared at the walls for a good 5 minutes before I notice a thick line on one of the walls next to the balcony. It looked like as if PR has splattered ketchup on our newly painted walls. (If anything goes wrong, I like to pin-point it on PR. It always is.) I looked closer to see it was a trail of red ants moving their queens (yes 3 of them) into our room to start their colony.

The audacity of them to relocate to our room and that too without our permission.

I’m sad to inform that an entire colony of ants were killed during the writing of this post. If I have any PETA followers, I’m really sorry but we had no other option and they were swarming us from all directions. We panicked!! (Notice the fact that I used ‘We’ not ‘I’ cuz if I’m coming down I’m brining PR along with me :) )

* Images courtesy of Google

TV Show Addict

2010-04-16T10:31:00.000+05:30

I have been meaning to write about my Pondy trip and about the goodies that I bought or got recently but I have been addicted to watching TV shows.

It all started with Scrubs. I’m totally in love with that show. Turk & Carla sometimes remind me of PR & moi. My favorite character is Dr Perry Cox. He is HILARIOUS. This is the only tv show that PR & I watch together. We are on Season 7 now.

I got Ten Things I Hate About you. I loved the movie and thought the series would be equally funny. I watched it and realized that I’m no longer a teenager and the show does not appeal to me. I still ended up watching the entire season.

Then I moved on to Glee – another teenage musical series. I don’t care much for the series as such but I loved their renditions of some of the songs. My top favs are Rehab and Golddigger. In fact I like them better than the original.

I got hooked on to Desperate Housewives. I know I know what you guys are thinking of me. You have stooped too low. I enjoyed the first season. It was interesting. PR would watch if Eva Longoria is there and scantily dressed, which she is most of the time. MB called me up one day while I was watching this show and asked me what I’m doing. When I told him he couldn’t stop laughing for a good whole 5 minutes. He just went ‘Oh Sonia, Sonia Sonia!!’ He was like just because you got married you don’t have to start watching the show to get pointers on how to cheat on PR. :P

I got hooked on to Grey’s Anatomy last week and finished the first season. I am going through a phase for medical drama series. I have put House MD for download last night.

I have not watched a television show continuously for the past ten years cuz I was in a hostel or PG most of the time.

When I was at home I was addicted to them. I used to religiously watch the X-Files, Small Wonder, Charles in Charge, Full House, Law & Order, Remington Steel (Sigh!! Pierce Brosnan!!)

It was to the point that if we had to go out as a family I had to be told in advance so I can decide the time and day according to my TV shows.

I remember watching Bold & The Beautiful when I was in 1st grade with my dad. Before you guys get the wrong idea, we were living in Dubai and we used to watch the show in the regional channel way before the Star channels came. This is an Arab country so they don’t even show a kissing scene even if it’s on the cheek so the entire time we watched B&B there was no adult content. It was like watching an Indian TV series. Once Star World came and they started telecasting B&B and we saw what the actual series was about, my dad forbade me to watch it. So the entire time we saw B&B, it was like having a lollypop with the wrapper on. We never got to taste the juicy bits!! :D

Ok Peoples!! The first episode of House MD is done. Me going to watch. Catch you later Alligators!!

(I know the last bit was cheesy but couldn’t help it. I know you all still like me or do you??)

Choco - La

2010-04-07T10:36:00.003+05:30

I went to Pondicherry, the quaint little french colony for Easter holiday(it cant be called a holiday when its only 3 days but I had a superb time)

Belated Easter Wishes Ppls!!

Another post will be coming up shortly about the trip but I had to had to spread the word to all Chocoholics about Choco-La . I had read about the place in Femina magazine and as well as in the Hindu newspaper.

Choco-La is every Chocoholics heaven. They have chocolates in every flavor, shapes and sizes. They had chocolate honey combs and even a chocolate lollypop. What more can one ask for??

We went there on Easter Sunday and they had Easter bunnies and eggs They were the cutest. The Easter eggs were made of chocolate and not cake icing which is what I have always found in India. The egg also had a variety of chocolates unlike the éclairs and candies that the usual eggs contain. Again I’m talking in terms of the Easter eggs I have tried in India.

The Easter bunnies are so Cute!!

They had something which I have never had called Chocolate pakodas. It was yum as it was an amalgamation of nuts and chocolate (what more could I ask! Bliss Pure Bliss!!)

We went there before lunch so had a couple of pakodas as starters before heading out for lunch. I had to drag PR out of the shop by his ears. We went to a restaurant just opposite the place and walked back to Choco-La like Chocostein’s (We did the Frankenstein walk!! I know so juvenile !!)

54 Degree Chocolate

We tried something called 54 degree chocolate(an in-house special) which is hot chocolate and we dip in cubes of chocolate in it and have. They had a chocolate spoon. Imagine eating the spoon at the end of your meal. It was so cool.

PR enjoying the drink. What U guys think of his nail color? Me like!

So guys if you ever plan to visit Pondicherry, do drop in to Choco-La. It is a must for all Chocoholics.

The spoons on the top left corner. Yum!! Me want now!!

We met the owner of Choco-La and he said there are plans of opening one outlet in Chennai. I’m keeping fingers crossed.

The address is Choco-La Boutique, 319, Mission Street, Pondicherry.

So True So True!!

For all those who read my previous post Sickety Sick, I know I know, I was not supposed to have all of this cuz I’m recovering. Hello I was on a holiday so I decide to listen to my stomach instead of the doc. Don’t judge me. You weren’t there!

I’m fine thank you by the way. I think the chocolate therapy helped my stomach a lot!!

Sickety Sick

2010-04-01T11:28:00.000+05:30

March was not good for me – health wise. I have been falling sick on and off throughout.

It all started on a the wee early hours of a peaceful Saturday morning wherein I suddenly jumped up off the bed, ran to the bathroom and vomited my guts out. From then on it was a nonstop show.

PR would rather have his nails pulled out than watch someone vomit so basically he sat on the bed and told me that I will be fine and will get through it and would gently ask me to close the bathroom door when I throw up cuz he didn’t even want to hear it. This is the man who promised me at the altar that he would stand by me in sickness and health. 

I happened to tell people about me being sick and everyone’s like ‘Any good news??’ For those of you who are not familiar with the term “Good News”. The definition is that when a couple gets married, there are not to waste any time, the man has to sow his seed and the woman has to start up her baby making machine and spit one out of her uterus ASAP. If I had the power to throw up whenever I want, I would have done projectile vomiting on all those people waiting for the “Good News”

I got better and fell sick again in the middle of the month. I never went and saw the doc cuz I thought it was just a case of mild food poisoning and that I had to watch what I’m eating. Lately I feel very uncomfortable every time I eat something so PR finally dragged me to the doc. He’s given me antibiotics and I can’t eat the following – milk, citrus fruits, spicy food, oily food, no junk, no outside food. I can have steamed or boiled veggies, string hoppers or steamed rice cake aka idli. I’m the kinda person who lives to eat. This is torture pure torture. I can’t handle it. I’m day dreaming of food.

I want to have this

and this

The fact that I'm reading a book called 'The Chocolate Lover's diet' does not help eitherI want this too people

Ok I really need help. I think i'm gona die if i don't eat any of this.

Blogger’s Meet

2010-03-25T12:20:00.013+05:30

The Chennai Indibloggers decided to have a meet up and I was one of the first to register for the meet. I wanted to meet fellow bloggers, people whose blog I follow and also my followers. I was looking forward to it.

On the day of the meet, I tried on various outfits from salwars (too auntyish) to shirts & trousers (too officy)to dress(too partyish) to the point where PR was like ‘Are you going for a meet or on a date?’

I wanted to look approachable and breezy but not too breezy. So I decided to stick to jeans and a red &white polka dot top with matching red & white polka dot sandals (some ppl at the meet actually did notice the matching footwear. I’m touched! :) )

On the way to the meet, I met a friend and he was like ‘ What’s with the Santa Claus outfit?’ I was like ‘Great! I look Santaish instead of breezy!’ I gave the stare of death to PR for not pointing this out.

Once I reached the place and am waiting in the registration, I decide to introduce myself to the person in front of me. In my mind I was like ‘Sonia be breezy!!’ Our conversation goes like this.

ME: hey I’m Sonia.
PIFOM(Person In Front Of Me): Hey I’m Akshay
Akshay: What do you blog about?
ME: Oh! Random stuff. In fact my blog’s called Random Thoughts.
Akshay: Hmm.. Random Thoughts. Are you Sonia Sunny Thomas? I think I have visited your blog and commented on one of your posts.
ME: Oh is it? Which post?
Akshay: I’m the grammar Nazi
ME: (Stare of Death) Reaaaly.. It’s a pleasure to finally meet you in person.

Akshay or GN had send the below comments on my post ‘Weird Advice from Random dude’

He’s not a bad person ppls. Don’t throw stones at him.. He’s a good guy and fun person to hang around with. He apparently, according to his work mates, was so sick that he couldn’t get out of bed. He did all of this to attend the bloggers meet. All this our genius announces it out on National TV. What’s the bet that he still has his job?

There was a ‘30secs of fame ‘ concept where each blogger got 30secs to talk about their blog. After that we went around interacting with each other. I met entrepreneurs, environmentalists, tech bloggers, food blogger(Gasp! There was only one. That’s it! I’m starting a food blog not that I need any reason to write about food) and a lot of IT ppl writing blogs which had the word random in it. Every time one of them would talk, GN would look at me and say ‘Does that sound familiar??’

After that they had some discussion on media and blogs which I wasn’t paying attention cuz
a) I was hungry
b) It was in a regional language which I don’t understand properly
c) I was hungry.

I was caught on camera thrice wailing ‘Where’s the food?’ ‘When do we eat?’. People must be thinking I’m such a glutton. I want to clarify that I did not have breakfast or lunch and was super hungry. PR will vouch for it. (You better PR otherwise it is Stare of Death Part Deux for you)

I finally got to eat some food, made new friends and had an awesome time. Thanks Chennai Indiblogger team for organizing the meet. Thanks for the freebies too (T-shirt, bumper sticker & obviously the food)

Jimmy Choo.. I heart thy Shoe!!

2010-03-15T21:40:00.027+05:30

I finally was able to hold on to a pair of Jimmy Choooooooos... I felt like I died and went to Shoe heaven. It was just pure lust.. There was an exhibition cum sale of Jimmy Choos in a hotel and a friend of mine, Pooja(Thanks a lot girl!!) read my blog and found out about my addiction for shoes and told me about it. I was super super excited.

Nina, PR(he was our chauffeur, he didn't want to go at all and was forced into it) and I went there. I was quite intimidated at first by the setting of the place until a pair of Choos caught my sight. I forgot about everything else. I had to control myself from squealing. Nina and I fell head over heels for this pair. It was love at first sight.

Isn't it just gorgeous?? Me wants... :( They cost about INR 52000.(Yup its 3 zeros ppls!!) PR was like its crazy for a SHOE!!! We were like 'Its JIMMY CHOO and its so worth it'. There were people buying stuff and we were so J. Sigh!! One day I'll earn enough money to buy a pair. One Day!!

There was a photographer who I assume must be from a newspaper, clicking away. Evey shoe we touched he'll go - Click Click Click. It was like if any shoe is tampered, he'll have evidence of who all fondled it. :P He shot a snap of Nina & I with a look of pure lust stroking a pair whereas PR had the look of bewilderment of 'WTF am I doin here??'. He finally had to drag us out and his reason being - If I stay here any longer, I might grow a uterus.' :D

Can you believe I went there wearing flip flops?? I was so excited that I wasn't thinking straight at all. My feet felt so under dressed. If I were flexible enough, my feet would have come up and given me One Tight Slap - MTV style. Next time, I'm getting myself a pedicure and wearing awesome shoes before going to a Jimmy Choo store.

Words of Wisdom for all Men

2010-03-11T10:51:00.004+05:30

I found this while checking out Google Reader Play. I thought it was hilarious. :D

Bombs on a Plane

2010-03-09T14:53:00.014+05:30

Last night PR and I were watching a documentary of the hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 in the History channel which jogged my memory of the incident where the flight that I was in was supposedly carrying bombs. This happened in the 90s way before 9/11.

My dad and I were travelling by Air India ( I know!!) from Dubai to India. I had come home for my holidays and was going back to the school hostel. At that time, I was studying in India whereas my family were in Dubai. I so hated going back and was super upset.

My mom dropped us at the airport. We checked in and boarded the flight. I got the window seat (Yay!!) and was sort of sorting out my emotions – a part of me was upset that I was leaving home and another was so glad that I was not alone and had my dad along.

An hour had passed since the flight took off and we passed a mountain and I excitedly (Sigh!! Can you imagine I was excited on seeing a mountain? That is so sad. Anyways…) woke my dad and showed him. He was like ‘Ya, whatever. Good for you’ and carried on sleeping.

Ten minutes later I saw the same mountain again and again after ten minutes. I woke my dad up again and told him that we are flying in circles. He was like ‘ I know you are really upset but you got to pull yourself up and stop imagining things’. Geez..

I looked around to see if anybody else has noticed it or is it just me and I happened to see one of the flight stewardess reading the bible and holding a photo, I presume, of a loved one. I woke my dad up again (Yup! My dad can fall asleep in a blink of an eye) and pointed to the praying stewardess. Our conversation goes like this

Me: Papa, something is seriously wrong. Why would she be praying?
Dad: Maybe she’s afraid of flying
Me: Then why would she become an air hostess ?
Dad: I don’t know maybe she was forced to become one
Me: Right!!

After flying in circles for 2 hours we finally landed in the Bahrain airport. Our flight was surrounded by police patrol cars and fire engines. I was all psyched. Finally some sort of excitement in my life.

We were completely strip searched. It was super awkward. They opened up each and every luggage and went through it. They even opened up my shampoo bottle and inspected. I thought it was super weird but after 9/11 it seems to be a normal affair now.

Dad called up mom to tell her that we are ok before she starts hyperventilating. She already had because it was all over the news. Apparently some dickwad from India called up and said that there was a bomb on the flight, an hour after our flight took off. We were out of the skies of U.A.E & they were not letting us back and India was not allowing the flight into her area either.

U.A.E’s argument to India was ‘It’s YOUR flight, YOUR shit, YOU take care of it’
India’s was ‘It might be OUR flight but the bomb was placed when it was in YOUR country.’

All of this while we were flying in circles above Bahrain. Finally they joined hands and decided to put the pressure on Bahrain to let the plane land and do all the inspection and defusing of the bombs, if any.

After countless hours of pacing up and down in the Bahrain airport, we were finally asked to board the flight and get the hell out.

pics courtesy of xkcd and google

Weird Advice from Random Dude

2010-03-04T07:16:00.018+05:30

I was having a crappy day yesterday and posted the following status message on my gtalk.

'is feelin super crappy and wants to disappear from this stupid crazy world!!'

I had linked it to my Google Buzz and the status msg was updated over there too.
Below is the list of comments I got from friends and a very random dude

Abhinav – Aw ... why .... ?

Sonia – i am just having another crappy start to another crappy day in my stupid crappy life.

Sonia – My word for the day sure is Crappy. :)

vijiram – replace "crazy" with the word of the day.. :P :D

Abhinav – this is what happens when you wake up too early, ....

Abhinav - What you need is a power nap. tell em you feeling sick, and nap away ...

Ritesh – I have a medicine. It's called cyanide ;-)

pawan (the Random Dude) – dear sonia always trust on God .then u can get different things which u never ever been get before....but u can get with God......so always stay close with God........without God we cann't satishfiey..........so seek and God His strangth..........

pawan (the Random Dude) – so enjoy your daily life...........

Sonia Thomas – @ritesh - ha ha ha.. :P
@pawan - i dont even know you so why are u giving me advices and asking me to enjoy my life.

Anzil – Oh MY God !!i think this is the last time you will post somethin like this after "THE ADVICE"......Buzzing is good...:-)...cheers to google...

Sonia – I know temme about it. That guy cant even spell properly.. If he's gona give advice atleast use spellcheck...
Some ppl I tell you...

pawan (the Random Dude) – this is not my intention to hurt u.... but be a good friend.

Allen - @pawanji you are really funny....why the hell do you want to bring G-d into this....what the hell did he do wrong...:P

Abhinav – and to think no one gives a fuck when i'm cranky ..... :P

I mean I'm as it is having a bad day and the last thing I want is people throwing God on to my face. Come on and that too from someone I don't even know. I can't seem to understand why people think that they can be your friend and take the liberty of butting into your life. Seriously!!

Plus now I think Google Buzz sucks

In other news, Addy from Addy Brainwave, gave me this award.

You just happen to make my day Addy. Thank you so much!! I feel so good when I receive such blogging love and knowing that its worth being in the crazy crappy world!!

PS: I'm going through a weird phase ppls. So excuse my hatred of the world!! I promise I'll snap out of this!!

Ball Scratcher

2010-02-25T13:54:00.003+05:30

Remember Kay?? How he got lucky and married the most beautiful scientist in India? Well he did. Lucky for him that his wife was comatose when she agreed to marry him. Not so lucky for her.

We never got Kay a wedding gift and it’s been over 2 months since he got married. MB and I were chatting and he send me a link and said ‘Why don’t we get Kay this?’

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, errrr.. maybe not Boys and Girls. I present to you

It is the Perfect tongue-in-cheek gift for the busy executive who's always got the itch.

The scratcher is a chrome-plated hand on a crafted stick about 9 inches long. This ultimate tool for the modern man comes in a slick silver-metallic gift presentation case! It's a good laugh and a gift that will stand out in any party!

Dishwasher safe and stain resistant.

It’s apparently for the busy executive who does not have time to reach down and scratch his own privates but has all the time to search for this and use it. Then MB clarified it for me and told me that the contraption is to be used by the so-called busy executive’s secretary or PA while the busy executive is working. :D

What do they mean by dishwasher safe? We can put this stick along with the plates that we eat in and wash it all together!! And don’t even get me started on the stain resistant bit. Ridiculous!! :P

How did MB stumble upon this?? You know those annoying and irrelevant ads that come on the right side of every Facebook page and they ask you to vote for it and stuff like that. Well MB got this when he logged into FB.

So Kay expect a gift in another couple of days!! You can guest post here on your experience with the ‘Gentlemen’s Ball Scratcher’ :D

Here’s the link for the people who want to gift it to your loved ones. :P

Beautiful Blogger

2010-02-24T13:15:00.015+05:30

The beautiful blogger is me!!! YAY!!

Pooja at Thoughtful Randomness gave me this Beautiful Blogger Award.

Thanks a lot girl!!
The award comes with 5 rules. The first 3, I feel, are extremely redundant and silly.
I should a)thank the person, b)paste the award on my blog and c)Link the person who awarded it to me.

Come on, like duh I’ll do that. You don’t have to tell me. If I don’t do any of the above, it could mean that I’m such a sad pathetic thing who has either a very low self esteem or extremely egoistic that I decide to give myself an award. :p ( I mostly will come in the second category :D )
Pooja, after reading this, will be rolling her eyes and wondering ‘Why the heck did I gave her this award?’ I have no idea why I’m being so nitpicky.

Anyhoo.. Moving on.. The last 2 rules asks me to share 7 things I find beautiful and nominate the award to 7 blogger or more. Now this makes more sense.

7 Things I Find Beautiful

Purple. It is the new Pink!!

Shoooooooes – This list will be empty if shoes are not included.

Marley & Me – Loved the book and the movie. I love dogs. PR surprised me with this book one day.
Make up Counters – I love going to shopping malls especially the never ending make up counters with all their products. It just makes my day. All those lip glosses , lipsticks, eye shadows, nail polishes. I am feeling high just thinking about it.
Bookshops & Libraries – I can get lost there. Time just flies by. All those books neatly arranged and in different categories.
Sleeping babies – I love to watch babies sleeping especially when they smile while dreaming. It’s the most beautiful thing. I used to watch my siblings sleep when they were babies for hours but not in a Parnaormal Activity creepy kinda way. (If you have watched the movie, you know what I mean!!)
This video. It made me happy and sad at the same time. It was such a beautiful video. People at Pixar are geniuses. Thanks Ashwath for letting me know about it!

I pass on this award to Chatterbox, Magali, Meenakshi, and Pooja

Images are courtesy of Google

Cuddles

2010-02-17T13:41:00.010+05:30

First of all I want y'all to meet Cuddles!!He was given to me as an anniversary gift by PR way back in 2007. He was so fluffy and cuddly, hence the name – Cuddles.
PR got Cuddles cuz I used to get scared in the night and would wake up and never fall back to sleep. After Cuddles, I have been sleeping peacefully like a baby.
I still cling on to Cuddles when I go to sleep. PR’s mom saw Cuddles one day and said ‘He needs to go for a bath. Give him a spin in the washing machine!’ I went ‘Gulp!! The Washing Machine!!’ I had become friends with the WM but I wasn’t sure whether I was ready to send Cuddles in.
PR’s mom also gave another stuff toy to wash. It’s a doggie with eyelashes that makes it look like a lamb and currently has no name. I put both of them in the WM and spend an hour talking to Cuddles telling him “How sorry I am” and to the WM telling it to take good care of Cuddles. PR just pretended to ignore me because he didn’t want to get involved at all. It was easier that way.
After the wash, I put them out on our balcony on a plastic bag to dry. That didn’t help so we had to hang them on the clothes line. I couldn’t bear to see Cuddles hanging around like a neglected child or something. It was too painful. PR just found it as usual hilarious and took pics such as the ones below.

This is the picture I have as wallpaper on my phone. I took it a couple of days back with my phone camera (aka the bad photo). PR had no clue and will probably kill me when he comes to know that I put it up in my blog. Don’t they look so adorable??

Cuddles Smoodling PR

The Buzzing of the Google Buzz

2010-02-11T16:08:00.002+05:30

I was caught quite unawares to the Google buzz. I login to Gmail and I get this message asking me whether I want to check out Google buzz. My suspicious side which thought it was some stupid hacking crap clicked No or more so the option that said ‘Naaaah’.

Once logged into Gmail I see a tab under the inbox called Buzz with a multicolored icon. Honestly speaking I was more inclined to clicking on seeing the icon. Google so knows a woman’s mind. :D If it was some boring ordinary tab, I wouldn’t have bothered.

Once I get in to Buzz, it shows that I’m apparently following 59 people and 19 people follow me. I go ‘Woah!! This is my first time. How can I be already following people?’ I thought someone really did hack or something. I am super paranoid about people hacking into my account. It’s like butting into my personal space. My practical side jumped in and found that it has synchronized with my Google reader – People you follow, which is why I’m following a lot of people. It was a relief. No one hacked my account.

My first impression of Google Buzz – very Twitterish and much more..

You can connect it up with sites such as Blogger, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube and so on. Sadly no Facebook. It connects even with your Gmail Status Messages. So basically whatever you post in these sites will be displayed in the Buzz too which I think is a cool thing cuz then all my blog posts will be available to my followers first hand. :)

The not-so-nice bit so far is that when you connect it with blogger, the entire post is published in Buzz so it takes a hit on the number of hits on your site. :(

Initially, my reaction was like ‘I don’t like it’ but now I’m sort of warming up to it after some scouting about. I felt the same when I started using Facebook.

So is this Google’s answer to Twitter? What do you guys think? Like it or think its crap?

I’m not D’lunk – Sonia ‘under-the-influence’ Story

2010-02-08T23:46:00.009+05:30

PR has finally finished his version of my 'I'm not Dlunk!!' story

My version - It never happened. Its all in PR's head

So readers go ahead enjoy the world of PR's imgagnation..

Hello All,

I am the one most of you know as PR though some priest at my wedding preferred to call me Alexander. But that’s another story. This is my first guest appearance in Sonia’s blog and I have to say I am quite excited. As a husband I feel it is my duty to support and encourage my wife in activities of interest such as blogging for example. Also Sonia strongly suggested that it would be in my best interest to write a post on her blog, but mainly I am doing this out of love… Love the fact that I can tease her in front of a wider audience who knows not how strange this creature be!!

The “I’m not D’lunk” story happened way back in our second year of college. It started like any normal day, with a continuation of the fight we were having the previous night. See Sonia and I like most couples in post-honeymoon-period relationships used to have occasional fights. Lot of good that did… coz seven years later we still got married… talk about lack of imagination! Geez... Anyway, as Sonia did not get much sleep the previous night and also had the flu coming on, took some medicine to feel better. See by the time classes started we had managed to sort out our differences and decided to head out for a day of togetherness. Not wanting her cold or lack of sleep to dampen our outing, Sonia decided to take a small collection of OTC drugs and cough syrups that different girls in her hostel brought for her.

When I did see her she looked lovely. Those glazed eyes, broad (and a blank) smile and slight wobble in her step made her look like an intoxicated page 3 celebrity. By this time a fledgling couple had heard of our plan to skip college and head to a mall in the city and decided to join us. I was glad to know there were coming along as something about Sonia’s demeanor seemed a bit off and I knew I could count on them for help (the guy was my classmate and the girl was Sonia’s roommate). The long bus journey from our college was quite uneventful (Sonia fell asleep on my shoulder). The other couple was deep in conversation and nearly missed the stop. Our destination was a coffee shop in a local mall which we knew would be empty. Folks it was mid-day on a work week so that made it a perfect place for young couples as ourselves to playing truant.

On entering the mall I noticed that Sonia was walking a parabolic path to the entrance and any effort to change her direction only led to a total direction reversal. To put it simply she was walking in circles with me trying unsuccessfully to delicately guide her towards the door. To an onlooker it must have looked like the blind leading the blind. By this time our fellow couple-in-crime had found a nice cozy two- seater and were busy getting lost in each other’s eyes or something. Eventually I got Sonia through the door and to a seat in the middle of the coffee shop. Now the name of the place was Coffee Day but for some reason Sonia insisted that it was Qwiky’s coffee shop. My throwing logic at her by pointing to the Coffee Day menu did little to dampen her insistence. She called the waiter, took the menu and politely informed him that there was a Coffee Day menu on the table and that leaving it around may confuse customers. She also asked him to bring the ‘actual’ (in her mind - Qwiky’s) menu. The waiter, clearly trained to deal with all manner of customers obediently took the menu from Sonia and made sure never to return to our table.

By this point my amusement turned to genuine concern and I asked her what brought on the ‘spaced-out’ behavior. She looked at me with the look of utter cluelessness, kinda the look I give when my math teacher asked me to solve the problem on the board. Then she carried on humming to herself, accompanied by alternating between head bobbing and swaying.

During mid-sway she noticed that the rather respectable looking gentleman sitting at the opposite table just got his order and without any hesitation and quite vocally said “that %&#$ old man got served before me!! But how?? I’m so much prettier”. Hearing which the man buried his face in the newspaper while I tried to pacify my modest princess. Now I knew something was wrong, Sonia is always very polite (to others – I however do not get the same luxury). She seemed very dazed, like she was drunk. Drunk, Sonia… Can’t be.. She hates alcohol.. So I asked her.. “Sonia you sound like you are drunk, what did you have in the morning before meeting me?” To which she said” I’m not D’lunk”

I’m not Dlunk!!! No that was not a good sign. I asked her again and our conversation went a bit like this:-

PR: Sonia, sweetie.. what did you have in the morning?

SST: Nothing :)

PR: No Sonia, did you drink anything in the morning?

SST: Water :)

PR: Oh, ok that’s ok then.. for a sec I was worried that you..

SST: Water with the tablets :)

PR: Tablets!! What tablets??

SST: Tablets for headache :)

PR: O…

SST: and one for the fever

SST: and one more for the flu

SST: and some cough syrup

SST: and some natural cough syrup.

SST: so no time for breakfast.

PR: (slight panic) Err.. (ok a bit more than slight panic) Don’t go anywhere (like I really needed to say that).

I went and got her some water, ordered a sandwich, got her some juice etc., all the while our couple-partners in crime were totally ignoring us. An hour passed and Sonia settled down. She was still talking like a 4 –year-old but at least it was not too loud and hardly had any explicit language. (man that girl can swear). Thinking it was safe for me to go to the loo I left Sonia in the care of my two trusty friends and told them not to let her out of their sight.

The loo was a floor below and was empty. No sooner had I finished when a familiar female voice greeted me from the shadows. Turning around (but not entirely so as to avoid exposing myself) I saw to my horror Sonia’s head sticking through the Men’s Room door. Turning back to make ‘final adjustments’ I turned around again only to find her gone. Rushing out I was greeted by an empty corridor. Sonia was nowhere to be seen. The thought that ran through my head – Did I imagine it?? Am I d’lunk? Sonia is probably sitting quietly in the coffee shop awaiting my return. No sooner had those thoughts entered my mind when I heard the voice again but this time it was echoing and appeared to come from the men’s loo… instinctively I leapt in only to find Sonia hiding in one of the stalls. On seeing me she says “ok now you go hide” and closes her eyes... Hide and seek … really ... that’s what she thought we were doing...

Grabbing her arm I walked her towards the loo entrance, only to notice the mall security doing their rounds. Realizing that I was in a compromising position I dragged Sonia back into the loo and told her to stay quiet coz it was the other couple’s turn to search for us and we needed to be as quiet as possible. Then I put her in a stall and closed the door. Standing at the entrance I pretended that I was washing my hands while keeping an eye on the security patrol as well as Sonia’s stall door. Finally the security moved to the next floor and I got Sonia out of there. We rushed back to the coffee shop only to find that our friends did not even notice Sonia leave. They asked me what happened to which I said: - I’m not D’lunk.

Birthday 2010

2010-02-08T21:19:00.015+05:30

Happy Birthday to Me!!
Happy Birthday to Meeee!!

Well technically it was my birthday yesterday. PR threw a surprise party for me on sat night. PR & his mom told me that relatives are coming home for dinner so we, aka his mom & I, spend the whole of the morning and afternoon cleaning up the place in btw aunty cooking the food too.

PR as usual lazed about and probably lifted his left butt cheek to scratch and carried on playing Duke Nukem - another mindless violent video game. So basically I cleaned up the house for my own surprise birthday party whereas PR did nothing and his reason being 'He wanted the day to be as normal as possible so that I wont be suspicious' (Ahem!!!)

In the evening I get all ready and step out to see aunty watching TV and not yet ready. I ask her why she's not and she looks at PR & then at me and back to PR and blurts out 'They are not coming. They canceled out on us. Why don't you both go out for desserts?'
We come back after desserts and the lift does not work. I was wearing my awesome pair of red heels & I removed them since I had to climb 3 flights of stairs.

I was all super pissed cuz I was barefoot and I-OH-SO-HATE-IT and rang the doorbell and people yell 'Surprise!!'. I look at PR and go 'Why didn't you tell me??!!??' He's like 'Well that's how a surprise party works in our world. I don't know about yours!!'

All in all it was an awesome party. I thoroughly enjoyed it and in fact it was one of the best birthday parties ever. Thank you so much PR!!

Nina got me this awesome pair of red sandals. Aren't they just the stylish pair ever?? Thanks a lot Nina girlMalvi aka Smex & Anu got me this purple color M.A.C eye pencil. I have been dying to buy something from M.A.C for ages. Last time we all went to the M.A.C showroom, we just looked at the stuff and got high. You girls are the sweetest!! Muah!!

Arul, Seenu & Srini got me lifestyle gift voucher which is like awesome!! You guys shouldn't have!! My kisses to you!!

PR's gift for me was this awesome party, a pair of levi Diva jeans and a voucher for an ayurvedic body massage

PR went around clicking snaps like crazy which earned him a name from Smex - Photo Whore!!
I like it so PR might change to PW in the blog :)

Another gift which I received via post was the purse which I won at Lauren's contest. It was such a coincidence that I received it on my birthday. Thank you so much Lauren!! I love the purse. Its BEAUTIFUL!!!
The purse was hand made by Emily at elemental Threads. I think this is an awesome idea by Emily. I mean you get to choose the outer design, the inner material and even the color of the zip. Isn't that just cool?? I love the red inner material which contrasts with the outer design. As Emily said 'The red pops!!'

All in all it was a fun birthday and I want to thank every one who made this day very sspecial for me. I love you guys!! I love you even more PR or PW :P

Before I end I would like to tell you about a random conversation I had with Abi at the party.

Abi: Why didn't you tell me your friends drink only beer??
ME: Why didn't you tell me about this surprise party??
Abi: :D

S.H.I.T

2010-02-05T16:56:00.005+05:30

My dad forwarded this as an email to me. I couldnt stop laughing.. I hope you guys enjoy it too

TO: ALL EMPLOYEES
FR: MANAGEMENT
SUBJECT: SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING

In order to insure the highest levels of quality work and productivity from employees, it will be our policy to keep all employees well trained through our program of SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING (S.H.I.T). We are trying to give our employees more S.H.I.T than anyone else.

If you feel that you do not receive your share of S.H.I.T on the job, please see your manager. You will immediately be placed at the top of the S.H.I.T list, and our managers are especially skilled at seeing that you get all the S.H.I.T you can handle.
Employees who don't take their S.H.I.T will be placed in DEPARTMENTAL EMPLOYEE EVALUATION PROGRAMS(D.E.E.P S.H.I.T). Those who fail to take D.E.E.P S.H.I.T seriously will have to go to the EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE TRAINING (E.A.T. S.H.I.T). Since our managers took S.H.I.T before they were promoted, they don't have to do S.H.I.T anymore and are full of S.H.I.T already.

If you are full of S.H.I.T you may be interested in job training others. We can add your name to our BASIC UNDERSTANDING LECTURE LIST (B.U.L.L S.H.I.T). Those who are full of B.U.L.L S.H.I.T will get the S.H.I.T jobs and can apply for promotion to DIRECTOR OF INTENSITY PROGRAMMING (D.I.P S.H.I.T).

If you have any questions please direct them to our HEAD OF TRAINING, SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING (H.O.T S.H.I.T).

Thank You,
BOSS IN GENERAL
SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING
(B.I.G S.H.I.T)

See Food Diet

2010-02-02T19:59:00.008+05:30

It’s been exactly a month since PR and I got married. We survived our first month of marriage and before we know it we’ll be celebrating our first wedding anniversary. Scary!!
I was chatting with a cousin sister ( or like my English teacher used to say “female cousin” cuz apparently there is no such thing as cousin sister or cousin brother in the English language. Yeah Whatever!! I’m still going to say cousin sister. Go ahead Sue Me!!) and she’s gona complete 10 years of her marriage.

CS: How is married life? Are you astounding him on your cooking?
ME: Well I’m cooking but the astounding bit has not yet happened
CS: Are you still at work? (It was around 8 in the evening!!)
ME: Yup, I’m working in the 11 to 8 shift cuz PR is in the 12 to 9 shift so that we can spend some time together
CS: What a crap work timing?
ME: Tell me about it. By the time I reach home and have dinner, its already 10:30. I’m super duper tired by then.
CS: So its Work, Sleep and Work Again
ME: Pretty Much :(
CS: Imagine it is going to be like this for the next 30 years of work life and spiced up in the middle by kids
ME: Gasp!! Sigh!! Which is why I didn’t want to get married at all. It’s been exactly a month and I’m already pooped out.
CS: This year will be my 10th Wedding anniversary
ME: Woah!! Congrats. In 10 years time I’ll be in your position and Sofia (my sis) in mine.
CS: You will be giving her the realities of life.
ME: She already knows that. She keeps telling me to give her my shoes and stuff since I'm "Married" now.. She makes it sound like I'm dead
CS: Aaah!! The luxury of youth. Yeah married people are like show case stuff, and u know what, after marriage every Indian girl can put on weight, it's an allowed thing. That is my excuse. :D
ME: Well I’m hoping to prove everyone wrong cuz they told me that by December I’ll be fat. I’m thinking of getting up early to go for a walk. I’m going to sacrifice my sleep
CS: I can’t or won’t walk. What is a diet?? I’m on a see food diet. :)