Anoop who!

Anoop dawg ..like randy says it ..is one of the finalist in American Idol. He wasn't doing too good until this week he was simply out of the world. He sang 'You were always on my mind' by Elvis Presly and the choice of song just turned things around for him. ... Well isnt it amazing to see an Indian up there. Our indian 'Kem cho' guy went from zero to hero .. as simon quotes. The song really touched me somewhere deep. He really made my day yesterday. I wish the people in america would vote for him .... All the best to him.

P.S. I usually dont like thick eyebrowed guys .. but I guess Anoop dawg also turned that around for me.

Loads of Love,
An Indian Bathroom Singer

What we call... The Man's Game

I was switching channels at lighting speed .. trying to skip the usual drama on TV and I am glad I stopped at ESPN to see the score of an ongoing cricket match .. which looked like just another set up field but I noticed there were women. It was India vs Aus ICC Women World Cup super six at Sydney Oval. I had missed India's side of batting but I still wasn't complaining coz they made 234/5. Well Aussies have a reputation to maintain in cricket or rather men's cricket coz here our Indian chicks were ripping them apart. It was nothing different than a usual cricket game ..the same old screaming, rejoicing and giving high tens after a wicket ..scratching the crotch, weird faces during bowling, same dude gogs and white striped faces, the same old 'caaaaaaattttttttcccccchhhhh ittttt'..and jumping around to grab balls ...I mean the ball. It felt so great that I got goose pimples every time she bowled and gave that killer stare to da bats-woman telepathically saying "I'll get you next time bitch" and turned away. Even after all this there were few things a lil different ..the balling pace was slower, fixing and fidgeting with hair all the time, clapping hands and saying "Nicely done GIRLS". All in all the aussies had to make 235 to win and now they had 29 runs to make in the last over. Goswami, Indian captain had beautifully bowled her 10 overs. I really liked her. The bowling was fantastic..since that's the only part I watched. I saw this known face in the Indian team stand. Gauri Naik .. the girl I admired when I was kid. As a kid we shared a common love for cricket. I used to watch gauri practice all day. I had even once accompanied sanjay dada, her elder brother to pick gauri up from her practice. She was this tom-boy girl who rode an enticer and smiled and asked me what I am doing these days every time I met her. It was great to see her there. She didn't play that match for reasons unknown. Anyway coming back to how Indian chicks beat Aussies ass. We won! We won by 16 runs! A wonderful victory and proud women shaking hands and smiling away. They got to the semi finals with New Zealand and will probably face England in the finals. The woman of the match was Anjum Chopra who supposedly had batted wonderfully. She came to the stand and thanked her team and I could not have been more proud for us women. Is this the future of cricket if I dare ask in this man's game?

p.s. You go girls. ....

aspiring bats-woman
parab

Sorry.. here I said it .. its easy.

Sorry... its got a ring to it ... Sorry.. so how magical is this word ? Magical enough to mend a broken heart .. magical enough to recover failed relationships ... magical enough to make a relation work ...and in my case I was hoping it was magical enough to save my friendship. Turns out its not good enough. When things go wrong and you feel the sense of regret, something within you tells you that you were wrong, you were totally outta line and its time you apologize. However big our ego is, we know deep within that we were a part of the swearing and name calling conversation and we might as well accept we were wrong rather than things getting outta hand. These topics are really sensitive sometimes .. they need to be handled with utmost care, intelligence and timing. If you plan to take the high road when the person has put their foot down ... is it right ? Is it right to compromise when your really hoping its gonna be appreciated. It wasn't. It wasn't appreciated at all ... it was actually being laughed at in public which made things worse. The very fact that you were hoping it be appreciated .. do you really think you were sorry enough. I still stand to ask this ... What do you do when he/she doesn't accept his/her mistake? Would you call it 'being naive' or 'being an egoist' or probably think the situation wasn't awful enough for them, to make them realize that its wrong. You know .. saying sorry is one thing. ... meaning it is another and not accepting it, now that's just uncool, unacceptable and certainly not welcome.

Keep Them Seperate

You're Eating gum ... the flavor just started to get a lil old and someone offers you that sinful dark chocolate Hershey and all you can think of is to 'hide the gum' in some corner of your mouth and enjoy the taste of chocolate. Suddenly you find yourself chewing something at the same time .. and that's when you realize you gotta either spit da gum out or live with it coz you got it all mixed up. What do you do ? Friends are like gum's and chocolates .. you have your set of old friends who you defend, da ones your possessive of and the set of new friends, who your best friend just introduced you to. You know for a fact that in a group, the buddies you choose to hang out with .. know you and love you for what you are so your kinda like their 'Queen Bee' with those extra qualities that they are oh so fond of...yada yada yada.. On the other hand .. your best friend is the 'Queen Bee' of her swarm. So what happens when there are two highly strong sentimental and proud egoist queens trying to make a position to lead the large swarm as a whole? Disaster! There is that 'one' who wants to step down without letting the other one think she won it. But how do you do that ... I dunno, go figure. Some of the mid life crisis situation I'm facing currently. Its just making me feel so bad that I am very very close to renouncing my title 'Queen J in da house' . And it all started with a mockery over writing a blog on a Saturday...turns out it is Saturday.. isn't it ironic.. don't you think.'

Former Queen Bee
Me