India

The lazy one wakes up again…writes a Klash entry and goes back to sleep :). Hope to be more regular this time…

The word this week is India and the specific rule is not to use the word in the entry….

The serpentine passport queue irked him. Everytime! He had outgrown it all -queues, red tapes, human errors….

Settled in the USA for over 10 years, he had changed grown and learnt to drive on the wrong side; to replace respect with informality; to share washing machines with strangers and give privacy to his kids; to understand Diwali to be a silent Sunday and send out colourful e-cards for Holi; to cheer Dhoni and gang with a ‘Refresh’ button; to forget caste and remember colour.

“Hey Harry! Howdy dude? Passport renewal totally sucks.” Jolted out of his reverie, Harinarayanan tightly clutched the small blue booklet -the final fragment of his identity connecting him to the land he belonged to.

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Flip Flop Dish Dash

I had a fun Diwali week in Mumbai! Detailed post sometime soon. As part of my Diwali week celebrations, I caught up with one of my ‘couple friends’ over lunch.  H ( guy buddy) & P (gal pal) have been with me in and since college where they met and fell in love. Subsequently they married and are proud of their little bundle P2.

We met after ages (read months) and the following conversation happened –

H –So how is married life? Adjusting well, I hope.

Me – Yeah sure!

H –I know your ‘fondness’ for cooking and all things domestic. *snigger snigger*. So how do you manage?

Me –Well, Sri usually wakes me up with the morning tea

P –(rushes into the room from the kitchen with the raita dripping ladle) SEE

Me –Then I make breakfast, lunch and dinner

H – SEE

Me -Simple stuff really! Nothing fancy during the week

P – SEE

Me –All supposedly fancy stuff happens over the weekend

H – SEE

Me – Sri does give me a hand most of the time

P – SEE

H – So, what exactly do you make?

Me –Well, idli or dosa for breakfast

P – SEE

Me – Rice, sambhar / rasam

P – SEE

Me –and 2 vegetables

H – SEE

By now I was thoroughly enjoying this

Me –All before leaving for work

H – (falls from the chair) SEE! I have to eat lunch at the office canteen

Me –Well, Sri does that too. He finds carrying lunch from home too cumbersome

H – Still! At least it’s all ready in the morning. He has an option of taking lunch from home. Unike me.

P –You eat too much veggies. What I made for my entire family previously, I have to make it for you alone. It takes ages to cut all those vegetables

Me –Oh! The maid cuts the veggies for me

P – SEE! So how much does the maid take?

Me – Rs. XYZ

H & P – What????

Me –Yeah! She brooms, swabs, hangs out clothes to dry, washes dishes and cuts those above mentioned veggies

H & P – (not convinced)

Me –She comes twice a day

H & P –SEE

Don’t know towards whom that one was intended! All in all an enjoyable conversation!

Disclaimer alert!

Hey H & P, I am sure you guys don’t mind me blogging about this. Actually, there is not much to worry considering you guys don’t know I blog. Nevertheless

Sri, you know my typing exaggerates my cooking and all things domestic..

Just realized this is my 50th post. Never thought I would last this long. Yipeeeee 😀

Happy Diwali

Hey people! Wishing you all a very very Happy Diwali 🙂

Welcoming this Diwali with a whole lot of emotions, all mixed up.

Relieved because I am finally celebrating this festival with some peace of mind….no exams or wedding to bother about.

Estatic since its my first Diwali with Sri

Scared cos the sensex is buried deep down and no one knows where to find it. It had to choose today to go below 8000 😦

Excited since I am going to Mumbai after almost a year….

Apprehensive about it, I know not if Mumbai is the same as before……being held hostage for so many causes is not good for any city. There is only so much resiliance in Amchi Mumbai

Anyways, lets have a Happy Deepavali and hope for a better next year.

Lets start crackling 😀