The world I live in

Long hair or short hair, never ever use Dabur's Vatika shampoo. It leaves your hair rough and your scalp starts begging for mercy when you try untangling the knots. Switched to Sunsilk last evening. It's making my head feel good and my scalp is breathing fine.

Thanks to AJB and BV, 2 pals of mine who now seem a constant in my life. You guys rock!

ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! ANNOYED! Go suck on a rotting bone!

Venue for the band was Food Court (FC) 2. Could hear a few songs on my walk to the FC. Jitters again. I reached there in time to hear the introduction to judges as well as know the judging criteria. Attitude on stage was one of them. Now how does one do that while playing a keyboard? Oh well! I'd leave that to fellow band members. We were no. 6 in the list and each performance before ours made me think I shouldn't go up there. YANTRA (Yet Another Night To Rock Away) performing I was right. I messed up the first song's scale. After that, I went into this auto pilot mode and just played. It didn't sound the way I wanted it to. But hey! it's not for lack of trying to get the blessed organisers to give us a slot to practice which wasn't after midnight or trying to practice with no sound. One of the lead singers was low. And it's because me his song got messed up. How does one explain that and the fact that not a single other band member made it to the sound che...

What's up? - In my case, I have a roof over my head. The stock market index doesn't seem to come up beyond a certain point and what does one expect to be up? I do have a wicked thought here but no, I'm not jotting that down . What are you wearing today? - Not sure what the intent or the point of the question is. It's usually asked by a person who hasn't met the other and uses the cell/net as a mode of communication minus the webcam. And it's usually asked by the guy, not the girl!

First reaction was panic when I came to know we'd be travelling by the Volvo to Mysore. No amount of pleading helped to let me take a non-Volvo bus to Mysore. Besides this inital bad start, I looked forward to playing Throwball. A week before travelling to Mysore had me practicing throwball on the courts in the evenings and getting roped into being a part of the Music band and Mad-Ads group. Before leaving Mangalore Campus On the bus The journey to Mysore was as I thought it might be. The bus that was to pick us up arrived late. Slight headache due to the closed space. Threw up during the journey. Plus a road block just to make sure we were truly the last team to arrive on the Infy Mysore campus. Dinner was wasn't great. After which, went to the room and gave my roomie (Jyothsna Patro) a head start to using the amenities in the room. 11:00 PM at the Reception Block, Infosys Campus, Mysore The Ladies of the team Next day had me groaning because I didn't want to wake up...

Won the throwball event. Participated almost full time on courts for basketball. Backup for the lady player for the Team A in Volley. Nice to be on winning teams for a change. Got selected for Samavesh. And that was a big surprise since I thought there were better players this time. With the end of Synergy came the Red Devils team party. Did something really stupid. Accepted a bottoms-up challenge of drinking rum on a nearly empty stomach. Had to endure head spinning for about an hour and half. Never again. But I had fun :)

The search for just one hymn's lyrics led me to a goldmine of Christian hymns .mp3s. This is it. I hope this stays online forever.

I'm not going to start a blog. Instead, here's a link which should help most Indians at least deal with the tax part of things. http://www.taxworry.com/

Been thinking about starting a blog on the financial investments for the small investor. The idea doesn't seem to leave my head for a very long time. I guess helping UK get her financial plans in order has given me a taste of being a financial advisor. Maybe I should do it. Maybe I shouldn't. Help!

Thanks to a lazy day at work last Friday, I was able to go to Adlabs and watch a movie. 2nd visit to Adlabs, 1st movie to watch. Went there with Jeethy after double and triple checking with boss that we could take 2 hours off from work. The movie began at 4 pm. All I had heard about the movie till the day I had to watch it was its name. About 4 hours prior to watching, heard it was a remake of some South Indian film. Oh well, I don't have a high opinion of remakes in Hindi. What the heck, why lose an opportunity to have an Adlabs experience just if I think the movie's going to be lousy! Don't ask me about the story line. I don't have much to say about that. All I can say is that Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal's on screen wife save the day with their comic timing. Just about 4 songs in the entire length and nothing else that I can say about the movie. On the whole, watch it if you want to just smile and have nothing else to do.

UK left with mixed emotions. I hope that all goes well with the move and life takes a better turn for her. Glad for her but sad that once more I'm left with no one to talk to face to face. Scattered friends, voices over distances and letters that are precious. I guess that's how it will always be for me.

The place is all mine. Well, not entirely. A loan repayment in 25 years time, will truly make it mine :)

For a few minutes last evening, I was rich with about Rs. 2.5 lacs cash in hand. Felt a bit weird since I never carry so much on me. But more were the doubts: anyone looking at me? do I look like I'm carrying so much? should have I have listened to mom and hubby to take someone along with me? what if someone mugged me and then killed me? what would happen to my family after that? all this for nothing? And so on.. the thoughts went scrambling over each other in my mind. But hey! those few minutes made me grow a bit wiser. And that wisdom shall be put use if I'm in a situation like last evening again. :)

Lots of things running through my mind and not a single word can be typed down here. All centered around M and what I'm feeling right now. The memories are just too many. The guilt even more. I finally did send M an email this morning. 3 lines of farewell. Got a response about an hour later. With this I hope there are no more reminders of the time we had together and of how it painfully ended. I do hope and wish that all goes well for him. I've deleted that email just so that I don't have to remember any more. Please let this be a story ended forever. Any sequels? please let it be more pleasant than this current state of sadness and guilt.

I've taken the challenge once more to stop biting my finger nails... at least the left hand. In this respect, have bought 2 colors of nail polish. The regular transparent one which I'm using on my finger nails. I hope no one notices the bright shiny nails. Not that there's much of the nails to see anyway. A weird color whose name I cannot recollect. All I remember is that it belongs to the Street Wear and I use the color on my toe nails. Had applied the coats on Sunday and the results are visible to me alone right now. Tough keeping those fingers away from my teeth. But heck.. I want to look good and feel good. Not to forget able to peel onion skins with my fingers :)

Today's list of eseparations brought in M's name. Seeing it felt odd. I'd kind of been expecting this. And now that it's finally here, I'd been wondering whether I should write to him or not. He's leaves on the 26th of this month. A few more days in hand if I do feel like acting on the emotion that's been driving me nuts ever since I saw his name. Besides entering a short note that states no dues to the library here, didn't wish him farewell or goodbye. Just signed off the clearance. There's loads I'd like to say but nothing that seems right. Should I get in touch again or should I just let it go? Or do I let time take over?

Was in Bharat Mall last evening with Joel and mom. Was just goofing around the place with no intention to buy anything. Just looking around. The crowd as usual was turning heavy due to the weekend + festival offers. Stopped by the cosmetic counter at Big Bazaar for the first time ever since I've been going there. Was checking out the lip colors on sale. Street Wear was attractive with it's packaging and range of lip colors. However, my eyes spotted Maybelline and I thought 'Why not! let's try it out.' The lady applied a shade to the my palm and said that it was guaranteed to stay on for 12 hours. And then went on to apply 3 other shades. During this time my mind was trying to decide whether I wanted a color to stay on for more than an hour. Told the sales lady, I'd check if her guarantee was working and then come back to buy it if the shade did last. It's almost 24 hrs since and the shade hasn't rubbed off. Not even with me trying to scrub it off. What t...