"Let them eat cake!"

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" - Marie Antoinette (allegedly)

Let them eat cake is a concept that have allegedly caused many a head to roll in the past.

Else the guy who made my Brownie Bomb at Corner House ,the not so corner anymore ice cream parlour chain in Bangalore, would be getting a worm's eye view as this blog is written. Incidentally owing to the location of my new office (more on that later) it IS round the corner really :)

Brownie Bomb as the name mentions is supposed to contain a BROWNIE as the core ingredient as opposed to the cake in cake fudge.

Well apparently our own Marie A. didn't see the difference either. And I'm pissed because I got something other than what I wanted.

Another incident eerily (is that how u spell it? no patience to spellcheck) similar to the one that caused Marie's pretty head to roll happened one day when Sandy and I went to buy bread for dinner. The shopkeeper said "No madam, we don't have bread" and as an afterthought added "We have cake but". Now here I understand the man's only trying to make a living and be a good salesman. Had I been alone it might have been mildly amusing, but we being who we are stumbled out of the shop suppressing hysterical giggles.

I realised something bout myself today. I accept not getting what I need easier than dealing with getting something other than what I want.

mind vs mussel

" That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!" - Calvin

18:24 me: hey why so confused?

A: its that point in life...

18:25 me: haha yeah well i'm kinda there to but not trying to think too much bout it...

A: choices, reality and the will to accept both

18:26 me: well the reality is as ur choices will be...

A: precisely and the choices needs to be dealt with what u choose ur reality to be...

18:27 fact is, i dont know what i want my reality to be

and that leaves me nothing but to be in a state of confusion

18:28 me: hehe yeah thats the root cause really...but after bout a year of pondering n coming to no single conclusion i've let instinct take over...n so far i'm doing good hehehe

18:29 A: instinct... rt...thats something to start with id guess

me: yeah see in the end of the day ud never be happy till it felt right somewhere deep down...

18:30 whether u know whats gonna happen or not

18:31 n as long as ur not neurotic enough to mope over ur mistakes ...something good will come of it anyway :P

A: i like the last statement

one needs to keep moving on...

learning along the way

18:32 me: exactly ...we tend to overthink n screw ourselves up over something we'd be laughing at a few years from now

A: absolutely...

18:33 me: so might as well be happy with what u have for the moment n hope for the best hehehe

A: no rgrets at the end of the day.... and a feeling to want to wake up in the morning... to want to be at ur best...whatever the reason

18:34 man... we almost sound like aritotle and plato having a discussion over chai

but meaninful in all what we said

18:35 me: hhaha u should be here then the weather is absolutely lovely!!!...sudden rain...

A: man... london... reainin and me freezing my brains off

me: hmmm yeah i think u need to be an architect for a good couple of years to feel the way we do...hahaha

18:36 A: on that note... i will now go and try prepare some food... lunch is what i would call it

happy holi..

me: hehe good luck with that....

18:37 yeah happy holi/good fri/id/papeti!

how cool is that?

A: awesome

enjoy urself...

me: u too :)

A: hi to moy when u meet him...

me: will do

A: take care brinds

laters then

me: he still wants ur mums mussels recipe though

:P

18:38 adios

A: grand mums

me: hehe

well u have created a monster never the less :P tc

Lizard King

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can play together all night!" - Hobbes

For most of my life I have been afraid to venture out of my room when nature calls at ungodly hours. The reason being apart from the obvious demons emerging from the depths of my imagination, the very much unimagined and boldly venturing remnants of dinosaurs that I so wish were extinct - lizards.
But that changed a little more than five years ago, that was the year we got Poochie.

Poochie would enthusiastically accompany me on my nightly sojourns and gleefully chase away my fears.
This way I gained a little courage from him and when I lived on my own in Bangalore, somehow the mere thought of Poochie made the monsters scuttle away and hide from me instead. I sometimes smile at my second hand courage through my sleep and get back into bed so.
Today was the first time when I made to the loo in the dark alone at home in Mysore, my thoughts were with Poochie instead. He died last night.
I'm pissed off with what happened and every fibre of my being is crying.
But I am trying to think of the good times like I know I'm supposed to and trying to borrow a little more courage one last time.
This may not seem like the best event to start a blog with, but as the name suggests it is someplace I can finally grumble about all the things I try to grin and bear in life (or not :P).
Well right now I'm grumbling bout why lizards are not extinct yet. Apart from feeling a whole lot of things I can't even get myself to write about and wondering why the hell am i doing this?