Munch On It

Cos that’s what friends do!

They put a coat over their pajamas and take a taxi downtown just to make sure you’re not alone on New Years Eve.

I watched Sex and the City again and it made me miss the first bunch of girlfriends I made in college. I can’t go comparing myself to Carry Bradshaw, but I’d say we had our fun and flaws just like the women in the movie.

It makes me itch to think what the next chapter would have read if we had stayed friends.

It started at Sweet Chariot on tissue paper and ended up in the empty carton for the shredding machine. The Munches disintegrated much like unused tissue in an old cardboard box. I can’t quite point my finger on a day, an event, a person and say ‘That’s what happened.’I guess I blame myself most of the time.

It’s easier to talk about the good times and so I will. Starting with our first sleepover at Shar’s and ending with Wonderla, cos that’s the last time I can remember having fun with you guys.There are still some things only we would GET. Like ‘Bleachers’ or how long it takes to get into ethnic day sarees! We rarely ever talked without throwing in Oshisms, Nuards or the number 74! I think I may still have some of our ‘witty banter’ text msgs saved in some old diary.

I didn’t mean to make this a nostalgic rant wrapped in guilt but that’s probably what it is. I don’t know if it’s my loneliness or joblessness which is prompting me to walk down this road but I’m kinda glad I did.

Thanks for all the good times. It’s impossible to forget the richness you brought into my college life and whether it was Awing over PK or cursing Abhaya, I’ll always remember how each of you let me be me. Mwah! And Good Night!

MsgEd

It's that time of the year again...the clear-up-your-saved-msgs-before-ur-phone-blows-up time! So here goes...these are some quotes, epitaphs I found interesting and just took down to think of later...some notes I wrote to myself and don't mind sharing and some random lyrics of real and made up songs :) Enjoy!
Read at your own risk! Hmmm..where do I start..oh some of this stuff is actual msgs! like the kind ppl sent me and I dint want to delete and the kind I wrote and never got sent or were saved for the sheer brilliance of the way they were written..he he...ok ok..here goes..

"Out of all the things i can do online i miss my blog the most..Not that i would be writing anything imp in it..but just the fact that it's there makes me feel better..no a diary is not the same thing.."
This was when my comp crashed for a while and it was being so cocky..just refused to work!
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And this is something I wrote a long time ago: "Rain falling from leaves..I have this peculiar habit of praying when I hear an ambulance..In fact that's the only time I do pray..For strangers..i pray that whoever is in that ambulance wont lose their lives today..I pray that the doctors and nurses know what they’re doing…But most of all I pray that the driver knows all the shortcuts possible! That he reaches there in time..Sometimes I can’t tell if its going to collect the injured person or headed to the hospital..I pray either way..It’s like rain from trees..”
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And this is something I just remembered..It’s not saved…I don’t know if it should be here..But I’m writing it:
“Why do I keep doing this to myself”
“Get out Nehal! Be the thinking Nehal”
And later that day it was her status msg :) and she thanked me…and I said she dint need to…but maybe she just did…the word that goes here is ‘genuine’. You know it’s genuine when your friends thank you so it’s ok to say thank you even among friends.
Another one from that day that I did save:
“I like this….The need to be needed is fulfilled :)”
Sometimes I don’t know if I AM helping..but I’ll say some things anyway…and in the very first spring cleaning post on this blog I wrote about not needing to be there all the time for everyone….I said “You don’t need to go running every time you see a frown. People are capable of taking care of themselves” Yes, Nehal liked that.…and sometimes, somethings just need a little more zecuf :)
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“He he..I put radio and thank u started playing! Sometimes I’m lost for words..Full love will come in my stomach..In my throat..In my eyes..And sometimes..Just sometimes it's a little too much to look at u and think just how much i really do love u! U may be the biggest bum available! The most naive creature on earth! still u manage to be the most crazily lovable thing! what would i do for clothes if u weren't so thin! ;) ppl hug in different ways.. Mine come when we sing on ring road..Laugh loudly at traffic jams and rip full speed in total silence and know exactly what the other is thinking! he he..I love u ok! There! enough! I'll miss bus if I write anymore :-P yeah ppl ARE wondering why i have my tongue stuck out! :D" This one requires a little explanation..first of all it's here not cos I want everyone to read it but because I want to remember this moment and 'save' it. It all started with a silly argument that some ppl are better to hug than others :P
Now, it reminds me of smt she said on her blog .....moments when you realise what someone means to you...yeah, so i guess even though the moment was silly, the realisation was pretty profound. I did give her that hug in the end, whispered 'idiot' in her ear. Idiot for ever thinking she means nothing to me.
Yeah, I'm not the kind who slacks from expressing what I really feel, so even though I was standing at a bustop, sweater draped over one arm, bag in the other, I typed out this long heartfelt msg around two minutes after the hug.
'Thank You' by Dido is one of HER songs. And the weird ':P :D :)' s at the end were just to make sure her reponse would be a :) instead of a :'( . He he..she took ages to reply and when she did it was nothing more than a '....'
Well, in our case rendering someone speechless is not such a bad thing! three minutes later she was back, cursing me for pouncing this on her! he he he...then I made her play all OUR songs....Boston, Make a memory, Move along, Fix you.....
Yeah, I'm not going to write anymore here, the better hugger girl ;) says we still have a long way to go.....and we do....
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“Ironic…when the literal meaning is the exact opposite of the real meaning!”
This made so much sense to me. Many years ago, Ramona asked me to explain irony and though I know what the word means I can't define it. I found this in a movie called 'Reality Bites' and the next day in class....ha ha...we got into so much trouble for this....I wrote it on the desk with a piece of chalk....she asked what it was and two minutes later we were sitting joblessly in the foodcourt, successfully kicked out for the first time in our lives! There was slight contemplation and immediate rejection of the idea of apologising to Abnormal Ashwini. Oh! the irony!
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"The world is filled with answers. You just have to ask the right questions!"
I know I'm not the first person to come up with this but I fail to remember it's source so on this occasion, I'm going to take credit! -bow-
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An Excess Of Kajal

Mad day requires mention.
Dressed goth
"My throat is in my heart", says Sum
Brian's expression
Po's power kicks
Chris got choped in Coda
And I goth high!

IT WAS THE DAY OF THE DARK KNIGHT

"Whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger"
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
"Why so serious?"
"Its all part of the plan"
"The night is darkest just before the dawn"
"It's simple: Kill the batman"
"Evening..commissioner" *sneer*
"It's not about money. It's about sending a message. "
"Here's my card"

Brian is seriously contemplating necrophilia
He he
And the Lamborghini gets smashed
The batpod emerges from the batmobile

The two-headed coin thing reminded me of Shole
Two face is hot..he needn't have died
The magic trick with the pencil
The van overturning part
The heaps of money going up in flames

THE AWESOMENESS OF THIS MOVIE IS NEVER ENDING!

I'm going again tomo... yay! :)

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PS: I just remembered, when I was high I re-enacted the whole Bingo add! and also wrote line 3 and 4 of Are you lonesome tonight- Kusugul version! Here's the complete thing:

Are You Lonesome Tonight
(KusuGul version)

Are you lonesome...tonight?!
Do you want some...tonight?!
I'm available if you want some...tonight!!

We will eat with...one spoon,!
We will dance on...the moon!
We'll use handcuffs if that's what...you like!!

It'd be awesome...you see,
To have you...with me!
So baby, Are you lonesome............TONIGHT!!!!

he he he he he he he! I sing the before dot-dot-dot parts and Gul sings the after dot-dot-dot parts..and its just brilliant! Last line of second last verse is special dedication to Sangi...
We made special performance for Shake (who hated it), P & Sangi (who were awed by our awesomeness), Anushka (who used her eyebrows to comment) and Deb (who just pointed to Supu and said 'It's all your fault' lol)
It's a very stick-in-your-head tune..this is what comes of forgetting The Kings' lyrics..so much creativity and all! sigh...Slow clap!
I'll bow out of this post too..PPS's will follow if necessary...
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