I am the official railway ticket booker. I book tickets for my mom, dad, brother, neighbour, grandpa, sis-in-law, friends, friends of friends, dogs, cats, lizards and the entire bandwagon. So much so that I was offered a privilege card by the railway authorities. Even the guy who designed irctc.co.in would not have explored the website as much as I have. The blue and white haunts me so much that I have dreams of booking tickets. Thu..

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Trying to fit a 10 day-old baby in a 10 cm radius basket is not custom .. its lack of familiarity with the metric system.

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Waking up to a bad headache, taking back-to-back printouts and realizing that some are the wrong side up, letting irctc.co.in take extra money from my account though I have only a three digit balance, screwing up a cheque and realizing it right after starts raining, running back in the rain to undo the screwyness, getting drenched and having an upset tummy by the end of the day.. Yep that qualifies as a bad day.

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You can tell for sure that its crowded when you have somebody's arm on your shoulder,your leg gets lost in the number of legs around you that you cant find out which one is yours despite the pressing familiarity and your ass is sandwiched between two giant asses (that obviously is someone else's). Add to that deafening noise and oodles of sweat. Thats India for you served on a platter.

Something new

Today, I came across a new style of blogging. I found it rather appealing. Going to implement it. You'll figure it out if you know me well enough :-)

I realized I have only guy friends at work. Wonder what that says about me.

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As on Sunday 14th June 2009, I am officially an Aunt :-)

My nephew rocks!

:D :D :D

..Aunt Priya..

Sucky!

You know.. there are these times when you are all proud and beaming coz' you changed something about you that has been annoying a special someone . And then you want to meet the other person and tell him/her that you HAVE actually changed! .. so when you walk up the road looking like the someone out of the happydent commercial.. wide-grin, bright eyed, like you were the cause of world peace and finally face him/her basically expecting a pat on the back, we have an anti-climax:



All he/she has to say is "Pfft !!!.. you call that change? Well.. If you could actually be nice.. that's a change!"



Yeah.. well.. not quite what I was expecting.

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P.S - Sigh..

Long time no see

Quite often we come stumble upon friends/relatives/acquaintances who we haven't seen for a while. Pretty normal... ordinary circumstances.. What follows is the uneasy part.

At Inox..
Me: Hey!!!
X: Hey!
Me: Its been so long!
X: Yeah ! Long time no see..
Me: So ... how are u?
X: Am good.. working.
Me: Oh! *not interested.. still* Where are u working?
X: at ABC ltd..
Me: Oh thats nice!
X: What about u?
Me: I am working at blah company.

--Many exclamations later..

X: Nice.. so ur here for which movie?
Me: Blah *Please dont come for the same movie.. I dont know wat else to talk about*
X: Oh! I am going for crap movie
Me: *Thank god* Heard its very good..
X: Yeah..
Me: err...
X: err..
Me: Okay then.. enjoy.. looks like its time for your movie..
X: Yeah yeah *Thank god for that*
Me & X: Bye!

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Its not like I am not happy to see him/her/them. But after this 2 minute conversation I dont know what else to say. Obviously we are not going to exchange numbers under the pretext of staying in touch.. so that dialogue is out of context. I dont want to know if X is married or single or divorced because 'marriage' is forbidden territory in terms of conversation. 'Kids' is a banned topic. That leaves me only with 'Hi.. how are u and where are u working' and an awkward expression which implies I am hunting for topics to avoid the uncomfortable silence.

The worst was this one time at Satyam when I had gone for 'Gothika' with D. I think D had gone to get popcorn.

Arbit voice - Hey !! Priya .. its been so long since I saw you. How are you?
Me - *Staring and incredibly lost*.. ugh..
Arbit voice - How is everybody?
Me - *Everybody = ??* ugh..

(I haven't said a word all this while to this girl who seeems so glad she bumped into me coz I have no damn clue about who she is! )

D - Hi S !!!
D to me - pssssst thats S from school!
Me - OH! so thats how I know you!
S - You didnt recognize me all this while?
Me to myself - *Dont think aloud!!!*

Already I have a problem with placing people.. then comes the problem of having civilized conversation. How much can a little girl (me) take :-( ?

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