Conversations in my head …

The first line is always the same…

Somebody (Or is it everybody?): Hey I saw  your pic. YOU HAVE GAINED WEIGHT!!!

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Me v1: Really? Who could have guessed!

Me v2: I am doing well, thanks for asking!

Me v3: Why do you think I have been avoiding old friends? Yet you HAVE to see a picture somewhere and comment.

Me v4: I have a weighing machine at home. If I really need to know, I will go stand on it. Ok? I have a mirror too by the way! AND my clothes tell me what I need to know.

Me v5: If I have gained weight, what are the chances that I am not aware of it? at all? slim I suppose… (har-har)

Me v6: Thank God you told me! Otherwise I would have never known and kept on gaining weight till judgement day. Now that you have told me, I am sure everything is gonna be ok. Aren’t I lucky?

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The real me: He he, yeah.

The real me (to my myself): I told you so… Its the medication, the harmones, the work, the… oh stop it! Its you, lazy bum!

The real me (to myself a while later): Its alright! We were planning to start working out anyway. In 4 weeks we’ll show them what we are made of. Meanies! Remember, we have NEVER commented on anyone’s weight! We are nice :-) and we don’t give two hoots (wink, wink)

The real me (to myself, a lot later): Hey! we also don’t care what others think right? As long as we are comfortable being ourselves. In fact we look better this way. True friends will agree with us! The rest are just jealous (smug smile)

p.s. BEWARE! DO NOT give me ANY advice after seeing this post. I will banish you if you do.

Stupidentipity

I think its stupid to miss someone who is away for sometime, on work that too…I mean no two people, sane and working ones, can be together all the time right? so how does it matter whether they are at work in the same city or across the world for a week or two? or three? (sulk, sulk)

I think its stupid to look at their things and remember the person that used them in recent past; after all an average person uses like a million things in the course of the day – from toothbrush to nightdress. Its simply impractical to hold on to every damn thing and go on a misery trip.

I think its stupid to stop doing everyday things because someone is away. How much ever boring it seems to be, one has to work, cook, eat, clean, etc. Besides how does it even help to curl up in bed all day?

I think its stupid to mope around; to crib; to act as if the sky was falling down…

And I think I am really…really…really stupid :-(

Say Greeeeeeen!

If there is one thing that is coming into fashion and looks like it will do us some good, it is this Green campaign. Green buildings to Green blogs to Green greeting cards, its made its way everywhere we see. I have by nature been a person who doesn’t like to waste things or be careless with them – that includes paper, plastic, electricity and most importantly water. I don’t drive, so fuel is not featuring in my list but even in that I have always have had an eye on electric bikes and cars more than the petrol / diesel ones. Must be something to do with my being born in an earth sign; without really caring for future and the next generations I instinctively tend to do the right thing (Read the green thing). So needless to say I feel a kind of kinship (which is rather unfair as I do so little) towards people who campaign for and take concrete steps towards ‘Going Green’. Here are my recent favorites and my related quirks (ha! how can it not be about me?) :

Nokia’s mobile recycling initiative: Even if they don’t really recycle the phones or plant a tree every time, it would suffice if they do have a disposal system for old phones.

I am quite paranoid about e-waste, so I have everything from my very first handset (an archaic Motorola) to my current Blackberry’s broken earphones sitting in my home. No prices for guessing what I am going to do with them now.

Electrotherm’s Yobykes: To be honest I haven’t seen even one of these for real, but it caught my attention because it was in ET recently and the story was quite impressive.

I am terrified of petrol bunks for some reason, too many movies where people blow them up I think. So even when I briefly had a bike, I used to trick my cousin into filling the fuel every time he borrowed it. To be fair…I paid for it; but Yobykes? No petrol. Yay!!!

The many green websites / blogs: It is not just about the one link I have given here, but about the many people who are committed to the cause of the Green Campaign. Some are engineers who are working towards solutions like solar power-driven gadgets; some are environmentalists who provide information and ways to go green; but the ones I am really in awe of are the home-makers and other part-timers (I mean those whose main activity / occupation in life is something else) who try to bring in this good sense into whatever they do. Someone like this.(Check out her green balcony). I mean really! Hats off people!

Poor me is way behind – carrying a bamboo basket for buying vegetables, etc, unplugging all gadgets from the power socket when not in use and going gaga over the new Idea ad. (I simply love that last line – sirji, aap kaunsi ped ho? Pre-paid ho ya posht-…paid?)

So there… Did More Good!

p.s: this post will go down in my blog history for the maximum number of links I think :-P