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Friday, 28 November 2008, 23:59

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Take a walk on the beach side! #
Fatigue expands to fill the rest-time it is allotted. I don’t know where my holiday week has vanished! #
And now the workshop has ads as well! It’s about time it starts to pay for its own keep! #
The sun will rise without your assistance. And the world will gone on with or without you. #
And I was swearing off smoke this year..year..wtf this aint tobacco.:-) #
So I said I didnt need men. And I take it back!! But who cares when hes a good friend who lets u fall asleep mid conversation? #
Things Im scared Ill be doing when Im 30…kusti on beanbags, buttsie, oppressive wakeup calls..!!!!!! #
Staying up all Saturday night is never a good idea, considering that you spend Sunday too sleepy to do much. YAWNNN..! #
Abstinence is so 2007! And wine always tastes good, even if it is poisoned. So raise a toast with me as I celebrate my return to ToxiCity! #
Whoever said ‘work like you don’t need the money’ obviously didn’t. *Huff puff* back to racing with the rodents. #
An entire year spent bashing away at the comp and life & 3 hours to collect it all into one neat document! "She once used to have a life!" #
After awhile the ache stops hurting and starts to feel like habit. This is true of guilt, resentment, boredom, fear & unrequited affection. #
Red is the new red!!!! #
Prawn curry and neer dosa is like the best of all my worlds – the latent Southie plus the modern "So I’m carnivorous!" attitude. YUMMMM!!! #
You can close your eyes, anywhere in the world. But home is a place you can fall asleep. #
At 8 am, there’s so little of the madding crowd that you’d think you were in another place altogether! It’s so peaceful, it’s creepy! #
The trouble with starting the day a couple of hours earlier is that you also get hungry earlier. Even I can’t explain eating lunch at 11!!! #
Happy Pongal!! For those who know I don’t observe religious rituals, this one isn’t! It is a harvest celebration. So here’s to prosperity!! #
Just turned the new post tweets off. Apologies, everyone for the nuisanse and thanks, Ranjan for showing this techno-greek the light!! #
Late to bed, early to rise makes me a tired IdeaSmith. After 2 days of early mornings, I overslept! Damn..I’ll take all day to catch up!! #
I should probably buy a new phone. Just as I was figuring the current one out real good….There is no respite for us techno-greeks!! #
What’s a good phone with a so-so camera and Bluetooth? That’s ALL I need.Have a great camera, don’t need MP3 & can’t get radio anyway! Help. #
Yippee…new template! It feels exactly like pulling out that lovely dress bought ages ago and wearing it for the first time! #
JUST on time today! Reminded of an email forward about the value of time. To know the value of 1 second, ask a Mumbaiker who missed a train! #
Vodka shots with lemon juice are dynamite!! Followed by a throbbing headache next day. But what’s January without a few broken resolutions? #
Being a DesiPundit is even more fun than I imagined! I’ve never read so many different blogs before! Just what the doctor ordered – variety! #
Landmark is the hottest new place for celebrity-blogspottings!! After the Uncut One we’ve had the pleasure of bumping into the Vada today! #
I’m drowning in work so posting and replying may be sporadic. #
I’m craving a BOUNTY bar and there’s no shop within miles of my office that sells these!! #
Who’s going to meet me at the Strand book sale this weekend? #
System failure on the morning of presentation. IT says always try rebooting first. Wonder if the same works on men? #
More and more I’m overwhelmed by the number of times I have to say, "Go to hell and stay there!!" Aren’t there any one-way tickets anymore? #
Getting up early makes you feel twice as energetic. And then by noon you’re exhausted and can start the day again!! #
Either trying to ration floods of ideas into well-spaced posts or recycling old stuff in new angles. Being creative AND organised is painful #
I feel like I’ve finally reached the top of the mountain I’ve been struggling up for a month…and fallen into a sea of flying red ants! #
The Kala Ghoda Art Festival is less than an hour away!! Super excited since this is the first time I’m participating…in some way! #
Riveting day…the festival has started a climb upwards after a decline. There was so much to see and I’ve been at Kala Ghoda all day!!! #
A reporter from HT called to ask me a few questions for an article on Microblogging. Hehehe…are we a mini-micro-celebrity now? #
MNS thinks ridding Mumbai of ‘outsiders’ helps Maharashtrians. Did anyone say ‘farmer suicides’ to Raj Thackeray? Not a worthy vote bank?? #
It’s f#$% freezing! I hate having to bundle up. Then I notice that my open-air auto is driven by a thin man in worn cotton shirt-sleeves. #
Rumour goes Raj Thackeray to be arrested. Panic in office and we left at 6pm. That’s practially a half day! Nothing so far but wariness. #
Buzzed some people yesterday asking them to leave to avoid trouble in the city. I wonder who thinks I’m a big chicken now. Cluck cluck!!! #
The Kala Ghoda Art Festival is finally over. It’s been my best festival ever but also the most exhausting. Going to sleep in this weekend! #
Raj Thackeray arrested. Is it time to panic over anticipated riots? Or heave a sigh of relief that the media can now talk of something else? #
Trying to get home. Cab guys laugh nervously n tell me to STAY PUT. #
Found a cab. Passing a bus with grills on windows. Reminds me of my bus getting stoned at a Shiv Sena riot. #
Wud ve loved to give play by play updates of yesterday on the road. Cudnt mobile tweet! What gives? #
& now I can! But each time I mobile tweet, I get a reply saying "This service is not enabled as yet" Anybody know if I’m paying for these? #
Pack too much into the first 3 days of the week & Thursday starts to feel like Friday. Actually it may well be Sunday..I’m that sleepy!! #
@ ravikapoor: Enough with the post-updates, man! I’m getting a taste of my own medicine so stop stop stop already please!!! #
I’m going to leave work early!! *Does a jig around the office cubicle* Yay Yay Yay! #
@ bombayaddict: Congratulations on being in the news..paper!! I read it on the train this morning and thought it was very well-written. #
Back to hot February days and unpredictable night temperatures. Welcome back sore throats and sniffles…welcome back, Mumbai!!! #
@ min2: 2-5 minutes at least. That’s how long it took me yesterday when I clicked the Rakhi tamasha on TV and sent it to flickr. #
Love quiet Friday evenings in office when I’d rather work than go to another party/dinner/movie. Certified girl-geek!! Or is that girl-nerd? #
Am a micro-mini-celeb today with a quick quote(what else?) on Twitter in HT. *Preen*:-) #
Crash-landing:Sent some 20 texts this morning-1 replied! Is the world sulking at my belated return? Only I’m allowed to do that! #
Surprise lunch-date with LTHM. Cold coffee & misal pav may not seem romantic to most ppl.But most ppl think romance should be head-spinning. #
How did I end up following so many techies on Twitter? Gadzooks…these tweets are all GREEK to me! #
S sez "All my friends are bloggers". I say "If he aint a blogger I don’t know him". Whats loser-er than that? Being a techno-greek geek!! #
Im having rum with a sailor. #
It’s a day for long reply-comments. Sudden spurt in readers not liking the stuff I said on DC & DP. The mother blog stays safe – for now! #
"Andy Warhol" accuses me on DP as not looking beyond Bombay Bloggers Party circuit. I attended exactly one party last year, dude. #
A cellphone ringtone’s sole purpose is to be of maximum annoyance to all that hear it, so the phone gets answered. I know someone like that. #
Mum asks me if we should call rickshaw drivers ‘bhau’ instead of ‘bhaiyya’!:-) #
Swiss chocolate brownie for Chinese dinner is a good deal. Brownie Point is more like Balbinder Point.:-) #
Tomorrow: 8am meeting *GROAN*. Celebratory lunch at 1pm *YIPPEE*. And after that I’ll sleep rest of the day. Don’t blame me, powers-that-be! #
Lunch cancelled. Looming deadline. Missed calls. Where’s a transmogrifier when you need one??!!! #
Watching a loved one slip away is like experiencing death and the hell after- in slow motion. Doc says life expectancy 1 year tops. #
My life, such a charade-all I do and dont do. What a joke! N he sums it up in one word-PATTERN. #
Why can’t I post tweets? #
SNC msgs:"I’ve just become father to the most beautiful girl in the world". Men love being dads to little girls, don’t they? #
Looking through old photographs is always a heart-warming activity. I love the camera! Being in front of it and behind it! #
Working from home today and suddenly life seems fuller. Getting out a rut is the best way to do that one supposes. #
Raw mangoes are one of the most slurplicious things about summer. Manga-sambhar-sadam for lunch…yummm! #
I would like to look like DEATH – Neil Gaiman’s DEATH. Isn’t she a vision? #
Tweet tweet tweet up! 10 twitters here n Nethra just joined us. #
ACMhatre has a lovely restaurant called WHITE that is the venue for this Tweetup. Stone throw from In Orbit mall but White will be the n … #
Gaurav evangelised Tweetups, ACM provided the venue and for directions you speak to Yours Truly!!:-) #
Next on the agenda – a Sexy Geeks Tweetup!! #
Werner tells Gaurav,"You haven’t heard of Dear Abby??? Its damn cool maaaan!!!!!" #
Running late but at least I managed to check off 2 things on my TTD list!! That’s always motivating. But hot noon and lunch *sigh* aren’t! #
Why isn’t there a Shopaholics Anonymous? Oh because, they’d catch up after hours to exchange special bargains? SALES everywhere, save me!! #
@preshit: Congratulations! You’ve got your results already? #
Running yourself ragged to escape sadness just means that you end up tired, broke, ragged AND sad. #
@aalaap Your tweets today are totally cracking me up! #
@shadyrocker People who don’t know how to get free music or anyone who does! Besides, don’t you think Floyd is worth shelling out for? #
@Gauravonomics I’m Ideasmithy at Twitter, not Ideasmith! Sorry about that but someplaces IdeaSmith is already taken! #
@shadyrocker Curiouser and curiouser. English plizz, when you speak to the techno-greek! #
@asfaq Is hephail on radio? #
Back from last week’s rescheduled lunch. Passed sea-front & wondered why I’m indoors on a day like this. X sez "Everyday is like this!" SIGH #
Screaming in the conference room reminds me that I must be the only ‘sane’ one in a cricket-crazy country. Kya people, what’s the big deal? #
7pm and my day isn’t half over. Still two major things to be done…miles to go before I sleep, literally and metaphorically. #
@shishir_s I twitter through my cellphone. Every time I get a msg saying the service isn’t enabled but my tweets appear on the site anyway. #
????! ???? ????? ?????? ??????! ?????? @aalaap! #
I’m leaving and it’s still today!!!!! Hmph..for about another 80 minutes. Ah well, tomorrow is another day and Scarlett has nothing on me. #
is dancing a jig around the room. Yippeee….hot weather, blinding sunlight, summer’s here! I must be the only Mumbaiker who LURVES summer!! #
Suddenly Twitter isn’t word-wrapping any of the tweets and they’re all running into my sidebar. ???? ?? ?????????? #
Twitter isn’t word-wrapping all of a sudden and al the tweets are running into my sidebar. ???? ?? ?????????? #
Head throbbing. All my mysteriously missing friends wake up and suddenly want to meet today. Hoping against hope clients don’t do the same. #
Boystuff like comix are as bad as boys! Nearly done with SANDMAN and Im already dying to meet LUCIFER. Born addict.. #
Why does THE DAY I SWAPPED MY DAD FOR TWO GOLDFISH sound familiar? Memory, dont taunt me. #
After Thursday off, today doesn’t feel like Friday. Not like Monday either. Just some odd in-between. #
Is Pizza Hut in trouble? Two I know of have shut shop and the one I was at last night looked like they were on their last legs. #
I need a new calendar. I have a weird one on my table that starts at June07 and ends March08. So my life is off the record after that?! #
Those pseudo-Latino ‘frandsheep’ requests on orkut were amusing for sometime. Then they just got annoying so I quit! #
@deveshm and @aalaap How about Out of the blue? Personally I think Olive is overrated and OOTB next door is far better. #
Hawkers on Dadar station overbridge. Dunno whether to marvel at their energy n initiative or resent them for encroachment. #
Privacy in a Mumbai train. Wind on my face, ruffling my hair. Truly my dil goes hmmm..:) #
Got into a screaming fight. 10min later I wonder why I was so angry. A quick temper is a liability..a shame to explain. And its too hot … #
A friend had a paragliding accident last week. After a week in coma, he succumbed yesterday. He was 27. I don’t know what to think or say. #
SNC had a baby last week. 18 hours of labour & heavy bleeding. Baby’s first hiccup today, aged 10 days. Still no clue what to think or say. #
SNC treats us to samosas and cake. Why do ppl discuss fitness regimes at times like this? Pilates, calisthenics..pah!! SIN, I say!! #
Old crush online asking how I’ve been. Almost asked him if he had had any kids when I realised that I don’t give a damn anymore. Go figure. #
I’m don’t like social networks much. Quit Orkut & am tempted to dump Facebook too. U can’t control how accessible U want to be on them. #
It annoys me when readers ask for my photograph. I suppose it’s harmless curiosity but it still annoys me. Can’t I just be a voice?? #
@prsn It’s those damn apps that bug the hell out of me on Facebook. What’s your main grouse? #
@Brajeshwar NCPA is in town…Nariman Point, south end of the islands. #
Ever get up in the morning thinking "I’ve nothing to do today!"?? I don’t even remember what that feels like, now!!! #
@preshit SodexHos are valid till end of the year, aren’t they? If not, you might be able to exchange them for newer ones. #
Someone I know needs a hug RIGHT NOW. I do too. #
@sidin Movies! Masti! Magic! Errrm…I mean, photographs, podcasts and videos. #
Why do certain websites open up right on top of whatever you’re doing and others don’t? Net-boorish it is. Anyone know how to stop them? #
Anyone attending the Pune bloggers’ meet this Saturday? #
I’m looking for good posts to link to DesiPundit – real opinions on current affairs, tech, fresh humour. Mail/tweet me your hat-tips! #
Tweaking templates is like wearing new shoes. Look great, feel odd & often no one notices. I suppose someday it’ll be as expensive too! #
*Sniff sniff* A cold in the summer is like drinking an ice-cold chilli shake. And obviously makes my mind get stuck in metaphors!!! #
@prsn Facebook recently notified me that a friend had "bought" me at a profit. No clue what to think – I had no idea I was for sale!!!! #
I don’t think I would have bought me. I’d wait a month to see who else wanted to, then convinced them they were being consumerist! #
@preshit It’s right opposite to MacDonalds on Linking Road. Autos should know it, else just stay on Linking Road and you’ll see them both. #
@shadyrocker *Sniff Sniff* I thupothe you thigg thadzz fuddee??!!! #
@asfaq I tweeted that earlier this week!! #
I want to flush my damn phone down the toilet. Is there such a thing as being too connected? #
@prsn I’m a social butterfly! #
@s4ur4bh Hi! Do we know each other? #
I hate being a pill-popper but how else does one face a full working day with a runny nose and bleary eyes? Tell me I’ll be fine.. #
At least I managed to modify my blog’s template…and get a new header. For the first time ever, there’s a photo of me on my blog! #
On Wednesday someone called me ‘a very evolved 28′. And now here I go blowing my own trumpet…so much for evolution! #
Pot luck lunch at office and I’m not hungry. Cold, cold, go away, go bug someone I don’t like!!!! #
Lunch menu-Idiyapam, chicken biryani, rasmalai, thayir sadam, maccher-jhol, koki, dal-vadi, appam, sundal, thalipeeth, pasta, khandvi, idli! #
Also aloo gobi, strawberry rabri, muthiya, stew, bread roll, aloo paratha, thepla, chili chicken, tomato rice, coconut rice & prawn biryani! #
Other people’s enthusiasm can be such an appetiser! Had a pet-bhar lunch. Yum yum.. #
@hardik I’ll be there as well. #
Suddenly a lot of people are discovering me on Twitter! Who’s the angel evangelising me? #
Cynic points out that my comments aren’t working. Something’s obviously blown up on the template with my tinkering…damn damn damn… #
Pune for the weekend. Living in a constant state of stress Id forgotten how to relax. #
Mumbai is so polluted I realise I only take shallow breaths to keep from sneezing. This air is so heady Im nearly giddy! #
Back in Mumbai..I think I lived more this Saturday than I have in all of the weekends in the past year! Thank you S and P for a great plan! #
My comments section is still out *sigh*…can someone pleaaaase help? #
I need to stop thinking that when things don’t turn out as planned, it’s my fault. #
I’m having trouble stringing my thoughts together into logical, reasonable, well-written posts. It starts to feel too much like work! #
Even on the blogsphere, I keep bumping into people in the same line of work, classmates and almost-neighbors. The world is just a tiny ball. #
Shit…colleague passed a client query & I said "Dunno why they ask such silly qs!" when I realised she was still holding onto the receiver. #
Email exchange with long-known blogger who turns out to be almost-colleague. Chai with new colleague a.k.a. friend’s wife. Ping-pong ball! #
@DeeptiLamba That’s just what I was about to tweet!!! The site’s been having some problems all day, no? #
@DeeptiLamba Chicken 65 always reminds me of veg version Gobi 65 which make me . Also of my friend who asked a waiter for "Chicken 69":-p #
Getting into another round of endless work so posting, commenting and twittering may be sporadic. #
Leaving for home now. The next mountain of work begins…heard there was a bomb scare on a train today. *Sigh*I was going to cab it anyway. #
2am it suddenly hit me that he’s not around anymore. Still have his number on my cell. Doesn’t seem natural to delete it. #
I wish I’d told him I like him. Liked him. But it seemed like there was so much time & no one was going anywhere. But he did. S, I’m sorry. #
There’s sorrow. There’s a void. And there’s all this weirdness. Like having to change grammar to past tense when thinking & talking of them. #
Quite strangely, the song that’s running in my head is "I’m starting off a brand new day." #
I need new sandals. Straw-covered wedge heels under black soles and straps. Have built outfits around it. Did I ever mention I do that? #
@kiruba I cut my Barbie doll’s hair and shampooed it sometimes. And once, in a rage, I poked a compass point through her forehead. :-p #
Kargil war in my cubicle with everyone bumping into each other’s chairs. Grrr…Am going to draw an LOC! No one better step/run on my toes!! #
@bombayaddict Try the pasta in vodka sauce. It’s divine! #
PJ Break: I jabbed SNC with my pencil so he called me Pokemon. I replied saying if he were a Mallu girl, it would be Pokemoll! #
@bombayaddict’s tweets making me hungry again. Dying for a pasta in vodka sauce in Spaghetti Kitchen. #
12:30:Chicken garlic bread. 2:30:Half lunch. 3:30:Fruit. Now:Curd rice. The secret to my fitness is eating in Easy Hourly Instalments! #
@s4ur4bh Me. I’ve registered. There’s also a post on my blog about it. Are you coming? #
Gah…I’ve been wondering how come no one responds to my tweets. Only just discovered the Replies tab. Stoopid me..*hiding under table*!! #
Foodie season. After last week, head of the office throws a party to celebrate promotions. And this time I’m not hungry!!??! #
Menu just to torture y’all: Seekh kebabs, butter chicken, naans, pulao, malai kebabs, firni, caramel custard, raita, salad, fruit cake..:-D #
@madguy000 Gulp….sorry. That was my techno-greek self re-surfacing… #
@hardik Pesky man! Don’t play Big Brother to me…! #
@mixdev I was thinking of a friend who passed away in an accident 2 weeks back. Thank you everyone for your tweets; I really appreciate it. #
@hardik Kya karen, contrrrrol nahin hota? Will it help if I take you out for a coffee? The offer to be my gay best friend is still open! #
@prsn Well, there’s also jeera rice, mutter paneer, koftas…and I didn’t eat vegetarian todya but I saw a lot of stuff! #
@madguy000 I’ve enabled it. But I only get private tweets. #
@madguy000 No, I keep checking the Replies section. #
@hardik Weekend pe then? Or are you going to be at the barcamp the next weekend? I’ll be there too. #
@Kirti Oogh…much sympathies. And admiration for good deed. #
Going for training session followed by project meeting. From compulsive blogger to compulsive twitterer. Why else would I tweet THAT?? #
@s4ur4bh Can you mail me some of the good plug-ins you find? I’ll check mine on the weekend and send you some too. #
Love is a good thing, esp when it happens to someone else. A crazy thing, but a good thing & when it’s someone else, all it is, is GOOD. #
@shahpriya I am. But only till afternoon. Those damned balloons before Holi are a menace! #
There’s something about certain beds that makes sleep a luxurious experience & I’m lucky enough to know someone who has one!!Hmmmm…:-) #
I hate interruptions during meetings. On working holidays. When I’m on hold waiting while the interruption is tackled. Esp both together. #
Finally leaving for home, which I’ll be seeing after 30 hours, with a looming early Monday morning. I hate my life. #
The odd thing is when I sleep enough after a long time, I have dark circles around my eyes, the next morning. #
Mobile tweets off? I twittered from the phone last evening. No ‘service not enabled’ msg, tweet not showing either. #
K was right. I am spending more time maintaining the new domain than writing posts. I feel like Richard Bach in ‘The Bridge Across Forever’. #
@prsn and @Kirti I wondered why the more I slept, the more sleep-deprived I looked. But how to escape the comp screen with jobs like ours? #
@hephail Astronomical. All you do is follow only those who follow you. #
@hephail What’s in a number? That which we call a large following would still get the same tweets as a small following would! #
Breakfast at a croissants store/coffee shop. She called it a ‘brekkie-date’ and herself, Alphabet Soup. I called them both fun! #
I now follow 100 people!!! Is that my century or will it be when I have 100 followers? @hephail the stats do matter after all! #
Fave weird/tasty food? ParleG & bread-butter sandwiches!! Also-ran: M’s patented Maggi in cheese sauce. #
Shirley at StanC call center: YOU disturb my work to sell cards. Banging the phone down when you hear "Thx, don’t need it" is @#$! BITCH…. #
Waaaahhh!! I broke a nail after it tooks weeks to grow…again!! Anyone know ways to make delicate nails stronger..other than drinking milk! #
@aDeSe That sounds like a good suggestion! @garimadhiman Painted stubs aren’t haute couture #
@Kirti But they keep getting caught in places! Ermm…well you know what I mean. #
@shadyrocker Soo dikra, tamme gujju che? #
Too much work and a too-hectic social/family life makes IdeaSmith idea-less!!! Can’t think of anything to tweet but this..and it’s pathetic! #
@madguy000 Urrggh…don’t wanna poison myself when I eat..or ermm, glue my fingers to my mouth! #
@shadez Tamme bahoo mad choo! #
It’s the right kind of day to soak up the sun…to get out there and have some fun!! No, I don’t need a sizzling hottie for it! #
@shadez Nuzzings, just felt like saying it. The sun is blinding outside and that always puts me in a good (read crazy) mood! #
A day that starts on top of the world only has downhill to go!!!! #
Somedays I’m overwhelmed by how little I know; others by how MUCH. Somehow there’s never a match between what I think I should and do know. #
Bhel break. Scrap of paper fell into tea. Boss picks it out saying "Don’t think about it. Living in the 7th dirtiest city makes you immune." #
Life is full of decisions and second thoughts. Maybe I should live on ‘First Impression’ setting using what I decide first & chuck the rest. #
I never liked either tears or monsoons but I can’t deny both have a way of cleaning things up. #
@shadez Yes *sigh* I’m a procrastinator. But sometimes the monsoons arrive uninvited and off-season. #
@snigdhasengupta I can never tell the difference. There’s water blurring your vision either way, your face feels wet and your nose, runny. #
@melodylaila Nope, I’m a water-baby but never where tears or the rain are concerned. #
How horrible people are. How amazing people are. How terrible life is. How wonderful life is, now you’re in the world. #
30 hours to freedom. One exact week after the 30-hour-sentence. #
@s4ur4bh A prison sentence…obscure reference actually so forget it. #
Someone asks why I’m sending in sidey tweets. I grimace and say "Moody". Ok, tweeple, no crises, this is just a mood but thanks for asking! #
aalaap up for bar camp session on twitter. hope there r some non users else it will be a tweet up. #
Hephail gets to be voice box for the twit gang. Twitters heckling n tweeting. TWEET TWEET #
This is getting to be like twitter talk with tweeters in audience talking as much as speakers. #
@ preshit Aren t you at the bar camp? #
The weekend actually begins on Friday evening & ends on Sunday evening when one starts getting depressed at the prospect of the week ahead!! #
@aryayush My apologies..it was a case of mistaken identity and faulty memory! I’m following you now and I hope you can see my tweets too! #
Monday & I’m in the news (DNA on barcamp). Never thought I’d be so kicked over seeing myself in newsprint..such hypocrisy..but we lurrve it! #
I met some great bloggers and tweeple at the barcamp AND had a great time reliving the campus experience in IIT on Saturday. #
@melodylaila Thanks, I am! #
@pajama I told a blogger friend about twitter, referring to the great people I met as ‘tweeple’ and he said, "So you’re a TWERSON?" #
@aDeSe I couldn’t find it online when I last checked. It had a short note on barcamp and soundbytes from attendees on blogging. #
I kept telling the tweeple I met, "I follow you!" till @aalaap called it my favorite pick-up line!! #
@twilightfairy It certainly is! The unnerving bit is that you have to show your face to them too and hope they don’t run away in fright! #
@sidin Thank God you didn’t show up, else no one would have noticed us!! Next time, turn up, you ditcher! #
@sumants No? The alternative is to meet them in dark, smoky places the first time. Then they can’t be rude and run away next time! #
@gautamghosh Heh. I was actually reminded of those NIIT tee-shirts that said, "Follow me. I’m an NIITian" Remember? #
@sumants We sincerely hope that our first meeting is not being referred to in this conversation! #
Uncle read DNA article & said "Now you’ll have your pick of armcandy!". I replied, "I think I might actually be wanted as armcandy instead!" #
@ashwin7 You told me so the other day. How was the weekend? #
Was posting about the barcamp when I realised I had forgotten to eat lunch!! Where has the morning gone? #
@twilightfairy Happy birthday girl!! I hope you’re doing something special today! #
@ashwin7 Morpheus is touchy, don’t call him stupid! #
@scorpion032 I did – http://tinyurl.com/2na6vn #
@ashwin7 I’m not mistress of anyone’s dreams – my own or anyone else’s. But yeah, I’ll answer to Nomad of Dreams. #
Late to bed, late to rise, makes Ideasmith sleepy, irritable and unemployed!! #
A Subway sandwich, coconut ice cream & my own company make for a good lunch. #
@meetumeetu We say the lovely Meetu lady speaketh true every time. #
SMS says my old school chum is migrating to MidEast for 2yrs in a fortnight. Fight over not telling earlier. Then, he says "Happy Apr Fool!" #
So I call him back from a friend’s cell asking "Who did you just call? She’s had an accident. This is the hospital. Come collect her bones." #
One good April Fool friend deserves another!! #
@scorpion032 Apparantly he’d pulled the same one on 3 other people all day and figured one of them must be trying to get back!!! #
@meetumeetu #
@twilightfairy Guilt, icecream and chocolate should never be used in the same breath. #
@ceetee I just read that and couldn’t stop laughing! Are you still foaming at the mouth? #
Lovely day. Summery but not hot and sunny as yet. It was a real pleasure to walk, even on comfort-alienating wedge heels. #
I wish the weekend was here already. Summer is for vacations, mangoes and monopoly not Excel sheets and crowded train rides to work!!! #
I feel like a duhh-uh reading all these tweets. How come no one twitters in English? It’s all technospeak…grumble… #
GoogleReader down? Every single 1 of my 300-odd subs is showing read which is ridic as I haven’t looked in for a week and ppl keep updating! #
G-Reader working fine now. It’s good to catch up on the blogsphere again! Thanks @twilightfairy & @ranjanv for the confirmations! #
Bhagwan ne meri sunn lee! Actually colleague ne…and ordered in aamras. Drippy spoons, splash on carpet notwithstanding, it was yummmmm!! #
The only thing better than summer mangoes is a summer crush. And the only time it feels as good to feel warmer inside than it is outside!:-) #
@aalaap Which one is that? That last one I saw was the Digen Verma campaign. #
Multiple crushes are like mixed fruit jam or cake. Each bite is a surprising delight but sometimes you get two in a mouthful & they react… #
@kaushal Chee chee kaisi baatein karte ho?! Twitter is for phemely audiences and I’m a good girl…who just likes mixed fruit jam!! #
@mokshjuneja Welcome welcome in! #
@aDeSe Count me in as well! #
Damn I can’t keep up with the cross-conversations happening here! Wasn’t someone planning a party? #
@aDeSe Oh? Enlighten me please? I really wanted to come and then I over-slept and figured no one would notice! #
@aDeSe Sounds like fun. When? #
@aDeSe Boots…can do. But long skirts? #
@prsn Who me? What mugshot? I’m just a poor anonymous blogger… #
@aDeSe LOL…blaady hell, I’ll look preggie! #
@aDeSe Attire-ideas for the party: Shawls, ponchos, kaftans, Arab robes (what’re they called?), gowns, harem pants, Afrow-wigs (for cutlery) #
Standing alone at the stn I suddenly wish I had someone to talk to. It has been years since I felt this. #
Nostalgia for companionship in the midst of a crowded Mumbai train is like the ache in ur muscles when u run after a long time..feels good #
The train pulls away, I re adjust to my routine connectivity, the feeling ebbs. Maybe I should disconnect a day just to savor the feeling. #
@aDeSe Girls in Chennai wear elbow-high gloves (and dupattas) when they ride two-wheelers in the sun! Beat that! #
@aDeSe I just wear my shades when I remember them and crib about the heat the rest of the time! Mere bronze tan-flecked complexion ka raaz.! #
@aDeSe Goa beckons in July when it is raining. Also Dec for Christmas. Jan for post-vacation relaxation. Feb for carnival. Mar just for fun. #
@aDeSe Pehle on the list is the raid on Toto’s. With liquid inspiration, the ideas flow better! #
@Vulturo That is truly sad. Join our club, mate. #
My tweeting is getting noticed by non-Tweeple! I seem to be taking to compulsive tweeting the way I once took to compulsive blogging! #
@Vulturo and @bombayaddict Sometimes it’s just about not having the time to reply!!!! #
@ceetee Yes, exchange phone numbers with them and ask them to SMS! Sorry..that’s my brains addled at the end of the day! #
Okay lovely Tweeple, this is a funny Idea signing out after a day of jumping in&out. Tomorrow will be a better day, a FRIDAY! Over & out. #
@Kirti Are we talking about the same city? The sky is overcast where I am..not that its a bad thing just so long as it doesnt rain! #
We are so robotic! In a near empty train compartment a lady plonks her ample self practically on my lap! Seems rude to ask her to move. #
@prsn Montezuma should have been awarded a Nobel prize, wot? I hope the chocolate sweetens your mood and your day! #
@Gauravonomics As I clicked I thought, "YET another gal?" Turns out to be the same old one, probably the only real one in a long time! #
Finished a job in a burst of raw power. Now I’m too burnt out to do any more for the rest of the day (or week). Great way to end Friday! #
@s4ur4bh None of the adulterated stuff you see in this city’s streets or offices! #
@s4ur4bh Raw power is when the only thing that exists is the need to do what you’re doing. Nothing else, no one else, not even yourself. #
Raw power is Passion concentrate meets Greased Lightening. #
@aamanlamba I’ve been having too many of them!! #
@s4ur4bh Any job would. Sustaining that interest though is a different thing…people with raw power bore easily. #
@scorpion032 I’m glad you did! It’s a good feeling to burn yourself out once in awhile…sort of like stretching all mental muscles at once! #
@Vulturo It would; I’m not surprised.. #
@shishirs What I think is that a burst of raw power can start up something and fire up the more consistent & slower energies to sustain it. #
@aalaap What on earth was that? *Puzzled, befuddled, confounded, clueless* #
@aDeSe I did! It said the page couldn’t open. Duh…am I missing something here again? #
@aDeSe @aalaap ?????? I’ve to leave now but I want you two to know that I’m dying of curiosity!! Hmph! #
Shaurya was great for its second half and Rahul Bose’s back half.:-). That man really has a great butt! #
A luxurious couple of hrs in the water gives you a raging appetite..and extra melanin. Now Im visible only when I smile..by my teeth! #
Off shore meeting. Fun bcos its like being in school on class visit where one is on best behaviour n says thank u before leaving! #
Finished extempore talk. Why do I always get picked for these?My knees r still knocking each other. #
@shadez Not as much as sitting through long ppts! #
Exploring a new place is best as a solo venture..even if it is just checking out a new mall. #
I finally found a quiet AC place I can spend a Sunday with a book in..until the rest of the city discovers it too! #
Jaded is what you call someone who walks into a mall with 3000 bucks and two credit cards and finds nothing she wants to buy. #
@s4ur4bh Not not not telling!! I want to enjoy this solitude for as long as I can. And gloat over every one else while I do it! #
@shadez Grmph. #
@s4ur4bh None at all that I’d want to buy anyone. My friends are as jaded as I am, it would seem! #
@codelust and @adityamishra I believe my family gave up doing that years ago! #
@madguy000 That as well. Thought for the week: In a world of temptation, can the lack of desire be equated to death? #
@s4ur4bh Are you sure? I’m not a nice girl. But opposites attract; it could work. #
Someone brought chocolates in to work. ATTACK!!! Yum, yum, the spoils of my victory are a bounty of BOUNTY! #
@s4ur4bh That’s a myth. All my money is gone in buying books I never have time to read, drinking coffee I don’t like and hailing bumpy cabs! #
@mokshjuneja Kem cho, dikra? #
@pajama I met someone we both know yesterday and we thought of you. #
@aDeSe When are you back in the city, lady? Apna Toto’s plan still pending. I’ve my long skirts, ponchos, wide-hats and boots ready! #
Now I have exactly the same number of followers as people I’m following. I realise that’s both outdated and juvenile but wotdahell??!! #
@shadez Hoon one-tenth gujju cho! No Gujju boyfriend baba, who says a boyfriend can teach you anything??? #
@mokshjuneja Huh? Where where where? #
There are people who make very sad even today, as always. Yet, I keep going back, because once in a rare moon, they make me wildly ecstatic. #
@s4ur4bh I’m reading ‘Ignorance’ by Milan Kundera now. With Alexander McCall-Smith’s ‘The Good Husband of Zebra Drive’ to go. And you? #
Everybody, roll the red carpet out for my friend @CynicWonderland . I’ve promised her a big welcome! #
@s4ur4bh Well, not really. I’m a book-worm, not a book-snob. The Koran should be good; do you have it in English? #
@prolificd I couldn’t get through Anne Frank. I know it’s a classic but I just couldn’t. What’s Old Man’s war? #
@aDeSe Speaking of Gujjus, when are you back from A’hd? #
@aDeSe Good talking! I’ll speak to you again on the weekend or before that. #
Another meeting, another day. I need a break. #
Heading on a meeting sad says ‘Idea Journal’.Am tempted to ask,"You talking about my blog?" and add ‘of a chronic thinker’ to it! #
HELP!!!! I’m drowning in work. This is one time that it would really help to know that knights in shining armour do exist! #
@ Are you at work? #
Odd they say night brings your fears to life. At day end with every bit wrung out of me all that stays is a sense that no one can touch me. #
Bright sunshiney day. An extra hour of sleep can do wonders to your mood..till the traffic ruins it again!:-) #
Every train journey I see places I think Ill come back and explore some day. SOME DAY never comes. #
Who answers other peoples cellphones? AND asks whos calling? ‘Soulful Eyes’ can go take a… #
@s4ur4bh Sheesh no. See this –> http://tinyurl.com/6pk742 #
@scorpion032 Does that mean you’re offering yourself and @sathyabhat up then? Hmm… #
@aryayush I could do the dishes if he’ll cook! I hate cooking but (strange as it may sound) enjoy washing vessels. #
@patrix How about Knights in Black Satin? #
@intellibitz That’s terrrrrrible. I’m Indian and I’d never answer someone else’s phone – or worse – answer and ask who was calling!!! #
@prolificd That’s exactly what I believe. Btw, I keep missing the thread of this conv. since your replies come from my most recent tweet. #
I’m dying to have aamras and no one else feels like it. I’ll crib a little longer and then exercise my independent woman rights. #
Ello luverly tweeple, how you be? Am resurfacing after getting hit by a s#$%load of work. Time for a break, thank GOODNESS it’s Friday! #
@CynicWonderland We’re on on ON pardner… #
@manuscrypts Heh, until next time, yeh aam baatein hamari samajh se door hai! #
@shadez That was a comment! #
@asfaq Every man’s worst nightmare? #
@aamanlamba Reminds me of some men I know! #
@scorpion032 Yeah, I am impulsive in my output. #
Saturday begun with drinking games with giggly, drunk-for-a-change friends and ended with coffee with the Wise Woman. Isn’t that lovely? #
Getting your eyebrows threaded has got to be one of the top ten self inflicted tortures. But the only one withsatisfaction guaranteed! #
Who sang the title track of SAAWARIYA? I haven’t heard anyone yodle so well since Kishorda. #
The tubelight in my room is flickering. With the right background music it feels like either a storm in a horror movie or a party at a disco #
@lekhni Listening to the track now.:-) Welcome back. How was the trip? #
@aalaap Now if you apply the same philo to SMS to kya baat hogi! #
If I ever had a toy boy hed look like Ranbir Kapoor whos da 2nd best thing about the SAAWARIYA track after the yodling. #
Old wine is desirable no more. If RK makes me drool AB in Cheeni Kum leaves & thinking ‘Cranky Old Man’! #
Sunglasses to protect from sunlight. Nothing but sleep to keep us safe from moonlight. Happy dreaming, see you on the dark side of the moon. #
Days like this make me suicidal. Whole weeks of this make me suicidal. And yet I’m still breathing. Is there a word for beyond despair? #
@sepiaverse No, just unimaginable bleakness. There’s always a cure…but maybe you can’t afford it. #
What am I missing when I hear a ‘No!’ to an ‘I’m out’? I didn’t include a question mark or even a PLEASE. #
Dilli bound. In the capital after 3yrs. I spose visiting the city of ur birth is always a memorable experience. Even if u hate the place. #
Can’t see twitter replies on phone n surfing slow so missed yesterdays tweets. Feel so handicapped! Did anyone miss me as I missed y’all? #
Airports never lost their charm for me. Once again Im a kid in good clothes barely containing my excitement over being ‘in plane’. #
So many firangs around make me wonder if they ve never heard of Scarlette Keeling. Am I a reverse racist? #
Last and final call for Mr.X. I wonder if they actually will take off without a guy who checked in but did not turn up for security check. #
@sumants Their too dumb-too smart dichotomy. #
Flight delayed by another 30min. But a HON (Hot or Not?)walked past. Is it cool to match shirt to shoes? Mebbe not but it suits him. #
@s4ur4bh Yeah, I promised him I’d catch him at the matches! #
Okay….I’m back after a 4-day hiatus!!!! Miss me, peopulzzz? #
@DBhai Thengyu Thengyu! @pajama GAAAAAAHHHHHH…!!! #
Lunch hour and I’m not very hungry. Delhi has a way of bringing out raging appetites. Or perhaps it’s just peer pressure. I still miss it. #
Another day, another day, another very hot day. But when it’s stress-free, it’s livable. #
@surinderxx I know! I was in Delhi just two days ago! I’d have loved to have met you except it was a rush in-and-out thing. #
No dabba today. I think I’ll have a subway sandwich. Literally and metaphorically: http://tinyurl.com/562lex #
@madguy000 Or aloo patty on parmesan oregano drenched in mint sauce with a dash of barbeque sauce. Or is that too much ghass-foos? #
@scorpion032 It certainly is a real tattoo and no, it isn’t on my shoulder. #
I had a burger-and-friends instead of a sub. For healthy eating, I ended with Naturals Tender Coconut cone! I’m soo not a junkfood junkie.. #
@santoshp What’s gender gotta do with hugs? #
@scorpion032 An air of mystery is always good. #
@CynicWonderland No…chickened out. Details on phone later? I need some Dutch courage…or errm, sailor’s courage since rum is my thing! #
@aalaap Ive defected from the Samsung loyalists. Now the proud owner of a 2-day old Nokia. Takes awhile to get used to the old keypad again. #
Come to think of it, I haven’t figured out the GPRS on it as yet. Am still stuck trying to get ’0′ to appear in messages instead of spaces! #
@aalaap Back to being a follower Hey, I like my phone! #
@asfaq Weird isn’t it? I keep typing up ALL CAPS msgs or weird symbols instead of words. #
@shadez I get by with a little help from my shady friends…ermmm, friends. #
@asfaq Heh! I just realised my T9 only works with SMSes, not the phone book or renaming files. Now that just doesn’t make sense @#$%!!!! #
@twilightfairy I had (actually have as it’s in my bag till new Nokia grows up) a Samsung for nearly 3yrs. Was good too except low battery. #
@shadez That sounds kinky…! #
@pajama It’s rather boring, isn’t it? Maybe for a Big B fan..? I’d like to read a Rakhi Sawant blog (!) #
@aalaap And please show me how to activate GPRS on the new phone the next time you see me. My tweets shot thru the roof after m.twitter! #
@aalaap Uncensored! I’ll be an ardent reader of her hate-posts/love-declarations. Oh jijus! #
@pajama That does it! I’m not straying anywhere near the blog then! #
@shadez I’m tired of the Big B. News articles, ads, movies and now blog…Old man ought to retire now, methinx. #
@pajama Good blogs are good. Not random stuff that no one reads. #
@pajama Bahut ho gaya iska persona. Banks, massage oil, digestives, pens, phones, TVs, paints…$%^&! #
@manuscrypts I don’t even like Cadbury’s And errm, hello! You never replied to my email, dude! #
@pajama I wasn’t thinking of threats. But it’s tiring to wade thru masses of innanity. I don’t think most people have the patience for it. #
@manuscrypts Huh? Odd…plizz to check Spam folder, some of my mails end up there! #
@manuscrypts I’m resending…tell me if you don’t get it in a few minutes. #
@scorpion032 I used to have 5-hour practicals…which I dutifully snuck out of after the first 45 min…to eat vada-pav and go for movies! #
@manuscrypts Mila? Mila? Got? Got it? Now? Now? Huh? #
I’m going home now!! #
@manuscrypts Will do that, thanks! #
@pajama "Think like the end customer always." #
Wrote a post in the train on my notepad. No time to type it up tho’. This many drafts is decadence, not bounty! #
Lunch with dad after his unexpected meeting close to my office. I’ve had loads of breakfasts and ‘most all dinners with dad but few lunches. #
@DBhai Yeah, I fed him our canteen ka khana in the hope of some sympathy for the end of each day #
@DBhai One only hopes that it doesn’t hit his stomach too hard today! #
@puneet Make sure to check out Landmark. It’s the cooolest, bestest, supergreatest place in the city! #
@mixdev I believe there’s an MG Road (or two or three) in every city. #
Tweeting from the new Nokia! #
@ceetee Music Express tadadada! @preshit Yup finally did! @harshadsharma Thengyu! #
@puneet Yes, I was talking about Landmark, the bookshop on the second floor of Infiniti Mall. #
My favoritest bookshop in the world is having a sale! Meet me there! Details: http://tinyurl.com/5kjnfu #
I can’t believe I got conned into a ‘one of the oldest lines in the book’ style pick-up line!!! And he calls it ‘an ice-breaker’. Arrrrgh! #
Tarun reminded me to return to idea-tooning. It’s good to be back spewing! http://tinyurl.com/5rp9ex #
@adityamishra I have, as a matter of fact. But the Mumbai Landmark is just a tad easier to get to! #
@s4ur4bh Thank you, thank you! Comments would also be much appreciated! #
Monday…blaaah. Mid-week holiday for May Day, errr…Maharastra Day so YAYYY! #
@hiway How do you stop bots from following? Can you block them? #
Wearing a black blouse with dark trousers and SNC refers to me as "Oh creature of the night that says naynenene to the sun…"!! #
@CynicWonderland Soul-sister, where wart though? Errrm…I mean where were thou..err, you? :-p #
@madguy000 Not the Dark Rider? #
@madguy000 Or Dementor if you swing the Rowling way. #
Leaving office & sun still shining….err, almost. At least the sky isn’t black. Only my outfit is. *Sigh* And so are my neighbors hearts. #
‘Khuda Kay Liye’ was brilliant! 3hrs well spent, especially when I realise I now have a new crush – a cross-border one at that!! #
@deveshm Do so immediately! It’s worth every minute and every ruppee! #
@adnanbwp The plight of Muslims; caught between fundamentalist pressures & Western bias. And the correct interpretation of Islam in the end. #
@deveshm What did you think of the movie? #
3 days since I updated…my online life is getting to be as hectic as my offline one! I took Sunday off from the world – online & offline! #
@gautamghosh Complete switch off – online and offilne. Room shut, comp off, no calls, only a good book! @CynicWonderland It was great! #
@gautamghosh The Memory-keeper’s daughter by Kim Edwards. It was melancholic but a nice read. #
A date is just a meeting. But it can also be a game, a trap, a ritual or a past-time. Can we cut out the crap, please? #
@adityamishra All of it!! I’m tired of over-emphasized, over-ritualised meetings. What happened to plain ol’ ‘Let’s get to know each other’? #
@aalaap Oh yum! Where? #
Trying to change my Twitter home background so the blue background doesn’t show behind the sidebar. Urrgh. #
‘Downtime’ means non-work time that should be filled with training programs, meetings et al. Gaaaah…… #
Cloudy day, the kind I like. Only it bothers me that monsoon is so close at hand. I hate rain! #
Waiting for a friend in a coffee shop. This is a luxury Iv had for awhile n had no time to enjoy. #
@blogeswari 26 July is not a lovely memory. And neither are foot sores, mud-splashes, colds, damp smells and gastroentitis. #
@surinderxx Yes, I heard about Dilli’s lovely weather. Good change from the loo, what? #
@surinderxx Yes, I heard about Dilli’s lovely weather. Good change from the loo, what? #
@adityamishra Somehow it doesn’t seem to be worth it. #
@sidin Egg-ad! Just say that you are an egg-alitarian! #
@sumants @gautamghosh LOL! #
Working fast so I can make it in time for Parmesh’s book reading: http://tinyurl.com/5tslz3 #
@aamanlamba It did yesterday since I managed to not just finish on time but make it to the place early as well! #
@twilightfairy Oops, too late, I didn’t see this before I left. Will tell him when I see him next Do U know him, then? #
@adityamishra Thanks, I’m doing that. Haughtiness also needs a ‘chin up’. #
@s4ur4bh Now I am. I was referring to the most recent post. #
Tequila splashed liberally with lime juice & a kiss of Rooh Afza – my drink for last night’s ‘Think Pink’ theme at Verve lounge. Yum! Hic!! #
@shadez Heeee…you silly man! #
Friday evening is ripe with possibilities. But sometimes I botch up the time management and am left holding a rotten fruit. Yurrgh. #
I hate fwding links but this one is a brilliant idea & for a good cause too! Fight hunger with the gift of the gab! http://www.freerice.com/ #
@mokshjuneja Most men I know are silly! #
@codelust "Silly man, silly man, what are they bullsh1tting you?" (to the tune of Phoebe’s ‘Smelly cat’) #
@twilightfairy Maybe he hasn’t figured out how Twitter works as yet. His tweets are interesting though. #
@shadez Hey Ram! What kind of a woman do you take me for? I’m a decent middle-class ladki from a good family… #
@adityamishra I didn’t know that so yes, we should indeed. #
Friday movie plans are turning from IRON MAN to SPEED RACER. Quick tweet-reviews, anybody? #
@twilightfairy Please to tell him to at least follow some people since we can’t otherwise message him!!! #
@sumants Oh it’s a toon? Duh..me. And I thought the plot sounds funny with names like Pops Racer and Mom Racer. #
I don’t feel like working but if I don’t, I’ll be in office on the weekend as well. #
My 2nd favorite scene from ‘Love, actually’ is the wedding; as the couple walk out, their friends start to play ‘All you need is love’. #
And the best scene is an 8-year-old boy asking, "What’s worse than the utter agony of being in love?" #
Off for the day!!! And IronMan it’s going to be. Thank you everyone for the tweet-reviews! #
IronMan is 6-yr-old-boy-comic meets cinema. Errm, and I quite like 6-yr-old-boy-comics. #
@sumants I didn’t either! I think he was about as subtle as…a Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster! #
@sumants I didn’t think that was subtle at all. If anything, it was too jerky, too startk, like a sketch in relief. So 6-yr-old-boy-comic! #
@sumants Yes, it is. I loved the character of Peter Parker and Spiderman. But then I go for the underdog, not the alpha male that Stark is. #
Boss took a fall and has a fracture on one of her back bones. This is called back-breaking labour!! #
@sumants It’s a sort of reverse of the usual, right? A powerful alter ego to a unidimensional, ‘damped down’ superhero. #
The best thing about early morning is the ‘morning’ and the worst bit is the ‘early’! #
@prolificd Ditto you except with dad’s specs. Last night had a headache n shuddered at the thought that I may need them, tho! #
@rajeshlalwani You were quoted in HT yesterday in a piece about making money from Blogging. #
Me: Gay men are really nice! Gay pal: Nonsense, Iv met such bitches! Me:U mean male bitches? Gay pal: Gay bitches! #
@twilightfairy LOL…I can’t stop laughing over it. It’s probably some kind of reverse sexism but HAHAHAHAHA! #
@sumants Is that so? All the gay men I know are such daaarlings! Honestly..! #
Do we like moustaches on men or not? http://tinyurl.com/6gh54o #
@gautamghosh Thank you, plizz to come back and comment! I’m just curious so yes, it’s an informal poll. #
@gautamghosh You’re still welcome to leave a comment, even if not as a reply to that question! #
@twilightfairy What movie that be? #
@Vulturo I think that’s just because a lot of people are on vacation. The trains are emptier as well. #
@abhin4v Whyprayisthat?Howaboutpunctuationareyouskippingthoseaswell? #
@abhin4v Oops sorry wrongly tweeted. That was a reply to @prolificd #
The heat is addling my brains. It’ll be raining soon and I have a meeting through lunch hour. *Sigh* Superhero, I want you here NOW!! #
@vimoh When did you shift from mypajama.com? I discovered you on DC quite by accident today! #
What is this life, if full of wear & tear, we have no time to stand and repair, no time to do anything but despair? I’m tired, I really am. #
@hephail How’re you, stranger? {{HUGGZ}} #
@madguy000 Just misquoting W.H.Davies’ "Leisure" http://www.englishverse.com/poems/leisure #
@aDeSe I’m right with you (in thought and in hair-lenght)! Try some gel sometime, it’s great to change your look. #
@aDeSe Owwww…! But I don’t use L’Oreal. Once I used their colourant and it ran out in the shower!!! Gorgeous red mane turned hay-thatch! #
@aDeSe Tried Parachute and it’s ok cos isn’t greasy or make my head feel heavy. But most days I forget and have to flatten down with water! #
@aDeSe And there shouldn’t have been duplicate stuff at a L’Oreal parlour! No more of their products I decided but I like their stylists. #
@aDeSe Water da best, no? Just never got used to having gunk in my hair. That’s why I hate mascara also. #
@hephail Fikar not, the rains will be here in a fortnight. You one of those that lurrves the baarish? #
I wonder why the pics aren’t showing on my WP blog? http://xxfactor.wordpress.com #
@Kirti Where? Can you mail me the link? #
@gautamghosh No replies as yet. But there’s a nice discussion on here: http://desicritics.org/2008/05/14/143647.php #
@aDeSe And when you do, there’s the raid on Toto’s scheduled. #
@aDeSe Can we make it 24 May instead? It’s a Saturday after all. #
@aDeSe That sounds good too. So Saturday evening+Sunday morning. #
What’s a good way to track no.of feed subscribers to your blog? FeedBurner and StatPress give me different results! #
@sumants It’s a FeedBurner feed so FB count should be higher than StatPress. But it isn’t. #
@aDeSe Saturday Totos and Sunday White. Marine Drive either of the two days. #
@s4ur4bh Something remotely useful for a change. They may as well rename b-school to ‘BullShit Academy’. #
@aDeSe You’re TOTALLY on! #
@sumants This is totally going over my head. I installed StatPress only on my new blog (theideasmithy.com) #
@sumants Nope, that’s FeedBurner. When you say old blog, do you mean ideasmithy.wordpress? That was a WP feed. #
@adityamishra Dilli is THE place to be if you’re young, male and moneyed. Food is one of the many delights and you ought to be enoying it! #
I’m hungry and no one is having lunch. Why? Now it’ll look like I’m a glutton if I start eating. #
@adityamishra Yup, I was born there and visited it every vacation for 20 years. #
Lunch over. Found a shop stocking Phantom cigarettes…yipppee! #
@rohanmoitra It’s a secret..I don’t want him running out! #
Anyone remember jeera-golis, pepper mints (10 white rectangles wrapped in cheap paper), Kismi toffee bars & gold coin chocolates? Yummm… #
@rohanmoitra Nope, amchi Mumbai. You’ll have to come down then! @Asfaq: Where, where? I’ve stocked up with 10 packs now so not just yet. #
@gautamghosh Milan supari and raseelee…raseelee…Rasili supari!! #
@prsn Apparantly there’s a green one also available now. I’ve only had the red ones with a picture a black woman kissing a white man. #
@prsn Rola-a-cola..isme cola ka mazaa albela, cola ka gola!! I sure miss those but I think Poppins are still around. #
@twilightfairy The very same! Red box with puzzle at the back and a free sticker with 10 ciggies all for Rs.3! #
@orgmcone Me too. I don’t remember the churan in pipes though. #
@adityamishra Street food..that is truly wonderful, ain’t it? Esp stuff like golguppas & chole-bathurey that Mumbai comprehends only dimly. #
@adityamishra There’s a chole-bathure stall in a dirty galli in Pahadganj that’s the best I’ve ever had. #
@aDeSe I sent you a message, did you see? When are you getting here? #
@aDeSe K..just thought I’d check. Let’s do something Sunday for sure. #
@adityamishra There’s plenty of chaatwalas in Vasant Kunj, Muneerka and Southex. #
I am subject to everbody else’s last min chang!! Sir Obnoxious says, "Don’t foist your indecisiveness on others!" then cancels. Grrr… #
@gautamghosh Next post? Been done already! See this -> http://tinyurl.com/5eqavz #
I am so stubborn that even I can’t get me to change my mind!! #
Must learn to relax. First weekend I have in ages that isnt chock-a-bloc and Im restless. Stress has become an unwelcome but resident guest #
Most games you win by your own ability OR your opponent’s inability. But does the latter really count as a victory? #
Mon morning bright and sunny if with a few clouds. Promising week if only with a little less energy than I’d like. I need a back-up battery. #
Caferati members: Peter Griffin had a heart attack 3 days back and is in the ICU, recovering. Send him your prayers and good wishes. #
Clipping a bird’s wings will not make it a lapdog. When you cage me, you kill me. #
Certain locations can be more stressful than others. And I’m back in one. #
I’m just going to go nose to grindstone today. Maybe the mountain will move. #
Jeffrey Archer is reading exerpts from ‘The Prison Diaries’ at Landmark today. I’ll be there out of sheer curiosity. Anyone joining me? #
Tweeting even more than blogging feels like I’m talking to thin air. So why are people who talk to themselves considered ‘odd’? #
@madguy000 I’ll check when I’m there today and let you know. I’m sure he’ll visit Chennai, it’s the biggest one isn’t it? #
@ceetee Eeeee..! Reminded me of when I was six and thought chocolate sauce with boiled rice would taste nice. :-p #
@madguy000 I sure don’t want to read Prison Diaries esp since the last book was appalling. He started brilliantly and sort of deteriorated. #
@madguy000 But there’s some sentiment attached to Kane & Abel, As the Crow Flies, Quiver full of Arrows and Twist in the Tale. Wots ur fave? #
@madguy000 That was his first, wasn’t it? I loved As the Crow flies. And the short story about chess. #
@manuscrypts Hehehehe…. #
@madguy000 Isn’t that the one where he actually tells the story and at the end u find out he’s the foreman of the jury that says guilty? #
@sumants More soulful times those were? #
Do you love Jeffrey Archer? Do you hate Jeffbhai? What’s your favorite Archer story? Tell him yourself at Landmark, Andheri at 7pm today! #
Smushed to the back of crowd at Landmark. If I stand on tiptoe I can see Jeffrey Archer. Glad I wore heels. #
Archer talks as well as he writes. Charms the Indians with cricket talk and the women esp by saying the girls are smarter than boys:-) #
@madguy000 How to put it up on Twitter? #
He promises to not leave until all books are signed but also requests we not trample each other getting to him. He doesnt know us!. #
FIGHT! Woman in crowd screaming about no need to push so the whole store stood stock still. Archer, welcome to Mumbai! #
@patrix there will be on my blog once I am able to upload the pics #
I’ve seen Jeffrey Archer in person and he spoke to me! The post will be up in 30min – http://tinyurl.com/5gjy3c #
Up till 2am with ‘A Prisoner of Birth’. Archer never lost his story-telling ability but the plots have been slightly less appealing of late. #
We’re a disillusioned generation, spoilt for choices, none of them appealing in the long run. Peace and happiness are from another lifetime. #
“Put a chain around my neck and lead me anywhere. Run ur fingers thru my hair & cuddle me real tight” croons The King in my ears. #
@CynicWonderland Yay! Am listening to ‘(Let me be your) teddy-bear’ on repeat. #
@CynicWonderland Try maroing it on them before they marofy you. Like “Leaving early to get my gun license. I got a shoot tomorrow.” #
@CynicWonderland Cheeseburger and Samos-ette. Like Ling on Ally McBeal, I’m not sweet. #
@9_6 Baarish ne laga dala, to life jinga-lala? Muhahahaha… #
@CynicWonderland Ever tried curd-rice with Kurkure? Its yummee! I’ll have part 2 of lunch in 15 min. I eat in EHIs (Easy Hourly Instalments) #
@madguy000 It hasn’t done anything to mine so far. Curd-rice is the panacea for all evils! And EHIs ought to be good for shape as well! #
@aDeSe I’m tweeting and I’m saying the deafening noise around the TV means I can’t work anymore!!! Stoopid cricket…mumblemumble… #
Jeffrey Archer in Landmark – 22May Pune, 23May Blore Forum, 24May Chennai Apex Plaza #
It’s always a thrill to be featured on DesiPundit so thanks @patrix ! http://tinyurl.com/6ckkzc #
@manuscrypts I get my news from the staff at Landmark!! So are you going to meet Archiebhai? #
@manuscrypts Carry a camera! #
Book-reading: Parmesh Shahani from his book Gay Bombay at Chennai Oxford on 23 May at 18:30. #
LOL. No.1 on list of search terms to reach www.theideasmithy.com – “changes made to flying since the days of Smithy” Flying lessons, anyone? #
I feel like Kevin Spacey in American Beauty-at the start of the movie. I feel like I’m walking around in a coma. Will I be dead in a yr too? #
Of course he also adds, “In a way, I’m dead already.” Is that the same as being very, very, very tired for no fathomable reason? #
Be with whoever makes you happy. Don’t be afraid to let them go, if you arent. To hell with the world, they can’t know how it is to be you. #
Time, the most precious commodity of all in this ‘charge it’ age; and what beggars it makes of us!! #
Friend calls: “He’s beautiful and he’s probably gay!” I reply, “If he’s beautiful, he probably is.” Why don’t straight men groom themselves? #
@aDeSe Urrghh no, not the Metrosexual Man..I hate those!! I mean just basic grooming. #
Playing ‘When love and hate collide’ & then I sigh bcos I read http://tinyurl.com/6k6gnh #
Masochism is listening to a song that reminds you of heartbreak while waiting for your Friday evening to start. #
@codelust Personal hygiene, facial and bodily hair maintenence, B.O. control and a decent dress sense please??!! #
Do banished memories go to hell? I hope not cos I’ll have to meet them again. Besides they deserve far better so heaven it is I hope. #
@sidin You are sooper da, in fact you are Soooperman! #
@aalaap Grrrrr…you do know what part of the world I come from? #
@sidin It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a superhero! No, it’s a ditcher-Sidin. #
Time to leave and stop being a whiny bore. Have a great weekend, people! #
Just another Manic Monday. #
@aDeSe I did! Yes, very interested. Who’s going? Where is it? Let’s take this to email…Twitter is acting up. #
@aDeSe Age is just the number of times this planet runs around the Sun. Some of us run faster. #
Job satisfaction lies in that gap between the acknowedged already-achieved and the visible still-achievable. #
@aDeSe What happened to the south plan? Plizz to mail. I’m going off Twitter shortly. #
Hee. Just remembered colleague brought chocs back from trip today & fight over them. Chocolate peanuts lying in my drawer! Yumm… #
@b50 Yeah they did. And R.E.M. commented on it as well. #
@manuscrypts What was the problem with the feed? #
Everyone discussing gaming at lunch. I told my PS2 story at the Tweet-up. More laughter as they mass-corrected me to “PSP for Portable”! :-p #
A day of errors. Forgot newspaper at home, stuck in traffic for 45min, trains slow n when I got in, it went in opposite direction! #
@prolificd Van Gogh is wonderful, isn’t he? #
I’m hungry and it’s nowhere close to 1. Why not??!!! #
Say hello and welcome and kem-cho, ki-gal-hai to Bollywood bloggers ki rani @sakshijuneja ! #
@Sampad At least I got to office in one piece! #
@manuscrypts One wonders why. The techno-mysteries of this world are beyond comprehension. #
@sumants Gah. And now it’s lunchtime and I’m not hungry. #
I want a double scoop of Naturals’ Tender coconut ice-cream in a waffle cone. I want it right now!! #
Damn. Spamming made me lock up a post on XXFactor. The spam comments are still coming in! Huccome? #
@prolificd Huh? Didn’t get that at all. #
Hot flashes are like disco lights behind your eyes and your stomach doing the dancing. #
Working from home and my weekend has just begun. Hallelujah to Fridays. #
“Nothing left for luxuries, nothing left to pay my heating bill. But the good Lord will provide..I know he will” – Dire Straits #
If you think your girl gives u hell, wait till she joins the League! http://tinyurl.com/55y9yf #
Being a Mumbaiker is both a part of my identity and a reason for my identity crisis. #
@aDeSe Heh. We’ll need to check if he means that specifically for the League of Ex-gfs or as a blanket statement! #
Identity is such a fluctuating, fluid notion and yet we base our lives on it. #
Doc says my BP is too low. In addition to protein supplements, fruits & veggies, I should try being angrier. Time to meet the ex-..! #
Copycat blogging is so pathetic, it’s almost comic. Meet one of my latest encounters – http://theideasmithy.com/copycat-caught/ #
@aDeSe What happened to the trip? #
Yippeee! Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte wait for me at the end of this week. Who’s coming with me to meet them? #
SATC is the baap (ma?) of all chick-lit shows. Funnily enough it was a boyfriend who introduced me to it. God bless him. #
@shishirs This blogger has copied my posts earlier and even passed off some of them in letters to others. I have no sympathy for him. #
@shishirs Strange sort of admiration that is then. I feel like my children have been kidnapped. Is that weird? #
@madguy000 On SATC you mean? Nooo, I don’t want to know any prior impressions! #
@aalaap Have you been to Jai Hind outside Kamala Mills, Lower Parel? Their neer dosa with prawn curry is to die for! #
Which Bollywood bombshell is on your walls & what’s it say about you? http://tinyurl.com/66tfyb #
@ashwin7 PC and Diya have both not been around as long. So ‘data insufficient’. #
I want something sweet. Cotton candy, badursha, coconut barfi or roshogullas from Kolkata. #
@rishabhkaul However could you smile at it?? I’m still seething. #
Kids at work talking. One tries to classify Pink Floyd as ‘soft rock’ while the other says ‘It’s just noise’. Someone stop me…. #
@sakshijuneja Besharam, phone to utha! Kya zamana aya hai, I have to tweet you to tell you your phone’s ringing!!! #
I had a colleague who set her iPod so loud she never heard phones ring. So I’d call her & yell across the office “Pick up the damn phone!” #
Virgin Mobile should offer to pay ppl for unanswered calls instead of for incoming calls. If they do, remember u heard it here first! #
Am going to step out into the first rain of the year. Maybe 2008 will be the year that I finally fall in love with the season of my birth. #
When you walk out, expecting never to return (but oh, who has seen the future?), what do you leave behind? http://theideasmithy.com/vapour/ #
@twilightfairy Aamchi Mumbai. Now and forever. #
@miyume01 Which month and what date? I’m a July-born. #
I missed the movie but it was good meeting @mokshjuneja, @tarunchandel, @sakshijuneja and @melodylaila yesterday. #
The sky is dark and I can smell the moisture in the air. Monsoon is really here! I’m trying hard not to panic. Breathe breathe breathe… #
@deveshm Got it. It got held up for moderation. Thanks! #
So quiet I can hear myself breathe. And the water splashing from car tyres outside. #
It’s raining men…hallelujah! No, it’s not actually but it’s the only baarishwala-gaana I really like! #
@sumants I don’t like the rain…unless it’s raining men! #
Every woman should watch Sex and the City with a good girlfriend. I had two, lucky me! #
SATC was everything the movie promised! I laughed so much I accidentally kicked the guy next to me – mebbe the only one in the theatre! #
What I don’t like about rain is getting icky & muddy. Well, mud can be washed off and dampness dried. And it will never be this day again! #
I say hello, how-do and missed you to longtime reading-and-reader @readmylips ! #
@MeghnaK Trying very hard to, especially when all I can think of is the getting-back-to-school memories. I hope u enjoy it more than I do! #
@miyume01 Same day as one of my good friends. She’s a great human being and I’m sure so are you! #
‘Nuther rainy song…”It’s raining on prom night…” Remember Grease, anyone? #
HT has an article today about senior citizen bloggers which starts with “Amitabh Bachchan is not the only one.” Hmph and heh! #
Firefox reminds me of pizza. Why? I keep reading the icon as Mozarella Firefox!! #
Looking at my Followers list & wondering who all these ppl are who want to hear my nonsense. Ok, following y’all too…sorry for the delay! #
@mokshjuneja Victims?! Hmph…and I’m so shy I’d think people would be happy to hear me speak!! #
@aalaap LOL. This Twittai definitely needs some pittai since it doesn’t load on my phone! #
Online every person is just a pop-up window. #
@aryayush Oooh…what a compliment! Thengyu, thengyu vairy much! Uh, btw what way is that? Chat, random ideas, announcements? #
@ChiefBrutus And thank you for following me! #
Never thought I’d be such a shoe-fiend. But that was till SATC. So much for my cynicism, I’m as sold on mktg mumbo-jumbo as the next person. #
@mokshjuneja Pizza for breakfast? Eeee..! Gimme eggs, toast, tea, fresh fruit or poha anyday!! #
*Sigh* When I shifted to my own domain, one of my readers warned me I’d spend more time maintaining the blog than writing. 2hrs to update. #
@babychen I didn’t know till about a week back when I kept seeing it on Twitter and googled it out of curiosity! #
Dekho baarish ho rahi hai, it’s raining, it’s raining, it’s raininggg…what I’m doing is expressing my ire by doing an Anu Malik. #
@mahafreed Grmph. Not when you think muddy toes, damp clothes and musty rooms. #
Rain, rain, go away, don’t bother coming again another day!
Ideasmith wants to wear her new sandals today; rain, rain GO AWAY!! #
The one thing that makes me sicker than incessant rain is incessant stupidity. Well there’s always incessant mush & incessant mind-fuckiness #
Gah. Don’t incense me today. #
Should stop SMSing in auto. Makes me feel all pukey. Sightseeing should be fun-ner…rain brings out the weirdness in everyone’s wardrobe. #
My cho-chweet long-ago crush still reads my blog! *jig inside office cubicle* Ok, I’ll never be dignified about matters of the heart! #
I’m feeling like a Tuesday but someday I’ll be Saturday night… #
Shooting happening in the next building. Damn laughter track been running all day. Somebody kill all the faux-happy people!!!! #
Haircut!! It’s so short, my hair doesn’t swish around when I move my head. I now look exactly like my avatar! http://www.theideasmithy.com #
Once I stopped to play with a little kid and when his parents called him, he shouted back, “Coming…uncle is holding me back!!” #
The thing to do with a really short hairdo is to wear lots of make-up OR big earrings. Helps ppl realise you’re female. #
Yahoo Avatars blocked at work. Hmph. Now my readers will think that one red party dress is all I own to wear. #
@deveshm Sleep would help. You don’t feel pain inside a dream. #
@aalaap At least I understand what he’s saying (err, I think) unlike the techno-giants!! #
@shadyrocker Where art thou, sweet child o’ mine? #
I am very hungry & very tired and can’t think of ONE thing to post about but I’m bored of the post on top of my blog. Gah bloggers block. #
@deveshm I have some. This is about Saturday’s plans, right? See my email. #
@aalaap Ditcher. Ditcher. Ditcher. #
Yay! It’s Friday, it’s Friday, it’s Friday! #
@aDeSe Aren’t you thrilled to bits at the thought of the weekend? I am! #
@aalaap And not being too polite either!!! #
@deveshm I’m a chronic thinker but I don’t use my brain on weekends. #
Disappointment is the only thing that can really age a person. Can the cosmetics industry find a way to combat heartache? #
@readmylips LOL, truly! And well, doesn’t emotional age influence everything else? #
The scars on people’s souls are sometimes more obvious than lines on their foreheads. Disappointment is an ageing experience. #
Lazy Sunday after a fun Friday and a sizzling Saturday! Times like this make me love my life. #
@artagnon He calls himself @hephail and he’s rather quiet on Twitter, in direct contrast to his personality in real life. #
@readmylips Saw your post and just wanted to say thank you. #
Net connection down and out for 2 days. Mob-tweeting doesn’t have the same appeal. I feel like I’ve been away for ages. #
The thing with following lot of ppl is that you can’t read all their tweets. I only read recent & replies. Quantity wins over quality, egad. #
@ChiefBrutus Thengyu! How do? #
All I want is a glass of wine at a cafe overlooking the sea & a book lying unread in front of me. My dreams aint impossible; just ordinary. #
@deveshm I would. Know any seaside cafe in Mumbai that serves good wine? #
@sumants Ullp. Sorreee. #
Can you feel like a song? I feel like Eagles’ Peaceful, easy feeling – “I know u wont let me down, cos I’m already standing on the ground”. #
It is such a secret place, the land of tears – “The Little Prince”. But when you choose to return, you’ll find me waiting at the gates. #
@readmylips I loved them too! And the book as well obviously. #
@PuppyL0ve I just wondered if you were a bot for some porn sight. Following you anyway now. #
Managing people is so much like playing den mother. The things they don’t tell you in b-school…tch tch! #
Brown suede boots with my favorite Diva jeans and Cheshire-cat grin. There’re some things like apparel-caused-glee that money CAN buy!!! #
@ruch The other kind don’t matter!!! #
@chhavi No, Mumbai. And its been decent (read unrainy) weather for a couple of days now. Good enough for boots. #
@manuscrypts Or maybe it’s just me! #
ARRGH!! I adore Bongs but someone teach them the value of desiciveness!!! I’d rather make a snap desicion even if it isn’t the rightest one! #
I need to run around the building to work off this excess restlessness. Think there’ll be an earthquake if I do that in boots? #
If people don’t hurry up and decide what they want to do on Friday soon, I’ll switch off my phone and go sit by the sea!!!! #
Lech-boys from bajoo office smirk at boots as I walk past but their eyes follow. Want to throw boots at heads but dont want to dirty them! #
@sidin With good reason. Ditcher!!! #
Serenity is not knowing what tomorrow will bring and yet being able to look forward to it. Im at peace. #
Why do women like Sex and the City so much? http://tinyurl.com/5jrsvu #
@puneet Have you heard of their gawdawful Quantum Optima scheme? #
Still, still day, Saturday. I wish it weren’t so noisy. Then I’d sleep another 15 hours. #
@aryayush Such a back-handed insult that is, that I’m proud of you. You should almost be a woman! #
@twilightfairy Completely tailored for the women audience isn’t it? Did you see it too? #
Found a way out of Bloggers’ Block I think. The trick is to talk only to me. But such ppl are labelled insane. Also genius, I suppose. #
Damn but this @PuppyL0ve person is the worst Twitter-spammer ever!! Warning to all other tweeters if you get a request to follow him/her!! #
Broke my no-acidity-inducers-rule and had a coffee. I’ve been breaking a few rules lately. What fun! #
@madguy000 When you figure that out, plizz to let me know. I could use a few clones – to do my work while I get some sleep!! #
@chhavi Gleeful. Heh heh heh. #
Waiting for pizza lunch. Hungry and cold. The AC has only two settings – Polar Bear and African Jungle. #
@chhavi Someone told me the liked my tweets because I didn’t always chat! I’m a little cautious after that, & include ‘general tweets’ too! #
I hope there’s zillions of mushrooms on it. And jalapenos. Love those even if they do set my tongue afire. Dragons breathe fire after all! #
No mushrooms but I snagged an jalapeno. Pah, not enough. Bigby Wolf did say “Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing”. #
@artagnon Dominoes delivery to office for welcome lunch for newbies. #
Nothing is weird if it makes sense to you. It’s only weird to those who dont understand. & consider, how often do you need someone else to? #
I hate Facebook apps!! Stop sending me hugs and supervideos and voting me Most Likely To Kick an Umbrella, people!!!!! #
@sumants #
@labnol Still having the same trouble, Amit. #
Dying for a cheesy, greasy chicken burger covered with ketchup. I think I’ll just get me one! It’s a day for breaking rules after all. #
Not in a good mood, just not. I must stop letting sleeptime run into yoga time. Grmph. #
@Gauravonomics I’ve met your namesake. Have you seen this? http://gauravmishra.info/ #
@twilightfairy I hear ya! But do the housekeeping guys at your office and mine? We fluctuate between frozen-fingered to sweltering! #
I saw Persepolis yesterday. Did anyone notice in the last scene where she shows her passport, the name is spelt ‘Marjane Satrapy’ with a Y? #
Entered office late. Guard: “Soche they aap aaj aayi nahin? Aap aate hain, to hum sab mein jaan aa jati hai. Aur koi humko poochta nahin.” #
Why the hell is Twitter stressing out on me? I haven’t loaded it this week at all! Can’t see replies. :-p #
Boo Twitter! Bad Twitter! Haven’t been able to see replies all week and now I can’t even see Older tweets!! #
Now I can see replies but m.twitter not working. Twitter seems to know my techno-greek self too. Techno-knights, please ride to my rescue! #
Oi and Older Tweets are still not visible. Is it just me or is Twitter having a really BAD week? #
Saw Kissa Yoni Ka – the Hindi Vagina Monologues. The most amusing part was the background score of popular Bollywood oldies. #
I hesitated before publishing this but it turned out to be my best post ever. No regrets. http://tinyurl.com/6alqvu #
Comments, emails, tweets and IMs still coming in with ppl sharing their own horror stories. Has anyone had a safe childhood? #
Soaked waiting for auto, crammed into bus, crossed filthy station and waded rest of the way. Made it in to work, Mumbai does it again!! #
@twilightfairy Not so. It also converts WordPress URLs and even my blog (own domain) into tinyurls. #
@twilightfairy I think it doesn’t work when you go over 140 characters. Defeats the purpose I know but well.. #
@blogeswari Some haven’t come in but people from across town have. Kya bolen, this city has a frenzy about working, na? #
@sakshijuneja I’m still not talking to you!!!!! #
Struggled to get to office and now I don’t feel like working! I feel like I should be patted on the back and told, “You go girl! Now relax!” #
@nikhilnarayanan I guess it depends on how they got to Twitter. I read about it on a blog and I still use tweets as ancillaries to my blog. #
Stepping out for lunch. Rain, don’t rain on my parade!!! #
LOL. My colleague messages me saying that her right sleeve smells of onions. Preggie women!!! #
My suggestions to remedy onion-smelling sleeve: Spray deo. Pat on talc (cancel as its black). Pour cola on it. Or ink. #
@sakshijuneja Me back! Was out to lunch with @meetumeetu, @mokshjuneja and @tarunchandel . Call me when you leave. #
After all the melodrama of morning, the day has gone as silent as an empty theatre. Someone step in and tell me, “Picture abhi baaki hai!” #
I feel like Louis Armstrong. “I see trees of green, red roses too…I see friends shaking hands…what a wonderful world!” #
@s4ur4bh Heh, yes, nasty bugger, ain’t he? #
@s4ur4bh The monsoon! #
@deveshm Good ol’ Louis…. #
Sleepy….sooo sleepy. Has anyone seen Salvador Dali’s ‘SLEEP’? I could be a model for anyone who wants to contemporize that. #
@tarunchandel A very hebby burrrday to a naughty boy! Let’s celebrate with a ‘and all that’ party, wot say? #
@s4ur4bh I don’t like your new boyfriend at all!!!!!! #
Hoom. How is it possible to feel old but not dignified? #
The poison of memory. Why do I do this to myself? Why did the warriors of old carry a vial of snake venom on a chain around their necks? #
@s4ur4bh Really? Vishnu is concerned with the maintainence and smooth running of life but ‘he’ makes my life miserable!! #
Eating lunch now. The essence of satiation lies in delayed gratification. #
I’ve just had my breath taken away. Not by a man, not by a child, not by a book, not by a punch. Just the moment. Whooooooooooo… #
I discovered that a jerk I know is actually a SUPER a-hole. Why does that bother me? Bcos each minute ppl find lower levels to sink to. #
This is a rant-tweet. FILTHYROTTENCREEPBASTARD, may you burn on earth for a few decades before going to hell!!! Whew, that felt good. #
@ruch No I don’t want to ever have to see the scumbag again! #
The aftermath of expressed anger is almost like an orgasm. Ahhhhh… . Alright, enough. That’s all for tonight, tweeple! #
@chetthaker Actually I realised he was a jerk some time back. And yesterday I discovered he was actually Super A-hole. Heh, I loved it too! #
@chetthaker Rant-tweeting that is, not jerk-turned-SuperA-Hole. We must so do that more often! #
@Aalaap Liar, liar, twitter on fire. The tweet is still there. This is so Bambaiya na? Bomb lagi hai aur yahan khade tamasha dekh rahe hain! #
Anyone who wants advice free and quick from me: “You’ll know by this time tomorrow.” Get that, ‘anyone’? It’s a cloudy day in Dragondom. #
@readmylips Reminds me of one of my posts (before Twitter) that went, “I have nothing left to give you, not even the benefit of doubt.” #
@chetthaker Much fun came! #
Ever get the feeling you’ve said all there is to say? That’s NOT where I am. I feel like nothing I can say now can top what I already said. #
@readmylips and @shadez And yet there are things yet to be said. I’ve been too afraid for too long that my words are not pretty enough. #
Thank you everyone who mailed, msgd me & commented on this post. http://tinyurl.com/6alqvu I am so touched. #
Just anudder lazy Sunday… Natural’s tender coconut ice-cream, anyone? #
@aDeSe Heh, you read my mind. So what flavour shall it be? #
Should I call him? Should I not? Hmm…what do you think I ought to do? #
@hephail *Ring Ring* #
It’s raining again…..*groan* #
It is a terribly tiny world!!!!!! Or I’m making connections faster than people are making people! #
Just realizing just how close those I keep at a distance from are. If this is arm’s length, my arms are not long enough. #
Just realizing how close even those I kept a distance from, are. If this is arm’s length then my arms are not long enough. #
@hephail *Teeth chattering* #
Walking on, walking on broken hearts…err, glass. #
I don’t like being addressed as ‘Guys..’ but I do it all the time myself. #
@mokshjuneja I’m not sure if that’s a compliment or an insult so I’ll slap you anyway! *SLAP SLAP SLAP* #
Hungry. I want a melting-hot cheese toast sandwich, hot samosas and chai. I guess I’ll make do with vending-machine tomato soap instead. #
All the world’s a time-machine and we’re all its passangers. I just happen to be between bogies, that’s all. #
@chetthaker I had a wonderful weekend, thank you! #
@manuscrypts Thengyu thengyu…so flattered we are!!!! Btw, I don’t know @markzuckerberg but he knows me and my bud-day? How sweet. #
@b50 Thenk yew, thenk yew! #
@happytwitday Yippeee, thanks for remembering! #
@Kirti Thank you so much! Did Facebook tell you? #
@vimoh Thenk yew, buddy. #
@rajeshlalwani I had a wonderful weekend, family and friends…thank you so much! #
I feel good…tat tadada…!! #
@gradwolf Thank you! #
@nikhilnarayanan Sunday ko. But thengyu, thengyu..I’ve decided that I’m celebrating birthweek instead of birthday! #
Yuck. Some plumbing problem and the office smells like a drain. Everyone holding noses and making stinky jokes. #
@twilightfairy Oops…sorry love, I didn’t see that tweet! Was offline on the weekend. And errm..thank you! #
@parihar Thengyu thengyu! #
Following Y, The Last Man across the world. #
@telljeeves How about Fusen gum and those runny tattoos? #
@ruch LOL LOL! This one is for you –> http://tinyurl.com/5twxa6 #
@ashokbanker I got the first one as a bday gift courtesy @ashwin7 and spent early morning after party reading it. Still going thru series. #
*SNIFFFF* I feel sick. Pamper me. #
@ashokbanker Too much work methinx! Much better after long weekend, thengyu! How was yours? #
@vimalg2 Much better today, thenk yew! #
@ashokbanker: You’re taking your online presence off?Why? Rather radical desicion like @gautamghosh says and I hope this is only temporary. #
After an argument, I just like to huff off in the opposite direction and cool off in silence. Cant stand ppl chasing me saying ‘PEACE’! #
In office after 3.5 days and I’ve suprisingly got a goodly bit of work done. R&R is so good for productivity! Are the bosses listening? #
@vimoh There is a belief that the pheromones smell, released by sweat is attractive to the opposite sex. #
Do I have ‘Pester Me’ written on my face? Mr.Pest not content with my silence following “Leave me alone” mails, tweets & leaves a blog-note. #
Mr.Pest also hopes I “become confident someday and tell the world loudly that you are a confident being”. Dude, I don’t know you, get lost! #
Curd rice is my manna. Thayir-sadam lovers, unite!!! #
I seriously need to be de-disillusioned!! Thank goodness for books, thayir-sadam and the Best Friend. #
@ChiefBrutus That’s icing on the cake..or ermm, pickle on the curd-rice. I could even do with Kurkura, mor-mallagai, curry or sambhar. #
@ashokbanker I can understand your revulsion to self-promotion but what about self-expression? #
@ashokbanker I mean at a one-to-one, unpolished, personal level. Twitter is the only way a lay person could reach someone like you. #
@gradwolf @telljeeves @cruisemaniac @parthans @nikhilnarayanan @ChiefBrutus We should have a thayir-sadam-meet!!!! #
Do ppl who pen words like “I’ll love you forever” & “I’d wait for a lifetime” know what it means? Do we check if they’re really patient ppl? #
@ashokbanker That’s a great idea. Do some of us get to know it’s you, though? #
Subway, subway, subway!! Yum, yum, yummmmmm! #
@sakshijuneja I can only invite people who answer/return my calls!!! #
Lonavley mein chikki khayenge, wotterphol mein jaayenge……office picnic, yippee! #
@ameyc Did not carry camera. And good it was too. Everything was so humid, I might have ended up having to perform a lens-burial if I had! #
My lovely solitude is only sweetened by thoughts of you. #
@b50 Thank you for the reminder. Cant believe I forgot. Some might that was. #
Take a minute to honour the spirit of the city that walked in the worst rain in a century-3yrs ago today. Cheers, Mumbai! #
Twitter now blocked at office. M.twitter has sporadic access. This might mean the end of my tweeting! #
@tarunchandel #
@parthans That’s blocked too! #
@sumants And gagantuan phone bills, thumb sprains and dying batteries…gah! #
@anshulbansal Dunno, you tell me? #
@artagnon Because the IT guys don’t like me!!! #
@b50 Walking from town to the suburbs. Didn’t get home that night. What about you? #
“Here’s to me and here’s to you and here’s to love and laughter. I’ll be true as long as you, not a single moment after!!” #
@Asfaq Not a song, a toast. But a good one, isn’t it? #
@parthans Where there’s something fun on the internet, there’s the IT Admin to put an end to it!! #
@sumants I thought not. #
“Here comes the sun, toodododo…here comes the sun. It’s alright…”How did the Beatles know what I would think, decades before I was born? #
Half the time I talk to myself. The other half I talk to everyone which really means no one. Back we come one full circle. Go figure. #
My fave graphic novels r cathartic just like my fave blogs. Blankets. De:Tales. Endless Nights. Calliope . Fear of falling. Family Reunion. #
I could have danced all night. I could have danced all night and still have begged for more. #
@sqrlnt Was, yesterday afternoon. #
@anshulbansal Thengyu, we aim to please! #
Now Twitter working but I’m leaving. Friday…yeeeeeeaaahooo! #
Can’t believe how powerful I suddenly feel because of unrestricted access. Ideasmith without the net is Samson minus his locks! #
Do you believe in magic? I decided that I do. The home-made, no-frills kind that’s good for heart & soul. 5am conversations with L do that. #
Batty weekend! I saw BATMAN BEGINS and THE DARK KNIGHT. Batman’s enemies are more interesting than he is!! #
@aDeSe LOL what?? Oh wait, now you’ve got me thinking about ‘same pinch..’ I hope the guys in your office don’t get that. #
There ought to be a law against untimely rain. Poured as I hopped out of rick then cloudy all morning. Now I wanna go out for lunch and..!!! #
What are you waiting for? http://theideasmithy.com/anticipation/ #
Damn, my last tweet breaks the sidebar in my blog because of the URL in it. Stoopid stoopid… #
A five-hour conversation on an international call brings you a flood of pleasant memories, a warm afterglow…and a big, fat phone bill! #
@ netra: Rather late in the evening, no? How about afternoon or late morning? #
Meetings are Murphy’s delight – Postpone! Missing attendees! Meeting rooms booked! Call! Reschedule! Tareek pe tareek, tareek pe tareek! #
I’m looking for someone to conduct a Edward de Bono ‘Lateral Thinking’ workshop. Ideas, leads, contacts, anyone? #
I finally got my phone back! Oh my precious darling! In the future, drunken strangers & party-animals are NOT going to be allowed near you! #
@adityamishra Or is that “Whew, thank god!” #
How can a Friday afternoon be murdered? Let me count. Work. Work. Meetings. Work. Work. Rain. Undelivered lunches. Work. Work. Missed calls #
“I’m fabulous”. Ever tell yourself that? I just realized it so I said it to myself. Have a great weekend, everyone! #
At start-up saturday. As always the past holds my attention before the present. Campus, people and memories..ah! #
Standing in the atrium. A guy passes me and quips “Hi Ideasmithy”. I dont recognise him. So mortified!! #
Nearly at White. Just realised the landmarks I provided -white building with circles- is not visible at night. #
@preshit makes an entry. @mokshjuneja grumbles that no one tweeted about him. #
@preshit makes an entry. @Asfaq has changed his shaving cream. #
@Asfaq has changed his shaving cream. #
@sumanths White close to InOrbit #
@sumanths White close to InOrbit. #
Meeting other people is exactly like friction. Sometimes pleasurable and sometimes painful. At some time the itch u scratch starts bleeding. #
@gradwolf No, just amnesiac! #
I hate people who tell me, “Don’t think so much.” There’s a reason my blog is called ‘Workshop of a chronic thinker’. Like, duh. #
Maybe I shouldn’t cut ppl out for displeasing me. But I don’t have to respect them either. Say hello to Ideasmith’s plastic Cheshire smile. #
And I’m done ranting, tweeting and living. Going out to be dead to the world. Goodnight sick, lovable, hateful, surprising, annoying life! #
DNA quotes me or do they? I like Bollywood but when did I get married?Over to @meetumeetu. http://tinyurl.com/555k8r #
@patrix What annoys me is that journos claim their ‘superiority’ by saying bloggers don’t use hard facts. So much for researching the story. #
@roshnimo DNA ran a story on bloggers quoting @meetumeetu slightly and using my name. http://tinyurl.com/555k8r #
@meetumeetu I’d be proud of myself if I could write as well as you do and run a blog like wogma. But this is just bad journalism. #
Today’s press-day for me. HT Delhi ran a story on women-bloggers ‘Blogos Unfair’ and quoted me http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/default.aspx #
@dybydx LOL yes! It was too intelligent and high-brow for the likes of me…especially on a Saturday! #
@dybydx We even spoke. Remember you told me where to find @mokshjuneja (who by the way was asking me to come learn something for a change!) #
Till last night I could see just the last reply. Now I can’t see any!!!! Mean ppl at tweetup said “No one replies to you!!” #
@aDeSe Fun. But I missed some of the regulars. You weren’t there and neither was @aalap or @hephail. #
@hephail You were missed last evening. #
Can I create an RSS feed for my pages? Idea-toons and I Style! could do with one each. Help, help? #
@hardik Not for the main blog…that I have already. I want a seperate feed for each page. #
@chetthaker Oh thank you thank you!!! Sucks to you, mean people! #
@itravin , @ravikapoor Thank you very much! I’ll check it shortly. #
Not an ideal solution; not even a good solution. But it’s a workable solution. I have a job bcos I do the same thing, but with constraints. #
@chhavi You didn’t make it to the tweet-up at White on Saturday? #
@Sampad Oi! #
@chhavi I noticed it then as well but what the hell..I’m a slow tweeter. #
@Asfaq Have you shaved as yet? #
Ordered a kabab lunch – naan, dal makhni, raita and kebabs! Stomach growling, food not here yet. I’m seeing meatballs instead of my mouse! #
Speak up, I’m in the DNA. An unbelievable conversation with the journo who made that goofup. Online version altered but no apology to Meetu. #
Our comments still not up. @meetumeetu not contacted. Online story altered (big deal!) http://tinyurl.com/6a99y3 #
@heysaru Exactly. His ‘sorry’ didn’t sound too apologetic and @meetumeetu didn’t even get that. #
@srini091 I managed to…somehow! #
@chhavi Next time it is then. #
@readmylips GMT + 5:30 is Indian Standard Time (not Indian Stretchable Time)!! #
@Asfaq Then I’m not meeting you till the weekend. We have a Persepolis agreement, remember? #
Accident on the road today. A goods-delivery auto had its nose was stuck in the subway roof!! Skidding or an auto-wheelie gone wrong? #
My hair shines so much that in photographs it looks like silvery-white. Damn, is that what you call a silver lining to the clouds? #
The numbers are doing a number on me right now. For the want of one single measly number, the evening was lost. Still at work to rectify #
Days like today take the life out of u leaving not even enuff for anger.Then someone sounds happy to hear from u & its life all over again #
WTF…I click on ‘Replies’ and I get the message: This page does not exist. We’ll try and find it. Mean ppl prophecy coming true now. #
A dark joke in honour of The Dark Knight: What happened to Batman and Robin when a roadroller ran over them? They became Flatman and Ribbon! #
WTF, my twitter replies are still missing!!! Anyone else having the same problem? Don’t tweet back, mail plz – ideasmithy[at]gmail[dot]com #
Listening to a song from Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na that makes me think of @aDeSe Toh ab toh hasde, hasde, hasde tu zara… #
The Compulsive Confessor’s book is out. It’s a yee-ha-ha feeling to see a fellow blogger hit the big scene! #
Whats the worst thing about monsoon? Musty smelling rooms, towels that dont dry, GASTROENTITIS or being unable to wear ur favorite clothes?! #
@gautamghosh Wow, congratulations! If they think so, I think you should choose to believe them! #
Why does NOBODY in Mumbai know how to make Pulliodharai? Iv just had a plate of Tamarind rice with oil, yellow rice and NO tamarind!! #
One day crushes are always nice. Mine even remembered my name hours after being introduced in a crowd. So who cares if we never meet again? #
At photo studio, he says, ‘Its passport pic, never comes well. Dont smile, they dont like it.’ Reminded me of monkeys-Dont bare your teeth!! #
Dunno which professional I hate most-Journos, doctors or MBAs. Last yr twas pedigreed pups, last wk clueless journos & now heartless docs. #
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. But, dear one, Im standing on the LOC on the chance that you may need some company. #
Fuck Twitter!!! I haven’t been able to see replies in a week! Its like a bloody govt service that has a monopoly so provides shitty service. #
Breathe…breathe…breathe easyyyy… #
@ravikapoor Thanks but it didn’t work. Kept giving me a feed to my main blog only #
@srini091 Now I can. My Replies tab wasn’t accessible for a week. How you? #
@prolificd Now I can. #
@shadez Stoooopid twitter!!! #
@manuscrypts On the weekend if I can dig it out. I lost the original file but I might be able to check it on my blog. #
I’m scared to go to Pizza Hut with colleagues now that silly ad…tere bin nahin jeena…! #
Been in foul mood since morning. And the mighty Gulliver was brought down by Lilliputians. But someone made me smile today! #
@ravikapoor A way to burn feeds for my pages (not posts) because I update some of them real often…I Style!, Idea-toons etc. #
@shadez Awww..my bachcha..! #
@danishkhan1 True. I get by with a little help from my friends! #
@gautamghosh Good or bad singing, I most certainly don’t want to be serenaded by a colleague at a team lunch!!! #
@prolificd What normal way? #
2 days back I was telling someone about my teacher/mentor/friend from 8 yrs back. Yesterday I bumped into him! I’m psychic. #
@aalaap Pass here. My lunch hasn’t arrived yet. #
*Sigh* Gtalk and Twitter blocked again. IT really really really hates me. #
N and I made pasta from 3 receipes y’day-mum’s, Instant Pasta’s and own. Bell peppers & olives. Delicious!! Thought of brocoilli only today. #
@aalaap showed me how to access Twitter through the IT block. Hooray for the birthday boy!! #
It’s raining again. *SIGHHHHH* #
Made a healthy, tasty pasta of my own receipe with fancy salad on the side. The man in my life says hes already had dinner. #
Not asleep as yet. Crickets in the park outside are too noisy! The bugs are as annoying as their namesake game! #
The Indian Man – He annoys us, he confounds us and yet… http://tinyurl.com/6bgrxz #
Garnier astringent smells like bug juice. Is that why they called it ‘Skin Naturals’? #
@labellagorda No…not much of a cook here unless necessity calls. Can you mail me a receipe? I’m much in need at the moment! ;-D #
@ravikapoor Much obliged, thengyu saar! #
@viyyer Thanks…you really, really didn’t mind??! #
@vinodhn @hiway #
@labellagorda I do hope so, I bought a whole bottle of it since my other brand was missing! #
@elucidate Imagination is everything!! #
@elucidate They already are! They call it Multani Mitti…or for the HS people…mud packs! #
Food’s lost its taste, don’t wanna do the things I like anymore. Bleh, I sound lovesick when all I am is SICK. Praps they aren’t different? #
PMS is exactly like lovesickness. Brains completely addled with horomone surges in both cases. #
@elucidate Hehe. As a consolation prize for being saddled with overactive imaginations, we get to be bloggers!! #
@labellagorda ideasmithy [at] gmail [dot] com #
@viyyer You are not meant to. It is one of those “I’m just spoiling for a good argument so give it to me!” posts! #
A necessary ability in managing people is being able to talk non-stop without getting a sore throat. And loads of patience. Heaven help me. #
Do Indians have an affinity to chaos or are we just highly tolerant of it? #
@hephail says that even if I do find myself in a fairytale, Ill grab a pin and go looking for the bubble to burst!Ew, am I such a pessimist? #
Weekend spent with a pulled muscle in my neck. Have now heard every variation of ‘pain in the neck’ and ‘stiff necked’ jokes! #
@shadez Grrr! @elucidate damned if I know. Woke up Friday and there it was..ouch! #
Nothing gets this Cancerian out of the shell faster than the feeling of being missed or needed. Best friend calling on ISD helps too. #
U nourish me, u complete me-this describes mum’s cooking and best friend’s company. I miss them both! Can’t wait for the weekend! #
I am fine with getting all senti in public…just so long as the person Im getting senti over doesn’t know. #
I am fine with getting all senti in public…just so long as the person Im getting senti over doesn’t know. #
The trick is to…just…keep…breathing. I wonder why that is so difficult to remember. Deep breath, in and out. #
I am dying for a good, hot choley-bhatura. Where in Mumbai can I get that? #
Pain in neck is entirely stress-driven. Must stop carrying the world on my shoulders! Is there such a thing as being too responsible? #
By the way, everyone – Twitter is blocked at work and my home comp’s down which is why I’ve been missing in action from the blogosphere! #
Back from team lunch!! My company is brilliant with these things! #
Ever tried chocolate sauce over freshly cut watermelon slices? YUMMMMMMMMM #
Who agrees with my opinion of Wall.E? http://tinyurl.com/6xk8m9 #
Getting to office early is fantastic if you can manage it. The only downside is I start getting sleepy much earlier. YAWWWN #
Mid-week self guilt trip. Bought a dress on the weekend. It’s short, fitting, expensive…and unnecessary. #
@CynicWonderland Brown and White. Uncharacteristically me. But sinfully delicious, I tell ya! Not to mention expensive… #
@netra reminded me that I’ve been AWOL from Twitter. I keep forgetting @aalap tip-off on m.slandr! #
What would you do, if I sang out of tune? Would U stand up & walk out on me? Would U stay if I whispered instead? #
@gradwolf It’s 11am here and time to sing…on or off tune! #
@CynicWonderland Behind a bad cold and pain in neck. How was shopping? #
@sumants I try dot to but the dose is blogged add I soudd lige a frog! #
Try saying ‘Blue blood, Bad blood’ five times in a row as fast as you can… #
Am afraid to be clarivoyant because I only end up thinking of gruesome, awful stuff! Yeeearrrggghhh! #
Overslept, lost my temper, missed lunch. Whew…am going to go soak up some sun now. #
I don’t like being referred to as a Third World Country. Who’s deciding? #
I’m missing barcamp! But that’s because I’m doing something else in first week of October.. #
3:30 and it’s just sunny enough to be warm. What a wonderful day! #
I took my work up to the terrace along with a cup of lemon tea to keep me company. This is luxury. #
Am in Delhi today and my wish for choley bature fulfiled! #
@twilightfairy I lost your number..my bad! Can you please call me? Id love to meet you before I fly out this evening. #
There is nothing worse than trying to control another human being. For me, the face of evil is a cage. #
Airport and home bound. Im well rid of this accursed city. No place like the one that lets you be yourself-I call it home. #
Incidentaly why is it that a Delhi-ite’s self-esteem depends on how rude, uncouth, lawless and intolerable he can manage to be? #
@twilightfairy they’re prolly rare exceptions & it isnt my good luck to meet them this trip. If Im really lucky there wont be another trip! #
@gautamghosh For a day only thank goodness. Im not sure I could survive much longer away from civilisation. #
@twilightfairy My sweet! Thats a tough one am afraid. It is an opinion built over two and a half decades of visiting this place & hating it. #
@A place whose philosophy is ‘Live and make other people’s lives miserable’ is not exactly my favorite city. #
@twilightfairy My sweet! Thats a tough one am afraid. It is an opinion built over two and a half decades of visiting this place & hating it. #
@gautamghosh For a day only thank goodness. Im not sure I could survive much longer away from civilisation. #
@shadez Give me Mumbai’s dirty rains any day! Its the brainless aggression of this place that really gets to me. Down with bloody Dilli! #
I will now take a deep breath to stop hyperventilating and get stoopid cities out of my system. FOOOOOO… #
@Uberschizo I was born in one city and I’ve lived in another metro all my life. I can’t hate cities. It’s just Delhi. #
Retail therapy is good for the Mumbai woman’s soul. #
E Vestigio sez my new Poloroids make me look like someone famous trying to avoid papparazzi. Yeehay, everyone wants a piece of me, baby! #
Men should be banned from selling lingerie because they are an embarassment! Not because of their unabashed leching but woeful ignorance!! #
Taking a holiday after three years. I almost feel guilty. And homesick. *GULLP* #
@meetumeetu A fortnight away from the city in some place with lots of water and gorgeous men (so I’m told!) #
Logging into an old blog is almost like meeting an old friend after awhile. Hello, IFSHA! www.isitaboutsexblog.com #
Go, September. #
Hey, they named a syndrome after me!!! http://twurl.nl/naufd8-syndrome.html #
Actually I don’t hate men all that much. In fact, I don’t hate them at all! #
I just discovered that the big sports brands now stock some great clothes. Always thought sportswear was boring white Ts & loose shorts. #
Tweet?ng from ?stanbul a?rport…?m finally homeward bound!! Except this keyboard is in Turkish and ? cant find half the characters!! #
@meetumeetu I’m back. Did you enjoy your break? #
@Uberschizo Maybe they had carpet-buses! #
@Netra I’ll try and make it but thoda mushkil since just back. How about something closer to the unfashionable suburbs? #
Back to work after 15 days….GROAN! Also back to khana with real masala and swaad in it! I’m not looking at Greek salads & cheese for a yr! #
Anybody know the number for Meru cabs in Mumbai? Private tweet me please? #
The weekend has flown past. Would be nice to have 2-day weeks and 5-day weekends. #
@amit_a Welcome to Twitter! #
Being nudged for write-up on the trip. SIGHGGH…can’t seem to string my thoughts together. #
How do you get yourself to remember how to take a chance…just one more time? There’s no greater fortress than the past & bad memories. #
Hungry….. #
It’s taking me two weeks to get over a two-week vacation!!!! #
Time is relative indeed. After a fairly slow year-and-half, this past month has been packed. I feel like I’ve lived it all just in October. #
Near empty office and clear roads. How I wish Mumbai would be like this everyday. (Without the firecracker wrappers & burnt-out sparklers.) #
*Kuff kuff* Without my voice I feel like Samson minus his locks!!! #
I ask you, what’s wrong with being a compulsive list-maker? Gives you so much to do with your time and the results are neat. #
On Twitter after ages. Being blocked really stops things up. I’m finding Facebook easier to access these days. #
@itwote #twitterguru @gautamghosh #
Getting to work early on a Friday is like making a new year resolution in November. #
What do you know, now that you’re older? http://tinyurl.com/6o4d9b #
Considering junking Twitter. Goes down far too often and it’s bloody inconvenient. #
Farewell, tweeple! I’ll be on Facebook and the blog of course: www.theideasmithy.com #
Twitter is inaccessible but perhaps I’ll give it another week getting in from other places. #
Template changes are like roller-coaster rides. Always make me slightly sick #
Having a man in your life is exactly like entering a Fun House. It’s bizzare but strangely, it’s fun too. #
I just ended a conversation with “Thank you for good advice, good company and for not being a man!” #
@Uberschizo Sorry about that. I had post-dated it but for some reason it didn’t publish on schedule. It’s up there now. #
I’m back on Twitter…tweeting from my blog. Trouble is I can’t see replies unless I login and I have access issues. #
Note to self – Must talk to more men and more often. They annoy me enough to provide fodder for http://xxfactor.wordpress.com #
How many ways do you annoy me? Let’s count: http://tinyurl.com/6pc26w #
Unrestricted access is like a gourmet spread before a starving man…errm, woman. #
Total simile-mode today. That’s SIMILE not smile. Anyone remember how they’re different from metaphors? #
Talking in the panacea to all evils…except a sore throat, that is. #
Why are they called ‘withdrawal symptoms’ when the last thing you really want to do is withdraw? #
@aDeSe Twitter inaccessible girl…but I realised I could get in through Facebook or my blog. Duh me, took me this long…How you been? #
@_Num Yay! Thengyu! #
Friday Friday, more sleepy than freaky. #
Such lurrve I get ! Men who loathe my ideas are keen to give me love-advice. http://tinyurl.com/6pc26w #
1 post-in-retaliation & 1 superlong comment from men who don’t like me. I don’t know whether to be amused or disgusted. #
Meet pervy-screwed up-Calvin-geeks: repressed but too chicken to do anything but harass us online. To the geekboys inexile & Sani: up yours! #
Humdrum Friday: sermoney start, clash with geek-boys, delayed lunch. The evening promises better! #
Sleepy Sunday full of things to be done. Shopping. Lunch. Coffee with friends. Book-browsing. Sleep. http://ff.im/3tR2 #
Tough Stains http://ff.im/3tRI #
Twitter inaccessible…once again except this time it’s from home. Why the f$%# don’t they do something about this crappy service? #
I’m gonna tweet from my blog (as now). Replies invisible unfortunately, so tweeple, plz write to me – ideasmithy AT gmail #
Heading out for Sunday afternoon. Question: What do you think makes an organization woman-friendly? #
Yahhooo!! Found bags on sale. Bought 4 handbags – green, pink, turquoise and cream! #
@Uberschizo Heh. Surprised we be. Not pleasantly. #
E Vestigio orders a change in blog template cos grey is “so blah and not you!”. But make that white & the neat calendar & sidebar look odd. #
Methinx we could get used to the blah background of my new template. Any ideas on what this colour is called? www.theideasmithy.com #
@aDeSe Hey thanks girl, that’s really sweet of you! But I think I’ve overshot my moolah with last month’s trip which is why I bought on sale #
Dipping My Toes http://ff.im/3wNd #
Going to make bhel with splashes of chutney and an overdose of nimbu. I lurrrvvee nimboo!! Nimboo, nimboo, do do do do… #
Some days you’re neither ecstatic nor depressed. “Just okay” is actually very okay. #
I need to stop being so uptight. Strange how uptight ppl never think they are. Mea culpa. #
You can be alone in a crowd. And suffocated in wide, open space. #
Enter At Your Own Peril http://ff.im/4yNX #
Somedays I hate how incoherent I am; some days I surprise myself with my crystal-lucidity. Don’t ask me what day today is. It’s just Wed … #
Somedays I hate how incoherent I am; some days I surprise myself with my crystal-lucidity. Don’t ask me what today is. It’s just Wednesday. #
A Tree Grows In Mumbai http://ff.im/5q1r #
@Asfaq Ooh…who’s trying to take advantage of you, babeh? Don’t worry, I’ll protect you. But let’s get you a glas of wine first! #
@nimbupani An important difference is that @twilightfairy is a very talented lady in Delhi. I’m a grumbling non-entity in Mumbai. #
@wanderer08 Weird-ass days, PMSey days, bloomin’ high days and Wednesdays. #
Going book-shopping for a colleague who’s just delivered. Wheeeee!! Recos, anyone? Private tweets plizz since I see them on my phone. #
This song is running in my head -> Tum to thehere pardesi, saath kya nibhaoge, todong todong. Subah pehli gaadi se, ghar ko laut jaoge! #
@readmylips A really bad one: You are a stranger, what will you be loyal for? By the first train in the morning, will you leave for home! #
Altaf Raja should be reading this and thanking me somewhere. #
Back from book-hunt. Couldn’t resist buying a Calvin n’ Hobbes for self. Bleh, I need pampering too. #
@zingaro25 Revenge of the baby-sat and The attack of the mutant snow-goons. Halfway through first. #
It’s already afternoon!! Where did the morning go??? #
18hrs of holding our breath. Family, friends safe? Transport affected? Whos behind it? Why?Is it over?worse?Casualties? Breathe #mumbai #
#mumbai ‘s wounds start to show as casualties tally n city lets itself think of the brave cops who fell in this. #
Cant believe they’re airing an ad to vote now. Who the F are we to vote for? The bloody cowards who’ve kept mum all thru today? #
What happened to the Dockyard and JJ school attacks? Heard about them on Twitter earlier but nothing on news. #mumbai #
@sampad Confirm fresh attack on Taj? News says its clear now. #mumbai in reply to sampad #
@nikhilnarayanan Not part of 10 locations. I think @codelust is right n it may be part of the firing from stolen police van. #mumbai in reply to nikhilnarayanan #
@vimoh Trident still to be cleared. Captured ships still being interrogated. Terrorists to be questioned too. #mumbai in reply to vimoh #
@shahpriya Nariman House not all hostages rescued? Any news? #mumbai in reply to shahpriya #
@gautamghosh Didnt go out. Dad drove in from out of town at 2am. Still cant get over the idea that a war is raging in the heart of #mumbai in reply to gautamghosh #
@shahpriya More firing at Taj? News channels emphasizing its clear there now. #mumbai in reply to shahpriya #
Explosion/fire broken out in one of the upper windows of Nariman House. On Headlines Today. #mumbai #
It is NOT over even at Taj yet. Firing indicates some terrorist still alive inside. Trident has human shields. 27hrs and counting. #mumbai #
Not sleepy yet but am thinking like a typical Mumbaiker-work tomorrow extra to make up for this day. Is that good at all? #mumbai #
Why is NSG knocking on Taj doors? Earlier reports said they had master keys so guests were told not to answer knocks. #mumbai #
Looks like anyone leaving Mumbai under scrutiny. Friend’s neighbor stopped at Jogeshwari en route airport and taken to police stn. #mumbai #
#mumbai is proud of its cops and commandos. And disgusted with its politicians holed away inside while junta keeps vigil outside. #
Am in office. Activity on roads less than what U see on Fri morn. Resilient spirit be damned, am tired of being strong & taken for granted. #