Irritation

Just realized that nothing of the following could be more irritating:

1. After listening "Allah ke Bande" in an online FM and then having to listen to "Ur ja kaale kaa...ke teri meri ek zindari....(from Sunny Deol's movie "Gadar") that is played next. Have people really lost it?? Why? why?

2. Dreading your supervisor's mail asking for updates every 7th day when checking webmail

3. Dropping coffee on the carpet in the process of trying to get to the computer from the coffeemaker in the kitchen, so that you don't miss the action on an orkut community. I really need to see a shrink; and a better hands-on-eye coordination; and certainly, better things to do in life.

4. Having your husband call you, without fail, day after day, when you are doing one of the following:
a) doing dishes and having soap and suds in your hands
b) having moisturizing lotion in your hand
c) have heavy bags full of groceries and trying mini gymnastic tricks with your finger and door keys to open your apartment door and get in eventually...

5. Discovering expiry date on yogurt and salad mixes left on your refrigerator. Healthy food options should always be enjoyed and consumed and never left for future (supposedly) enjoyment.

6. Seeing the sunrise............................................after you've spent the whole night working on a paper that would hardly be read by 10 people (if you are lucky) or 3 people (if you are born with average, normal luck)

Each of the above has equivalent quotients of being an irritant to me.

Pour in yours.

A Block

I'm not a prolific blogger and yet the blogger's block or the old-fashioned writer's block has lasted the longest, I think....since my last (and that too, very trivial) blabbering. This has been happening even when new stories were being written every day, different deaths being experienced every day and getting on varied high-s and low-s of life, every day.

Yet, when asked how we're doing, we reply "I'm fine/So-so/cholchhe"! There is no other alternative to stating our "happy" and "okay" status to friends, foes and strangers. That slot has to be filled in; lest the aforementioned friends, foes and strangers creep in into our lives with unwanted impression. In addition to unwanted situations and unwanted baggages, who wants unwanted impression of footprints?

Not me, much alike others.

Even then, considering the highly exhibitionist nature and strangely exhilarating effect of blogging, here's a very brief update of sorts...

1. Finally, I found a roommate and after Trista (of Windsor) I haven't got such a nice and friendly roommate in years. Thank fate or God or whoever decides these things, for that.

2. I've re-learnt how life could be led without Internet in this month; the lesson hasn't been happy but it was surprising to notice that in absence of the most highly held privilege, necessary work does get done faster, and better.

3. No. 1 stated above was balanced out by learning new things about old friends. Unpleasant things. I learnt that some persons could never evolve from being assholes but I did learn it the hard way; so I decided not to learn anymore like this, and so, have erased them from my life. For anyone trying to do some guesswork, these are college friends, and involves a handful of incredible MCPs.

4. I've been getting some work done on my proposal. It's not as much as it's possible ideally speaking, but then, some is better than none.

5. For the first time in my life, I liked Pink! This embarrassing revelation came to be when I was trying to buy my camera, and I actually thought the pink model looked more sleek. May I explain that it was a very different pink? I guess that's pretty much obvious...since it's me who liked pink!

6. It snowed today in Calgary.

7. One of my closest friend, Nishil (nickname/pet name) replied to a scrap after months. Heart-warming to know that somebody has me in their brains.....that somebody being someone I care for.

8. I've noticed that loners and lonely people exhibit that loneliness everywhere: in bus/train/transit, when they're walking alone and even when they are gymming; I could pick up a loner, any day, anytime. Not the self-proclaimed and thereby attention-seeking loners though...

And that's about it.....a block of updates to cut through the blogger's block.