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S and i got ourselves another pair of fish. Cute little orange things whom we named Molly and Polly. We also changed the fish-food since Bob and Marilyn had stopped taking the old ones. Polly died a day after. I found her in the morning. It looked like she was sitting on a rock at the bottom of the fishbowl. When no amount of scaring made her move, i knew she was gone. What do u do with a small dead fish, the one you keep as a pet and feed everyday? I flushed her down, ruthlessly. Molly died this monday. They were cute beings and would just flitter about the entire fishbowl, giving no chance to Marilyn to bully them. Think she got scared with all the sudden movement.
But life goes on....
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Saw Guru. I had a lot to say about it but now i have gone and forgotten what it was except for the fact that i liked the movie and understood what could possibly be the chemistry between Abhishek and Ash.
It didn't matter to me, this much hyped nuptial between the two. But i have heard the vaguest of references regarding Ashwairya, primary being - she is an old hag. Their view - for heaven's sake she is 33 and how could she walkaway with The bachelor Of The Season? How really!
You know listening to stuff like this, taking deep breathe and counting till 10 does not help. A man has arrived when he is 30 and a woman is a has-been when she is 33? WTF. Films do reflect our lives to a large extent. True a lot magnified. Also - isn't she the only woman in the hindi film industry today who can carry a movie on her shoulders alone? Probably. Whether it is a hit or a miss comes later and whether you like her or not is also a different matter. Why is this then such a big deal?
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My bike got it's first service. So S and i went a couple of days back to the service centre. The man sitting on the counter told me that it would take the entire day. So both of us came back in the evening and even then it was not done. So we waited for a while and this guy started chatting with me when S took a ciggy break. Where i worked? How much was my sal? Who was this man who had come along? I replied some and evaded the rest. When he came to know S and i were married, he said -
"Sorry, very very sorry madam, samajh nahi paya tha."
I murmured back that it was alright. And then he threw me a bummer after enquiring on how long we had been together -
"So aap ka koi bachha nahi hai?"
"Nahi."
"Achha, agar ho bhi jaye galti se...usse kutch nahi kijiyega. Mujhe doctor ne khud bataya hai...kutch medicine ya...*hint hint* matt use kijiye. Ye toh bhagwan ki den hai. Iss saal family ko badha lijiye" (this from a person who i had met 20 minutes back. The 6 minutes in the morning did not count)
Too stunned to reply, i kept quiet and my peace and finally asked him out of politeness how long he had been married. Turns out he has been, for almost a year and has a 2 and a 1/2 month old daughter (i did the math in my mind). At the end of our conversation both S and i were counselling him for getting a better job since apparently he had done a M.Sc and was doing a clerical one.
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Lin decided to move to bangalore. She is deeply, madly in love with a guy who is married and probably has no intention of separating from his wife cos he does not want to disturb the family equilibrium. But i suspect it is the hefty dowry he took beside the minor fact that her dad is a MLA with loads of contacts with heavyweights in Patna.
Lin is a hardworking girl who runs her family which consists of her parents and a no-gooder-free-loading brother for whom she keeps finding jobs through the little sources she has and he keeps quitting them for altu-faltu reasons. She fought blood cancer at the age of 22 and i think (since she asks me often) that it was a good move. At 25 everyone deserves to live a little and feel young and carefree. But whenever she asks me about D (the man in her life) and whether i think they will ever get together, i lie straight faced.
I know i am going to miss her for a while.
But life goes on......
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A big hey to Subs (silly of course i remember you), Crab (bikey got a repair and is doing fine now and i even managed to get it another scratch), SwB (you bet am gonna buy a car soon man :) ), Sanity Starved and Ph. It is really good to see you.
