Yelling is good..

And this time he yelled!! And boy! Dint he yell right??!!
Well..It all happened last Friday when we ‘accidently’ remembered that it s 3 rd anniversary of our engagement.
So off we went for dinner..After an “over rated” dinner but still delicious we started back home, that s when this happened.
Now being a main road and way after peak hours, the traffic was pretty smooth, going at the right speed without any issues.
And suddenly there arrives this “CRAZY car” [read further and you ll know why ]from somewhere and tries to get past everyone. He would speed and break at ridiculous dangerous distances off from the car in the front[may be an inch or two, yeah!! That bad!], and we could clearly see that he was making the driver in front very nervous.
But unfortunately he could not change lanes and let this crazy guy go so we got to see this drama repeat for more than 2 kms until we got a chance to slow down in the next lane to let the poor guy into our lane .. and wroooom! There goes the CRAZY guy in almost 90-100 K speed in a 70 K zone.
Being a straight long road, we could see this car [rather we made a point to watch him] wroom and do the same thing to many a cars and their drivers.
But unfortunately, he got caught up in too many signals.. and we were almost reaching our diversion too when suddenly aj did something totally “not him”
He just drove straight and that s when I realized that we found ourselves next to the “CRAZY” car..[u see. Aj is phenomenally good at remembering cars, make, model , rego numbers.. etc etc and he had spotted him right there at a traffic signal]
As I wondered now what??Aj honked hard..staring at the crazy guy who just lowered his window and radio volume..
I noticed he was a very young man and looked pretty bored at the thought of “what -this –guy- from –the- other –car- want”.
Aj calmly asked him “ is there an emergency man?”
Guy[still surprised] : “NO,WHY?”
Aj:" then why are you drying at neck-break speed? Don’t you know it’s dangerous?"
Guy[ a bit boldly] : so what? :0 :O
Aj:”Do u want me to report to cops? I have recorded your mad driving in my cell phone, Shall I send it to them?” [My jaws have hit the floor at this point, Haven’t heard AJ so spontaneous ..Ever!!]
Guy[Now a bit worried] utters a scared:NO
The light turned green and we still drove a bit with his car and he was completely careful. We parked in the side and watched him for sometime, But seemed like he had learnt a lesson.
As we drove home silently I asked AJ:what made you take this in your hands?
He reminded me of this [which keeps repeating very often on TV]..

So dear Crazy driver, That s why he yelled at you.. :)
As for Aj - "Atta Boy!! I hope the crazy driver will be a good driver… :P :P :P"

Flash news:where did what i wrote earlier go?

I wonder where all that I wrote went!!

eeks!!

I hate when this happens..

anyway,I ll be back soon..(If anyone reads this...)

The Final Count down! - a guest('s )mail

PROLOGUE
I opened my Gmail at 11.00 AM last morning and started giggling, Not that it was funny, but I have a funny way to respond to the un-expected..
I immediately called the person, and asked if I could blog it down. Just for my records..
So we settled on an agreement that I am allowed to..who wants to be in trouble later, hence I took the precautions..




Time:10.40 AM
Date: 16 th September
Subject:The count down begins!!!

1. Anu's flight "Boeing 777-300" has gone for final inspection. (16/09/08- 18/09/08)
2. It Will start its test flying on 19/09/2008 (extended to 20-21 st )
3. will go for final cleaning and fixing things which they might find during test flying.(22/09/2008- 24/09/2008)
4. Plane will remain in the shed on 25 th and 27 th for engineers to sign n get the approval for the flight to fly on 27/09/08 early morning.

and then the last point..
I am sorry(x-\), but had to interrupt the flow..this was where I was c- struck!
what s C??? find out!and read this in the same tone and speed a commentator would use when a football player s about to hit a goal!!


5. 26/09/08-anu finished the final inspection of bags n then organises her stuffs gets ready to sit in the Multi million $$$ car(?) ,Winner of road safety award 2007 winner of best looks 2004, 2005, 2006,2007, 2008.(??) Winner of best performing car in 2006,2007(???!!!!!huh!)..... n gets in to the car.. n reaches the T****** airport.. n the airport officers gets ready to salute 'THE MAZDA3' (what!!!!!)
n then she leaves to india on 27 th early morning.

Thanks and Regards, (???!!! for what!eh?)
Ajay (now you know who wrote this!!)

All this is cause I am going "home"-my home in another whatever days!!
and hence this mail!!

EPILOGUE:
huh!men!! car ,plane- look how much details they know!
All I know is the officers dint salute me!! :(
no wonder "men are from mars" !!!

DOWN with FEVER

You should know you are going to be down with “this weird” fever when you refuse to take off your scarf and coat the whole day ; Even though you break into a thin sweat at the end of this... (In spite of all your colleagues sitting with heaters off; looking out of the window and enjoying the beautiful spring skies and the pleasant climate and probably sneering at your pathetic state.) :(


And your should know that you may be down with “this weird” fever when even the most noisiest of songs like for instance.. Some re-visited, re-vitalized [?!!] and many more re s kind of re-mix song blaring from your IPod just makes you YAWN to glory!![Hmmmmmm] :O

And you can be double assured you have no chance of escaping the wrath of this terrible fever If you are just trying to clean up your desk during which you neatly pile up 2 sets of look-alike documents into one set only to realize it should have been left in its earlier 2 set state and automatically the tiny voice in your head goes “OH, Control –Z” * :\

Sheesh! And to think it aloud!![Double sheesh!!]...what was I thinking? Is it some sort of spell or something to be uttered khule am, public ke samne... well done s done.. what can be done?
Hmmmmm... All thanks to my weekly occurring... “I-Hate-Mondays " fever!!

*control z is the undo command

Mile stones

5 th std:

changed school

new faces

random shift

travel to school

crossing the bridge

to city across

7th Std :

dance competition

team is being selected

a heart s broken

(seating) places changed

next to a stranger then

now a friend for life

10 th std:

teenager

mood swings

confused or worried???

had learnt to 'learn'

dreamt of future

of buildings n design

12th std:

exams and preparation

tight schedules

bitten nails over results

pain of farewell

a tear shed

soon to be forgotten

Under garduation:

hostel life

unbearable to live

later unbearable to leave..

project submitted

at the college gate

stood young architects

working life:

single,independent

an interview given

routine starts

submission

ssite visits

movies at night

later:

proposal,

engagement,

married to a friend

new country

new job

the same old me...

JUST AUSSIE...

Since 17 months of my stay here in my "new home".. I ve evolved from "Home-sick!!" stage to worsen to "I -desperately-need- to- go-home" stage to the current " I- am -kinda-OK- here"stage much to Ajay's utmost relief I suppose........( for information:Ajay insists on being called with the right pronunciation after 3 years of having a cut-short "Aj" for a name!! am I not glad?!!! Though it seems most of his Aussie acquaintances have managed to call him AAA-j still.. worth his efforts I feel!!)Anyway.. Before I start writing about this name thing...Let me come back to my original topic which has been drafted mentally long since my blog came into life again...
May be all the things I mention here are not very specific to this country, but since Its my first experience here.. it should be considered ok I am sure..

So PRESENTING THESE-ARE- 5 - OF- MY-FAVOURITE- THINGS (read this in the same tune as the song in "The sound of Music"with due respects)HERE IN AUSSIE LAND ...

The fifth position is taken by "Vegemite"
I know I know..All the non-aussies who ve tasted this will scream in unision "naaaaaaaaahhhhhhiiiiiiiiii"..
Though even I have just the same verdict after tasting this..(YUCK!!!)what amazes me is the sincerity of aussies towards this "unique" & probably one of the few edible things they can say "genuinly Australian" .
Coming from a country of such varied contrasting and countless cuisines..this is something I loved because its so different.

The 4 rth position is definetly held by Christmas in Summer..
Though I hail from coastal India where we hardly have any winters,It is pretty cold n pleasant there during Christmas I am sure..
But to have Christmas holidays during peak summers is like having a part of childhood back..
Eating sugared ice, going to beaches.. hot noons siesta …I re-lived my childhood in those 2 weeks of “summer holidays”

Which brings me to my 3 rd favourite thing here…
The cherries and strawberries in summer..I don’t know why but I love Berries!!
To actually see,eat n enjoy these in peak summer was definetly a blissful experience..

The 2 nd best thing here is actually silly..
When I first saw the all-time pedestrian crossings here in Australia I was amazed!!(These are crossing where all vehicles have to STOP as soon a pedestrian looks like they are going across..)and I was super-thrilled when I saw the one near my office..
The wicked thought of stopping huge trucks n expensive cars is just mind blowing ;)
Victory to pedestrians..

And the best thing I love is FOOTY(Australian football)
It took me the whole last footy season to just realize what this game means..
For an outsider it may look like a cross between rugby and soccer..
But believe me, after a year..
I was watching euro cup soccer n thought to myself.. “ aren’t these people a little too concerned about their clothes?!!!?!!!” check this link n u ll know... :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWXaujiReYA&feature=related