Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Eggs and Holidays

Post Malaysian Nite Party - The Thank You Party.


Joint Celebration, Julian's Birthday, 21st.


Current Music: Ronan Keating's Life is a Rollercoaster

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Endless Excitement

Hypocrisy? A few months ago, this would have been an impossibility. Then again, she’s trying VERY hard. Will tell you, Meera, all about it. Lol. 10th March 2006, Subha’s 21st Birthday.

In the heat of the dressing room excitement - 11th March - Malaysian Nite 2006

Shopping in Derby, in windy January.


The next best picture (no thanks to Saddiq who uploaded the best) of Kelly Clarkson's Gig - 7th March 2006

Current music : India.Arie's Beautiful

Monday, March 06, 2006

Spring, with longing for Summer

Living statues are spooky. Here’s one, with River Thames as the backdrop.


Spring’s here. With surprising yellow, purple and white snowdrops pushing pass the eternal green of grass beds. No leaves on trees as yet. Maybe it takes more than sunlight for them to wake up.

The sun rises early here. It’s bright by 6.30a.m, and it causes false alarms where you jump out of bed because the room is too bright for the early morning, mistakenly thinking you’re late for the daily 9 am classes.

It’s beautiful, the clear blue sky. But it’s freezing cold – bloody wind! Here in Notts, there are more snowy days in March relative to December. No worries, we have custard to cure chilled bones. Custard with everything called puddings, and mind you, almost any dessert is referred to as pudding here. From gateaux (cake in French) to pavlovas (fluffy whipped cream balls stuffed with fruits).

But, time moves too quickly here. Summer will come too soon to carry me home, which thank goodness am no longer lounging for with the intensity well above alarming/ disease causing.

Busy, busy, busy. From Monday to Friday, in the sickening maze of a med school we have. Don’t bother asking me what my weekends are like. Give me 2 weeks notice. Studying now is a choice, not a necessity? Am I deteriorating, or just growing up?


Current music: Jamie Cullum's Everlasting love (OST -Bridget Jones' Diary: The Edge of Reason)

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Pancake Day

Night time from Millennium Bridge, London


That was yesterday – technically.
1 day before Lent.
1 day of indulgence prior to..abstinence?
Pancakes with bacon, sugar and lime juice, strawberry, honey, maple syrup, Ben & jerry’s?

What am I giving up? Chocolates? That’s suicide. It’s not so much religious compliance, (not even a Christian, for goodness sake), it’s more cost-effective. Less money spent on double chocolate ship cookies. It’s not only heavenly pleasing, the absence of nutritional values, hence calories, makes it even more desirable.

Eating has become more than a necessity nowadays. Who could have known that it’s common to end up ravishing after 3 hours of dissecting smelly, embalmed cadavers? Maybe it’s the graceful, pressure-less, sliding of the scalpel? Perhaps the rushed, brutal scrapping of fatty layers from uncooperative rotund corpses? Or maybe because it’s an excusable diversion from studying?

Oh well, brain saturated with anatomy. Can’t you tell? I’m having a paddy (cockney English for mood).

Good luck with Lent people. There’s always the hollow chocolate easter eggs to look forward to!


Current music: Savage garden’s I knew I loved you.