The Voice In My Head…

Imagine this - a B-grade remake of Arnie’s hit ‘The Terminator’. Only this time it’s Me in the lead role as ‘The Procrastinator’. And it’s all the doctors & dentists of this world that I’m telling (in my best Arnie voice) “I’ll be bach…. eventually”. (Sadly, “eventually” almost always catches up with one.)

This has not been a very good week for me. Have been coughing like a TB patient. It finally got so bad that I stopped self medicating with Benadryl & had to get myself to see my doctor. He was highly annoyed that I didn’t see him earlier & told me that Benadryl was the exact opposite of what I should have been taking for a ‘progressive cough’ and that it was a highly ‘abused drug’.

Damn, the last thing I thought of myself as was a drug abuser.

Well if my doc isn’t convinced I’m a procrastinator (& trust me he is), my dentist sure is. Have been sufferring on & off from stabbing pains due to my wisdom teeth since January of this year. Yes people, 9 months. Even the clear instructions received from my dentist in July didn’t push me any closer to the dentist’s chair.

Finally it’s been soo painful the last week I’ve scheduled the minor surgeries for Friday (tomm, 9.30am, pray for me!). Have been told I’ll look like a lop-sided swollen mouthed person for a couple of days, so there’ll be NO PICS for a while, ok?!

Had house guests from Oz this last week, so will post a pic on one of the many trips taking them sightseeing and out for meals night after night. Am quite ready to be operated & lie in bed for a while, me thinks.

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… well, not on a daily basis, can’t afford that. But I did don my new Prada jeans for the red carpet premier of ‘The Devil wears Prada’ in Mumbai last night.

The invitations came along with the ‘very prestigious’ ‘Runway Magazine’. And yes, it was fun to go through it and read all the tid-bits on fashion and the high life.

It was a night to remember, models, actors, beautiful people all around enjoying the movie that possibly describes many of their lives to some degree of accuracy.

A friend of mine in the US asked me when I returned - so what were you doing there among all the models, actors & beautiful people? I answered - “I’m just one of the nobodys who’re invited to make the models looks more modelesq” … True dat!

The pics from my cell phone unfortunately haven’t come out too well, but trust me, that’s not a problem, there were enough of cameras - photo & video - to fill a small country. LOTS and lots of press!

(Caveat: Rest of this post possibly contains spoilers)

The movie itself was fabulous. When I read the book I was dissapointed at the ending - I thought one of the main characters (Miranda Priestly, played superbly by Meryl Streep) wasn’t allowed to grow & there wasn’t any depths shown. Away with all that in the movie! It subtley but surely shows shades of depth in Miranda’s character. Anne Hathway looks great and pulls off another ‘Princess Diary’esq role - frog turns into gorgeous Gabbana wearing princess.

There were tons of differences between the book and the movie - and most of them for the better. Two entire dialogues which take place in the movie aren’t even in the book - and imo are pivotal parts of the movie’s plot - the first in which Miranda explains how fashion affects everyone (FABULOUS, loved this!) and the second was how Nigel tells Andy (Hathaway’s character) a few ‘truths’. Whoever wrote the screenplay did a brilliant job, taking the best from the book, changing the bad & adding in some amazing lines.

On a totally different note, if you love fashion, if you’re into sexy, fabulous, awesomely great looking clothes - you HAVE TO go see this movie. It’s fast paced (no long song with frog changing into princess), sensible (pretty reality based) and completely entertaining.

September 11… 5 years but USA remembers and still mourns. “Spouses and partners of victims read out the names of all 2,749 people who died at the World Trade Center”. My heart goes out to the people of America. And it sinks when I think of the people in India. Vande Mataram?

Mumbai Train Blasts
Vande Mataram

Malegaon Blast
Vande Mataram

Roads full of Potholes (deadlines, schmedlines)
Vande Mataram

Dead Politician’s son being touted as “innocent” & “framed” though all proof shows otherwise
Vande Mataram

44 Miners dead in Ranchi. 10 still missing. New York Fashion Week gets more coverage.
Vande Mataram

Bina Ramani being imprisoned. Manu Sharma walking free.
Vande Mataram

I love the song too.
But surely there are more important issues to take care of in this country?

(Int’ll readers who may not be aware of what I’m riling about, click here)

If you’re in the mood for an intelligent, smart movie, then do not see this one.

If on the other hand you’re upto being totally entertained, laughing out loud (my friend & I totally were the whole movie) & wanting to enjoy being in another crazy world for a couple of hours, then this movie is just what the doctor ordered!

Uma Thurman is TOTALLY brilliant - she manages to look sexy (as always) and be funny and scary at the same time. Luke Wilson is not as cute as (my darling) Owen - in fact he’s a bit pudgy in this film - but he’s a decent leading man nevertheless. It was refreshing to see Anna Faris not acting in an insane role for once. And supporting actor Rainn Wilson (TV’s ‘The Office’) was simply fabulous as the advice-a-minute giving friend..

Take a date (very date-ish film)
or take a mate (told ya, very matey film too, lots of advice for men trying to pick up women here )
but don’t be late (because it’s leaving the theatres soon)

Ok sorry for the rhyme. But I just said I enjoyed this movie - what frame of mind do you expect me to be in?!

… to a self confessed “6′2 ugly monster”, who turned 26 on the 26th of last month. (Check out the use of the numbers 2 & 6 in that sentence, I am so brilliant)

You rock dude, seriously. Am SO sorry I forgot.

PS: Feel free to use the above image as your new gravatar… that’s really what you are.

I will not pretend that I like the hordes of people that descend upon the queen of the surburbs of Mumbai at this time. I will not pretend I like the filth, the noise, the chaos.

Ultimately though, this is home - and as anyone knows, home is the best place on earth!

Happy feast to one and all! May the mother of our Lord guide us to He who is closest to her heart!

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I have found the remedy! If you are tiring of living in the Mumbai of present, then you must take a journey back in time to the Bombay of old!

I spend the day in South Bombay with a close girlfriend - doing what close girlfriends do - shopping, eating, browsing, shopping, talking, talking, talking

Had lunch in Cafe Churchill (Pollo Valdostana, what else? And yes, loved it as usual). Have already reviewed it here.

Took a lovely loooong walk on the Colaba sea face, enjoying the old architechture, the water & the cleanest air Bombay can offer (which is not saying much, but let’s not get choosy here).

I love the Taj & the walk upto the Taj - seeing the Gateway to India looming larger than life in the background.

No matter what your preferences are wrt five star hotels in Mumbai - you must admit no other hotel in Bombay can even come close to the grandeur that is the Taj Mahal Palace & Towers.

Had a lovely day & couldn’t have asked for any better way to rekindle my love for this lovely city I call home!

And yes came back to the present by ordering Pizza (lol to living in the past, I wouldn’t survive without my junk food!) for a very special girly night with another gf whom I’ve not caught up with for the longest time. I am so blessed to be surrounded by the best friends a girl could ask for.

It’s the beginning of a new month & I thought I ought to update the old blog. It’s a shame I still don’t have broadband - after over three years of living with the internet on 24/7, it’s amazing how quickly one adjusts to not having it. I thought I’d cold turkey - and I kinda did at first, but I’m a survivor. Kick me on the ass with anything and I’ll still bounce back, still stay afloat.

The last two weeks I’ve not blogged have been bitter sweet. The first week was crazy & the world seemed like it was tumbling down & falling apart. Throughout the craziness though God stood firm with me (my good Shepherd!) and brought me out of the dark valley. Last week was so good that it seems so far removed from the one before. Am peaceful & I praise God for it.

Have been upto all sorts of things. Been catching up with a couple of friends. The wonderful Ana graced Bbay with her presence this Parsi New Year (a belated but very very happy new year to any Parsi readers I may have!). To celebrate we all went out to Copper Chimney for dinner.

The usual suspects included DV (minus shiner!!), Sony, Geh, Prem & of Ana & Eri. Most of them in top form. One of two very badly behaved indeed. It’s good to see that even grown ups can behave like children sometimes

Also got a chance to check out another restaurant called “The Village“. No, it’s not out of a M. Night Shyam film, it’s the real thing. It’s another world once you step into it - I guarentee that you’ll love it.

Only problem is that it’s in Khandivali. Raghu Leela Mall (don’t even ask how I got to that part of the world!) and is almost out of the normal world. Once you’re there though, it’s worth the experience. Not saying more, do go & check it out.

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Made time to spend with both my godchildren - the first who threw up all over my new Tommy Hilfiger (thx darling) and the second who’s looking more and more like a “Big Girl”. Awww you guys are the cutest ever.

Had work at the Marriott and got a chance to see the new and improved Juhu Beach all spruced up (or in the process) and I must say, I’m very impressed. Thank you to all the civic authorities who’ve made this happen. I don’t know what finally got your goat after all this time, but whatever it was, praise God. The beach actually looks like a beach!

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News in India makes me not want to read the papers (come on what’s with all the press over Rahul Mahajan’s wedding? People are we that stupid?? & this new professor beating thing makes me sick). So I’ll go back to my own small world. I’ll pray. I’ll do whatever I can to make this world a better place. And what I can’t help, I’m going to try not let bother me. After all when sin abounds, Grace abounds.

There were a couple of movies I wanted to check out, but didn’t end up going for any of them. Hopefully I’ll make it to “My Super Ex-Girlfriend”, the premise of the film seems, I dunno, just so gooood