Halloween’s a sudden BOO!!
And just as quick a scream:
Laughing in the scary dark,
Loving friendly fright.
On Halloween, witches come true;
Wild ghosts escape from dreams.
Each monster dances in the park,
Eating candy like a shark-
Now kiss and say goodnight!
(c) Nicholas Gordon
Sure, halloween’s not until a couple of days but that shouldn’t stop anyone from having a good halloween party.
But truth be told, it was actually a Blog-o-Ween party. Not the average run-of-the-mill bloggers get together. No siree bob! When bloggy A-Listers get together (along with the man who “defines the list”) don’t just expect coffee and cake.
Expect a theme (Halloween, of course, you d-uhs).
Expect a three course meal.
In a fancy home.
In a neighbourhood probably better known for Govinda & Vivek Oberoi.
Expect the bubbly hostess-with-the-mostess Sakshi to be prancing about (much like Santa’s reindeer)
You can even expect some people to get dressed up for Halloween (though most wore jeans, spoilt sports, tsk tsk).
What one probably wouldn’t expect though - I sure didn’t!! - is the primary conversation of the night to be centered around… Bollywood. huh? Where was all the intellectually stimulating conversation I had prepared myself for?
Unlike the (most-part) of the last bloggers meet I went to - this was not one where bloggers got together and discussed blogs, techy things related to blogs & miscellaneous things on the net.
It was more a meeting of friends who were chilling out together, laughing at stories of 6′ tall big hulking black (oops, African American) men speaking Hindi, about telling a man’s character by the way his hand comes out of a door (nothing Halloweeny about that, no, it’s all good), about men holding men’s (ok just Gaurav’s) hands and about Bollywood.
Lots and lots about Bollywood.
Of course when I say Bollywood, I mainly mean the actors. And the gossip. About who’s dating whom. Who’s run over whom. Who’s whose landlord.
Bloggers. They never cease to surprise me.
And just in case you’re wondering about the title of this post - apparently I’ve done it again. Gone and earned myself another Mandira title. Though this time it’s not because any of them thought I looked like her.
No, it was more of the “Don’t wear bustiers and then give your gyaan” angle. Though I wasn’t. Really I wasn’t. Really, I tell you. Darn. Why bother.
Posing for the “can you really tell our character by looking at our hands?” competition
By now, all present have gotten their blogs updated with their versions of what really happened. Just goes to prove that an elephant isn’t really an elephant until you’ve seen him from every angle.
(01) Peter Griffin - abolishes the myth that bloggers do not get invited to parties.
(02) Manish Vij - with “Must See” pics of the party!!
(03) Anand Agrawal - finally gets writing again!
(04) Amit Varma - spilling some beans on private things discussed at the party.
(05) Sakshi Juneja - hostess’ version
(06) Saket Vaidya - slightly sozzled version of the meet
(07) IdeaSmith - with interesting one liner descriptions on all present
(08) Gaurav - includes one conversion excerpt that never happened
(09) Divya - southie-styled version
(10) Akshay
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October 29th, 2006 at 8:31 am
I love acrostics! Wrote one myself years ago, as a love note!
October 29th, 2006 at 8:59 am
You weren’t wearing bustiers or not giving gyaan?
October 29th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Looks like you all had a blast.
And i like the Mandira angle…..interesting.
October 29th, 2006 at 10:23 am
@ Ajay: Well, neither really. Seriously. Dang.
@ arZan: Yes all seemed to be suitable blasted. After dinner, dessert and free-flowing drinks (some with with % of alcohol content) we increased volumed of music, dimmed the lights and got ready for phase 3 of party (phase 1: intro, phase 2: bollywood). Was not an early night
October 29th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Immense fun came, Mandira, um, Melody. It was good meeting you!
October 29th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Just read Amit’s post on this, and was promptly redirected here. Woo hoo… Milind Soman kissed you?
Anyway, looks like it was a blast… has to be, with the cream of the blogging crop there.
October 29th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Where is Salman Khan??? How could you leave him out!!
October 29th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
I blogged
October 29th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
I still want to shake the hand of the lady that Milind Soman kissed….but..umm not if Salman’s done that too!
October 29th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
This might come as a complete rubbish when you’re talking about bloggers meet and everything, but I think it’s necessary that I say it (Now that I have a BLOG for myself and all ;
I’ve been reading your blog for about a month and a half now, and YEAH, I LIKE IT! Like, TOTALLY!
And you’re amazingly photogenic! *runs away*
October 29th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
@ dev: lol to the Milind Soman thing, was no biggie… on my cheek in my FYJC. Ahh…. memories…
@ Sakshi: Didn’t really leave him out. Read carefully: “Of course when I say Bollywood, I mainly mean the actors. And the gossip. About who’s dating whom. Who’s run over whom. Who’s whose landlord.”
No guesses on where Sallu fits in
@ Gaurav: I know! It’s good to know your blog’s alive & kicking again. Thx for the very last thing you said. Totally untrue, but thx anyway.
@ IdeaSmith: Sigh. No. Sallu’s not kissed me yet. Kya Kare?
@ Prasil: Firstly, welcome to the blog world! Keep at it, you’ll enjoy it one day when you’re at the top of the game like some of the people I blogged about in this post.
And thx, glad you “like, totally, like my blog”. And you’re right am a bit photogenic. You should see me in real life though, don’t need a halloween mask, am perfectly hideous.
October 29th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
OK… Oct’04 to Oct’06 in one manic day! I have read your entire blog now!
You are more complicated than I thought yesterday.
E-mail me and I’ll explain that.
October 29th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Gyan giver in stylin’ dress. Does that describe Melody… or Varma?
October 30th, 2006 at 8:11 am
@ Manish: Technically Amit wasn’t wearing a dress though
October 30th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Wow! Good time you people had.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
October 30th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
@ Melody: Ah! I haven’t even started… yet…
October 30th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Double wow! Would have liked to hear it.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Technically Amit wasn’t wearing a dress though.
The mind boggles. So he took the dress off, then?
abolishes the myth that bloggers do not get invited to parties.
Perish the thought. Bloggers do. We - as we call ourself, since there’s so much of us - don’t.
And nice to have met you.