Few of my favourite things ....

I wasn't served tea on bed 

nor woken by the tune of an old song at day-break

a mayna-pair did not greet me on my way

nor did my breakfast-table lay strewn with garden-picked-lilies or a batch of freshly baked brownies....

but i am all smiles and giggles today

... for this morning I received a little love note from husband to brighten my day.
a picture-postcard it was,- a picture-postcard to cheer me up...

....a postcard with a peeping giraffe from the maxwanger shop ... 

and since "morning shows the day" - they say

i am hoping that today will be a wonderful day

and when night falls i hope to wind up in bed complacent and gay !!

[postcard from maxwanger shop]

about flavours that erased and revealed ....

It was my third visit to naturals ice-cream parlour... The last two times I had been accompanied... but this time it was unplanned...  lets say, after the episodes of the day i needed a break to lift my spirits and i thought that an ice-cream treat is best qualified for the job in the list.... so i walked into the parlour unaccompanied....

naturals  is an ice-cream franchise which prides in introducing seasonal-fruit-flavoured ice-creams with intriguing toppings of fruity-flavoured-jellies, cashews, shredded-carameled-nuts, honey and a variety of exotica besides the usual choco-chips, cherries and black-current crushes.... On my earlier visits I had tried their custard-apple, musk-melon, watermelon and papaya flavours and each of them was great! Today I tried two freshly introduced flavours of the season, anjir (i.e fig) and mukkani ( which is a trio of mango-jackfruit-banana). I tried a small helping of the first and then settled for two big scoops of the mukkani-flavoured one topped with a generous helping of nuts, raisins and honey...and DIVINE is all i can say !

.... and while my scoops soothed me and  busied themselves in wiping  memories of my ugly day, it occurred to me that I have finally learnt to love and enjoy the time I spend with myself !! for earlier, whenever I was faced with a similar situation the ever-so-self-concious me would end up hurrying through my order in awe of being the focus of weird glances ... but this time i just sat there with my cup of ice-cream... peeping at their selections and smiling back at them... as if approvingly !!   i guess i am gradually learning to balance "being introvert with being sociable " and i am loving this....

[image by google search]

Hello there !!

This week I did not blog at all... It is extremely hot here in Chennai and nothing looks inspiring enough... the heat has cramped my brain and is on the verge of numbing my senses... it is difficult to think beautiful thoughts when the weather is this bad... so i have been desperately trying to keep my mind off my immediate surroundings... Husband and friends are trying to help... courtesy them i presently have three new books on my book shelf ....

When We Were Roman by Matthew Kneale

Manik Bandhyopadhay Rochonashomogri: 9 (A collection of Short stories by Manik Bandhyopadhay) 

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

I had read about the first in A CUP OF JO and had been eagerly waiting to own a copy of the book. Husband couriered it recently.. (Smiles !! I love him so much for spoiling me this way.. heeheehee) and these days it  is my favourite bedtime companion !!  The second one, a friend recommended and lent... It is a collection of short stories in Bengali and I read this one when the heat is making me impatient and i want the know the end right away..... (simple short stories can treat my impatience just like that !! ) The third one I am yet to begin... I saw "the Toni Morrison" on a book-shop shelf and could not resist purchasing it. love its cover page !..... But right now my hands are full... so i guess it will have to wait  awhile !!

So how is the weather at your place ? I hope it is treating you well...  and
which are the new books that you have recently purchased...  what are you reading these days  ??

Amelie.... in you i see a figment of me...

Last night my mind wandered... it was on a run... it went wild and would not succumb.. so I settled in to watch Amelie...

Then came the seen when Nino is late and there are only two explanations Amelie can see for it...
" 1.  he didn't get the photo.
  2.  before he could assemble it, a gang of bank robbers took him hostage. The cops gave chase. They got away... but he caused a crash. When he came to, he'd lost his memory. An ex-con picked him up, mistook him for a fugitive, and shipped him to Istanbul. There he met some Afghan raiders who too him to steal some Russian warheads. But their truck hit a mine in Tajikistan. He survived, took to the hills, and became a Mujaheddin. Amelie refuses to get upset for a guy who'll eat borscht all his life in a hat like a tea cozy..."

This curious monologue  made me breathe a sigh of relief and bless the writers Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet  profusely... had it not been for them i would have never known that my twin-self lived in France by the name of Amelie...

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.......

A sizable amount of work awaits me... but i do not feel like it. It happens to me once in awhile... when all i want to do is to indulge and work must wait.... so last night i saw a movie, Houzhe (To Live) and then again one today post-lunch, Turtles Can Fly. Both the movies are excellent and they left a deep impression on me... No. I shall not attempt a movie review of either... for i do not feel competent... but for sure i recommend to you both.. they brought me goosebumps is all i can say....

Also this blogdom has revived my interest in drawings and paintings again. and under the spell of the art-blogs that I have recently started following,  i tried a version of a Chinese painting with crayons today. I quite like the completed picture. so for the time-being... or till i  draw something that I like better, i have set my new drawing as the banner of the blog. the orange sun was an after-thought...  i added it while  editing the picture in GIMP.  right now, i quite like my blog-banner with my little birdies tweeting under the sun !

so far so much about my weekend. hope you are indulging yourselves too...   catching up with friends and hobbies that had taken a back seat to accommodate the  business of the week...  Indulge abundantly and have a lovely weekend !!

Bye, take care...
and please drop a line when you have time to spare.....

[title is a quotation by Sarah Jessica Parker]

she invented.....

 and we played along..... 

       this long weekend of mine......

      

          was filled with little Shruti..... 

                        and her cute innocent games ...................   

  

My Lilies.........

 Last April when I was home

                            around this time-  my lilies had bloomed.

         this year i miss the riot they had reveled in....

 
Dearest lilies...  , 

                                                          do come and see me soon !!