Well, it’s the end of the year and resolutions have to happen. I don’t believe in them, but that doesn’t stop me from making them! Here they are, in no particular order: Eat less, drink more (water, folks, water – before you jump to conclusions and I get labelled as an alcoholic) Finish all those things I couldn’t in 2003 (and that is a really long list) Spend more time with my cat and less on the blog (I’m not sure whose loss and whose gain that will be though) Learn to spell ‘decapacitated’ (I never won Ms Spelling Bee) Talk less, meditate more (starting with yoga lessons tomorrow!) Learn to be more patient (especially with my mom 😉 Get serious and develop a goal in life (no, really) Win more awards (to make up for what I never won during my growing up years) Get organised and super-efficient (well, every gal’s gotta dream!) Stick to my resolutions (and that will probably be the toughest) Here’s wishing all of you a scintillating, rocking, exciting and …

A lovely weekend. Went for my first guitar lesson on Saturday morning. Had friends over for dinner on Saturday night. Nearly everyone got lost trying to find our new place. Someone commented that they thought they were travelling to Pune! Cooked too much food. Belatedly, I realised I could have fed another 13 people. And our friends aren’t as young and hungry as they used to be either! Have enough food to last for the whole week now. If you’re coming this side of town, please do drop in 🙂 We’re bound to get tired of eating the same thing all of this week! On the menu: delicious momos (supplied by my cousin who takes orders), chicken wings and drumsticks with mushroom and baby corn (cooked Chinese style), moong salad, bangda fish fry, pomfret curry, chilli paneer, egg and potato delight (cooked by hubby after much persuasion :-/), dal and pulao. And then topped off with ice cream and custard. Went out on Sunday to watch the really violent Tarantino flick, Kill Bill, Volume 1. …

I have to write about this. Spent four hours today morning running around trying to get my phone connection back on track. Since I was away, the new phone installation work order was cancelled. As a result, I had to go to three different MTNL offices to find out what to do next. My first stop was at the office where I filed the application. “We can’t do anything here,” says the man at the gate. You have to go to the other exchange. Tomorrow. So today, bright and early, I get to the other exchange. There’s about a dozen people all looking as clueless as me. Since there are no signs (or a help desk, which of course would be like asking for the moon) I had to figure out where I was supposed to put in my complaint. Finally, I asked another man, who I assumed belonged to the office. “Mr Patel will help you,” he says. Of course, as luck would have it, Mr Patel had not yet come in. After waiting …