a weekend with me

The musketeers marched out in different directions this weekend, giving me two days with the sole company of well.....me......left up to myself i spent the better part of friday evening at work....needless to say i forgot my charger at work when i was coming back and ended up with a dead phone for two days....my phones been acting wierd off late....it needs a charger to stay alive....why do i always end up with devices like that....my sweetheart dell which is now three years old...is in the same condition....my ipod seems to have similar problems as well....something abt me and electronic devices....hmmmmm.....

anyways....i watched a bunch of episodes of scrubs and lost(J at work got me addicted to it a month back and i have ran through 4 straight seasons and half way through the fifth now.....the result?....i wake up at 3 in the night with a voice screaming in my head.....waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalt....wait i didnt say that right......waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalt......i mean come on!!... from season one to season 4 apart from claire shouting abt her baby...pronounced bayyybiie.... the other common theme is Mike's character shouting...well.....waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllt....highly addictive though i must say....i come to see the truth in what S and H have been saying all along)..........
saturdays invariably are the same....late rises....catching up on those weekly hulu episodes(i hate the fact that they stopped the deep end on episode 6...scrubs on episode 13....and human target now on episode 12.....:()....

my lease is coming to an end in june....and the musketeers are contemplating moving in....so we chose this place waltham which is 20 miles from work for each one of us....one works north,....the other south and me....i work west of waltham........the disadvantage is the increased number of miles spent travelling....in the winters when it snows the travel time would nearly double.....but the advantage is well....meeting up with friends at the end of the day....right now all plans seem to be in a stage of contemplation....lets see how they pan out....anyways that resulted in me visiting a bunch of places saturday evening.....apartment hunting is fun though tiresome after a while.....you have the usual smiling lady at the door who beckons you to the available agent.....these agents will then ask you some qs abt what you are looking for("a mansion with a swimming pool please") , do you have pets("a parakeet, two turtles and a german shepard"), how many people will be staying("me, my friend B, my friend V, my cousin d , his aunt h, the twins and my neighbour")....they will then take your photo id(and glance suspiciously at it and back at you to do a face match....makes you want to tell them "yes i stole this from v who lives down the street and i took the license and pasted my stamp size photo on it....just for kicks sake....and i drove 30 miles just to have a good laugh in the company of a stranger....peachy aint it")....they then take you to show you the apartment....NOT the one that you will rent BUT something thats either bigger or smaller than it....you are then given a brochure(very smartly packaged and containing the name of the previous management who owned the place....they didnt want to throw the brochures as the brochures were too nice) and asked to imagine ..."the apartment that you are seeing....if it had an extra room it would look exactly like the one you would rent....except the kitchen would look different.....the closets may be a bit smaller....the living room would be wider but narrower.....but just imagine"....gees thanks so much.....oh....and it always ends with...."heres my card....heres the info....and do have a look around at other places as well......i am sure you will come back to us after that"......4 apartments....some too expensive...some too small....some very inaccessible..... and 4 hours later i found myself a tad frustrated and on my road home......

of course the solution to most problems is good food....sets the mind ticking and gives you a nice happy feeling:).....i found myself in a roadside indian restaraunt right next to the route that runs in front of my apartment complex.....now heres the thing....one should never go to a restaurant absolutely famished....if possible eat something before you go to the restaurant...like a snack or something......coz you know what happens....when you look at the menu.....the stomach and not the mind ends up ordering.....the end result of course is you end up finishing half the aaloo tikki and a quarter of the lamb curry....and the rest.....well the rest ends up in a doggy bag which you carry home and end up eating over three meals over the next two days.....of course thats considering that you survive the heart skipping a beat when you see how much you have spent on a single meal.....

i spent the evening watching more scrubs(i got hooked on to the show thanks to A back in bangalore.....it used to be the only thing he would watch after a long days work at the ad agency he works in.....i have actually watched almost all the episodes of the series....but its something i can watch over and over....like friends:)......i remember telling T tht i preferred the first season to the rest as i found it got a bit tacky over a period of time.....recently i started watching the series in order....and i guess i take it back....the series still has a soul even in season 6....and still is darn funny:)

i ended up watching a movie called Oceans.....its the next in Disney Nature's collection of movies.....for those who do not watch Discovery channel at home....its an awesome watch.....just coz you realize that the world is wider than what you see beyond your nose......that you share the earth with a million other organisms....and all you truly are .....is just a speck....in the grand scheme of things.....it also shows the ingenious way in which nature has sprinkled colors(or colours if you like it spelt that ways:)) through its species.....the sheer brilliance of the variety of organisms that exist hits you....i mean there is the otter...the dolphin....the sea horse....the dragon....the blue whale....the hump back whale....the shark.....and countless more.....

i am trying to get a sunday morning routine going(all my routines generally start out with me being gung ho about it and slowly the routine fizzes out).....i want to cook a proper breakfast every sunday morning....which essentially translates to two eggs,...a sandwich with amul butter(utterly butterly delicious...and yes locally available:)...amul).......cornflakes and a half litre(literally) glass of orange juice.....i think i have done this for a couple of sundays now....feels awesome....of course cleaning up is a pain....but thats a different story....the other routine i want to get going is sunday evening tea with parle g biscuits and a hindi movie (a flashback to the good old doordarshan days:))....but i have to still get that part going.....

sunday evenings unfortunately are when the blues kick in....you get reminded of the week of work that lies ahead....all that you had hoped to accomplish over the weekend...and you didnt..and how the weekend just passed by before you could take enjoy it fully....so when the blues kicked in today i ended up watching bourne ultimatum....its a mind blowing movie....the scripts tight....its well directed....keeps the audience at the edge of their seats.....and has amazing fight/action scenes(the one in morrocco is amazing where bourne faces off with an assassin)....in short all the good stuff....the icing on the cake is moby's catchy number extreme ways(i have got into this annoying habit of playing a song over and over again when i like it....even more annoying is that when i dont play the song it keeps on playing in my head....for example as i type this.....extreme ways is playing in my head......this has a good and bad side to it.....the good side is of course you can live without an ipod at work....all you have to do is think about a song and play it in your head...yes i know...wierd......but the bad side is that you have situations where wrong songs are stuck in your head at wrong times.....like "so what" by metallica when someone is trying to explain a problem to you at work:))

all right i have rambled on for quite a bit tonight......time to hit the sack.....tc....gn