It happened one night...

11-30 pm on a Saturday night.

I had just switched on the kitchen light to heat my very late dinner.

And that is when I heard that knock on the door.

Thinking it must be one of my housemates who had forgotten to take their keys, I opened the door...to find a stranger woman with a smile on her face.

Needless to say, the only emotion on my face was a question mark.

My first thought was "Ghost!" (Side effects of having seen crappy Bollywood movies while growing up!)

Before any more of such corny thoughts could take form, she spoke..."Hi, do you have a bottle of beer I could borrow?"

Silence.

Question mark on my face turns to bewilderment to disgust.

Me: (forced smile) No, I am afraid not! *shuts door with lightning speed*

I was a li'l rattled and also pinched myself a couple of times to check whether I'd dreamt it.

Later, the incident reminded me of an old commercial...remember Aishwarya Rai showing up at Aamir Khan's door asking for a Pepsi?? :D

Before you start getting any judgemental, lemme assure you that I'm no Aamir (I'm taller!) and my nocturnal visitor was sure as hell no Ash!!

What was funnier was the feedback I got from some friends after recounting the incident. Atleast two male friends reacted by saying, "Wow! A naked lady turns up at your doorstep asking for beer and you turned her away?"

Me: Err...WTH! Naked??? I didn't say that, did I?

I got exactly the same reaction from both of 'em : "No, you didn't! But that's just an enhanced version playing in the brain. Please don't spoil it."

* Puke *

Bah...men!!!!

* Rolls eyes *

Love Actually...

Bah! Yes, it was Valentine's Day today....the day when mush and soppy acts of love seem to overflow from every nook and corner of the world. Yes, I belong to the school of thought which is very anti-Valentine! Just can't fathom why you need a specific day to express love and fight your guts out the rest of the year!! :P It's like pampering your mom on Mother's Day (which you obviously remembered 'cos of the banner at the florist) and then forgetting to wish her on her birthday!

As it must be quite obvious by now, I did happened to have the most tiring and lousiest V-day of my life today. I was romancing a bunch of bugs in a microbiology lab all day!!

As always, I decided to end the day with a bit of humour to lift my spirits and found some real rib-tickling quotes by some great names on the funny li'l thing called LOVE!!

• If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.

-- Lily Tomlin

• Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

-- Oscar Wilde

• Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

-- Woody Allen

• There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

-- Melanie Griffith

• Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

-- Albert Einstein

• I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

-- Woody Allen

• I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

-- David Bissonette

Some grave issues....

I have recently been catching up on all the episodes of the show "Deperate Housewives" online. I simply love the sarcastic humour and drama involved....so much better than the regular soaps. Now, before you start rushing away thinking this is about the show, lemme tell you, it is not...

Well...the last episode that I saw had a tornado hitting Wisteria Lane (yes, that's where the characters reside) and some of the characters getting killed. No...I'm not mourning the death of Gabrielle's husband. (even she didn't!!)

But the scene which moved me the most was the one where the characters of Lynette Scavo and Mrs.McCluskey go to a football field to scatter the ashes of Ida Greenberg. Just before they are spread on the grass, Mrs. McCluskey recited a poem which completely blew me away. Did some googling, to find that, it was after all quite a popular poem at funerals across the world.

According to theory, "Do not stand at my grave and weep" was written by Mary Elizabeth Frye for her German Jewish friend, as a condolence message on her mother's death. The moment I heard the lines, I knew that I didn't want anything more when I'm buried, than my epitaph to read this lines!!

There have been various disputed versions of this poem, but the essence being the same, each time.

DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am in a thousand winds that blow,

I am the softly falling snow.

I am the gentle showers of rain,

I am the fields of ripening grain.

I am in the morning hush,

I am in the graceful rush

Of beautiful birds in circling flight,

I am the starshine of the night.

I am in the flowers that bloom,

I am in a quiet room.

I am in the birds that sing,

I am in each lovely thing.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there. I did not die.

P.S: To all my friends who are rushing to grab the phone and call me - Breathe easy, it was just a random thought. I'm not gonna kill myself!! :P

Kickstart!

And finally, after weeks of maintaining an empty template, I manage to kick start my own blog. Have been meaning to start blogging for quite some time now, but always had to face one too many roadblocks, including not having enough access to a computer for most of the last two years. But anyways, all that is now history, and the future is a mystery. (Rhyme it did, but sense it didn't make!)

So, moving on to the million-pound(Am based in UK) question.....What is this blog gonna be about...???? Well, for starters, I intend to live upto it's name, so expect to get a lot of random and sometimes useless information. But I sure as hell don't intend to disclose any crucial personal tidbits of my life!! Can't risk having my friends banging on my door, baying for my blood!!

It's nearly midnight and I have some graphs to plot.. (to check if my bugs grew alright! :P) So that's enough rambling for the day...and night....!!

P.S: To my diary - I still love you and you will always be my first love!! ;)