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Friday, March 15, 2013

A short break

Nina Gray: Hello dear blog, if I told you something, would you get angry ?
My Blog: depends on what you say
NG: hmmm..actually I would not be able to write to you for the next 3 weeks.
MG: What?!? 3 weeks??? what did I do now??
NG : 3 weeks is a loong time, I know. And it's not you. It's me.
MG : what happened?
NG: I am going away for sometime and would not be reachable.
MG : oh! not fair!
NG: But think about all the peace who will get  when I am gone! And hopefully I will get some clicks to show you when I get back. 
MG :hmm that's right.. I will be waiting.
NG: I will miss you for sure!
MG: Me too


So until we meet again Be Good, Feel Good and Do Good!



Tuesday, March 5, 2013

The Gods Must Be Crazy!


"You are speeding!!!!"
"PLEASE SLOW DOWN!"
"There is a truck behind us.Please be careful.."
"Please keep to the left lane!"

O.K. That's me in a car (my husband is driving, of course).
Alright. Before you all start judging me, let me tell you this.
For one, I was being polite! Did you count the number of  'Pleases'?
And secondly, for a girl who has been under a bus and lived to tell the tale, this behavior is tolerable!
Yes, I have been there, where no one has ever dared to be.
"Literally under the bus!" Thank you for the Bravery Award! {blushing}

But that's not what I am getting at today. It's US ( No, not the United States). By US, I mean My Husband and Me.

For the first few years of our marriage, I thought it was God's Big Joke to get us married. (It must have been getting really boring up there). We were so different, we could have been from 2 different planets.
Our conversations sounded like Morse codes.

HE:  Beeeep, beeep....
ME:  Bip, bip, bip, bip, beeeeeep...

And other times it were like lexical ambiguities

HE: Woman off to jail for sex with boys
ME: Why? She din't find any boys outside the jail to have sex with?

HE: Stolen painting found by tree
ME: A tree found a stolen painting? now, that's strange!

And mostly we were eating each others souls out!!

ME : GET LOST, YOU DOG!!
HE: OK MRS DOG!
ME: AAARRGGGHH!!!

It's been 10 years now! Not that anything much has changed (we still are a weird couple), but somehow our marriage survived this far. I am still trying to figure out the reason.
Maybe over the years we discovered little things about each other that kept us together, maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome or maybe it's just that God must be really craving for some entertainment!

Well, whatever be the reason, the moral of the story is  "If your marriage is weird in the first few years, give it 10 years and it will still be weird! ......and also that I am shit scared of travelling on road"



PS: Hodophobia, that's what the fear of travelling on road is called!



Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Inspirer!

First The Versatile, then The Dearest and Now The Inspirer!

Aunt Mary at Easy Way (A Blog For Children) has awarded me 'A Very Inspiring Blogger' Award!


Aunt Mary's Blog - Though  the blog claims to be for Children, it definitely holds a lot of lessons that grown-ups can learn too! So if you haven't visited it already, go ahead and click!
Thank you Aunt Mary!

And here are 2 random facts about me

1. I really did enjoy this reaction from Jennifer as Seth sings "We haven't seen Jennifer Lawrences' ** at all!" lol.


2. And no, I don't feel sorry for the Hollywood ladies who were mentioned in The Oscar Song.
     It's 'You-have-it, You-flaunt-it. They-see-it, They-mock-it' policy!
 
Below are blogs I nominate for 'A very Inspiring Blogger' Award! (In no particular order)


These are blogs I would never miss reading! I hope you all enjoy them as much as I do.

As you must have guessed already, of course there are rules!
So here are the rules:  write lovely things about me, gather some random facts, tag others, climb Everest....
Ah well, guess what? here's my version of the rules

1. Just grab the button
2. and take a nice holiday!

Happy Blogging!

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Peace be with you!

You know how everything becomes uncontrollably funny when you are not supposed to laugh?

Today is Ash Wednesday. We made it to church just about when the second reading was getting over.
The church was completely full except for the second pew. Normally, we would not prefer the second row, but since we had no choice we placed ourselves there. There was a small girl sitting in the first row who, much to her mother's chagrin, was imitating everything the Father did. It started off as an innocent smile looking at her, when I suddenly remembered my friend telling me about a Father she knew who is really passionate about offering Mass. So much so, that when he says the word Peace, he says it with such ardor ending up stressing the P and the S making it sound like Piss. That's it! It just started. I was snorting, sniffing and snuffling all through the rest of the Mass.

Do you have any idea, how many times the word Piss, oops I mean Peace, is used in the Mass?


PriestI leave you Peace, my Peace I give you.
All Amen.
Priest The Peace of the Lord be with you always.
All And also with you.
Deacon or Priest:  Let us offer each other a sign of Peace.

All Glory to God in the highest, and Peace to his people on earth.

Deacon or Priest:  The Mass is ended, go in Peace.
All
 Thanks be to God!

Disclaimer: No offense meant to the Father, The Holy Mass or The Church. Just that the accent was really funny :D

Thursday, February 7, 2013

And this is why I love Horoskopos!

Today's Capricorn Horoscope
February 6, 2013

There can be a lot of fun in chatting it up today, dear Capricorn, and the details of what's being said are not as important as the spirit behind them. It's all about the feeling, and you're feeling it! In general, your spirit is playful these days, dear Capricorn, as you are learning to express your more childlike, playful, and creative side without apology. The temptation to spin a tall tale can run high today, but if you keep it to the level of fantasy, nobody gets hurt. Watch also for self-deceit, and incomplete information.


Today, I had this overwhelming zeal to look at my horoscope as soon as I woke up.
What you find above is my horoscope for today. Since I live in Australia, technically, their today is already my tomorrow. So I am actually living it out on Feb 7, 2013. But believe it or not, my horoscope predicted exactly how my day turned out to be!

So here's how it went.

There can be a lot of fun in chatting it up today, dear Capricorn, and the details of what's being said are not as important as the spirit behind them. It's all about the feeling, and you're feeling it!

Yes I did have a lot of  fun chatting today with one of my friends on skype. As predicted, the details were not important, as we were playing Dumb Charades (yeah over skype). And in the spirit of the game, to act out the word "bottom", he even showed his bum to the camera, pointing his index finger at it. (Yeah I get it, 'the spirit behind' is more important !). You betcha, I am feeling it alright!

In general, your spirit is playful these days, dear Capricorn, as you are learning to express your more childlike, playful, and creative side without apology. 

Later, as I was browsing through the net, one website suggested egg yolk mixed with fenugreek seeds is an excellent remedy for hair-fall when applied for one hour. Great! Since my spirit is playful these days and  I had nothing better to do, I decided to make this mixture. I also added a few of my own ingredients like lime juice (for dandruff), cinnamon (for shine) and ground pepper (for hair growth) into it (my creative side at work you see!) and applied this mixture on my hair, which I regretted immediately because my husband who never ever calls from work, decided that this was the perfect time to give me a call. Impeccable timings, Your Highness!

I managed to hold the phone at an arms length and ask him what it was that he wanted. He mumbled something about forgetting the house key and opening the door.
Since it was only 15 mts up since I had smothered my head in egg yolk, I decided to let my husband in and then wash myself.

Finally I heard the knock and opened the door asking "How the hell did you forget...."
And imagine my surprise when I see my husband's colleague staring at me in disbelief, as there was egg and lime juice dripping on my forehead, ears and neck and I was standing there in rags, smelling like a skunk in a garbage disposal room!

Apparently my husband called to tell me that his friend had forgotten his key and is coming over with him to pick his spare key from us. 
Excellent! I excused myself quickly for a shower (no points for guessing I din't apologize!)


The temptation to spin a tall tale can run high today, but if you keep it to the level of fantasy, nobody gets hurt.Watch also for self-deceit, and incomplete information.

I got into the shower thinking he would be gone by the time I finish. As I stepped out, I peeped to see if he was still there. Yup, very much there! So I changed and came over to make small talk.

And that is when he asked the Forbidden Question. A question that you should never ask someone sitting at home unemployed.

"So what did you do all day?"

uhmm now I cant tell him that I played Dumb Charades for almost half the day, over skype with a friend, can I?
So I quickly tried to spin a tall tale.

"hmmm actually I went out to Olympic park for the first half of the day, rescued a few possums, you know... just the usual stuff."

This is when my neighbor walked by the door, peeped in and said,
"Hey Nina, were you on phone for most part of the day today? I could hear you screaming all the way up to my kitchen!"

"ermm, no, I was out, perhaps, you would have heard the television"

Husband : "You left the television ON the entire day while you were out?"

Gosh! I want to run, now!

Well at-least nobody got hurt. (except maybe my dignity)

So my day ended with my husband's colleague thinking me to be a huge freak and me getting a big lecture on "How I should be more responsible and Save Energy" from my husband and my neighbor wondering which host on Television sounds exactly like me!

So people, next time I get this overwhelming urge to look at my horoscope, please remind me to give myself a good kick!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Etched in my brains for ever...

I recently read an article posted by Kellie at Delightfully ludicrous. As I was reading through the article and the comments, I was reminded of an incident that occurred around 12 years back.

November 1, 2000
In an interesting turn of events, I happened to be in a place called Kerala in India on this particular day.
Some of my friends urged me to go visit a place which was gaining popularity for miracles from The Lady of Kanjikode. I was skeptical and did not want to waste our time visiting baseless miracles while we could be doing a good tour of the place. Now, don't get me wrong, I do Love Jesus Christ and I believe that He is the Son of God and that Mary is divine. But literally believing everything that the Catholic church and the Bible says? Nay! I was way too scientific for that.

My friends succeeded in making me agree to visit the place. A spiritual catholic retreat was occurring on that day, in the local language, on a makeshift altar. Among the first row of audience, a lady draped in a blue sari caught my attention. There was a seemingly unassuming nature about her.
Well, since there was nothing more to see, we decided to head back to our touring, when suddenly the lady fell down from her chair. She had her eyes closed and seemed to be gesturing something that meant 'No, No". Slowly but steadily a mark started appearing on her forehead. It looked like a cross made from blood. I noticed her palms were bleeding too. More like a blood sweat. The crowd was rushing towards her but were too horrified to do anything. I was gobsmacked. I looked at my friends and they were paralyzed too. Finally someone decided to shoo everybody away and we decided to flee.

We just could  not believe what we had seen. I had heard of stigmata before but never ever witnessed one! She was lying right there at our feet.
We never spoke about it. It was like a silent agreement between us.
This is probably the first time I have ever mentioned it in all these years.

Well, does this prove that everything the Bible says is correct or that we were all created and not evolved? I don't think so.

But one thing it sure did was make me realize that there are certain things in this world that are beyond human understanding, that which does not have a plausible scientific explanation, which are abstract, which I would keep a secret for fear of being ridiculed by the world, even though I witnessed it with my own eyes!

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Liebster!

Well well well, another award and this time nominated twice!

First by The Dream Dinosaur Girl
Andre - She writes and paints her dreams.
She will blog about your dreams too. So if you ever have a weird dream, you know whom to contact :)

Second by The Regular Guy NYC
Phil - He rants about his life in New York City.
If you ever want to visit New York, you have to visit his blog first!

The rules
1. Each person must post 11 things about themselves.
2. Answer the questions that the tagger set for you plus create 11 questions for the people you've tagged to answer.
3. Choose people and link them in your post.
4. Go tell them!

Andre's Questions for me

1. What is the best moment of the day?
    The moment when you realize that you still have 10 more minutes to snooze before waking up.
     
2. Imagine you have 15 minutes to pack and leave to any place you want. Where would that be?
    Friend's place

3. Is there something you don't allow yourself?
    To hurt my near and dear ones

4. Your first memory as a child.
     Playing on a swing

5. Who is your favorite celebrity?
     Jesus Christ

6. Your favorite object.
     Phone

7. Something you wish you had more time for.
    Sleep

8. What is the worst movie you've ever seen?
     Along came Polly

9. A song that brings you memories, and why.
    Something Stupid- Frank Sinatra. Cos it brings back memories :)

10. Is there any skill you wish you had?
      Wish I could Sing

11. And of course...I had to ask this: do you remember your dreams after you wake up?
      Sometimes Yes. Most of the times No.

Phil's questions for me

1. What scares you the most?
    Hypnagogic Hallucinations

2. If you could be any famous person, living or dead, who would it be and why?
    The Misanthropic Bitch. Would love to see the world through her eyes.

3. If you could switch bodies with one of your friends who would it be and why?
    A geek friend. To live the life of a geek.

4. If you could be any insect, what would you be and why?
    Brevisana brevis. Small yet so LOUD! (reminds me of me)

5. What is your favorite movie of all time?
    Ice Age!

6. If you were allowed to only eat one meal for the rest of your life what would it be?
    Chicken!!

7. If you could go back in time what would you change or do?
    Stop the dodos from going extinct. Heck, the world needs some dodos!

8. If you had to pick one famous person of the same sex to have a man or girl crush on, who would it be and  
    why?
    he he he.. Am way too hetero, buddy!

9. Would you take a bullet for someone, and if yes, who would it be?
     No.

10. If you could be an athlete in the Olympics what sport would it be?
      ha ha ha, athlete and me? ha ha ha

11. What celebrity do you despise the most and why?
      Steve Jobs. Cos I think the idealization of him as a technologist is a fallacy.

11 Random things about me.
  1. I love to watch the rain.
  2. As a kid, I was dead scared of lightning and thunder. I still am.
  3. The first thing I always do with a pencil is trace the mickey mouse and say "Hi, I am Nina Gray and you are watching Disney Channel!!"
  4. I hate dogs. Yes I do. (OK now, please stop giving me the looks.)
  5. I never knew I could write. Pssst..my husband still does not know.
  6. I am a morning person ( as long as morning starts at around 11ish)
  7. I always type a slash(/) first instead of an eroteme(?).
  8. I get weird dreams when I eat noodles for dinner. Check it out here
  9. I once was lost but now am found :)
  10. I enjoy reading chick lits
  11. I hate sports. Any kind.
My nominations for Liebster Award
Congratulations all of you and here are my questions for you :)
  1. If you had to change the order of alphabets, what would it be?
  2. What is the square root of 21345578?
  3. Have you done anything lately that you are proud of?
  4. What is the best prank you have ever pulled?
  5. Have you ever seen a ghost?
  6. Are you happy? If yes, why? if no, why not?
  7. When did you last lie?
  8. What is the most important thing in your life?
  9. If you were invisible for one day, what would you do?
  10. what did you do last night?
  11. How many I(s) do you find in the '11 Random things about me' above?