Happy Hennessy's!

Finally, here's to me... I turn 27 today!

I've just had the most fun weekend in a long long long time!!! On Saturday we celebrated my Mum's 60th and Brother's 21st birthdays, which happen to be in 2 days from now. Quite an occassion with both of them turning milestone years on the same day!! The party rocked thanx to the Rat and her entire family, without whom I would've been lying in bed at home on a Saturday night with my Mum stuck in her own corner of the country and my brother faffing around Chennai!!! Thankew dear Ratty!

It was awesome to have my family and my friends and the brothers' friends all together getting drunken and disorderly, and dancing and swimming till 5 in the morning!!! At some point of time we even had a full on mixer and sound set up, thanx to Snoop! We had everything from Englebert Humberdink to Black Eyed Peas to keep all ages going!!

We conquered our hangovers in the pool yesterday, and then ate seafood like the sea was running out!!

I brought in the actual birthday alone in a train at midnight! We were all scattered around, and had passed out early! Anyway thank gawd for great network coverage between Bangalore and Chennai, for once in my life I was sooo happy to be woken up at midnight to my phone vibrating and ringing under my pillow... uh, napsack! :o)

Its difficult concentrating on work today - I'm in no mood to think Malls and SFT and retail!!! Just wanna get out of here asap! But I'm glad that between Malls and SFT and retail, I've managed to blog!! And then I'm going to read some of my favourites as my very own birthday treat!!!

And I'm not sure how many of you will read this but thanx Ostrich, Banana, Bert, Zoo, BenHe, Rae and Jo for making it to Chennai to party with The Hennessy's! Couldn't have been any better!!!!

...i feel like this is my award winning acceptance speech and also wanna thank ALLLLLL the others that made it... Wishful you get special mention for your class act spassness ;o)

This day 11 years ago...

...I rolled over and found my Aunt sleeping beside me instead of Anna
...I knew something was wrong, rolled back and went to sleep
...Jiggy woke me up with my coffee with Mama beside him
...Ma told me that Da passed away
...I didn't feel anything.
...I forced some tears out - I figured it was a bit psychotic to not cry
...gulped down my coffee and got out of bed
...saw my Grandma and THAT's when it hit me
...went to church with her ...by which time my eyes were like unstoppable water taps
...got home to a house full of visitors
...I don't remember eating breakfast - which has always been a MUST HAVE in the Hennessy Household
...Rolf, Anna and I stood on the balcony and heard the Boy's school Principal announce my Dad's passing
...I just wanted to hug Rolf sooooo tight, but I didn't
...got dressed and trotted off for my ICSE Physics paper
...I'd saved about 3 chapters to study in the morning ...BAD IDEA!
...ran into teachers and friends who offered their condolence
...It hit me again when I saw Sha
...we sat in the Dining Hall, took a walk on the field, talked a little
...Sha and me were allowed to enter the exam hall 10 mins after the others, didn't have to queue
...They said a prayer for my dad and my family before the bell rang
...Finished my paper in record time... must've been the 3 chapters I'd left out!!
...Came out of the exam hall (which happened to be our Upper Nursery Classroom) and felt this gush of emotion drown me
...Ran home, quick change and went to Sangho's place to study CHEMISTRY!
...Didn't even give the family or my Dad a single thought, for me, right then it was Acids, Bases and Salts.... ugghhh, and I remember not a clue!!!!
...Got home at 6 to glug back another mug of coffee and ran off to Guriya's (I can't remember her real name) place, coz her dad was a Chemistry Teacher... so just in case we needed some help... of course I was beyond all help!!!!!
...At about 9.30pm, Jiggy came to tell me there were some of Dad's Rugby Team friends waiting to see me at home
...I just didn't want to meet anyone, so I took my own sweet time and made sure I got home after they left
...I can't remember dinner either
...Mama, Rolf, Anna, Dax (her boyfriend at the time), Shimana, Putti (her school friends) and me sat in our bedroom chatting
...I'll never forget how devastated Anna Loo was... her tears were enough for me too

Thats a lot of memories for a single day of my life.

Blog from Bombay...

I'm sitting at the "Sky@ber Cafe" ...yeah thats what this place is called - at Chhatrapati Shivaji Domestic Airport! And the mouse is sticky... eeww! And my bags are piled on two big water cans squeezed in the corner - and there are more water cans under this desk, so there aint no leg room either!!! Anyway, enough whining!

...pause... think.... pause....

...umm, there isn't much to blog about if I don't whine! So here goes...

• I'm tired.
• I'd like to spend more time in Bangalore - in my house actually... lazing on the terrace. Watering Zu's plants (uhh, na actually may be just checking on the money plants and watering the bamboo!). I just wanna do more stuff at home.
• I'm turning 27...
• ...brooding time. Mints had a baby boy last Thursday. My sister's preggers with #2. Ex-roomie is on detox preparing to conceive! I want one for me too!
• There are 2 cute "yeng" Jet Airways staff sitting at the table near mine, and I'm thinking, DAMN THEY'RE TOO YOUNG!!!
• I haven't been to the gym in 3 months!
• Nobody reads my blog anymore.... and nobody posts comments, uuhh except for some weird Gilbert, Paul & Yugi that post messages in the chat box! ...are you real people???

Following the whines, I think... as I type... and I have some questions...

• Is life passing me bye?
• Am I working too hard? (hehehe, seriously, just MAY BE I am??)
• When will I have babies?!!!
• When will my knight in shining armour ride by and sweep me off me feet????! ...I do understand that I should start going to the gym again and shed some pounds!

OK... they're announcing my flight... more soon.