Random Facts (for Friday).
1. Today is when the most-annoying person in the department takes an off. A weekly day far far away from the environs of the office. Amen.
2. Cough and cold do not leave until they have turned you into a hollow, wrecked shell.
3. James Dean is incredibly hot. Miss those days when I would laze around my room, with headphones stuffed into my ears. The Jim Stark act was a classic.
4. I have become quite an experienced cleaner-of-rooms. And I don't even miss the maid doing the mopping and scrubbing for me at home. I actually like the cleaning up process. Much like Monica. Sigh!
5. And the India-South Africa series is about to start. And we will commence another round of chest-beating, hollering, preaching, lecturing and debating (depending on whether India win or lose).
6. India can drop to the bottom of the Test teams list. For all I care.
7. I don't understand why all my random facts compulsorily have to induct cricket somewhere. Am I fixated now?
8. 'Here Without You' by Three Doors Down - am in love with this track all over again.
9. I terribly miss anna's lemon chai. Outside ACJ. On Ellis Road. Tucked away in a tiny corner of the market-cum-mall. How anna would greet the giggling students with a smile, be a witness to their meaningless banter. Then take the orders in a combination of Tamil and Malayalam. Then proceed to make the tea. Cut a lemon in half and squeeze the juice into a steaming cup of sweet-smelling black broth. Swirl the liquid around with the other end of a spoon. And present it to us with a flourish!
10. The fat, fluffy slabs of chocolate cake were delicious. For five bucks apiece. We gorged on them, five (or more) of them at a time, along with the lemon chai or plain chai. Even the chequered yellow-and-dark-brown cakes (I forgot what we called them) were mouth-watering. Smiling anna would wrap them up in a newspaper and hand them to us on demand.
11. Citty Juice Bar. A place we discovered kinda late. Where Abhishek ran into a watermelon suspended from a hook at the entrance to the shop. We crowded the place at all times. Groups of ACJ people could be found there from the time the Juice Bar opened until anna's supply of fruits and milk was exhausted.
Cool watermelon juice for 12 rupees, with big chunks of the fruit bobbing around.
Then the thick milk shake with dark-brown, caramel-like gooey Bournvita sticking to the sides of those tall glasses.
Or the sweet lemonade that I always sipped with a pink straw.
12. Then the Rajasthani paratha place. And the Mathura wale bhaiya, the one who sold samosas and jalebis and lassi. The freshly-fried golden crisp samosas, the plastic cups of lassi that was were always topped off with a dollop of sour cream. Heaven!
13. Marina and Lighthouse and Bessie.
14. Surasiddha. Rangachari Cloth Store. Mylapore.
15. 9A. Jains Antariksh. Kodambakkam.
16. Random facts. Or memories. Again.
2. Cough and cold do not leave until they have turned you into a hollow, wrecked shell.
3. James Dean is incredibly hot. Miss those days when I would laze around my room, with headphones stuffed into my ears. The Jim Stark act was a classic.
4. I have become quite an experienced cleaner-of-rooms. And I don't even miss the maid doing the mopping and scrubbing for me at home. I actually like the cleaning up process. Much like Monica. Sigh!
5. And the India-South Africa series is about to start. And we will commence another round of chest-beating, hollering, preaching, lecturing and debating (depending on whether India win or lose).
6. India can drop to the bottom of the Test teams list. For all I care.
7. I don't understand why all my random facts compulsorily have to induct cricket somewhere. Am I fixated now?
8. 'Here Without You' by Three Doors Down - am in love with this track all over again.
9. I terribly miss anna's lemon chai. Outside ACJ. On Ellis Road. Tucked away in a tiny corner of the market-cum-mall. How anna would greet the giggling students with a smile, be a witness to their meaningless banter. Then take the orders in a combination of Tamil and Malayalam. Then proceed to make the tea. Cut a lemon in half and squeeze the juice into a steaming cup of sweet-smelling black broth. Swirl the liquid around with the other end of a spoon. And present it to us with a flourish!
10. The fat, fluffy slabs of chocolate cake were delicious. For five bucks apiece. We gorged on them, five (or more) of them at a time, along with the lemon chai or plain chai. Even the chequered yellow-and-dark-brown cakes (I forgot what we called them) were mouth-watering. Smiling anna would wrap them up in a newspaper and hand them to us on demand.
11. Citty Juice Bar. A place we discovered kinda late. Where Abhishek ran into a watermelon suspended from a hook at the entrance to the shop. We crowded the place at all times. Groups of ACJ people could be found there from the time the Juice Bar opened until anna's supply of fruits and milk was exhausted.
Cool watermelon juice for 12 rupees, with big chunks of the fruit bobbing around.
Then the thick milk shake with dark-brown, caramel-like gooey Bournvita sticking to the sides of those tall glasses.
Or the sweet lemonade that I always sipped with a pink straw.
12. Then the Rajasthani paratha place. And the Mathura wale bhaiya, the one who sold samosas and jalebis and lassi. The freshly-fried golden crisp samosas, the plastic cups of lassi that was were always topped off with a dollop of sour cream. Heaven!
13. Marina and Lighthouse and Bessie.
14. Surasiddha. Rangachari Cloth Store. Mylapore.
15. 9A. Jains Antariksh. Kodambakkam.
16. Random facts. Or memories. Again.
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