Chumi Lakshmi

u wouldnt even wanna try n physically sit in one of those in public ( wat u want to do in my mind and heart is all up to u) u will by no means be able to sit in one of those n be transported around u'r not allowed on something as harmless as a trampoline bungee. Look how much fun that little girl is having!! i wanna have a go on it too!!!!!!!!! u'r not allowed to drive cos u'r too old, and not too young again.. not allowed u can only stand near the merry go round and enviously look at the little kids on it (i cant even remember the last time i went on one of those=( ) u cant strip n jump into a wee pond in public and have fun ... in public!

the brochure and the website clearly said that the River Festival wasfrom the 24th till 26th of July, and it was bigger and better this year... but all we saw on the 24th was a major let down for all my expectations yes, i'm a daft... i got too excited when i saw that it was a festival, and it was near my place and i hadnt missed it yet, and for once i knew of a festival before it was over! hence the misreading of 25th as 24th! :S wat do u expect to see when u go a day before the actual festival?? ppl setting things up, closed booths and drop dead gorgeous navy crew!!!!!!!!!! (too bad i couldnt manage to take a pic of them!! sigh) an empty and quiet ship instead of one full of life and laughter and fun everything was so quiet and dead all we could do was hopelessly, and aimlessly and not forgetting, shamelessly, take pics at least, we had decided to drop by the next day to see if the river festival was really bigger and better this year... i wasnt too sure about it at all... but i&

*this is just a sample of one of it, and this is why i never learnt cooking from my mum but went to my aunt instead!* at 12 noon Mum: i'm gonna cook today, so u concentrate on ur dissertation. we can have lunch whenever u want to Me: okay, we'll have lunch at 1.30pm. is that ok? do u need any help in the kitchen? Mum: no, i'm fine... i know my way around the kitchen pretty well now, i can handle it. we'll have lunch at 1.30pm Me: cool... i'll go n do my work.. i'll be in the living room if u need anything at 12.40pm Me: wat r u doing? how's the cooking coming along Mum: the curry is almost done... i just have to make the mushroom and cauliflower Me: oh, u made curry out of this? how do u make curry? i never knew how to make curry.. i always end uo making a gravy or a so-called gravy with it Mum: its very simple. i'll tell u later. at 2.00 pm while having lunch Me: tell me, how did u make d curry today? Mum: just heat oil, stir fry the washed g

#1 #2 #3 #4 (the cream n maroon stripped thingy) #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 Answers shall follow in the next post (which might be in a few days time).... do give it a try n see if u can guess it rite! Coming up Next: 1) You know u'r too old when... 2) Glasgow River Festival Day 1 ( i never fail to proof that i'm such a daft!) 3) Glasgow River Festival Day 2 (the actual day) 4) learning cooking from my mum

i dont know wat got into me last nite... . wat started of as a harmful msg reading-deleting-if-unnecessary turned out like this.. cos i got sick of reading mails from year 2004! n i'm not one to cherish the same forwards which 1000s of ppl would have sent to me. it would have been different if the mails were personal ones from a special someone... but since that doesnt look like happening anytime soon... all the forwards and mails from half a decade ago can go n sit in the rubbish bin n not in my inbox 25 pages of mails + >500 mails + 5 years = deleted in 30 minutes... impressive huh ! but now when i think about it, maybe i rushed into it... but then again... it had to go some day anyways rite... now i only have my student account to take care of, which is gonna take me AGES!! cos this account doesnt have forwards n mails from 5 years ago! just d ones since Oct '08, but it has hell lot of important mails... sigh... so not looking forward to clearing it up... maybe i'll

mum has finally started cooking in my kitchen... now i wish i hadnt pushed her so much ! last thursday, she took over my clothes cupboard last friday, she took over my bathroom last saturday, she started rearranging stuff in my kitchen. i found onions and potatoes sitting on the kitchen counter rather than in the cupboard. the rice container was sitting on the floor just next to the microwave table (i never had rice in my flat before, so it doesnt belong anywhere) . on sunday i found all my biscuits and cookies and munching stuff happily hiding in the cupboard together with my breakfast stuff n cooking stuff. and my new cans and unopened packs of food went missing from its place!! cos my mum hid it all in a corner (according to her, those dont need to be visible everyday!) on monday, there was some more changes in the kitchen on tuesday, my stuff in the freezer were all hopping about on wednesday, i couldnt find anything i wanted in the fridge, cos they were all hidden behind one ano

that explains wat i've been up to the past few days!

seeing ur santa clause sleeping on ur bed.. it doesnt matter even if u had to spend an uncomfortable nite on the dirty, ugly, old couch in the cold living room... MUM IS HERE!!!!!!! n look wat goodies she brought for me!! loads of colourful tablets .. oh goody! :S bling blings!!! i've never worn these things before... but it all looks so exciting and interesting now.. and surprisingly i seem to like it too.... actually, it's all hers..but i'm gonna help myself to it if i'm ever feeling like it (which might be in another decade i think) one of my fav food stuff.. i was thinking of asking her to bring it, but never asked her.. but she brought it!! mothers know it even when u dont ask! my bday present!!! seriously..i never thought about bday presents (yes, its present s , cos i always get a lot) this year ( i swear... for a person who starts listing out the things she wants for her bday, and christmas a year in advance... this year is a miracle, cos i didnt think about it

stacked up dirty dishes, and empty dish drier not bad eh... not bad at all i would say.. i'm not gonna comb my hair at all from now onwards n hope that i have this kindda good-hair-day (which only happens once in the bluest moon ever) everyday!

it felt as it was already Christmas lat nite. my flatmate and i kept talking about giving cookies of sweets or something at all to all our fellow 70 Ferry Road residences since we moved in two weeks ago as an excuse to getting to know everyone... but we never got about doing it.... till last nite. my friend and i baked a cake... (okay.. my friend baked a cake and i did the testing part as usual), which was a bit too much for us to finish. so we abruptly thought of giving that cake to everyone. instead of just cutting pieces of cakes and putting it in plastic bags or watever simple way there is, we (I) wrapped it up in foil paper like it was a christmas present, had it all lined up (had to line it up cos different sizes of cakes for different flats according to the number of ppl that we estimated), wrote a note and stuck it on all 7 little parcels, and went sneaking out at 1am to hang it on our neighbours' doors so that they will see it in the morning. it really felt just like chris