About Me
Female. (Must mention this since a reader once argued and insisted I must be a guy, going by my writing!) Mid twenties. (Let me say it before they slip away!) Geeky programmer by profession. As non-geeky as programmers are allowed to be outside the office. Happily, argumentatively but ultimately successfully married to The Husband for about three years now. Best Friends for five more before that. (And I insist those times were better, and he just as firmly insists they were not!) Originally a Mumbaite, currently a mostly happy but sometimes nostalgic resident of the North Eastern United States.
Love to read, travel, see new places and decorate my home. Fultoo Bollywood fan. Fond of all kinds of good music. A great dancer (not) when no one’s watching! Trying my hand at Hindustani classical music and learning to drive right now. Cooking experiments are part of an ongoing trial and error process. Enjoy cooking but dislike having to do it everyday. Freak out on chaat, dosas and other such junk food. Passionately vegetarian. Contrary to preconceived notions, not an avid shopper. Would graduate to avid shopper if and when one wins a million dollar lottery for sure!
Cheerful, optimistic and mostly happy under stable conditions. Prone to sulks and tantrums when unstable. Violently happy and violently sad. Only child and spoilt. Talkative (unstoppable) at home and with close friends. Shy with new people. Take time to open up and make friends. Sensitive. Loving. Always rooting for the underdog. But practial. Full of complex contradictions, I just realized!
Got here through shruthi’s blog. Loved this one, sounds so good and real
!… Will come back and read some posts
Thanks Veena. Welcome and hope you keep coming back!
You sound cool… Guess I will HAVE to keep coming back again and again…
Hey, thanks for that! Cool huh?
Yes, yes, please do! I love readers who also comment… I yearn for some feedback and validation most of the times. Welcome here Manpreet!
And I loved the little that I saw at your blog too. (The background music was wonderful!) I am going to make some time this week to go through your archives – they look VERY interesting!
I am really glad you liked my posts. Now I m waiting with bated breath for the weekend. LOL cos thats when you will go thru them. I want comments, one by one, on all of them. Hahaha, just kidding buddy. Take ur time, take ur pick and do key in your response if u choose to. Many thanks.
P.S. Glad you liked the music. Its an awesome combo – ABIDA & GHALIB.
jottingsandmusings Came here to know some more about the person who asked me what I thought of joint families. You have got me thinking I never thought about what I thought of joint families …Though I remember my mom being very clear that her daughters were not getting married into joint families… I just took it for granted that we weren’t the joint family kinds.
I am doing a post on this. Thanks for asking this question.
Thanks for taking the time to answer it IHM!
Female… hmmm… now I’ve got to go and find out what made someone think you’re otherwise.
Nice blog and I love the header too! Will keep visiting
Thanks Pallavi, hope to see you again and again! And let me know if you solve the mystery!
JnM good going…
Thanks ArtyManoj!
Been wanting to visit you for some time, after you left that comment on my blog. I too married my best friend! And me too fulltoo bollywood fan…and in fact right now rushing to catch a movie. Will drop in again!
Hi Nita, its great to see you here! Isn’t it fun to marry your best friend? Okay, I’ll wait to hear from you again. Come back soon…
Read your post ‘Groupism’. Very well written. Thanks for sharing !!
Hi Manish! Sure, and thanks for the compliment.
How did I miss this one. Of course you’re female – it shows in your writing! Who’s the nut who thought otherwise?
HiJ&M- There are so many similarities between us.. Vegetarian, Bollywoodfan and married childhood sweetheart..( not excatly best friend ) loves decorating the home. Will be reading archives soon.Wish You a Happy Diwali
Hi Nupur, good to see you here! Similarities, huh? Interesting… do you blog as well?
So very endearing!
i am awaiting best friends
Me: Sorry???
Hi–
Thanks for commenting on my blog. I’ve enjoyed reading your posts! Will definitely be reading more.
Thanks Minnie! (I read we could call you that.
) I have been reading you for a while now (from CBC’s blog) but *sheepishly admits* only commented now! And I am glad I did! Blogrolling you here.
Nice description. Sounds so much like me…Female, mid twenties, programmer,married for 3 yrs to my best friend of 9 years, well 12 now.Mumbaiite, living in US, love to decorate home. and the best one “Enjoy cooking but dislike having to do it everyday”. So true.. Anyways liked your writing..will come back..
Oh, so all these things match?!! Amazing! About cooking, it’s my suspicion 90% of Indian girls in the US would secretly agree with us.
Do come back Enchanted, hope to see you soon again!
Hey! Devaki,
. Not a dancer 
and dont watch a lot of bollywood. Stumbled upon snippetsnscribbles like three days ago. Looks like you are here in this part of the world and just cant wait to talk to you 
. Will add you on my blogroll.
Thanks for stopping by, yes im pleasantly surprised about the way our ‘about’ page reads. Nice to meet someone with similar interests and attitudes…except im not a s/w engineer, you’ll find me extremely non-geeky. And guess what, im married to a high school sweetheart too
Guess what, I’m non-geeky too! Well, sort of!
And who am I kidding about the dance… I am a HORRIBLE dancer hence the dancing only when no ones watching part. 
Glad to have bumped into you too Nalini!
Hello Missy!
I accidentally landed on your blog and was instantly intrigued and wanted to read on..and so I did.
I must say, I am impressed. You have a gift (you are the second person i’m saying that to in the past 24hours) and you are putting it to good use.
I can assure you i’ll be visiting again.
Good to see your zeal for life at young age of 26! Seems like you are a happy chirpy
I love happy and grateful people, who doesn’t ? They are an addiction.
I had a lovely time reading some of your posts. Haven’t read them all yet..long way to go.
Keep up the good work.
Happy blogging.
-Namita
Hope to see you around again – soon. (Do you blog too?)
Me: Hey, that’s so sweet of you Nam Missy!
No i don’t actually. I’m tempted too though..we’ll see.
I am on an extended break at the moment. Between jobs – thanks to the financial meltdown.
Still thinking about blogging. I do read lots n lots of them these days. Lots of time in hand, u see
Me: I hear you Nam! But lots of time is good in a way too. Why don’t you take the plunge into our blog world then? See if you enjoy writing as much as reading… I have a hunch you will.
I think i will enjoy it for a couple of days, and then will go kaput.
Thank you for your encouraging words though. Much appreciated.
OK i go read a few of your posts now…watch out for my comments.
Me: Cool!
Spent considerable time on blog. Also really enjoyed a lot of the blogs on your blog roll…I added you on my blog roll. Hope that is fine. Still surprised it took me so long to stumble on your blog
Me: Glad you enjoyed it here. Some of those blogs on my blogroll are so much older (in blog-years)/wiser/more hilarious etc. – it’s scary!!!
Thanks for adding me, I meant to do likewise a few weeks ago but been lazy.
And how did you expect to stumble on my blog? I try not to give even a hint to most folks!
“Fultoo Bollywood fan. ”
Another fultoo Bolly fan here though I don’t get to watch that many movies anymore but there was a time when I never even missed those tapori Govinda films.
Me: Gosh, really? Let’s compare notes then!
Is there somewhere I can mail you?
Happened by here from Priya’s blog. Nice posts. Will be back
Me: Hi Sands!!! Will wait for you to be back…
Got here from Priya’s blog! Lovely read
Me: Thanks!!!
Hi there…..
Just landed here by accident at 3 in the morning…..after a bad dream….and it was a nice comic relief reading through your blog…..
i usually don’t read blogs but i think it has changed (i should credit you )….i think yours is the second blog that i have read after the Mighty Strom created by that Fake IPL player blog….trust me i read that one purely by the hype that had created in India and of course my brother who dosnt talk much usually was raving about it ……(so read it as a fuel for our future conversations….its weird how men relate…
)
Ur pretty gifted(im sure you should have heard or read this a zillion times by now) n have amazing potential you should consider writing a book or dialog writing …..your writing reminds me of chetan bhagat’s style of writing …… as well as Chandlers character from Friends….just loved the dry sarcastic humor in your blogs……
Keep up the good work and by the way i think you are 2 months over due(if im not wrong)…i dint find blog after june 2009
v’ll be visiting soon….byee until then
sush
Me: Thanks so much for those wonderful words Sush! I am totally overwhelmed! And no, this is not the zillionth time, you must be the second person after my dad to think this way.
Judging by your write up, I want to say that you are a Virgo girl! Tell me if I am right or otherwise!
You are very close actually. I am a Libran but born very near the cusp… 25th Sep, so do have a lot of Virgo characteristics I am always told!
Me: