Where Shall We Go This October?

Way back in 2004, four people took forever to plan a holiday to Jaipur/Udaipur/Uttranchal and ended up anywhere but there.

History repeats itself this year as our little family takes forever to decide on where to go. The only thing we agree upon is a beach that's not Goa. Because we love that place and can go there anytime, something we've been doing religiously every year.

So extensive research is on. Husband and wife are constantly at loggerheads and the toddler is putting in his own two bits by tearing up brochures or switching off the computer just when we have found a beautiful homestay in Kerala.

The search is on. Hopefully shall end in a holiday worth remembering like it did in 2004.

Jai Orkut

Long lost (and much regretted) schoolfriends have finally found moi. Thought I was the only one to have escaped that phenomenon.

Anyway, great feeling. Especially to realize that:

* Certified hot babe in class thought I was one too (erm...she is 32 now. That explains the memory)

* Weirdest guy in class had crush on me

* Cannot for the life of me remember one classmate who has got back in touch.
(I'm 32. So the memory bit applies here as well)

But one of them is a girl I was great friends with and after a flurry of mails and phone calls over two days, it feels like we had never been out of touch. Some friendships do stay on, I guess.

So just for that, Orkut ka shukriya.

The Bloggers' Club

I started blogging on a July afternoon in 2003. Not here. We hadn't heard of blogspot then. Ok I hadn't.

I probably had a free afternoon at the women's mag I worked for with nobody around to gossip with. I'd been reading blogs on and off and thought it would be fun to start.

What started off as a 15 minute activity became an obsession in the days of the bloggers' club and gradually tapered down to something that became a habit, a welcome one if I could get over the laziness of posting :)

Over the years, I have been reading bloggers who almost felt like friends despite the fact that we'd never met. The funny bit is, I go on discovering new blogs and checking bloggers whose existence I didn't know two months back quite regularly. Some of them are wonderfully addictive. At least for now. But I need a dose of the old favourites from time to time...alpha, Gabby, Lee, Inky, Shub, Parmanu, Colors, Anumita, Aqua

So what if some of them haven't posted in ages or have deleted their blogs. The much missed and read Anita Rodricks being one of them. Or Pallavi for that matter. And Subs. Where are you girls?

It's hard not to feel like you're running into an old friend when you've shared pregnancy stories with someone , watched (er...read) a 25-year-old journey into 28 and been introduced to authors you thought you never could understand by some.

Well, at least that's the way it is with me.

So I go through phases where I stop posting, stop checking other blogs simply because I'm either too sleepy (like right now) or have taken on more work than I can manage (like right now and this tells you why I can't manage) but going back and discovering a post (or several posts as I'm very irregular and people often prolific)never fails to make my day. Like Lee's did today.

The reason we subscribe to newspapers...

...is the reader in the family. He also likes to shred them to bits once he's through but that's another story :)