Dreamy Start!

My new-year celebrations usually start in August, when the real football season kicks-off. By that logic, I am pretty much half-way through a typical year - but what the heck! The world's celebrating, and so will I (moreso since ManUtd did pretty well to muster all 6 points over xmas)!

I prefer to start a festival, or a festive occasion on a bright note - like waking up very early in the morning, and feeling pleased with this achievement (it takes a lot of courage, especially in the chilly winter mornings of Bangalore). Here's what the morning looks like at home, btw ...

The FCUK guys decided against a football game - antcipating a hangover - hence, I found it much more difficult to wake up really early. However, woke up, made myself some steamy coffee, munched my fav. Bourn Bourn biscuits, listened to God's (read: Rabbi) first album Rabbi ...

(Everytime I listen to Rabbi, I think of Chadha - not because Chadha is the coolest turban-legend of my life, but because both of us have spoken endlessly about Rabbi - and shared almost every sentiment that Rabbi sings about in his albums. May be it's true for all people, it's definitely true for us. Infact, the moment I bought this CD sometime in 2002-3, I dedicated it to the guy whom girls call 'Jeev' - you can notice this on the picture).

Amidst the very normal routine that I followed (which was dotted with phone-calls and forwarded sms-es) to step into 2009, there's one long-standing, teeny little dream that I fulfilled (actually, I am doing that while I write).

Remember Tiffins? Or Nutties? The "candied cashew bits enrobed in chocolate" ...? Those oval shaped chocolates that always seemed so exotic?!

When in school, mom used to pass on 2 little 'bits' of those - despite having an entire box at her disposal. That's it! Two! It was very, very frustrating - and all I could manage to do was to suck on those for as long as possible. I don't remember when, but one of those days, I had decided that one day,when I grow up, I will buy myself a full box of tiffins/nutties, and eat them like peanuts ... not suck them, not cherish them, but just eat them like peanuts!

That's what I am doing while I write this post - and I am enjoying every 'bit' of it! Welcome, 2009! Have a good year ahead

Fitting quote:

"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."

Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic