Unloading my think tank...

Any Indian traditional dress is incomplete without bangles. Sarees, salwar kameezes look best when bangles are used as accessories. And the clinking sound they make, makes heads turn aplenty! Of course, its not entirely about making head turn, but how you feel. I, for one, feel extremely feminine in traditional saree, complete with bangles and bindi. No make-up, no other accessories.

And bangles are widely available in India, anywhere. Bright lit shops with bright bangles, arranged in neat rows and some hanging over, with the shopkeeper beckoning the ladies around to try and buy bangles is common sight in almost all cities. And who can forget the bangle-seller who used to roam the streets with houses, shouting, "Choodiyaan le loooooo; laal hari neeli peeli choodiyaan le looooo"** In fact, back when I was a kid, I bought my first set of bangles (green, glass bangles) from one such bangle-seller...

So its no wonder that my tryst with bangles goes way back, and continues even today. I love wearing them. See my collection!

A close up. I've got marroon, green, pink (in many shades), blue, purple, black...

The pink ones you see on the floor are glass bangles. Lovely designs on them :-) We bought this tree-like wooden stand to keep my bangles, cuz I have so many!!

One more view .

But then, keeping the bangles-stand out would make sure that each one is covered with dust in no time, so I came up with the idea of making a lid kind of thing to cover the stand, out of a carton. We cut the big carton into required size, and then the husband covered it with a bright red paper with golden design. It looked very royal. See this pic!

I'm already lookign forward to wearing saree next!

** translated to English, it means, "Come and buy bangles; red, green, blue and yellow coloured bangles!"

Our office is observing Eco Week this whole week. Events are:

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Photo contest - photos must be of nature, widlife, flora etc. Prizes galore for winners!

Eco products on sale - Bags, photo frames, even body care products that are fully herbal.

Screening of An Inconvenient Truth.
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I'm taking part in the photo contest, and buying some of the products. Of course, something eco, and me not involved in it?! Never :)

As for another thing - I'm planning to wear green all this week to work :) Howzzat for some more support?!

...I am in office at an un-our-home-planetly hour of 9.15 PM?? Fookin all ye people in Big Apple watchin' ova us eh?

The call is going on (and on since an hour and a half) with the Colorado Springs team (yea not New York, I didnt know what CO is called - Big Orange or Small Pear or Medium sized Mango), and its going on even now.

In between, the call shifted from the conference room to a workstation (dont ask why, its "business confidential" you see), and I was there too, sitting and starting at my screensaver, which is awesome by the way, since I work on Linux. My desktop is KDE, and man, they have some amazing screen savers! Boo Windows boohoo!

This time, the screen saver was, hold your breath, chemical formulations of some very interesting substances! Check these out...

** C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ - Sucrose / Sugar
Betcha you didnt remember that from high school!

** C₁₀Cl₁₀O - Kepone Chlorodecone.
Its a fungicide/insecticide.

** C₁₀H₁₄N₂ - Nicotine, an insecticide.
Wha..?!!?! Nicotine is insecticide????!??! Isnt that whats there in tea? :O

** C₄H₁₀FO₂P - Sarin Enantioner.
Its a chemical warfare agent.

** C₁₆H₁₈N₂O₄S - Penicillin G.
Next time you go to the chemist, ask for C₁₆H₁₈N₂O₄S and see him wow at your intelligence!

** C₉H₉NO₃ - Adrenachrome. Its a hallucinogen.
Does it cure someone from hallucinations or induce them and pump the adrenalin??

** C₂₃₂N₉₂O₁₃₉P₂₂ - Deoxyribo nucleic acid. Commonly known as DNA.
*gasp* DNA? But how can it have a single chemical formula? Isnt DNA of each individual different? Then what makes it so if not the chemical formulation itself?? Intriguing!


(The End.)

... come great responsibilities.

Yea baby! I'm goin to see Spiderman 3 this weekend! Thats right you losers! Suck on that! Tickets booked, mood set, enthusiasm to shout during the movie is brimming. The only thats left is - WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR?

*shudder*

Maybe I can take it easy, until Friday and worry about it then.

Oh, by the way, how do you like the pink-look of my blog? Thumbs up? Or thumbs down? Tell me puhleeeease. (Also somebody please tell me why am I so so so obssessed with the looks of my blog. Beats me.)

And I was thinking of cooking something fantastic this weekend. Can anyone reading this (all 0 of you) suggest something? Some lip-smacking, finger-licking, hubby-will-come-lift-me-DDLJ-style-after-eating recipe?

Thanks! Work beckons!

PS: Veg recipes only. Go green.

Look at this! Now I can blog in Hindi! I mean, अब मैं हिंदी में भी blogging कर सकती हूँ! चलो इसी बात पे एक कविता हो जाये!

जब मैं चोटी बच्ची थी
बड़ी शरारत करती थी
मेरी चोरी पकड़ी jaatiiii
और रौशनी होती बजाज
(get into the groove mayyn! hehe)
अब मैं बड़ी हो गयी हूँ
Office में blogging करती हूँ
मेरी team mate मुद्के dekhiiii
और मेरी लगी वाट!

This feature is really cool. Much love, to whoever at Google that made this possible.

आज का पोस्ट बस इतना ही। अगली पोस्ट में फिर मुलाक़ात होगी, तब तक के लिए, नमस्कार।