So I just read this article by [Redacted] Guy (yes, that’s what he calls himself) about the ten things he wishes his dates wouldn’t do while out with him. He asks for suggestions, so here are mine. Considering it’s a long list (List! List! My favorite word again!), I put it up as a post. [...]

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Best Friend tells me that she’s personalized each of her key contacts with their own ringtone (She called it ‘callertune’ but I know that’s incorrect since my calls still go to the same ring-ring-ring-hello). My number, she says, has been set to
‘It’s raining men!‘
I riposte,
Rain, rain, everywhere and not a drop to drink!

A woman plays a bunch of roles, doesn’t she? My job defies description.
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Well, what else is a woman to do??!
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The Non-relationship because…

I need time.
I’m afraid of committment (Honest but jackshit nevertheless)
I’m really busy building my career right now.
My family won’t approve of us.
We don’t know each other that well.

The Non-conversation because…

It’s too embarassing to talk about.
Why ruin a perfectly good mood?
There is never an answer.
If you start, I’ll leave!
Je ne comprehende pas…Parlez-vous Man-ese?
Oh, forget [...]

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Some pictures of shy, demure, wallflower moi surfaced online. Nope, not paparazzi style ones, just a couple of shots from a tweet-party I went to recently. Result: I got called ‘cute’ by a Twerson (khee khee, tell me I’m funny!). Nobody calls me cute. I’m stopped in my tracks (briefly) and then decide to share my [...]

Message from Friend-Man,
I got a tattoo!
I call back and yelp,
Tattoo!! Seriously?
After much detailed description (and a few conversational blind alleys regarding location and image and colour), he admits that it’s a temporary one, ending with,
I’d never get a permanant tattoo!
To which I retort,
Yeah. It needs committment. And the willingness to bear pain. Not a man’s [...]

My new literary obsession is Chick Lit. Helen Fielding, Sophie Kinsella and Marian Keyes keep me in chocolate-box mood while Meera Syal and Advaita Kala add the desi tadka. Why, even fellow-blogger/’I-know-this-girl-friend-acquaintance’ Compulsive Confessor flashes her characteristic grin at me from my bedside bookstack.
I found this rather interesting piece on the internet, describing Chick Lit:
“Chick lit” is [...]

Now this is a post that was in the making before I decided (for the umpteenth time) to commit blog-i-cide. And my blog-i-cide (I lurrrve that word, it’s an IdeaSmith original!) phase was over a year back so this is really a senior citizen of a post. I thought I’d burst when I found it, still [...]

Meetu’s little girl is learning all about gender roles and what she can use to her advantage.
It makes me wonder whether the gender stereotypes are really learnt or whether women just are smarter.

And now that we know them by the cities they live in, the professions they pursue, the interests they devote their time to and the languages they speak, what’s left? The women they love of course! Here’s a look at what you can tell about a man by his favorite Bollywood pin-up.

Sushmita Sen: Isn’t it [...]

The one safety valve on a man who goes with too many women is the fact that there are a that many vindictive/resentful/unsure-about-feeling women to ally with.
I’m reminded of a conversation from Fables: The Mean Seasons between Cinderalla, Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) and Snow White that goes,
We’re like an annual meeting of his parole board, [...]

There are men who look good with facial hair. Greek gods walk in our midst after all.

Then there are those who’re passably nice looking and on whom the facial fuzz can act like the proverbial Fairy Godmother (oh okay, magic potion a la Shrek) completely transforming their faces into something else altogether!

Of course every once [...]

Yes, I do check out other women! Do you wonder why?
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While on a nostalgia trip about this bunch, here’s another nugget.
It was the happiest of times and the whackiest of times. My birthday at an age when there were still ‘landmark year’ birthdays. The rowdy bunch, quite uncharacteristically nice, decided to throw me a party and do everything themselves. So here I was at 11 [...]

Much as I hate forwards, I really have to recycle this joke here. I don’t think there can be enough laughs to this one!
A professor of mathematics sent a fax to his wife:
Dear Wife:
You must realize that you are 54 years old and I have certain needs which you are no longer able to satisfy. [...]

Maybe it isn’t a bad thing that men run the world. At least there are just two ways it can go – bad or worse.

Like every good Mumbaiker, I spend about an hour and half commuting to work each morning. Then I perch on my chair, waiting for my colleague to come in, about 10 minutes later. She switches on her computer, rearranges her desk and gives me a little nod in the direction of the door. And we [...]