Christmas has come and gone..and i'm one wisdom tooth lesser

Not so much more Christmas jingles, and no more pain from the wisdom tooth. Christmas Day, i had some awesome meals, but i think the turkey in the evening did something to me. Felt the pain in the jaw come back ever so slowly, and by Friday 11am, I called my dentist again saying that I probably need more meds.

Went into the clinic at 5.15pm. At 5.20pm, it was decided that the wisdom tooth would be removed. Had the x-rays done and sat back on the chair.

In less than 5mins the tooth was pulled out at the dentist's yesterday. Not that scary an experience, but i didnt like the whole "bite into the gauze"-for-the-next-hour bit. I was always a bit freaked about needles of local anesthetics syringes being poked into my gum, but it wasnt so bad actually. i didnt even feel it enter, probably he squirted some LA around before pushing the needle in..im not sure,i don't have eyes at the back of my throat.. but it definitely helps to be with a dentist you're comfortable with, and not one of those "insurance-panel" of dentists who just wanna rip you off your money, along with ur gums and teeth.

anyhoo, wisdom came and went this year for me, let's bring on 2009 then. =)

who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

As a way to escape work, I wiki-ed Spongebob Squarepants. And it was such a funny wiki article! Do read it if u've the time, or even if you don't have the time but just want to skive from working =p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants

One hilarious bit:

Although the denizens of Bikini Bottom live under water, they mostly do not float, and gravity usually applies. A flurry of bubbles accompanies actions in many of the episodes to remind the viewer that the setting is underwater. However, the laws of physics in Bikini Bottom change somewhat from time to time, but mostly the water acts like air. For instance, characters can pour a glass of liquid, just as we do above the sea. Bikini Bottom has functional baths, pools, and toilets, and there are lakes and streams. In Battle for Bikini Bottom and a regular beach setting, Goo Lagoon, underwater liquid is referred to as goo. Once, during an episode set in a wilderness area, Patrick questions how a camp fire is possible on the lagoon bottom. As soon as the question is asked, the fire is immediately extinguished with a sizzle.



Gotta love the show!! and Spongebob!
But my most favourite character is in fact the Narrator who speaks with a french (read: fwench) accent: Tom Kenny, who, not surprisingly, is also the narrator for the Powerpuff Girls =) Apparently Jacques Costeau was the inspiration for the Narrator's fwench accent. Awww, i wanna join this industry!!

I can ride my bike with no handlebars -- Flobots

There's this song out called 'Handlebars', and its' honestly one of the creepiest/weirdest/funniest songs I have heard in a long time. Its been a while since I've analysed songs playing on the radio. This isnt the video as such, cos "it's not available in (my) country" =p





This song is amazing. It talks about OUR day, THIS day..we're capable of almost everything the guy from Flobots is singing about.

I love this part of the song:
"Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all healed of their lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust"

Totally gets in your head eh?

Mumbai under attack

Horrific start to Thursday. Finally today (Friday) morning I had a chance to go online and read up on what was happening in Mumbai.

It's India's 9/11. In 2006 my friends and I visited Mumbai and we were mostly hanging out around near the Gateway of India, by the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and had our breakfasts at Cafe Leopold..and all these were under attack. That's were the backpackers hang out in Colaba.

Too many things are happening, too much too soon and too close for comfort. Maybe it's just the fact that we're able to get information so quickly and so comprehensively. But so do the bad guys. And wrong information (how do we know it's 'wrong' anyway) is spreading around like wildfire. And its human nature to stereotype: we generalize and then we demand revenge and we get stuck in the same vicious cycle.

We are the new generation, It should end with us.
Side-track " The end is not a question of if, but when"

So when would it? If we all kept an open mind, and accepted our differences and tolerated one another and exacted justice against the individual rather than the community, when would it stop?

Pain and Project Runway

This was an incredibly fast and painful week. Work was at a all-new level, which was cool..but the pain from my growing wisdom tooth was unimaginable.

I couldnt open my jaw wide enough cos of the pain. It didnt help that I could only have soup and open my jaw so much..and so i was bloody cranky..out of hunger! But oh well..had it checked out on Thursday by Dr Vijayan and he took one quick look and said, YUP..you have an infection..great..So he gave me amoxycillin and paracetamol. The painkillers saved my Thursday night..could eat in peace and could work in more peace. Wish means that I dont have to stick with 'oral fluids' as much now..bring on the mutton!

What was more 'fierce' than the blooming toothache was the finale show of Project Runway Season 4, which i FINALLYYY got to watch last night, on Channel 5 (non-cable channel) of all places! (I know there's Youtube.com, but I never got around to watching it that way!)

I knew that Christian Siriano won ages ago, but I loooveeeddddd his reaction!
When Tim Gunn said "You won!! Can you believe it?" and Christian just so coolly remarked "Yessss"..looveee that guy! He's SO camp! I love the self-confidence that designers just ooozee..He totally reminds me of my friend Mahima from New Delhi, i loove her attitude!

Here's his reaction (first time embedding something on my blog, lets hope it works!)

Chippy's got a sweet parking spot

After 6 months of not taking my car out to work (as a result of having resigned from a roving Sales job to move to a desk-bound one), I've gotten Season Parking near my office building. I did enjoy taking public transport for the past few months, and I especially enjoyed the morning bus-ride to work (more like the 20min nap on the bus, followed by an awesome cup of 80cent coffee from the coffeeshop nearby hehe). Going home, not so much, cos I tend to get motion-sick if i cant fall asleep on the bus..that coupled with my hunger, and im quite a cranky-terror monster once I get home. hehe...Sooooo, the season parking at 80dollars looks poised to work out really well for me.

Except for the ERP charges. So I gotta change my schedule a bit, no more 9am to 630pm, more like 745am to 530pm. Will avoid spending $3.50 every day by just changing my work schedule this way (that comes up to $70 a month!), quite a good incentive to get out early,..the LTA sure thought about the road-tax scheme quite well..damnit, no loopholes..Plus, im hoping the traffic situation would be a lot kinder to me in the morning, during my drive to work.

Anyway, thats just as well, cos if I start work first thing in the morning, i'll have a much longer evening to do all my other random stuff. My work-life balance objective is being met inch-by-inch =)

I'm gonna try it out for the next 6 weeks. Let's see!

Life is too short..to get scared by movies

I met Vani and Basti for dinner last and the conversation moved to movies, like Das Experiment and another Bengali film. I avoided contributing to the conversation cos I know that I get way too affected by movies in general.

My brain tends to get fixated over any movie that I watch, and I tend to replay the scenes in my head over and over again.

I remember how upset I had become after watching Trainspotting. It's a fantastic movie, with a brilliant end, no doubt, but there were certain scenes that still haunt me today. The other movie I watched recently was also brilliant, starring Matt Damon, called The Good Sheperd. The scene were they violently throw the girl out of the plane freaked the hell out of me. (She was pregnant)

I'm very selective over what I watch cos of what it does to me for the days/weeks after that. I love comedies/action movies, cos they purely just entertain. Case in point: Starsky and Hutch =D. Life is too short for me to feel sad. If I want to feel sad, I watch the news. There's more reality there that I can handle, and I dont need it to be put into a movie just so that people in show business can get paid. But of course, I do acknowledge that a film is among the best media (after photographs, in my opinion) for the lay person to learn about issues happening in the world, or at least feel interested about the issues.

I spoke to Johannes after dinner and he told me that he had watched 'Das Experiment' on television last Friday...and he immediately said to me 'that movie isnt for you'. =p

I think I picked up something from my Dad. When I was a teen, I'd ask my Dad to come join us for Jurassic Park etc ..and he'd say 'if it's not a comedy, im not joining..life is too short to feel scared or miserable'. I truly feel for what he says now, and I even imbibe it. These days, horror/thriller movies are strictly off my list, sad films I avoid as much as possible..movies about issues I still watch, but anything that tries to show torture etc, I strictly avoid. Life's too short, just watch the BBC if you want your thrills.

Finally....

After a long time, i'll be having one of those chillax Fridays out. Not gonna go home straight after work, NoSireeee..
I'm going to go for TeaJoy, have brought my games. Looking forward for some laughs and talking-talking.

And after that, going to go watch James Bond-Quantum of Solace with Vani and Basti and his housemate. I havent watched a movie in ages!! I have NO idea what this movie is gonna be about, and i dont really care. I just want some popcorn and icecream (no dinner =p) Looking forward to that!

But I'm REALLY looking forward to Jan 15, 2009. heheheee =D