Once upon a time, in a faraway neighbourhood, there lived an evil witch. The witch had proclaimed herself the Mistress and Ruler of everything in a 100m (or was it a kilometer) radius of her Castle. Her children having left home and boredom of old age kicking in, she only had for hobby to nose around in her “subjects” family and personal matters, reveling in creating rifts between members of a same family or discord within the whole community. However, the evil hag was not satisfied! There existed a small household in the county that refused to yield to the nosiness of the witch, going about their everyday-life peacefully and quietly.
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Tags: anger, family

The Lady shines over her subjects

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Tags: Death, Fish, Fishy, Luck

The wedding season has started again, or maybe it never ended. My cousin is getting married this weekend, and the whole thing has just been turned into a fashion thing. I have to admit, I am not really a fan of clothes and all; I prefer to have comfortable ones rather than really trendy ones. But CLOTHES are a different matter for my mother; she will practically die if she doesn’t buy something in, let’s say, a week (probably why my closet is full of clothes which I have never even worn in my whole life). And weddings make up the perfect excuse for buying more clothes.

Sure enough, for the past month, all I remember doing really is shopping, lots of shopping, which I don’t really mind if shoes are involved (what is it about women and shoes, you don’t want to know), but just remembering the whole range of clothes and jewellery and accessories I had to review makes me feel dizzy. Traditional, formal, casual, you name it and I’ve seen it. My mother wanted to wear blue for the wedding and she ended up with like 5 dresses with practically all shades, from light blue to blue-green, not counting the ones I forced her not to take with us. Keep reading…

Tags: clothes, fashion, weddings

Half of June has come and gone already, swiped in an instant for all I recall was spending nearly all my time at the bank, trying to clean up the mess these stupid fools called bankers made. I didn’t even realize so much time had passed until my aunt called saying she went to buy my cousin a birthday gift, for her birthday was Sunday (21st June), which coincides with the World Music Day. It really felt weird to know that I wasted more than 3 weeks, going to the bank practically everyday, only to find that I had to go back again the next day because of yet another complication.

I can’t say that I’m not glad that the dark days are finally over, and that the sun is shining as brightly as ever in my little realm, an expression rarely used by the weatherman these days. Sure enough, while my focus has not really been on the calendar, I simply couldn’t ignore the not-so-subtle hints the weather has been giving us Mauritians recently: that winter had finally arrived. Of course, as frivolous as the wind and sunshine could be, we could hardly expect the wintry weather to come as expected, in April as it always did. Instead, after a foretaste of what it would be like during the first week of May, we spent most of the time waiting for the real thing while bathing in heat, almost rivaling with summer, but not quite; the days were growing shorter but it got no colder. Keep reading…

Tags: banks, fish winter, parents, Weather

… in my case, old habits make it harder.

I’ve always abhorred disliked keeping in touch with people… for some reason, especially with those whom I can meet pretty easily. While most of my friends and cousins have come to accept that fact, most people find it strange and rather unwelcoming that I often disappear without any trace and then suddenly reappear as if nothing has happened. Just like these few weeks that have just passed… during which I was practically cut off from the whole world, no phone calls, no meetings, no chatting, no nothing. I can’t even remember the last time I logged on MSN to have a chat with my friends. It’s just that sometimes I seek the silence and stillness that life can offer me, to the detriment of other things that I actually enjoy doing…

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Not the movie. My life these past few days, along with other stuffs as well, and it isn’t over yet. It’s amazing how in a few seconds, everything changes completely, from the slow lane to the fast track. One second, I was lying on the couch, watching a movie and the other, I was moving from place to place, with my bag of clothes and laptop as company.

While I really have fun during this holiday from the holidays, I must admit, there’s no better place than home, especially my room. I literally dropped dead as soon as I came home on Tuesday, because I was so tired. My 4 year-old niece can be a real brat sometimes, and it doesn’t help she is pampered by everyone, being the youngest one of the family, and the only one from her generation… I wonder what she is going to do when my nephew is going to be born in June. It could be a niece as well, of course, but… we really are rooting for a baby boy this time, it gets tiring to only see girls in the family. Keep reading…

Just a word of caution before panicking. When you receive a mail with the title “July 22nd 2009 another Tsunami…‏”, better delete it because it’s just one bad timed joke totally off season for April fool’s day

Here’s the message:

Hi,
Please be more cautious as the warnings has been given.

Attached a photo for you.

I just received this message from a colleague. I don’t know the source of the message; I also don’t know the credibility of the content, but just beware.

Below is the content on the message:

“Hello there. I just wanted 2 let you know that please stay away from the beaches all around in the month of July. There is a prediction that there will be another tsunami hitting on July 22^nd. It is also when there will be sun eclipse. Predicted that it is going 2 be really bad and countries like Malaysia (Sabah & Sarawak), Singapore, Maldives, Australia, Mauritius, Si Lanka, India, Indonesia, Philippines are going 2 be badly hit. Please try and stay away from the beaches in July. Better 2 be safe than sorry. Please pass the word around. Please also pray for all beings.”

Thanks and have a nice day.
Bless you~

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Tags: Chinese Checkers, Games

My mom’s old cookery book in front of me, I find myself turning the pages, wondering if I’d ever get to try the recipes someday. I’m still trying to find reasons why she should give me the book, which of course, I have not been able to, yet. I’ve tried all kinds of arguments, I’ve even bought her like dozens of other books, but still no luck. It’s still “hers”… though she’s agreed to let me keep it “for now”.

She has been quite sick this week, yesterday, being the worst of all, so she stayed in bed most of the time. No need to say, of course, there were times I went to bug her, like the time I went to read my book on her bed, then tossing and turning around or the time I carried the cookery book there, wanting to try all the recipes in there. She was much better today, considering how she was shouting and yelling this afternoon, so she decided to make me happy and let me cook… under her vigilant eye… I don’t believe the day she’d trust me with her kitchen will ever come. She is so afraid I’m gonna put fire to the whole house, with good reasons of course; I’m too absent-minded…

Well, the menu for today was decided: I’d make Moussaka and home-made bread, and Chocolate Mousse for dessert. As much as I’d like to post the recipes, I’m afraid you’ll just have to find it online. I changed some part of the recipes, to fit it to my own “needs” and have no idea what I did. I don’t want anyone to ask if it were edible, that would just be the same as insulting me. I happen to be a very good cook, a lazy one, yes, but a good one. Though today’s meal wasn’t what I expected. My tomatoes messed up a bit, with all it’s water not drying up, and I had to drain all of it and put it in the oven again. Keep reading…

Tags: Bonding, Cooking

I woke to the beautiful sound of rain splashing against my window. The dim light piercing through my layers of curtains, I couldn’t know if it were still early or if it were due to the grey sky all around the place. It would seem my daylights savings button hasn’t been switched off yet, for I woke up way early than I was supposed to, only to be welcomed by a crappy weather which made you wish you never got up.

Of course, I couldn’t. I had to go get my leaving certificate at school today, along with Sayuka, and just seeing this weather was simply depressing. I love the rain when I’m inside the house, warm and sleepy, not when I’m walking around, getting soaked with each step I take. On the bright side, I managed to repair my broken umbrella, though I’m not sure the red thread on the blue cloth is really ‘in’, not that I care really.

The rest of the day went by, quite smoothly, not that the weather had anything to do to lighten my mood. We managed to get the certificate; I thought they were going to tell us to come by later, especially when the clerk made a weird face on hearing our names. However, I cannot explain how I got better punctually remarks than Sayuka, when I was late almost everyday for two years. That’s yet another mystery which, I think, will never be solved.

The rest of the day was spent in talking, talking, talking; well, our usual routine. We started planning the slumber party, for which, we haven’t got the permission yet. Or the camping plan, for which… again, we haven’t got the permission yet. Nothing wrong in doing that, you never know what is going to happen next.

I forgot to mention the long chat about board games and playing cards… or euh… my cheating mania. Let’s not go there though, that’s a dangerous path to take…. I wonder when I’ll get to play those with my friends, I cannot really play at home because there’s not really anyone who has time for that. We should really have that slumber party…

Tags: Rants, Weather