Saturday, December 31, 2005

End-of-the-year tag

I don’t know what all the fuss about doing tags is. But I love it! So here’s one to end the year with.

Lines from the first post I made every month in the past year.

January - "Rahul Saxena, you are MY Indian Idol." *Damn you, stupid Indian public!*
(When my favourite contestant on Indian Idol lost.)

February - Despite being a huge Pringles-lover, I guess IntelliFood is just not for me!
(When Pringles came out with this crazy new concept of printing questions and answers on their chips!!!)

March - I want him SO BAD!!!
(Self-explanatory.)

April - I love my dad.
(Period.)

May - Call me racist, but there has to be a way to shut the Chinese up!
(I’m thinking guns?!?)

June - If something doesn’t seem beautiful, the first question you must ask yourself is why you think it’s not beautiful. You will soon realize that there is, in fact, no reason at all.
(Profound!)

July – It’s 9 pm. And the sun hasn’t set yet.
(Ms. V the weathergirl?)

August –

(No points for guessing some of the words from the thousand this picture speaks.)

September – My, my! My wandering eyes...
(**Censored**)

October – 18th September

November - I could tell from the minute I woke up,
It's gonna be a lonely lonely lonely lonely day

(Lyrics from the song “Lonely Day” by Phantom Planet.)

December – A Garfield a day makes me happy and gay

The End.
Of this post.
And 2005.

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Coming Soon on Vat Iz Dis Sheit...

2 very bitchy posts...

Who are the victims this time?
Have the Chinese yet again done something to piss Ms. V off?
Or is dial-up really getting to her?
Only time will tell.

Watch this space for four letter words and other non-offensive kid-friendly language.

Up next...
The end-of-the-year tag

Friday, December 23, 2005

Oh-man!

A gazillion blog posts floating around in my head.
One dial-up internet connection.
Welcome to Oman.

I'm guessing life can only get better?!?

Friday, December 16, 2005

Stephan Pastis is a cool guy!

So, I was spending some time on Scott’s blog, because that’s the kind of thing I do when I should be studying for an exam. By Scott, I mean Scott Adams, of course. He recommended checking out a comic called “Pearls Before Swine”. I took his advice, and I wasn't disappointed. Of course, as someone who churns out one of the best comics today, he's obviously going to have good taste in humour.

Here’s the strip that was featured on Scott’s blog.


Now, before I move on, I’ve got some business to attend to first.

Dear Stephan,

Hi. First of all, I want to tell you how much I love your comic Pearls Before Swine. I LOVE IT!

Okay, moving on. I’m sure Scott took your permission to have the strip up on his blog. And even if he didn’t, I’m sure you’re not going to mind that kind of recommendation. Since Scott and I aren’t exactly in the same league, I’m aware that there are a LOT of copyright issues I could get into MAJOR trouble with. But I’m hoping you won’t make a big deal of it. After all, even the title of this post knows that Stephan Pastis is a cool guy!


In my defense, I would like to say that if it hadn’t been for Scott, I would have never read your comic. So, if you’re looking to cause trouble, you might want to hold him responsible first. Plus, he’s so much richer than I am. I’m only a student who has nothing but a blog to her name. And I read your comics during my spare time. I’m also not majoring in Computer Science, so it’s not like I’m going to make a lot of money in the future either.


Keeping with the spirit of Christmas, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind a poor soul like me using your comic to spread a little joy around this season. Merry Christmas to you too, Stephan. You’re a cool guy!


Yours fan(w)ningly,

Ms. V


Anyway, if you liked the strip above, read on and check out 10 of my favourites. For having read only 30 of them, I think that's pretty awesome. Well, we all now know that Stephan Pastis is a cool guy!

What I like most about this strip are the characters. For one, they're all animals. And that's a plus. I love Garfield. And even in Dilbert, my favourite characters are Dogbert, Catbert, Ratbert, and now, Sourpuss! I think animals make great comics. Plus, the dialogue is simple, and the artwork is cute! I feel like I know a person that's exactly like every character in this comic. (Vibes, you listening?)











And since I always love saving the best for last...



Personally, for me, this one takes the cake!!!


And that's the end of this post. I guess there's nothing left to say rather than Stephan Pastis is a cool guy!

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

A reality show doesn't get any more real than this!!!

Update 1:

The Law exam sucked like a new born baby. Btw, I'd like to know what people think about this simile.
(Nirmal, rings a bell???)

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COMING SOON...

"3 days, 3 exams, 1 girl. Will Ms. V survive? Find out, only on Vat Iz Dis Sheit."

***Watch this space for more details.***

Monday, December 12, 2005

Real Bloggers

Since it’s finals’ week, I’m not feeling too creative. I don’t think I can come up with anything to blog about, unless and until someone pisses me off again, which is quite likely since I feel like an atom that’s about to spit out its neutrons. So, I thought that this would be a good time to introduce you to some of my blogger friends; bloggers whom I have spent some quality physical time with in my life. I’ll give some of you a moment to snicker.

Alright then. Here they are. Treat them well, or face my wrath!

  • The Big 'S' – Here’s a smart guy who I studied with back in school. I didn’t spend a lot of time with him, but liked him nevertheless. Now, he’s at IIT Rourkee and he blogs to keep himself sane, I guess. Don’t ask me what the title of his blog means. People like him are not part of my regular crowd ;)

  • Tar – This is my wonderful cousin. She is an amazing writer, and an even more amazing poet. She’s one of those few people left who truly has a heart of gold. Her laughter is contagious, to say the least! Read her, love her.

  • The Bitch – If you thought I was bad, then you haven’t seen the worst. If there’s one person who can bitch better than me, then it’s ‘the bitch’ herself. I love her! In fact, I respect her. She will tell you exactly what’s on her mind, and that’s not a good thing. If you’re wearing that green shirt which everyone else thinks looks ugly but they won’t tell you, she won’t tell you either. She’ll just throw up on you and then expect you to be grateful to her for giving you a valid reason to change. Read her only if you can handle bitchiness at its peak.

  • A.D. – My buddy, my bodyguard and my first crush ever. Anyone who messes with me is messing with him. And you don’t want to mess with him, because when one has been held at knifepoint, gunpoint etc, he knows no fear. No, that’s not the kind of crowd he hangs out with. Since he’s bravely handled every hurdle life has thrown his way, he recently decided to take up the challenge of maintaining a blog. He’s surprised me by being a much better writer than I thought he would be.

  • Shashwat - Honesty at its best. It's so nice to see a guy speak from the heart once in a while. Most people don't get him, but that's not his fault. A fellow scorpion and a brother-like figure to me. One good guy.

There are a couple of other people I know who blog, but they’re not regular off late. As and when they come alive, I shall bring them to your notice.

Special Mention:

Mona – I don’t know who she is. But I like her. We comment on each other’s blogs, though not that regularly. I think we both follow each other’s blogs quite religiously though, except during times like when I lost my dad and when she got married. We’re even on each other’s MSN lists but we’ve never chatted! Yet I feel like I know her. There’s something about her that is believable and genuine. I don’t know if I’ll ever get a chance to go to Dubai again because of my situation, but if I do, I would love to meet her.

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Don’t touch my gagariya!

Dear insensitive nincompoopic apartment-building mate,

Hi. I know you must have had a busy day. We all do. We live in a busy busy world, don’t we? We’re both equally as busy, I guess, since we both chose to do our laundry rather late on a Thursday evening. Or we’re both equally as lazy, since we both chose to leave our laundry lying in a pile at home, till we had done two rounds with our clothes and u-gees already and were frankly just beginning to stink. Whatever may be the real reason, it’s in our best interests to pretend that we are indeed two very busy individuals.

Now, since we have established the fact that we are indeed busy, this means that neither you nor I have even an extra minute to spare. So I must say that I was rather shocked to see my clothes lying on the table in the laundry room when I’d come to pick them up. Because according to my watch, I was 30 seconds late to come collect my laundry. I must say that I’m rather impressed that you were able to dump my clothes on the table AND fill in two dryers worth of clothes within 30 seconds. Although, I find it rather disturbing that you hadn’t used the washer before you put your clothes to dry. Maybe they were wet already? Anyway, it probably has something to do with you being very busy. To each his own, I say, though clothes in the washer might have given me a slight hint that someone was waiting to use the very dryer I was using after I was done. After all, I’ve always been in a situation where somebody uses none of the washers, but wants to use both the dryers. But 30 seconds is not a long time to ask for, in my humble opinion. Because I, being as busy as I am, was able to make it to the laundry room just 30 seconds after the drying cycle was over. In fact, it takes 30 seconds from my apartment door to the laundry room.

That is why I must admit that I’m rather ticked off. But life is all about learning lessons. I learned one today myself – “to slow down”. So, that’s exactly what I did. I decided to take a break for a good long hour. Coincidentally, a drying cycle takes an hour too. So, what did I do with that time? Well, I watched some TV and waited for your drying cycle to get over. And then, I made sure I was in the laundry room 30 seconds later, because that’s how much time you gave me, didn’t you? Since you weren’t around, I assumed that you’d be okay with your clothes being dumped onto the table as well. After all, it’s really not that big a deal to have clean dry clothes dumped onto a dirty table after someone’s invested about 2 hours of time out of a busy schedule just to do laundry, right?

Yeah, that’s what I thought. It sucks! So don’t you dare touch my clothes next time round, get it? “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”, said Alexander Dumas. Great writer, don’t you think? Probably not, since you didn’t think to wait at least a minute or two before you did something as senseless as dump my clean, beautifully-scented clothes onto a dirty table. In fact, I’m almost confident that you didn’t wait for my drying cycle to be over with. Because by the time you’d filled the empty dryer with your mysteriously wet clothes, I’d have been there to empty out my dryer so that you’d have been able to use that one as well too. But, I must say, that is one mysteriously large pile of wet clothes though! Anyway, all’s well that ends well. Here’s hoping you learnt your lesson for today.

Oh, and one more thing: Give me back my bra, you sick pervert!

Yours revengefully,
Miss Take it surely wasn’t

Monday, December 05, 2005

A Garfield a day makes me happy and gay

I don't know if I'm allowed to do this. But if I'm not, then I'm sorry Jim. I love you! I love Garfield. And I HATE CATS! That makes you a genius!!!


Check out the pear instead of the apple. C-U-T-E!