We hosted lunch for our maama today.Its some traditional brother-sister ritual! Since mom was planning a relatively extensive menu for lunch,i ended up having breakfast @ local dosa center. Barring the unfortunate incident of a missing chutney packet,the takeaway was tasty.
Noon came and as this lazy bones was trying to shake off the drowsiness, maama,maami and bhayya arrived,dot on time or a little early.Heck. And then began the best sound of my life six voices all talking at once ,possibly about 4 different topics. I love this part where everyones trying to figure out who is talking to them and about what! Since we still had an hour to spend before lunch,gup chup began to flourish!With a little aid from the cable network, everything from Diwali cracker local black market to the cultural diversity of Paris was discussed. After a healthy number of reviews were exchanged about the latest movies,eateries and e-shopping all eyes were on the idiot box.Poor thing under the pressure of expectation ended up showing only repeat telecasts!!..ah the pressure to perform is damaging. We had the ask of choosing between watching POTC-2again or tolerating Mi3, Jack sparrow won! (Tom Cruise+ Repetitive style* of JJ had to lose one a sunday!). Captain Jack and the rest of crew (including the mutant octopus) provided a comforting background score.
The meet was going great, i got know of good places to but pirated dvd's and finally a place to have royal faluda (I badly miss faluda at shalimar!). We got to share the diwali rangoli pics and tales from work.Yeah the usual. It starts with my cousin "my boss is crazy",me going "wait till you hear of mine "and then my dad,maama saying you kids think you have to complain..."we have war wounds"
The lunch was accompanied by a new wave of queries about food and discount on retail...well we got to cash in on diwali ..who doesn't? "Is the non-stick pan's 20% discount better than getting free Kadai?" or "how the hell your milk don't get spilt while making the sweet?"
Thankfully we had this wonderful movie on air, which amazingly all the parents present seem to admire like hell (and for once me and my cousin had to shut up since we were clueless)
Apparently come september is a big hit with our folks. We can't talk at the start because the music accompanying the titles is a hit (and it only comes that once).After that we voluntarily waived our rights to talk, the movie was lovely! Man i found a worthwhile company to Gregory Pck,Rock Hudson.*
Hudson is beyond good looking,he is charming .Add to that his splendid voice! The commercial breaks brought with it
me"I cant believe i havent seen this guy till now."
Couz"Movie is so funny"
maama:"Is it paris"
me dad"italy?"
mom"what a track"
maami "big hit""
Me"i cant believe you folks never mentioned this ,we talked about roman holiday all the time"
Couz"thats a great movie"
All" ah peck and hepburn :sigh:"
Me"I still cant believe.."
dad cuts it to say "Don't be ridiculous, we introduced him to you ,ice station zebra"
Me"that was him, in my defense i was not even 10 and all i remember of it is i loved it and ice and submarine"
....
And so dined the families in the ambiance of great food,movies and chat *grins*
*If anyone watched even a single episode of alias you would have expected MI3,man Hunt could have been Bristow easily!
** Planning to watch few others of my new "rock"star..any suggestions(Besides come September and ice station zebra)
What better way to end the day than with a plate of chole batura and Corr's Lough Erin Shore *bliss*
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I cant believe this...Not a single word mentioned anywhere about the cricket match :x:x Dont temme ki aap logon ne while surfing through the various channels, didnt bump into the match anywhere :| That too, an Indo-Pak encounter :|:| Or may be the occasion was celebrated on Sat and not on Sun, as it was in some other parts of the country like in my Bombay :D :)
One more thing missing from your post...You mentioned about that a lavish lunch being prepared for your maama and didnt mention a single item after all :( Kya kya bana tha, batao toh sahi :P :)
Good post, nice to know that you had a good time with your loved ones...A pity that most of us have to wait for a Diwali or a Holi to have such get-togethers...Ah anyways, cest la vie... :)
good to know lough erin shore caught up to you. :D
and...really pleased with this post...was much more readable. :P
Walk on...(a deep purple number...try listening to it some time :D )
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