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August 30 Gustav, the newest kid on the hurricane blockTill now, I had only heard about hurricanes. Now, I might get to see one! Gustav, the latest tropical storm, is soon gonna hit us after devastating Louisiana, Cuba, New Orleans, and others. I'm just hoping that people stay safe this time as they've already planned the evacuation. Only the people who've face the devastating Rita and Katrina hurricanes can feel the anxiety of a new one. People who've just gotten back together after having faced Rita/Katrina are now again readying to face Gustav. Gustav has hit on the third anniversary of the hurricane Katrina! Dunno how much impact Gustav will have on Houston and other cities! We canceled our long weekend holiday plans to Corpus Christi too. The latest is that it has become Category 4 hurricane. I just hope that Gustav either changes its route or becomes less severe before it hits the land. God please take care of everyone! August 28 Cute thingsToday morning, before leaving for work, Nitin gave me a 1 dollar coin, and asked me to get a Houston Chronicle for myself from downstairs (nothing great but the way he said it was cute!)
 ! The kid inside me got into action and I told him that it costs only 50 cents... you've given me extra!  He said that the thing is gonna give 50 cents back to me. I said but how am i gonna figure out where to insert the money!!  He said that it's not a problem and he'd go with me in the eve to get the newspaper.  I was like.. ok Dad!  Doesn't make sense, right?
 But, to me, it felt as if my dad's given me a dollar to buy some sweets worth 50 cents, and instructed me to take the 50 cents back from the shopkeeper! Cute things like this do make our day at times! Works for me at least!
 August 27 happinessI'm amazed at the amount of happiness that I get after cooking a great meal for some great people who find the food great and say great words about it!
I even get a weird sense of happiness after I've cleaned the kitchen and it looks spic-and-span.  Okay now these are not "housewifeish" words/feelings! Maybe I am now getting to feel whatever I couldn't feel earlier because of the work-related thoughts that used to cloud my mind.
 BTW, I've been solving a whole lot of crosswords these days. I feel as if I've become a crossword maniac!
Okay now this doesn't mean that I have all the time in the world.  Getting a decent score in some of the kiddish crosswords also makes me happy like a kid! And later, I wonder about the big deal I thought it was.  But then, the good thing is that it makes me happy, whatever kinda happiness it is and wherever it originates from.  August 25 yawn!it's almost midnight
the clock is ticking tock
as it's getting ready to strike 12
it's almost midnight
and my fingers are still tapping tap
on the sleepy keyboard
it's almost midnight
and my eyes are flapping flap
trying to stay open
three minutes to go
what am i up to
when i know where i need to go
two minutes to go
i let go another yawn
get up man!
ok so here i go
good night
sleep tight.. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
 August 20 tag magso here I am, doing yet another tag. not bad for a time pass!
The rules of this tag are as follows:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (bold + italics means that i've read some and intend to read some more) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - 13 Catch 22 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad92 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo phew!! this is crazy! i haven't even heard about some of the books. need to brush up my "bookish" knowledge!
August 18 ...the soft murmur of the AC
and not-so-soft murmur of the refrigerator
remind me
that i'm not alone
my noisy friends always make sure
that i stay away from the silence
the silence that haunts
and they also make sure
that i enjoy the silence
the silence that is peaceful
and lets me sleep
almost uninterrupted
August 13 housewifishness!When I used to work (that sounds like once upon a time!!
), I always used to think how good a life without work (the work in office) will be! No stress, no tension, sleep anytime, and do whatever you want. Now that I don't have to go to work anymore, I wonder how the females spend time as house wives. How much of blogging, chatting, and surfing can you do in a day? How much of cooking/cleaning can you do? How many books can you read?
But then, it's not so difficult as well. The funny part is that I used to crave for sleep earlier, and now that I have time to sleep, I can't!!
I wonder why our body behaves stupid at times!
 What do you do when you get no sleep in the night and don't feel like sleeping during the day?
Yoga, exercise, meditation... no no no! They don't work all the time!
August 11 Wohoooo!Woohoo! I've finally reached Houston and it feels great with Nitin after a break of 2 months!
Since a month, I had only been travelling and meeting people. Time for a break now!
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