jeans... part 2

so continuing from my previous 'jean' blog... it appears that it hasn't been a temporary condition :(
I'm practically staring at other people's jeans design. crap... I'm becoming a jean-freak... wonder if there's a treatment center for that, or a patch. Damn you person who did this to me... you know who you are :)

I bought a few fitted jeans from India. Spykar's the brand... and they rock!! 'Numero Uno' sucked fitting wise... and I didn't get chance to try 'Flying Machine'. Gotta say, these Indian brand names sound very cool... specially 'Flying Machine'...

I've gotten comments that I look like a different person... and my response is usually... 'super', but I'm still fond of my 'old' jeans, so, after weeks and weeks of careful thinking/planning, hiring a few analysts... We came up with a game plan... I'll wear my 'old' jeans on weekdays & 'cool' jeans on weekend :) problem solved.

Few interesting things I noticed regarding shopping in India...
a) Whenever I entered a speciality store and looked at the merchandise (i.e. jeans), somebody will immediately ask me if I need help. When I said 'no', they stayed close.. waiting for me... I never quite figured out why?

b) All jeans length are standard size, so after you select a jean to purchase, you have to get it altered (i.e. tailored) to fit your size. Not sure what the rational is for not having length size like they do waist... eh.. go fig...

Can't believe I blog about jeans...

a vegetastic 2 months...

One day, I randomly decided to be a vegetarian for two months before my trip to india.

I wasn't trying to make a statement against the cruelty to animals like PETA or influenced by the few vegetarians around me. I just wanted to see what it's like being vegetarian for a temporary period of time.
Also, I wondered, can I actually live without eating meat?

The duration of 2 months was quite arbitrary. When I thought of this experiment, visiting India was 2 months away, and there was no way I was going to stay veg in India. The Kaathi Rolls are just too good. Those & the Chicken Momos were to die for.

It was difficult to visit my favorite eating places. Chillis, On-The-Border, Wahoos... I just couldn't find the right veg dish for me. The food was bland at best. But it did turn out to be a good conversation piece... a lot of my colleagues had a look of disbelief whenever I told them that I became a vegetarian. One asked, 'why would you do that to yourself?', another proudly stated 'I am a meatatarian, I have to have meat with every meal.'

I did end up finding a great vegan place close to my work. One very cool thing was that they tried to make a few of their dishes 'look/taste like meat', with the chewiness, and the texture, etc. Great food, will visit again.

It was definitely a vegetastic experience, and I am thinking of doing it again, someday...

alligatoring...

I was in India earlier this month on vacation... came back a few days ago. Apart from attending the wedding and being lambasted w/ a single statement which gradually became a unified theme, I spent a great deal of time 'alligatoring'.

Now, I am not sure if this is a popular word in India, certainly not here. The free dictionary, which was the first google result, states 'The formation of cracks on the surface of paint layers'. Definitely not something I did in India.

First heard it from my cousin, my sense is that it means 'lying down, doing nothing important'. For example, I spent a great time alligatoring, and watching cricket and checking out random music videos.

Correct me if I am wrong, but it's catchy; it definitely has a nice ring to it. I'll try using it on a regular basis. So if I use the word and you didn't know what it means, I'll chuck something at you :)

jeans jeans everywhere...

I went jeans shopping with a couple of friends yesterday (apparently, there is such a thing as jeans shopping).

background:
for me, jeans are jeans, I wear then and not care much about what they look like apart from the color.


So it turns out that the jeans I wear on a regular basis lack style, actually, quoting my friend here "your jeans don't even have a style"

We go to Guess showroom and she picks out 3 jeans for me to try on. Apart from jeans looking 'different' (that's the only word I can think off to describe them), I didn't really see how they were any better then my currently owned jeans.

So I tried one on and showed it to my friends, both remarked that I looked much better, one oohed & ahhed; I still couldn't really figure out what the big deal was, but was told that since I wear crappy jeans, I wouldn't really know what good jeans are.

I looked at the price and said "are you kidding me... these jeans are $98", my friend replied "at least they are not $120, which I thought they would be" (mind boggling response, considering I've never spent more than $30-$40)

In the end of that day, I saw the subtle difference between jeans. Didn't buy them then, sometime in the near future.

So the next day, i.e. today, I was having lunch w/ friends (diff from the jeans group) and told them about my jeans episode. When we were standing in line, I started NOTICING other people's jeans, I groaned!! and said to my friends... "wtf, I'm looking at other people's jeans... no more talking about jeans"

aargh... hopefully, this is a temporary condition...

feel sooooo old...

I went to lunch w/ my colleagues... all in their mid 30s and above... they talked about the people/messages and the nuances of facebook. Since I don't have a facebook account yet (feels like societal pressure, everybody has it), I couldn't contribute to it.

One of my colleagues then said, and I paraphrase here...
'this guy is the youngest in our team and he doesn't have facebook account, he probably reads a "wall street journal", & smokes a pipe.'

another colleague added
'probably has a twead jacket in his car, and sips scotch'

I laughed out loud, and then added, 'wow, you guys are pretty damn close'

then said to myself, "crap, these guys are pretty damn close" :)

DUK -- google english -> hindi translator

DUK-- Short for "Did u Know", will try to incorporate this abbreviation into new stuff I find very interesting.

so there is a english to hindi translator by google. pretty cool,
check it out

not exact but good enough :)

akal badi yaa bhainse

when growing up, the phrase denoted in the title, was used quite frequently to prove some random point, (translation: which is bigger, your mind, or a buffalo),

how the hell one came up w/ comparing these two entities is beyond me.

at that time, everybody always said that akal (mind) is bigger...

but now, if one thinks more about it, one can argue, that technically, bhainse (buffalo) is bigger, just from the sheer size.

but a friend of mind had an even more compelling argument, bhainse also has a mind, so ofcourse bhainse is bigger :)