I went to see a very sad play yesterday. By sad I don't mean opposite of happy (though it was by no means happy) but stark, truthful and desolate. Called Waiting it was written by Victoria Brittain and based on the women living in the UK whose husbands had been falsely accused of terrorism and sent to Guantanamo Bay without any charges brought ( Read more... )

Never before have I been this busy. Seriously - it doesn't help that I am enjoying what I am doing, otherwise I really wouldn't work this hard. But despite that, I am actually finding more time to do the things that I like that have nothing to do with work. And unashamedly one of those things is watching television. I am not overweight, I love ( Read more... )

Hello all! I have fallen in love. Sadly, i don't think he feels the same:


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Head is killing me right now. Woke up with it like that. Anyhoo thought I would do this and it might take my mind of the pain (did I just write a pun there? Without thinking about it? Maybe headaches are a blessing in disguise. Though from the state of that pun, I doubt it.)

Yesterday was the last chance to see all the elephants before they are ( Read more... )

I'm sorry for my lack of posts - there will be excuses galore soon, but until then here is something else I wrote.

In the 1970’s, Indian cinema truly took a turn for the better. Parveen Babi and Zeenat Aman, two unforgettable Bollywood actresses took to the screen and changed the way Indian women were perceived, both at home and abroad. They became ( Read more... )

I AM VERY EXCITED RIGHT NOW!!!

READ IT HERE!!!

I went to my first fashion show on Friday. At the V&A Museum it was called Fashion in Motion: Osman, Osman being the designer. His work was and is amazing. The below pictures were all taken by a friend who came with me. And this was work!


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I GOT IT!!!

I love life. It's wonderful. Yesterday while I lay in an exhausted and pain - filled heap, Ma came home with a huge grin on her face. Her colleague's daughter is an usher and musician at the Palladium Theatre in Oxford Circus where they are currently showing Sister Act. Guess what she had tickets to go see last night? SISTER ACT!

I can't say that my ( Read more... )

Talking about tthe weather is supposed to be the fallback of the conversationally challenged. Well guess what? The weather has been glorious here! We got sunshine and warm days and birds and butterflies. And I am loving it. Even though today was spent at work where it was a hot house. I work in a very Asian Indian area and for some reason some ( Read more... )