To all the girls I’ve loved before…..
Last evening, on the way home from work, I picked up a friend – Preeti, and a friend of hers – Neha, and we all came over to our place. Preeti is a recently acquired friend – she and her husband, Gaurav, moved into the flat next to our previous place just a month before we moved out to our current residence. Confusing? Suffice to say – Preeti & Gaurav are our “ex-neighbours” – a fact we feel really bad about since we all get along like a house on fire!
Coming back to the original point – we ‘girls’ came home, and although I didn’t know Neha from before, we had a blast. It reminded me of all the “night-spends” at my bestest friend’s home (Ansu, I really REALLY miss you), the crazy all-nighters at Malu’s place, and the fun “hanging out” with Shibani & Indu! There are so many more girl-friends that I miss…..Ashwini, Shonali, Charu, Rabia, Deepa….. not to forget all the childhood friends whom I have long lost touch with!!!!
It’s just different chatting with the girls – I can’t explain it, but it is! A guy just canNOT understand the seriousness of a bad hair day….. or the fact that “gossiping” about the neighbors is not unhealthy – it’s a pick-me-up. And how can one explain that dealing with the maids is equivalent (in our heads) to sending a man to the moon. And YES, there IS a conspiracy about the ‘maid’ theory as well – did the US really put a man on the moon? Did the maid’s mother’s uncle’s son’s wife’s brother really die for the 3rd time in a month, for which she just HAD to take a day off? Hysteria is something that we have worked hard to perfect, it is not PMS!!!!
Despite the fact that i love my husband & acknowledge that he's a really great guy, I do wish he was a girl sometimes (ouch!!!)
Coming back to the original point – we ‘girls’ came home, and although I didn’t know Neha from before, we had a blast. It reminded me of all the “night-spends” at my bestest friend’s home (Ansu, I really REALLY miss you), the crazy all-nighters at Malu’s place, and the fun “hanging out” with Shibani & Indu! There are so many more girl-friends that I miss…..Ashwini, Shonali, Charu, Rabia, Deepa….. not to forget all the childhood friends whom I have long lost touch with!!!!
It’s just different chatting with the girls – I can’t explain it, but it is! A guy just canNOT understand the seriousness of a bad hair day….. or the fact that “gossiping” about the neighbors is not unhealthy – it’s a pick-me-up. And how can one explain that dealing with the maids is equivalent (in our heads) to sending a man to the moon. And YES, there IS a conspiracy about the ‘maid’ theory as well – did the US really put a man on the moon? Did the maid’s mother’s uncle’s son’s wife’s brother really die for the 3rd time in a month, for which she just HAD to take a day off? Hysteria is something that we have worked hard to perfect, it is not PMS!!!!
Despite the fact that i love my husband & acknowledge that he's a really great guy, I do wish he was a girl sometimes (ouch!!!)
posted by Ambica | 9:21 AM
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Indian girl's one-rupee suicide
Children in a village school in Andhra Pradesh attending their morning assembly
Half of India's children are malnourished, a UN report says
A 12-year-old Indian girl committed suicide after her mother told her she could not afford one rupee - two US cents - for a school meal.
Sania Khatun lived with her mother in a village north of Calcutta under a tarpaulin sheet provided by the state.
Sania normally ate nothing at school but on Friday saw classmates eating rice and asked for one rupee.
Her mother scolded her and when she returned from work found her daughter hanged from the ceiling with a sari.
"She wanted just one rupee... but her mother could not give her the money due to poverty," government official Nakul Chandran Mahato told the Reuters agency.
'Snapped'
The mother, Jainab Bewar, is a widow who works as a maid in the village of Paraspur, 200km (125 miles) north of Calcutta.
She normally fed her daughter with food she could get from the houses she worked in.
India's Telegraph newspaper said Sania was tempted by the sight of classmates eating puffed rice and oil cakes.
Ms Bewar told the newspaper: "I did not give her the money as I did not have it. I snapped at her when she insisted on it."
She and her sons never earn more than $13 a month combined, she says.
India has seen unprecedented economic growth in recent years but many remain untouched by the improvements.
A recent UN report said half of India's children were still malnourished.
may be your maid lied
tusk tusk
Its possible that if your hubby happened to be a girl, things would have been different ;-)
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