No I am serious - I really am a sorry sap... a total sucker for all the things that guys are stereotypically not meant to be suckers for! Actually, I prefer to see myself as a study in contrasts and call that the fountainhead of my intrigue and allure...hehe!
Anyway, I digress...
So like I was saying, I am a sorry sap! While The Godfather continues to be one of the coolest books that I have ever read, Love Story still manages to get me a little misty-eyed after all these years... My lips curl up in a semi-smile when I watch Notting Hill or Serendipity and I must say that I cheered for Rhett and Scarlett to get together with the same vehement urgency that I usually reserve for cheering John McClane on while he goes all 'yippee-ki-yay, mo-fo' on the bad guys! Hehe. Then there is music - actually let's not even go there... I don't think I ever really found anything particularly likeable in the usual guy-loves - punk/acid rock, anti-establishment heavy metal... I think the closest I got to 'anti-establishment' in my musical likes was Lennon's Working Class Hero!
(Btw, I was recently shocked to hear from a couple of my Amru colleagues that not only had they never heard of the Erich Segal masterpiece, but that they were also unaware that The Godfather was actually a book before it became a cult-classic movie!!! Quel Sacrilege! If any of you who have happened across this post belong to either of those categories, please do yourself a favor, click on the link above and order a copy TODAY! hehe)
Anyway, I digress again...
So like I have been saying all this while, I am but a sorry sap! A sentimental softie... and I am not yet sure if that's such a good thing... While I figure that out, if someone asks, the official line is that this antithesis is an integral part of my charm! ;)
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YES YOU ARE!!
SAP SAP SAP!!
:)
Hahaha! Riiiite! :P
Ofcourse I am right...you admitted to it yourself...*confused*
weirdo!! :P
All Right! Enough is too much! :D I mean, I can maybe let a 'sap sap sap' slide... but no one calls me a 'weirdo' and gets away with it! :P
I would hereby like an opportunity to defend my honor! Mr/Ms. Anonymous, I insist that you show yourself... like Warna ka doodh drink kiya hai toh saamne aa jaayiye!! ;)
As cute as the foreign language sounds...I have to admit that I AM LOST!! :(
Let me explain: WarNa was a very popular brand of milk back home in India. Most of us, especially in Bombay, grew up drinking it. That line itself was a silly play on a popular Bollywood line of yore... where the hero challenges an opponent saying 'if you drank your mom's milk growing up, pick up this gauntlet that I am hereby throwing down'! Hehe :D
Anyhow, let that not distract us from the task at hand - you sir/madam have affronted me... and I hereby call upon you to reveal yourself! :P
Hmmm...Bombay, eh?
It's quite the city I've been told...
Someday, perhaps..... :)
Also, why do you want me to identify myself? Can't we not leave it at, I a certain somebody who chanced upon your "just-about-decent" (:P) blog and posted a few comments. I think I like it like that...it's more magical. :P
It is the best... there is no better! :) New York tries real hard to come real close, but that's about as close as you can get to a whiff of the 'Bombay experience' without actually being IN Bombay! :)
And now who's being 'presumptuous'?! Who said anything about this experience being 'magical'?! :P
And no one's asking you to 'identify' yourself... I just figured that since you appeared to possess an above-par IQ and your comments made you seem mildly intriguing, you could do slightly than 'anonymous'! :P I mean, when you type a comment out, they do allow you the "other" option, you know... Pick an interesting name or something...hehe.
I didn't presume it was "magical" for you...I was merely expressing my own thoughts...
Well in that case, I will continue to be the gentleman that I am, and not urge you to give up on the magic! :D If this is what works for you, more power to you... :P I just hope that you atleast pick a nom de plume that I can use in my replies - calling you "Ms. Anonymous" can get a little painful, you know...hehe
Yeah I think I might like that...a nom de plume....It holds the promise of being more exotic than my plain jane-ish birth name for sure...
So how about you do the honors...Something Indian perhaps...
Hmmm... dare I be so presumptuous as to think I could capture the essence of 'you' in a moniker of my choice!? This seems like a path fraught with many perils... and one that could definitely come back and bite in the hind quarters! hehe :D
Here's what I suggest - why don't you pick out a random non-Indian name which you prefer to your plain jane-ish birth name... and then I could use that as a guideline while I try to think of an Indian equivalent! :P
Hmmm...I guess plain Jane it is then...
Hey - I quite like the name 'Jane'... I mean it is no Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily or Moxie CrimeFighter, but it does have a certain appealing ring to it... a je ne sais quoi, if you will! ;)
Btw, those oddities up above are actual names of celebrity babies!!! Who would have thunk! :O
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