legally blonde!

i just saw Legally blonde tonight. and frankly i loved it! oh elle woods you played out a part of me there. i may not be pretty and i'm not blonde but for some reason i've battled first impressions too long and identifiable lost many. at the stage of life i'm at...graduating and seeing people fly away from my life for their masters and jobs, i so easily identified with her pursuit to keep her life in place and in ways alter her own. i'm off in a fortnight to a new city, a new school and ironically, like elle woods, to the east coast! oh i never imagined it'd fit so well to the night i needed reaffirmation that i mean something to someone somewhere.
today was just another draining fun day of college's last few days. i call draining because it's emotionally so, thanks to the downfall of the structure of a special friendship and in ways the end of the four best years of my young life. it was fun because i try to make it so...squeeze every drop of time and conversation i can from among the best people i've had in my life. oh i'm going to miss them! :'(
as i look ahead i feel fear. i always fear something to come when i wait for it to come. i fear of losing myself in that sweeping tide and i fear of losing people i hold dear. but this too shall pass! so elle woods taught me tonight...that the passion, conviction and self confidence are all the ingredients to a life!

Bheja Curry

CAUTION:: IF YOU ARE A VEGETARIAN AND/OR OF DELICATE NATURE WHERE FOOD IS CONCERNED, PLEASE DO NOT READ FURTHER

ever so often i hear of something-curry, considering how much i love food. i can even say i've eaten most of those curries. Today shall go down in personal history as the day i had brain curry...for real.
let me admit that i had an initial mix of apprehension and excitement when papa ordered bheja curry at Anand's at CP. I'd only wanted to try his, now personally overrated, biryani. So after my eye check up, off we'd gone on our gastronomic hunt!
Enter a plate of bheja curry. At first glance it looks like egg curry...with only egg whites. then pa spoons around and i spot my first perfect piece of brain. i try really hard to keep the biryani i'd had, down. papa urges me to taste it. i break my roti, cover the segment, hold it down and feel it being soft and gooey. i bite into it and i squirm...urgh! i quickly reach for my plate of pudina onions and i gear up to fight this battle of the food. i take another bite, i react less violently. by the next one i'd found a trick to not react to having a brain for lunch...stuff onions in the mouth before chewing, makes it less squishy, gooey and repulsive.
so somehow i got through it. i never could've called myself a foodie if i'd not stood upto the challenge! i had a reputation to keep and keep the fire of exploration alive! but sadly the last bite spoiled it. none of us had realised that the last bite left in the platter for me, when turned over, would be that very perfect piece of a brain complete with it's grooves and hemispherical shape, that can turn any one's (or so i think) stomach over! oh god! i am only glad i didn't throw up!
so after having survived this experience and visibly struggling to not throw up, my very amused father tells me that that curry was a pathetic attempt at bheja curry. it's considered a delicacy and an art when cooked right...more like keema curry than egg curry! damn that cook!
papa did get worried that if such was my reaction to this piece of food, how i'd react to most sea food. yes, it has me worried too. and truthfully i'm most scared of how i'll swallow caviar...they're fish eggs for god's sakes! so much so for my dream of sipping champagne with caviar on the beach in the dimming light of sunset. sigh!