Of shoes, high heels and stupidity

I had been wanting to buy new shoes for the gym since sooo long that I had gotten tired of waiting for the right shoes to come along. By right shoes, people in different parts in the world may mean shoes that have the right fit or the right support at the heels or the right colour or brand. However, in my part of the world which comprises of just me, I mean a pair of shoes that are miraculously at sale for just 30 bucks. Ya, I know I am cheap like that. It goes without saying that I did not find any such miracles lying on the sidewalk and so I decided to suck it up and buy a nice pair.

Som and I, we get in the sports store and look for shoes. After a lot of deliberation and thought process, I get this pair of Nike Air shoes that were originally 149 but were on sale for 69 bucks and so I got them finally. After I got home, I started to feel like I should have gotten size 6 instead of the 5.5 I got and I felt like they were a tad too tight at the toes. I fretted and tried the shoes out a couple of times but was still a little doubtful about the toe space. I could not exchange them coz the sale was final:(.

Now, what would you do if you dropped cranberry sauce on your new white silk blouse? Answer - Google to see what to do to remove the stain.
What would you do if you cant keep coriander leaves fresh for a long time in the fridge - Google.
What would you do if you cant remember the command for search and replace in Perl on the top of your head - Google

I am of course not wrong in saying that almost EVERY single time, google has the right answer.

So, I did what any self respecting woman worth her internet connection would do. I googled.

I said - How to loosen shoes at toes.

Out it came with a million suggestions in 0.231 secs.
I click on the first link which was very helpfully titled - If the shoe doesn’t fit . . .

I go there to see what it has to say and I was horrified to say the least. Google baba was trying to tell me if my toe was a little too big for my shoes, I should go right into one of those podiatrist clinics and chop some bone off my toe. Apparently, that is what all fashionable women around the world are doing. Now, I would give anything to be called fashionable and by anything, I mean a few locks of hair off my head or my face or wherever the current trend points to but some millimeters off my toe bone? No Sir, I don't think so!

The article speaks of someone who wanted to resize her toes because she did not like the way they peered out of her Manolos. Another one wanted to totally remove her fifth toe, because then she could wear whatever shoes she wanted. Seriously!? I cant help but wonder, who are these women and what their brains wired with? All of us have body image issues but don't you think this is a little too extreme?

Since the foot craze is just catching up, a lot of the physicians and facilities offering these services often have no license or certified procedures to conduct surgeries. These are well educated people we are talking about here who don't think twice before entrusting their feet to some quack so that they can get into one of those ridiculously arched high heels. Appalling to say the very least.

Ask a Blogger a Question tag

Sunita from Asaaan tagged me for this where you ask a blogger a question that you'd hesitate to ask in real life. She asks "Did you ever resolve your cookware problem? Which set did you buy?. Just for a lil background here, This is what she was talking about.

So, S, we finally bought neither of the two choices I mentioned in the post coz of course, our dear guy found faults with both of them again ,so I marched into walmart and got the best set that fit my price. And it was this set by T-fal.

Its been good so far , so I am not regretting my decision.

Now, its my turn to tag someone. I ask Shalmalee(isn't it a pretty name?): Did you realise that all the guys were hitting on you and the girls were eyeing Mandar(her husband) when you came to our university for Maroon Vibes?

Background info for y'all: We have a cultural competition at our university every year and the year before the last, Shalmalee and her husband and a few other guys had come to participate. She is very very pretty and has the dreamiest eyes EVER and her husband was very cute in a high school boyish way and we were all hitting on them. As soon as the function ended, we rushed home to look her up on orkut and we see their pictures only to realise that the ONLY cute guy and the ONLY pretty girl in the event were married to EACH OTHER :(

See, I take my tags very seriously. I would probably hesitate for 1.23 microseconds in real life before asking her this question so I've taken full advantage of this tag :).

Diwali and Home

The rangoli I drew :) Obviously, I suck at art :).




Goddess Lakshmi at our home.




Yours truly doing the pooja.



Som and I after the diwali dinner of poori kheer:)


Home Pictures :)

Living Room





table for 2 please :)



Guest Room, Y'all are welcome :)

After a really looooooooooong time!

I am back here after soo long and I am really ashamed of the absence. It wasnt an absence as such, considering that I had this page open all day and havent missed a single update in my blogroll. I have had so many things to write about but they all have brewed themselves to death in my head because I have been too lazy to put them down here.

The previous weekend, as we waited for the laundry to be done at 12 in the night Som asked me why I wasn't writing anything in Tangy Trivia and if he should close my account already(As if he would get out of it alive !!!).

Anyways,Its Diwali, Yay!! Last year, diwali was not so well planned and there was certainly no religious celebration.

Every family has its own traditions and ways of celebrating festivals and while its not necessary for every family to be religious , I think it is important to establish a tradition of our own once we start our family. A festival may just mean good food to some while it may mean a lot of new dresses for others like me but it must mean something for everyone. I guess, the reason each of us look back fondly to all those Diwali's and Dushera's spent at home is that our parents made the effort to celebrate it in their own special way and thus gave us a lot of happy memories.


This year is the first diwali we will celebrate in our new home and I have decided to make it quite special. I have planned to bring in the festival with much fanfare. Traditional clothes, sweets, delicious food,elaborate pooja,diyas, The works. I have downloaded the pooja procedure and and the Lakshmi Mantra and the Lakshmi Ashtothra for the Lakshmi Pooja. Everything is in place except the fireworks. The student association has been forbidden from having fireworks like we do every year and so no fireworks it is! Diwali cleaning starts in exactly 4 hours when I get home from work and I am much excited. Unfortunately, som cannot do the pooja with me since he lost a relative a few days back.

Will update you all soon on how the pooja went and with pictures of the new home :)

Happy Diwali, you all!!! Have much fun and be safe :)