First Night at IC

Yesterday was the last night of celebration at the IC on the occasion of Navratri and Dusshera. And my first night at the IC. Had an awesome time!!! 2005 end resolution: Am gonna attend this thing religiously from next year!!!

The plan for the evening was that DF and the girls would get together at someone’s house, get ready together and go to IC together. So Mum dropped DF and me at her friend’s place, twins- vivacious and bubbly; TD and CD. MS also came there. Their parents were such darlings, ordered us pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut. MS and TD were like the official hairdressers!! Patience is thou name young ladies!!! MS crimped DF’s hair, then curled TD and CD's hair. TD straightened my wild hair. For once I think I looked pretty!!! (lol..!! how presumptuous can someone get!!!) This was followed by a tedious session of make up. Finally we were all dressed. Everybody looked really pretty. DF was wearing a fusion outfit, a black gypsy skirt and a black strappy with a cream chunni and loadsa chunky jewellery!!!! TD, CD were both dressed in blue salwar kameez; highlight of the evening: their wonderfully Grecian styled curled cum straightened cum gelled hair. MS was wearing a green ghagra choli while Cheryl wore a lavender coloured one. I was wearing a kurti and good ol’jeans with chunky jewellery. (Next year I am gonna wear a backless choli with a long skirt and a heavy dupatta!! Promise!) We set out around 22:30, caught two cabs and got off at IC. Man! Was the place crowded or what… Everybody were dressed like crazy, tons of makeup and loadsa gelled hair!! Oh not to forget lots of skin showing too!! Hehehehe

Actually Navratri is a Gujarati event with folk dancing mostly- ‘garba’ and ‘dandiya ras’. Garba is a circular dance with lots of hand clapping while Dandiya is played with sticks in long, circular graceful moves. But at IC, Navratri is more of a clubbing event. Mostly it was remixes that were being played with like maybe 2 or 3 folk numbers, those also remixed from popular Bollywood movies. Think IC should rechristen Navratri as “Navratri-REmiXed!!!” Lol.... sounds so corny!!!

At first it felt awkward. But when we got to the dance floor we were all in the spirit. The music was s***y and the DJ was an arse. Nonethless we were shaking our booty and having the time of our lives!!! Some aunties were doing dandia and garba on DJ Suketu and DJ Akbar Sami remixes… hehehehe!!

Aly(my sister’s close friend) for some reason was dressed like a dope!! He clung onto MSlike there was no tomorrow!! Jeez…. Don’t know what to say. But I like him. He’s always the life of the party. Makes sure everybody has a good time. RB and HV(my sister’s friends again…. ) have recently started going out and looked so cute together. Those stolen looks and holding hands really looked nice on them. DF went and spoke to her ex boyfriend GK. Guess she really misses him in some way or the other!!

Gosh people boozed like crazy!! There were so many drunks around, had to be careful. Met OW, MNSH, PRT and MNL.

Had a great time dancing. Should do it more often. It felt really nice. Thought about the last time I had gone dancing at Avalon, a suburban disc in Mumbai. We stepped on the dance floor at 12:45 and got off in the morning at 6:00. It was so much fun with T and AA.

Got back home around 3:15 in the morning. My legs were killing me. Was really happy that I went for it. Farewell Navratri 2005 until next year!!!!

Wishlist for end of 2005

1. Find something interesting and really fun to do.

2. Make more friends here.

3. Add optimisim to my otherwise cynicism filled life.

4. Blog more often.

5. Mail five people I haven't written to in a long time.

6. Party atleast once at Tangerine.

7. Try out Chillis.

8. Watch five good movies before the year ends.

9. Stop judging people.

10. Stop thinking about what effect my actions will have on other people.

11. Have a huge fight with The Bitch.

12. Buy a new book (maybe?).

13. Lose some weight!!!

14. Buy an exclusive piece of footwear.

15. Stop fighting and bickering with Mum.

16. Keep the house clean.

17. Get that fuzzy thing called- 'laziness' outta my closet.

18. Stop picking on sis for little things.

19. Try to not buy any more clothes.

Will keep adding more as and when it comes to me. Take care you!

Pretty Woman

Starring Richard Gere (oohs) and Julia Roberts, Pretty Woman strikes a chord everytime you watch it. The chemistry between the pair sizzles. Edward Lewis (Gere) is a hard and ruthless businessman who buys companies only to tear them apart and sell piece by piece. The ruthlessness takes its toll on him, in form of loneliness, a mundane colourless life that he leads. Along comes a hooker for a week as an escort for Lewis, Vivian (Roberts), who brings out the best in Edward he himself didn't know existed. Ironically, he hired Vivian so that there would be no romantic hassles to distract him from a major business deal during the week, but at the end of the week, as he notices the changes in himself, he realises , that love has a way of surprising everybody.

The characters are believeable. Acting is natural. It's a very simple movie. Nothing too flashy. Yet when you watch the movie, you're on cloud 9 without a worry or care in the world. You can watch it n number of times, each time discovering something new, maybe a goof or maybe an expression. The point is, Pretty Woman is like a gift wrapped in many layers of wrappings.

Julia Roberts's fits in as easily as though it were her own skin. Richard Gere looks so HANDSOME!! (drools..). Especially when they're riding horses and he's wearing this open collar causal black shirt, with the top buttons left open. OH!! Would I melt on the couch or what...




He is SO HOT!! Have run out of words to describe Richard Gere

However my favourite scene is the one in which both of them are getting ready to go to the opera. There's an interesting trivia here that I found on one of the movies databases. When Edward snaps the jewellery box on Vivian's hand, (improvised by Gere). Vivian reaction was so natural that the filmmakers decided to leave it just as it is!




Edward and Vivian getting ready to go to the opera.

Pretty Woman is a wonderfully warm movie, simple in its expression and innocent in its romance. All in all, it's one of the cutest romantic movies that one hardly gets to see these days.