life through pink colour glasses: Random Ruminations

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Random Ruminations

There are times when one is forced to think. Like when you're sitting in a doctor's waiting room and there are no magazines to flip through. Or when you forget to take a book to the loo and every shampoo label has already been read. Or like in my case, when you're unempolyed; on vacation; and have absolutely nothing better to do. So yeah, I've been thinking and I have some questions.

I want to know:

who's in charge of naming hurricanes?

Is there a guy somewhere who's been hired specifically for his ability to name hurricanes? If yes, who is Katrina? An ex girlfriend who flooded his life with grief or maybe it was his mother. A large booming woman who insisted on giving him particularly violent baths. What did the employment ad read when they were hiring this person? Wanted: hurricane namer with history of destructive (mostly) women and (some) men.

Also, how do you get that job?
why my hair looks its best when I'm all by myself?

Is hair smarter than we give it credit for? Maybe it's not a bunch of dead cells after all. Maybe it's a bunch of highly intelligent cells that get smarter with age. Hence, the grey hair.

Is it some kind extremely loyal pet that will perform only for the owner and insist on completely misbehaving as soon as the owner has company? Maybe like all pets it dislikes being cleaned and pinned and caged in rubber bands and punishes us later for that.

How do you trick hair into behaving itself when there are other people around?
where Garnier gets its micro fruit oils from?

So there's this product called Body Cocoon that Garnier keeps advertising for. It's some kind of skin moisturising thing, just like many other skin moisturising things available in the market. But Garnier insists it's better for me because it has micro fruit oils.

So that got me thinking, what are these micro fruits they get this miracle oils from? Are they really tiny fruits? Like tiny berries or raisins. (Actually I don't think raisin is a fruit...)

Or are they hybrid fruits that have been grown to be really small. Does Garnier have a little orchard at some secret location where they're growing one inch bananas and pebble sized oranges?

And why are oils from micro fruits better for me that regular fruit oils?
who the hbo guy is running from?

If you've ever seen the beginning of an HBO movie, you'll know who I'm talking about. There's this guy who's always running at top speed from something really scary. We don't know what he's done and why his chaser is so angry but the expression on the guy's face shows he's really bloody scared. He usually falls down a manhole or into a river and as the camera zooms out we see a giant HBO.

Who's the guy? What did he do? Who's chasing him? Does the scene represent some kind of veiled threat to all rival networks? What happens to the guy after he falls into the river?

These are questions that have kept me up for nights and I want answers.
if I'll still be girl in pink after 20 years.

I know it's a highly unlikely scenario but it's not impossible. The internet will probably be completely different from what it is now and there's every chance I would've died from pollution or some world war. But what if I make it and I'm still writing this blog 20 years later?

I'll be 47. Hopefully I'd be fabulous and thin and the envy of every 35 year old around and I'm sure i"ll be wearing some sort of pink but I'd still be 47. Would I have to change my name to middle aged woman in pink? Or pushing 50 in pink?

Or can I be a 47 year old girl in pink?
why Abhishek Bachchan is such a phenomenon.

Ok, I know I'm probably incurring the wrath of every female who crosses this blog, but I genuinely wanna know. Why is everyone so crazy about the guy? We all agree he's not "conventionally" handsome. Well, more power to the unconventional, I say. But there's gotta be something about a guy that makes him attractive na?!? And I just don't see it. He's really not much of an actor. And yeah he's got the whole "dus bahane" dance steps down perfectly but man can't be attractive on that alone, can he? He's embarassingly bad in the Ford Fiesta ad but somehow the world just can't get over the junior Bachchan.

Now, I'm not cocky enough to think that the whole nation's got it wrong. I just wanna be let in on the secret. Why is AB so bloody hot?

Hmm...so such are the highly intellectual thoughts that fill my otherwise carefree days. Thoughts I'm sure trouble everyone but work and life probably keep them away from devoting too much time to them.

Anyone got any answers?

Posted by that girl in pink | 11:10 pm | 13 comments

13 Comments

at 10:31 am Anonymous said...: GirlinPink - u're forever Girl!! Never mind if we're looking at it 20 yrs from now or 30... u r what u want to be - so if you say "girl", girl it is!

Abt Garnier...I'd like to know the answer too. So, if some flunkie PR person (ususally they're the poor souls delegated to "read up"/ procure news) responsible for the product is gng through this site - PLS ANSWER!!!

and now, for the bit abt Aby-Baby... Baus, he is not just hot, he is SIZZLING!!! Why, you ask?
1)he is refreshingly NORMAL 2) no airs and pseudo attitude (note: i said pseudo 3) his stubble is yummy!!! 4) he can't sing to save his life but gosh he's got me gng "right here right now" 4) speaks VERY well... not like most men who when they open their mouths make u wish u'd never elicited a response! 5) Is humble (trust me, during my stint at a famous suburban hotel in bbay, i've had the opportunity to see the unglamarous and uugh sides to most, if not all, celebs)...i cud go on, but then am sure u want this blog to be urs... : p

we cud continue this dialouge in person though...

Keep writing!

UrPublicist
at 10:43 am Anonymous said...: Oops, in my excitement to enumerate the resons why AB Jr. rocks, i goofed up the numbering!!! Got 6 points in all Pink!

UrPublicist
at 12:45 pm Vijayeta said...: Girl in Pink...U and I can be soul sisters! I have/still do/will spend considerably large amounts of time thinking of these exact same things. Especially in boring, long meetings...
Not found an answer to why my hair doesnt behave when i really really want it to. (Read: On BIG dates!) Grrrr!
Hurricane namer, yeah...and they give them really cool names like Katrina, Wilma, Rita...and what do we do? The one hurricane that threatened to hit our coast, we called it Fanoos! Yuck! Now that name is fine for a kabab joint in Bangalore...but a hurricane! No!
Micro fruit oils...well...you got me thinking on that one! Will come up with my pearls of wisdom on that soon...
Girl in Pink at 47? Why the hell not? Look at Madonna. She's 47, and in pink on her new album. The secret is Yoga!
Abhishek Bachchan...i agree with the above commentor on those. EXACTLY those reasons ;)
at 2:34 pm Lalit Singh said...: I have no clue about the rest but here is something

Apparently the guy incharge of naming the hurricanes in india doesnt require such credentials as mentoned my you.. here is what these guys name our hurricanes as
Agni, Akash, Bijli, Jal and Baaz..This guy is surely out of bollywood.
at 1:35 pm Anonymous said...: It's hilarious to read your posts!

Raghav (of UrPublicist fame)
at 11:55 pm velvetgunther said...: apparently hurricanes are named by the world met organisation in the order of the alphabet and are rotated every six years or so... how have no idea how to answer the other questions :)
hope youre having a good time in Delhi
at 3:20 am The Comic Project said...: haha micro fruit oils :):) bloghopping here...microfruit oils
at 11:30 am Vijayeta said...: Wow! *Totally fascinated by VG's intelligent, incosive, inquiring mind!* Awesome! *Staring with great fascination and admiration*
at 1:47 am Gary LaPointe said...: I think they named all the hurricanes a few years ago. There's six(?) yearly lists they they rotate through and then it starts over again.
at 2:05 am Gary LaPointe said...: I'm back. It was bugging me so I looked it up. In 1979 they switched from all female names to alternating names (this is for the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico) with the 6 rotating yearly lists. They do retire especially disastrous names so Katrina may be removed after this year. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

Gary http://garysaid.com/
at 10:30 am a s a said...: i always thought the hbo guy was in a plane and that the whole thing was like.. speeding up.. and then taking off. no?
at 1:17 am Deliciously Alive said...: You'll ALWAYS be the girl in pink:)))Don't forget to add this name or use it as a pseudo when you are out with your best-seller, which will be sooner if not later:))
Abhishek has the most gorgeousssssss mouth I have ever seen and that baritone!Ufffff!!! And I havent even started yet!!;))))))

Am a big fan of your writing now!
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