This poem just made me laugh out loud on this lazy afternoon. So I am quoting it here for you dear dryad.

WARNING

by Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

REVIVAL

This blog needs to be revived ASAP...
Why? We miss it, and it needs more posts.
This blog was conceived one winter's evening, when Sacred Sprites and I wee pretending to study for a test, at my place. My parents were not there. We were two un-moderated 'children,' around 2 and a bit years ago? Was it, sacred sprites? Okay, then we got hungry. We were always a tad crazy. And so we got experimental. We snooped around the Dining table, and picked up an apple, which s--sprites quite adeptly cut into paper thin slices. Next, the fridge door was flung open by us, and out came the cheese. We promptly laced the apple slices with the cheese. Were we finished. Oh, not yet. Out came some pepper from a kitchen cupboard. And out came some Indonesian Nutmeg,which had been lying ignored for a while. Sprinkle we did, over the apples and oney, and quite liberally at that, may I add. Then what? You'd think these two crazy girrrrls would have been done by now...but no!!! We fished out some honey from the fridge and poured liberally, like up-turned sunshine...and then what did we do? We deliberated for a bit of course. And then we arranged the apples on a microwave-proof plate, and put in into the microwave oven, and warmed up our creation? How was the end result? What did it taste like? Ask the girls involved.

Snazzy Surveys 1 #

Here is the result of a survey conducted by sacredsprites on Omegle.

The question asked to a selected number of users of the website was:

What according to you is the colour of Sunday?

The result shows that an overwhelming majority of people felt Sundays were most definitely Blue in colour.

A complete list is provided along with the chart to show what the other possible colours of Sunday could be.

    Blue = 35 %

  Yellow = 15 %

Green = 5 %

     Red = 10 %

  White = 15 %

Purple = 5 %

Black = 10 %

Pink = 5 %

    

Keep watching this space for more whackiness!

Sea Of Poppies----Cast list

Ed.Note>  Here's a possible list of actors for Amitav Ghosh's 'potential blockbuster'...Sea Of Poppies, the first of the Ibis Trilogy. The novel has too many characters for a complete and detailed list of actors. This is a tentative list consisting of only those characters that took our fancy and remained etched on our collective memory. There are three lists of actors. That was done to avoid damaging the furniture  conflict. Any suggestions on the part of our readers would be fought over much appreciated so do make full use of the comments section.


M= Madgirl     
D= Dryad     
S= Sacredsprites

Characters: (in italics)

Raja Neel Rattan Haldar
M= Rajat Kapoor
D= Aamir Khan/ Shahrukh Khan
S= Tota Roy Chowdhury

Paulette 
M= Audrey Tautou
D=Penelope Cruz
S= Eva Green

Rani Malati
M= Soha Ali Khan
D= Chitrangada Singh
S= Soha Ali Khan

Parimal 
M= Raghuveer Yadav
D=  Siddharta Chatterjee
S=  Siddharta Chatterjee

Baboo Nob Kissen Pander
M= Om Puri
D=  Kharaj Mukherjee
S=  Kharaj Mukherjee

Zachary Reid
M= Elijah Wood
D= Farhan Akhtar??/Jake Gyllenhaal/Ben Whishaw
S= Benjamin Vicuña

Elokeshi
M= Bipasha Basu
D=Nandana Dev Sen
S= Bipasha Basu

Mr. Burnham
M= Brian Cox
D= Brian Cox  
S= Simon Callow

Mrs. Burnham
M= Lisa Ann Walter
D= Kate Winslet
S= Kate Winslet

Mr. Doughty
M= Danny DeVito
D= Danny DeVito
S= Danny DeVito

Mrs. Doughty
M= Rosie Perez
D= Natalie Ogle
S= Shirley Henderson

Jodu  
M= Tota Roychoudhuri
D= Ranbir Kapoor/Vivek Oberoi
S= Kunal Kapoor

Serang Ali
M= Saif Ali Khan
D= Javed Akhtar(not)???/Naseeruddin Shah
S= Saif Ali Khan

Mr. Crowle
M= Mel Gibson
D= Ralph Fiennes
S= Hugh Jackman

Captain Chillingworth
M= Anthony Hopkins
D= Anthony Hopkins
S= Anthony Hopkins

Munia 
M= Aparajita Ghosh Dastidar
D= Katrina Kaif ?/Priyanka Chopra ?
S= Genelia D’Souza

Deeti 
M= Nandita Das
D= Rani Mukherjee / Tabu/mayyyyyybe Ash??
S= Konkona Sen Sharma/Nandita Das  

Kalua 
M= Abhishek Bacchan
D= Rohit Khurana (Vansh from Uttran)  and Abhishek Bachchan
S= Abhishek Bacchan

Bhyro Singh
M= Om Puri
D= Salman Khan
S= Paresh Rawal

Ah Fatt
M= Kelly Dorji  
D= Kelly Dorji
S= Kelly Dorji

Sarju 
M= Shabana Azmi
D= Shabana Azmi
S= Surekha Sikri

Judge Kendlebushe
M= Tom Alter             
D= Tom Alter       
S= Tom Alter

Hookam Singh
M= Ronit Roy
D= Ronit Roy
S= Ronit Roy

Chandan Singh
M= Arshad Warsi
D= Arshad Warsi
S= Arshad Farsi

Deeti’s Mother-in-law
M= Dimple Kapadia    
D= SurekhaSikri      
S= Jaya Bachchan

Babloo Tindal
M= Sumeet Sachdev
D= Sumeet Sachdev?!?!?!
S=       ¿?

An ode to an Arboretum

I am surrounded by beauty of an excessive sort...of a pulchritude which refuses to register itself in my mind...this place should open a botany/ecology department, the whole campus would be an ideal class room...and the campus can also qualify as a literateur's muse...the stone walls, the bafflingly-beautifully confused architecture...I want to get lost here forever, to drift among the lone paths, to stumble upon unexpected flowers, to discover weeping butterflies and benign bees...to listen to the wild murmurs of the Night flies...IIMB, thanks for this chance...I will remember it forever....and also Professor V.M. for being so encouraging and literary!!

Browsing the personals!

This post was made on 11th Dec, 2009 in another blog . However, I think it deserves to be included here, if only for the sheer brilliance and utter zaniness of the item in question.
This is an ad sacredsprites spotted in the company of her mates. It appeared in the classifieds.

"Recently de-coupled young man who considers online dating too crass and soliciting the attention of strangers in bars too unpredictable attempts bourgeois solution to loneliness. Seedy nights of contradiction conducted with a scholarly tome and a can of Special Brew guaranteed. Shiftless scholar, 27, some rough edges, S. Yorks, awaits his Nora Barnacle."

If this is felt to be against the tenor of this blog, the post will be promptly removed.
What say you dryad ??

SLAM BAM THANK YOU MA'AM!

Result of late night chats between madgirl and sacredsprites



O, my head feels so heavy
and my brain is so numb.
I cannot answer in class
and the teacher thinks I'm dumb.

O, I slept but only 10 hours last night,
and I ate but only twenny plates o'rice.
O, my brain craves for food and rest
and that my friends, is my lil' vice.

Sir, I know you are teaching well,
But the guy next to me is starting to smell!
The AC is sending shivers down my spine,
Menander, I feel, is way past his prime!!

O sir,I'm afraid you are wasting your time

For to Menander I don't give a dime.