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.

An Overwhelming Desire

I always thought of myself as someone who could easily stay alone. I never thought that I'd find solitude depressing. That was till I was forced to spend an entire day in our apartment alone. My phone due to lack of battery had switched off and my charger was at my cousin's place. At that time I didn't have a computer. Therefore no internet. I had woken up late and so when I woke up my parents had already left for work. I woke up to an empty house. It was a saturday, a holiday. I hadn't made any plans with my friends and felt too lazy to leave the house. So I fixed myself breakfast. I read for a while. Books are the best friends when one is alone. However, these were chiefly friends I'd known for years and so knew all their stories and anecdotes. They held my interest for a while but by the time I started on lunch I was bored. By the time I had finished lunch and started on another book I felt an overwhelming desire to talk to someone. There was no one. I slept for sometime. I woke up depressed. It was four in the evening and I felt as if I had been in solitary confinement for eons. I would have become seriously depressed had I not decided then and there to go out for a walk. That was the first time in my life that I actually looked at the faces of the people on the streets. The peace and joy that I experienced at that moment is indescribable and probably unrepeatable.
  I just wanted to share this very special experience.

MMNN

When Gluttony and Sloth mingle, every single
Inch of the bed is covered with crumbs and snores...
But food isn't meant to breed indolent bores...
And then the stomach roars with eternal hunger,
But Sloth's too lazy to call the fish monger,
and Gluttony shakes his head in avarice and anger:
'So much for the fried fish I so craved,
Now cook me another dish, energy depraved
Sloth!'
The moral of this silly excuse for a poem?
Go into the kitchen and whip up some of our crazyrecipesthingamies!
What say you, SS? :p

I has me word!

A dash of salt
A little vinegar
A slice of tomato
A hint of sugar
Cool lemonade sloshes inside my soul
Let the flavours soak in and make me whole!
A word aside to our heavenly Mother
Patroness of food and protector of the liver
Let no mortal say, 'no more no more'
We might grow fat but out with such bores!
Who ever grew fat on cakes and meat loafs??
Eat well, make merry and exercise..loads!
This poem might not be a masterpiece
Well, dryad my mate, what do you make of this?!

Statement of Purpose

This one should be dedicated to our creatively bent culinary set of minds, what say, sacredsprites?

Have you ever dared to try...

...microwaved apples laced with Mozzarella cheese, oregano, honey and nutmeg? Oh, with a dash of freshly ground black pepper? Have you? End result of this experiment?=this blog!