Slumdog Wedding

Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 million rupees. How did he do it?

(A) He cheated
(B) He's lucky
(C) He's a genius
(D) It is written

09:03 - 2009-Apr-9 - comments {0} - post comment

These Things. They Happen.

It was Saturday evening. We were lounging lazily in bed, watching TV. There was a commercial on, advertising an upcoming reality show called "Our Wedding". The lady person in the ad says "send us your details and you may get the wedding of your dreams". To which my girlfriend replied "just think of all I could do with an unlimited wedding budget" and I said "maybe we should sign on".

So, about half an hour later and a lot of tears (mostly hers), we were idly flipping through an online wedding magazine, and I realised she actually wants a church wedding with all the trimmings. I really hoped we could just go to the magistrate and have it over with.

Today has been a hectic day. We head to the diocese office, booked the church, filled out some other paperwork and then to buy the rings.

We bought really crummy silver wedding bands, but that's because my original plan was to propose to her when we go to London in June, on the London Eye, with a ring I planned to buy from an antique dealer on Portobello Road Market. Still plan to buy the ring, so we both decided not to spend any money on these rings, they're just a symbol, nothing more.

Finally, we bought a bottle of the bubbly and went to see my parents. Ok... so, there's something I haven't told before, I think. I mean, I know some probably know this, but most people don't. My parents, they're not poor. By which I mean to say... my parents are somewhat loaded. Which is why my dad's first reaction, after giving us his trademark bearhugs, was to say he'll pay for our London trip. The lot. He'll pay me all that I've spent so far, the flights, the hotel, some various tickets and such, and he'll give us spending money enough to see us through the 8 days we are there.

My dad's gift actually has a bigger impact than he realises. Know that we don't have to live like we're on a student budget to save money for the trip, we can have milk again. Oh, and we can actually save money for the wedding, and we hope to pay most of it ourself.

The Day, by the way, is 1st of August.

11:58 - 2009-Apr-6 - comments {8} - post comment

The Book Questionnaire Thingy

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.
3) Tag others and pass it on.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling(X) (Well, most of them anyway)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)
6 The Bible (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ( )
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (X)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (X)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (X)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (X)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (X)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (X)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (X)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (X)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (X)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ( )
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (X)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ( )
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ( )
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (X)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving( )
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ( )
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy( )
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (X)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons( )
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (X)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth( )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon( )
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (X)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (X)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon( )
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov(X)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt( )
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold( )
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (X)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (X)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ( )
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie( )
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (X)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens(X)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (X)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ( )
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (X)
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath ( )
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome( )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession - AS Byatt( )
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell( )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (X)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (X)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry( )
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( )
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (X)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton(X)
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ( )
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (X)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (X)

I think that's 58.

12:37 - 2009-Mar-11 - comments {6} - post comment

World Tour

June 2nd to June 10th.



London.



I are there.

04:18 - 2009-Feb-28 - comments {21} - post comment

Can't. Stop. Laughing.

The greatest news headline of all time:


George Bush readies for a speaking tour.


I actually have a sore muscle from laughing so hard.




Also, found this one. It's called the Head O State. On sale now.

10:26 - 2009-Feb-26 - comments {8} - post comment