Doctor Amma to TN's Amma

First of all, I must mention a very important person in my blog - Congratulations to Dr. Sneha Shankar!!! :))
If you've noticed way back in August, I was a depressed soul ranting about her exam result. Today I wanna use this space and tell my lil' sissy I'm extremely proud of her achievement and I wanna wish her the very best in life! Good luck Sne and do my root canals and fillings free of cost!!! :))
On another note, election fever has been gripping the country. It has always been a tough contest between Kalaignar and Amma in Tamil Nadu and this year too the campaigning has been fierce.Today is election day and I went to vote. Its not my first time. I knew who I wanted to vote for - as usual I didn't vote for any major party and decided to vote for an independent candidate who has impressed me greatly by promising a "clean Anna Nagar"! Stop laughing!!! He's educated and I'm glad I was not a loser like my parents to vote a corrupt person or these days a corrupt family to power!!! I was also trying to influence K to vote for another educated person in Velachery but he of course had other plans. Pah. These people dont wanna listen to me at all. The symbols for the various parties were quite hilarious - from rings to fans to cricket bats to slates to light bulbs! :P  What impressed me was there were a lot of young people who'd come to vote. Although most of them didn't even know the candidates, still it was encouraging to see them come out and vote on this hot sunny day. The whole process was pretty easy - no problems with my voter id or long queues. Glad I voted, I'm a good good citizen! Did u guys vote today? If not, GO VOTE my people.

Posting for the heck of it.

I've missed writing/ranting in here. All I've written about off late is mostly about cricket. What to do? Post WC, the IPL fever has started. And yes. I've fallen so sick that the parents have forbidden me from going to the stadium to watch any of the CSK matches coz they're convinced that I'm croaking only because I screamed so much during the World Cup matches. So no more cricket for a while.
K and I have been busy house hunting these few months and I'm very proud to say we're gonna be renting a cute cozy little place in Thiruvanmyur. I never ever ever imagined I'd settle in that area. Met the house owners - very nice mama and chatty mami! :P I really like the place though -  It's a new apartment, cute, not too big, just right I'd say. We've started doing it up - bed, AC, we're picking curtains from Fab India, linen from Home Center or At Home(I dunno yet), oh and so many things going on!! Very exciting! :-) K is doing the house warming on the 22nd April(eeeeeeeeeeeeeee :-)) and we're planning to start setting it up before we move in post the wedding. The next time I'm there I'll take a few pics and put it all up. Wedding shopping has started. Sarees are being bought for like 500 people I think. Mum insists on buying for every single guest. Dad is helplessly swiping the credit card(s!). Wedding invitation design is picked - there's a lot of debate going on about the font, wording and all. We've started getting reponses from folks out of town and lots of people have confirmed they're coming especially since its a weekend! K and I went over to Maxi Chitti's for drinks/dinner last week. We had a good time. Ashwin is back in Hyderabad for his course at ISB - good luck brother! My post if u notice is very random this time - too many things going on I'd say and I'm just way too excited! Hope this sickness goes away. BLAH.

WE DID IT FOR HIM!

Congratulations boys!! You've made the entire nation proud! It was such a great moment for billions of us who were praying so hard for you, who bled blue for you! But most importantly, you guys won the Cup for one man: Sachin Tendulkar, God of cricket. He deserved this more than anyone else. He has come a full circle and I'm sure He(Remember he's God, therefore the capital!) couldn't ask for more. GOOD JOB DHONI and BOYS! :-)

Wedding blog!

Yup now its not just one but TWO blogs I need to keep up with. Very proud to say I finally managed to set up our wedding blog - it'll just be stuff about us, our families, events that lead to D-day, pictures and all the hype that surrounds this big event of our lives! Check it out if u can - after all if you have the time to keep up with the Drama Queen, no doubt you'd be pretty "vetti"(jobless!) enough to follow the wedding fun! :P
I've gotta warn u though - its just been set up so the final look may not be there yet, we haven't shared the link yet coz we wanted to update it with a basic few posts but go ahead anyway... it should be fun!

http://www.aishuandkarthik.blogspot.com/

Enjoy mes amis!!!

100th post and u go... DROOOLLLLLL!!!

Blogger informed me this is my 100th post! Wowiee. To spice it up a bit, I've decided to jot down the 'Top 10 Cuties at the ICC World Cup 2011"!! Howzzat? :))
#10 - At the bottom most, would be Brendon McCullum - I find his name itself incredibly cute! :)
#9 - Shahid Afridi - He's been around since my school days, probably one of my longest crushes. He's still super cute looking and hasn't aged one bit! Muah.
#8 - Kevin O'Brien - Before u go "Huh", let me explain. Kevin is the guy from Ireland that helped them beat England few days ago and he's kinda cute, which explains why he's figured in my elite list of cuties. I think there's something incredibly cute about Irish men, their accent perhaps? :)
#7 - Daniel Vettori - Ah! The Kiwi captain who makes a statement wearing specs! His curly hair is an added advantage! Good luck to u and ur team!

#6 - Virat Kohli - Now I can see lots of girls going gaga. The Indian team's current heartthrob and of course he will find a place in my top 10! Virat is special coz he can play well too and has been in good form. All the more reason to cheer him on! Go Virat!!

#5 - Shane Watson - So now u also get to drool a bit over ur screens, the top 5 dudes are special indeed and they get the privilege of being posted in my blog! ;-) This Aussie bowler is one of my recent faves and has a cute smile :-))

#4 - James Anderson - So I got this brilliant idea for this post when I watched James in action live on Sunday! My cousin and I were drooling away when this lad came to bowl! He's amazingly cute, no doubt. We love u James! :)

# 3- Brett Lee - He's known world over for his cute smile and 'nuff said! No need for any further explanations. Brett is HOT! And will of course find a place in my top 3! :)

# 2- This one was a tough tough decision. But yes deep down I know this is the right choice I've made. At the number 2 spot is our very own charismatic and dashing captain, M.S Dhoni! - There's something incredibly charming about him. Dunno how to quite explain it. He's done very well as our captain so far and here's hoping he wins the cup for us. Of course I'm a little partial to him since he's also CSK's captain! :P We love you MSD! 

# 1 - No prizes for guessing who its gonna be. My eternal favorite. India's favorite sportsperson. God of cricket. SACHIN! - I've been a Sachin fan for God knows how long! I think he was the first cricketer I knew. Grew up watching Sachin thrash all bowlers. Amazing person. I am still amazed as to how he has survived so many years without being involved in any sort of controversies. He's almost 38 but just look at his pic..he doesn't look a day older than 25!! CUTIEPIE! Going to Dollars and Pounds today. Hoping to pick up a #10 jersey.. That would be fantastic!!! Will put up pics if I manage to do that. Here's to my number 1 cutiepie of this World Cup! Good luck Sachinnnn!!!!! :))

Ok now that I'm done with my top ten, I also wanted to let u guys I'm meeting a good good friend back from the US today after a year!Super duper excited! Pics might follow. If we remember to take any, that is. Later guys! Ciao!

Cricket fever!!!

Even though the WC officially started last week, its not until today that the "real" matches are happening. Of course I am terribly proud to state that I have tickets to watch "India Vs West Indies" live at Chepauk on the 20th March.. Hee haw.. Be jealous all of you :) I simply cannot wait!!! Good luck India.. Do me proud boys!! It is extra special coz in all probability this might be Sachin's last WC!! You guys better win it for him.. GO INDIA!!!! :-) :-) :-)

Valentines

I've gotta admit. It was pretty fun this year! Valentines, I mean. We went on a long drive on the ECR, drove up to one of those "shacks" by the beach, which I thought was really cute. We just sat back, relaxed, ate, drank, chilled out and talked. Best part was he brought his camera and I had my first photo shoot session with him.. some of the pics were so damn cute! He has promised to put them up on Facebook. On our way back, he gave me a little offroading experience, which blew me off, as usual. Next thing I knew I was standing near the seashore.. Was so calming and lovely to feel the cool water up my legs on that hot sunny afternoon.. Sigh. So glad I live in Chennai.. I would be lost without the beach.. We then drove back to the city, walked around in KNK, checked out the new lounge Cafe, and then headed to dinner at "Kryptos" which is this nice new fancy Greek restaurant. Its run by the same dude that owns Tuscana and it was pretty good stuff! We had a nice time talking and reminiscing over our days at Chrysler. Of course no evening is complete without digging into some real dessert. We first thought we'd walk across to Movenpick but decided against it. Would have been too rich and so yours truly came up with the idea of eating some good ol' Arun icecream at its new outlet in Annanagar. It was goooood stuff! Perfect way to end the day! I wrote a Valentines day card after ages!! lol It was fun actually! I got a nice bag and a cute photoframe with one of our favorite pics.Photo courtsey: Vivek.  See below :) Enjoy the love month u guys! <3