Before - After

This is a picture I took some months ago while going home in the bus. I used to admire this tree everyday, it was huge, unique and very fascinating.

This is what it has become now.

Can't believe I missed it!

Anyway, it's been a year since I did my first post, that is pom pom, hihi. I won't go into a total review of my blog by posting visits and comments stats and such things, else people will come and shout funny stuff on my shoutbox! (wink @ "Rob", the guy who found my stats, annoying). Oh and by the way, Rob, next time you have some free time in a UOM lab, do something more meaningful! You gave me the impression that I make you angry and that I'm terribly important to you and I so totally hate this feeling :D So much bitterness is not good for you and consequently for me.

Ah! I'm relieved! lol

Anyway, coming back to the original subject, 1 year of blogging has been a wonderful experience. Sometimes, it has been addictive, sometimes not, most of the time fun and rewarding and it has remained a wonderful hobby.

The thing is, I'm quite out of inspiration lately. So I hope I'll be posting something meaningful real soon.

Have fun dudettes and dudes and my happy aliens and thank you all for helping me to make it to this one year. Hope there are more years to come! Ciao!

I've been negatively reviewed!

Hiya dudettes and dudes! A lot has happened since the last time I've talked about the Mauritian blogging community. MBB has started something called the MBB challenge on its forum and I'm quite addicted to these. LOL! Luckily, it's posted only once a day. Moreover, one of the reviewers at MBB has revealed her identity on the forum and to my extreme surprise, another blog offering reviews for Mauritians has surfaced. It's called Anti blog. I guess the blogger is against blogs, might never know. Anyway! he's doing negative reviews. Quoting the author's words:

i wanted to create a blog where you will come to know about only the flaws of your blog and go out crying.

sounds fun! Anyway, I was reviewed and I must say that it's not as bad as I expected! He sure found out that I'm terribly narcissic! :P

I hope to read the reviews of other blogs on his "bash list" soon! lol! Yeah and he gave weird names to each of the bloggers on his list. Mine is "self-centred star" and my fave is Waz' which is "post mitraillette"! hihi I wonder about the why of this particular nickname! :D

So long dudettes and dudes and my amused aliens!

3 things to die for and my top musical picks.

Hiya dudettes and dudes. Been a while! lol. I've been tagged by the wonderfully sweet Meghna and I gotta talk about the 3 things that I'd die for and my top musical picks! Sounds fun enough! :D


The 3 things that I'd die for would be:

1. A room the size of my home.

2. Google.com

3. My brain when I was 11 years old.

OK! all these things are to be taken lightly, except no. 3! hihi.


Ah! and now my top musical picks!!

Now now! I did blog about those as my crush of the month. So it's time for some posts digging.

hmm, apart from those, I totally love movie soundtracks, especially those which feature some kinda unknown music bands.

So here goes dudettes and dudes, a tag that was not really well answered. I'm off for some sleep. But before I go, here's the name of the people I'm tagging. Jevin, Keli, Rooch, BbZush, Roushdat, Adi, Waz, Manico, Lord Manila.

I won't mind if you don't do it! lol! See ya'all!

Diwali, the festival of lights

Tomorrow we'll be celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights. To me, this festival represents joy, merriment and lights but most of all it represents the victory of good over evil by taking its sources in the story of Rama and Ravana found in the Ramayana.

However Divali was more fun to me when I was a kid. I remember the huge prayer that was held in the middle of our family property in Goodlands on the eve of the festivals. My grandfathers, who were all pandits, used to tell my cousins and me stories taken from the holy scriptures. There were so much children living close by that it was easy to have fun, especially on the day of the festival. We used to go together to distribute cakes among relatives and neighbours.

Ever since we came to live here, things have somewhat changed. Anyway, we still send cakes to our relatives but the fun is not as great as it was before. Part of me wishes to be a child again. Ah well! To fill this lacuna, I've made some round lanterns today. Nothing too complicated. I've just rolled and stuck together the two sides of some somewhat wide bristol bands. I've cut some shapes on the bristol bands and stuck crepe paper at the back.

Tomorrow we'll be making a "rangoli" with flowers and presenting the cakes. Pictures will be posted tomorrow.

Take care dudettes and dudes and my festive aliens! Have fun! :D