Hello everyone...although I know everyone's basically stopped checking my blog. Greetings from the motherland. It's a wonderful day today what with bright sunshine and women walking around by the hundreds with little wardrobe to show off. I met an ex-colleague yesterday for lunch - an Irishman, and one of the nicest chaps you will ever come across - "One of the good things about this weather is that the women are a lot more attractive". Please don't tell him I actually told you this, though.
To correct him, the women aren't really more attractive - they're just wearing less. English women have just too many unattractive samples among them. Italian women on the other hand, are sensationally gorgeous. I mean, one could make a trip out of just spending time in Italy and ogling the women - I'm serious. And the really amazing part is that they don't have to wear less to achieve the effect. They are inherently beautiful. Speaking of Italian women, I shared a bus with three young ones yesterday on the way to Oxford. One was crying unontrollably while the other 2 took turns in consoling her. The first gave up in the duration that it takes to listen to Smells Like Teenspirit. But that wasn't the end of it - she actually hit the one crying before returning to her seat. The second one was a lot more peaceful, but also left unsatisfied.
Now some of you may be wondering what I was doing eagerly making mental notes of what was happening. And undoubtedly, some of you have reached the assumption that these were rather attractive specimens of young Italian women. Not wanting to lie, these were moderately attractive. But given a choice, I wouldn't have paid attention to all these maddeningly interesting happenings - one must concentrate as hard as one can to drive away motion sickness in the UK. Anything in the UK without ventilation (and some with) which moves will make you feel nauseous - note for future travellers - use the trains if you have an option. The reason I actually noticed all this can be attributed to a trait found in all Italians. Or, at least as far as I noticed in my few days there. They jabber and jabber and jabber and LOUDLY. Smells Like Teenspirit was on pretty loud on the iPod, (even by my standards) and that didn't stop their noise from filtering through. To be honest, if the entire bus (2 floors) wrote blogs - they'd put this irritating incident down.
On to interesting and happier incidents then. I can't really think of many - but a little advice for you about the Brits. If you don't know them and need to make PC (Polite Conversation, for the uninformed), talk to them about the weather. I tell you - their life revolves around the weather and the weather forcaster. For those of you who have watched Pushing Tin (starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie), if you thought ATC's had high pressure jobs - the British weatherman has his job on the line when he predicts a sunny weekend. The country almost en masse migrates to another part of it. I can assure you that the motorways are bumper to bumper about now. It is simply insane.
Having said that, I quite like the weather here myself. Today's actually a little too warm for my liking. I like the moderately cold to cool weather - comfortable and makes you more efficient and also allows you to survive long days with 4 to 5 hours sleep. I played tennis today, for probably the 4th or 5th time since I gave up playing competitively 9-10 years ago. Atrocious play, to say the least - but the basics are there. If there are any takers for weekly tennis in Bombay, with a relatively accesible place to play in - let me know.
That's about it for today - I'll try and blog again tomorrow again - otherwise it's next week.
The ultimate pick up line to end this one:
"You and me babe, how about it?"
-Romeo & Juliet (Dire Straits)
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5 comments:
Allo there mate...how goes it?
i cant help but look at the irony of the situation, while in gloomy London the weather has cleared up and whipped up an absolute scorcher of a day, our hot and humid Mumbai was washed down with the first "official" rains of the year...
Glad to see your keeping fit with some tennis otherwise was wondering how you would manage to sit 8-9 hours a day in the office.
Italian women are hot, but trying looking for a Spanish woman, or you'd be surprised Swedish or Danish women, they have a real classic beauty going on for them...or even the Portuguese and Greek women have the smoldering look going...hope next time u go around London in a bus you'd carry a camera along with your ipod...
PS: on a slightly tangential note, who do you think is going to win the Wimbledon??
My bets are on roddick or safin...think federer's luck is running out.
I shall take your advice and look out for the Spanish and Greek and Danish and ... and.... My money, if it has to be on someone has to be with Federer. The guy is just sublime on grass. Don't take the last 2 Slams as a yardstick - he just came up against incredibly talented players on their favourite surfaces and on what was good days for them. Grass is Federer's surface and unless he is half dead due to fatigue or something - you'll see him on his knees in 2 weeks on Centre Court.
And I'm not fit - just tried tennis today!! Still very unfit - the office part is not so hard.
Dear Brother,
Having had a mite more experience of meteorological conditions in the UK I can assure you that it is not the weather that fascinates the British, but the fact that they have so much of it!!
Consider the fact that on Sunday when it was 30 in oxford ( a bit too warm for some) there were thunderstorms and flash floods in Yorkshire less than 2 hours away.
To back you up about PC in Britain, weather speak is the best conversation starter. Of course, the line to use is ,"Isn't it awful today?"
dont worry, it will always be awful...
Its either too hot or too cold or raining and someone will always remember a worse time to back you up.
hey kiddo, who knew u were blogging again! hows that computer doing? ur post about ur drunken exploits made for very amusing reading..!
and talking of italian women and their charms, i heard u aren't headed for a quick trip to europe? go to dublin with ur anna or something- i found really cheap tickets from birmingham. get ur anna to tell u about it. let me know if i can help.
take care, have a good time ;)
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