I was out cross-pollinating the blog world when I realised that
I HADN’T TOLD YOU ABOUT MY SHORT HAIR
(short hair, not short hairs)

It happened one chilly February morning. The sun was shining bright, but shining like cold steel. A bitter draught was blowing through the letter box which kindly Postman had managed to prop open. I sat upon the throne, shivering and contemplating life and the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Suddenly, a thought occured to me, floating up from the murky recesses of my mind like a bubble released underwater (think bath time. Oh come on, we’ve all done it!).

Basically, I wet my flowing locks (this is not an euphemism for pissing in one’s pants) and then cut them off with a blunt and rusty scissor. Unfortunately, when my hair dried, it sprung up a couple of inches owing to its curly nature. So what was intended to be a chin-length, Kurt Cobain-cut, ended up as sorry-poodle look. Panic set in. This was a Monday morning. Which could only mean that later on in the day it was going to be a Monday night. And we all know what Monday nights are: Footage Night. (For the uninitiated, The Footage and Firkin is a fine, reputable establishment full of eighteen-year-old students (and us, the wolves amongst the sheep) and is the centre of most of our nefarious doings ) How could I party with hair like this?? Luckily Tracy was on hand to apply a masterful touch to the back of my hair (that’s the hardest bit). Now I’m like Hugh Grant, only my name has different initials. And other letters.

There’s this hilarious band called Gogol Bordello that describe themselves as Gypsy Punk, with loads of digs at Soviet musik!! I remember hearing a song of theirs called “It was alright in the past”, and today Radio 1 played another called “Start wearing purple”. Absolutely cracking! The website’s bloody annoyingly slow though.

Am I the only one who gets annoyed by shabby/loud ads?? (No you’re not, says Google. 199,000 for “annoying ads” in the UK alone!) There’s one for Sandals holidays that has a woman singing like a banshee, whooping the song and charging and swooping up and down the scales. I guess she wanted to display her full repertoire in the 5 seconds she had. But that’s when you can never hit the remote fast enough!

I watched ‘Derailed’ yesterday with Ms X, had a wonderful time. The cinema was a kind of default choice as it was raining, so I wasn’t really looking forward to it, atleast in the cinematic entertainment department 🙂 But I was pleasantly surprised when the film actually had loads of murder/suspense/rape/beatings. Whoa! that didn’t come out right! But it was a good film, so I recommend it. There.

I would like to wish all our dear friends in China and Singapore a very Happy New Year of the Dog!!! We hope (well, atleast I do) that they are enjoying a very emotional time with their close and loved ones. Yes I know I’m late in my wishes, but if you consider that this is a whole year, then being late by 4 days is equivalent to 400/365 = 1.0958904 % error.