Sunday, February 17, 2013

All about egos

The thing about egos is that everyone has one. It's easy enough to inflate one and deflate one too. It's easier to pop it like a bubble and its easy to let you ego guide your decisions.
The other day I said something about male egos and one of my friends remarked that it was all about egos for me. Pretending I didn't hear it, I asked him to repeat it, but he wouldn't. But the fact is, I heard it. It's as much about my ego as yours.
Who says the male ego is bigger and needs to be pampered? I have an ego as big as anyone else's and I'll go as far as to pay an extra 10 dollars for a cab than ask for a ride form someone who's taken a shot at my ego. I am a difficult person to deal with, both my best friends would vouch for that, even though they both live in different countries.
I'd rather have an ego and act like a bitch than act like a damsel in distress. 'll ask for help if I really really really need it. Otherwise, I'm good. Thankyouverymuch.
Isn't it those superior male egos that prompt a man to rape a woman when she questions his "mardangi". Like if he had any, he'd never get to the point of hurting a woman who bruised his ego. Yes it's all about egos with me because it's all about egos with the male population.
Isn't it the male ego that makes a man order for the entire table? When the rest of the people on the table are as capable of placing the order for the entire table as he is? Not like everyone lost their voices when the server came around. Pretty much all about egos.
Its all about egos. I am not saying women don't have egos, hell I have a hot balloon sized ego! But if you're going to tell me it's all about egos with you acting like you don't need your ego massaged ever, that's just bull shit.
Which brings me to the fact that I am not blaming anyone for having an ego or acting based on one's ego. That would make me a hypocrite. Butt, the bottom line is, you have one, face it. 

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Indian Weddings

Andddd I am back! Now that my dear little laptop is functional again, there will be an overload opinions on the rest of the world. There a lot of opinions on a lot of things floating out there and I am so glad mine is one of the many floating in the Internet atmosphere, like a balloon, or a cloud, or if its liquid, like a plastic bottle, or whatever objects floats will work !
My sister got married and that probably takes the award for the biggest event in my life in the last 1 year. Yes I am sure I wasn't the one getting married and it was still a big big big event for me, because hey, when the person you yell at all the time goes away and you don't have anyone else to yell at, it becomes a little tough to find someone else to yell at. There's only so much yelling you can do at your mom. Mine would not hear more than 1, no maybe 2 sentences and tell me to eat something, because that's what keeps me busy and keeps mu mouth shut.
It's a big thing to see your sibling get married. First and foremost, with the size of my family, my month long winter break became like one huge never ending festival. So much so that the few days after the wedding that I was still home, I kind of didn't know what to do with my time apart from packing, because there wasn't any work to be done, there was no where to run to , to finish errands and there was no one screaming their head off about how this aspect of the wedding hadn't been taken care of. Indian weddings are always fun, more so when you are at the slight off center of it, since my sister was at the center, that's the place that the rest of us sisters occupy. Seeing her get married made me realize how much I loved her, which I don;t say often, nor to her, or to anyone else. But I guess she knows, because every time I got mad when I was home, she'd be like Jigaaarrr this and that, and I'd be like ok ok ok.
Not to mention the numerous family dinners that we had and the amount of food I ate and the fact that I can now walk in a sari without having to hold on to any part of my sari. Yay me! Oh the lessons I have learnt during the wedding. Always be there where there is money involved, you can somehow claim you deserve some money too and get at least 1 Rs.100 note out of them. I literally left my breakfast plate full of jalebi and gathiya for one of those mini ceremonies for that. hah.
I am just glad that I will now have a double bed to sleep in when I go back home, since I have officially declared my sister's room as my own!