health conscious...

i'm trying to get into the habit of writing a blog more regularly... until now it's usually been in Uzi-bursts... half a dozen in a week and then silence for quite some time... ok, here goes...

last night, with the stomach screaming in anguish, due to another missed dinner because the cook decided to call a strike, i ventured to the ever-green fridge... it looked almost empty... but a closer search revealed a packet of milk in the freezer... tugging it out of the freezer convinced me of its ice-age origins... i still wasn't sure how i would get its contents out into a more edible form... just as i was turning it around,

"that may be old... check the expiry date" piped a voice from behind...

neha... (the incurably health conscious roomie who secretly belongs to the cult who actually read the tiny script on every package)

"not again..." i muttered...

but she came around undaunted anyway...
"it is from the day-before yesterday, you know... and it's written that it should be used within 24 hours and then too, if stored at 4Celsius only..."

can you believe that??? no normal human would go about reading expiry notices for milk! and certainly not as if you would be grilled on the specs with life-threatening consequences...!

but then, that's hermione (harry potter ignorants are not expected to understand...) for you... and the above incident was more a norm than an exception... she has all kinds of suggestions...

"you should not eat white bread everyday... maida is not good for stomach, you know... that is why i eat only brown bread..." the ironic point ignored here was that during this discussion, i had a healthy ignorable stomach while she... well, couldn't claim the same... (more details will lead to me being murdered in my sleep tonight...)

then there is the amount of milk in tea we can never agree upon(loads of it for me... 2.54 spoons for her)...

ah! as exasperating as anyone could be!!

but infrequently though, she manages to get something right... like the most gorgeous laptop... an ivory white macbook...
the only reason i pretend occasionally, to be nice to her...