Nooj

Between my shadow and my soul

not Practising what i Preach to students bout Procrastination

I want to be eating Dew's cake and cackling with her and Saals :( Instead I'm, proofreading words that have ceased to have meaning. I bet if I do a graph my posts are positively correlated with thesis deadlines. Sorry, Dew hope I get this opportunity for food poisoning again ;)(jj I'm sure Dew trumps Nino's desserts. Empirical evidence Saaleha?)

Ta to Waseem, Jauhara, Rae, Mj, Shaaista and Mazozo for the great-looking and tasting food and unstoppbale banter. One memorable moment is when Was is describing the high of inhaling tobacco and tasting caffeine at the same time, and Mj says 'Two vices, thats hardcore, man ' :) Oh and Saaleha is saying something about space cakes and Mj says: "But they're artifically vacuumed so that they can exit earth's atmosphere" :) Disclaimer: these are not exact words, coz I forgot to try out Joe's dictaphone.

Waseem tagged me in the 25 Movies meme that Azzy started but I don't get very attached to movies as they're part of the illusory reality that marshmallows and jelly beans create. Then Mash asked me for book recommendations and I decided to do a top 25 books. Speaking of Mash he's presenting Soul Soap online tonight if anyone wants to join please message me for details. Here are my top books in approximate order of when I read them:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 6 years
A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry - 9 years
Rainbow and Mr Zed- 12 years
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth- 13 years
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett- 14 years
Good Omens- Neil Gaiman and Terry- 15 years
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand- 19 years
All the Harry Potters- campus years
Running in Heels - 20 years
I dont Know How She does it by Allison Pearson - 20 years
Desperately seeking paradise by Ziauddin Sardar- 22 years
Shantaram - 23 years
Journey to Makkah- 23 years
The Other Boleyn Girl - 23 years

Perhaps one could devise correlations between my ideological views and the books I have read at certain periods. I freaking hate AND love correlations right now. I tag everyone who loves books including Khadija, Dew, Waseem, Saaleha, Mash, Zub Hab, Azmarita, Irfaan and h and whoever wants to procrastinate with me.

5 shared ideas:

S May 31, 2009 at 5:28 PM  

It was a tart actually, but I forgive you:)

M Junaid June 1, 2009 at 3:58 PM  

Saturday was awesome :)

Everything was... perfect :) Except my steak - which sucked - but I dont have it in me to complain. To waiters that is - i'l bitch on my blog

Squirrelly Wrath is taqdeer :)

as for the two mjisms - the first one was spot on. Concerning the second one - I dont remember half the crap that comes out of my mouth so i cant correct it.

I see youre still holding onto the marshmallow and jelly babies bit = get over it ;)

Saaleha Idrees Bamjee June 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM  

It really was a beautiful lemon meringue; fluffy-like-melted-marshmallow topping and the most perfect citrusy-accented filling.

And Dew's awesome too:)

S June 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM  

Saal, the agony I endured over actually making something for you to eat was worth that description, thanks!

Nooj, will do this tag when blogging resumes. Thanks

Nooj June 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM  

Dew aw man I shoulda dropped by on the way to the airport for take away :)

Mj- squirrels are just debris floating in the universe waiting to be captured in some vacuum of existential thought. Not really important that

SBM- I met her first ;)