Yesterday was my "Heppy Bird Day" - one year older, but no less wiser! LOL - feels odd, 23 is an age by which one should have a reasonable idea of which direction one is headed towards..and I'm still weighing my options! Scared of growing up...
The day was quite good, despite the fact that I’m sitting in this town far-away from all my friends. At AF Pune you have to take a cake to class if it’s your birthday – so I baked a huge cake the previous day. Class takes off a light note, and our Prof is persuaded to take on something fun and not stressful. And plus we try our level best to sing “Bonne Anneversaire…” in the right tune!! Hehe…;-)
Plus all those e-cards, SMS and telephone calls made the day as special as it could possibly be. I know I have my share of eccentricities and have driven most of up the wall with my quirks and idiosyncrasies, my stubbornness and my absurd expectations, not to mention the fact that I’ve forgotten to wish many of my friends on their birthday this year– that they still count me as part of their life and remember my birthday means a lot to me! :-)
Phone calls filled my evening – and then we went for dinner. I decided to abandon my usual favourite Mainland China this year and chose La Dolce Vita, having seen a tiny advert for the restaurant in Pune Times, thinking it would be a nice cozy little Italian Restaurant. Nice it was – but definitely not small or cozy. The advert gave no indication of how fancy the place would be – needless to say I loved it! Gourmet dinner, wine, cheese – an absolutely divine ambience – oh yes I loved it! As Bhaiyya commented, “Trust Geetanjali to pick a place like this for dinner – and who else, but her to polish off the cheese platter and the wine!” LOL! Goes without saying that dinner at La Dolce Vita was the icing on the cake for the day! ;-)
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Hope you had a fun day.
Here's Wishing you all the best and may you feel that by the next year that 1 year was too short to do all the things that you wanted to...
*HIC* Yo hoho! And bottle(s) of wine! Erm, and what is 'joyuex anniversaire'? I got that one long sentence from a french friend, cause I wrote it in English and had him translate :p
Your gift is waiting. (though madusa hasn't purchased it yet :">)
And by the way, Strand is having a book sale at Anand Hall, Juhu!
"Happy Bird Day" - a year older , many years wiser!
Thanks Paddy and Sreekesh! :)
Madusa - "Joyeux Anneversaire" is the same as "Bonne Annerversaire" which is the same as "Happy Birthday" - hehehe!! And here I thought you remembered what you'd learnt in French class! LOL! Thanks a ton - I can't wait to see the gift, so hurry up and buy it! JK ;-)
PS I'm burning with envy - Strand sale at Anand Hall!! Wahhhhh!!!
Just noticed the wording "Heppy Bird Day" .Stay Cool and Fly High.
I am posting this comment to ask you the question "Why cannot the french pronounce as they speak?"..Given this case how do palindromes sound in french? Meaning "Mandelbrot" is pronounced as "Torblednam"??
No wonder the French have no equivalent for the word "Humor"..
Hii! Belated Happy Birthday! wowww...a cool day! Wishing you loads of fun in the days ahead :)
Paddy, are u into fractals?
Thanks Pratima - good to keep getting wishes 2 days after my b'day :)
Paddy I don't know about Palindromes in French, but they have something called "Verlan" - literally Verlan is the phonetic inverse of the word "L'envers" (the French pronounce it as "l'anver".
Its basically slang terms used by the young and came about ard the 80s...what they do is turn a word on its head - you can read more about it at: Verlan
I'll try to find out if they do have an equivalent for Palindromes in French!
Also as far as my knowledge goes Palindromes are words/sequences of words that read exactly the same backwords as they do forwards...Eg. Ah Satan sees Natasha....in that case Mandelbrot is not a Palindrome.
Sreekesh, I thought Mandelbrot was a kind of German bread, but your comment prompted me to look it up and I now know that it is also the name of a French mathematician who invented fractals! Always good to enrich my tiny wealth of knowledge! Thanks!
Sreekesh,
Yes..I am not so much into fractals as I am not dimensional analysis but fractals as fractional dimension does provoke my thoughts in a genral nature.
Geet,
Internet Traffic in itself is self-similar in nature and hence fractal in terms if mathematics....
-Paddy
Fractals and its infinite potential.
So much like me.
Cool...Sreekesh..Apologize for the wording out there Geebaby..I was so drunk when I wrote that..Didnt make sense did it?
Hahaha...no it didn't Paddy! Now I know it wasn't even meant to... ;-)
Happy Birthday Geetanjali.
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