Lulu has moved from fashion and friends in glam Mumbai to global London. The blog takes on everyday living, museums, cafe's, cosmopolitan friends,currently infrequent weekend pub visits, shopping and calorie counts. If I understand British Humour which is slowly making its way into my brain cells through my cold ears, I promise to share.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

procrastination



I am so not in the mood to do this silly market report about luxury or fashion or both in India.
I'd much rather do what I am doing right now : Drink tea, munch on biscuits, look at the boats from the big glass windows. I'd even like to go on a walk by the canal on to Regents Park, if only it weren't so gloomy and dull outside.
I'm also so broke, and I'm hoping that all the money my kind soul has lent to various not so nice people comes running back into my bank account. For starters, my precious room in Camden Town, with this incredible view and a Sainsbury entrance that is accessible through my back door costs me a sweet 195 quid a week.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

F@#king Facebook Junkie

I'm spending too much time on it. Randomly checking peoples profiles, commenting on their photos, posting random things on their walls. I will seriously try my hardest and stay away. I'm also doing that silly travel quiz everyday - there is a certain amount of pleasure when u click on the right spot! Gtalk is bad enough.
Quote of the day -

"I think Facebook promotes narcissism and nepotism" - Tuktuki

Monday, October 08, 2007

Sunday on the South Bank

I adore big sunglasses. Somehow, on my face they look disastrous! My friend, Anshu has a lovely vintage pair she picked up in the Bricklane market. So my Sunday began with a hunt for super cool vintage sunglasses in the market but none to be found! Perhaps I was wrong to go alone - a second opinion helps me make a decision - since the approval comes quickly- with impatience or genuine praise. Call it a libran quirk, I'm perpetually confused and swaying between yes and no.
Spent the latter half of the afternoon with someone I met on the flight - probably the first time in my life I have had a conversation with anyone and ended up meeting them outside of the aircraft. I did give my phone no.s on impulse to a flight attendant once, en route to Kuala Lumpur - he seemed super slick - but the spell was gone once i was back. So, well walked and walked and talked a lot (mostly I did the talking- bad manners et all), I guess it's weird spilling secrets out to virtual strangers. But thats what cities do to you sometimes. Because somewhere you know - the connection ends with the city.
In the evening, met up with Ankx and her Italian date, Xi (i hope i spelt it the right way) a malaysian girl who is moving to Canada and Taeko, a cute Japanese girl who is not only married to Ankx (on facebook!) but also managed to do a dissertation on Irish pubs. Smart cookie!
4 bottles of wine later, stumbled on to Waterloo. The London Eye and all the twinkling blue lights on the tress were so magical - almost like a Disney fairytale. Sigh!
Ok and then, I am a crazy, evil, evil, girl - only I know why. Actually, I see that smile in my mind.

Saturday, October 06, 2007

My own karma


I'm making lists of my bad Karma.No point making a list of the good one's- they've been wiped out already!
Here's some reading -
One of the first and most dramatic illustrations of karma can be found in the epic Mahabharata. In this poem, Arjuna the protagonist is preparing for battle when he realizes that the enemy consists of members of his own family and decides not to fight. His charioteer, Krishna — one of the incarnations of God (Vishnu) — explains to Arjuna the concept of "duty" among other things and makes him see that it is his duty to fight. The whole of the Bhagavad Gita within the Mahabharata, is a dialogue between these two on aspects of life including morality and a host of other philosophical themes. The original Hindu concept of karma was later enhanced by several other movements within the religion, most notably Vedanta, and Tantra.

Karma literally means "deed" or "act" and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction that governs all life. Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will creating his own destiny. According to the Vedas, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future. The conquest of karma lies in intelligent action and dispassionate response.

Karma is considered to be a spiritually originated law. Many Hindus see God's direct involvement in this process, while others consider the natural laws of causation sufficient to explain the effects of karma.[10][11][12] Karma is not punishment or retribution, but simply an extended expression or consequences, of natural acts. The effects experienced are also able to be mitigated by actions and are not necessarily fated. That is to say, a particular action now is not binding to some particular, pre-determined future experience or reaction; it is not a simple, one-to-one correspondence of reward or punishment.

Hindu scriptures divide karma into three kinds: Sanchita (accumulated), Prarabdha (fruit-bearing) and Kriyamana (current) karma. All kriyamana karmas become sanchita karma upon completion. From this stock of sanchita karma, a handful is taken out to serve one lifetime and this handful of actions, which has begun to bear fruit and which will be exhausted only on their fruit being enjoyed and not otherwise, is known as prarabdha karma. In this way, so long as the stock of sanchita karma lasts, a part of it continues to be taken out as prarabdha karma for being enjoyed in one lifetime, leading to the cycle of birth and death. A jiva cannot attain moksha until the accumulated sanchita karmas are completely exhausted.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

time zone mind gone

I am a little hungover, nothing a nuerofren won't solve. Last night was gorgeous, walked along the riverside in Richmond to a local pub with my Uncle and Aunt. Drank two pints of Peroni, some Rose wine- was gloriously drunk and probably spilled out a lot of secrets i shouldn't have.
Mind is messed up due to personal reasons- maybe when i look back at this diary a few years later i won't remember why I am so upset. But I am, ok this is a reminder for the future- i am upset because of a certain email i received in my inbox this morning from a certain someone who i don't like very much anymore.
So the time zone makes me wake up at 4.30 am every morning which is a real piss off because i feel tired all day long then. Going to college now - have to start work on market report- i'm super late -and scared to fail it!

I like reading old letters and get all nostalgic, found one from my first love in my first hotmail account- here's some of what what he wrote -

In short I am a fool to not have stayed with you. I had everything. I really love you and miss being with you. I am not even sure what is going on in your life. But I needed to say this to you. I want you back in my life and this time I am not letting you go. In fact I sat and wrote down all the things about you and there are so many things I have taken for granted. So many things...

Well obviously you know what happened next- I said no and to this day I wake up thinking if it was the biggest mistake of my life. That if i had said a yes to this email, how different would my life be now?

I wouldn't be here blogging in London for one or with the job at Vogue- and i feel like getting all philosophical here because thats whats blogs are for - and sometimes I like feeling bad - for the sake of feeling bad. So now it is 8.48 am and I have obviously not had a fantastic morning.

Still no positive flat hunt. Its like the whole universe is conspiring against me! And this ones true too- when one part of your life is going good it is for sure that everything else will fall gloriously apart.
Oh whats good? i have a possible job at the fashion bible

I am listening to Amy Winehouse- love her new album - download it for free now now now.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

3 months and here i come



Wow my last post was almost 3 months ago. I'm back in London - and this sort of reminds me of my very first posting. Same situation /same time of the year. Well life for you -
Updates over the past 3 months-
Back from Bombay
Still flat hunting
Back with aunt in pretty Richmond
With a possible job back home in Bombay
Actually with a job back in Bombay - begin Dec 1
A super cool designation at that
Suddenly single
Still attractive
Hoping Karma gets the better of me
Yet to enroll in college
Yet to start writing my research project (freaking out actually)
Already went shopping despite numerous promises to my self - the Missoni look alike at H&M was seriously hard to resist
So the maroon, olive and silver little top with an empire waist- 14.99 (read: necessity since single
Asked super hot surfer type boy on bike for directions to Covent Garden then me and my friend giggled like manic school girls.
Smarter than last year
Still a little bit vulnerable
Cold and jet lagged
Happy to see my friends and walk around familiar streets


"Sugar Pie Honey Bun
Lulu is back in London"

P.S Neal's yard is beautiful. Smells like heaven, feels like a bohemian rhapsody.