Have you seen a stressed bride lately?

Do give her a slap and tell her to enjoy her wedding before it’s D-day.
No. Really. Do it. You might get a box in return, but by next year she will probably tell you how right you were and thank you for it. Well, not really. But it’s good to think positive. Works wonders for [...]

Of Charming Teachers and Charming them…

6th June 2009
1.36pm (Bahrian time)
It’s an empty house I have come home to today. The sunlight is swishing in through the French windows this afternoon, unlike it’s angry barge a few days back.
For some reason, I am experiencing more fascinating things in the morning than in the evening out here in Bahrain.
This can be rather [...]

Nana, Goodbye.

3rd June 2009
4.30 pm
I have quite forgotten the feeling of holding a pen and actually using it to pen down the thoughts I think onto a lined page.
My diary, if it had a life, would be quite chuffed with all the attention I am lavishing on it.
While I wish I were sitting in a ramshackle [...]

A Night made for Sylvia Plath

Mad Girl’s Love Song:
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me [...]

The Bridal Gowns on my Mind

I had a crazy talk about my wedding gown with Mel today and his observations on my taste in bridal gowns were enlightening and perfect, to say the least. 
He thinks my wedding gown is to be a strapless and backless affair with yards of lace enveloping me. Dramatic is my cue and bold is my [...]

Of Dreams & Roses

This has been a long hiatus from ‘Plan “W”‘ for me.
A few short weeks wherein I left behind an entire office, found a new group of friends, cherished my best friends all the more, met some interesting people, started off sparkling conversations with nearly everyone I met and most of all, started being *social* for [...]

Purple Feathers, Darling Nuns, Shopaholics & New Beginnings

Last Friday had me sleeping a bit late due to extreme excitement over my first shopping excursion for the wedding.
Cheapjack’s in Bandra is a DIY bride’s dream & maybe the groomsmen & the men from my bridal party’s nightmare. I shall reveal nothing more than two words- purple feathers.
Mom and I wrapped up with Cheapjack’s [...]

The Perfect Proposal. Is there really such a thing?

Everyday as I pass by the under-refurbishment Spykar outlet near where I work, I can’t help but spend at least 5 seconds of my time staring at this utterly captivating advertisement: 

Yes, the models are painfully rangy and the style of proposal is completely not what most catlics would consider appropriate, but dang it! Does a [...]

The Great Bridal Gown Search

M said “Shock ‘em all”.
S said “I like what you select”.
R said “It’s you”.
V said “It’s Reen”.
P said “Less skin”.
G said “Demure”.
R said “Not white”.
B said “Comfortable”.
M said “Anything you wear you make it look good”.
J said “Chuckle chuckle”.
S said “Magical”.
L said “Gasp”.
A line from my Facebook bio which I feel I must add out [...]

Graffiti & Slumming Around Chapel Road, Bandra

After I finished checking out tailor number two on Chimbai Road in Bandra, Roslyn & I went to meet my darling cousin Joel at his lovely house on Carmel Church road.
It’s always good to have a man’s point of view when you are wedding planning and from all my friends and family I can think [...]