Butts&Bags, Pots&Pans

nice butt!

The pic says it all haha...this lovely piece was done by Me a few yrs back...I wanted to explore musculature hence the slightly androgynous look.

K enuff of the boring stuff..moving on!

Caught up with a few old friends today for lunch...Manjit (ex drama teacher..she's responsible for my slighly overdramatic tendencies..too good a teacher she was), Roohi (responsible fer my occaisonal bouts of emotional diarrhea) and Sidra ( responsible for making me realise that i have the crappiest taste in guys =P)..had lunch and shared a good laugh...relived high school memories..u know..memories that can be repeated a 1000 times, but is a joy to listen to every.single.time. =)
such moments are so good for the soul.

So i was telling my friends about my mom (yes..her again...yea i know..i have mother issues. get over it and read on.)
I honestly don't know if this is just an 'Indian mom' thing...but all u indian people out there...does ure mom have a tendency to HOARD things??(people of other colour reading this..this could apply to ure mom's too)

What am i talking about? read on, dear reader...read on.

I carry this handbag around..its got white,blue and beige stripes (contrary to what SOME people think *cough roohihanitasidra* this bag is actually NICE) but thats not the point.
The point IS that i had to BEG my mom to let me use it...she would REFUSE to let me take it out of its covering...why? no idea! all she would say was -
"No no Mahi! Don't use it! Use it later...anyway why do u need to use it now??keep it for later!"
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(she used to say it like it was so normal to hoard bags, keep em locked up and let em get fungus-ed up...heaven forbid that there should be some sort of BAG FAMINE 5 years down the road.)

I mean, u open a cupboard and u have bags tumbling down all over the place!

You must understand...it's not about the bags...its about THE HOARDING TENDENCY...its disturbing..
She does the same goddamn thing for pots and pans...and her excuse for that is that she's doing it for ME.
Yes...to pass them to me when i get married.
(Coz by then the world wont be producing pots and pans, you see.)

Im starting worry that this could be a genetic thing...coz my grandma hoards too...my mom gives her stuff to use..she packs it away into one of the gazillion cupboards she has, and 5 years later...gives the stuff back to mom (who in turn hoards it ..for me.)..

It's a vicious cycle of hoarding.
As far as I know, i havent caught myself hoarding anything...yet.

Now this may not be true..but i have *ahem* been accused on more than one occaison of having slightly quirky (aka disgusting) taste in bags, clothing and men.
Oh god...What if my mom was just trying to protect me from the ridicule i might receive because of the bag?!
Oh god....Was she just trying to protect me??

*Cue sad hindi music*
"Mummy....
Mummmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy......"
*Cries softly in an overdramatic-bollywood manner..aaand camera zoooms out*
Cut!
Thats a wrap!

Ta!