It is late and I am working on a project for a friend while googling for stats for an article for another company – but I can’t help listening with half an ear to the spouse’s weekly desi news catch-up. Sify.com’s “news” is going on at the mo and the girl wielding the microphone is getting on my nerves big time. The fake accent, the way she keeps saying “McDonnals” and the language! Maybe I have been living in England for way too long so I don’t know when it became hip to throw a few “hell”s on television. Blaspheming aside, what ever is “raved up”?

While you are at it, how would you “catch up with a watermelon juice”? Is Watermelon Juice a person? And something else is labelled as tasting “very well”.

ARGH!

Before I ram a pen in my ear to relieve me of my misery, let me shout: I am going to Chennai! Yep! After much suspense, the babus at High Commission, London came through (just like you predicted, CA!) and I successfully applied for my visa and booked my tickets. And Saturday morning shall find me sipping my grandma’s piping hot kapi. As I aim to be there for a month or so, I have decided to do two things 30 days related.

To keep my blog chugging along, I have decided to do my 31DBBB (or Darren Rowse’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog). I participated in this challenge when Darren first launched it and I think it will do self and blog a great deal of good, give the blog kind of an overhaul.

One thing I am going to really miss is my Body Combat. To combat (ha ha) that, I am going to be doing Jillian Michaels’ 30 day Shred whilst trusting in Rujuta Diwekar to help my eating in check. Though her bambaiyya language will drive me nuts well before week 1, I am hoping I will be ably distracted and can stop myself from poking me in my eye.

When did speaking bad English become so fashionable anyway? On national television and published books, no less!