my cousin is sooooo adorable! i just got the birthday card from my uncle, aunt and cousins and my cousin made me a birthday cake out of purple paper, drew, cut and pasted sixteen candles on it, and then wrote on the back: "happy birthday aparna, wish you has 18 candles".
SOOOOOO cute. i want to hug her. my sweet precocious baby cousin.

you know she uses words like 'insurmountable?' when she wants to get onto the bed that my grandparents are lying on, she goes round to the grandpa side to climb over and get in the middle, cos she says the grandma side is insurmountable (cos my grandma's fatter than my grandpa, haha.) my cousins are smart =P

i haven't seen her in more than 2 years! i hope i won't have to wait till i go to university to see my favourite cousins again. the littler one (who drew me the cake) will be 6 (or actually 7! i think she'll be 7 because i'm pretty sure she was born in 99 but i can't believe she'll be 7 and the last time i saw her she was 4!) and that's so olddd. it's horrible when little kids get old. her sister was the most adorable thing when she was small, and now she's a sullen ten-year-old who hates school and doesn't talk much. although the last time i saw her she was also smiley and huggable. i shall be a most sentimental mother. but atleast mothers don't have to be away from their kids for 2 or 3 years at a time so they have a longer period of time in which to see their kids being small and cute. hopefully. i miss my favourite cousins :(

hm are there dolphins and a butterfly sanctuary in singapore? my friend, A from delhi, is coming to singapore in june, and she says they want to see those. i seem to know very little about the tourist attractions in singapore. also don't quite see why people would holiday in singapore other than for the shopping and maybe the food. she says she's coming to do lingerie shopping because lingerie in india lacks quality.

i'm not sure whether to be excited that i might meet her after... what's it been, 5 or 6 years? because i'm not sure how much the term 'friend' really fits the bill. because we were pretty tight back then, but then i haven't met her since, and she's become the ex of my other friend, K, who's alternately pissed off with her and in love with her - when he isn't insisting he's either gay or has a crush on me or doing other strange things. and my other friend, R, who's kindof an annoying person herself, intensely dislikes A. very possibly this is because R and K also have an on-again, off-again thing going on. the last time i was in bangalore, R and K weren't talking. all the soap operas. but i've known R for years, even longer than i've known A, because she lives in the same apartment block as my grandparents. and all the other girls our age have moved out so every time i go to bangalore R's my company. A comes every year to bangalore for the summer to visit her grandma who also lives in the same place, but i haven't been back in the summer since... well, the last time i met her. which was probably 2000.

oh and technically i'm disallowed from maintaining relations with K - even if they've only ever been platonic - because my grandpa has a profound belief that K is an amoral good-for-nothing. it is highly likely he's right, but a) i don't intend for anybody to dictate whom i may be friends with, and b) K is entirely harmless.

K is Freaky Bangalore Guy, incidentally. I worry that K may occasionally read my blog, as i did give him the address some time ago - quite a silly move because i vaguely recall blogging about the bangalorean real-life soap operas back in decemberish. although i've disguised names, he will not appreciate his sordid life being publicised. or he may enjoy the attention.

strange, these people.

today has been quite a lovely day, but now i'm tired and i still have tuition after dinner! ughh.