ugh. my msn is not working. so i'm checking my mail by actually going to hotmail.com -- the first time in forever that i've taken that long route.

just got back half an hour ago from a most torturous carnatic concert. 3 and a half hours of a guy wailing in the esplanade concert hall. ok so i exaggerate, but i've honestly lost any appreciation i ever had for carnatic vocals, despite learning it for a total of 7 or 8 years through my life. but i started and stopped about 3 times, so i guess i got the message finally, that i didn't like it. stupid, really. hindustani is much better. the only time the concert was good was when he sang a small bit in hindustani raaga of some sort. my technical knowledge is very limited.

and now i'll stop the rant about the concert, because a lot of people thought it was very good, and it was fun looking around the hall at all the people falling asleep etc. and sushma was there, very amused that i actually turned up for one of these concerts, but i was coerced by mother dearest. actually it was quite fun, every few minutes talking about random things to my mom, and pointing out people falling asleep. except we were just a few rows from the front so i think i was rather rudely turning around and staring at people. well, it was better than falling asleep, which my mom prevented me from doing because there were Important People around and it was Rude to fall asleep during a concert. i don't think my parents paid for the seats, and i'm glad for it because that is one purchase i'd have disapproved mightily of. i think they got free vip seats cos my dad got hp sponsorship for sifas. hahaha. well atleast my mom enjoyed it quite a lot. and for that torture she put me through, i will try and make her buy me a ticket to diana krall. except people who want to go have already bought, so i'll have to find someone to go with.

and i asked her various other random things and she said ok, such as getting a membership at a gym and go for jazzercise and yoga and stuff (though my dad just came home and told me it would be more cost-effective and spiritual to go to the ramakrishna mission, sigh.) i should've also asked her to buy me kiehl's products (i discovered the reallynice store at scotts on wednesday and i lovees it but can only afford on mummy finance). i will ask another day. and being bored at one point, she started staring blissfully at her brand new beautiful diamond-studded baby pink Corum watch and told me that she ought to get a pink bag to go with it, so she was thinking of a Kelly. so atfirst, rather hilariously, i thought - kelly bag? but kelly has such bad bags i needed to buy her one! - and then i realised she meant hermes, but anyway i think chanel's better. i really like the new chanel bags. anyway so if we find time to go shopping tomorrow i will drag her to chanel. in any case hermes is only at liat towers and there's no reason i'd go to liat tomorrow, except for the zara which isn't on my current wishlist so i wouldn't go. or borders, but tomorrow will be clothes shopping.

ok so that was my requisite paris-hilton-wannabe paragraph. though she probably doesn't go to borders on any day, besides to promote her stupid heiress book which really is unbelievably pink and stupid.

basically, concert sucked and there are two more tomorrow that i am NOT going for. though there is a dance on sunday that i might want to go for, depending on when the fashion show is. and i just checked, it's at the very horrible time of 1pm. so maybe i'll go for the dance. and gahhh the two concerts tomorrow which my parents will be going for, means we may not have time to go shopping tomorrow! maybe i'll just go do my own market research after rehearsal, so i'm all prepared with shopping list so that my mom doesn't tire out before all is accomplished. or something like that. shopping techniques to suit the person with the credit card, honed to a fine point over the years. or not so fine or i'd have a lot of things i want already, but i'm still working on it.

ok see that was a not-so-paris-hilton paragraph, because she probably doesn't have shopping techniques besides pointing at dress/bag/shoe/car/hotel and flashing credit card. and she probably doesn't consider attending classical indian dance concerts.

it occurs to me that i did not stop ranting about the concert after i said i would. bad aparna.

anyway the rest of the day was so boring it isn't worth recapping. except for my rather ditzy mood in the morning, with both grace and kelly noticing my amazing ability to go off on tangents.

time to sleep, i have to wake up in about 7 hours to go for the first rehearsal i've been for in ages! i am Excited. though it's a really small part, but acting is fun =) so i'm not complaining.

god this entire entry sounds absolutely stupid. extension of my ditz!morning, sorry.