So, I've written about this show 'The Geek and the Beauty' in the past and how I've hated the show and how the geeks are over-geeky. Little did I realize the show was soon to go on in my house with AB and me. Yes, you guessed it right about the geek. It is not me :) Let me get on to it and tell you why.
After reading Nags' tags, I lamented aloud about the state of my own eyebrows. My natural eyebrow growth can beat Krur Singh's any day. Even on his worst days. Okay, stop getting grossed out and show some sympathy. Damn, how I digress no? So, ya, coming back, the Indian parlours here are quite far away from my house, and since my license is still in the works, I'm unable to go to the parlour on my own. The one occasion that I managed to go to the 'good' Indian parlour, I had to wait for 40 women (who from the looks of it did not really need any help from the parlour, while I looked like I should have come, maybe 3 months ago) to get various things done before me. This, after taking an appointment. I kind of gave up, and got back home. Spoke to some other people like my sis-in-law about how they all manage to get it done. All the people I spoke to said tweezers or those tiny eyebrow shavers/shapers from Walmart. I thought, aah, I can do this, and got my eyebrows done once and ever since, I've shaped them myself. I must say I do a good job. Of ruining them. Forever. Sigh. Now, they are thin, and grow the next day. Basically, they are a pain.
So, I was cribbing as usual and AB said something that left me gaping/staring/mouth wide open/unsure of what to say. This is our conversation for all of you, at the risk of throwing our privacy out of the window. Sigh. The things I do to make sure my 'very' few readers have me on theirs :)
Nandu: Look at me, I look horrible. No?
AB: You look the same (Whatte insult, I say!)
Nandu: Grrr...you mean I looked the same even during our marriage? (WTH did I pay for, dammit?)
AB: No, I meant you will always look pretty to me. Eyebrows, shybrows do not make a difference
Nandu (mellowing down): But still, you will say that. But still...
AB (in a practical voice): Okay, let's see.
Nandu (trying to hide excitement voice, purposely putting a whine in voice): Whaaaaaat?
AB: Let's take a picture of you now and...
Nandu stares
AB: we will get your eyebrows done and then...
Nandu stares in confusion
AB: take another picture
Nandu is confused whether to continue to stare or start glaring
AB: Then, we can compare these two pictures and plot the length of the eyebrows and the time it took to grow to that length on a graph, and calculate the rate of growth and prepare for it accordingly.
Nandu (almost faints, but since she has had many male friends/cousins and a father, she remains steady, smiles and says): Do you want to change the channel?
P.S. - Yes, it was just an excerpt of our private conversation (what did you expect?) and a hint for all of you to put my blog on your Readers.
11 comments:
hehehe.. men don't understand eyebrow shaping.. now amrith tells me our eyebrows match!! this is not funny cuz u shud check out his eyebrows in one of our pics on orkut (if u dont remember them)
My adventures with my eyebrows were so notorious even back in the school days, that it came as no surprise when i got a new years card from a classmate saying "hope it's a good one for the eyebrow experiments"
I rest my case
ROFL!~ I don't shape my eyebrows these days 'cos somebody exclaimed, 'Oh so sorry you couldn't get your eyebrows done.' Ya, After paying 45 odd bucks.
:D Whatte insult.
i remember, once this dumb barber i went to, trimmed off my eye lashes and shaped my eye brows. I was a kid then. i remember my mom blasting him
kashtam!
ha ha.... sounds like a conversation Ash and I would have!! I once got my hair cut and he didn't notice the difference!!! So the next time I got a haircut I made sure it was sooooooooo different, he just HAD to notice!
but seriously! Why did God make indians with soooo much facial hair! Were the ones who need it the least!
@ Nags: ROTFL, ha ha, I went and checked A's eyebrows :D
@ Drag.on.fly.or.not: :) I've heard this one before!
@ Me: I know how it is. Trust me.
@ Macabreday: Did you faint? ;)
@ Gradwolf: Ennakudaan :P
@ Scatterbrain: Tell me about it man! After living with the Nagas, I have an acute sense of how bad it is :(
Hehehe -- I was going to say that close proximity to Nagas can make one feel like a bear, but I see you've already gone there!
As for the eyebrows, take heart -- when I first started doing them myself with tweezers, I made them weirdly thin. Then they gradually grew out again and are now normal... I mean, overgrown and having to be kept in check every two weeks... but normal. :D
men. bah!
you should describe in horrific details the process also - will win you some sympathy at least
@ Scribbler: The Nagas..sigh, the CIEFL effect wasn't enough for me. I lived with 6 of them for two years :)
@ Cynic: He says: 'then don't do it no?' sigh. I've given up.
ROTFL
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