weekend -on the rocks

Weekend started with watching “Golmaal” on fri evening - the new one, with Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Paresh Rawal, Sharmaan Joshi and Tusshar Kapoor. Slapstick fare (‘slap’ being instrumental in the movie!). Still got a long way to go to compare with Jaane bhi do yaaron or even Andaz apna apna, but a very entertaining flck nevertheless. Worth a watch. Let me add, Sharmaan Joshi makes for a ‘hot bird’ (as Chops would put it)!Tusshar had another good role (played a mute), and Rimi Sen is completely unrequired - thats about as kindly as I can count her contribution to the movie.

Saturday was grandpa’s 10th death anniversary, so visited the old age home and Missionaries of Charity home for the Dying and the Destitute to make the usual yearly donation on behalf of my Grandma, who couldn’t go herself this year. Nothing works better than a visit to the latter place to recount your own blessings.

Yesterday (Sunday) was fun. Mom and me went on our second trip with Society to Save Rocks to Shamirpet. (http://www.saverocks.org). About 8 cars (approx 40 people, all ages) congregated at St Anne’s in S’bad and then drove for an hour to Shamirpet. Lovely drive, past the cantonment area (they usually are based in the best places!). Since in the rest of the city I barely get to go above third gear for more than 2 mins at a stretch, this was bliss. Lot of greenery, meandering, smooth and almost-empty roads. Stopped at a place beyond Shamirpet lake and then split up. The area was full of amazing rock formations. Learnt a new term - Bouldering – and practiced it a wee bit too.

I guess it’s the prelims to actual rock climbing, and its a horizontal movement compared to the vertical movement in rock climbing. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouldering for more info. Needless to say, am having a little problem sitting today, and collected my usual quota of scrapes. I would also like to erase mental pics of my bum up in the air while clumsily trying to get my leg up over the damn boulder with my fingers feverishly clutching at some imaginery grip! There seriously has to be an easier way to climb down than slithering down on your behind! Well, decent attempt (I comfort myself), hopefully will get better with time, and thick-bottom pants!
As of now, will snooze through my Monday blues. For those missing their daily share of my PJs - If Im blogging while Im snoozing, can I call it “snogging”instead??!!