It's a Boloco kind of day.

If I could turn back time one year to the day
I'd do one thing differently, make one less mistake.

That is all.

Happy May Day

Yes it's the first of May. Supposedly that means that spring has definitely arrived, but that's obviously not the case here in Massachusetts since the weatherman last night said that we'd have frost on the ground today. Yippee.

Also, doesn't "Happy May Day" sound like a total contradiction? "May Day" is a cry for help, an announcement of a bad emergency. How can that be happy?

Farhat used to work at the Accident & Emergency department in Mayday Hospital in Croydon. Ha. How apt was that?

May Day is also LaboUr Day in the rest of the world. All I know is this means that people get a day off in the UK and Pakistan (not sure about India). But the UK gets LaboUr Days, like, 8 times a year. So how is this special?

There is the May Day Maypole Dance (I think that's what it's called?) where there's a big pole stuck in the ground (much like the eyesore in front of P&T's apartment) with many colored ribbons tied to it. Girls hold on to one ribbon each, and then (to music) dance around the pole in choreographed steps so that the colors are all weaved together to create a nice umbrella effect. Why do I know this? Because our completely wretched P.E. teacher Mrs. Kapoor made us do a Maypole dance once on a Sports Day. Don't ask me why, but at least it was more relevant to sports than the bhangra she once made us do.. or the time we did the *shudder* Arabic hair shaking dance (the boys did a corresponding Arabic stick shaking dance that year).

Hmm, now that I think about it, I think I'm going to start taking belly-dancing lessons. I've always wanted to, and now I have the time. Should look that up.

Did anyone notice that April 2008 saw a record number of blog-posts for any month in the history of the xinugeist? Yep. Clearly I was in hyper-drive last month. And the number of posts? 69 dudes!!!!! (oh come on, don't tell me the Bill & Ted reference was lost on you lot?)

Seriously, though, this is bad news. I'm clearly over-expressing myself. I'll work on it, I promise. I'm going on a .. a.. blog diet. I will overcome this debilitating problem. Really, I will.

That is all (for a while!).

Seasame Street Classics

Because we were barely watching them, yesterday we cancelled our two Premium International Channels (Zee TV, TVAsia) and upgraded to the DigitalVisionPlus package that - among many other channels, including lots of movie channels and Showtime - got Sarwar excited because we finally would have Boomerang.

For those of you who don't know what it is, Boomerang runs all the cartoon classics from before the 1990s - a treasure trove for those of us who are tired of the super-powered anime hamsters/dogs/kids and other screeching Cartoon Network charcters of today, and would rather spend some time watching Tom & Jerry, 2 Stupid Dogs, Pink Panther, The Jetsons, The Flintstones and Dennis the Menace.

Anyway, watching all these cartoons for the past two days reminded me of a few classic Sesame Street clips I want to share with y'all:

The catchiest song ever created on Sesame Street... (5:13)


As much as Elmo and Kermit annoy me, this is actually pretty cute...(2:56)


And finally - what is wrong with Martha Stewart? Freak! (2:50)

Ugh I am *so* addicted to Facebook.

I just added an oldddd crush to my network.. and am obsessing over his profile even though there's nothing on there and I really don't give a crap :P~

Boy, I need to get a job.