Anniversaire

Dear Husband (DH) and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary last Thursday (Feb 1st) - or as DH puts it 11 years together 5 of them legal ( I really dont know what he means...). Its been a fun ride so far and I'm more convinced than ever I made the right choice. We've grown so much as a couple. Funny thing is people say relationships evolve over the years and you gain a deeper understanding of your partner etc - but at the same time so much of who we are is still the same now as it was back in 1996 when we first met - which proves the point that thinking you're going to change your beloved once you marry him/her is a big fallacy and we save ourselves a lot of grief if we reconcile ourselves to accept our partners warts, big tummies and all from the beginning - or in the words of Paul Dureon "I do not put you on a pedestal or stand. I recognize you must have flaws. I just dont see them"....love it. But am still working on DH's tummy - somethings need to be nagged at and picked over like a dog with a bone (my forte).

Anyway we celebrated at The Social in Telawi 3 - superb food - I had a marinara aglio olio (sounds a bit like the chorus from some cuban musical) and DH had a lamb shank so large it cant have possibly come from a lamb - maybe a mutant lamb. Divine food and the starter of thai-style baby crab was to die for - prices very reasonable (for Bangsar that is). The drinks (cocktails for both of us) was a bit watered down but the food was brill.

So McCurry Restaurant (KL) Sdn Bhd is not allowed to use the prefix Mc as the prefix Mc is the sole and exclusive right of McDonalds Corporation - what toss. As if any sane person would ever mistake good ole fish curry and chicken peretal and hot rasam for the swill served at McDonalds. Trade Mark laws aside where's the deception or passing off etc? Big corporations and their anti-competitve spirit highlights how threatened they are by some healthy competition...why the fear? If you're a multinational giant how on earth does it hurt you if some little ole indian uncle in Jalan Ipoh KL decides (with tongue firmly in cheek) to set up a curry house with the name McCurry? - pathetic.

Its Abhishek Bachan's birthday today ! Happy Happy Abhi! Made more so happy by the fact that he's about to be hitched to Aishwarya - enough to put a smile on any man's face I guess. When asked whether he would allow her to continue acting after marriage ( this question could only have come from an Indian interviewer) he quite rightly said "its entirely up to her, her career is her own concern"....way to go Abhi - daddy obviously brought you up right - "allow her" indeed .....BAH !