the everyday gecko

sometimes I hit a blogger's block. Its not because the world has suddenly become filled with beautifully dressed people, its just me. since I owe it to my readers, I am going to force myself to blog.
Saturday afternoon, I was on a hike at half moon bay. and in front of me walked this woman with a new fashion peeve - camouflage capris.
Whats with people wanting to wear camouflage clothes. They come in all shapes and forms. Cargo pants/shorts/capris/ skirts/dresses/even a string bikini/tshirts. i dont get the concept. Have we all decided that we may have to hide behind the bushes anytime soon? Has the orange alert really gotten to us?
The chameleon changes its colors to make itself invisible. Hence it becomes green, brown whenever its in that type of flora/fauna.
We, normal humans, however have no such need. The large green leaf like things have been used by the military so they can be concealed on one of their 'missions'.
So my request to yall...unless you are a military wannabe, please please discard ur camos.

trapped in The BirdCage

a little sleepy, blogging from the Phoenix airport. thank God for free web access!
today was quite an important day. there was a lot of preparation for this day. An important customer was going to come and view this new technology that I was demo-ing. The customer was a 'power woman'. she held a real high posn with a biG company and was known to be a tough cookie. (trust me..this description is important)I was actually scared of meeting her.
So me and the rest of the team are waiting for her to come. She walks in with her entourage(but of course..people like her always have an entourage..eye roll).
One look at her and all my tension vanished. For all the hype, and my expectations of her...she walked in looking a little more like Nathan Lane in The birdcage and a little less like Roseanne.
Her hair, the drag-queen eye makeup, the caky foundation, the bright red rouge. I expected her to break into 'We are family' , any moment. Her hair had been styled with those big roller curls. I am sure she had stayed up in the night trying to make her hair look 'pretty'.
I could tell though why nobody had informed her of new fashions. People probably were too intimidated of her and just liked to pander to her ego and nobody dared say anything abt the big hairdo or the big eyes!
And surprisingly enough, I have actually run into people like her before. And they have the exact same make up.
But her big gaffe gave me courage...and of course bad goosebumps.

instant gratification?

been bored to death. today i ran into an interesting incident. the orange alert at the airports created a chaos of sorts. people were asked to throw away things with liquids in them - lip gloss, lip stick, moisturiser, tooth paste and the works..everybody was complaining about it.
As I was standing in line, this middle-aged woman(she must be 35..is that middle-aged)..comes along. pretty face. makeup. a little bit of a shocker was her lavender tshirt which said - 'instant gratification' in several different places.
I was kind of stunned. Perhaps, I have a limited knowledge of the english language. or maybe I had a dirty mind. But I could only think of one meaning. Women that age sporting explicit logos like that were asking for too much.
The funny thing is - that my opinion about these kind of borderline lewd tshirts and people wearing them was reinforced a few minutes later.
In the course of some random conversation, I was talking about how irksome the lines can be especially when you have to travel for work. This woman looks at me and asks, 'what is it that you do again hun?'. Innocently enough I explained that I was a consulting engineer. Her reply - ' I know my friends who travel way too much. and they are upto no good! They are all hookers'
Go figure!