CONFESSIONS OF AN EXPAT HOUSEWIFE

Prelude

The idea of this blog came a few days ago when I was at the gym. The stats on the elliptical showed that I had already burnt 150 calories but I had barely even noticed it. Possibly cos I was busy chit-chatting about a certain someone and her infamous fb posts. I had sworn that come 2017 and I wasn't going to utter a word about anyone behind their backs. I was going to be a good girl and I had sworn that there was no way I was going to end up like the other  kitty party aunties that I had encountered, back in my Delhi days. ‘No more gossips & no more tittle-tattle,’ I had told myself. 

But for anyone who has been a stay-at-home expat wife, knows very well that, that is something, almost impossible to do. First and foremost we, the so called expat housewives are all scrunched up into a location where there ain't much to do. (Let's admit it, there is only so much of pagodas and local markets one can see in a lifetime). And secondly most of us barely even need to lift our own grocery bags let alone do our own laundry or wash our own dirty dishes. We all are blessed with a minimum of at least two helpers and who are we kidding here with all those 'oh- I’m so busy with all my charity work' (or in my case blogging) nonsense. Let's just kiss that aside for a second and admit once and for all that we, or at least most of us are completely jobless. 

Still I wasn't liking that a considerable portion of my day was being spent talking about people who barely had any role to play in my day-to-day existence and the second half feeling guilty for speaking out the same. Moreover I was only 34…way… way too young to fit into the kitty party aunty club anyway. So that’s when the idea of this blog popped up. This way, it will no longer be gossiping/ back-bitching or whatever it is you may call it  cos well now it's all out in the open and secondly I will somehow be paying homage to all these wonderful characters who have made life for me highly entertaining here.   

Statutory warning 

All characters and plots appearing in the next couple of pages are so not fictional and are as real as it can be. (Though few might have been exaggerated a tad-bit for amusement purposes). Any resemblance that you may feel is probably because you must have been in the exact same situations or you, yourself might have been ‘it’. I understand, that just like every other story has a different side to it, I am sure my version has one too. Unfortunately this is my blog and I am the one writing it. That being said, I sincerely apologize in advance if this ruffles a few feathers the wrong way. Idea is not to hurt, condemn or criticize. This blog is purely for fun and should be read/shared for entertainment purposes only.