Belle de Bengal

Last Thursday I spent the entire day with Belle de Bengal at her pad up North (London).

Suburbia isn't such a bad place is it? What with those picket fences and community watch committees. No

What we did during our time together was pretty simple. Eat starters and watch movies:

Amelie by Jean Pierre Jeunet
Mandi by Shyam Benegal
Elizabeth by Shekar Kapur
Ek Je Aache Kanya (There was a girl) by Sabrata Sen

All in all an excellent way to chill out/gossip and sit on our asses all day without a care in the world.

It was during this time that I applied for a place on the Islington Orgy (a venture a friend of J's had introduced me to earlier that week). Updating my gaydar profile was the first step in the application. A black and white photo of me looking like a CK model, it has to be said.

A week has passed and I have yet to hear back. I've been warned the competition is fierce.

Met up with Belle de Bengal yet again last night for an amazing meal at the fairly new restaurant Sitaarey in Covent Garden. A beautiful buffet of exotic kebabs brought straight out of the fire. With its bollywood themed decor and A R Rahman songs playing on the various television screens, it was sort of like finding myself in heaven. This place is definitely worth checking out.

Belle de Bengal also surprised me a little...as she considered her romantic options. Sleeping with underpaid inferior men really isn't her cup of tea it would appear. That, and sleeping with anybody with brown skin. It surprised me therefore to hear that her mother is mid process trying to marry her off to a partner in a law firm. Think of the money I said...think of the money. This said, if all is to be believed, Belle de Bengal is also on a cracking salary herself.

Ambition is such a wonderful thing.