Sunday, June 22, 2008

madame curie...this and that..




more from the arts festival..very unique work.. the first two pieces of art work are made by women artists and the last piece is by a male artist scott...
u can see the difference between male and female artists..
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I was asked to campaign for obama by a friend but had no energy to go...I didnot ...may be the next couple of weeks..
this years election is very interesting one..Iam still waiting for obama vp..I dont mind hillary...
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I saw this lovely movie this weekend " Madame Curie"
It was the most interesting movie I saw in a long long time..It was a cute love story too..the way piere curie proposed to Madame curie..a total scientist way..love in those days when only men were smart and women were not considered to do science...And it was amazing how hard they worked to isolate radium..their discoveries..amazing couple..sadly curie died young leaving madame curie alone..both one noble prize..even their daughter won noble prize..till today their children and great grandchildren all are professors, researchers in physics etc., whole generation of curie population all scientists and intellectuals..amazing family tree..
on the whole madame curie was a very well made movie...
I can never be like madame curie though.. I dont want to ever marry a scientist....when I come home I dont want to talk science..I prefer an engineer..someone who does something different from me..variety makes life more interesting..
but an inspiring movie..
I also saw travelogues..one of them was a cruise video of all sea cruises all over the world..americas, europe etc., alaska was breathtaking, europe was beautiful..seas scare me but I love to watch travel videos..I also saw travel videos of europe, asia, middle east...rome, istanbul impressed me the most..france too..I like reading james michenors novels..they are like travelogues but novels well researched about new places and cultures..my dad loved reading james michenors books so much that I burnt my dads body with james michenors book under his head...we both love reading..I never understood why my dad loved michener, history..older I get now I understand very well why he loved, he loved traveling but never could so he probably was happy reading travelogues..Iam becoming like my dad too though iam a lil luckier than him..I had an opportunity to travel a lot..wish my dad did..wish he lived longer and wish I had an opportunity to take him all over the world..
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I did a lot of crosswords this week..I am not good at it..but I love word games, scrabble...my ideal date would be to watch some nice intellectual movie at home eating spicy indian food and play scrabble while we eat dessert..
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my weekend didnot go as planned..I skipped both the parties I was supposed to go...
I had terrible stomach cramps so decided to give my tired body rest ..sometimes I dont even realise how tired my body is most of the days I forget Iam a woman too...13 years of working nonstop has its effects..weekdays I tell myself I need to find cure for diseases affecting so many people, I saw my dad desperately waiting for a right leukemia drug and I see so many more faces with different diseases suffering and I feel that as a scientist I need to work to find cures for atleast some diseases having the fortune of working in top ten pharma in US....weekends I tell myself I need to do something for the community and not work hard all for myself and I volunteer and help...and then weekend slips away the rest of the time as I need to do chores from grocery to cooking to laundry..and when I go to India for vacation I feel guilty that I didnot do my responsibilities to my family or our schools and I try to make up for all that I missed in those twenty days I stay in India..so when Iam on vacation in India I barely have time for meals, sleep 4hrs a day, travel, always rushing from one business deal to another..I come back from my vacation to India exhausted....There goes my life trying to balance life in two countries last 13 years..a typical working girls life..
this weekend I spent sometime thinking how fast life goes by..13 years in US..it almost seems like it was yesterday I came..I was in my early 20's when I came here to US..I dont even know how time passed, I was too busy surviving and working to think that much about soulmate, marriage ,kids and other things in life..the world was racing, I was racing with it without even realising where I was racing..may be it is time to slow down this race..
so I stayed home saturday with my stomach cramps and slept most of the day taking tylenol for cramps..And made the best by watching movies and documentaries..today when I had energy I went to Indian store and rented some 40 movies..yes 40 indian movies..the guy rents me movies for a dollar and lets me keep for 3 -4 months..so 40 indian movies for the next 3 months..old raj kapoor classics to 1980s movies to 1990s and 2008 movies..enough to make me feel less homesick and diverted..
sometimes I hear people saying they dont want to see any more Indian movies in US and they came to escape from Indianness here in US..but to me it is the opposite..when I am here in US I watch all indian movies and love indian things..when Iam in India I listen to tons of country music, english songs, seinfeld and english movies..I cannot live without both countries India and US..I love both equally...cannot part with both..I neither belong there in India completely nor belong here in US completely but it is the incompletes in both countries that completes me I guess..
Iam all nostalgic and home sick...may be Iam missing my soulmate and family..God knows where he is..dont I wish he appears like a allaudin genei from nowhere and sweeps me off my feet.. wishful thinking..
I heard this movie song from talaash which was haunting..but when I saw the song I have to say it was the most sensual song with so much longing in emotion..