News that interested me
whats up with Mccain paris hilton campaign..presidential race has become so cheap now..who wants a next president who gets into a childish fued with paris hilton?
Shouldnt presidential advertisements be serious specially with a bad economy, troubled war times..
cant even believe they have an add comparing obama with brittany and paris..shows how low they can stoop too.
This VP guess game, via cell phone announcements etc., good marketing move from obama, but doesnt it sound all commercial and jazzy...
whats up with anthrax scare..
a govt. scientist doing that cant even believe it..how can a scientist do this scaring people and putting someone at risk..
whats up with Anderson cooper..commenting on Lohans..
come on anderson you can do better than that..why are u talking about stuff like this..what happened to the anderson I adore who cares about darfur, cango,katrina victims,chimps in africa..
water on Mars finally..60 minutes has interesting news on our space programs..
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/04/60minutes/main3994925.shtml
on a easy new cancer cure from a cancer patient
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/60minutes/main4006951.shtml
what else..
Life has kept me busy..
too many new screens to develop at work for new diseases, important projects, people to train..work is leaving me exhausted..
busy volunteering every weekend..cant believe..every weekend I volunteer atleast one day...so weekends are also busy..
first salvation army food drive which went so so well, raised 400 dollars and two wagon loads food cans to keep the food bank from closing until christmas which was so good..heping some 500 families feeding them during this sad tough economy times.. I was very happy about this food drive..I donated a lot of my money too for salvation army food drive,least I can do helpthe people of this country who gave me a job and food to eat..
then a bone marrow drive again my third one this year last weekend which went well..hopefully cure for cancer patients..
then volunteering at temple.. even this weekend sunday I have a four hour volunteering at the temple..
Last weekend was vara lakshmi pooja , so i did pooja at home , one peaceful day..it went well.. with flowers, fruits, panchamrut, I did a very traditional lakshmi pooja at home and made jelebi and dahi vada and vada as naivedyam to goddess..One evening of quite prayer...
otherwise rest of the days were superbusy last four weeks..
Iam just a lil down and tired..
too much voluntary work and may be Iam missing having a family, having kids..now I finally feel like it is time for me to get married..all my girlfriends praying for my marriage are already coming up with middle names for my future kids since they are praying for my marriage , I have to give my kids middle names of my friends...too bad I dont even know how to find a guy for myself..Iam sure God is having a tough time
what else..
went to BOdies exhibition in Indy..
Bodies exhibition is not that scary, yes these are real deadbodies without skin and everything else, but they dont smell and they are not that scary..
Dont miss this exhibition, it is pretty good..
I thought I will freakout but strangely I did not freakout ..I didnot get scared..
may be it is scientist in me was looking at everything dazed and curious..learning about myself, my own body...
It was an education for me..
strangely though Iam a girl I am not conscious of my body at all, never dream of my wedding or anything that much..I dont think I ever understood my own body or beauty that much....
Iam like a little girl or a child sometimes...it is as if Iam in this extended phase of childhood for a long time and I liked being free, not being romantically involved, liked the adventerous and carefree life until recently..and then suddenly matured too much to become kind of prematurely senile after seeing so much pain specially my dads leukemia and all that..it is as if youth, romance, motherhood, dream of looking beautiful,marriage ,dreams slipped away somewhere...I dont think I ever understood my own body...
Iam kind of boy as most of my friends put it , I take 5 minutes to dress up, just wash my face with soap and Iam ready..I am not a typical girl..never been to beauty parlors and dont look at myself in mirror that long either, though have long hair I take 2 minutes to comb my hair like guys..only time I feel girlish is when I like chik flicks, soft romances, babies, cooking etc.,Iam very shy too like any other girl..
like all other girls strangely life has taught me not to dream...
so I kinda of never dreamed much about marriage, or having children or anything..I do miss not having a soulmate and not having children but never saw myself as a woman or bride or mother dont even know why..so never imagined myself with a big belly carrying a baby..
Until I saw bodies exhibition with small tiny babies who are 3 weeks to 8 months old, I didnot even realise that someday I will be carrying a baby in my womb too..the whole thing is just amazing. it makes u understand urself..it makes u understand what all ur body is capable of doing.
Bodies exhibition left me wondering what all amazing things our bodies can do..
I saw a lot of movies at home:
sarkar raj this weekend:
It was an interesting movie..kinda realistic in present day India..
Amitabh reminded me of my dad many times..
I remember growing up in a very tensed surroundings...my dad was stabbed because he stood for his ideals when I was barely 5 years old..then it would be the people who hated my dad for running single handedly his schools and colleges who tried to destroy his institutions by provoking students to go against my dad..me , grandma would hug when students through stones at our house for no issues, my dad struggled through out to keep up with his ideals with people trying to break him down allthe time until they could no longer stop his success..
I saw that in sarkar raj, everywhere struggles , life like a chess game people playing games all the time.
I kinda liked sarkar raj though it is sad..
just the story direction and amitabhs acting.. it was mumbai, saketu mehtas mumbai...u are reminded of political groups in mumbai..ram gopal verma seems to be a very fine director..I like movies sometimes with no romance..no song..no dance..just realistic ones with powerful dialogues which are contemporary..that youthful idealism that struggles with gundagiri,powerful political games...idealism dying in the hands of corrupt people..
good movie worth watching dont miss it..
then watched Singh is the king.
Singh is the king is just another masala movie, like the small town world innocence but it is just too loud..not a bad movie but it is just another movie..nothing special..katrina cannot act and is a beautiful glamour doll.. I think Akshay is ok as singh with turban...nothing memorable..just barely time pass.
I also saw bachna eh haseenon..
Ranbir kapoor movie who is ok ok actor, story is realistic and good..men finally repenting for dumping girls and saying sorry, I like that..all the girls except deepika look too old for Ranbir like elder sisters...too bad..deepika stands out and is cute..nice locations and shots..story is interesting..so a ok realistic movie to watch about todays romances..Iam like that deepikas character career oriented straight forward girl...Deepikas character reminded me so much of myself..
anyways..
Iam reading Salman Rushdies enchantress of florence..Iam at probably 280th page.
It has been an interesting ride unlike any rushdie novel I read before.
first 50 pages was good, then it became a history lesson next 50 pages that I almost could not even find the stamp of rushdies writing in those pages, pages 100 to 200 I could find rushdie again in those characters which are pretty unique and interesting, then again pages 200 onwards he lost me, in the same repetition , it gets confusing at the end where u tend to forget ur characters with so many new names that towards ending it leaves u bored to finish, leaves u confused.
None of rushdies earlier novels are like this, this is the worst of all but, probably he might land up with a booker for his historic attempt and unique imagination and story line connecting two continents.
what else..
I got a lot of new novels from library chetan bhagats hit indian novel "one night at call center"..some amitav ghosh, some this years bookers novels..so long list of books to read.
lots of books to read., ofcourse volunteering every weekend leaves me exhausted..so when I get time I read these days..so much to catch up..
life is superbusy workholic life and rest of time goes away in social service helping community..so there goes my life..less blogging, less internet,less socializing until may be soulmate comes sweeps me off my feet and just takes me to a different world which is more relaxing ..until then..woods are lovely dark and deep, I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep..
Friday, August 22, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
this and that this week..
News this week
sad about blasts in India..innocent people dying. I prayed for India and US safety last weekend..
mccains negative attacks on obama comparing him to paris hilton and brittany too cheesy..why negative campaigning. focus on yourself and your positives, thats my motto...sell urself and ur positives..if they are good enough u will win..
Abc news says studies show women are happy until their 40s and men are happy after 40s until old age.. too bad..next decades are going to be sad for women like me..older men happier than older women
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080801/sc_livescience/oldermenhappierthanolderwomen;_ylt=Ag6TS8QPCuJGq7BW6k3YtYus0NUE
lovely pictures of solar eclipse
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Total-eclipse-sun/ss/events/sc/080108solareclipse#photoViewer=/080801/481/1042d0bde5384f97864380cca569eb9f
books Iam reading :
salman rushdies enchantress- gets better after 100 pages, not as good as other rushdie books, feels like a history lesson but not too bad either, very creative
harikunzrus my revolutions - good through out, interesting story, characters, well written
I am reading a book on school system is US for our schools and colleges in India that my family runs..it is some personal business reading..
I am enjoying doing cross words puzzles too these days.. learning new words..
Dont have anyone to play scrabble with but whomever I marry Iam sure we will play lot of scrabble and do cross words puzzles and do word games together..and have lots of discussions on books we read..
movies I saw
love story 2050 - lovely picturization, scenic beauty, ok story, bad acting, bad music but romantic enough
jaane tu na jaane hum- very good acting, ok picturization, boring story, ok music, not romantic at all.
saw odd telugu movies nothing interesting just time pass ones..
I am looking forward to seeing sarkar raj this weekend..
music I listened to this week..shammi kapoor janwar songs total turn on for me, so so romantic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo1IGrPPrd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhcACgr41AQ&feature=related
food I ate and cooked:
made upma, telugu kadi, alu+tindora+tomato sabji..had haldirams ready to go bhelpuri twice this week with evening tea..it is pretty good..
Ate punjabi restaurant khana..I have to admit I like punjabi food as much as I like telugu food..
weekend menu for me to cook - dosa, home made punjabi alugobi sabji and home made roti
what else
thought almost every weekend Iam volunteering I should take a break..
But then fox ran this story of a local food pantry having to close it because of lack of food donations and food pantry supports 800 families..so there goes me..
Next minute I knew I am talking to people, mobilising my volunteers and friends and running a massive food drive to keep this food pantry from closing.so there I go..next two weekends booked running the food drive..it ends august 9th.
August 16th is another bone marow drive. so there goes mylife...
Sometimes we want life to go one way, but life takes us the other way..
I know as all my relatives remind me its time to marry, settle, have kids, my life just seems to take me other way..
Most of my old school mates and college mates would be surprised if they hear about me as a scientist living in US and seeing me as a working girl last 13years in US.
One of my seniors met me in my company cafe some 3 years back and was shocked to see me. She was a big city girl. I was a small town/village girl. She naturally assumed I would marry by 20,have a whole bunch of kids settled in a remote village in India. I dont blame her. Because I was this silent girl wearing lungavoni with oiled hair and two plaits who rarely spoke and was so shy and so family oriented that you could bet on me to settle in marraige as soon as I finished degree.
No one knew I was college magazine editor twice before I turned 17, no one knew I wrote a mini novel before I turned 18, no one knew I wrote poetry in english when I was 19, no one knew by the time I turned 20 I read Aynrand and atlas shrugged became my bible and ramayana...and no one knew who I was at home either..
when I was 18 if you asked me what I wanted to with my life, I would have said I will be journalist or a IAS officer. All my teachers who knew me very well thought though I was good at science I would end up as an IAS or a IFS officer as I was so all rounded knowing everything about whats going on in the world..
But I ended up majoring in genetic engineering, became a scientist, now I dont do any more of genetic engineering or cloning, barely 10% of my job is biology, 30% is robotics and remaining 60% is computer data analysis..
I never thought I will be in US..here Iam now very americanized and very indianish too..and cant live without either countries and love both equally..
Here Iam a career woman, scientist by day time, event organizer and volunteer event chair by weekends and trying to be a writer if I have any more spare time to write, fighting on immigration causes sometimes, sometimes chairing odd events like picnics for 100people for free..
sometimes life takes u somewhere else..
13 long years with no boyfriends, no marriage, no soulmate living in US working and working..I know relatives tell me what is this life? I agree what a monastic life right...it is as if my youth just ran away and Iam still a child waiting for real love..
friends and family remind me to settle down often...
yap I want to get married, settle with a cute guy, have children which I cannot wait to have but kya kareen god seems to have other plans..may be girls like me need to have a guy come and sweep me off my feet from somewhere and take me away with him...until then volunteering will keep me busy I guess..
weekend activities:
brunch with girlfriends saturday morning
this lovely exhibition called bodies. scary but dont miss it, Iam scared to go but still will go..
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/bodies.html
saturday afternoon bodies exhibition
glad Iam not a doctor, I dont like seeing bodies and I have made up my mind to never marry a doctor.
saturday evening is an art exhibition of a friend
sunday morning at the temple
then sunday evening biking and boating at the canal with a whole bunch of girlfriends.
for tonite, doesnot even feel like a friday with busy week at work and so much data to look at.. I just want an elachi chai, some haldiram ready to eat bhelpuri, a nice dinner
sad about blasts in India..innocent people dying. I prayed for India and US safety last weekend..
mccains negative attacks on obama comparing him to paris hilton and brittany too cheesy..why negative campaigning. focus on yourself and your positives, thats my motto...sell urself and ur positives..if they are good enough u will win..
Abc news says studies show women are happy until their 40s and men are happy after 40s until old age.. too bad..next decades are going to be sad for women like me..older men happier than older women
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080801/sc_livescience/oldermenhappierthanolderwomen;_ylt=Ag6TS8QPCuJGq7BW6k3YtYus0NUE
lovely pictures of solar eclipse
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Total-eclipse-sun/ss/events/sc/080108solareclipse#photoViewer=/080801/481/1042d0bde5384f97864380cca569eb9f
books Iam reading :
salman rushdies enchantress- gets better after 100 pages, not as good as other rushdie books, feels like a history lesson but not too bad either, very creative
harikunzrus my revolutions - good through out, interesting story, characters, well written
I am reading a book on school system is US for our schools and colleges in India that my family runs..it is some personal business reading..
I am enjoying doing cross words puzzles too these days.. learning new words..
Dont have anyone to play scrabble with but whomever I marry Iam sure we will play lot of scrabble and do cross words puzzles and do word games together..and have lots of discussions on books we read..
movies I saw
love story 2050 - lovely picturization, scenic beauty, ok story, bad acting, bad music but romantic enough
jaane tu na jaane hum- very good acting, ok picturization, boring story, ok music, not romantic at all.
saw odd telugu movies nothing interesting just time pass ones..
I am looking forward to seeing sarkar raj this weekend..
music I listened to this week..shammi kapoor janwar songs total turn on for me, so so romantic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo1IGrPPrd8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhcACgr41AQ&feature=related
food I ate and cooked:
made upma, telugu kadi, alu+tindora+tomato sabji..had haldirams ready to go bhelpuri twice this week with evening tea..it is pretty good..
Ate punjabi restaurant khana..I have to admit I like punjabi food as much as I like telugu food..
weekend menu for me to cook - dosa, home made punjabi alugobi sabji and home made roti
what else
thought almost every weekend Iam volunteering I should take a break..
But then fox ran this story of a local food pantry having to close it because of lack of food donations and food pantry supports 800 families..so there goes me..
Next minute I knew I am talking to people, mobilising my volunteers and friends and running a massive food drive to keep this food pantry from closing.so there I go..next two weekends booked running the food drive..it ends august 9th.
August 16th is another bone marow drive. so there goes mylife...
Sometimes we want life to go one way, but life takes us the other way..
I know as all my relatives remind me its time to marry, settle, have kids, my life just seems to take me other way..
Most of my old school mates and college mates would be surprised if they hear about me as a scientist living in US and seeing me as a working girl last 13years in US.
One of my seniors met me in my company cafe some 3 years back and was shocked to see me. She was a big city girl. I was a small town/village girl. She naturally assumed I would marry by 20,have a whole bunch of kids settled in a remote village in India. I dont blame her. Because I was this silent girl wearing lungavoni with oiled hair and two plaits who rarely spoke and was so shy and so family oriented that you could bet on me to settle in marraige as soon as I finished degree.
No one knew I was college magazine editor twice before I turned 17, no one knew I wrote a mini novel before I turned 18, no one knew I wrote poetry in english when I was 19, no one knew by the time I turned 20 I read Aynrand and atlas shrugged became my bible and ramayana...and no one knew who I was at home either..
when I was 18 if you asked me what I wanted to with my life, I would have said I will be journalist or a IAS officer. All my teachers who knew me very well thought though I was good at science I would end up as an IAS or a IFS officer as I was so all rounded knowing everything about whats going on in the world..
But I ended up majoring in genetic engineering, became a scientist, now I dont do any more of genetic engineering or cloning, barely 10% of my job is biology, 30% is robotics and remaining 60% is computer data analysis..
I never thought I will be in US..here Iam now very americanized and very indianish too..and cant live without either countries and love both equally..
Here Iam a career woman, scientist by day time, event organizer and volunteer event chair by weekends and trying to be a writer if I have any more spare time to write, fighting on immigration causes sometimes, sometimes chairing odd events like picnics for 100people for free..
sometimes life takes u somewhere else..
13 long years with no boyfriends, no marriage, no soulmate living in US working and working..I know relatives tell me what is this life? I agree what a monastic life right...it is as if my youth just ran away and Iam still a child waiting for real love..
friends and family remind me to settle down often...
yap I want to get married, settle with a cute guy, have children which I cannot wait to have but kya kareen god seems to have other plans..may be girls like me need to have a guy come and sweep me off my feet from somewhere and take me away with him...until then volunteering will keep me busy I guess..
weekend activities:
brunch with girlfriends saturday morning
this lovely exhibition called bodies. scary but dont miss it, Iam scared to go but still will go..
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/bodies.html
saturday afternoon bodies exhibition
glad Iam not a doctor, I dont like seeing bodies and I have made up my mind to never marry a doctor.
saturday evening is an art exhibition of a friend
sunday morning at the temple
then sunday evening biking and boating at the canal with a whole bunch of girlfriends.
for tonite, doesnot even feel like a friday with busy week at work and so much data to look at.. I just want an elachi chai, some haldiram ready to eat bhelpuri, a nice dinner
Monday, July 28, 2008
hugs and proposals from the oddest places...this and that..
unique day today..
I got hugs and proposals from the oddest places..
I was walking down town indy to fedex ofice to mail bone marrow drive completed applications with kits..a cute blonde american teenager comes to me with a huge board " hugs for free, Hugs for free"...I give him a shy smile as he comes closer to me and says "common hug me"...I didnot want to make him feel that this indian girl with the longest hair is strange..so I give him my obama fist and hand hug..he smiles and understands my shyness..I converse with him to make up for not giving him a hug telling him it is great he is doing this and spreading love and told him todays world needs a lot of love and hugs..he beams and smiles happily..
then I walk to tacobell to get my 7 layer vegetarian burrito and pick up fire sauce packets and each of those small fire sauce packets have messages on them..some saying "please marry me"..so I got proposed by a tacobell fire sauce packet..
I have to admit this proposal was way better than the proposal I got from a good looking indian man last october with roses , cards which I could not accept as the guy was so full of lies, was so so dishonest and was probably after money or photos and was superficial...my fire taco sauce had more honesty and fire than those guys who proposed to me before...
oddest places where I get hugs and proposals..
My weekend was great..
saturday was all fun and relaxing..
sunday was all volunteering running a bone marrow drive, which went so so well..we got almost 30 people registered. Considering that it takes almost 20 minutes with each person and I had only 3hrs or so to run the drive and I had just one volunteer helping me I have to say instead of doing 3-4 people for hour we did 10 people perhour which was amazing. My volunteer was newly trained volunteer but he did an excellent job..we had at every point 5-6 people to handle but we made no mistakes and got all registered on time .Finally this evening I fedexed all the completed forms.Finally this year second bone marrow drive I chaired went well. I have one more coming August 16th and one more sep 8th...hopefully leukemia patients find matches and get cured..
what else..
I saw Love story 2050 and Jaane tu na jaane hum this weekend.
I have to say I liked love story 2050 better than Jaane tu.. Probably love story 2050 is my kinda love story..the guy acted like hrithik roshan but my kinda guy would be like that outgoing who expresses love easily than the quiet ones who dont talk much..
genelia is definetely better than priyanka..
Imran khan is better than herman..
but love story 2050 is a better story than Jaane tu..in terms of rating them as love stories...2050 was more romantic than jaane tu..
I also read Rushdies enchantress a lil bit..
long week at work..business as usual..back to my scientist job..
Iam glad I do something totally different on weekends so that I forget Iam a scientist..temple, volunteering,cooking, hanging out with friends, reading,biking etc., takes me to different worlds, I forget my day job and my scientist life..
I cooked too this weekend..
felt like eating upma, dont know why I was craving for upma..
recipe: Heat oil, add chana, urad, mustard seeds, green chillies, karipatta, carrots, green peas, cut beans etc., fry for sometime, then add water, let water boil, then add fried suji, ghee,a lil bit of ginger powder..ginger and karipatta make upma get that special flovor..
what else..
week looks busy..
have no plans for weekend as yet..
may be just reading and writing finally and a movie or two..
for tonite just a simple elachi chai, a good book like rushdies enchantress or kunzrus my revolutions , TV serials two and half men and adventures of old christine will do , a couple of cross word puzzles will do..
I got hugs and proposals from the oddest places..
I was walking down town indy to fedex ofice to mail bone marrow drive completed applications with kits..a cute blonde american teenager comes to me with a huge board " hugs for free, Hugs for free"...I give him a shy smile as he comes closer to me and says "common hug me"...I didnot want to make him feel that this indian girl with the longest hair is strange..so I give him my obama fist and hand hug..he smiles and understands my shyness..I converse with him to make up for not giving him a hug telling him it is great he is doing this and spreading love and told him todays world needs a lot of love and hugs..he beams and smiles happily..
then I walk to tacobell to get my 7 layer vegetarian burrito and pick up fire sauce packets and each of those small fire sauce packets have messages on them..some saying "please marry me"..so I got proposed by a tacobell fire sauce packet..
I have to admit this proposal was way better than the proposal I got from a good looking indian man last october with roses , cards which I could not accept as the guy was so full of lies, was so so dishonest and was probably after money or photos and was superficial...my fire taco sauce had more honesty and fire than those guys who proposed to me before...
oddest places where I get hugs and proposals..
My weekend was great..
saturday was all fun and relaxing..
sunday was all volunteering running a bone marrow drive, which went so so well..we got almost 30 people registered. Considering that it takes almost 20 minutes with each person and I had only 3hrs or so to run the drive and I had just one volunteer helping me I have to say instead of doing 3-4 people for hour we did 10 people perhour which was amazing. My volunteer was newly trained volunteer but he did an excellent job..we had at every point 5-6 people to handle but we made no mistakes and got all registered on time .Finally this evening I fedexed all the completed forms.Finally this year second bone marrow drive I chaired went well. I have one more coming August 16th and one more sep 8th...hopefully leukemia patients find matches and get cured..
what else..
I saw Love story 2050 and Jaane tu na jaane hum this weekend.
I have to say I liked love story 2050 better than Jaane tu.. Probably love story 2050 is my kinda love story..the guy acted like hrithik roshan but my kinda guy would be like that outgoing who expresses love easily than the quiet ones who dont talk much..
genelia is definetely better than priyanka..
Imran khan is better than herman..
but love story 2050 is a better story than Jaane tu..in terms of rating them as love stories...2050 was more romantic than jaane tu..
I also read Rushdies enchantress a lil bit..
long week at work..business as usual..back to my scientist job..
Iam glad I do something totally different on weekends so that I forget Iam a scientist..temple, volunteering,cooking, hanging out with friends, reading,biking etc., takes me to different worlds, I forget my day job and my scientist life..
I cooked too this weekend..
felt like eating upma, dont know why I was craving for upma..
recipe: Heat oil, add chana, urad, mustard seeds, green chillies, karipatta, carrots, green peas, cut beans etc., fry for sometime, then add water, let water boil, then add fried suji, ghee,a lil bit of ginger powder..ginger and karipatta make upma get that special flovor..
what else..
week looks busy..
have no plans for weekend as yet..
may be just reading and writing finally and a movie or two..
for tonite just a simple elachi chai, a good book like rushdies enchantress or kunzrus my revolutions , TV serials two and half men and adventures of old christine will do , a couple of cross word puzzles will do..
Saturday, July 26, 2008
A near perfect day....
Indianapolis canal and cornfields at the temple...I had a near perfect day today...only thing I missed was having cute soulmate around holding my hands..
After weeks and weeks of volunteering and getting involved in organizing picnic this and that, I finally had a day..a whole day for myself..
A near perfect day..
A beautiful spiritual morning at the temple, then a nice indian homely lunch at the temple, then shopping with a girlfriend and buying lots of indian movies and spicy grocery, then watching this movie "Jaane tum Jaane ne" which I wanted to watch for sometime, then biking around the canal which I was wanting to do for sometime, biking so refreshing for body and soul, biking watching canal waters dance to setting sun, then sitting under sunny skies with a caramel macchiono at starbucks and reading Salman Rushdies "Enchantress"...
near perfect day..
I just wished a cute guy was there with me and I could put my arms around his shoulder and chat chat chat about books..that would have made this day perfect..
hopefully someday..
what else..
tomorrow whole day from 9am to 3pm I will be busy running a bone marrow drive for south asians..so sunday is gone in volunteering as usual..
Books Iam reading right now..
Salman Rushdies " Enchantress"..not as good as other Rushdies novels..first 100 pages were history lecture with no magical realism..finally middle 100 pages , u can feel Rushdies unique characters and magical realism and Rushdies signature which makes me happy but still the novel is not that great..characters just float in history lessons..there is no sequence , story has so many breaks, it gets confusing..I admit though characters are unique as usual typical Rushdies style and very interesting..on the whole I have to read every Rushdies novel so I am going to finish it gracefully..
Iam also reading
Harikunzrus " My revolutions". I like his novels. Iam glad there is a next generation of writers like kunzru, zadie smith who can replace naipaul and rushdie..I like his my revolutions better than transmission and not as good as his first novel the impressionist..on the whole another good novel from this writer..he is consistanly good, comes up with unique stories with little romance..and I love that..I like manly novels with little romance..
saw movie Jaane tu na Janee..it was ok..not great..Aamirkhan produced it, it is good like timepass romance movie but nothing unique or great..If u watched telugu movie "Nuvve kavali" which is about 2 best friends who fight all the time and dont realise they love each other , u wont like Jaane tu na tu Janee..nuvve kavali is so so better..so aamir did not come with a novel story..admitted... Genelia and Irfan khan or Imran khan are ok..but Genelia did not look that great in this movie..she acted better and was more natural in telugu movies, she seems inhibited in this movie..but ok time pass cute movie...not memorable like quayamat se quayamat thak or maine pyar kiya or kaho na pyar hi..all these three movies are movies I want to watch with the man I fall in love with just for cute puppy romance..but definetely not jaane tu..
Understanding love is hard, recognising love is hard too..Iam a fool too that way..I dont know what true love is as yet..I hope I can recognise love when he comes to me or I hope he guy realises he is in love with me and makes me realise that...falling in love is hard..And finding true love is even harder I think..I pray I find my true love or recognise my true love soon..
what else..
Indian blasts made me very sad..I prayed for India and US safety too at the temple..I hope people stop fighting and make it a safe place for little kids..
Obama 200,000 crowd and speech in Germany impressed me..the man has charisma and he is moving the world too..good for him..
what else..
bone marrow drive tomorrow..busy weekend..
nite is still young..so hope to read, write, do crosswords..
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Americanidol live concert, shammi kapoor movie janwar..
Photos of American idol live concert I attended yesterday...it was terrible sound system..instrumental music was so so loud that I could not hear David archeleta or cooks voice..sayesha was good.. on the whole I walked out of the concert with a headache..
Interesting live concert experience..
Last few days have been so crazy for me..
I probably saw 150,000 or 200,000 numbers in the last 4 days..so many drug screens data to look at , I felt like puking and felt like not wanting to see any more data...every cmpd could be a potential cure for disease so you need to look at every number carefully..on top of that this new drug screen I am developing has no proper software to analyse data..so I ended by analysing data twice with old software and after I got the new software...so much so much that I kept reading blogs and any words I could get hand on while looking at data..I needed a break every 2hrs..man crazy days...
On top of all that yesterday I had a formal company dinner with an amazing lady, who is one of the top50 most influential women in USA. It was an amazing experience having intimate dinner with her...we talked so much about India and culture..it was wonderful...and after that I went for american idol concert..so u can imagine how long my day was..I slept with a headache last nite..
man what a week..
I cant wait for friday to come..
what else interested me..
obamas foreign trip.
Good job with Afghanistan..and his statement that we should have concentrated on afghanistan instead of iraq
Iraq- Ok Job,not so sure if his troop withdrawal will work.
Isreal- His statements on keeping jeruselum as capital no matter what doesnot help palestinians..His abc interview was kind of not too clear and a lil confusing and vague...have to wait and see.
what else..
books Iam reading...Rushdie's novel Enchantress is slowly getting into me..strangely Iam liking it a lil bit after the first 100 pages...but its not as good as any of his previous novels for sure..
what else.. Movies I watched...
shammi kapoors Janwar- so so cute..rajashree shammi kapoor , Iam all phida for this song of shammi kapoor tumse acha kaun hi, mere mohabbat jawan rahegi..so so super cute..man, my heart is so so phida for shammi kapoor...he makes me all romantic..
what else, I have a bonemarrow drive to run this sunday..
saturday afternoon lunch and shopping with girlfriends..
Rushdies enchantress to read..
may be make some idli, dosa, dal makhani, batura at home..Iam all booked and relaxed..life is all about simple pleasures..
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Is Rushdies enchantress enchanting? genocide in sudan , new cancer cure, movie sangam..
Last few weekends were busy with volunteer work organizing picnics , running bone marrow drive etc.,
I was missing my best friends...books and reading..
so this weekend I made a decision not to do much this weekend and just spend the entire weekend reading the book I was waiting to read for sometime now..
I decided not to do anything saturday evening and sunday whole day, just read read and read...
One of my fav. writer Rushdies novel " Enchantress of Florence"
Was Rushdies enchantres enchanting?
so far 85 pages read, I didnot find enchantress that enchanting. I kept sleeping every 2hrs for atleast 15 minutes before I would wake up and start reading again..I dont know why I was sleeping ( may be my cramps or tiredness)..was enchantress that boring or is it my tired body whatever it is enchantress did not keep me that excited or active..It was like a history lesson I was getting from Rushdie in this new novel..I was loosing track of this characters and story in these history lessons. Cant figure out whether his character are real historical characters or did Rushdie imagine and create his characters..
surprisingly in those 85 pages I found 5 -10 pages having unique Rushdies style, that unique creativity, sly wit, creativity, some kinda magical realism..rest 70 pages dont even carry any of Rushdies style of writing.
Story based in florence and India...Akbar, this birbal and his team ( some familiar stories I read in amar chitra kahani), the whores of that generation, the imaginative queen jodha (cant even believe how can one believe in an imaginative wife), palaces etc., it was a unique assembly yet not that charming..
Iam bent upon finishing his novel, so Iam going to try hard to finish it, but I have to admit I was disappointed.. I keep waiting for Rushdies new arrivals but readings MVs review at ultrabrown I postponed reading this novel and may be I did it a good thing not buying it and postponing it till today..
I liked Rushdies last book "shalimar the clown" a lot. I liked most other Rushdies novels than his new one..
what else interested me..
abc news had a dialogue on why american cars are not coming up with solutions to oil price increase, they are but electric battery operated cars cost 100,000 dollars too bad and will release in 2010 or 4 years from now..too bad..thats why they all need to read alvin tofflers books and prepare for future way ahead..
Obama is in afghanistan, he says we should have focused on afghanistan and iraq at all..he is right..he is visiting iraq this week, Iam looking forward to what he will say about pulling out troups..without visiting the place his withdrawal plans always made me wonder..now that he is visiting for the first time, it would be interesting to see iraq through obamas eyes..
60 minutes had a very sad program on genocide in darfur,sudan..so so sad..happenign still in todays generation..US foreign policy so dual here, they need sudan govt support to track extremists and so are alleys yet cant support the govts. genocide and voilence and want to fight against it..delicate balance..tough foreign policy..see here for more on this..
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/20/60minutes/main2111909.shtml
Also on 60 minutes new way to cure for cancer by a cancer patient..amazing story..
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/60minutes/main4006951.shtml
Thats why I like watching 60 minute, I always learn a lot..
what else..
Iam a lil tired..so Iam resting most of the weekend..
I went to temple yesterday to thank God..my family got 10 years visitors visa to come to US, I sponsored and prepared all paper work..it is so so hard to be away from family last 13yrs living in US, so atleast now they have an option to visit me whenever they can...Being a scientist and contributing good to the community here in Indianapolis is one thing, but the cost I pay for it is also priceless..13years of lonely working girls life with no family, no hubby, no children,empty personal life being so far away from home India I wonder sometimes if it is all worth it..good for science, good for community but may be not that good for me..Hopefully I will find a soulmate soon here in US and fill that gap...wishful thinking..
what else..
next weekend Iam running bone marrow drive again for south asians saturday 10am to 3pm..
I am running two more bone marrow drives august 16th and sep8th...
then august volunteer event at temple etc.,
october I have this 10,000 dollar cultural event I have to organize..I need to organize the event fromvenue to food to cultural show and entertainment to seminars so much to organize..
so rest of the year and weekends look busy..Hopefully an India trip inbetween all this in August end..
life goes on...busy single working girls life...no time to even search or runafter a soulmate or do other things in life..
wish life was simpler... a perfect soulmate comes before me without having to search for him, settle soon in a simple marriage and then adopt a whole bunch of orphan children and live happily ever after..
Tonite I saw this old hindi movie "sangam"..Raj kapoor, vaijayanthimala and Rajendra kumar...
man I have to say the movie freaked me out a lil bit..it was intense..2 people in love with the same girl..Most new movies also have the same story..but sangam was more intense than the new movies..Reasons it is not only the acting but also may the old world morals of that generation..friends sacrificing love for each other, girls just adjusting and compromising and shifting love, one person dies at the end..man I pray Iam never in such a love story experience ever in my life..I hope I fall in love with a guy who loves me only sincerely and hope I get married to a guy where we two love each other only and no one else...that is why when I dont like someone I dont delay, I just tell them Iam not their type...Iam glad I broke my engagement because I didnot feel like I could love that man who demanded dowry...Dont marry unless u are 100% sure u love ur man or woman 100%...otherwise it is dangerous..marriages wont work..
sangam movie freaked me out..I like to see happy endings, just two love birds...cheating husbands, wives, 3-4 people involved in love, cassanovas, flirts freak me out..
people who dont write email replies or express what they think freely, who dont call or have emotional depth but still want to marry looking at just photos, people who dont express feelings and hide their feelings freak me out..
some of my friends are always in and out of relationships because they cannot stay single..they break their hearts and someone elses hearts too..Iam glad Iam not in love and single for a long time , it is better to be away from everything than break someones heart. I would rather wait years for the right person than fall for wrong person or keep breaking peoples heart..lessons learnt..
nite is still young..
back to Rushdies enchantress tonite again..
I was missing my best friends...books and reading..
so this weekend I made a decision not to do much this weekend and just spend the entire weekend reading the book I was waiting to read for sometime now..
I decided not to do anything saturday evening and sunday whole day, just read read and read...
One of my fav. writer Rushdies novel " Enchantress of Florence"
Was Rushdies enchantres enchanting?
so far 85 pages read, I didnot find enchantress that enchanting. I kept sleeping every 2hrs for atleast 15 minutes before I would wake up and start reading again..I dont know why I was sleeping ( may be my cramps or tiredness)..was enchantress that boring or is it my tired body whatever it is enchantress did not keep me that excited or active..It was like a history lesson I was getting from Rushdie in this new novel..I was loosing track of this characters and story in these history lessons. Cant figure out whether his character are real historical characters or did Rushdie imagine and create his characters..
surprisingly in those 85 pages I found 5 -10 pages having unique Rushdies style, that unique creativity, sly wit, creativity, some kinda magical realism..rest 70 pages dont even carry any of Rushdies style of writing.
Story based in florence and India...Akbar, this birbal and his team ( some familiar stories I read in amar chitra kahani), the whores of that generation, the imaginative queen jodha (cant even believe how can one believe in an imaginative wife), palaces etc., it was a unique assembly yet not that charming..
Iam bent upon finishing his novel, so Iam going to try hard to finish it, but I have to admit I was disappointed.. I keep waiting for Rushdies new arrivals but readings MVs review at ultrabrown I postponed reading this novel and may be I did it a good thing not buying it and postponing it till today..
I liked Rushdies last book "shalimar the clown" a lot. I liked most other Rushdies novels than his new one..
what else interested me..
abc news had a dialogue on why american cars are not coming up with solutions to oil price increase, they are but electric battery operated cars cost 100,000 dollars too bad and will release in 2010 or 4 years from now..too bad..thats why they all need to read alvin tofflers books and prepare for future way ahead..
Obama is in afghanistan, he says we should have focused on afghanistan and iraq at all..he is right..he is visiting iraq this week, Iam looking forward to what he will say about pulling out troups..without visiting the place his withdrawal plans always made me wonder..now that he is visiting for the first time, it would be interesting to see iraq through obamas eyes..
60 minutes had a very sad program on genocide in darfur,sudan..so so sad..happenign still in todays generation..US foreign policy so dual here, they need sudan govt support to track extremists and so are alleys yet cant support the govts. genocide and voilence and want to fight against it..delicate balance..tough foreign policy..see here for more on this..
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/20/60minutes/main2111909.shtml
Also on 60 minutes new way to cure for cancer by a cancer patient..amazing story..
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/60minutes/main4006951.shtml
Thats why I like watching 60 minute, I always learn a lot..
what else..
Iam a lil tired..so Iam resting most of the weekend..
I went to temple yesterday to thank God..my family got 10 years visitors visa to come to US, I sponsored and prepared all paper work..it is so so hard to be away from family last 13yrs living in US, so atleast now they have an option to visit me whenever they can...Being a scientist and contributing good to the community here in Indianapolis is one thing, but the cost I pay for it is also priceless..13years of lonely working girls life with no family, no hubby, no children,empty personal life being so far away from home India I wonder sometimes if it is all worth it..good for science, good for community but may be not that good for me..Hopefully I will find a soulmate soon here in US and fill that gap...wishful thinking..
what else..
next weekend Iam running bone marrow drive again for south asians saturday 10am to 3pm..
I am running two more bone marrow drives august 16th and sep8th...
then august volunteer event at temple etc.,
october I have this 10,000 dollar cultural event I have to organize..I need to organize the event fromvenue to food to cultural show and entertainment to seminars so much to organize..
so rest of the year and weekends look busy..Hopefully an India trip inbetween all this in August end..
life goes on...busy single working girls life...no time to even search or runafter a soulmate or do other things in life..
wish life was simpler... a perfect soulmate comes before me without having to search for him, settle soon in a simple marriage and then adopt a whole bunch of orphan children and live happily ever after..
Tonite I saw this old hindi movie "sangam"..Raj kapoor, vaijayanthimala and Rajendra kumar...
man I have to say the movie freaked me out a lil bit..it was intense..2 people in love with the same girl..Most new movies also have the same story..but sangam was more intense than the new movies..Reasons it is not only the acting but also may the old world morals of that generation..friends sacrificing love for each other, girls just adjusting and compromising and shifting love, one person dies at the end..man I pray Iam never in such a love story experience ever in my life..I hope I fall in love with a guy who loves me only sincerely and hope I get married to a guy where we two love each other only and no one else...that is why when I dont like someone I dont delay, I just tell them Iam not their type...Iam glad I broke my engagement because I didnot feel like I could love that man who demanded dowry...Dont marry unless u are 100% sure u love ur man or woman 100%...otherwise it is dangerous..marriages wont work..
sangam movie freaked me out..I like to see happy endings, just two love birds...cheating husbands, wives, 3-4 people involved in love, cassanovas, flirts freak me out..
people who dont write email replies or express what they think freely, who dont call or have emotional depth but still want to marry looking at just photos, people who dont express feelings and hide their feelings freak me out..
some of my friends are always in and out of relationships because they cannot stay single..they break their hearts and someone elses hearts too..Iam glad Iam not in love and single for a long time , it is better to be away from everything than break someones heart. I would rather wait years for the right person than fall for wrong person or keep breaking peoples heart..lessons learnt..
nite is still young..
back to Rushdies enchantress tonite again..
Thursday, July 17, 2008
this and that..
Everyone loved my dress at the picnic and jewellary...here it is the famous green dress..and the lovely necklace..i got 2 orders of the necklace already...
I got a nice south indian silk saree mom gifted me , asked the tailor here to stitch the pallu as front part of a chudidaar and got a punjabi dress made out of saree..I wore no make up..just a nice dress and good jewallary..all u need is that..everything very real..no artificial stuff to make u look good...
here are more picnic fun pictures.
women bet men in tug of rope
3 year old kids in trash bags racing
50 year olds participating in water baloon tossing or baloon balancing game..
memorable picnic and its pictures..
what else..
week so far has been extremely busy..
lots of new drug screens, training people with new drug screen Iam developing at work, busy with writing proposals for the big 10,000 dollar event Iam organizing for the indian group, working on planning all that. venue, type of event, food, huge cultural show, business part, name of event, price of tickets, making it a charity fun event helping causes I believe in..all by october end..
inviting american and indian employees...
Iam going to have my friends choreograph dances for it..Iam going to choreograph and dance in one..so I spent sometime watching songs I want employees to dance..some are from 45 years old to 25 years old most of us with no dance skills..
so I nailed on..
devdas song of aiswarya first song with lamps....all female dance..
bombay song kehna hi kya..all female dance
morini bagame song from lamhe movie I think - a desert rajasthani song with chudi..
and a mixed song of ballet and indian dance to this hariharan lewis colonial cousins song with english words "krishna, come back as jesus, come back as rama" which is a perfect unity song for all the american employees coming for the event to understand the message..
so here Iam doing the impossible, attempting the impossible..that is me..hope me and my friends can pull it off...here is the song..
so I will be busy next two months until october with all that..
I havent danced in ages, learnt bharatnatyam long time back so have to see how it goes..
my american friends are all so excited to learn indian dance and create a fusion..where there is a will I believe there is a way...
what else..
I loved this video on obama, mccain..supercute funny video on jibjab..
VP buzz on two Indiana senators for obama..interesting, good for indiana...
so you think u can dance great performance from one excellent padida routine by katee again..
books Iam reading..nothing much..I dont get time to read any more..so it is a totally dry spell..except doing cross words or a page here and there..
so I decided to make up for it..
this weekend Iam going to get Rushdie enchantress and do nothing but read and finish his novel..just Rushdies book and me..and lot of spicy indian food..
I might go for a concert and a movie too if I can this weekend..
tomorrow it is bowling time with 7 girlfriends which I am organizing as I realised last few weeks I was working too hard and I needed bowling to unwind..
so it is the enchantress, bowling and spicy indian food for me this weekend..
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