Water

I recently saw the movie Water. It touched me immensely. I can see why it had all that opposition. I have never been an ardent follower of Hindi movies...I just watch the good ones. Most of Amir Khan's work, Nagesh Kukunoor's work is what I like to watch. I like to watch movies that are more realistic and not over the top. Therefore, I can not stand over-glamorized movies like everything that Karan Johar makes, no offense to his work and his fans.

I have had an idea of how the widows were treated back in the day...but watching the raw hypocrisy of the Hindu culture sent a cold chill to my bone. I feel ashamed to be a part of my culture, but I also trust my teachings. Widows are no longer treated with inferiority in most parts of the country any more, but the hypocrisy continues on. No matter how much I hate hypocrisy, I think we all (Indians) have it in our blood. It is a way of life for some people who practice it without intention or knowledge...and some people like me hold dormant hypocritic views.

Yes, I agree that I can be hyporcitic at times but it is like a mirror that makes me look at myself, question my actions and thoughts and hopefully influence me to make the right decision. No matter how optimistically I direct my hypocritic energy, it can't be denied that I harbor hypocritic thoughts. Thoughts that I have to logically reason out. Logical reasoning is an easy exercise for me, being an engineer, I live eight plus hours a day with MS Access queries, Excel spreadsheets and analysis. The only thing dissatisfying about logically reasoning out every problem is that we leave emotions out. Not many ideas can sustain by themselves without emotions as emotion is nature and by denying emotions, we deny nature ( nature can not be denied).

Laya helps keep me from getting too logical. She fills the gaps with emotions. That is the reason why I love her so much. She needs me and I need her.

Dang-Root-Canal

I have to get a root canal done...not fun. I also have a wisdom tooth t-boning(this is a NASCAR term though I do not watch NASCAR at all. The medical term being 'horizontally impacted') my molars...so I have to get that extracted too. In short, I am officially taking donations as I can not wait till I go to India to get it done. Cheques, cash, money orders...whatever form you see fit....(kidding obviously).






This is a classic picture of a wisdom tooth t-boning the molars. The x-ray is not of my tooth though.

Themata

I was driving to the Publix by my house to get a sandwich for lunch and drop off my formals to the dry cleaners. I have been listening to Octane on Sirius Radio these days. Caffeine and Octane keep me moving. Anyway this song came up as I was parking and I had to park and blast this one before doing anything else. Hopefully everyone in a 1 mile radius can thank
(a)me for being parked and
(b)Saturn for not making manual transmission Auras because you don't want me to be driving a stick with this song playing...

ROCK ON BROTHERS!

Where do you buy generics from??

Here is an interesting blog on Freakonomics. The blog speaks about the price disparity between generic medicines in retail stores. Check it out here.
I have a Costco membership and thats where I am going from now on to buy my generics.

I blogged this article so you can read it here. I also share what I find interesting on my google reader. To read what I share, please scroll to the bottom of the page.

Incubus - Anna Molly

This song gets me going every day. It is clearly one of the best alternative rock songs this season. Hang Tight. Here is more information on the band.

Garden Vegetable Soup

Mom visited me and lived in sunny Florida with me for two months. This also means that I had fantastic home cooked food for two months straight. She is back to her grind in India now and I have to feed myself. It takes a while to get back to the routine of cooking and managing groceries. I seem to have lost some motivation in cooking. Back in UFL, I would share cooking turns with three other roommates and we had hot fresh food on the table 9 PM every night. Now that I have moved to greener pastures with a job, I have to cook for myself and eat what I cooked for three days. Either that or cook every night. I chose cook a few times a week. Then eating out took over and thats all I did. Deep down in my heart though, I want to eat at home. Thats when Garden Vegetable soup comes in. Thats what I had for dinner, with a couple of pieces of Sesame Chicken that my room mate ordered.

What will motivate me is if I make a list of all that I can cook and plan my week accordingly. I get lazy when I have to come home after a hard day at work and have to think of what I have to cook. Making a list will organize my head enough to cook fresh every day.

Speaking of motivation, I am real motivated to finish off that pecan pie in my fridge. 45 secs in the microwave, and it will be delicious.