REDRUM

Alright. After hearing rumours that I may be dead, and snide comments about my attempts at running (thanks for all the support guys), it's time to resurrect. So yeah lots of moments have gone by. A multitude of them worth writing about. But it's gone past me now. It's like some good movies you know. Somehow you miss out going to watch them in the theater. Then you can't watch them on cassette/DVD because none of your friends will want to watch (They: "Oh no, not again. I've watched it too many times! You get it when you are alone". Me (thinking): "Yeah right, how often do I watch a movie alone?"). And then it gets to such an advanced stage that you cannot even bring yourself to admit that you haven't watched THAT film. The epic. Everyone's all time favourite. But it's true. That, my friends, explains how much I silently suffer because I haven't watched Lagaan (no, don't react wildly, read above few lines again). Oh yeah and for all you prissy folks, you can nest braces in a sentence :-) Writer's license.

Digressing apart, I did attend some interesting shows recently. Watched a play several weeks ago in which one of my colleagues acted. It was fun to witness a Tamil drama after so long! Oh and we went for the Sivamani-Zakir Hussain-L. Shankar-Gingger concert last weekend. It was an audio-visual treat! The performers outdid each other. For me, it was the violin that touched a chord. Highly recommended. They even played one Ragam-Thanam-Pallavi and another Carnatic-style piece.

That's about it for now. Can't wait for the holidays!!

Oh yeah and if you are wondering about the title of the blog, I saw "The Shining" yesterday with a couple of my friends (evil laugh).

Wanted Dead

I received the news with some surprise. Veerappan? Caught? Of course, I am not undermining the capabilities of the Tamilnadu police force (some members of whom I actually have great respect for). Just that Veerappan always seemed the elusive bandit. The guy who would always remain "almost caught". I guess not. I am sure there must be celebration in South India! Now this will become a star in Amma's crown.

San Fran Revisited

One of my closest Michigan buddies is here in San Jose. We spent a lot of time on Friday and Saturday morning catching up. Saturday evening, we set our sights on the city. I must admit, there is something about big cities. Something that rushes blood to your head. We hit some traffic entering the city but it was alright because we (Jyothi, Arthi and I) had more than enough to talk about. We continued up on 101 to hit the Golden Gate Bridge. As always, we were left wowing at the awesome bridge. It was too cold to walk across though.

Driving in the city is fun. The best part though, of course, is driving down Crooked Street. It was exciting and this time, my tires didn't squeal as much. I must be getting better (or more boring).

Next stop, Ghirardelli Square. Been there tons of times now, but we checked out some of the shops this time. There was this quaint music box store. For the most part, the store had those little jewelry boxes that play a hauntingly lilting melody when you open it. It also had musical dolls, cards, keychains and other interesting stuff. We then also checked out the techie store right opposite the Ghirardelli Chocolate place. Very interesting contraptions, but, unfortunately it was almost closing time. I did see an electronic crossword device though. Cool. And then we had the brownie fudge icecream (hee hee).

Quote of the day (found on a T-shirt I'll own someday): "I never met a chocolate I didn't like"

:-) Later!