bought my ticket yesterday - i'm headed to the chi for an unexpected visit with the family. promises to be an 'explosive' weekend, i'm sure.
i'm actually technically going to milwaukee. (that's a tough one to spell!). haha, it's kinda funny that i'm going there to get to naperville. ah well, that's the only fare that was in the realm of affordability.
alas, one more day of the work week! and next week will be a four-day work week since i had to take monday off to get the cheaper fare. unfortunately for me, i'm wide awake right now cuz i took a long(!) nap after coming home from work (3.5 hours). since i was tossing and turning last night until 4 am, i've been thinkin about my bed all day. i guess i'll try to read myself to sleep with one of my library books. woohoo!!!
3.29.2007
3.25.2007
the namesake and waterworks
boy oh boy. what a movie for a sunday nite. if i were in better spirits (in a general sense), the movie would have been a bit freeing, and prophetic in a good way (like a road map of what's to come.) i'm not sure if it's the hormones or if the movie just struck some deep chords within, but tears were streamin.
overall, the movie was neat in that i felt like i could relate to the immigrant child perspective. growing up and figuring out that you're different from the mainstream wasn't really a fun process until these adult years when it's now 'cool to be ethnic.' funny how that happens, innit?
there were so many parts of the film that were times in my life that watching those scenes transported me back into those times, so much so that during these scenes i felt like i was watching my own life flash by. like the perpetual fear of late night calls from relatives in india, peer pressure to try blend in rather than be yourself, learning how to reconcile beef with your family, the trips to and from india as an american born desi (i refuse to add in the 'confused' cuz that word is just downright condescending. i mean who isn't confused in the grand scheme of life!!!), and much much more : )
basically, i think it's a must-see. it was worth my ten bucks (and duane-reade bought, 99-cent popcorn).
overall, the movie was neat in that i felt like i could relate to the immigrant child perspective. growing up and figuring out that you're different from the mainstream wasn't really a fun process until these adult years when it's now 'cool to be ethnic.' funny how that happens, innit?
there were so many parts of the film that were times in my life that watching those scenes transported me back into those times, so much so that during these scenes i felt like i was watching my own life flash by. like the perpetual fear of late night calls from relatives in india, peer pressure to try blend in rather than be yourself, learning how to reconcile beef with your family, the trips to and from india as an american born desi (i refuse to add in the 'confused' cuz that word is just downright condescending. i mean who isn't confused in the grand scheme of life!!!), and much much more : )
basically, i think it's a must-see. it was worth my ten bucks (and duane-reade bought, 99-cent popcorn).
3.17.2007
making it to friday
i do realize that i was a bit dramatic earlier in the week, posting in the wee hours of the mornin, but a gal should be allowed at least that. this is particularly true this week.
i made plans earlier this week to chill with a couple gal pals when little beknownst to me, something or one up there shat some bizarre concoction of rain, sleet, and snow down on the northeast. insane? yes, extremely. sadly, i was completely and utterly unprepared for the downfall. i knew it was going to snow today from the forecast, i didn't know though that it was going to ^$(*%)*% SNOW.
i was wearing my flat shoes with holes in the soles, the socks that meet the ankles, and was not wearing my poofy, down coat that makes life bearable in the pedestrian winters of the city.
like true troopers though, we sipped on jasmine tea in a veggie dim sum spot and ventured back to our corners of the city. (not without going berserks re:MTA service changes, of course)
as is usually the case these days, i'm already under the covers and hoping that somehow the sun will magically appear and take care of bizness or that tomorrow will be another day.
knowing my luck and having some grasp of reality, i realize the latter is more likely to happen.
i made plans earlier this week to chill with a couple gal pals when little beknownst to me, something or one up there shat some bizarre concoction of rain, sleet, and snow down on the northeast. insane? yes, extremely. sadly, i was completely and utterly unprepared for the downfall. i knew it was going to snow today from the forecast, i didn't know though that it was going to ^$(*%)*% SNOW.
i was wearing my flat shoes with holes in the soles, the socks that meet the ankles, and was not wearing my poofy, down coat that makes life bearable in the pedestrian winters of the city.
like true troopers though, we sipped on jasmine tea in a veggie dim sum spot and ventured back to our corners of the city. (not without going berserks re:MTA service changes, of course)
as is usually the case these days, i'm already under the covers and hoping that somehow the sun will magically appear and take care of bizness or that tomorrow will be another day.
knowing my luck and having some grasp of reality, i realize the latter is more likely to happen.
3.14.2007
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