Amores Perros and Embrassing Childhood

On a friend's recommendation, I rented out Amores Perros and am seeing it right now. I have to admit its one of the goriest, sad and melancholic movies I have seen in a long time. Its essentially stories of three different people coming together with an accident. Although it is supposed to be a critically acclaimed movie taken by a debutant director and not even badly taken, it just isn't my kind of movie. I have to admit, it has left a bad taste, got my mood down and made it a lousy start to a weekend.

On a lighter note, today while cooking I was reminded of a silly and embrassing incident that happened while I was in school. It must have happened when I was in third or fourth grade. I hung out with a bunch of great guys, but most of them were really rich, you know the kind that give each student a dairy milk for their birthday, while the rest of the class gave coffee bite (if you grew up in India, you would know what I am talking about). So I liked to show off whenever I could. So one day, I manage to steal a pair of shades my mom's brother had given her and bring it to school to show it off to my friends. The plan was perfect, I would take it school without my mother's knowledge, brag about it the whole day and then put it back in the evening and my mom wouldn't even know about it.

Everything was working as per plan, I went to school early that day so I could start bragging. Since I had dropped the shades earlier, I went on about how these shades were unbreakable and then dropped it on the floor to show it to my friends.

(Amores Perros, just got over....what a freaking relief!)

At that point one of my friends said, how much force can it withstand, to which I said, any amount. (If only I knew when to shutup!) I then got on top of a desk and flung the shades with as much force as I could muster in the floor. Guess what happened? The shades cracked...

Well...the rest of the day was hell. Not only did I look ridiculously stupid in front of my friends, I also had a heck of a lot of explaining to do to my mom, who fortunately or unfortunately is not fooled very easily.

Thinking back now, I had a childhood filled with so many embrassing events, mostly brought upon me by myself that I am not surprised that I no longer get embrassed that easily.

Oh well!! Have a good weekend

btw, Go Blue - Hopefully Michigan kicks Ohio State's ass tommorow. You know how excited I have been about this game...I blogged about it a month back in this post.

Michigan Rocks!!

Its an exciting time to be in Detroit...its been a phenomenal time for sports in Michigan. I moved into Michigan and look at what happened? My favorite college football team Michigan Wolverines has been kicking ass having won all games so far this season. It started the season ranked number 16 and has risen upto No. 2 only behind Ohio State. What's more important is having beat Iowa today, it pretty much got a easy run till it meets Ohio State in November. What a game that will be? For folks who dont follow college football, $50 Ohio State Vs Michigan game tickets are selling for over 1000 bucks a piece on eBay right now. They probably will be well over 1500-2000 bucks a piece by Nov. 18 (gameday).

But it all doesnt end there...the Detroit Tigers are in the world series after 22 years. The first game is going to start in about 40 minutes and I am watching the pre game show right now. The game is being played at the Co-America park here in Detroit and the whole city is excited about it!

With the NBA season starting pretty soon hopefully the Pistons will kick ass as well.

Go Blue, Go Wolverines, Go Tigers and Go Pistons!

What can I say...in the last 2 months I went from a world trotting happy bachelor to a regular single desi guy who goes to work in the morning, comes back in the evening, cooks eats...watches TV and goes to bed! I am still not sure if the change is for good or bad...initially it felt great, not having to live off a suitcase, being able to come back home to a more familar setting rather than a hotel room etc., Yet in the last 2 weeks I have somehow been missing the crazy life I used to live, the fun of travelling, seeing new places, meeting different kinds of people, trying out different cuisines, wine and beer.. etc.,

Somethings have definitely changed for the good though...I have moved to Farmington Hills, Michigan, a fairly plush suburb of Detroit from Fort Wayne, IN. It certainly feels great to live in a big city especially with a ton of Indian stores around, Udipi hotel within 5 miles from my house etc., It certainly is a great releif and much better than Fort Wayne, IN. Attached below are some pictures of my new apartment, which I spent a lot of time working on and decorating (another new found passion along with cooking and decorating somehow sounds more panzy than it really is;))






Well I also bought a new car...well new for me but actually a used car. I bought a 2003 BMW 330i...its still brand new considering it only had 28000 miles on it when I bought it...besides that car was love at first sight...I saw the car at the lot of the first dealer I went to, really liked it, negotiated the price but the dealer refused to come down on the price. Then I walked out and saw and drove a whole bunch of other bimmers, didnt really like any..atleast not as much as I liked this one, so went back to the dealer re-negotiated and finally settled for a price. I have been in love with it since then...its got all the German over engineering and the gizmos which would scare most people, but as an engineer myself I love it! Well needless to say, I made my first payment couple of weeks back and felt a little sick..However here are a few pictures...






Well...thats my life in the past 2 months in a nutshell...lot of stuff happening, some exciting but mostly its just been regular and monotonous...thats about it for now!