Currently Reading The End of Poverty : Economic Possibilities for Our Time By Jeffrey Sachs see related

Nails for breakfast, tacks for snacks

i'll talk about that book in a later entry, surprisingly i am not a big fan.

i have had a discomforting sore throat since last night. despite a shot and a dose of antibiotic, relief has not yet arrived. this means if everything goes in usual form and fashion, i should be bed ridden and completely congested by tomorrow. i didn't sleep a wink last night and i spent a total of an hour in the office today. it was so frigid and cold i decided it would be best to work from home. working from home turned into taking a decongestant, passing out and watching law and order. i've had a pretty big craving for chocolate ice cream all day but i know my mom will go crazy if she sees me eating ice cream while sick. i'm turning 23 in september and i still can't eat what i want when i'm sick. my cravings are almost always bad ideas though, as i will explain below.

sometimes, like once every 6 months, i crave souper salad. it ususally happens because i drive by one when i'm hungry or teena tells me about her 999,999th trip to souper salad. so i go, i eat entirely too much and i end up wishing i never went. it takes about 6 months for me to ever consider eating there again. the same goes for my temporary lapse in judgment regarding hindi movies. every now and then, one gets hyped up enough to make me want to see it. since it is difficult for me to sit through entire hindi films at home (i almost always lose interest after 2 hours) i will go to the monopoly of a movie theater in dallas.

yesterday night, me and teena made our 2nd attempt to see fanaa and this time we were successful. i got there at 5:45 for a movie that started at 7:30. i don't want to see another indian movie for years. and i certainly never want to go to the madhouse that is fun asia EVER AGAIN. mind you, it's our fault for chosing buy one get one free night for our movie going experience. we only saved $4 each. i spent about 5 hours at fun asia for $4. i can't explain why we did that, i really can't. so people were saving seats and apparently that is not allowed at fun asia because there were people with tickets without any seats....so they called richardson pd. a real live cop came out to regulate, shine his flashlight and tell people where to sit. it was hilarious.

so to the movie. bollywood is infamous for mimicking hollywood box office hits. you think in all their copying, the would have learned or atleast attempted to learn the art of making a plotline flow. you can't set up a love story for two hours, then at intermission transform it into a mission impossible-like terrorist flick. amir khan was winning over the love of an innocent blind girl in the first half. the second half consisted of her miraculously getting her vision back and him jumping out of a helicopter and snowboarding away from bad guys. they played mission impossible-like electric guitar during the snowboard scene. the only two highlights of the movie were 1) seeing rakesh in his bollywood debut as a army officer and 2) how hot amir khan looked in the second half. i was a waste of a night. i wish i had been at gloria's with sarah.

and the thing is, its just like souper salad. i know i will be back in a couple of months to see this one. i never learn.

Currently Watching Da Ali G Show - The Complete First Season By Ali G see related

raindrops keep fallin' on my head

raindrops keep falling on the metal roof beside my bedroom window actually. i am not going to get any sleep tonight. atleast i have ali g to keep me company until this light/thunder show outside ceases.

let's get married, everyone's doing it! i went to a family friend's engagement tonight. me and this guy used to play "fort" together in our childhood. now he plays with hearts and brains and will be married soon enough. i know this seems to be the ongoing theme of every xanga entry i make, but when the hell did we grow up? i was at teena's place on friday night looking at old photos and reflecting on our asinine high school behavior. we were so fucking annoying. i am surprised we have grown up and lead seemingly mature adult lives now. i was actually a freshman in college when this picture was taken. please note that the girl ripping that chuniyo off me is going to be someones doctor in a few years...

i also found some old pictures on this laptop. they're from all over the place. enjoy.

this one is me and my brother, shortly after i was born. that outfit is so in right now!

isnt my mom cute? i'm reconsidering that hair length again.

this is our fabulous drill team hat wearing snowman.

this is one of two dove families who have settled in at our house. as my mom always says, this lady is the best mother out there.

this is bailey all cleaned up...she needs a home if you're interested.

this is from last night. that is my soon to be engaged cousin manisha!

and here is my mom after the chi

so back to the present day. i've been to the movie theater more in the past week than i have all year. i saw the lakehouse with sarah on tuesday. it was a free screening, which does not mean i wouldn't have paid to see this movie for the sheer hilarity of it's plotline.

i learned two things that night. 1) sarah knows entirely too much keanu reeves trivia and 2) there are actually women out there who are stupid enough to watch this movie and not question the magic time traveling mailbox. i wouldn't have minded so much if the movie had been set in the future and it was established that time traveling mailboxes were as common as ipods or if they had explained why the mailbox possessed magical powers. but they did neither. keanu reeves cried at one point, in his trademark robotic surfer boy style. it was AWFUL. i think sarah secretly liked it.

me and teena attempted to see fanaa at funasia on wednesday. this was my second attempt to see this movie. everytime i go, it's sold out. so needless to say, it was a big failure since indians show up in the 1,000s on buy 1 get 1 free night. it was like anand bazaar, but in a parking lot in richardson. we then decided to see the breakup instead. i'm not sure how everyone feels about this one but i loved it. i thought it was pretty damn realistic. the warfare-like situations seemed all too familiar. i have yet to throw anyones clothes out though.

i've run out of books to read and re-read. any suggestions?

ABSOLUDACRIS!

NO someone did not really give a producer money to make a time traveling romance starring keanu reeves?http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thelakehouse/

in other news, i need to update on MANY things in life but i know how lengthy xangas seem to put everyone off so i will make it quick. i met bono again, everyone graduated, i found a dog at walmart, i got drunk

and here's the big one. i watched a life altering film titled "be somebody or be somebody's fool." here is whole video in its entirety. i promise it is 50 minutes well spent!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4610575102642182602&q=mr.+t

new order

i am new to this title business. but new order is what i've been listening to today and i feel the title of this band is a very fitting way to describe my week.

austin was a great unwind for me. i reverted back to my college days of waking up on meghana's floor trying to piece together the night. i seem to never remember the pizza portion of the night, which is the best part of the night in case you didn't know. in the madness that is called adulthood it's nice to have the opportunity to unleash the beast so to say. i won't have that opportunity much longer. austin is going to be a ghost town after may. you see college ended for me last year but it really didn't. i've been living vicariously through the lives of my class of '06 friends and i'm realizing their doors of craziness are about to close as well. what a scary thought to be in austin for a weekend and not have a black hole to crash in.

so upon returning to work, my fabulous supervisor finally departed after 9 something years with the agency. she was a great boss because she understood how it felt to be a wee little worker. she went out of her way to make us look good to the next up on the sacred CHAIN OF COMMAND. only sarah will really understand that and i don't really feel like explaining. anywho new boss is hmm not so spectacular. she goes out of her way to make us feel look and feel like idiots to the people up above. we are planning on staging a mutiny sometime soon..any ideas? AND i forgot to mention, she gives us "good job" stickers as a substitute for ever saying anything positive to us. a sticker isn't going to perk me up after you just returned a case to me 3 times because of punctuation. i realize commas are crucial to a good paper but they are not crucial to good investigations. so i have let it out now and i feel better. i feel as if i have bitched about work way too much this week to do me any good. i don't want to become the angry worker in the corner who the new workers fear.

i joined a gym today. i am pretty psyched at the moment though i'm sure this will change after a few weeks. seema also frequents this gym and i think it will be nice to break it down with her. they have what appear to be pretty good classes. power kickboxing, yoga, hip hop aerobics etc. how many of those i will attend, we shall see. besides seema, it seems all of my high school alumni frequents this gym as well. in just taking a tour and signing a contract i ran into 3 people from poteeeeet. i am so bad with names and it seems everyone remembers mine. it's partially because i am just so memorable but i think most of it has to do with the fact that dimple rhymed with pimple and who can forget dimple pimple

p.s fear not kris, i do not xanga at work anymore. i always feel like i am being watched there.

be prepared to laugh your ass off.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7942583370526412&q=indians+know&pr=goog-sl

look out for the guy in the black and white striped shorts, he's my future boyfriend.

and this one is for sarah, who has not seen the popozao clip.

http://www.gorillamask.net/kfpz.shtml