I'm so sorry, but no!!! I don't want to. Leave me alone.

Who wants to be an adult? Not me!! Even though all outward evidence points otherwise, I do not want to grow up. I love my space, my possessions (people included), red meat, prejudices and passions far too much to be "mature" about them. Read that as give them up!!!

Caution: Use with care. Highly addictive!!!

There should be a statutory warning printed on every pack! Pack of what? Of paper plates, of course! No, no I've not lost it!! I shall explain the logic with a little story.....

Once upon a time there where three lil bears who lived in a condo. There was papa bear who was busy all the time, mama bear who did not want to be busy all the time and baby bear who kept mama bear busy all the time. Due to a lousy heating system and ENORMOUS heating bills, they decided to move to a cozy apartment for the winter. So come fall, they moved out...and woohoo was that a super difficult feat or wht. Bad movers, crazy apartment rules and a lot of other factors wore them out. So papa bear got take out and a whole bunch of paper plates and cups so mama bear could do other chores like lifting huge boxes and keep baby bear from getting squashed!! Then they moved, partially set up house and even got out their regular plates...but mama bear still uses the paper ones...:D And she plans to do so until papa bear notices!!!

There you go!!! Now you know the grim tale of how I...ahem, I mean mama bear got addicted!! So Beware!!

Do you sometimes a song was a person? Someone who is like that first gulp of air after you forget to breathe, lost in intense, confused thought. Someone like fresh, cold water on the dry, parched soles of your feet. Like a comforting warmth in your palm.

Whats up with the universe and Vista?

Yup...you guessed it!! This is going to be another rant! I am annoyed....very annoyed. I wake up this morning to find out that people take joy in interfering with my travel plans, my son thinks biting me is a game and Vista is the most painful OS!!!

Autocad 2006 is not compatible with dear ol' Vista and neither is 2007!!! And trial versions of 2010 may choose to work on one system and not the other!!!! Micro-morons!!!!

Truth? Whose?

Erica Jong, in her website, writes "Tell your truth not the world's" as advice for aspiring writers. It strikes a chord....actually a concatenation of sounds that could be a song!!! My song!!!

Whats up?

Long time....yes, I know. But something happened. A small little course at UW. Class once a week. Two essays to submit over the weekend, every week. Nice! Wait....on what? Philosophy!!!! Yikes....philosophy of architecture!! What was I thinking? Like most things in my life I din't know what I was getting into.

Now I have just one more class to go and I feel life will never be the same again....there I go again..all melodramatic!!! What was so special is that I learnt something so very important. That there is a link between Language, metalanguage and architecture. Yay!!! Now I can put it all together, shake it all up and gulp it down like a milkshake!!! Then I realized how much of reading I have to do, want to do. I kinda lost track of things I wanted to explore after I came to the US...but now I can see an open window.

The class was good....but I need to make use of it for anything effective to germinate. Germinate...You know, try as I might, I'm not a gardening person. Nor am I a handicraft person. I wish I could be....taking, absorbing joy in a detail, a blossom! I digress. So I want to travel. Yeah right! I do but its not going to happen in the near future. But i can dream. Travelling with a backpack, walking through a city, absorbing it, reading in transit, learning to say hello in local languages. The life of a nomad!!

Spice route, Bellevue

The first thing that stands out about this restaurant is that there are no cheap pictures of the Taj Mahal, paintings of village women or any other such monstrosity. Now you know I'm talking about a rarity!!!
We find ourselves visiting often as it is next door to the Indian store and its perfect for an after-grocery shopping-weekend lunch or dinner. I prefer dinner since lunch is buffet and buffet doesn't suit me except for breakfast at the Hilton :) Anyway as I was saying, the decor doesn't jarr your senses. And the food is pretty decent. The only restaurant around that serves Halal meat and South Indian cuisine together. The menu has a little of everything...there's chettinad, tandoori and Tiramisu!!
Service is fairly quick and the people are courteous! But...there's always a but...but the tables are so close to each other that you're bound to feel like a bunch of sardines packed together. Yeah...but as Meatlof said...Two out of three ain't bad!!