Thats something. By the way I woudl be your arch nemesis...UofM graduate. WE don't get any snow days. The reason is that some law student sued the school some years ago because he said that snow days should be illegal when we paid so much tuition money. So, he/she has sealed our fates...I remember walking over ice covered sidewalks to go to school. It took us half an hour to walk a normal five minute distance because everything was covered with a layer of ice..so it was like walking to class on in a skating rink. They not only did not cancel the exam; they gave us only couple of minutes extra even though people were coming in late to exam. It was horrible.
Thats something. By the way I woudl be your arch nemesis...UofM graduate. WE don't get any snow days. The reason is that some law student sued the school some years ago because he said that snow days should be illegal when we paid so much tuition money. So, he/she has sealed our fates...I remember walking over ice covered sidewalks to go to school. It took us half an hour to walk a normal five minute distance because everything was covered with a layer of ice..so it was like walking to class on in a skating rink. They not only did not cancel the exam; they gave us only couple of minutes extra even though people were coming in late to exam. It was horrible.
No I haven't seen "Bend It Like Beckham". My favorite Indian movie is still "Company" and I recently saw "Darna Mana Hai" which was good (but you have to see it with an home theater system on dvd...cause the sound really makes the movie).
You gotta wach Bend it..awesome movie..specially speaking for us desi females..and absolutely hilarious with fat indian aunties, mom forcing her to learn to cook "a full panjabi dish..both meat and vegetarian", and a lot more. Now "company"...I admit it was a good movie...(and whats his name is hot, but that is probably not the reason you liked it). I do hope you have seen "dil chata hai" and "lagaan"...best indian movies I have seen in a while. Though Tubstain doesn't like dil chata hai...I don't see why since it was about one of the only indian movies without a huge plot hole. By the way why did everyone end up in the desert in company?
Yeh I saw both Dil Chatha Hai and Lagaan. Liked both of them as well. I don't remember the desert?
One time i had a blackout in my neigborhood for like a minute. Just so happen my friend brought his computer to LAN up. Hes comp died and hes like "OH SH!T!". Mine was connected to the UPS and was still going and i even had my network on the UPS, i was still downloading stuff while his comp was gasping for air. That was so funny...
Has anyone been to Kerala? (nicer than Goa)
Hlapana, MadIndian,
Watch Monsoon Wedding. A hilarious movie.
Lagaan was good but tooo damn long. That movie needs some serious editing.
I went out to the camper, turned the generator and A/C on, watched Star Wars and grilled some hot dogs.
I'm confused. You feel people in Japan are LESS stressed than employees in the U.S.? I think the suicide rate there is extremely high. In addition to pressures of work and living in 10x10 apartments the economic situation there has been going sideways the last 15 years...
i'm baffled more than a few times...
just trying to understand your point. At any rate, you appear to be an intelligent college student at the peak of your idealism. You'll be amazed how your perspective can/will change in 10 years..
milagro
You may very well be correct that I am traveling on a cloud of idealism...and I fear that it may be the case. At the same time I fear that in ten years I will have lost my "peak" of idealism, specially after having gone through all the schooling and what not. I just hope that I have enough idealism left that I make some difference in this world. If you think about it and look at history; who are the people who brought about the most social changes? Who are the people who stood up to injustice? Usually the young and the college students who are riding the euphoric idealistic cloud (if you want, I will give some examples). The problem is those who are idealistic tend to have the least power. If we had more idealistic people with power; maybe this world would be a lot better place. Maybe we do need a little bit more idealism in this world.
Also, there is nothing wrong with being socially aware. Also about the japanese comment; I admit I cannot back it up. However, my impression was that education in the east is a lot harder before college...and most of the suicides that I know of are for high school level students. Where as the educational level before college in America is despicable and is rapidly going down with the wonderful budget cut for education by our wonderful president. However even though the education before college is not so great; the stress level and competition during and after college is at a maximum. Once you enter the capitalistic world...well..you lose your idealism I guess.
theechosenone
Monsoon wedding was okay; probably not one of my favorites. Lagaan...well..the lenght is really a hindi movie thing and you get used to it. I do agree about the lenght but for some reason we desis seem to cut a lot of slack when we watch hindi movies or we just don't watch them. However if you liked monsoon wedding...I really suggest some good movies. Probably can't find them in all movie places but all campuses have them. Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair are two of my favorite directors...for their artsie films at least. Monsoon wedding was by Mira Nair; but Deepa Mehta has Earth (about the indian pakistan partisioning...amazing amazing movie), and Fire (about lesbianism in India, a very taboo subject there), and water (which I am not sure was ever released in India, need to watch it soon). Among Mira Nair's work, I would defenitely suggest Salaam Bombay; really tears your heart out and stomps all over it. After watching these movie, I don't know how anybody would NOT want to help those in need.
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