Monday, July 20

Mmmm Poori

Yesterday was one of those days that you wouldn't expect to be insanely awesome but turns out insanely awesome and you're pleasantly surprised. The fabulosity started when I started grading my practice MCAT verbal section and noticed that my answer sheet and the answer key were rather synchronized. This made me happy. Now this must also happen for the other two sections.

At about noon, the fam and I (minus Vishnu who was at a sleepover) went to Sravanthi's house where there was a Pooja. Being the horrible people that we are, we arrived at the end of the pooja, just in time for the food. For some reason I really like pooja food. It was also a graduation party/going off to med school party for Sravanthi. It was a ridiculously nice day so Sravanthi and her dad cut their cakes outside. It was uncle's 50th birthday. Two cakes! Double awesome sauce.

After that, my mom and I were planning to gatecrash an arangetram since it was taking place in Bedford High School. It was some student of Neena Gulati's, so we were hoping to see some Odissi. Pranathi, Bhavana, and their mom also came along and we arrived right at intermission time. We missed the Odissi but got to see the bharatanatyam and kuchipudi, including some plate dancing which was nice. We didn't feel bad about being there uninvited since we didn't actually consume their food. And besides, I got to see BHS again! The new auditorium looks pretty good. Once Pranathi posts up the pictures, I will share them with you.

After that spectacle, we chilled at my place and then drove over to The Pongal restaurant, where we had reserved a total of 16 seats. It was the night out with the musicians and Jothi Aunty! So we took them to an Indian restuarant (I know, creative) and were joined by Mamtha's fam. We talked about everything other than our dance production, ate, drank, and merried. I ordered some ridiculously huge deep fried pooris which tasted excellent but I needed my brother to help me eat them. Several hours later, we were the only ones in the restaurant and once the waiters started getting fidgety, we decided we should at least get up and let them clean. The large mass of people moved outside and chatted for another half hour. We moved a few steps closer to our cars and chatted for another half hour. We then realized that we could get into trouble for loitering around a building after hours so we reluctantly packed ourselves into vehicles and drove home.

And we all saw each other today during dance rehearsals. I swear, you'd think people would eventually run out of things to talk about, but you're always wrong.
:D

Pictures soon, I promise.

Thursday, July 16

Harry Potter!

Its mid July. The days have actually been pretty nice, but what have I been doing? Forcing myself to stay indoors, taking MCAT practice tests, and practicing dance. I am actually in the middle of taking a test right now, but I am feeling the need to blog. Last weekend, I went to Nikhil's graduation party where there were several great adventures, such as being trapped in their sauna, throwing a paper towl roll across the pool (and failing, as you can see by the wet soggy mess here), and going on the MoonBounce while wearing dresses and skirts. Here are some illustrations.


Its name is Bob.

What started out as innocent poolside relaxation escalated into a battle of great splashes and wetness. We were merely dipping our feet into the pool when Sanjana got wet and needed the paper towl roll. Someone decided to throw the roll across the pool, and of course it missed the deck by one foot and landed right in the water, creating large splashing and loud screaming. Then commenced the great splash battle.

After Nikhil's house, the fam and I decided it would be a good time to go shopping. I got new sneakers (remember my old ones were ravaged by Holi colors?). On Sunday, I was forced to wake up exceedingly early (8:30) to attend morning dance camp. After that, we took the musician uncles, Venu, NS, and Srikanth, to the Sai Center where they sang bhajans and played instruments. Listening to NS uncle play the mridangam was INSANE. We went shopping after that. Great fun, we had. In dance class, we've finished with our Pushpanjali, Thillana, and we're working on the Varnam right now. We've done all this in just the past week and a half, which is a LOT.


I went to see Harry Potter 6 yesterday! It is probably my favorite movie of the series so far. I liked it because it was definitely its own film and didn't rely excessively on the book. From the fourth book onwards, it would be unfair to compare the books with the movies because there is no way you can be faithful to the text in a movie of reasonable length. It was still a long-ish movie but I liked the pacing--it didn't feel like everything was crammed together. It was also quite hilarious. Compared to the earlier movies, there is definitely a greater of sophistication and richness and subtlety that the last two films have had, and I have high expectations for the last one.

GAH! I'm still having a hard time believing that the series is actually over. I remember being in India when book 7 came out, so I actually was able to get it a full 9 hours before it was released here! My book has the British cover though.

I should probably get back to my practice test. Bleh. Seeya

Friday, July 10

take me away

Wow. It's already 10 days into July and today was one of the few nice days of weather we've had in this past month. What's wrong with this planet? Global warming? Grrr

Dance classes for the production began on Monday. The production is entitled Bhavayami Raghu Ramam and it's a senior dancers only production. We've only been choreographing for four days but it is looking really cool. Here is a flier for it:


Snazzy, huh?
You guys should really come to this. It's going to be good. I just know it.

Anyway, I haven't been doing much else besides studying the past few days. I did however update my music collection. As for Hindi music, you should listen to the album Luck by Salim and Sulaiman because it's pretty good. I like the song Jee Le.

Would anyone like to go biking one weekend when the weather is nice? Let me know.