My August 15th..

This is not a post where I advice India n Indians to get better.. become a super power... Do this, Don't do that... etc... just a post where I'm gonna babble how my August 15th went...

Woke up by 7'o clock... Decided it was too early on a holiday, played a few slow tracks from my mobile n went back to sleep again... Finally woke up by 8. Shaved, bathed n ate by 9 30... was watching TV while eating... There was this Leoni's pattimandram ( A talk show), laughed my heart out... was awesome... haven't felt this light in laughter in a long time...

Then mom n dad called me... put me on some guilt about not visiting them often, asked me to come to my home town today itself. I gave a silly but effective excuse - I have my medicine test on wednesday, So have to do some group studies with my friends. n they believed it.

Switched on my imac, saw a lotta independence day posts... posts by comfortably numb and soul of a woman were good, thought provoking. The morning went great... twittered a lot... got some new friends... was chatting with my friends in GTalk till noon...

Then saw this tweet about SRK detention thingy... yucky face of indian media n publicity stunts... hate it. Kalam was in a similar security check before n the news didn't even make it till one month later. C'mon what better way to earn publicity for a movie named "My Name Is Khan" than making an issue outta a secondary security check in US n complaining "They detained me cos my name is khan"... n that too on Independence day... FYI, I luuuuuv SRK in movies. I just don't like these silly publicity stunts which harm the sentiments of the people of both the nations.

Started seeing this movie I downloaded, The Informers. It was about the life in Los Angeles before AIDS... ie., 1983. It was a pretty erotic movie, about people exploring their sexuality n drugs... extensively. But had to stop the movie in the middle. My lil' cousin sister came, talked with her then started watching Ice Age 3 with her (cos the movie I was seeing wouldn't have sent a right message). She left after a while n then I finally finished the movie. The movie doesn't show this, but implies that all characters end up being dead cos of HIV spreading within their group due to multiple partners n drug abusing.

I badly wanted to study for my medicine test... but ended up chatting n twittering. Then by 11'o clock, started writing a guest post for Nuchu akka's blog... had a fun time doin it, imaginations running wild.

Then I slept finally by 12 30 listening to tracks by Led Zeppelin. This group is my new craze... the drums n guitars are awesome....

P.S. - Thanks for listening to my bullshit... It was not the perfect Independence day an Indian should spend, but I ended up being happy n felt independent. I think thats what our forefathers fought for from the British. So, In a way I actually am fulfilling their wishes.... n Arun is pretty damn proud of that.