pOojA sAveD mE

today's a festival day. vijaydashami.

happy vijaydashami folks. also happy saraswati pooja day.
i did go to a saraswati pooja yest. it was gud. also gud, was the idli sambar we had later made by the mum of the friend's friend.

what WAS slightly disconcerting, was the tamil sloka papers that were passed around which ppl were reading. also the next 3 hours of continous tamil.
the pontification of the greatness of tamil. the greatness of shopping in chennai. the great feeling of belonging they felt by discussing about chennai. which movie star is gud right now. who's in love with which movie star and the greatness of madhavan.
all that is gud and thats the stuff i understood with my limited understanding of tamil.

the other day, i went out with telugu fanatics, and got a 3 hours discourse on the greatness of telugu movie industry. which song was the current chart buster and which movie star was doing who.

i have to admit. both times. unfortunately, my mind decided it was better off doing something else. and wandered off. hey, i tried to listen, i did. but the limited underdstanding of the language and the fact that i DON'T GIVE A DAMN about the current hottie from any of the south indian movie industries might have been teh reason i turned into a zombie. i think i was actually slack jawed , glassy eyed and drooling for a while out there.

last night i atleast had the extremely pleasant memories of the idli sambaar to keep me going :-/
but then my well honed instincts came to the rescue. i slinked around, wall to wall and finally, found a BOOK. in the middle of all the tamil chaos.
aaaha !!
take that. now i'm SAVED. even if i just opened random pages and looked at the random words ( i couldn't read , my brain had wandered off, didn't i say that already ?? )
ofcourse i couldn't concentrate... didn't i mention the incessant TAMIL NATTERING.

i don't think i can ever remember, talking about the kannada movie industry with anyone. if anything i might have talked about the ugliness of kannada movie heroes, but thats it. infact there have been many people who have refused to believe me that a kannada movie industry even Exists.

so here i am, in this place, fraternizing with different regional nuts. well, i guess there's a lot i'll put up with for food. so i shud just shut up now and eat my idli, sambaar, vada, chutney, payasa, etc etc