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soloprojectRight now, I am too tired to update with stuff that's happen in the last couple days (a lot. As usual.) So here is an email I just wrote to Sian:
Lovely Siannie,
I should have been writing to everyone more but here is the thing: Mumbai is always so goddamn busy that I've been having this problem that I haven't had since...forever---choosing what to do! For the first time in ages, I'm having to decide what to do next, turning one group of people over another and trying to balance all of this with chores, personal projects and sleep. The latter of course, is what I've been having the least. Thank god Indian coffee is so delicious because I've been drinking it like water.
Speaking of water, I'm going to the beach this weekend and I am doing it in the way I've always dreamed: backpacking on an overnight train and wedged between a Brazilian and a Croatian. Of course, the number one rule in the Hit That Bro Code is NO ROOMMATES--but there is a Looking Allowed clause in the fine print. I'm proud to tell you that across the board, mine is the best looking flat.
I did not know you were heading the US! Tell me your plans...I was putting together a bunch of stuff to send to you and Van (as well as a tear-soaked letter pleading you to come visit me in India :P) and I guess I will either send it to Cebu or to Hope to pass to everyone in one parcel (as they refer to these things here in India).
Been reading a crapton of stuff. Right now, I'm working my way through the Dresden Files. When I first came here, I read all the True Blood books and then I bought several books here in India (some of which are waiting to be read, still). I have a Nook, which I had Cody and Resh buy for me at Barnes and Noble and it's a fuckload of a lot cheaper than a Kindle (although as of right now, the Kindle is now cheaper) but having 1000+++ books to read on my long commute is very comforting.
So far, Siannie, my time in India has been so surreal. I'm so completely removed that I really feel grown up but at the same time I'm like some excited kid in a huge Indian candy store just OOH color and OOOOH sound and OMG OMG OMG all the time. Every month there's at least 1 festival and between that so much stuff to do and ogle that.
I'm trying to expand beyond this group of AIESEC trainees and make friends outside of the firangi (foreigner) crowd. I found a group of Filipinas at a mall and they've invited me to visit soon so they can cook me adobo. Some days I wake up longing for lechon (yes, even the nasty Cebu kind!!! Just kidding!) because every day I am 80% veg. I don't have too much choice in that matter because office takes care of lunch and it's always veg. I haven't had pork in WEEKS...ok, I have had sausage mcmuffins here but I think they're made of mutton or something. The one beef burger I had weeks ago made me so sick, I was vomiting all night and the next day, Bart comforted me with biryani-- but it's still veg, of course. I miss ventis--India likes its coffee little, like espressos or else they drink chai.
This week, the festival du jour is Navatri which is such a beautiful kind of feminist festival. For nine days, different aspects of Parvati are worshipped, primarily the form of Durga, bad-ass mutha with ten arms and slayer of demons. There's some Kali thrown in and some Lakshmi at one point and every night, some dancing and every day, a different color sari. Thursday is yellow. It's an absolute pleasure to see the sea of color at the train station every day.
What is this book with steamships, pirates and zombies??? Tell me! Last night, I watched Dorian Gray with Vasiliy and Gordan and randomly thinking of steampunk. I was trying to describe steampunk to Gordan too...it's funny that someone who works out so much is such a fucking geek.
Write me back and tell me how things go. I'm always online, usually between the hours of 11-8pm. India is three hours behind Manila so that's 2-11 for you over there and in the US, whever you are then GOOGLE IT!!!!
I'm going to Goa but when I get back, I'm going to watch this Sci-fi movie in Hindi called Robott and then I'm going to watch this animated Ramayana but when I see you again, I will bring you some DVDs with English subs which I've already started collecting. :) Perhaps send you some that have excellent dance numbers.
Love and miss you!
Bunny
Lovely Siannie,
I should have been writing to everyone more but here is the thing: Mumbai is always so goddamn busy that I've been having this problem that I haven't had since...forever---choosing what to do! For the first time in ages, I'm having to decide what to do next, turning one group of people over another and trying to balance all of this with chores, personal projects and sleep. The latter of course, is what I've been having the least. Thank god Indian coffee is so delicious because I've been drinking it like water.
Speaking of water, I'm going to the beach this weekend and I am doing it in the way I've always dreamed: backpacking on an overnight train and wedged between a Brazilian and a Croatian. Of course, the number one rule in the Hit That Bro Code is NO ROOMMATES--but there is a Looking Allowed clause in the fine print. I'm proud to tell you that across the board, mine is the best looking flat.
I did not know you were heading the US! Tell me your plans...I was putting together a bunch of stuff to send to you and Van (as well as a tear-soaked letter pleading you to come visit me in India :P) and I guess I will either send it to Cebu or to Hope to pass to everyone in one parcel (as they refer to these things here in India).
Been reading a crapton of stuff. Right now, I'm working my way through the Dresden Files. When I first came here, I read all the True Blood books and then I bought several books here in India (some of which are waiting to be read, still). I have a Nook, which I had Cody and Resh buy for me at Barnes and Noble and it's a fuckload of a lot cheaper than a Kindle (although as of right now, the Kindle is now cheaper) but having 1000+++ books to read on my long commute is very comforting.
So far, Siannie, my time in India has been so surreal. I'm so completely removed that I really feel grown up but at the same time I'm like some excited kid in a huge Indian candy store just OOH color and OOOOH sound and OMG OMG OMG all the time. Every month there's at least 1 festival and between that so much stuff to do and ogle that.
I'm trying to expand beyond this group of AIESEC trainees and make friends outside of the firangi (foreigner) crowd. I found a group of Filipinas at a mall and they've invited me to visit soon so they can cook me adobo. Some days I wake up longing for lechon (yes, even the nasty Cebu kind!!! Just kidding!) because every day I am 80% veg. I don't have too much choice in that matter because office takes care of lunch and it's always veg. I haven't had pork in WEEKS...ok, I have had sausage mcmuffins here but I think they're made of mutton or something. The one beef burger I had weeks ago made me so sick, I was vomiting all night and the next day, Bart comforted me with biryani-- but it's still veg, of course. I miss ventis--India likes its coffee little, like espressos or else they drink chai.
This week, the festival du jour is Navatri which is such a beautiful kind of feminist festival. For nine days, different aspects of Parvati are worshipped, primarily the form of Durga, bad-ass mutha with ten arms and slayer of demons. There's some Kali thrown in and some Lakshmi at one point and every night, some dancing and every day, a different color sari. Thursday is yellow. It's an absolute pleasure to see the sea of color at the train station every day.
What is this book with steamships, pirates and zombies??? Tell me! Last night, I watched Dorian Gray with Vasiliy and Gordan and randomly thinking of steampunk. I was trying to describe steampunk to Gordan too...it's funny that someone who works out so much is such a fucking geek.
Write me back and tell me how things go. I'm always online, usually between the hours of 11-8pm. India is three hours behind Manila so that's 2-11 for you over there and in the US, whever you are then GOOGLE IT!!!!
I'm going to Goa but when I get back, I'm going to watch this Sci-fi movie in Hindi called Robott and then I'm going to watch this animated Ramayana but when I see you again, I will bring you some DVDs with English subs which I've already started collecting. :) Perhaps send you some that have excellent dance numbers.
Love and miss you!
Bunny
