I’m getting antsy about staying here. I wanna come home. I don’t think that I’d be able to do that unless I already knew that I was getting there in a few days, but now- yeah. Definitely want to be there. Apparently my mom and Vinni went go get a Christmas tree yesterday.. or the day before or whatever. I’ll tell ya the reason I can’t remember…

I have this one pill called Divalproex which is now in a huge pill. I just take one a day. But before that, I had to take a bunch of little pills of it until I got the big one delivered to the pharmacy. I was looking through a pill box and a saw the little pills and took about 5. I was pretty sure it’d be WAYYYY too little, bit I’d hoped that it’d be enough to at least get me going for the day.

Turns out I had taken out Klonopin, which is a stress reliever/relaxer. I take one every once in a while. And by once in a while, I mean once in three months or so. And I here I am, and I just took five. All of Saturday was spent in bed sleeping. When I ask people if I asked them this-n-that yesterday, they say, ‘No, that was two days ago’. All I remember is that I force fed dinner by Aparna and then passing out again. Oh yeah, and falling alot, because my legs were weird. Really really weird. Note to self- don’t go for the green pils. Green pills=bad.

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So yesterday I get a link from Arshy of a rather controversial picture that someone put up on a website. It’s a girl who’s wearing a hijab (a scarf), but the rest of her body is rather scantily covered. It looked like very suggestive lingerie or something.

Anyway, this was OUTRAGE! The whole point of the scarf is to signify modesty, respect to Allah, and so on. How dare this be exploited in such a manner?! Posters of the forum had opinions that ranged from ‘nice.. i wanna meet her’, to, ‘the whole point of the hijab is to cover!’… and so on.

I happen to think that we’re talking about the same issue that has been discussed for eons. Freedom of speech. You see, freedom of speech is a term that is so odd that it can be used to mean a broad number of things. I highly doubt that The Founding Fathers (of America) thought to themselves that freedom of speech should allow people to watch all different types of porn. But, here it is, and it’s protected by the freedom of speech.

Then there’s the religious aspect, and someone in the post had brought up that it’s not the same as people who are definitely ’sinners’ wearing crucifixes. But why not? We’re not ultimately talking about ‘coverage’ as being the true issue here. We’re talking about disrespecting the true essence of a religion and its core beliefs. One of the core beliefs of Islam is that women should be covered past a certain age. (Conservatives, that is.) And if that’s a problem, it’s the belief system that is being insulted. It should be just as heinous for Madonna having sex with a black Jesus in her music video Like A Prayer.

Ultimately, I think that this is it: There are always going to be those who do or say things that you don’t like. If you don’t like Eminem, don’t listen to him. Don’t like Jerry Falwell? Ignore him. Not too fond of JashdakjsdhAsd Adadadada? Turn a deaf ear. Regardless of whether one finds it offensive or not, it’s another’s perogative to do so.

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“I don’t think it’s going to happen today, Vinoj. I’m trying really hard, but I don’t think I can fit you in. I mean if I had to fit you in, it would just be impossible. It’s just too hard.”
-Gigichacha, informing me that he won’t be able to get me a dentist appointment

You know, as I go through the day(s), I think, ‘Hey I might want to blog that.’ Of course, by the time I get down to actually blogging, I forget all of what I want to say. However, I read a couple of articles today that provide me with some artillery. So let’s go.

1) Saddam is creating absolute ‘pandemonium’ (sp?) at his court proceedings, he’s yelling at people left and right, etc. Today he actually told the judge to, “go to hell.” I would love to put my opinion on this latest bit of news, but I’m concerned that whatever I say (pro or con) would result in the CIA knocking at my door. So onto the next article!

2) Check this out: Dude who owns a restaurant tells parents to give a **ck about their children. Let me explain- we’ve all been to a restaurant where there are those parents with those kids. You know, the kids that run around creating havoc and noise and disturb other people. Now mind you, I don’t have much of a problem with some kid just walking about exploring as long as he doesn’t disturb my meal. To be honest, I think they’re cute and like them. But those wretched little beasts that cry if they don’t get what they want and so forth need to be shot. What’s WORSE is if the parents either a)ignore it or b)THINK IT’S CUTE.

I’m not one on saying that you should ban kids from an establishment, but if the little beast is making so much noise that IT disturbs people, you have to go. All of you. Sorry. Actually, I’m not. I’m paying the same price for the same meal that those people are, and I’d like to have a nice quiet meal where all I have to listen to is my friend. (While we’re at it, maybe we should start kicking out those a$$h0le$ who make jokes so loud that all of the rest of us are supposed to laugh.)

I have a story related to the same situation that happened at Pizza Hut earlier in the week, but I don’t want to fill up my entire site with me being too irate.

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You know, I was just reading over the last post and I realized something– it doesn’t necessarily have to be focused solely onto Bangalore or India. I think the same would be true in any urban environment. I mean, what did it really boil down to? Noise pollution and inconsiderate behavior. That’s pretty much every city that I know. (Any REAL city at least.) It’s required at these places to go, “________ has the shittiest drivers in the world, I swear.”

As for the internet connections, I stand by my convictions that it’s crap here.

I think that even around here, if I could live in a nice cozy villa with the regular amenities (you know, simple things like a THX Home Theater System, two jacuzzis, a DVD collection with over 100 DVDs and music cds climbing through a pull out drawer, and those kickass tiles that Michael Jackson walks on in the Billie Jean video that light up when you step on them.) But if \I had those things and a nice lawn and a garden and a dog, I’d be really happy. Oh and of course a blazing internet connection, satellite preferably.

I’m so grounded and reasonable.

Maybe it’ll happen. Probably not, and I’ll end up in the US again. The date might be changing now to late December/early January instead of the 3rd week of January. Need to start working out for the ladieeeeeessss.…

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