An early satisfying weekend
This week, weekend started Friday and ended Saturday. He starts working long hours from today until Thursday.
Books books and more books
Authorities at Immigration while we head back to India are gonna go crazy. People shop for clothes, electronics, chocolates and all that jazz. But both of us are very happy for what we did - something that will always remain our passion - buying books. One hard luggage is filled with about 25 odd books.
We bought a whopping 13 books in 2 days. What i like most about him is that he always acts on his first instinct. Last afternoon, at "Discovery channel" (@Solomon Pond Mall, Marlborough), I was contemplating whether to buy the $15 book titled "The century" or not. The minute i showed him the book, he was impressed and decided to buy. The book is a rare compilation of photographs from every year of the last cnetury (1899-2001). The last photograph shows an officer informing George W. Bush at a primary school about the September 11th attacks. I cannot recollect a single book that i have half-finished the day i bought it. But this one is almost done.
While driving back from Malborough, i causally mentioned to him about the library sale at the Framngham Public Library today where books are sold for either $1 or $2. His immediate reaction was lets go! A small room packed with about thousand novels, management books, travel guides etc. We were impressed. We chose about 7 books. The thought of carrying it all back home made us drop 3 and finally settled for 4 books. He presents them at the counter. The lady says "How about a quarter?". He is perplexed and shoots an inquiring glance at me. I didn't understand either. So i ask her "Is a quarter all that you are asking for this?". She says "Yes". We were speechless.
All set to exit the library we look at an adjoining room, which was about 10 times as big as the one we just walked out of. Name a book and it was there. There was nothing stopping us. It just made our day. All hardcover books. Gives us a good reason to stay back in this country.
I could see the flash in his eyes as they raced up and down the kids section flooded with books. He had read all of them but i hadn't. So i picked up bools like Alice in wonderland, A compilation of Fairy tales and Frankenstein. The satisfaction of having made it today is something materialistic things will never give us. We are glad we did it.

X2
Saw X2 last Tuesday. I can't quite understand why we went for that movie. The box-office hit put me to sleep. The war between mutants and humans, their magical inborn skills reminded me morre of those video games Pravin played as a kid. Crazy movies are made because crazy people like us watch them!

Random thoughts
1. You are at someone's place for lunch. The hosts get a call, talk in native language presumin you can't understand the language. The hosts tell you, from whom the call was. You discover 30 minutes later from some X that the call was actually from someone else. Have you ever gone through what we did? Does it make you feel like a fool? I don't think it should, though it did to me. Why give it a damn?

2. Lessons of life - Don't go out of your way to help someone. My dad has suffered from this all his life but he still continues to help people unconditionally. Vivek does the same too. Yet another similarity but definitely not a Taurean trait. But when someone doesn't even have the courtesy to tell him, it hurts me. I got to keep away from his official affairs is what am learning.