degrees of "hot," films, and scooter rides
well, i was wrong. i thought that after a certain point-- around 100F or over 40C, my body was not able to tell the difference between small changes in temperature. a little research proves i am very wrong. yesterday and today felt especially hot. i made a bunch of excuses as to why-- increased humidity, no wind, etc., but when i looked on weather.com i saw the temperature had climbed above the average 42-43 to 45-46 the past 2 days. i like looking at the delhi forecast. it is usually "hot, dust" or "hot, smog, evening squall." unlike VA, the weather here usually doesn't change from day to day. next week it is supposed to start raining, and the temp won't go much past 40C.
this weekend was fun. i went to ghaziabad as usual, and i actually had 3 really solid nights of sleep. saturday santosh and i went to the new AC mega mall near the flat. it is way hi-fi and has a lot of fancy stores that are even expensive for me. but it is a good place to get running clothes or work clothes. i definitely am going to go back there with the credit card. the downside of having all of these western stores, hoever, is that they charge western prices. the best thing to do is to buy knockoffs (unless it is running shoes!).
santosh and i also went to the movies. we saw Parineeta. like devdas, it has really beautiful costumes and scenery, so it was worthwhile to see it on the big screen. it is a period film, about a love triangle in calcutta in the 50's/60's (there was a lot of elvis in the movie). next weekend i want to see Paheli starring Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukherji. it is in rajasthan, about a ghost, and uses puppets as a medium from time to time. plus, shah rukh wears a turban and moustache.
a lot happened this morning on the drive in to work. santosh took me by scooter and it was so HOT even at 8:30am. i bet it was already over 100F at that time. anyways, we had to drive on the wrong side of the road for a little while. i felt ok doing this because we were not the only ones, but then we hit some poor guy on a bicycle. that felt like an inauspicious start to the day. then, in the middle of driving, someone called santosh's mobile. you think people in the US are bad talking on mobiles while driving cars-- trust me it is much worse having people on scooters and motorcycles driving one-handed to answer their cell phones. santosh at least has the mind not to talk and drive, so he passed the phone to me. the man was speaking hindi, and i was able to determine he was one of guddu's distant relatives from purnia who had popped into town. he was asking directions from the bus stand. i was trying to figure out which bus stand he was at while simultaneously translating the conversation to santosh (even though it would have been much more effective to just repeat the hindi). the relative could not hear me very well because of the traffic, so i just assumed he was at the main bus stand and gave him directions from there. this must have been quite a site-- me on the scooter, screaming directions into the phone.
this weekend was fun. i went to ghaziabad as usual, and i actually had 3 really solid nights of sleep. saturday santosh and i went to the new AC mega mall near the flat. it is way hi-fi and has a lot of fancy stores that are even expensive for me. but it is a good place to get running clothes or work clothes. i definitely am going to go back there with the credit card. the downside of having all of these western stores, hoever, is that they charge western prices. the best thing to do is to buy knockoffs (unless it is running shoes!).
santosh and i also went to the movies. we saw Parineeta. like devdas, it has really beautiful costumes and scenery, so it was worthwhile to see it on the big screen. it is a period film, about a love triangle in calcutta in the 50's/60's (there was a lot of elvis in the movie). next weekend i want to see Paheli starring Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukherji. it is in rajasthan, about a ghost, and uses puppets as a medium from time to time. plus, shah rukh wears a turban and moustache.
a lot happened this morning on the drive in to work. santosh took me by scooter and it was so HOT even at 8:30am. i bet it was already over 100F at that time. anyways, we had to drive on the wrong side of the road for a little while. i felt ok doing this because we were not the only ones, but then we hit some poor guy on a bicycle. that felt like an inauspicious start to the day. then, in the middle of driving, someone called santosh's mobile. you think people in the US are bad talking on mobiles while driving cars-- trust me it is much worse having people on scooters and motorcycles driving one-handed to answer their cell phones. santosh at least has the mind not to talk and drive, so he passed the phone to me. the man was speaking hindi, and i was able to determine he was one of guddu's distant relatives from purnia who had popped into town. he was asking directions from the bus stand. i was trying to figure out which bus stand he was at while simultaneously translating the conversation to santosh (even though it would have been much more effective to just repeat the hindi). the relative could not hear me very well because of the traffic, so i just assumed he was at the main bus stand and gave him directions from there. this must have been quite a site-- me on the scooter, screaming directions into the phone.
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