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DCH is prolly one of the best hindi movies by far. This song is just so awesome!

Irony at its best?

Its kinda sad when he is adamant to veto a bill for healthcare for children which calls for spending $60 million over the next 5 years, but then turns around to ask the congress for $46 million in spending to be spend over this fiscal year? I mean seriously, there has nothing been done to help the public manage access to better healthcare but yet we spend 3 times as much of the taxpayers money for stuff abroad!

Bush Asks Congress For $46 Billion More In War Funding

President Bush challenged Congress to another clash over the direction of the Iraq war yesterday as he asked lawmakers for $46 billion more to pay for overseas military operations and insisted that they approve it by the end of the year....

New throne speech out.

I listened to the Governor-General read out the new throne speech, it will be interesting to see how things unfold in the next week. Do we really need to have another parliamentary election in less that 4 years? And at what cost? Elections Canada said that the last set of elections cost the tax payer $300 million dollars. So do we really need to waste another ~$350million in less that 5 years on a fresh set of elections because of the Prime Minister's pursuit for power?

woot wooot! a first step toward NHS?

Massachusetts has set another land mark by mandating Health insurance for all. Is this going to be the start, a trial for some form of nationalized health care?

"... Governor Mitt Romney signed landmark legislation today that through a private, market-based reform will make health insurance available to every resident of Massachusetts within the next three years... more"

It is going to be rather interesting to see how the economics that have proven to be the driving force behind this new piece of legislation...

"...Massachusetts, after a year of legislative dithering over the governor's proposal, agreed on the plan. From an overall economics perspective, it addresses two of the major, and interrelated, problems of care systems: participation and cost-shifting... more"

and I thought I should stay away from hormonal women..

Apparently according to a British Study, Women with High hormonal levesa are teh most attractive. Not to make a gross generalization, but don't women tend to get bitchier when they are more hormonal? Thereby making them less appealing?

'Hormonal' women most attractive

Typical female face with high (left) and low (right) oestrogen levelsWomen with high levels of the sex hormone oestrogen have prettier faces, research suggests. The findings make evolutionary sense - men are attracted to the most fertile women, the University of St Andrews team told a Royal Society journal more...

C'est la vie!

no marathon this year

So I set out yesterday on an ambitious plan to go register my self for the Detroit Half Marathon (my outta shape body prolly can't handle any more than that!), but alas! it took so frigging long to get across the border that I didn't make it in time to get registered. [note to self: must STOP procastinating].

Ah well, there is always next year. I think I'm slowly starting to recruit people for next year too. I got Nitin, and Peats to say yes, and I'm sure I can convince Shiv and Brij too, may be I can get a relay team going? I guess that a lil too ambitious for next year.

Good Times in T-Dot

I got to Toronto last night and crashed at Dhirens place. It was quite the experience for us getting coffee this morning. We finally convinced Saleha it was too cold to drive and went to a Timmys (no suprise there). Going thru the drive thru, the lady (whos obviously Indian) had the hardest time taking the order, to top its off she tells me to wait and then comes back a few minutes later askign me if she could take my order =S. We finally pull around to the window, pay for it and she asks us to pull over so she can bring it out. Pull out in this dinky lil parking lot and wait a whiles before she comes out to give us our stuff. And then as we begin to pull out of the lot we have this trucker who insists that hes gonan go thru first and comes charging at my car to stop inches away from where Dhiren was sititng. All this for a cup of coffee and a bagle !

We got around York for a while before we headed out downtown. Charming, very Chicago like, only more people living in an around down town. Dhiren thought Saleha and I were absolutely batty coz we wanted to get some Ice Cream. Who says one shouldn't eat icecream in the winter?

We dined at this Indo-chinese place which came with its very own chinaman that could talk in Hindi! Boy was that a hoot, apparently the guy was born and raised in India. Go figure! We conned our way up to the CN tower to get some after dinner drinks and get a view of the city. Boy was it breath taking, and we could see lights far out into the lake which we were told was Rochester, NY.

To end it all some good rose flavored sheesha.. mm good times!

Montreal

All the whiles that I was in Montreal, its been gloomy and raining. To top it off they has shut down the Highways, and I did not wanna venture out taking the back roads into town.

Its a prety cool city with a lot of old world charm and history. They have a huge Basilica a replica of the cathedral in Notre Dame, and so named the same out here as well.
McGill has a med school, may be I can try applying there, although my french is so rusty Im not sure that Id be able to survive out here.

ahh well we'll see, its off to Toronto again tomorrow and back to Windsor

Garba in TO

Just when I thought I wouldn't be able to go Garba this season, Mom told me that I was going to the Garba with Palls when we got to TO.

We finally go there about 5 after making a stop out at the Niagara falls. Promptly after which we headed over to the temple for some puja thing that was going on there.

The bunch of us got outta the temple to see if we could get going to the Garba only to find out the big one downtown that every one was talking about was last night, so we finally figured that there was one at the mandir and made our way out there. It was a blast! Sadly our midnight after garba snacking wasnt at a Dennys or an Ihop but at a Tim Hortons =D.

Apartment Hunting

So I finally moved to Windsor, Canada and have been searching for apartments, and I can't seem to find a decent apt complex out here. Who'd have thought there be that much a difference in living between Canada and the US. A few others I've learnt, I NEED to carry cash, something I haven't really done in forever! They sell milk in packets, not gallon bottles, but packets that u sposedly put in a jug and snip the end off it to pour it out! There's a Tim Hortons on EVERY corner! and the banks here have never heard of free checking or chequeing as they say it.

Who'd every thought I'd be going thru serious culture shock coming to Canada from the US!

Wedding galore!

A wonderful start to the day getting under clothes for the groom (now remember this is a well kept secret). After the package was dropped off, Jeff and I went out into the city to go see Cheers! the facade from the outside is very similar, but the inside is nothing like the show however. Dodging traffic afteward however, we barely made it back, and we were starving. so I set of on a mission to get us some food. Now one would assume that when they see signs of the highway saying food this way, that its not too far off from the exit, but apparently in Boston none of them really are! I had to drive in nearly 7 miles to find a BurgerKing. (if you request the cardboard cup carriers order the small drinks, apparently they dont have the provisions to carry large drinks out) It would have really helped if the lady could have told me that to start with!

None the less made it back to the ceremony just in time. It was a beautiful ceremony, and Kate looked awesome in the saree as y'all can see. The pujari did an awesome job explaining to every one what each of the things were. heh.. I know I hadn't a clue what each of those things meant. Im sure it helped the larger non-Indian audience appreciate it more too.

Nitin howver, had to shell out $200 to buy back the shoes. In all fairness I think the girls really didn't do a very good job negotiating it. They could have gotten so much more. haha their loss!

A famished wedding party that we were, hungrily chowed down on the food before we were to change for the other ceremony, the other a simple ceremony at the parish afterwhich we had more pictures to take, followed by a an awesome reception and dinner. Ahh good times!

We wanted to pay a bell boy in the hotel to keep knocking on their door every 20 minutes, but Kate seemed to have kept it a well guarded secret, so much so that even Nitin didn't know where they were staying at!

English nostalgia, and awesome seafood

Boston roads are CRAZY!!! and the drivers are crazier! These roads are nostalgic of the tiny lil path ways they call roads back in England. New England did really retain its old world charms. As Jeff put it today, its amazing that you could have a million dollar home on a street and four houses down it could be a complete shack.

Oh and whats with a stop light that flashes GREEN? Ive seen flashing reds, flashing yellows, but what the hell is one supposed to do at a flashing green?

We finally got our Tuxs' fit, took only about 2 and a half hours to do so... Thank you Afterhours Formal Wear! Nitin was almost of on edge trying to make every thing go perfect, we finally calmed him down and got some alcohol into him, which seem to make things go a lot smoother. Course the procastinators that we were it was a mad dash back to the Hotel to get changed and back in time for the rehersal.

The minister could not remember my name even though I told her it was Baby Huey! Apparently, it complicated things although, every one else seemed to remember it fine.

Dinner was superb! Who can complain about good food , wine, conversation and the Bo' Sox winning over the Yankees?

Thru the megalopolis of the east

Earlier today, I drove up to Boston from NYC. Can they have any more urban sprawl in these parts? What ever happened to the New England fall that is supposed to be ever so breath taking? All I saw was buildings and some smoke stacks, and the docks any where they could set up one apparently.

C'est la Vie. It was good to catch up with Nitin and Kate before the wedding. The boy still hasn't gotten a gift to give his parents tomorrow at the rehearsal. Jeff and I finally inspired him to make some thing they would appreciete... that was a fun lil project. Good times!

Obesity Check?

In an effort to curb obesity in young kids of today, the feds came up with a food pyramid specifically targeted toward kids ages 6-11. I guess we really need to start putting them on a healthier path from that age, but its disheartening that parents don't already do enough to keep their kids health.

The way the pyramid is designed, is a game where kids use a combination of foods that will get their ship to planet power! Its a nice effort, but will have to wait and see how much it really works with the kids.


Hopefully this will helps kids understand being health for them selves. Being an over-weight kid is definately no joke, and I can attest to that first hand.

More about FEMA

According to Senator Susan Collins (R) Maine as told to CNN, "...the role (FEMA) has played is more of that of an insurance company, and thats what they are doing." This is a jist of the rest of the conversation... They are not and were never an organization to provide security like most assume that it should have. Although FEMA's response to the Hurricanes was really shoddy, the Coast Guard are to be commended highly and should be regarded as the heros in this operation for their brave efforts thru the hurricane

Not one for sightseeing any more?

One would think that since its my first time in NYC, Id be all the more excited going around town but I think the traffic I encountered coming into the city, completely put me off.

Nevertheless, we were contemplating taking helicopter tours that they give around town but weren't able to make it to the last one but instead went out on one of the Circle lines ferry rides. Being a beautiful day out we have the best view of the Statue of Liberty and the NY skyline from the Hudson.

Too bad Im not in town thru the weekend to get to out and about town with people, haha I got an evite telling me Im missing out on an awesome party! =D