It is what it is.

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Guru's of Peace

Dead Man Walking

Twist

Night and Day

Sunset

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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.