Research

Song: Ice Ice Baby- Vanilla Ice

Hehe, old school babyy! Has anyone heard the version done by the South Park's character, Timmy? It's so cute, Timmy's my favourite. Check him out in the episode of Special Olympics, that was a good one. You see a young kid injecting himself with steroids. Sigh, how sad is that? Speaking of steroids, my Substance Abuse lecturer is awesome. One good lecturer this semester should be enough to motivate me, I suppose? We have a literature review to do on the relationship between substance abuse and crimes and I think it's pretty interesting. I'm pretty much lost in Philosophy though so I have to read more. We have a group assignment for that and I paired up with this dude who doesn't seem as lost as the others so perhaps there's hope there. Nyah. But the questions for the assignment are mind-boggling I swear. I sound so blonde, forgive me, but it's all quite new to me. Ah well hopefully I shall catch up instead of lagging behind like a lone sheep.

Enough about asses, I want to tell you about some other research that I've been doing. I recently visited this website about Sindhi Festivals. Yes, you read right, but I had a special reason for it. Nyaha. So get this, on Friday there is a festival called Teejri, which are for married woman and young women who aspire for good husbands (well, don't we all?). The women are required to fast the whole day and only break this fast when they catch sight of the full moon in the night. It's pretty fun to go moon-sighting, because I remember when I was younger and my Mom had kept the fast, we went around the neighbourhood looking for the moon. It was a cloudy night so we literally had to go chasing for it. Then, when we did find it, we yelled for Mom to hurry and do the honours (which were getting out of the car to perform a prayer). Moon-catching, doesn't that sound swell?
This is followed by the woman's first meal of that day. In other regions, it is called Karwachauth and it is performed slightly differently. If you've ever watched a Hindi movie, you would know that the woman is required to hold up a sift at the moon and then shift the sift to her husband's face. It sounds a bit more romantic I suppose because the husband is actually present for what is usually the "ladies day in" as opposed to the Sindhi version. But then again, I've only seen movies of it. Movies are usually more romantic than real life, no?

Picked up a book recently called Heart's Delight by a Swedish author called Per Nilsson, and it is translated from Swedish to English thus it has that charm to it. I find translated items quite simplistic but very beautiful all at once.

Still no news from bloody Australia about the application and everyone is getting edgy. I think it's quite possible that they lost my copy. Geez, what a pain. I'm giving them one more week before I re-apply through the Help admin (who for some reason have been reasonably competent).

Dad's been raving about this movie called Blind Date, according to him it's fantastic. My dad sees all the movies (I'm not kidding, I'm like way behind him) so for him to say that, must be true. So go watch it when you have the chance.

Loves to all, and a wink to my Babes.