The Lizard in the shoe....

yesterday, a lizard was ousted out of his home in a very comfortable, and big pair of sketchers. (furgie got some big feet!). I must say it was the most hilarious thing to see furgie screaming and kicking the shoes off in the middle of the walkway. i was already in the car with my dad putting on my shoes when i looked up to see what he was laughing at. he was in stitches. looked up in time to see furgie kick the shoes away and start jumping. there are some images that one will never forget...and this is one of them i will always think about and laugh. where was the camera when i needed it!!!! my mom was standing in the patio listening to my dad teasing her when nan's drama started. she turned red from laughing so much! the funniest thing is furgie was all dressed up for school.
now the first thing everyone asked was what would possess us to keep our shoes outside....for that, i really cannot answer except that we only wear shoes when we are outside so it's more convenient to just pick them up from the patio on the way out instead of going to the laundry room and looking for them. since i hate lizards and anticipated an episode like furgie's, i keep my shoes in my room. take them off outside and carry them to the room. saves me the trouble. then, that leaves the shoes that belongs to my dad and furgie....and we don't have to worry about anyone trying to steal their shoes because they both have big feet and it's likely that no one can fit into those shoes. my neighboorhood has a lot of central american natives and they are much shorter than my dad...and the women have little hands and little feet...like dolls...so stealing is not a problem. as for the lizards and other critters, we are thankful that it was only a lizard.

studying tips...

I've never quite understood how people can say that they are studying and sit in the same place for the entire night just staring at a book. i will go crazy! for every half hour i study (depending on how interesting it is) i need to get up and walk about. maybe i am a little bit ADHD...who knows? but i've learnt that it's the only way i will absorb the material i am studying. so here's what i learnt about studying...
-if i'm sleepy and i have to study, i will look at the material, see how much i need to know, estimate the time it will take to learn it, set 2 alarms and go to sleep. wouldn't concentrate if i'm sleepy.
-never eat carbs when doing an all-nighter. found out that after eating, i feel sleepy and distracted.
peanuts work fine...or any other protein filled snack food....not some elaborate meal like fried up tomatoes, mushrooms, and roti at 2am! (yeah, furgie...remember that?)...
-two redbulls and an expresso is a caffeine overdose. heart races like ato boldon after his 100m dash...definitely not conducive to studying.
-studying in the early hours of the morning is best for memory. usually, the house is quiet. .....on a metaphysical aspect, the universe is just waking up and you get all the positive vibrations that is passing through the surroundings at that time....remember the saying: "the early bird catches the worm?"
-if you are doing a lab report...remember to remove the click here links after copying and pasting...the chem majors know this one...oh, and yeah! pray real hard that someone else does not have the same copied and pasted stuff like you...it pays to read the stuff that you are copying and pasting too...reading all that fine print and starting at a computer screen makes you start seeing things that aren't there after a whole night of just reading articles on some scientific machine and how it works.....
-classical music helps...or mild religious songs....on low volume though...i call that 'securing the blessings.

i'm doing a lab report now. just took a break to have another cup of coffee. makes no sense to sleep now. i am thankful for the hour i stole to sleep when i got home from work. the boss cooked so i ate with him in work. now he does not use peppers at all in his cooking. made some curried zucchini and roti. was actually quite good. nan ordered chinese food for my mom. her present will come later on this week. ordered it a bit too late. she got a whole bunch of roses and another bunch of flowers and the house was decorated though and she got a card from each of us, including my dad, with our own words to her. in the evening, my dad and her prayed together. she's a happy person...and we are equally happy to have her. she, together with my brother, neutralizes the extremes that are my dad, furgie, and me. my mom and vinod are the calm ones...my dad, me and furgie are the explosive, impulsive ones....and talking about impulse...i better get back to my report.

"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

I've always believed that you learn lessons only when your mind is open to receiving the message. It happened for of the most influential books of my life. I mean, the books that are capable of bringing about mental reform. One was "Autobiography of a Yogi, " and the other was "Siddhartha." Both books, i started reading and put them down without finishing. It was only until years later that i reread them and was able to get the full meaning of the books. They are the books you read and when you are on the last page, you wish if more pages will miraculously appear but you know that you have gotten the message and in your heart, you will never think the same anymore.
"The Alchemist" is now one of these books. I was told about this book a while back and actually searched the university library and the college library and could not find it. yesterday, i walked into a bookshop in the mall and i was looking for it. i was about to leave when i saw the book on the bottom shelf hidden amongst other Paulo Coelho books. figured that if i had "Autobiography of a Yogi," "Siddhartha," and "The Little Prince," i might as well buy this book too. Then i can underline or write where i wanted to. Well i finished reading it today...and it carries a message, pretty much like "Siddhartha" did but written in a different style. it is a book that is worth reading. It is all i can say because furgie has not read the book yet and i cannot tell her anything else about it.
there were places in this book, i stopped, reread, thought, got up and walked about thinking, then i sat down back again and read until i was done. the book sums up Hindu philosophy in a beautiful way. it makes it simplified. i liked Santiago's reply to the englishman who was aspiring to be an alchemist. when he gave Santiago his books to read and Santiago told him that all of the writings in the books could have been simplified to being written on one emerald tablet. how often we make things complicated! i will edit this blog later on when furgie reads the book. for now, i cannot say anything of the alchemist. i know that we will analyze this book to the last drop when she is done. and hopefully my dad will read it...more input. in the meantime, i will talk to the person who recommended it. i am grateful.

daily joke

A wife asked her husband: "What do you like most in me my pretty face or my sexy body?" He looked at her from head to toe and replied: "I like your sense of humour."

More on genetics

Just saw this article on msn news. i knew this degree was awesome! that's why furgie had to just go and sign up for it too!

Gel Electrophoresis

Just finished a paper on the practical part of my studies in college. this was so awesome and i wanted to share it. It's easy to learn and really fun in real. for now, this is a virtual feel of one of the coolest procedures that was ever invented in science.

blogging on bami's blogging

man she does write plenty eh. I hate this, bami don't say nuttin no more just blogs and then say go read it!
I think that we should strike. By the power vested in me as elder sibling I am striking against bami's blogging.

Phagwa/Holi 2006

this year, we celebrated phagwa on wednesday. it was too late on tuesday night so we just thought since the whole family was home on wednesday, we would celebrate then. vin really likes playing too. he was so happy when he found out that i went ahead and bought the abeer. i guess he misses these festivities more than we do and i figured that we could have played it anyway. on wednesday though, vin started a new job and we didnt get to celebrate with him.
nan and my mom cooked while i mixed the abeer. since my last adventure with cooking, no one has asked me to make any food in over a week. i am happy. so my job was just to mix the abeer. i didnt know that it was that concentrated though and instead of being blue, it remained so dark blue that it looked black. so nan and i played. she really got me good. i started out in a white t-shirt and blue track pants and ended up unreconizably black from head to toe. it's saturday now and my feet are still blue. been hiding them in sneakers lately and it's really getting to be a hassle searching for socks in my room!

after all the festivities, nan and i had to scrub the blue off the wall with clorox and some other cleaners that my dad kept outside. nan, being as smart as she is, threw the abir on the wall and on me. so we had the whole floor of the back yard the same color as we were.... my mom came outside and we played with her a little. we only used the powder on her and my dad though. she didn't really want to be too much into the celebrations so we respected that.
we were trying to get the color off us. my mom told us to stay outside because we would have gotten the color all through the house. she gave us a bar of soap. a little while after, she got my dad to put on the hose for us and then she came back with a shampoo, two towels and a pot scrubber!!!! talk about exfoliating!!! my skin is still recovering.....=0(
but it's worth the trouble.....this is too much fun. if anyone passing by had seen me and nan, they would have wanted to join...maybe the looney bin would have had us instutionalized because we were dancing too. nan said i should patent my moves for 'rang barse!' we had a good laugh looking at the video we made after. anyone watching would think that we were really drunk.

Language barriers and slogans.....

A Haitian girl came into the store the other day....Haitian people have some really strong accents and they pronounce the "r" as if it follows a "w"...and sometimes, they are hard to understand. so here's the conversation.
girl: "do you 'ave wedbool?"
me: "i'm sorry, do we have who?"
girl (a little bit louder): "wreeeedbool?"
me: "excuse me?"
girl: "wedboool give u wings!" (while doing a flying motion)
me (in the middle of a whole bunch of laughing): "oh, Red Bull! yeah, look on door 2. Red Bull gives you wings!"

thumbs up to the makers of Red Bull for making a slogan that extends beyond language barriers!
South Florida thanks you!

Happy Holi!

keeping up appearances, our new year, phagwa and the basuri...

yesterday, spring break started for another group of schools. now the bookstore i work at mainly supplies books for the community college students so that would mean that this week, when all the university students were back at school, it would be slow in the bookstore. the boss called me and told me that i had the day off and i didnt need to come to work in the evening yesterday. i guess i grabbed the opportunity and i went off to the mall instead. got all dressed up...earrings and heels and all and i was having a good time when the other boss (my boss's boss) called me and told me that i needed to come to work. got there just in time for him to reach the bank while it was open.
after work, i went to the mall again with ami. he found out that there would have been a sale and he needed working clothes so we came back. i guess with ami and me, it's reversed. i hate shopping and he absolutely loves it. we spent an hour in the macy's men store and when we left, ami had four pairs of pants and a jacket. i spent an hour in the macy's women's store and didn't see one thing that was worth buying. it is so aggravating to go shopping for yourself! so when i go shopping, i usually stand and let ami do the looking and then i get whatever he says will look good. the only problem is that ami likes a bunch of dresses...and dresses aren't very practical at all. i like jeans and shoes....and it shows because i have the most of those. oh and earrings too but i like bargains more=0) in the sale, i got a really nice shirt for my dad and a pair of pants that goes well with it. i like buying more for other people than shopping for myself. the sales clerk even went looking for the same thing after.
so there's a customer that wants me to tutor his son in math. i said that i would tutor the kid but there's always been a mixup every saturday since he first spoke to me about it. i need to form a strategy to deal with the problems that the kid is having in his math. hopefully, it will go well. if ami learnt, i know that the kid can too. ami has got to be the most difficult person to tutor.
laila told me today that her husband wants to move back to their country in june. if she leaves that soon, i will be so lonely there! the thing about laila is that she is one of the people i truly like being around. her company is worth being there for the other three days that i do not work with her. but i know that she can do better and she will have the opportunity to work in her career without any language barriers if she moves back. her life will be better off there and i suppose that if your friendship matters like that, you will always want what is best for your friend.
today she brought me a chocolate orange. it's one of the coolest inventions of chocolate ever created. i first learnt about it from mandy, a little girl i used to babysit over the summer. see, the chocolate looks like an orange with the pegs and all. you have to whack it really hard inorder to sufficiently break the pegs apart. the whacking is almost as fun as the chocolate. mandy used to have fun whacking away...so laila, who is also a chocoholic, admitted to me that if she had only known that the orange was that good, it would not have survived in her home for as long as it did. i hid it in a cooler at work so we can enjoy it there. yeah, and boy was this orange good. when chocolate is good, you don't need to eat a lot of it....one little piece usually gets the happy hormones going.
i guess i ate a lot of sweet things today. had apple pie, chocolate, icecream, and a smoothie. jeez! oh well! this is an exception...it's our new year. we are in 2060-something today. for us, the festival started sometime tonight and will continue until sometime tomorrow. i went ahead and bought the powder and the abeer to mix so i can play holi with my family tomorrow. it was only after i got nandini to smear a whole bunch of red powder on my mom's face that she told us she wasn't celebrating because of my uncle's death. i felt bad about it but i know she wouldn't stop us from playing. it's my favorite festival. here, it's a bit lonely. the relatives here do not really do many religious things but when we were in trinidad, we had a lot of fun times with phagwa. the last holi we spent in trinidad, we got so colored that the only thing recognizable on us were our eyes and our teeth! my dad made us walk up the bus route to the family house, about a 3/4 mile away because we would have stained his car. it was fun though......all of my cousins were with me and we were joking all the way.
today i was telling ami about the maha sabha and their celebrations....maha sabha is the hindu organization in trinidad. sometimes, i am a little disappointed with the way that they run the organization but i will give them credit...they have been instrumental in keeping the culture really strong in trinidad. so we went to the hindu schools and when we were little, we would learn the songs and perform on stage with all the other maha sabha schools and the visiting groups. the music is distinct and the minute you hear these songs, they take you back to a time and place...for me, it was performing with my friends and getting sprayed from a pichakari with the abeer and then feeling the cold air from the mountain after. my guru used to live right behind the maha sabha headquarters so we used to visit him while we were playing just to get his blessing.
oh, ami bought a flute today at the indian store when i was getting the abir. well, there's a flute and then there's the basuri...so i guess he got a basuri. he took a while to figure out how to get the air right but i guess music runs in his veins. this evening when i saw him, he had already gotten from sa to sa and he was starting to play a raaga. he didn't think i would recognize what he was doing so he was really surprised when i sang the notes he was playing then sang a few lines of the song he was thinking of. the song is a religous filmi one, a bhajan...'darshan do ganashyam' done in raaga kedar. hopefully, he'll be playing more songs soon. he keeps the basuri in his car so everytime he stops at a traffic light, he takes it up and starts playing. people like ami have an ear for music. when they play, or when they listen to music, the instruments "speak" to them in a language that they can understand. what may sound like a small mistake to me, will sound like a horrible flaw to him and it will be amplified too. today, when ami played his raaga, and i understood the individual notes; finally, i understand.

two days in focus......

Math and Protein Chemistry at the store:
yesterday i taught laila how to convert temperatures on the celsius and farenheit scale. she learnt quickly. wanted to learn it so that she will know fully well when her baby has a fever or when he is not in a risky range. like most other countries in the world, except the US, she learnt the celsius scale and it's a little bit crazy to memorize the scale. so there is a formula that we use. memorized it for gen. chem way back when and it's always managed to come in handy from time to time. well by the time my lesson was done, laila was a master at conversions. she's a smart person.
after she asked me why it is so bad when a person has a fever above 104 degrees farenheit. so i went into my explanation of protein chemistry and the active sites of enzymes, denaturing the enzymes and loss of conformation. in the end, she just said one word, "wow." i guess it was too much all at once but she understands quickly. she understood even better when i told her in terms of the hair straightening process. so yeah, the baby is better now. business was better yesterday too and i guess the boss was happy for that.

Thursday evening:::
Remember, nan was supposed to be having her party. we ended up only being the four of us in attendance....me, nan, vin, and ami. ami wanted to drive to south beach so we decided that since there was no one else at our "party" and neither ami nor i had ever been to south beach, we got in the car and started calling friends for directions. seeing where the I-95 ended was actually something for us. Imagine, it is one continuous road that passes through the entire eastern shore of the United States! then all of a sudden, you see a sign that says "I-95 ends here."
Okay, so there were so many people at South beach! all these kids on spring break....
no doubt, most of them were already drunk and there were a whole lot of bikers on the road. everywhere you looked, you saw them riding in envoys.....like a parade of bikes. all of the clubs were packed and there were lines to get in. we delighted in walking and looking at everything. my one drink i had was this really awesome cup of coffee that i bought when i got there....was tired but i wanted to be alert enough to take in all of the scenes.
the best thing was walking on the beach. it was deserted at midnight when we were walking on it, but one can only imagine what it would be like in the day. was amazing to see it. we took pictures too but there was no one to take them so they were all closeups.
while we were walking back, there was a fight...there were three kids walking on the beach and i guess they were drunk. two of them started off i guess joking and hitting each other and then it became a full blown fight. i saw some guys running over to where the fight was, thinking that they would part the fight, but these guys pulled out their video cameras and recorded the whole thing. finally the police came and parted the fight. thank goodness! things can get ugly really quickly there........

Friday, March 10th now....
well we got back from the beach at 2am and i had to work at 6am. really, by 2pm, i was fighting to keep my eyes open. ended up taking a shot of ginseng and it did the trick until i got home. then when i got home, we had to go to the mandir for a little event that they were doing that night. it will be phagwa soon. the indians call it holi but we've always called it phagwa. so we burnt a pyre of wood with a coconut in it to represent the burning of Holika. the pyre took a long time to burn so we passed the time singing traditional folk songs about the festival. nan and i joined the group because they were short of a few singers. it's better when there are about 10 people. the drummer was awesome. there is a special style of drumming that was adapted in trinidad and guyana to fit these songs. haven't heard it in any other music from the world. but i know one thing though, the style of singing orignated in Uttarpradesh and the melodies are closely related to the folk songs from that region. we did a good job entertaining the crowd i guess. i love this festival. it is so amazing and colorful. even the songs are festive. it celebrates spring, birth, life and is so closely related to the life of Shri Krsna!

Being a confused chocoholic

I guess i am officially a chocoholic now and in the process of being one, i have made my entire family into chocolate lovers. well i haven't done it on my own of course....there is always help from furgie. we are like partners in crime when it comes to things like this. so today we got my dad to bring home the cadbury fruit and nut chocolates. needless to say, most of it is gone now. furgie caught him trying to steal some from the fridge a little while ago. for a long time, he never liked anything chocolate....used to work in the chocolate factory in trinidad when he was much younger. he's described seeing the chocolate churning in the big vats or whatever they had them in and the very very sweet smell of it. to me, i might dive in if i had seen that!!!!! but yeah, i understand his point.
it's been almost four days straight that we have been having chocolate now. hopefully we will stop before the start the battle of the bulge again! i doubt it though. nan's been asking for a chocolate cake and if we get that, there will be no stopping us. we might have it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! thank goodness we do not eat eggs....it eliminates a whole bunch of things from our diet. it's a major highlight.
okay, on a more serious note. my friend, (lets call her Laila), opens the store on mondays, tuesdays, thursdays and now on saturdays. the store opens at 6am to catch the morning people for their coffee. on monday, i guess she was a bit late. a customer came in and asked today what happened on monday. he asked the boss. i felt so bad for Laila. almost jumped over the counter and blocked his mouth when he started asking. really, i actually felt the urge. i saw the look on the customer's face though, when he realized that he had just gotten her in trouble.
now, laila lives a little bit away from where the store is...she has a baby and i know that her baby has been sick this week. i've told her that although she works at the store, she should never make it more important than her baby. usually i wouldn't talk but after hearing of the nonsense that she dealt with, i gave her my opinion.
so now, the boss started telling me that she is a dummy and she is stupid. sometimes i bite my tongue. today i told him though and it took a mighty big effort to keep my voice level. i told him to tell her that he has a problem with her and if he wants her to stay, he needs to let her know what is expected of her. i know she will be hurt and she will worry and there is no easy way of telling someone that the boss is finding faults with them. you don't just bring people to your business and think that they will magically know everything and everyone. so he was telling me that there is dust in the store. i dust there every week...more than i clean my fu*king room! i told him that maybe he needed to change the filter in the a/c vents. told me that he had to pay someone to clean the shelves.....well that someone must have had an easy job because i had just cleaned them too. found out that he used to tell furgie the same things about me. really, it's only a matter of time before i leave for good. and if laila leaves, i will leave too. the only reason i didn't leave with furgie is because i knew that they would take advantage of laila and work her like a dog there. and yes, the only reason i go there is not for the money but for the friendship. laila is my friend.

Spring Break......

We just came back from seeing another movie. I guess it's what i do best when i have nothing else to do. this one was "the madea family reunion." it's a clean movie. there were only two other people in the movie theater besides us four. but the movie had some good laughs. set in atlanta, georgia so every five seconds, vinod or ami would turn to each other and say that they remembered a certain place...then they started singing "music farm," a soca-calypso from the mid-late 90's trini carnival. the good thing is that i got two free popcorns...my movie points are adding up!
It's spring break for nan and i don't get to spend much time with her like we used to...except when we are up late at night trying to finish some lab reports. she and ami went out today. they used to do that a lot before i came in the picture and it's always good to keep a friendship.
wanted to go to the beach today. it was such beautiful weather! ended up reading a little bit then sleeping though because i had chinese food (actually it was japanese) when ami got me from work. somehow, i always feel sleepy after eating that food. i ordered something new...the vegetable roll. i guess the waiter saw the look on nandini's and ami's face, mine included. you can just look at some things and tell that they aren't going to go down right. this was one. really, it was okay but i ordered two, thinking that nan and ami will eat....couldn't even finish one because ami refused to eat it and he said that his dog wouldn't eat it either. nan tasted it and almost spit it out. it wasn't that bad but why does the most disgusting things on the menu cost the most????? ended up wasting it...felt bad but i figured that if i had eaten more of it i would have thrown up all of it and ultimately wasted all of it. so i ended up taking half of nan's food...which was a whole lot better.
i guess the beach will have to wait. maybe saturday we will go.
so nan's planning a party at our house. actually, it's going to be more like a dinner and a movie kind of thing but if my cousins show up, they might just turn it into a party. we get really loud when we are all together. we might just have to lock my parents in their room for thursday night. nan is already planning the menu. she wants pizza and chocolate cake. should have been obvious! we might just wash it down with diet coke too=0) we will rent a DVD or something and go from there. usually will turn out to be a karoke night or something close to it. if we are going to go ahead with this, tomorrow night, i will be shopping for the goodies....she usually sends me out on the errands.
and yeah, spring break isn't spring break without the beach!!!!!



Oh...there's more about today too. earlier in the day, i worked with my friend again. her baby was running a high fever so she had to leave a little bit early. hope the baby is okay now. she was telling me that her baby inherited a big head from her husband. we joked a lot today. we had a good time before the boss showed up...and when he did, all we wanted to do was leave. i finished up the work for her so that she could go. wasnt much to do anyway...and as long as there is no interaction with the boss, i am okay. i had eaten about twenty minutes before he showed up and i was sooooo happy. i enjoy food a lot because when i eat, i usually eat with someone around and i wait until i am hungry so yeah, i remember the feeling i had when i was done eating.... then i saw him and i felt as if the food had just become so heavy. at least i am grateful it wasnt his brother....then it would have come up!

so on the note of a big head.....this is a typical conversation coming home from the movies....
four of us are in the car....Ami, Vinod, Nan and me.
Ami: "look, a haircut is only $7 here." (referring to a sign he had seen).
Vinod: " tomorrow i go go an' get ah haircut 'den."
Ami: "but when you go in, is really $9 that you pay."
Vinod: "boy, i can get dat for $7 if my Trini pardner dey."
Ami: "nah, you still have to leave d' people ah tip."
Vinod: "well then, i go pay $5 for d' haircut and gi' 'dem $2 for d' tip."
Ami: "then they go only cut half of yuh hair and leave d' ress."
Nan: "Vinod, with d' size of your head you should just pay them the $9!"
and then the laughter......

Age...just a number really

Well today, three people asked me if i was still in highschool. One was a school teacher and then the other two were just regular customers who i've always seen but i guess never spoken to. evidently, i appeared younger than i really am. One of them was astonished that i was not in highschool but already had my bachelor's. the other one was a political activist who used the store as a forum for the few minutes that he was in, to view his dislike for the current president. i listened.....don't really like to have those conversations there. and then a guy casually asked me if i was 17 or 18. i had a good laugh....so yeah, maybe i do act young. another customer calls me "smiley." most of them refer to me as "the girl who smiles all the time." imagine what will happen on the day i am not smiling! so yeah, for many people, when you smile a lot, they assume that you do not have responsibilities and that you are therefore, young and carefree. well the latter is true for me. i guess i will always see myself as a girl (well duh!!!) because i feel sometimes that i can just reach over and tap the shoulder of the little girl i used to be. guess i didnt come far. but as for the responsibilities part, maybe i do not have a family of my own, but i do have a family and i do have other things on my mind at any given moment...but it is my decision whether i let them bog me down of whether i will put on the smile and mean it.
and there's something i learnt a long time ago....there is nothing as powerful as a smile. it makes people feel appreciated and in the end, you feel good about smiling. about the wrinkles, who gives a sh*t! and then again, if one really cared about wrinkles, there's botox now. the genius that is science is always coming up with something for society. that will never stop. i once knew a friend who got braces to have a perfect smile and when the braces were removed, she could never quite manage a real smile...always seemed as if she was accomodating the metal of the braces.
furgie (the great philosopher that she is...and social observer, etc...cough, eh hem!) once said that if someone was coming towards you with the intention of killing you and you smiled, maybe they will not kill you and hence, you will end up saving your life....that was her reply to someone who asked her why we smile at people all the time. (yeah, and furgie, i do listen to your theories....). so in all that, i have figured that even though i've gotten a few laugh lines and i can see crow's feet around my eyes when i smile, i like them...and i am proud of them and they really do not make a person look older because to me, seeing a smile is like having a little bit of God smiling down on you...since He exists in everyone....therefore, theoretically, one will look younger instead of older.
and back to the little girl i used to be....i was telling my friend in the store the other day...."you know, everything you need to learn in your life, and everything that you will carry with you throughout your life comes from the things you learn when you are between the ages of 2 and 7. otherwise, things just expand from there. " we were talking about her son, who has just begun to talk...
"goodnight and goodbye!" he he he

16 Blocks

Just came back from seeing "16 Blocks." Once again, Bruce Willis has done it! well, there is another actor...the supporting actor that did the acting in this movie. he actually outshadowed Bruce Willis and that is an accomplishment by itself. I really do not know the guy's name though. he's a newcomer but he will make waves. the movie is set in the heart of new york city....it takes place over the space of 1 hour and a little over 1/2 hour....the movie takes place in the same time frame. it's the coolest thing ever! but that's all i will say now about the movie...Nan will kill me if i tell the rest. she never forgave me for telling her the end of "Hide and Seek." i guess that was wrong.....