Reading Emails is hazardous for intellectual writing!

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Ok ok I am not trying to show off that I can do intellectual writing, but well I attempt it for sure. I opened Nile (my mac) hoping to read my mails and then get down to reading and writing a reaction paper for one of my classes. Well I certainly wont have a lot of emails to read since I did read them an hour or so ago. So I open my mail and read this subscription list to which I re-subscribed after leaving my job, and was like whats going on with the fighting on this list.

But I knew better to waste time on it and moved on to another mail which is the reason I am writing this blog instead of ahem, reading my mails, doing reading and writing a reaction paper!! A news piece about police brutality in Bihar’s Bhagalpur city. Now now you would need to read it to know what I am talking about, here.

Now after reading that I was like hmm thats interesting, let me read about the previous case, and then about another such case etc etc. So I safely spent about 2 hours doing nothing but reading different news pieces on an incident which to my Indian cynical side is shocking yet almost like commonplace – dont get me wrong we Indians are NOT used to police brutality BUT are used to reading about it and knowing that really nothing much gets done.

Ok so there goes my reading, and writing intellectual paper… ahem.. adventure!! I try and I think I keep trying to find out is it only me flitting from one harmless email reading to another to a news pieces to being inquisitive about more such reading or is it a common practice amongst email readers. I am forced to ask the question is it just a scatter brained reader like me or is there something more significant happening to the reading practice in this information world… Hmmmmmm

WALL MART?

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I couldnt have come to the US and not gone to Walmart to get all my necessities, could I? So a friend and I decided to go THE place to shop in the US, well atleast for people on a budget. So we headed out in downtown LA to find Walmart and live the American life. Guiding us was our piece of paper with directions, metro numbers and names of places we needed to change the metro at.

For all those who know me, I cant make the left from the right based on names. Coz what if you are giving me directions thinking I am facing the street, when I could have the street behind me or perpendicular to me. So seriously your directions will only confuse me. But its good to have someone who can take charge of the directions I went in.

Ok now began the saga which ended with not such short walks in the hot sunny afternoon with not so friendly looking people walking up to us, trying to sell bus passes on the road (which the bus pass says is illegal to do), really unhappy rag pickers throwing out the trash from the trash can. I wish I had pictures to show but really taking out my camera to take pictures was inviting trouble coz then you dont know who is after you to take it ALL from you! Feel sorry that I couldnt. But dont give up have one picture from my trip today to show.

Enter – Walmart! Whats the deal with the place. Says ask for assistance but no one there to assist you! Anyway we look and decide and figure out what we want to buy and head to the counter to pay up. This lady keeps repeating CASH ONLY, and we are like heard ya, but no she has to say it gazillion times! So we finally pay in CASH and move out!

Walk around the mall attached to Walmart and decide to buy some more stuff and finally head back. Oh did I already say have a bad sense of direction? I DO! But well the positive and saving grace is that I dont get mad at you if you make me lose my way! Since anyway I would get lost so atleast here is someone trying to keep me on track!

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