It’s strange every time I see Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli post retirement in pictures and videos, Rohit always looks happy and enjoying the game, while every thing about Kohli seems like he is just perpetually angry or dissatisfied. Rohit just looks so chill and really enjoys the game on or off the field with no airs around himself.
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I have actually never seen a single episode of “The Wire”. I started watching it once and stopped midway at first episode. I lived in Baltimore from 2001-2004 for masters, have taken public transport through some of the worst areas of Baltimore (of course only in daylight!) and was relieved when I finally left it so why do I want watch a tv show shot in and around same areas hehe. I know I should see it though at some point. It’s been years if not a decade or more I have been to Baltimore and I have no desire to visit this city.
Don’t get what was going on in England and New Zealand’s game plan last two matches. Both won the toss and made India bat which I think was a foolish idea. England came close but common sense would indicate that in a pressure cooker match against a side like India you are much better off putting pressure on India to chase rather than them put up a total.
Of all the places in dc that stupid, no make that incredibly stupid Indian couple decided to film a dance for tiktok reels at the World War II memorial. The one place in national mall that invites the worst of this country and is littered with maga galore – that place. And now they maybe deported. Good riddance. I support their deportation. Even if the place was not maga central, a war memorial is no place for a ridiculous dance video – like what the fuck were this couple thinking! Like you have entire fucking national mall with so so so many options for this. https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/indian-origin-man-madhu-raju-face-deportation-viral-video-tik-tok-dance-world-war-two-memorial-washington-dc-us-2878879-2026-03-08
My teen’s Iranian best friend is coming over for a sleepover so they both can watch the f1 race tonight. There was a third Iranian girl who wanted to join too but apparently their parents didn’t want to send her to our place without meeting us first because as my kid says her friend said “we are not Iranians”. My kid thought it was highly inappropriate of her to say this and it was racist – I didn’t think it was. I told her that her parents are looking out for her and they want to make sure whose house their teen is gonna spend a night at. But why phrase it “because we are not Iranians!” She quipped and I was like while word choice may have been weird, if she was going for a sleep over at a white family’s house whose parents we have never met, I would think exactly like her parents, and actually would be less concerned if her friends were Indian actually. Not that I wouldn’t be concerned but just being a desi myself, I would subconsciously trust my own people (even if unfounded) than I would trust a white family I have never met. We offered to FaceTime the other family but they never got back and so she is not coming – an outcome my kid didn’t mind coz she didn’t like the other girl much anyway. All is well that ends well.
A part of it I guess is growing up around boys? But even the boys we know don’t follow as many sports as her so even if that was a catalyst, I don’t think it’s as much anymore. The kid now has a reputation of being the “sports gal” in her circle lol and desi in me is like I wish you were known as the “math girl” 😆
Apparently f1 is now her favorite sport. So much so thst she has a sleepover planned with her best friend so they can both watch it live. How why when all this happened, I have no idea. What about arsenal then I asked? What about them she said – I still like watching them but now f1 is my favorite. It’s funny to see our kid be way more sports obsessed than either her mom or dad are. At her age all I cared for was cricket but even that too was not crazy level – I actually grew to love cricket more later in life. Anyway, sports is wonderful interest so more power to her.
A met up with her one of her best friends who moved from Bay Area back to India in August to be closer to their aging parents; their kid was only 1 or 2 years into elementary school and the timing felt right. She was telling A that while her husband and the kid adjusted back to India in almost no time she has been having a hard time adjusting to life back there. The kid obviously has already made friends after initially having a hard time, she thought she would adjust back faster and it would be her husband who would have a harder time adjusting back to India – turns out the opposite. The same joys (aka cheap household labor) she was looking forward to are the same things that annoy her now – people constantly going in and out of house, constantly managing their and your schedule, constantly being vigilant of them. It was hilarious A later said that things she really looked forward to assuming delegation would give her more time to herself are the very things eating up her time entire day. No plans of moving back though yet she said, and being closer to either set of parents for them has outweighed all decisions for now.
My foi/bua’s husband has been in and out of hospital / ICU for almost 2 months now and its taking a toll on my dad because my dad is the one running around with his sis to hospitals, doctors and all. My dad’s brothers are being at a distance (because well my dad is also paying for the entire hospital visits and they want no part of it), and the husband’s own sisters who regularly demand their rakhi gifts are nowhere to be seen. They haven’t even come to the hospital once to even check on him. My foi’s family is not well to do and after pandemic struck neither of them has a proper job and are getting old, so naturally my dad decided to take care of them by sending a monthly allowance much against our wishes because it effectively made them lazy and codependent on my dad – a price for which now my dad is paying because they have no insurance and hospital stays in India are expensive these days. Now I love my foi a lot and grew up in her hands, and life dealt an extremely unfair cards to her – so I decided to help my dad and send some cash too.
This news of course reached other people – I have gotten a range of WhatsApp messages going from “Why did you help? Now you are also on the hook to support her entire life!”, to “it is in your and your dad’s best interest that her husband recovers otherwise further conversations can be tough!”, to “we know you love your foi but think of us also!”, to “set your boundaries on what you can and cannot do otherwise you will end up like your dad”. The last one being the only message that I think was not depressing. Now I am pissed at my dad and foi for making a news item of how I helped them but I can’t yell at them either right now. I guess one of those things I have to shrug under the rug. And yes less said about those other relatives, better.
Trumps approval is lowest it ever been it’s seems. Is this a fucking joke to Americans? He represents you America, and you are right now abhorrent is the message. I don’t care if you didn’t vote for him, enough of you did. Even I did not vote for him but I get to wear the same badge of shame as rest of you and for that you suck.