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Stranger Thimgs season 4 premiere was quite awful. If this is the tone of the season then the show has jumped the shark. Hopefully gets better as season goes on.

So they keep saying real estate prices are going down, and I feel the same (especially since we bought one so yeah luck right?), but i am not sure it applies to high cost of living areas. A house that we had casually visited a month ago with no intentions of buying (coz small house, 1 car garage only) went for 200k above asking. Me and Anu were legit looking at each other in disbelief this morning – like how? why? who paid that much in escalation at a market thats actually cooling. Makes me think nothing really is cooling here anytiime. Its just relative and luck of the draw!

Back to Philly for the weekend and I highly recommend you eat ammas kitchen in downtown for some yummy South Indian food. The South Indian in me highly recommends!

Shining Girls went from being a creative mind bender to exhausting meh watch. And to imagine next week is “season” finale and not series finale makes me think they are just going to keep dragging the premise forever. Yawn.

If you want to feel like you are taking a interstate/city bus ride at night in india, then best way to simulate that feeling is to have a Mohd Rafi playlist at volume 1 or 2. Just loud enough so you can hear ’em if you focus, otherwise feels like melodious white noise coming from drivers cabin. Try it.

We are going to Coldplay concert next week and when I bought tickets, I had somehow managed to buy an extra ticket on *other* side of the stadium. I had forgotten about it until I saw it few days ago. Used the ticketmaster service to put it on sale & was not expecting to go – i mean who buys a single ticket to concert? Well, turns out it sold in half a day! Made a small profit also in the process. Glad I remembered about this lone ticket.

Back from musical concert at school that the 4th, 5th and 6th graders performed for a packed auditorium. It was a lot of fun, and the kids did an amazing job – except the events of two days is still on my mind. As I watched the kids perform strings, bands, chorus and having fun at back of my mind I was all like jeez what if a disgrunted fuck pulled out a gun in this auditorium and started shooting?

The 6th graders performed “I want it that way” by Backstreet Boys as their final sayonara song of the night, and also the last song they’ll peform as elementary kids. It was a great performance, with kids really singing their hearts out while auditorium was clapping. Elementary school is really the age of innocence – middle school / high school is never going to be the same as elementary school. The general camaradarie between families and staff is so different. Some of lifelong friendships are formed here. How can someone be so sick and demented in their brains to intentionally kill such young kids? How is this even possible?

Sending your kids to public school has to be the biggest house of horrors that parents have to go through in this country. What a wretched fuck of a country this is.

Everyone’s pretty much given up on masks. Like totally at this pt. Well I’m no hurry to give up mine.

In this crazy real estate market where people overbid, one of the main fears as a buyer is the appraisal report. Its not commmon in HCOL markets to find that the appraisal came out lower than what the buyer paid – and then the buyer has to make up that additional difference in appraisal as collateral. So imagine my surprise when the appraisal came out higher than what we are paying for house! It doesnt make a difference to my application, but its nice to know somehow that we’ve potentially paid *less* for this house than it was appraised.

Also not to get too far ahead, sign of things to come then?

You know how you become desensitized to happenings around you? Few years back we’d be sharing any news related to school shooting in our friends whatsapp groups. We would get angry, cuss at the country and eventually go back to normal life. This time, nobody (including us) shared anything in our groups. There was no getting angry, no cussing and no sharing of collective grief. It was more like, this is the country we live in and thats that.