7:09 PM

Bollywood etc...

Today in Buddhist Art and Architecture we started watching Asoka which is a fantastic Bollywood film.  Needless to say, I am thoroughly enjoying it.  I also learned that Urdu and Hindi are basically the same language, because I recognized and understood a few words here and there thanks to my brown friend Adil.


I have also decided that I need to be watching more Bollywood films, as I believe they portray the ideal life.

I'm super busy this week with work and a lot of Art History work, but hopefully this weekend I'll have time to elaborate on my crazy week...

I did watch Project Runway and was a little bit  disappointed in the lack of innovation.

For some reason I'm watching a weird show called 'Ace of Cakes' right now on the food network.... and it's freaking amazing.  I love cake... I love making cakes!

Today was the first meeting of the Japanese club at UIC.  It seems like it will be fun, except I gave up on the whole president thing, because the one incredibly obnoxious freshman (of whom I have mentioned before) would not let up... and I thought Anna deserved it more... and I did not want to have to work with that kid.  So, I settled for Vice President.  I hope it will still be fun.

Well... I'm having problems with my attention span right now because the TV is on and I should probably be doing work...

...ugh...expect a post sometime this weekend with something slightly more substantial.... I hope.

3 comments:

Adil said...

Ugh... I can't stand Bollywood, but that's just me rejecting my own pop culture, haha. It's not like I don't hate American pop culture, either, though...

And yeah, I never told you the Urdu/Hindi thing? They're practically just different dialects of the same language, though the two have very different writing systems. Urdu is based off of Arabic lettering (with a few added letters), whilst Hindi is based on Sanskrit.

In fact, I think Urdu and Hindi are more similar to each other than the Urdu dialect than Rabiya's in-laws speak.

Anonymous said...

That's hilarious. I just asked my professor right after we watched... there was a whole lot of are and acha -ing.... Oh come on, you know you want to watch some Bollywood. It'll be fun! Let's rent or download one or something!

Steve said...

Funny thing is, Subhah (as you may remember from the Scare Video) did not understand me when I said "mother fucker" in Urdu. It made me happy. No one here at school knows what it means. So I say it randomly.

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