Hello,
Just in case you were wondering about the delay it was a long weekend here down under. It was Happy B'day to Queen. Apparently even Britishers don't celebrate this with a national holiday.
This week the football fever had caught up at work (as I should've expected). Every now and then some fever is caught at work and people put together some money to bet on something. They call it "sweeps". While in US, I have seen clients pooling in money to buy Powerball tickets (in other words lottery) whenever the total prize money exceeds a few hundred millions. Here in Australia money is collected every few months to bet on a football game or a horse race and this time it is the soccer World Cup. There are few things one must do to be a true Aussie - drink beer, gamble (the only nation which has a state holiday for betting on horses) and relish Vegemite and toast for breakfast. I haven't tasted much of vegemite. I think the closest analogy I can think of is like having Dabur Chyawanprash on bread.
While I was on the train 2 high school girls with badges stating that one was the student leader for the year and another as the deputy leader got on board. They were accompanied by an elderly lady who could easily pass for a principal. The leader says..."umm..I dyed my hair brown from my natural blonde. Blonde hair gets too much unwanted attention." The elderly woman says "hmm..a life changing decision indeed" with such a straight face. Is that called maturity?
This weekend we had a get-together at home with 2 other friends. It was housefull with 3 kids running around and 2 trying to crawl. Nandhitha had a blast. It was a pot luck lunch. Nothing exceptionally exotic in the menu. Not surprisingly the topics of discussion were about pre-schooling and what vegetables are being given to the 6 month olds.
Have a great week.
Chetty
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