more updates -- on current favorites

website:
Cannelle et Vanille (Cinnamon & Vanilla): food blog, stunning photos that makes you moan, to die for.

song:
Ridan - Demain
very moving.

Je vendrai mon âme à qui la veut pour que demain tu vives si vieux,
Je ferai ce que je peux pour faire barrage pour que ta vie ne soit plus une cible,
Je prendrai leur flèches à bras le corps je prierai le ciel de faire un effort.

He has another song, L'agriculteur, which i also like a lot.

book:
I'd say Duras' La Douleur but i haven't finished it yet, so the pick is Maximum City - Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta. I switched to it after my huge disappointment with Shantaram, really don't understand why it got so big. I was gonna read Shantaram to prepare myself for Bombay, but couldn't stand all the pretentiousness so i gave up after getting through the first half, i.e. 400 pages. Maximum City was well-researched, honest, and impassionate - journalism at its best. I finished it while in Pune watching the battle in Mumbai. It was so strange to be able to recognize, among other things, all the different groups that they identified including the dons and the D Company.

I haven't posted here for so long. Countless reasons, including:

• i went to Mumbai where i got my visa. After Mumbai, i spent most of the rest of my time in India traveling, except for a few days in Ahm' where i was busy packing, saying bye to people, etc.
  
• my Chirstmas/farewell gift from my roommate and her family was a dairy. So i had two beautiful journal notebooks (the other one is from Anna) and no reason for not using them.
• it was easier to write journal than blog when i was traveling. Internet was expensive and unreliable.
  
• once i'm back to school, i barely have time. I barely keep my journal any more, but will try to post more regularly here.

Some updates:

• THE big thing: my parents might adopt. The kid's parents passed away, but he still has 2 or 3 aunts and uncles and they haven't made up their mind yet. We don't know if they want to have someone adopt the kid or not, and if yes, whom they're gonna pick. If things go through, i'll have a brother, sort of weird 'cause i've been the younger child for already 20 years.
  
• my senior essay is going nowhere, but i've been reading a lot on Vietnam which makes me really want to go back this summer (unlike the last one), but the chance of me getting enough money to fly home is kinda slim
• so i've been thinking about going Peru. Peru because, just because. I want to pick up some Spanish, and it's fucking cheap to go there - $400 for a round trip, and i figure i can find work at hostels in exchange for room and board while hanging out there.
  
• and maybe Montreal too. Ysa was here a month ago, it was great, and she's coming down again soon and we'll spend a wk in NYC. She'll be in Montreal for the whole summer, which gets me thinking maybe i should go visit her.
• i missed the winter so much when i was in India. Now i'm absolutely sick of it, just want the spring to come, and get myself out of new england.