Does it move you

when you see animals used for amusement? I was just taking a walk in the Forest Hills Park in Queens a few weeks back where there were horses ridden by adults of all shapes and sizes and i felt so sad for the poor horses. I do not mind children riding them..but when i see full grown adults setting their hiney's on them and riding around..rather than walking....i just want to yell at them and drive some sense in them. Again, sea world, circus and all these places that force animals to do things for our amusement..breaks my heart. It is suddenly a big news if an elephant tramples 10 people, or a bull gores a few..but does anyone see the pain and the hurt we humans cause them?? I cannot believe people watch bull fights and there are supporters for it, horse races like the derby has become sophisticated, there are these dog shows where the poor dogs are supposed to do all sorts of tricks! why can't we leave them alone and let them be....

Maybe i am not cultured or i am not pretentious

I think i would go with the latter..i truly hope so. Last week one of my friends visited me and insisted that she wanted to go to MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). I was truly sceptic and asked her if she would rather go to American Museum of Natural History, that i have been wanting to go again (actually it is just amazing and i am planning to become a member, so that i can visit it often)..but she chimed that MOMA is supposedly all glamorous and all artsy and if there was anything she wanted to do in NYC, it was to go to the amazing museum and Chinatown!. I was like allright...i mean it is your trip..and anyhoo..i wanted to check out Chinatown myself...so i agreed (only to regret later!)

MOMA in my opinion was obnoxious! yes...i said it...what is wrong with people....i saw paper stapled together shown as art...a paper crushed and then smoothed out..framed up....a canvas that was painted in black and had a block of red and one more color running thru...a winnie the pooh drawing all smudged up (even kids are forced to color within the lines people!!)...a tic-tac-toe with smilies and crosses!!..and much much more atrocious and over the top stuff...that people were looking at with awe and discussing in hushed tones...aiyiyi....i have to say..gave me a sort of a complex :D


I know many people may look down and me and say..well..this represents the universe...or the childlike innocence of a kid or some story pulled from you know where!!...I feel that the majority of people there were putting on an act. It was quite funny for me..as i thought the reaction of the people watching this pretentious and expensive (yeah $20 for it..i rather have bought me a lip gloss from sephora) art and acting all high and mighty! i will not say the whole museum was a flop...there were prolly 5-6 rooms that i thought was just amazing...but to have 4 floors in a building. I truly made up my mind..never to get sucked up in the hype..and if someone wants to visit it...i will lay out the subway chart and let em deal with it on their own! (btw. letting people go on their own on subway....i wish!)

Diet Advice

Don't you love the advice people who have had no weight issues EVER give you! or people who have lost a meagre 5-10 pounds..or worse..people who have a healthy bmi..but want to lose 30 pounds to be super skinny give you. It makes me nuts...pure and simple. Just a few days...i was given a lecture on eating everything in moderation and walking for exercise as a amazing way to lose weight. Now how i wish it were true people....i wish i could eat 2 idlies for breakfast...few fruits for snacks...2 rotis with dal and sabji for lunch and dinner...and not to forget stop eating 3 hours before bedtime and waddle around a park for my workout! Let me tell you...knowing me...i will land up putting on some pounds..really...but what can i say when i have been given this advice keeping my best interest at heart?? I smile and gnash my teeth inside...painfully biting my cheek :D

Why do people give advice? Is it because they think that they know it all? or do they love their own voice that they cannot zip their mouth or is it pure concern?? I am yet to figure it out! Now in the recent past i have lost a good amount of weight...unfortunately i have put some of it back and now i am working to lose it. Yes, i know how to lose weight..thankyouverymuch. And yes, my method is quite hard and i do get to be a fanatic when i am focused (unfortunately the round 2 on my diet i am yet to pick up momentum..darn it...) but i know what has to be done..and it is going to take me a while to brace myself for the hardwork...but hey! i know it will give me results..so i am not going to listen to your lame easy comfy diet...coz it will not work for me!

Again..i have had relatives who have asked me about my diet..and i have been honest to them..only to be quizzed again and again...just incase i did not tell them the truth or i left some friggin important info out....isn't it sad! why would i lie...i know it sucks to be fat...i am not going to fib...like the girl near my home in India...whose bum would jiggle each time she walked (i swear!!)...suddenly was all super toned...and her explanation was that she ate curd rice for dinner!!..WTF...i had been eating curd rice for dinner too...but my gut was as jiggly as ever :D Again...am i being judgemental...maybe eating just curd rice was enought to get her toned...while i might have needed something more drastic...but on my part...i made myself happy by mocking her at my home (i know..i am no saint :D)...but again...i kept my mouth shut about asking her about the diet again and again....unlike something that i am having to put up with from the past week!!

So in conclusion i want to say...diet is hard and not all diets fit everyone...this is the truth! some people lose weight on weight watchers..some on jenny...some on south beach and some on nutri-system....and the list goes on. Let people do the diet they want and you figure out the diet you need to do...and stop bloody advising already!!