song of the road

Tired out of mind today. I somehow run out of steam periodically. Must be my health. Because hear people doing 70 hour weeks etc. I stayed at work for 13 hours today and add 2 more hours of travel and I am dead today. Also to add on, had a couple of important meetings today, about which I had been stressing for a while. So all done reasonably well. Have another meeting in a while. But decided to bunk. Will get my updates later. Just waiting for one piece of mail to come and I am out of here.

Eating has not been that well. Didn’t seem too bad either. It has been generally healthy but not very weight loss kind. I have gained 1 pound. But surprisingly enough have no energy to feel particularly downbeat about it. Will need to get in to working out. That seems to work for me. Will need more planning to eat cleaner.

Watched a couple of very different movies this weekend. One is Inglorious Basterds. Obvioulsy loved it. Quentin Tarantino and underdogs winning left a good taste in my mind. The other is a tamil movie. It’s an old one actually. It’s about a 9 year old girl who finds out she is adopted and then insists on searching for her mother. Her adoptive parents knew about her biological mother who was a refugee from Sri Lanka. Then they go to a war-torn Sri Lanka in search of her and eventually after almost not meeting her, the girl meets her. A few times in the search they get caught in the middle of blasts, bombings, evacuations, gunfire battles. The family runs really scared and a bit hopeless at times. The bio mom was a revolutionary who almost decides on not meeting her daughter. Where the two meet eventually is beautifully done too.

The movie is beautifully shot on a haunting backdrop of South India and Srilanka. There is one scene where the Srilankan refugees are shown literally standing in the middle of the sea, with their own country not safe and this one not welcoming them either. Anyways what particularly hit me is the kind of unconditional patience and love got extended by the adoptive parents to the small girl who did seem spolied quite a few times. Between both of them they almost ran ragged. What would I do? Sure that was perhaps an unusual situation. But still… don’t know. Remember an adoption forum mentioning that this movie has set back adoption by quite an amount. Could be too. The movie did seem reasonably okay, not particularly promoting any agenda or anything.

Anyways, my mail now has come now. So bye for now ladies. Hope you are faring better than me.