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Monday, 7 September 2009
Some recycled poetry....
from me. To explain my absence from the blog yet again.
one lung withered shrivelled grey
one lung a mucusy miasma
lovely weather in delhi, a perfect monsoony day
but of course i have the bloody asthma.......
I think its a bit more than asthma this time. It seems to have evolved out of flu and then mutated into something quite nasty. Anyway at least the fever's gone down, the headache's eased up. Now the only issue is the breathing thing. Or lack thereof.
Anyway I see my last post was about the Onam meal that I had. I discovered Kozhambu (the zh is pronounced as an 'r' rolling it out from the back of the mouth) is Tamil and not from Kerala. However there was a very spicy Imli (Tamarind) chutney that I pretended was the same and treated with equal love. There was Payasam which is a sweetened milk dessert. In fact there were two versions! One was with rice, sort of similar to the Arroz con Leche that I believe is common in Latin America. And the other one was with Vietnamese Jackfruit! Awesome
I love Jackfruit. I loved it ripe and sweet with sticky rice that we had in Bangkok and Penang. And I love it raw and cooked like in the Bengali style. But its one of those foods you know - people either love it or hate it. And when I say hate it, I mean it makes them feel like throwing up. Ripe Jackfruit (like its nefarious cousin, the Durian) has a unique smell that some people (like me) find ok and some other people (like my mother) find absolutely vile, repulsive and vomit-inducing. If you are intrigued, I suggest you rush out to your nearest oriental/ Chinese/ South-east Asian grocer and get a whiff of either Jackfruit or Durian.......and then we shall know which camp you belong to.
Incidentally, it is for this very reason, that carrying Durian on public transport is a fine-able offence in Singapore and I think they're trying to ban it in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur as well. If they haven't already.
There are ten million pictures of both the Durian and the Jackfruit on the web so I won't bother copying those pics here. My only gripe is that most of those photos show no human scale. A fully grown Jackfruit is HUGE. One needs both hands to carry it like a baby.
Yesterday being unable to sleep, I switched on the TV and watched a few minutes of a movie called
Scary Movie
Part 3 (?!)
with Pamela Anderson playing a schoolgirl (??!!)
Dubbed in Hindi (?????????????!)
Fascinating as it was, I had to switch it off after a bit because it was making my headache worse and I'd started convulsing and frothing at the mouth. But some day I will see it in its entirety. When I am healthy and whole and FULLY PREPARED for it.
Will now push off and take some medicine or something to kick-start the breathing process again. I last took a breath about 3.5 hours ago and it really is time for another one.
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Hey how are you feeling today?
Stop watching shitty movies. And dont censor this comment because I put "shitty" :D
Get well soon!!
Javi
Stop watching shitty movies. And dont censor this comment because I put "shitty" :D
Get well soon!!
Javi
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