completely random thoughts

Sometimes it is fun to write in english that no one underdstadns. I wrote this mail to someone who had applied once before and though she was good we could not offer her a job. So this time around when we could be hiring again, I contacted her….
Excerpt of mail :-
We are in receipt of your CV in application to the unmentioned profile. We realize that you have been in prior consultation with us as regards your employment with us. Rest assured that we continue to hold you as eminently employable and we would look for opportunities to gainfully employ you with the services of the firm. It is in this regard we have begun to initiate our conversation with you. While there seems to be some element of doubt in our minds with respect to the profile in question, there exists a possibility of your candidature being suitable for a plurality of openings. We hope you could trust us to come back post the veils being lifted from in front of our paths. We thank you for your patience and continued confabulations. We do wish you the very best and well and hope to have a long and beneficial relationship.

Translation in English – thanks, will get back to you next week after the role is spelt out.

The other day I went to Siddhivinayak temple. Yes I am a pantheist but I still go to temples once in a while. I was telling Jasmine about the good old days with hardly a shed, a small structure, no security and no arrangements. Now they have a huge building, a huge wall, shade outside, stacked lines, lots of arrangements etc etc. they made it a small holy oasis in the middle of bustling Bombay. It’s kind of a nice place. Here is an interesting board outside the temple showing a voluptuous woman, not so well dressed. They expect women to be dressed modestly.

this is the temple cat sleeping next to the devotees at the temple.

The other thing i find extremely amusing is the proliferation of the humble silver mouse. This is the escort of the lord and is believed to act as an emissary. There is always crowd at the mouse with people trying to tell something into his ears, that he is supposed to get eth lord to grant. Now the authorities have installed two of them and kept them in a separate area where the devotees line up and have their chance at fulfillment.

We saw two movies over the weekend. One was Namesake. Nice movie. Did not lead anywhere for me. Probably will move and resonate with the NRI’s but was just a nice movie for me. Good performances. The movie was not going anywhere in a hurry, it was going anywhere at all. It was just there. I liked it though. Then the next day I saw Little Miss Sunshine. I liked that one as well. That too was going too many places, but it was in a hurry. Nice fast paced and quite funny. I liked it as well. My daughter enjoyed it as well. The people running around the bus, the guys dancing and the audience laughing. Kids feed off a lot from the environment. They understand too much but I am so sure they feel a movie much more than any of us. She did not like in Pursuit Of Happyness (sic), she could feel the environment more than anything else.

Attached is the photo of how we see late night movies with Jispa. Jispa- please see the same and experience a deep sense of sympathy for my very numb bum.