Updates

I haven't written in a while...so here are some updates of our past few months in India.

Kerala

Asif and I went to Kerala for a few days last month. It was awesome. It's the southern most part of India and it's extremely lush and green. It was raining when we got there but that didn't really dampen our trip ;) We spent 2 days in Cochin where we were the only people staying at our hotel..the Malabar House. If you ever go there, I highly recommend staying here...the staff was friendly, the place was super clean and the food was great. The monsoon season keeps people from coming to Kerala but Kerala is quite pretty despite the rain.


We hung out in Fort Cochin where there was a tremendous amount of history. It's a quaint little island where you can see churches and a little nook in the island called Jew town. We met a south Indian lady who made yamakahs. It was so strange to meet an Indian Jew but very cool. We didn't get to see the synagogue inside, it was closed but it was very cute from the outside.

Our auto rikshaw guy took us to the Muslim area in Fort Cochin...some of the oldest mosque's of India are located here. A few hours north of where we were, the first mosque in India is located there (we didn't know this until after we came home).

Our 3rd day, we went to Kumarakom and boarded our houseboat in which we spent a night. It was gorgeous passing buy little towns and homes who live on the banks of the canals. People's lives revolve around the water. Little canals connect people to each other's homes and even grocery stores and schools. We saw little school kids going home on a boat, and a man transporting coconuts to sell. We saw women washing clothes in the river too. It was pure rural India. Anyone who comes to India...must come to Kerala.

New Job
I landed a new job. I love it, it's at a company called TSK Design. Great people, great fun but most of all very nice work. I hope to learn a lot here and go home a new aesthetics and design awareness.

The Dark Knight


Who would've thunk we'd see The Dark Knight in India of all places. We got super lucky and got hook ups from my co worker to see the Premiere the night before the release. It was great. We got there half an hour before the show of course. We gave the usher our passes, while he proceeded to tear them, Asif dove into panic. He decided not to tear it. hehe.
We watched the movie with 3 Malyali guys behind us. One of them got on his cell and decided to have a conversation DURING the movie while the other kept kicking my seat. Despite all the distractions, nothing could tear us away from the screen and we left the theatre in complete awe of Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale and most of all, Heath Ledger. What a performance.