Indians glorified

Well… it’s almost been a month of no blogging. All the credit goes to my latest obsession with books. I have always loved reading, but from a month it has been addiction. I have completed reading a 300 pages book in one single day :)… well considering my reading speeds… it’s surely an achievement for me. Orkut is still there on my obsession list, but surely not on top now.

Even on the weekends books have become priority than hanging out. But, being a responsible wife and home maker :P :D there are certain things we can never skip. Since our lease in our current apartment is ending and we have no intention of extending it (Vijay hates the callous staff here), we were on rove in quest of apartment. I accompanied Vijay in this task reluctantly keeping the book aside. We started with an organized search looking for the ones with good reviews on the net. It was surely fun meeting so many different people on a single day. Can never forget one funny woman, who acted like a typical blond in Hollywood teen movies. Well introducing myself to Americans had always been a tough task. ‘Sharmila’ is surely not easy for them. Vijay for sure has upper hand here, he can comfortably call himself VJ. Well, yesterday’s experience with VJ is surely a shock. The American guy could identify Vijay’s name He said ‘Vijay??? As in Vijay Singh?’ for me it’s a shock… because I myself don’t know who Vijay Singh is. But to Vijay it’s not his first experience. Later on little inputs from Vijay and little research on net enlightened me.

Vijay Singh was a golfer who was number one in official world golf rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005, and also he was highest money earner in golf circuit in 2004. Though he is a Fiji national, he has his roots from India.

Well…it fills me with pride when Indians are glorified in foreign countries. This reminds me of one more incident. The world’s biggest space research centre NASA has a painting of Tipu Sultan army launching rockets on British army in a war against them. Apparently Tipu is the first person to have used rockets in the war. It is said that his rockets were much more advanced than the weapons possessed by British at that time. When the president Abdul Kalam had been to the Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island in East Coast, Virginia, which was a base of NASA's sounding rocket programme, he was very much delighted on finding the painting and said "The painting depicted a fact forgotten in Tipu's own country but commemorated here on the other side of the planet. I was happy to see an Indian glorified by NASA as a hero of warfare rocketry."

Enough of blogging :) time to get back to reading... Agatha Christie’s ‘Curtain’ in which Poirot dies… intriguing huhhh