ok finally. a decent connection. i am missing home terribly. basically my computer. but strangely i don't miss alias that much.

however, bangalore's been fun. saw shankar mahadevan and his band in concert last night, which was really great. openair and lotsa dancing. bought the tickets on the black as has become a trend, like we bought the tickets for kal ho naa ho last week also on the black market. i always imagined black markets as really like physical markets, only sort of evil looking, although obviously i knew they didn't exist like that. but it really is as simple as buying a ticket that's supposedly sold out, for a slightly higher price, from a guy who deliberately buys lotsa tickets in advance to be sold to desperate people later on. anyways, we were lucky to get the tickets that day because it was after trying about five other theatres. i have a huge crush on saif ali khan.

my grandma's not well. she's got a tumour near her kidney. it's the second time she's had cancer. actually she's more depressed about it than physically ill. thankfully it's a very early stage so the cancer hasn't spread, and they're just going to remove a small part of her ureter where the tumour is. it's kind of scary, because almost all my grandma's siblings have had cancer, a few have diabetes, and a couple have heart disease. on my dad's side, all his father's siblings and his father himself have had heart problems. in fact they've all died of heart problems if i'm not wrong. i don't have the most fantastic genes. which is a very very scary thought.

i have been doing a lot of shopping. have finally got all the stuff for friends. and of course at every place that i've got something for someone, i invariably buy another little something for myself, so yes, my mother's going to have to conjure up more suitcase space.