i have a hunch that ana-lucia will kill shannon. she's got the violent thing going on. and two episodes after the death episode is an ana-lucia-centric episode, which is centred on forgiveness. just a hunch. let's see if i'm right. well let's see if it's even shannon who's going to die. considering the source of that news was "aint it cool news" which doesn't sound very reliable. i'm also interested to see what sayid's reaction to the death will be. will he be all soldier-stoic? or will he emotionally grieve the death of his blonde sweetheart? this time he probably won't even have a bunch of photographs of her to stare at longingly.

anddd. i think the kate romantic entanglement/kiss will be on the 29th of november. the last day of the As. talk about liberation. because that's supposedly a kate-centric episode.

ahhhh am listening to a very beautiful tamil songs. the hindi songs from the early 90s i don't like very much anymore. but the tamil songs from the early 90s are beautiful. ok well my knowledge is limited, but there are two songs i love which are from 1992 and 1994 - pudhua vellai mazhai (which means new white rain) and ennavale (which means "what a girl" i think). the lyrics are untranslatable mainly because they'd sound extremely stupid like "if you're a bird i'm the sky" and "i'd forgotten that place and thought i'd find it in your anklet so i followed your footsteps". i might be getting it all wrong because my tamil is just that bad. but in tamil it sounds gorgeous. which is a lot coming from me because a) my tamil sucks, as established earlier and b) i don't really like tamil very much.

also, unni krishnan has a gorgeously emotive voice. ennavale has to be one of the most beautiful love songs i've ever heard. the movie was utterly stupid. all i remember is it starred prabhu deva, this dude who used to be enormously famous at one point, fancied himself a sort of michael jackson of sorts because he could dance. i never liked him, in fact i hated him quite a bit. anyway the movie - something like girl and guy fervently in love, girl and guy get seperated, probably because the girl's father was a bigshot and the guy wasn't rich enough. the typical sort of thing. and then somehow they get reunited and all i remember is that when they see each other after such a long time, they stand two feet apart and they count to five on their fingers -- you can see both their hands counting -- and then they hug fiercely. as if hugging is such a huge deal (reminds me of the Hugging story S told me, hahaha.) you'd think they'd count to five before falling into bed or desperately clawing each other's clothes off or something. but then that's indian cinema for you. and you must realise it was the early 90s. hugging was a big thing then. ok that is an exaggeration. but indian cinema's come a long way. actually i'm not sure if tamil cinema involves proper kisses now. i haven't watched a tamil movie in a really long time.

roja -- the movie from which "pudhu vellai mazhai" comes -- was fantastic. though again an actor that i ended up hating. i think his name was aravind or something that starts with A. in fact both he and prabhu deva eventually did a movie together, called "minsara kanava" which means electric dream. it was a bad movie. very bad. kajol was in it, her tamil movie debut, fully dubbed of course. she was cute but it was her fat stage so thunder thighs. heh i love kajol but she's done some awful movies in her time. there was another horrible movie she did, i can't remember the name but it was a sort of horror movie where she plays twins. as in she's both twins, and one of the twins gets murdered by a serial killer in a really disturbing scene where he takes an enormous block of ice and smashes her head with it. and then he turns into a stalker and stalks the other twin. it was a very very disturbing movie and i hated it. and then she did kabhi khushi kabhi gham which of course did extremely well due to all-star cast and to give her credit the only parts i liked in the movie were the parts she was in. but in general a thoroughly overdramatic movie.

ok end of discourse on my newfound obsession with indian movies and music. i like being indian. i get to discourse on saris and bollywood. fun fun fun!

eek my brother skidded on his bike while going down the mount sinai slope and got thrown five feet. thank GOD there were no cars wherever he was. and he refuses to let my mom go get him because his friends are helping him bring his bike back and he's limping home. well not like my mom could do anything, my dad drove his car to the airport and anyway my mom doesn't drive.

ok do useful things, aparna!