What a Bizzare Week!

What a week. On Sunday, I played ultimate frisbee in at Shivaji Park with Stacie (American), Gareth (Kiwi), and Mukesh (Indian). We got a huge audience watching and cheering us on, wasn’t sure if it was because of the frisbee, the fact that we were foreign, or that there were actually females in the park. Anyway, we even got a few local kids to join us in a 3-on-3 game in the pouring rain, was really good fun.
On Monday, I met up with Trason and his family after work, and we ended up at a kareoke bar in Bandra. Oi, Ada plus beer plus microphone equals bad news! I also had my first Bollywood Celeb encounter. I had no idea who she was but apparently she is a somebody because the manager got mad at Trason for trying to take a photo of her…
This all builds up to the highlight of my week (so far) which was Thursday. Here is goes, I have recently finished a book called Shantaram, for the book club I mentiond previously. The book is based on the author’s experiences of living in Bombay during the 80’s after escaping prison in Australia. (It’s a great book by the way, check it out at www.Shantaram.com). In fact, it’s going to be made into a movie starring Johnny Depp, *anxiously awaiting its release in 2007*
So right, I left work early to run some errands in town, and ended up popping by the restaurant Leopolds to pick up some stuff for a friend (which I actually failed to do in the end). Guess who was there? (no unfortunately not Johnny Depp) but Shantaram himself!! So like the big shameless idiot I am, I went over and introduced myself, and he was super nice and invited me to join him and his friends. We chatted briefly, and he has agreed to come to our book club meeting! I am soooo excited! Hoorah!
Louisa is passing out on Saturday, I’m a bit bummed out that I’m the only person in our entire extended family who won’t be at the ceremony :( But I'll be there in spirit...

*O yeah, there's been an unusual huge crowd down the street from my house and I learned that they are having auditions for Indian Idol! craziness.