Party in the garden

Woke up and felt strangely at home....must have been the gloomy skies that looked so much like the monsoon clouds from Bombay i was trying to escape from.

Had a early brunch with Karl and Adele and then spent the afternoon helping Adele with her laundry...like all the stuff from her closet had to be cleaned cause of the bed bugs thingy. there were three loads.....really heavy stuff.

The rain kept coming down in soft continuous drizzle.....the really annoying kind.....I'm good if it rains heavy for like 30 minutes and gets it over with...but when it keeps on coming like that...man so annoying!!!

Karl decided to sweeten my afternoon with a visit to Dunkin Donuts. Even though we swore we would not visit a "commercial place", we found the best donuts came from there. So we braved the drizzle and i ended up buying 12 different donuts to take home.....from chocolate to raspberry to apple cinnamon to lemon to chocolate glazed with sprinkles...i had it all. Been eating them any chance i get...still got a few left over.

Spent the rest of the afternoon reading in the flat.

The sky kinda cleared up by 6 in the evening and Karl decided to take me for some arty film thing. I was terrified as these arty events are really beyond me and i never really understand them. But i went anyways.


The event was actually hosted Karl's friend Jenny, who was leaving NY. So she had hired this small beautiful garden (bang in the middle of two brick buildings) where she had set up the projector and screen and a table for food. All those invited were asked to bring films they made (since most of them are film directors) or liked and just have a good time. (Note - the interesting thing about NY is that many communities have bought these small areas of land and or that sort of stuff....which is marvelous...and then rent these gardens for stuff like Jenny's party).

There were some arty farty films and there were some nice ones. One of my favorites were about ducks....and another that had stuffed animals like ferrets and pigeons revolving on a pedestal while the track dum maro dum played in the background...kick ass....i kept explaining what the song meant to the peop converted them to gardens and ensured they will never be developed into residential buildingsle around me :)


After a while i got a little bored and so Karl and me headed out to eat some dumplings for dinner. We went to this place called the Dumpling Man. You get all sorts of really neat dumplings and some special sauces. Was a nice little meal.

After we finished we debated on whether to have some chocolate milkshakes, but after seeing how our pants were about to burst open thanks to our paunches, we decided against it and just headed home.