My alter egoGive us your poor, well, actually, you can keep em all....Dude, you got Googledum.... today my tummy hurtzz a little but thats ok i'm not sick really i'm fine. last night i saw an indian movie, even though it didnt have subtitles it was still pretty easy to follow. the main character was a cripple, or whatever the pc term is, i don't know, the dude had a hump on his back and walked with his knees going in and had huge buck teeth, but he was really funny, he had the silliest expressions. so he tries to get married, but the only girl that will marry him is a scary looking midget, so he is without a wife. so then he helps this other girl get together with this famous basketball player, who is played by the same guy that is playing the cripple, a la dr evil/austin powers, ya dig? so he helps this girl run away with the basketball star, but the night she runs away she runs into the village psycho, who is gonna rape her. but then he pushes her off a cliff and she dies in her lovers arms, ouch!! while this is going on the cripple meets this blind girl and she falls for him, cause he really is a nice guy, and she can't see his humpback etc. so then they find out she can get an experimental surgery to cure her blindness. everyone tells the cripple to tell her not to do it, cause then she'll see his freakish looks and not want to be with him, but he says, i'd rather her know who i really am and judge me, rather than not knowing if she would love me if she saw me, etc etc blah blah aww isn't that sweet. so the surgery, is a success!! and here's the kicker....they use the eyes of the basketball player's lover who just died!!! the basketball guy finds out and starts stalking the girl, and she's freaked out cause he looks at her like...he wants her pants. and the cripple, he sees the blind girl hug the basketball guy when she thought he was the cripple, and goes into seclussion. eventually the father finds him and tells him to come back, she wants to see him, and he does, and at first she just gives him blessings cause she thinks he's just some cripple but then he speaks and she knows its the guy she fell in love with and.....well i think you can guess.
but wait!!! that night while the cripple and his bride to be are sleeping the door knocks....and its the psycho rapist who told the cripple he would kill him if he ever saw him again, so he starts beatin the crap out of him, but then he notices the bride to be... and he almost gets away with it, but then the basketball guy shows up and kills him, it's very dramatic, and everything is good. the movie ends with the cripple and the blind girl ( whos not blind anymore) getting hitched.
during movies at the theatre the indians clap along with the songs. all the movies are like musicals, they all have singing and dancing parts, no matter what kind of movie they are. so the audience they clap and cheer when the hero kills the villian, they clap when the music goes, they show alot of emotion during the movie. the movie i saw was pretty good, i thought. even thou i couldn't understand it.
so i'm in Cochin now, and it's very nice. not alot of pollution, not alot of garbage, it's a huge city.
i like it here, but hotels are a little bit more than usual. but it's still verrrrry cheap. i got a new shirt, and it cost me about 4 dollars. so i'm going to buy some more after i sign off. i went on a tourist boat that went to some cool places, some 500 year old churches and a former palace where there is a mural of the 'ramayana' that is 200 years old. cool stuff.
everywhere i go, i think of people i know, and what they would be acting like if they were with me.
i want to organize a trip here with a bunch of my friends, cause that's the only thing i'm missing here.
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peace and love
chris
