New roomies/wifi= : )

I learned the hard way that one shouldn't leave his/her mosquito net down during the day:

Long story short, it was quite creepy to find a gecko in my bed and to say that I was freaking out was an understatement. Swathi can second that. : /

I also learned the hard way that there aren't just resident geckos in the farm:

These ones I don't mind so much, as long as they stay on the other side of the screen...

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We finally have wifi over here so after about a month of not being able to use the internet on my laptop, it's like I've almost forgotten all the things I wanted to do once I had wifi. It was easy to remember that I wanted to go to iTunes though, since I wanted to see if I could find any of the Bollywood songs that I've been hearing so much of lately. When I got to the iTunes homepage and looked at the top 10 downloads, I hadn't heard of any of the songs! I looked at the top 100 as well and most of the songs are unfamiliar, which although it might sound strange, it quite excites me that I've been missing out on a lot of American pop culture and the like. I guess the wifi might change that a bit since I'll be dawdling around online more, but I've always wanted to be so far away from the US and gone for so long that when I come back, everything seems so new and foreign- the new TV shows, references to the latest celebrity gossip, the music videos, songs on the radio, etc. It's a weird desire, but I've always wanted to be left out of the loop like that. Well, I have a lot of little daydreams involving my going overseas like having multiple kinds of currency in my wallet, but that's another story. Anyway, I actually wanted escape American pop culture and its omnipresence because I got a bit tired of it and I wanted to have some fun getting into other cultures, and although it would be nearly impossible to escape American pop culture completely, at least here I've been able to get away from some of it to some degree. I'll willingly overlook the many Coke/Pepsi ads since it's been pretty fun as I'm starting to recognize the big names in Bollywood. I couldn't help but be proud of myself when I was able to recognize Krrish references in the film "Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic" and on the back of a bag of KurKure chips. When I first came to India, I could only begin to recognize faces here in the commericials, ads and pictures here and there but now I don't get Aamir Khan, Saif Khan, Imran Khan and Salman Khan and I no longer refer to Abishek Bachchan as "Aishwarya Rai (Bachchan)'s husband", who by the way, I used to get mixed up with his father's name, Amitabh.

Now that there's wifi,I can upload pictures directly from my laptop (and not a flash drive) and I'll be able to sign on to AIM. This should mean more blogging, but eh, we'll see.