I met up with a college friend of mine - Mugs (this isn’t short for muggles, mugs is very far from being human), yesterday. We used to hang-out together A LOT till she got married and moved to the US. She was this really cool person. Not the spaghetti-strapped-top-in-a-little-black-thingy! Cool though and a very nice person. I mean, she had a retriever called Whisky. That in my eyes made her totally adorable. Now, she is a successful businesswoman.
I invited M over for lunch. It’s great to have her as she always relishes my cooking and it thrills me to bits when my culinary skills are appreciated cause I never in my life imagined I would cook. My cousins or friends would always be the ones in the kitchen, helping Ma out and I’d be keeping them company chattering away or reading in my room. I used to be a nerd once upon a time!! Anyways, I made a delicious pasta and baked cauliflower, which M loved and between the two of us polished off everything on the dishes. Later, loaded with coke and popcorn, we settled in to watch Mona Lisa Smile on DVD.
We were quite disappointed with the movie. The plot was banal, the characters weren’t defined well and no standing-out performances. They had a good idea to begin with, but they couldn’t carry it through. Julia Roberts is a free-spirited, sexually liberated, unmarried-by-choice art history professor who wants to challenge and change the ways of the uptight, traditionalist “finishing” school that Wellesley was in the 50s. But the way the movie went she ends up looking rather pushy and silly, and hardly makes any difference. So after 2 hours of the movie you’re wondering what the point of it all was!
What was interesting about the movie though was to see how the role of women was defined in the US in the 50s; How women were groomed to be trophy wives and how hitching a guy was the sole objective of a girl’s education.
Mugs and I wondered if things were any different in India even today from what America was 50 years back. Look at our “convent educated” classmates!! Being convent educated raised their chances of finding a “suitable hubby” or for that matter even ND who did her BE, just so that she could find an “engineer” husband. What a waste of that engineering seat!
I invited M over for lunch. It’s great to have her as she always relishes my cooking and it thrills me to bits when my culinary skills are appreciated cause I never in my life imagined I would cook. My cousins or friends would always be the ones in the kitchen, helping Ma out and I’d be keeping them company chattering away or reading in my room. I used to be a nerd once upon a time!! Anyways, I made a delicious pasta and baked cauliflower, which M loved and between the two of us polished off everything on the dishes. Later, loaded with coke and popcorn, we settled in to watch Mona Lisa Smile on DVD.
We were quite disappointed with the movie. The plot was banal, the characters weren’t defined well and no standing-out performances. They had a good idea to begin with, but they couldn’t carry it through. Julia Roberts is a free-spirited, sexually liberated, unmarried-by-choice art history professor who wants to challenge and change the ways of the uptight, traditionalist “finishing” school that Wellesley was in the 50s. But the way the movie went she ends up looking rather pushy and silly, and hardly makes any difference. So after 2 hours of the movie you’re wondering what the point of it all was!
What was interesting about the movie though was to see how the role of women was defined in the US in the 50s; How women were groomed to be trophy wives and how hitching a guy was the sole objective of a girl’s education.
Mugs and I wondered if things were any different in India even today from what America was 50 years back. Look at our “convent educated” classmates!! Being convent educated raised their chances of finding a “suitable hubby” or for that matter even ND who did her BE, just so that she could find an “engineer” husband. What a waste of that engineering seat!
