Unbelievable!

Have you ever used the mass transit system, in any city? Well, I do so in Seattle and I started doing so while I am here in Tucson. One would think that just like every other place in the whole wide world, a specific bus number has a specific route, right?! One would be very wrong! I found out the hard way that there are at least three routes numbered 8 that start from the same hub, but have different destinations far from each other! Hence one cannot just pay attention to the number, but has to quickly read the tiny destination on the bus as well! Here is my question: What idiot got paid to design this system?

WALL-E

What can I say! Walking into the theater I knew the Pixar movie was not going to disappoint; but I was pleased and entertained beyond belief. Aside from the good animation work and cinematography–apologies for the incorrect terminology, I am not a critic!–the plot was very clever. Indeed the plot made this movie the joy it is! Dialogue was barely necessary. The poignant jokes at the fate of human beings made for a great laugh. Combine that with the love story between EVE and WALL-E, and you have a brilliant, cute and funny film! I highly recommend this movie

Tucson

Through the miserably small window of the airplane, I could see a stretch of land with small houses, here and there. I wasn’t sure whether or not that was Tucson, until the plane started flying low. Then it felt like it was getting farther and farther away from the town, because I could only see the desert and some sparse vegetation. For about 5 minutes I kept wondering where this plane is planning on landing. Out of nowhere a runway appeared and the plane touched down! I was in Tucson, Arizona.

“Nice, little airport,” I thought, walking to pick up my baggage. I walked out of the air conditioned airport, and the “HOT HEAT” hit my face! On the ride to my uncle’s house, I tried to be as observant as possible. The houses are so short, that they can be well hidden by shrubs! Most houses have an adobe color on the outside, just to once more remind you that you are in the desert, in case you have forgotten about the heat! Stretches of open and arid land can be found between buildings at any part of the city, which strikes me as strange. Why wouldn’t they do anything to increase the aesthetic value of it, if they are not building anything useful on it! Regardless, the downtown has some taller buildings to resemble a legitimate downtown:

Tucson (the Old Pueblo) is the largest city in southern Arizona and the second largest in the state, with a metropolitan population of 946,362. Tucson is also home to the University of Arizona Wildcats, which is the second largest employer in the city! Davis-Monthan Air Force Base also provides many jobs for Tucson residents. Its presence, as well as the presence of a US Army Intelligence Center (Fort Huachuca, the largest employer in the region in nearby Sierra Vista), has led to the development of a significant number of high-tech industries. Advanced technology companies like Raytheon Missile Systems, Texas Insutruments, IBM, Intuit Inc., Universal Avionics, Misys Healthcare Systems, Sanofi-Avents, Ventana Medical Systems, and Bombardier all have a significant presence in Tucson. Roughly 150 Tucson companies are in the optics industry, earning Tucson the nickname “Optics Valley”.

Driving through the town on a Saturday evening, I felt like I was in a ghost town. Then my uncle reminded me that more than half of the population of town is comprised of students and Snowbirds, who spend fall and winter in Tucson. In winter the temperature ranges between 44-75 during a day! Those numbers are 70-over 100 for the summer!

I have not have enough time and interaction with the people of Tucson, yet, to write about them. That shall have its own post! For now, I am off to enjoy a nice swim in the year around out-doors pool!

Eastern Promises

I am not much of a critic about anything. Regardless I’d like to jot down my simple considerations about movies that are different enough to make me go “HUH.”

My preconceptions led me to think of this movie as another mobster action movie. I was wrong. I am not going to spoil the movie, but the plot was unpredictable. The pace of the movie was quite slow. During the movie I kept thinking when things are going to happen, but when the movie ended everything seemed appropriate for this movie. I realize the movie is not shown in the theaters anymore, but if it were, I’d still suggest watching it on DVD. Not because the movie is not worth it, but because I feel it is the kind of movie that needs to connect with the viewer in a more personal setting! That is just what I think. I recommend watching it.

Arizona!

I bought my ticket to Tucson, Arizona just about two weeks into my spring quarter. If I remember correctly, at the time I was fed up, frustrated and disappointed by the result of-my somewhat hard work during-the winter quarter, and being rejected after asking out the girl that I liked for a second time! Add that to a horribly boring and irrelevant professor in my beloved orgo class, and a bullshit composition class, with a physics class that is not the most tasteful science I know; and you might begin to understand why I bought my ticket! I don’t believe I have ever considered becoming depressed, or that depression could happen to me. I think I just had a taste of it, needless to say, I did not like it!

I bought my tickets and started a 60 day countdown and had the most horrible academic quarter of my whole life. I have never performed so miserably in school. I had absolutely no drive to even finish the quarter! I am glad I passed my classes! I flew out of a gloomy Seattle on 14th of Junuary!

Rethinking!

I remember when I wrote my first blog, I declared that I would like to post well constructed essays about topics that somewhat mattered. Well It has been some eight months, I think, and I have only had one blog

Therefore I am planning on writing even if it is only a couple of sentences, the instance I feel a spark. Maybe that way, I write more!