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May 26, 2003
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Hey! The sun came out today! Like for a minute or so. I feel like that one girl in the short story, the girl from Earth who moved to the colony on Venus, where the other kids don't believe in the sun so they lock the Earth girl in the closet, then the sun comes out and she misses it. According to Jon, we have had only 5 days without rain this month. We are no longer in a drought.
Lots and lots of little household chores completed this weekend. I finally feel caught up. As of 4pm Monday I still haven't seen X-Men nor the Matrix, but I did manage to see 'Bend It Like Beckham', which was very cute. Sort of like 'My Big, Fat Pakistani Sikh Wedding' with girls playing soccer.
Posted by jimbo at May 26, 2003 4:13 PM
Comments
dude they were indian, not pakistani. pakistani's aren't sikh. what a great movie. especially the scene where the guy comes out to his best friend. fabulous
Posted by: usuredo at May 27, 2003 11:19 PM
So there's no Sikhs in Pakistan? I coulda swore they called themselves Pakistani, and when the girl got rough on the field, it was because they called her 'Paki'.
Posted by: jimbo at May 28, 2003 9:31 AM
I totally remember that short story!
We must have had the same Holt, Rhinehart and Winston english lit book in elementary school(?)
Posted by: stebbins at May 28, 2003 9:46 AM
I am a total geek, but I did some research, and it was a Ray Bradbury story. Link to story below.
Posted by: stebbins at May 28, 2003 10:09 AM
they were calling themselves 'punjabi', which is a region in north india. the largest punjabi communities outside of india is in southall and hounslow (west and southwest of london, respectively) many are twice migrants, as they left india for east africa to work on the railroads (hence the nairobi reference) and went on to the UK due to political and social instability in east africa.
"paki" is actually an extreme and unecessary racial slur that targets those of south asian origin (indian, pakistani, bangladeshi, etc) unfortunately, it's not uncommon to hear that while in the UK. according to one source, pres bush apologized after using it in a press conference last year.
anyohw, hope that helped.
peace out....
Posted by: usuredo at May 28, 2003 3:30 PM