Pirate DVDs

Found Mysore's only modern food store yesterday: Food World on Devaraja urs Rd. They did have a version of pesto with coriander but manufactured 2 years ago. They did have fresh parsley too but what good does it do for us here? We should try and find some seeds and grow it in Bylakuppe. We bought a small piece of cheddar cheese. The kids are swimming and watching television- two amusements that do not exist in Sera. The southwestern monsoon is worse than ever along the coast. Bombay is under water. We were lucky to get out of Kerala in time. Believe it or not, but the weather became a lot worse a few days later. I thought that was impossible. In Mysore it's like a bad Swedish summer although warmer. Bought some pirated kids' movies on DVD today. They’re the kind that have been secretly filmed by someone in the movie theatre’s audience with a smuggled in video camera. Sometimes you see the heads of the audience or the cameraman’s fingers. They never seem to be able to get the whole screen in the picture and the sound (dts surround!!!) echoes out of comprehension. Watching them is constant agony over computer health as the screen freezes or the disc refuses to load. In the afternoon I discovered that I had made a mistake on dates because of the time difference and tonight I get to see Germany play Italy on big screen. Great! I thought I’d miss it. I called Tenzin this afternoon and he told me it has been raining for two days solid in Bylakuppe. It’s not exactly a magnet right now. Subramanya is coming with us out there. He is part of a team making a documentary about Tibetan Buddhism for Indian Institute of Languages (or something similar), and they are shooting this week. I hope I can get the three of us (Thinley, Subramanya and myself) together for a research meeting.

So Germany lost, but what suberb goals by Italy in the last minutes!!!