I’m declaring it official. I waited a few days before posting to be sure, but yep. The temperature has dropped about 15 degrees, the humidity has risen, and it has rained every day since this day, Thursday, after just about no rain for a couple months. And locals concur that although it is a bit earlier than usual, monsoon season has begun.
So I’ve started taking my malaria pills.
It was also recommended to me that I should go vegetarian during monsoon season… because the moisture makes meat even less hygienic, apparently.
It’s not wild and crazy rain. It’s not even constant. But I had chai in the drizzle for the first time and I’ve taken my umbrella out of the plastic for the first time (and we also got charged triple by the very smart auto drivers.)
Notably, whether summer, winter, monsoon, every season is cricket season.
I was watching some YouTube videos recently and the commercials are Indian! For some reason, that amuses me because I thought the ads were related to the video – or person posting. But several unrelated U.S.-based videos in a row have shown commercials I would have seen here.
And from the Fun with Hinglish department…
My co-workers were conversing in Hindi at the table during lunch. I understood almost none of it, but I always pick up the English words interspersed in. I heard “(hindi, hindi, hindi) top three American mistakes (hindi, hindi, hindi).” After a lull in their conversation, I turned to him and said “So what are the top 3 American mistakes? That’s the only part I understood.” He looked at me funny. “We’re comparing our favorite Bollywood actors. I didn’t say that.” Then he thought for a bit and said, “Oh! I said, ‘top three Aamir Khan mistakes'” and we got a laugh out of that one. I never realized those sounded the same.
In related news…
Pretty hot stuff. And the desert, too.
Aamir Khan is on my list of personal heroes. A lot because of the this talk show he did last year that brought a lot of taboo issues India is facing out into the open. I found an English subtitled version of whole and parts of episodes here and have watched almost all. I can’t remember which episode featured my favorite bit, where he spoke with some charismatic people with disabilities, but all of them have been terrific.
The Khan’s are a famous actor family in Bollywood… apparently there are three brothers. My co-worker called Aamir for the “classes”, another for the “masses”, and the third just “for stupid people.”