Dinner last night...

So the Christmas break has begun! I am so relieved. I had a wonderful day yesterday. Had a lot of things to finish before the break because the university closes down on Monday. After doing all the work I went to try a Thai restaurant with some friends. The food was excellent - but hardly Thai! The Thai food we get in India is the kind where you can smell the coconut milk and the lemon grass from a mile away. The Thai I had last night was more like the Chinese food we get back in India. The Chinese here is so different from the Indian Chinese and also from the Chinese Chinese as my Taiwanese friends tell me.

It is so weird how the same words mean different things and the same things have different names in different places. My friend RH and I can't help but compare notes on life and everything in it every time we get the chance. He is from Florida and is the same age as me. We have had very similar experiences with religion, parents, siblings, etc. and we just seem to get each other so easily despite belonging to different worlds. So the food last night was an example of the same word (Thai) meaning different things, and RH and I show how different words can really be the very same things.

RH too was very relaxed yesterday - so the dinner was fun with his silly jokes, my sillier responses, some Corona and my two Taiwanese friends busy eating and ignoring our silliness (hopefully blaming it on the Coronas ;))..