January 1st, 2009

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I have been thinking about what A said yesterday: he explained how he was so angry when his muslim friend’s luggage was searched twice at the airprot when he just cruised through the customs. Difference in treatment. Of course, we should all be angry at this kind of discrimination based on silly criteria like race, colour, and of course religion. But then I realised how we women get this almost daily and it’s looked as a social norm. Even I, who try to be really careful about equality between genders/sexes, often make statements that generalize a gender/sex. Although sometimes I feel it is justified, sometimes I wonder how much of those generalizations are just entrenched notions that I’m helping spread by refering to them?

Today, I didn’t do much. A and L were supposed to come over to get me to go to the centre. They didn’t come until early afternoon, and I had gotten up quite early, so it felt like a long time. I was watching high school musical 2 and 3 when they came over. They were going on the same walk A and I had done yesterday, so I told them I wanted to finish watching high school musical. It turned out to surprisingly nice…a bit cheesy, yes, but the but the music was fun to listen to. It seemed like Bollywood was trying to become more Hollywood and now Hollywood is turning into Bollywood.

I went over to A’s place afterwards. L and him were making an Indian fried rice of sorts when I arrived. It smelled nice. We spent a comfortable evening eating (Indian curry and rice), talking (about everything), and watched a movie (Serendipity). It’s fun to just relax after all that happened last term at UBC.

Actually, tomatoes, onions, and coffee doesn’t taste as bad as I remember them. Or maybe A’s just good at adding delicious spice.