Relation less Relationships

In the last couple of weeks, i had got about two or three invitations to my email ID with my name in the blind carbon copy(bcc) list. This made me think a bit. Either, the sender did not want me to know, who were the other people that were invited for the occasion or he did not want others to know that i have been invited (Security reasons? :-)). An invitation should never be a formality. Most of these emails, rather than invitations give me a feeling that the sender wants to be so much dutiful that he does not want anybody to blame him for not inviting all acquaintances for the occasion. I very much suspect if anybody in the bcc list would ever go for the celebration. Very unlikely. Atleast, it makes me feel embarrassed to send an invite that way.

How do you even talk/move with the person once you send an invitation to him, figuring in the bcc. Are relationships not be valued more. There was a colleague of mine whom i knew for the last couple of years. He recently got got married. He did not send me any invite knowing that i would not be able to attend the marriage as i was not in the country. I am sure that he would have given me an invite in person had i been in Chennai. I liked that attitude rather than being sent an invitation with my name figuring in a list of unknowns. I have also had colleagues whom even after years remember me and come in person to invite me for their personal events. I make it a point to attend those. Its better if people take friendships/relationships more seriously or better not have it.

Mexican Taste

The winter weather in the US can sometimes be very deceptive, atleast for people who have travelled from the tropical region. It would be very sunny out there and you go out off guard expecting a Chennai afternoon, you would have to run back home. It was one such Friday afternoon when we decided to taste Mexican food daring the wind chillness and the weather man's warning of minus something. We headed to the Blue Agave, a popular restaurant that specializes in the Mexican cuisine.

It was past one o clock when we checked in and the crowd was meager for the magnitude of the place. The restaurant was dim lit, but had a great ambiance. There were 2 huge inches plasma panels that played dance & music - should be hard core Mexican, i believe. That day, i was lucky enough to have people who had vowed to eat vegetarian alone on that particular day. I had been to Mexican restaurants before and had tasted the popular Mexican burritos and tacos during my earlier visits. I wanted to taste something different this time. I glanced through the menu and settled down for the Vegetarian Fajitas. Its a light combination of Mushrooms, bell peppers, onions & tomatoes served with Mexican rice, fried beans, pico de gallo & 4 flour tortillas. You just had to open the tortilla place some of each of the accompanying items of the vegetables,beans and rice, fold it and eat. The taste was just awesome. We wolfed down 2 tortillas in quick succession followed by a big glass of lemonade refilled time and again. It was a great lunch after having a not so good outing with the previous one. We wanted to go there again but did not as we had to cover other tastes as per our manifesto. We want to take a break and taste Indian next week. Let us see how that works to fulfill our mission to satisfy our taste buds. Ciao then.