I ate dirty, bloody n raw fish today!!!!

So after little research I landed in Mexico for the Christmas and New Years. I was a tad apprehensive about the trip, what with having researched neighbourhood restaurants more than this country. Any ho...have realised that the tension has been uncalled for. The people are friendly, warm and speak a language that is bloody hard to understand. It is my fault, I know. I should have picked my more spanish. Maybe I'll dust up those old "learn spanish in 30 days" CDs after I get back and give it all a shot.

I'm currently at a small town by the Pacific Ocean called Ensanada. Besides the klitchy, tourist-centric downtown, there is little else to do here. Have to move away to do anything, which is what I'll probably do tomorrow. Go wine tasting or some such arbit thing.

In December, whales migrate to mid of the Pacific to mate. I went on a whale watching trip today, on a small boat. We caught a glimpse of a whale that was camera shy and refused to surface. After chasing it for awhile, our boat's captain gave up and took us further into the sea. Here, the deckhands did some deep sea fishing. The fish bite easy (compared to line-fishing, I'm told) and they caught 5 huge bonitas (akin in appearances to the tuna) within 30 minutes. One of them offered to cook us the fish at his home or do it "ceviche" style (your basic raw fish, doused in lime juice n stuff). We negotiated a rate and everything, and then he started skinning and gutting the fish on the dirty boat deck. People backed off from eating it or having anything to do with it. The skipper skinned some meat off, tossed into a cut bottle top, drenched it with some soy sauce and offered it to everyone. I wasn't ready to try it at first. It was bloody, he hadn't washed it at all and it just didn't look like something you would want to eat. But, he tossed it in quite easily and seemed to relish it. I, along with a few other people, gave it a go. It was interesting and that's all I have to say about it.

Just had some mexican wine with dinner and didn't particularly relish it. Hopefully the vineyard I'm going to go to tomorrow (it's been around since the 1800s) has a better offering.

Music transcends language

If we don’t suffer, we wouldn’t learn a thing

The heroine in “Before Sunset” says that to Ethan Hawk at some point. I never thought that to be true. I mean, we end up suffering ‘cos very few people are capable of making “correct” decisions all the time.

And not all suffering leads to wisdom. If any, one looses some. (I couldn’t resist it. Just couldn’t… I know it’s the lamest joke I’d ever managed to make… wait it doesn’t make sense yet, but it will once you finish reading past this parenthesis). I got my remaining wisdom teeth pulled out this morning. And drifting in and out of Diphenhydramine induced sleep, I must admit that life if never fun after anesthesia … well unless you are listing to Pink Floyd, in which case most things seem brilliant. Anyways… I think I’ll have to wait atleast a few days before this pain ebbs away.

Do watch the movie. I’ve always loved it. Well, loved before sunset more than before sunrise. Guess the one you pick says a lot about the kind of person that you are and how your train of thought flows. Do see them, if you haven’t already.