the gandhi experience

went to huntington beach today with my family. wasn't quite what i wanted since my finals are due aug 3rd and i've still got a bunch of reading to catch up with and ---again--- 24 essay questions PLUS a research paper.

but i went anyway. besides, the heat was getting annoying and i thought i could use some beach weather. well, i got more than i bargained for.

i brought two chair pads that i bought at ikea for 50cents each so i could sit on the sand and have something i can rest my back on. once we got there, i put down the pads, sat on them, put on my earphones listening to garnet crow, pull out the gandhi autobiography i'm supposed to read for the finals, and started reading. my parents followed my sister, who was eager to walk all the way to the pier to check surfers in the US open. so i was left alone. good, i thought. i was right.

right next to where i was sitting were four girls. let me repeat that: FOUR HOT GIRLS. wearing bikini. i should really give props to whoever invented reflective coating for sunglasses because that really helped guys like me checking girls out without them knowing that they're being used for mental pleasure. one of the girls, wearing pink bikini, either got one that's too small for her boobs, or thought that her boobs were too big for the bikinitop. as a result, she kept on adjusting her bikini over and over. pulled it down, pulled it up, pulled to the side. she basically was rubbing her breasts every 10 seconds or so. i would have either been gay or had sworn to celibacy if i had been able to stay focus on reading gandhi. so for the next hour or so i did not move from the same page of the book. not much accomplished in the reading, but i had a fine day. very, very fine day.

speaking of gandhi, reading his autobiography totally changed my understanding about him. i heard of him often times, but i've always thought that he's this one jesus-like guy from india who has been perfect since childhood. much like mother teresa or sri bhagavan. but reading the autobiography, wow. he was really just a regular human beings like us. what surprises me most is the fact that he's living a regular life. he works as a lawyer. he's got family. he's into politics and whatnot. finally someone not quite so divine.