Interesting.....

Did you know that nothing happened between 3 and 13 September 1752?

A month with whole of eleven days missing. This was the time England shifted from Roman Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, and the king of England ordered those 11 days to be wiped off the face of the month of September of 1752. (What couldn't a King do in those days?!) And yes, the workers worked for 11 days less, but got paid for the entire 30 days.

And that's how "Paid Leave" was born.Hail the King!!!

Movie Watch - Jodha Akbar !!

The movie was pretty detailed about how or where both Akbar and Jodha were born. I must admit, it did refresh my history knowledge. The movie was ok not that great...The war scenes at the begining of the movie could have been better. The songs were ok too. What I liked is how love between Akbar and Jodha evolves. The romantic moments between the two were good. And obviously the most talked about jewellery that Aishwarya wore was amazing. It was worth watching once...

Happy Valentines Day !!!

I made cookies ..

Made some cashew cookies for the weekend. Looks good ..eh ?

"Lion King" The Broadway Musical

This Friday we saw 'Lion King', the Broadway musical which is based on the animated movie with the same name. I wanted to see a musical here and since Lion king was based on the known animated movie which itself was pretty good, we decided on this one. We parked our car and started walking towards the Milwaukee theater. The streets were crowded and people seemed pretty excited to watch the show, no one seemed to care about the snow. We took our tickets and joined the queues lined up towards the balcony. There were ushers everywhere helping people find their seats. Our seats were a little farther than I thought but the view was great. The theater was packed with audience, and to my surprise there were more adults than kids. We were handed little lion King booklets telling us everything about show, the artist, the sequence of the acts and the songs.
Everyone was finally settled in their seats, waiting for the curtains to open up. On both sides of the stage were small balconies set up for live music..and I saw a person in one of those, ok..so now I'm pretty sure I'll be listening to some live music. Just then the host of the show started talking, telling everyone to shut their cell phones off. And after some brief silence the curtain opened up.The show started with the song 'Circle of Life'. The stage was beautiful. It had clouds all over the place and then the sun started rising from the middle of the stage, and while that happened the clouds cleared up in the background..the sky turned like the morning sky and animals(not real ones) started moving onto the stage. They had a mountain emerging from the stage where king-Musafa stood with his lioness and his kid, Simba. Puppets and live actors wove a dream scape of jungle characters. A rushing waterfall was conveyed simply by a rippling stream of silk. The following one hour was interesting as the story moved forward including all the songs that the movie had, landscapes changing from the beautiful jungle to a waterfall then again to the cave of the evil 'Scar'.
All the artist performed so well. They had so much energy. It was truly an amazing experience. At the end of the show, the audience gave a standing ovation to the entire crew. We left the theater happy and contended :)


Click here for details on the show: Disney's Lion King

Scary Snow storm

Yet another snow storm took place Wednesday. "Its pretty common here in Milwaukee, the last few years have been milder than usual"..thats what people living here for years tell me. But this is the first time I have seen so much of snow ...20 inches of snowfall is a little too much. I was planning to stay home that day but when I called the office number they told me they are open. I didn't want to be the only one staying at home coz of the snowfall, so I started for work. The drive wasn't bad. I opened my outlook only to find that the office was closing down in an hour or so coz of the bad weather..ya right..they couldn't decide that when I called in to ask !! Anyway, since my ride to work wasn't that bad I was ok with it. But as soon as I stepped out it was horrible. There was no visibility on the roads, I could hardly see any vehicles passing by. God! am I the last person on this planet. ..that is exactly how it felt. Blowing snow from both sides, no visibility and slushy bad roads. I was driving at 11mph. Took me an hour to reach home. But I reached home safely...and thats what mattered.