The usual unusual stuff

Thank you Sir Paul McCartney!

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Two words: FUCKING AWESOME.

¡Otra vez, mamacitas!

This was the best concert I’ve ever been to. Finally a dream come true, seeing one of The Beatles live!

Setlist:

¡Curry Sultan es grande!

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Dedicado lectores regiomontanos que buscan buenas opciones para cenar.

El viernes pasado volví a ir al Curry Sultan, restaurante de comida de la India ubicado en el casco municipal de San Pedro, en la Calle Juárez esq. con Porfirio Díaz. Toda la info aquí: http://www.currysultan.com/

En resumen: los precios son justos, el servicio personalizado y la calidad de la comida EXCELENTE. Todo el mérito al dueño y chef de dicho restaurante: Russell Ramaswamy, cuya experiencia lo ha llevado a deleitar paladares en Australia, Turquía, Estados Unidos, India y ahora México.

Algunas razones para visitar el Curry Sultan:

  • Si eres de las personas que valora la calidad, el Curry Sultan es para ti. Los ingredientes que Russell utiliza son del más alto nivel. Sus platillos son artesanales y no el resultado de un proceso industrial. Olvídate de platillos que se hicieron es freidora con aceite de tres días, grasas trans, etc.
  • Si eres una persona que valora probar cosas nuevas y se deleita con sabores exquisitos, el Curry Sultan es para ti. Que no te preocupe si no conoces los platillos en el menú. El staff del Curry Sultan te puede ayudar a ampliar tu paladar y te aseguro que a menos que seas de los que no sale de tortilla con frijoles, las opciones que te recomienden te van a encantar.
  • Si eres ávido fan de la comida de la India, el Curry Sultan es para ti. Por mi ascendencia he tenido la oportunidad de probarla en distintos lugares y la cocina del Curry Sultan no le pide nada a los mejores.
  • Si eres de los que no les gusta pagar por mal servicio, el Curry Sultan es para ti. Como lo mencioné anteriormente, siendo un restaurante pequeño se facilita la atención personalizada y el staff del lugar está más que abierta a resolver tus dudas y dejarte con el mejor sabor de boca.
  • Si te gusta que no te vean la cara con los precios, el Curry Sultan es para ti. La comida de la India no es fácil de hacer. Los ingredientes no se consiguen en cualquier lugar. Sin embargo, los precios del Curry Sultan son bastante accesibles y justos.
  • Si te gusta compartir experiencias con amigos, el Curry Sultan es para ti. Aunque puedes pedir platillos de manera individual, el concepto recomendable en este establecimiento es pedir varios platillos, probar de todos y pedir de nuevo los que la mesa haya preferido. Compartir y comentar los distintos sabores se vuelve parte de la experiencia y abre posibilidades para probar de las múltiples opciones en el menú.
  • Si te gusta la variedad, el Curry Sultan es para ti. El menú del Curry Sultan no es el mismo siempre. Russell va cambiando las opciones e introduciendo nuevos platillos con la intención de sorprender a los comensales y acercarlos a distintos sabores. Les recomiendo seguirlo en Facebook y Twitter para recibir actualizaciones.

Vayan al Curry Sultan. ¡Les aseguro que les encantará! Y si mi opinión no les es suficiente, aquí les dejo dos ligas a reseñas adicionales del lugar:

Cony Delantal

GL Othon

Russell, thanks once again for your hospitality and delicious food.  I wish you the utmost and continued success here in Monterrey and in your upcoming US expansion. See you again soon!

Make it count!

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After much deliberation I’ve decided it: out of all the brands of multiple products in the market, Nike gets me.

Here’s a recent viral video they made for the new Nike+ Fuelband (you will see from recent posts that I just got the GPS Sportswatch and prior to that used Nike+ on my iPod). It’s a great video!

Dear John Lennon…

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Dear John Lennon,

So things have drastically changed since you were roaming around the streets of New York and I feel it’s about time that I write to you and let you know that we need you to get back here and finish what you started. It just hasn’t been the same without you.

After a huge lull period where youth simply gave up and decided to become part of the broken rat race system (we called that the 90s and pretty much carrying on until 2008), we now see a weird cuasi rebellious group raising their voice to speak out against that which is unfair and inherently wrong in society. Well, not really. For some reason, young people no longer raise their voices to speak out against or for something. It’s become a lot simpler… now they “Like” and “Share” things they feel passionate about for around 5 minutes and then it’s on to the next thing.

The face of idealism changes faster than Mitt Romney’s mind. Oh wait, you don’t know who Mitt Romney is. In sum, he’s a pompous asshole who thinks he can oust the current black US president. Yes, if you can believe it, a black guy made it to Penn 1600 and he didn’t do it by way of your pals at the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

Anyways John, I’m kind of getting off subject here. I was telling you about today’s hope for a better tomorrow. They’re not as lazy as my generation but they are pretty close. But now they have the social media tools to make them build up a cloud of smoke through which they can feel good because they “support” something onerous. Again, the concept of supporting and becoming involved is nothing like when you were around. The movement is virtual in developed and developing countries. The only difference is that where in developing countries social media technology has become a habilitator and facilitator for social movement, in the developed world, it’s made people feel proud about “changing the world” by being couch potatoes and for the most part. doing nothing of real relevance or significance.

We lacked the spirit to raise our voices so we did the inexplicable: we shut up. But hey, at least we were honest about it. Your generation believed in symbols. Mine became a symbol of conformity. The next one copy-pastes symbols on their little bit of virtual reality and feels they’ve stopped the world’s injustices.

They’re ready to be inspired, John. But they need something or someone to inspire them by not trying to sell them a product as opposed to pushing an idea and breaking the boundaries of social awareness. They need you.

And for that matter, your wife needs you BAD. I’m telling you buddy, Yoko has been getting weirder and weirder ever since they came out with that Twitter thing. You know I love you and would never say anything mean to you about your choice of women but it is because I love you that I have to be honest and say: bitch’s gone off the reservation, man.

So you see, you’ve got to figure out a way to get back here and sort these people out (both the youth generation and Yoko). That asswipe Justin Bieber just ain’t cutting it, man.

Talk to you soon,

Arjan

De panzazo – Trailer de la película

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Se ve interesante y tengo interés en ir al cine para conocer más del documental. Una observación sin embargo: veo que es dirigida por Carlos Loret de Mola y por lo menos en el trailer considero que hay un elemento importante faltante en el análisis: el rol de los medios (particularmente la televisora para la que él trabaja) en estupidificar a nuestra población y proveerla de entretenimiento basura. Ojalá dentro del documental se incluya este componente.

¿Vamos al cine?

Happy 50,000th!

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This blog has just hit the 50,000 visits mark since I first started writing it. Coincidentally, it happened on the same day as my 10,000th tweet from @arjanshahani

Traffic is erratic and different people from different countries gravitate here for different content and different reasons, but on any given weekday, anywhere from 200 to a 1000 of you grace me with a visit to this space where I can share web content I find entertaining and amusing, provide you with my own bit of personal humor and satire and/or share my true opinion through Op-Eds or sociopolitical essays.

It’s developed into a nice little personal corner of mine on the web and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I appreciate your comments, ping backs, visits, retweets on Twitter, re-posts and shares on Facebook and any other ways in which you have helped bring more people to the site.

I truly hope that through these little over 50,000 hits I’ve been able to at the very least, provide you with some entertainment. At best, I hope your visit here has become a starting point of a deeper conversation and my “True Opinion” articles have inspired you to think or act differently.

Anyways, cheers to all of you and the humblest of thanks for your visits and input. You kick ass.