When did we start counting the calories ?

If you have grown up in India and moved to the all glorious United States of America i can vouch that the word "calorie" adopted a whole new meaning. As a matter of fact, for a few of us, it would have been one of "those" words that suddenly found its place in our dictionary when we stepped into the USofA.

It wasn't that when i was in India i wasn't conscious about how much i weighed or how i looked or trying to see every once in a while if i was still able to fit in my skinny jeans. To add to that i was having 3 square meals a day, starting with my dad-fed breakfast ( yes, my dad used to feed me ), a nice lunch with friends or colleagues and dinner. I used to eat a lot of junk as well, the evenings primary dominated by visits to the "bajji" shop. And yup, i never did work out , as in i was just plain simple lazy.

Its been three years in this place that i now call home. My 3 meals a day had reduced to 2 or maybe even 1 and i kept thinking, there is no way i can gain weight. On the contrary the scales failed my theory.Within the first year i had gained around 17 extra pounds ( Pounds - thats another one of those words that finds its way into our dictonary) and looked like an overfed overgrown pig. Literally. Thats when the word calories took a whole new meaning. How much calories is that, what's the % of sugar it contains, is it fat free - i pretty much ask these questions a thousand times every single day. And i count them, right from my morning milk ( which transformed into organic skim from 2%) to the last ounce of food i put into my mouth. I remember asking my mom last year, when i went back "Do you happen to know how many calories this would be" ?

I cant help but make a comparison. I am sure i ate more than the 2200 "recommended" calories back in India and I refused to exercise. Inspite of all the ghee, oil and fried stuff missing in my life, how did i gain weight here, when i could stay balanced in India. And you cant help wonder, is it because this aint home ?

Get Bitten !!

Man's constant infatuation to vampires has been an age old epic and I have never questioned it because of the obvious reasons. Vampires,the sexiest job in Las Vegas ( according to E! ) and add to that topless women made BITE one of the must watch shows. So here we were in Vegas gambling hard to become millionaires, walking miles to look at the star spangled casinos and looking forward to be bitten.

I might be biased in my review of the show, but that's not my fault considering that the previous night we were left speechless after the spectacular performance of "O". I think the show was so magnificent that it left us thirsty for more.Trying to quench our thirst with a handful of topless dancers pretending to be vampires was the first mistake. Anyways, getting back to BITE it was a decent crowd and the seemingly small theater was packed to a full house. For those of you unaware of BITE, this is what it was all about .

Vampire Lord ->His Coven - >In seek of Queen ->Coven wanting to be Queen-> Enter the cute one -> Lust -> Jealousy -> Power -> Cute one crowned Queen->
-> One Happy Family <-

So basically it wasn't rocket science, just a simple story line. And all this was shadowed by simple plain pure rock music which in the end turned out to be the only saving grace.

Scene1:
The show opens to the Coven dancing and snarling like a bunch of blood thirsty vampires (of course). Since they claimed to be vampires and classically trained dancers i by default expected two things - sexiness and attitude. Four out of the six dancers disappeared from my radar right there. It seemed like they were performing to an audience of blind people. The other two on stage were sexy for sure, but that was until they took their tops off. Sex-quotient on the Coven fell from a 6 to a -3.5 First Bummer!

Scene2:
Here comes the mighty king who has lost his vampire queen 400 years ago and is still searching for the ONE. The only thing vampirish about him were the artificial fangs and his eyes. Otherwise he looked like a bouncer imported from the GHOSTBAR at PALMS. I mean its annoying cause you don't throw in the word vampire and not cast one of the suave sexy guys. Its just plain UNFAIR. Second Bummer!

Scene3:
The Coven is trying to seduce him with their moves, which for your information totally sucked. It was series of ass smacking and snarling where each of the coven beauties try to impress him with their "assets" ( as they called it !!! ) . Tops come off and at you cant help but wonder why these showgirls lack something called boobs! I mean, its a topless show of gods sake and worse its in Vegas !!!! Cant it be at least a teeny weeny bit sinful ?

Scene4,5,6:
Docile innocent girl spotted. King falls in love. Tries to impress the little princess and in the process she gets bitten and eventually turns into a vampire. Not to forget that in the middle of all this there is some audience intervention trying to make it all interesting. Two of the bitten audiences become vampires and pull out an acrobatic feast of intertwining bodies in mid air which thankfully didn't make me feel that miserable of being in that room.

Scene 7:
Now, the dance in this part of the show was entertaining. The sweet girl slowly sheds her sweet innocent looks and becomes one of them. SHE was a vampire in true sense. Sexy, carried with her a chunk load of attitude which was delivered brilliantly. However, I couldn't help but stare at her protruding ribcage. I covered her up in my head, watched her dance and snarl in the most vampirish way known to man and that gave me my high.

Scene 8:
Everyone learns to co-exist.

Okay, maybe it wasn't as bad as i made it seem. I think i just expected more. It wont be fair to bitch about the dancing in particular. I was just pissed with the deliverance.The music was definitely captivating,peppy and well crafted to fit the moment. In short, very vampirish.


Rating: 5.1
BITE, at then end of it failed to leave behind a hicky.