Thanksgiving at Shipra's

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AN INDIAN-INDIAN THANKSGIVING
After filling myself with an authentic Thanksgiving food at Case's, my family headed to my cousin Shipra's place near the Pittsburgh Airport where I was born for our Thanksgiving gathering of family and family friends. Granted to say this occasion called for a lot of "Indian" food--hehe. It was one of those pot luck events where kids ate traditional Native American "Indian" turkey while the parents eat mostly Asian "Indian" food in a smorgasbord of yumminess.

ELECTRONICS TO THE RESCUE:
Of course being the computer fanatic I whipped out my pockets electronics to keep me amused including my ngage computer game cell phone, my digital camera, a bag of Xbox games, and Super Joy joystick console. The Super Joy is a hack console that has 12000 Nintendo games embedded in one of the controllers. In truth, there are probably only 200 games because they take a game like Track and Field and split it up to each event and call them several games, and then replicate games with their Korean, Japanese, and Chinese versions. Still it's sweet for the price ($30), convenience, and comes with two joysticks and gun for Duck Hunt fun.

My oldest cousin's wife Riju, who is expecting a child, seemed to get the biggest kick out the games, especially the shooting ones. Being the benevolent type, I brought a treasure trove of Xbox games for my cousin Shipra, who told me she was happy with just “Dead or Alive”. It was enough of a challenge to try to beat her sister Kitty who randomly presses buttons and wins.

BOARD GAME FUN:
My cousin Kitty had an extra special Thanksgiving because I finally gave her an anime, "Blue Seed", which Mikeypooh got her for Xmas last year--whoops. The anime was a TV series in Japan so it'd be too long to watch that day. Instead we played board games so more people could be involved in the fun. First, we played the original Therapy games (one of my favorite board games which I own the sequel TherapyII), but with the number of family friends at the party, Cranium was more sensible.

Unfortunately, I left Cranium in the car year round. Now the clay has turned to a rock. Like Humpty Dumpty, the clay couldn't be saved even with the power of water, so we skipped the clay sculpting categories.

It was hilarious watching my little sister try to do charades and listening to all our tone deaf humming of songs. The guys verses girls left the guys winning repeatedly, mostly because we rolled better. I peg Anisha as the most valuable player for the girls team and declare myself the king of the boys.

Men are number 1!!

Happy gobble gobble day to all.

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