"The New Moon" - Bolder & Sensitive

Ok, here was the new sequel on the Twilight Saga, "The New Moon" which we saw in theaters (with all the plumbing issues that is going on in my home, this was a relief) and guess what... I felt it to be much much better than the first movie. I am sure most of the reviews said otherwise, but somehow I felt the screenplay to be much better and neat than the previous one. I really liked the screenplay which included almost everything right from her dream, to the marriage proposal :). Well the ending was more abrupt but I guess you cannot explain each and everything on screen under a time limit. This would anyway require people to read the book to understand them especially on why the line "Marry me !" made Bella dumbstruck :).

Jacob's character gets all the appreciation in this movie, as it does in the book. Taylor Lautner was perfect for the role, with a perfect balance of his sensitive and violent wolfy side. He shifted between them with ease. Edward showed more pain on his face than the romance, but I guess I am getting used to Robert as Edward, even though I still dont approve of his for a Vampire (or may be I just cant seem to approve of anyone else either). Kristen was much better as Bella this time than she was in Twilight. I had less of Alice (Ashley Greene). She is always a pleasure to watch (even in the first movie) :)

Well I definitely liked it because the graphics were cool, the action extreme, the romance perfect, the confusion on the relationships neatly shown. Well 100% better than the first and much sincere to the book with a good screenplay. CatchIt!!!

The Phantom Strikes

Two or three days before I saw an Ad of a Movie which made me feel that I should be watching this movie, even it is too late for me :). The movie was The Phantom of the Opera. Agreed, that the first name that made me listen to the title of the movie was Gerard Butler ( I have liked quite a few of his works in Butterfly on a Wheel, P.S I love you etc etc...), but when I saw the ad again, I was enthralled by the colorful musical extravaganza it portrayed and I decided, no matter what, to watch the movie, even if that would mean that I might have to be late to office the next day ;)

I did watch it and I am extremely happy I did so, without a second thought. This is the first full musical movie I enjoyed (thanks to the subtitles in certain places) and, I am not sure of others, or even the other versions of the same movie, I enjoyed it a lot. I liked the music in this. Not too draggy, not too peppy, there was something that impressed me in this. May be I am not putting this right :)

I didnt change the channels during commercials, I was just hoping that they would not break for commercials coz it was breaking the flow of the music in me. I was so tense that I was holding my hands tightly, even without my knowledge, until I realized it was paining ;)

Almost at the end I realized that I happened to see the climax of a similar movie but it was in chinese I think, I dont remember it well. But I remember being surprised by that movie.

This movie left me with an unknown or unexplainable sadness in my heart. I am trying to figure it out why. But I am not yet able to, even though it was too emotional to make me cry. May be it is the music. I dont know. But I am very glad I watched it.

My favourite lines:
•Masquerade! Paper faces on parade. Masquerade! Hide your face so the world will never find you.
•You alone can make my song take flight. Help me make the music of the night.
•Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Lead me, save me from my solitude. Say you want me with you here, beside you. Anywhere you go let me go too.
•No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years... Help me say goodbye
•But his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound. In that night, there was music in my mind. And through music my soul began to soar...and I heard, as I've never heard before.
•Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known? God give me courage to show you...you are not alone.
•Think of me, think of me fondly when we've said goodbye. Remember me once in a while â" please promise me you'll try.
•Yet in his eyes...all the sadness of the world. Those pleading eyes that both threaten and adore...

Ciao :)

Jane Eyre - Bold and Beautiful

At last, I completed my novel Jane Eyre. And was pleasantly surprised that it matched the BBC Series of the same novel I had seen. And I was happy that both the book and the BBC Series version gave me the same happiness, just like it did for Pride and Prejudice. It is a sheer pleasure to read such novels, which has quite an exquisite language which is so cute and its characters so strong and yet so humble and humane. I admired the character of Jane when I watched the BBC Series version, but liked it more when I read it.


Books are always our best friends, atleast they are mine. I have to stop reading the novels for some time now coz I have too much work pending in my official front :) which I have to attend to now with fullest of my attention.

Before I leave, there was a movie which I saw over the weekend, of which I should mention a word or two. The movie was 'Finding Neverland'. A very touchy and moving story told in sublime way. All the characters in the movie were filled with so much life that it transported me to their world for some time. A very cute children's movie. 'Catch It' next time, if you have missed it.

Hasta Pronto!

2012 - Digital Wreck

I didnt have much of any expectation from this Roland Emmerich Movie because I knew from the trailors it wouldnt be anything like "The Day after tomorrow" but yet wanted to watch it in large screen (I missed seeing The Day After Tomorrow in big screen) and God I wasnt disappointed. It was nothing like "The Day After Tomorrow" :)

It was a little cliche'd where we knew that these people would anyway survive and Joan Cusack will come out of that chamber anyways, but still it was worth a watch. Why ? These movies rekindle the hope in humanity. That when we are faced with a greater danger above our control, we do unite, atleast to have someone in the aftermath of the catastrophe :) along with us. Just kidding. But yes, it definitely makes us hope that such a disaster, if predictable, can be resolved much earlier and God forbid, if we are pushed to it by no other chance, atleast we are there for each other to hold hands and fight it, irrespective of the scale of destruction.

I was a little disappointed that even though the digital imagery was well seen, it wasnt too convincing in some places. The cinematography could have been little better. Human sentiments in a few places were touchy though.

It was a Friday morning show and guess what the movie hall was full :), so would I recommend you to watch it? Well why not. Why not see what we might have done to our dear Earth and what we might expect from it and if we get to see the same wreck as this, what we can expect out of it and what we might consider. (I know I am going over board...so will stop here). Well worth a watch though, if you have time for such movies or atleast for a little more hope in life.

Try new things - It helps

I recently joined the Aerobics class, inspite of my apprehensions and how I can really make to it. I had lot of inhibitions to really try out something like that...But then I thought what the heck.... Just like what Mark Twain said

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

I dont want to think that when I had the opportunity and time, I didnt try it. I like dancing (which I pretty much do when I am all alone) and do yoga, so why not just join and see if this works out for me. Well to my surprise, I am really enjoying it. It is not only about fitness to me, its all about my confidence, pushing my fears away from trivial things, trying to expand my boundaries and at the end , enjoying my dancing in the form of aerobics and to top it all I can learn kickboxing, which I wanted to learn for long, but just wasnt sure how to start with it.

Now is the time, I can really explore myself and see what I can really do and seems like I can do a lot than I had really thought, to the extent that I should really be careful not to take it to my head and walk on the ground :) (still human)

It is constantly surprising me, but I sure am losing focus on a few important things, but atleast I have my tabs on them so I wish I will get back to them shortly.

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.--Brian Tracey

Twilight Movie - Disappointment

Seriously, I was so disappointed after watching the movie yday. And more disappointed with the lead characters. They didnt bring even 10% of the passion and love that was portrayed in the book. Now I feel Harry Potter movie series was a better adaptation of the book than this. Screenplay was little too fast, as it had to include everything that was in the book, but atleast it could have been made a little interesting.

I missed the changing colors of Edward's eyes, the meadow sequence (it was very blunt and not even remotely romantic ..... crap), Bella's increasing heartbeat, wow.. there are too many which I missed... Atleast I didnt feel this way with Harry Potter series (even though I missed a few elements in that too..but atleast my list was small)

Hope New Moon movie doesnt do the same as what Twilight did to me. Hurt me. Thats what it did :(

The only character who did justice to the role was James, that is what I felt. Hmm...

Just got nothing to say anything on this man. Waiting for "New Moon" though.

Twilight Series - Completed at last :)

I cannot say how much I am proud of myself to go through this week doing all my normal chores (except for not keeping my home a little cleaner) and yet manage to complete all the remaining 3 books of the series. But the fact was, rather than me trying to complete it, it pulled me to it to complete it so that I can rest in peace :).

I didnt have any rationality in me when I was reading this series. I just assimilated with high fever and adrenaline whatever the books offered, while reading them, with all the twists and turns and high's and low's in the books. I just couldnt think of anything else. I dont know why. May be because I have always liked a good love story and may be I just want it to have a happy ending to it, as I liked it always :). I just wanted to know , by completing it, that it did end well and :) it did. You cannot imagine the wave of relief that has just now passed me a few minutes ago.


Now if I think back, I think the story had places where it could make you feel very draggy or some scenes which were unnecessary. But it didnt occur to me at the time of reading, which I should say is in the same page as the Ponniyin Selva & Harry Potter series, my other two ever favourites. It was as if I was with them (Edward , Bella and Jacob)the whole time and it made me feel very happy. Happy ending love stories make you feel happy, doesnt?. Well atleast I wont be re-reading them for a while now, so that should calm me down, (I was superlatively excited while reading them and had very very less sleep than I should be having) and get me back to my normal schedules, with Deepavali nearing.

I might write about it more rationally sometime later, I am more biased now :), because I am happy for them, even it was fictious.

Next is watching the movie(s). But I am sure, from what I see on net, that Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner arent even little close to my images of Bella, Edward and Jacob resp. My images are far more better even though they cannot be related to any human, atleast for now. And as usual, I know that the book version is going to be better than the movie. So I dont have any such expectation from it anyways.

See you soon :)

Exhilarating feeling

I hardly get this exhilarating feeling after I read a book, but yday completing Twilight was my only goal as soon as I reached home late. And complete I did.


It is not so often that a book makes you feel wanting for more of it or gives you a very pleasant and cheerful feeling once you are done with it. I had that kind of emotion when I read HP and PoK and HBP. I wept for long when I read that Dumbledore died. And yesterday by the time I completed this book, I did have some tears in my eyes, but it was of joy. I was glad that they would make it. I was definitely wishing for a happy end (atleast for now in this volume, I heard that there are more).

I am not sure how the movie is going to be when I really see it, but it would definitely not beat the book and my imagination (:D). The only movie I guess which does beat the book, as the movie had a slightly different version, was "The Dracula".

When I read the book after watching the movie for a couple of times (it is obviously one of my very very favourites), I was slightly disappointed. Coz it was bit more inhuman and little more gory than in the movie (yeah I know , but that is what I feel).

But Twilight, well if you want to say it in the words of Kamalhasan, "Manidhar unarndhukolla idhu manidhak kaadhal alla ..." ... The fact that even though it is slightly inhuman and still human is what makes it intriguing

Well in short, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, (next to HP, which I managed to complete in a span of two days , in spite of my work schedule) and I now know, why my cousin loved it a lot :). She is still in her teens and it would really appeal to that audience very well, not quite in the same with people of my age though ;)

I almost forgot to mention you the oneliners and the subtle humor in this story. It was very catchy and cute, kind of the ones which I like.

If you love a good love story well this is surely a "Catch It"....

Twilight - unexpected impact

Oh Boy! I am actually in office doing my work right now, but still at the back of my mind, I have the character of Edward and Bella ringing. Dont know why. I just got this book Twilight from my cousin and started it on Yesterday night and to my surprise was going through it till 12 at night. I couldnt just put the book down and because I was too sleepy to continue reading I put it down and went to sleep and in the morning again got ready soon and had one hour to myself reading it.

I dont usually read a romantic novel atleast not a teen romantic novel. I feel it is waste of my time, I would prefer a action or a thriller or atleast an adventure novel. But this one, dont know why, just got me into it. I know the story anyways :) well not the end though, but I know that Edward is a vampire, and Bella falls in love with him, but the writing was so nice, that my hands were going rigid with tension and I am doing nothing to loosen my grip on the book. It was funny and scary too...

The only other novel (romantic) which had such an impact was the Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, but it was a more matured one and I could understand it very well. But to my surprise, this was , for gods sake, a teen romantic novel and there was no way I would have liked it except for the vampire involved in it. It did remind me of the movie The Wolf, by Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer, which is one of my ever time favourites. May it is because I liked that movie, I like this novel too. I dont know , I am just trying to make an excuse as to why this novel is having such an impact. Well let it be anything I dont mind as long as I am happy reading it. I have just read a few chapters where in she finds out that he is a vampire and that she in no way is able to resist him. Let me see if this novel continues this impact till the end.

As it goes in the MacD's ad , "I'm Loving it".

Here is the lyrics of "Right kind of Wrong" which is very apt for this novel :D

Know all about
About your reputation
And how it's bound to be a heartbreak situation
But I can't help it if I'm helpless
Every time that I'm where you are
You walk in and my strength walks out the door
Say my name and I can't fight it anymore
Oh I know, I should go
But I need your touch just too damn much
Loving you isn't really something I should do
Shouldn't wanna spend my time with you
That I should try to be strong
But baby you're the right kind of wrong
Yeah baby you're the right kind of wrong
Might be a mistake
A mistake I'm making
But what you're giving I am happy to be taking
Cause no one's ever made me feel
The way I feel when I'm in your arms
They say you're something I should do without
They don't know what goes on
When the lights go out
There's no way to explain
All the pleasure is worth all the pain
Loving you isn't really something I should do
Shouldn't wanna spend my time with you
That I should try to be strong
But baby you're the right kind of wrong
Yeah baby you're the right kind of wrong
I should try to run
But I just can't seem to
'Cause every time I run you're the one I run to
Can't do without, what you do to me
I don't care if I'm in too deep
Know all about
About your reputation
And how its' bound to be a heartbreak situation
But I can't help it if I'm helpless
Every time that I'm where you are
You walk in and my strength walks out the door
Say my name and I can't fight it anymore
Oh I know, I should go
But I need your touch just too damn much
Loving you isn't really something I should do
Shouldn't wanna spend my time with you
That I should try to be strong
But baby you're the right kind of wrong
Yeah baby you're the right kind of wrong

Analogy of my life

Today the weather was very cute, it was drizzling very lightly (i.e. it doesnt drench you, but gives you the chills :D ), there was no sun, and roads were washed and in these times Bangalore always looked beautiful, as it did today.

My scooter was with my bro and I wanted to return home little early from work, so decided to take an auto. My bro suggested me to wait so that he will pick me up on his way back, but I had other plans (wanted to play my guitar and watch TV, didnt feel like working, thinking of the three day holiday).

(Side note: Mazhaiye Mazhaiye song from Eeram is going on in SS Music, my current hot fav song.. and guess what, it is raining there too :D )

So I come out and thought what a nice day for a long walk, but since I wasnt wearing the proper shoes (I had an accident once and from them on only a particular type of shoes/chappals are suited for my walks, any hard one will create pain in my feet) I tried to find an auto. One autorickshaw came and the driver asked me the place. And I told him. Well he didnt seem to know the place exactly. So I explained him telling him the nearest landmark. He said he would come and he didnt even cross 2 streets then he suddenly said that the gas might be off and stopped the vehicle and asked me to get another auto and charged 5Rs. When I questioned why should I pay him, he again asked me the route and when I explained him one more time, he said ok let me drop you anyway and started again. All the way he was asking too much questions about my nativity, my work etc etc.. and almost 1 km before my home, he suddenly stopped and said that petrol got over. Well he definitely wasnt in a mood to drop me home from the beginning. On the top of all these he refused to give me Rs 3 change. God..

The only silver lining here was that I got to go for a walk, even if with the hard shoes I was wearing, in the wonderful drizzling climate.

My mistake: I should have left that autofellow and got another auto at the first time when he said that the gas was over. Just because he got convinced that my home was far enough I took his word and carried on in the same auto.

This situation of mine isnt any different from my life. But atleast I got to do what I wanted to do (A Walk in the Clouds :D)

I believe to see that my glass is always half full

New age kids .... they surprise me

I am currently following Airtel Super Singer Junior Season 2 in Vijay TV. This programme makes me feel very jealous. I wish I was born in this age. Kids from 6 yrs of age to 15 yrs ( I guess), what amazing singing talent do they have. They sing such complicated songs with so much ease that you just have no other choice other than to adore and appreciate them.

Generally when we talk among our friends we discuss how the new age kids are and how smart, by default , have they become. We werent that way when we were young, atleast as far as all of us remember. These kids excel in all areas. They are not book worms. They develop their skills apart from studies. You see kids getting selected for NASA trip, addressing UN on climate changes, building web sites at a tender age, making movies based on a serious subject, excelling in music (irrespective of singing or any instruments).

Is there something in the air or some genetic change that happened without our knowledge or what is it I wonder that made the kids of these age way out of their league. Is it this information world that has made them smarter ? Well I just hope they are smarter enough to have or make a better world for themselves after what we have done to this world.

Way to go kids. I really appreciate you all.

60th Birthday

I know it has been long since I really sat down to write something. But guess what !! I am in office today (Sunday) to finish off some work (unfortunately my home broadband isnt working due to some cabling issues). So in between my builds and tests I found time now to tell u about my dad's 60th birthday that we celebrated.

It was on 3rd September and it was his wish to have it in Thirukadayoor temple, where such functions are held. This is the place where they say that Lord Shiva slayed YamadharmaRaja to save devotee Markendeyan, because Markendeyan, who was destined to die at the age of 16, approached Lord Shiva to help him and not allow Lord Yama to take him. But after Lord Shiva slayed Lord Yama, there was no death in the world and Lady Earth couldnt take the burden and prayed to Lord Shiva and help her out and he again resurrected Lord Yama. This is the place where Yama was slayed and resurrected. So they say that having your Birthday's celerbrated here is very special. You know the reason why :)


60th Birthday is always special isnt. You would have seen life over these 60 years in its various colors and flavors. It is always a milestone where one see back and see the journey travelled and take a sigh of relief of having completed almost all the work that was supposed to be our responsibility and now look forward for relaxing. But I guess that doesnt hold good for my dad, being a hyperactive person that he is, he still goes on touring temples every week and doesnt sit in a place for a few minutes :D

Ok now to the functions and the wonderful journey we had.
We started from Coimbatore to Thirukadayoor in a 21 seater van arranged on 1st Sept morning. Reached Thirukarukavor after Thanjavur. This was our first stop. Prayed Karbarakshambiga and continued our way to Mayuram. Had our dinner there and met our relatives and travelled to Thirukadayoor. We had already arranged for the function @ the temple(you just need to visit them once before and tell them what all you need and they will take care of 2 day function and we had our relative arrange for our stay & food too)

So next day morning (2nd Sept) it was Rudra Ekadasi. You should see the crowd there on that day. Since it was a muhurtham day, it was too crowded and the Sun God was at his best. Once the Rudra Ekadasi was over, the day was for us to explore. After lunch and a small nap we went to KeezhperumPallam temple, Poompuhar beach , Thiruvengaadu temple and then to Vaitheeswaran Koyil. By the time we returned it was almost 9 pm.

The next (3rd Sept) we had the main function where it will be done like a kalyanam. It was very nice :). It started very early. This was the day where the Temple Elephant will welcome the bride and the groom and then they have to do the Gaja pooja and ko puja (pooja to the cow) and then visit the temple for the other rituals for the kalyanam. It got over by 8.30 am. We had our lunch and then after some rest, started off back to Coimbatore by 2 and on the way visited Sri Rangam and returned home by 00:15 am (4th Sept).

In the temple (Thirukadayoor), they have such a neat way of organizing the function (there are so many marriages happening at the same time). Very well organized and well done too :) You should see how the single Nayanam wallah will perform for all the marriages that happen there. It was so funny. As for us, we had a great time with so many people who had come with us and who joined us there on 3rd :)

It is surely a once in a lifetime event and we were happy for our Dad.. You know what we presented our Dad with a Acer 10 inch laptop which weighs 1kg. It is super cool and this is what he is using now.

May he live long and be a motivation for all of us. God bless him.

Hopefully a new start :)

I know it has been quite a while since I wrote, but in these time I had to shift my house, finish off my projects, deal with personal demons, learn guitar etc etc. Tightly packed schedule.

I havent had time to watch Kandasamy yet. Sneaking off some time in between my official work to write.

My move to my new home was a step by step process which required quite some time to arrange for my furnitures and other essentials. It was quite a hectic and time consuming and as usual my family members pitched in and helped me out.

My guitar classes are going on well and have started with some scales and songs as well. I am still lagging behind on my spanish classes. Hope to catch up soon on that.

I wish I can see Kaminey, Kandasamy and Public Enemies. Nothing very specific to write except that the weather in Bangalore has become cold and it is very nasty with all the H1N1 scare. Seems like it is dying down slowly but it created quite a stir :)

Take care all of you and do stay away from pigs ;)

HP & HBP - Could have been better !!! (Contains Spoilers)

Hola! It was a crazy weekend with some bug fixes before the release of the product which really stopped me from updating the review of HBP. So here it is now, squeezing some time in between my work :)

This movie is certainly for the teens, with all those romances, pains of adolescence and very funny moments (courtesy: Ronald Weasley). But I definitely missed Ogden, Voldermort's craziness to collect memoirs, his visit to his maternal home... all of that.. But for those you havent read the book and who are going by the movie sequels, I guess it gives a pretty good idea of what an Horcrux is. And somehow the death of Dumbledore (which on reading I cried the whole night) didnt have much impact or atleast the same impact of what Sirius' death did to me. I guess Dumbledore should have petrified Harry (as in the book). That way Harry had atleast an excuse to not do anything for Dumbledore. And I seriously wish that they would have filmed the climax a little better with more fights and Snape's confession of being the HBP was very blunt.

Well as I said, nothing would match the imagination of ours when we read the book, but again to satisfy everyone even commercially, this was a better attempt than Order of the Phoenix, atleast it had some really funny moments.

Only one film of all the HP Series really impressed me and the only film which I felt was filmed better than the book was HP and PoA.

I wish the next two parts of the Deathly Hallows are better and atleast bring the essence of the book well.

Having said all of this, I still would like to see the movie again :) because, being in their world was such a nice experience. I was so engrossed (even when my mind was asking me when the serious portions would come during the watching of the movie) that I was taken aback when the title cards were put up. The rest of the evening, didnt go well because I was little upset missing my fav characters. It was as if I was there with them witnessing everything and suddenly I was pushed back to the muggle world. :)

One more thing I noticed was that , the kids have grown and they have grown well :D
I still remember Harry and Hermione from the first movie and how far have they come.

If you are HP fan, you wouldnt miss it. Go for it. Its good, except that it could have been better.

HP & HBP - Await for the results tomorrow

Tomorrow is the Paid Preview show of HP and HBP and guess what ! I have got a ticket for myself :)
Very eager to watch the movie during a preview show though and I have got the first show ticket. Double bonus :D

Will update my reviews on HP and HBP tomorrow as soon as come back from the theatre.

Aayirathil Oruvan

Hola. Encantado !! (Hello, nice to meet you). Finally, the weather has started changing here in Bangalore. Regular rains, cold days, aching feet :), wish to have something very hot and spicy, wow, Winter days are on their way.

I was listening to the songs of Aayirathil Oruvan (literal translation: One in a thousand) tamil movie. When I heard these songs initially, I didnt much like it, coz it was not in my league. Or that is what I thought. But slowly the songs are growing on me :D

Currently I like Maalai neram mazhai thoovum kaalam (just like the weather now. It is drizzling outside my balcony as I write this.) And it sort of speaks my current life situation also. So somehow I got hooked to this song. Then later the song sung by Dhanush, Un mela aasadhaan also seemed to attract me. There is one song in that movie, I guess it was written by Kavignar Vairamuthu depicting Chozha time frame, and it has typical tamizh grammar lines in it, which I found very intriguing. For e.g. eeru ketta edhir marai peyarecham. I am ashamed to tell that I know now nothing of the specify grammar names that are applicable to either english or tamizh. But the song is very interesting. Although, I guess there is a mix of telugu also in it.

All the whole, the songs confuse me a lot on what kind of movie it is going to be. Couldnt guess much. Except that from the news, I know that it happens in a forest and there are incidents representing the chozha period enacted by parthiban in that movie. Very interesting enough to make me watch the movie :)

No news on its release date though. Waiting....

Just some nothings :D

Hola! Que tal?
Long time no see :)

When get so much to write about at times you dont write at all isnt. Coz you cannot decide on what to write. It was just the case with me. Currently my life is just a whirlwind of so many happenings, just like the weather in Bangalore. Too many things happening on their own and I am trying to chew more than I can bite :) just to keep myself engaged (am I trying to fool myself ? Nay !! ). But sometimes, I just feel so tired of being myself. Wish I cud change to a different person for some time. It would be so refreshing.

But small small things do bring a lot of joy. Just like what happened today. Myself and a few of my friends bunked office and went to see Maasilamani Movie :) Can you imagine that!! and Gosh, we enjoyed so much. Film was very average and we werent bored, but the funny things that happened on the way and some humourous encounters made our day. It was literally a TGIF for us. It felt good.

Today I also saw another movie (not fully though, missed some parts in the beginning and middle, thanks to the regular and irregular power cuts) Anandha Thandavam, based on Writer Sujatha's Privom Santhipom. I had read only the first part, but wanted to see the move to get to know what would be in the 2nd part too. It was little heavy for the day. But it was the obvious ending. There can be no other. Isnt ? Ok, thats it nothing too heavy now.

At times, nothing is what is seems. I remember a dialog from Shrek , "Ogres are like onions, they have layers" .... Doesnt that apply to all of us. I know I am not making much of sense here, but I will come back and write about why I came to this later. I need some more time for that.

But one thing is for sure. I am much more a happy person that I was a year and half ago. I am grateful to God for giving me enough strength to take control of myself and feel life again after a long time. I hope, He guides me throughout.


Well enough of banters now, I am going to log off with the lyrics of the song which I have recently liked a lot (and this was sent to me a year ago by a person - whom I dont have any contacts now) and I happened to like that movie too, which I recently saw ( I had liked the first part of it too)

This song was the OST of Narnia:Prince Caspian

It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into a hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word

And then that word grew louder and louder
'Til it was a battle cry

I'll come back
When you call me
No need to say goodbye

Just because everything's changing
Doesn't mean it's never
Been this way before

All you can do is try to know
Who your friends are
As you head off to the war

Pick a star on the dark horizon
And follow the light

You'll come back
When it's over
No need to say good bye

You'll come back
When it's over
No need to say good bye

Now we're back to the beginning
It's just a feeling and now one knows yet
But just because they can't feel it too
Doesn't mean that you have to forget

Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
'Til they're before your eyes

You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say good bye

You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say good bye

About Love from The Mirror has two faces

I happened to see this movie "The Mirror has two faces" because I wanted to kill some time before I got to catch the T20 action between Chennai and Punjab. But to my surprise, I liked this movie and ended up watching it fully. There is one particular scene where Barbara lectures to a hall full of students about love , marriage etc. I liked the lines in that part very very much. It is so so true. I guess everyone would agree with what she said , (except for Jeff who actually doesnt hear the last part of her lecture ;))

Here is the excerpt

A wedding is the final scene of the fairy tale, they never tell you what happens after. They never tell you that Cinderella drove the Prince crazy with her obsessive need to clean the castle and that she missed her day job.
They don't say what happens after because there is no after. The be-all and end-all of romantic love was ...

....
True love has spiritual dimensions, while romantic love is a lie.
....

Experts, scholars and my Aunt Esther are united in one belief: True love has spiritual dimensions, while romantic love is a lie. A myth. A soulless manipulation. And speaking of manipulation... It's like going to the movies and seeing the lovers kiss... The music swells, and we buy it, right? So when my date kisses me, and I don't hear strings, I dump him. The question is, why do we buy it? Because, myth or manipulation, we all want to fall in love. Why? Because it makes us feel completely alive, where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified. Our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon, but that doesnt diminish its value because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives.

I read, "When we fall in love, we hear Puccini in our heads." I love that. His music expresses our need for passion and romantic love. We listen to La Boheme or Turandot, or read Wuthering Heights, or watch Casablanca, and a little of that love lives in us too. So the final question is: Why do people want to fall in love, when it can have such a short run and be so painful?

-Propogation of the species?
-We need to connect with somebody?
-Are we culturally preconditioned?

Good, but too intellectual for me. I think it's because, as some of you may already know... While it does last, it feels freaking great!


Well thought of sharing it because I liked it so so much. So here it is.

Ciao.

Perception !!!

I had recently enrolled myself in the Art of Living Basics course recently. There they teach this yoga, some basic exercises to stretch your body and the pranayama and other breathing exercises to enhance your health and a little bit of discussion on some basic principles of day to life and how to handle situations. I was very very hestiant at first to attend this as I wasnt much of a person who would mingle with others well enough until I knew them well. And I knew this course would involve some inter personal exercises (courtesy : my mom and bro , who had done this course some years earlier)

In one of our classes, they said one thing which caught my attention considerably. They said that no human is really good or bad. It is always the way we perceive them makes them good or bad.

Hmm.... I always knew and believed that good or bad is relative to a person or a situation or a place or any other factor for that matter. I always used to say for e.g. that drinking alcohol in a hot country like India can be considered bad (for health and its effect on others) whereas in cold countries if we dont take something hot like the whiskey or any other such drinks, one might die. So what is bad here turns out to be a good one somewhere else. (hopefully my example isnt that flawed). So for a person who believed this their statement made me think a little more.

It is true isnt. Not all of the time the first impressions last. For e.g. we might not like a person at the first look or first talk. But as and when we get to know the person, and if the person turns out to be good, the perception about the person changes and we tend to see this person for who he/she is and not what he/she looks like. This might happen the other way round also. We might feel to not like the person once we get to know them better even though they made a very good first impression. So this means that we start perceiving this person differently once we know them better. We start to judge them by their actions and their reactions and also on how they respond to situations (Reaction is bad whereas responding is good, more about this later, we shouldnt be go off the track ;) ). So basically the person has been the same through out. It is just how we see them has changed.

This happened to me when I was staying in a ladies hostel when I was working in Bangalore. I am a Hindu and I do my prayers in the morning after my bath and I have a set of God photos and used to light a lamp and pray daily. There was this girl who had got converted to Christianity (no offense here to anyone and please note that I am not judging anyone for their religion here, am just telling you what I had been through) and who had problems with her room mates in other floors and at the end she landed up in my room (it was 6 bedded room) and at that time it was only me and her with one more roomy. She told me how she got converted and how she needed some time alone in the evening for her prayers. So I used to give the room to herself and went to watch TV at that time. She was quite cordial to me and I was wondering why she was moved from one room to another unnecessarily as I didnt find any problem with her. One day (I guess it was a Sat or Sun) myself and some others were watching an english movie when she joined us. And you know that any English movie would have some or the other scenes which might be objectionable to most of orthodox people out here in India ;) . She was thoroughly irritated and was complaining that it was very bad and she retired to our room. Later one day I was narrating the story of "Manichitrathazh" (malayalam psychic thriller) to my other room mate when she joined us and wanted to listen to the story as well. It had the elements of ghosts and other such things. She didnt say anything at that time, just listened to it. I was doing my P.G Diploma in Operations Management from IGNOU while working, so I used to study for my exams and prepare for my assignments also. One day she was complaining how people can study and get good marks after watching such movies (she meant the horror and the english movies). How can one really concentrate and get good marks inspite of all these. She was complaining that she was really disgusted and would pray to give good sense to those people. Well it isnt hard enough to really know to whom she was directing these. :D. I thought that she was a bit confused because she thought that by seeing english / horror movies or reading fiction (or horror) stories one she was really betraying God. It was evident that she needed help, but she didnt allow anyone to offer her too. She was always on her own everytime. Even though I didnt have a problem with her, I wasnt too close to her as well.

Then later a few B.Tech students joined our hostel for a couple of weeks until they finished our project. They had come on an afternoon and this girl was there in the hostel (I used to come back from work only by 7 pm). There were totally 5-6 girls so three were put up in our room. When I was back from office, I saw three new faces. I tried to introduce myself to them (as I always do to make them comfortable) and found that they didnt respond that well. So I left them as is and got on my work. Days went by. This girl was very friendly with these girls and she always told them that she was there to help them and she would never leave them. These girls seemed to believe in her very much. It was nice to see that at last she had some one to talk to, whom she wanted to talk to also. So I would always leave them and spent my time in T.V or with my other friends there.

One Sunday , when she had gone to Church for her regular mass, and I was watching TV having my breakfast, the aunty (she was the maid there but we called her aunty and she liked me a lot) who was cleaning our room came down hurrying and said that she didnt believe that this girl could do something so sinisterish and was on the top of her voice shouting and scolding her. We couldnt make heads or tails of it. And I was the one who was least bothered :)

She then came to me and said that this girl had told the other three girls in my room that I was a very bad person and that I see bad movies and that I do black magic (my prayers looked like black magic to her) and that if I was disturbed in sleep by any means (we had bunker bed and I had the lower portion) then I would get up and curse the girl sleeping on top of my bed. She had also told them that she would help them and that she would take the responsibility to safeguard them from me through her religion. She had taken two days off and had been with them the whole day preaching them (those girls were Hindus too). So these girls were very confused because I didnt look like that but they couldnt help but believe her too and their intellect didnt allow them to believe in her fully also. Also the other three girls in another room, found out that these three girls were very disturbed for almost a week and that they didnt concentrate properly in their project and when they were discussing the other three girls didnt find much sense. So they enquired aunty about me and if I really did black magic with my prayers etc etc.

You should see the kind of shock I had when I heard this. I didnt believe that these girls who are studying B.Tech could even believe such a thing as black magic, done in a hostel that too. And I was totally surprised in the way she had fabricated these things to them. These girls were almost 7-8 yrs younger to me. So I went to my room and talked to them. As soon as I went they were in tears and they asked me to forgive them. I was taken by surprise. They said that they believed what she said even though they had their doubts. God, what can I say. I just told them that if they had any doubts, it is better to get clarified rather than being there with fear in the hearts. That was definitely not the way to live in a hostel. We had a talk for half an hour and I got to know each of them well enough to be able to move freely with them and they in turn got to know me better.

After that I came again for the lunch and was waiting for this girl to come, to ask her why she did this to me (by now I realized why she had problems with other too. I had got the news from other roomies on why they didnt want her in their room, but I thought that as long as she didnt create any problem who am I to not ask her to be in my room). When she came and when she was summoned by the warden and as soon as she saw me she just burst out in anger and said "Oh, so she got her first is it. I was expecting this anytime. How can we be with such a bad soul in our room" etc etc.. She was again involving the other girls in my room too. So we called them and as soon as they came, they started scolding her on making such false accusations. She got more angry and she said that I have brain washed them and that there is no salvation for them and they are bound to suffer in life and she asked for another room and got a new room for herself.

It was dramatic Sunday. All I could do was cry for some time for what had been done. I was wondering how can she even perceive me like that when she was there with me for almost 3-4 months. It really hurt me and I wouldnt forget that for my life time. And I had never been harsh on her even once. I treated her like my sister even though I wasnt too close, and she knew it. So after this debacle, I stopped talking to her and we never crossed each others path (atleast she took care of that part).

Time went by and my anger / grudge or whatever-it-was on her slowly vanished. I thought that I could even forgive her for what she did. After all she was a confused person who lost the contact of her parents (because she got convereted against their wishes) and she was all alone and all she wanted someone to be for her and believe her. But after a month or so , I guess it might be more than that, she got in touch with her mother again and they had forgiven her and they had called her back (She wasnt in a good job either, she made enough to pay off the hostel fees and have little for her month only). There she was ready to vacate the hostel. The day she was about to vacate, she was standing on the way when I was going down to get my breakfast. As usual I saw her and just left. But I felt that she might want to say something to me. But I just ignored coz I didnt want to make any assumptions with her. But later after some time when I was going back to my room after breakfast she called me (to my surprise) and I looked at her and this is what she said " I know I have done too big a mistake to ask forgiveness from you, But wont you consider me your sister and forgive me for what I have done to you ? after all I am also young and confused. I am very sorry for the trouble I have caused you". I guess it relieved her of her ghosts. But it did relieve me of mine too. I just said its ok and wish her all the best for her future and left off.

This happened to me almost 7-8 yrs before but I still remember it so vividly, not because of the pain I felt or the hurt. It isnt too much of a pain because I could see that she was confused. But it was such a dramatic incident that I never thought that such a thing could ever happen in my life. I am not sure where she is right now and how she is. But I wish her good luck as always. There has been a few such dramatic incidents in my hostel life that really struck me too hard and this is one such incident.

She had perceived me differently first (may be I made a good impression first on her) but later she wasnt able to accept me for what I was and her perception changed and she tried to convey the same to others and ultimately it turned out that I became the bad person to a bunch of these girls , even though I had hardly talked or interacted with them, except for being in the same room. Well this might be one way of how people get branded as good or bad (by word of mouth :D) and they start perceiving them that way and finding faults in whatever they do or dont do.

I guess as Emerson said People only see what they are prepared to see.
And I end this entry with this.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - Shakespeare.

One Day Family Fun Picnic (!)

Well you might by now know that I am a very poor blogger. Even though I wanted to write about a lot of things I somehow miss blogging it.

Ok, now to the topic :)
Since we had a three day holiday (May 1 to May 3 2009) we planned to go out somewhere as a family. But as usual, things went wrong at the end and we missed out on our three day vacation. So to compensate that we had a sudden plan to Black Thunder on Sunday and that too, :D, got changed at the last moment. And, I shud say it was for the best. Well the surprise doesnt stop here. Coz we planned to go to Siruvani Dam and when we reached the Kovai Kutralam junction we came to know that the dam was closed in the Tamilnadu side. We should have got the permission from Kerala side of entry and that is the only way to go to the Dam. So at last, the stop was at Kovai Kutralam. It was a good place, though dry at this time of the year. I wanted to always go on a good trek ;) and here it was. I guess this place would be beautiful in the right time. But now, it was real dry and sun was laughing at us with all its power. And we kept on going with as much as water and cool drinks and icecreams as possible. (Since this is a protected forest area, they say they dont allow plastics in here. But its always the other way round. Pity)

And we came to the actual falls after almost 15-20 mins or may be more and Wow, there was a huge crowd of people trying to quench the thirst with so so little water that was flowing. The number of people was much much more than the actual water that we could ever see there or was flowing. And its so sad to see so much of bottles and plastic papers and clothes lying everywhere. Well we were clearly disappointed (I am not sure if that would actually describe our emotion at that time, well atleast something to really tell you how we felt). We couldnt just stand there. We wanted to go somewhere where we can atleast see some water :(

We were standing there discusing all other possibilities and then decided on Vaidehi falls, which no one had any idea about and we didnt know exactly where it was, except that it was somewhere parallel to Kovai Kutralam. So we started our quest for some water in the hot summer day to find Vaidehi falls. We hadnt had our lunch and the elders in our group cannot go on empty stomach. So on the way before Naraseepuram, we tried to find a good hotel or a mess and it was a sunday afternoon and we were running out of luck, except for one small mess, where we got some parota and pushka (sort of veg briyani but not exactly). And some of us were satisfied with Cornetto. And rest with some fruit juice.

Then we kept going on and on not knowing where we would see the falls. We were just going via empty fields so far from the mountains for so long wishing that we cud just find out where the falls is.
But unrelented on our quest we kept and finally reached our spot at the foot hills (of god-knows-what-hills-it-was).


This is the entrance for the falls, where the roads are getting built, actually and we had to walk from here till the falls. We had no idea how long it would be and if there was really any water inside :)

It was a long stretch going into the forest area of the hills/moutains where we didnt see any other human being except for one or two inbetween. We were growing suspicious of the routs and since we could occassionaly catch a glimpse of some people going inside. Look for urself how the route was to the falls




Well we kept going slowly but steadily not knowing whether we were going in the right direction. Oh and I forgot one mroe interesting news. Even before we started, while we were having our so called lunch, we enquired about Vaidehi falls, and one shop keeper told us that on May 1st there was a group in the falls, who were trapped before of wild elephants coming out and had to be rescued after a few hours. Well that did put a ? on our thoughts, but didnt deter us from trying it out for ourselves :)

So we went on and on, in the hot sun, all tanned up and drenched in our sweat (it would have been a small stream by itself, if it got collected actually) and just hoping to hear the sound of water. And Wow, we did hear. It was so refreshing. Just a small final push up a few rocks and here we were. I didnt get the photo of that place, because as soon as we saw the water , we just went to it and got ourselves fully drenched :)

The water was not much, but it was enough and there were only 10-15 people there altogether and everyone advised to start by 4 (we had reached by 3) in order to avoid any passing elephants (wish we could see atleast one). The water was so cold and so sweet that all our tiredness as a result of out trekking (which was almost 2-3 kms uphill, with three above 50 yrs elders with us) was gone just like that. It was so so so relaxing that it felt like heaven. Well we were there to clear off our tiredness and then by 4 we started back on our trek (which naturally wasnt that difficult) and we tried to call some elephants on our way but none responded, unfortunately. So we reached back home in another 40 mins time, played carrom and had dinner and slept so well. It was a loooong day but it was so so satisfying that I wonder if our planned trip to Black Thunder would have been so satisfying!!

All in all, A most unexpected, fun filling (with little disappointments over the weather and the climatic conditions) and yet satisfying family picnic.

I guess we should be doing this once in a while :)

Non-veg and its impacts

On April 3rd to be precise, me and my friend were discussing in general about each others lives, when my friend let out an interesting thing about non-vegetarians. Well both of us do know quite a few people in our inner circle who are non-vegetarians, but the discussion was about the impact of the same on one's mental condition. We both conformed on one line of thought which was that people who eat non-veg too much (say once a day or more than that) are likely to be more arrogant, short-tempered and violent in nature. And we do have our experiences to vouch for that.

Then I thought may be we are prejudiced. It might be just that we know these people do eat non-veg atleast once per day and just linking their character to their eating habit. So I just googled a little to see if there is any other story or details that would support our theory. Well, guess what, we were right :)

I, for one, knew a person who could eat non-veg even twice a day, given a chance. In Tamil we say, parakarthula aeroplaneaiyum midhakaradhula kappalaiyum thavara ellathaiyum saapiduvaanga :D. This person was a perfect example for negative energy. Not to mention about being egoistic, stubborn, short-tempered, violent (could get into a fight even before you could know that there could be a fight in that situation) and always thought that nothing was beyond this person and whatever this person thought was always so right. Well it doesnt mean that this person is a total failure. Every coin has two sides. This person had other positive characteristics like being an intellectual and persistent. But here the discussion is mostly on the traits of a person having non-veg very frequently and very much.

I think not all the non-veg eating people have these traits. I know quite a lot of people who eat non-veg once a week or whenever they want a change of taste. That doesnt hurt at all. But eating daily or making it part of your daily food habit does have its own impact. It increases the animal instincts in a person and hence the violent traits.

How do I validate this. Well, the person I mentioned about, tried quitting non-veg for a month and tried to live on pure veg diet, but guess what, this person became sober, tired, weak and barely had enough stamina to keep going and so this person resumed eating non-veg. The interesting part here is that this person had not touched non-veg during the teen years. But once placed in a job, non-veg came back to this persons life and refused to go.

The attitude and behaviour of this person continued to change over the years as and when the intake of non-veg increased.

Well, I am not a person who would say dont eat this or eat that. Well if eating non-veg regularly is going to impact ones mental health condition, then I guess one should think before eating it.

There was a nice article about something of this sort here and here too.

I guess if we keep looking we will get more. Basically, our food intake should help in the nurturing of our mind and not destory it.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha

A Fun filled trip

I need to tell you about two trips where I had so much fun recently.
One was in my native town, Coimbatore, where we wanted to take a short trip to Anuvavi Subramanya swamy temple on a Sunday. It has been so many years (nearly 15 yrs or so) since I visited that temple. It is situated in a very serence place.
There are no shops, no offices, not much of houses also nearby. It was a pleasant weather (it had rained in the afternoon). But to our disappointment, the temple was closed. Reason: invasion by wild Elephants from the hills. Just 10 mins, before our arrival, a huge tusker had come and almost terrorized people. This is the place where the tusker was standing. A person who was there earlier had shot the movements of the tusker and showed us the video image. What a huge tusker it was. My God. They were running for cover too :).
It seems that people with kids and families were stuck above the hill inside the temple for almost 2 hours. During summer season, it is very common for the elephants to visit these places and at times create havoc in the houses in the nearby area. We tried going upstairs to half way, but everyone advised us against it, lest the elephant shud come and create more trouble for us.
So we left the place after waiting for sometime to see if it would come back and since it didnt we thought of visiting an Swamy Dayanand Ashram in the nearby Anaikatti area. It was so calm and peaceful that we were so relaxed. But since we didnt have much time, we just lazed around for a while and came back.


The other trip was to Innovative Film city in Bangalore, which was organized from our office. I was never much of a person who would enjoy in such places as IFC or MGM for instance. I remember the time when we went from our college to MGM and for almost 3 hrs I was waiting outside, because I dont play much. But this trip to IFC was totally different. I enjoyed the Wax museum, Ripleys believe it or not, Skates (where I had enough falls and injured by thumb, it is still swollen), 4D movie, Mirror maze and very specially Haunted Mansion. We had so much fun particularly in the Haunted Mansion and the Mirror Maze. Aqua kingdom brought me some nightmares but was fun. I also tried my hand at singing in Karaoke. It was so bad, and it wasnt that good either. But I was happy that I got to do that. We had so much fun and it was so relaxing. I was always hesitant to go out in such trips. But this was really an eye opener. I needed such relaxation after a tiring and depressive friday. Well altogether it was a wonderful trip.

See you later, bye for now.

Long Drive

I know that it has been too long since I have last blogged :) but well that is how I blog ;)

Actually this time, we again had functions at home (read Wedding and its related customs) and with work pressures and all, it was difficult to keep blogging.

What made me blog now ? It was the long drive which I recently enjoyed in my home town. It has been some time now since I went on a long drive in a two wheeler (either scooter or bike) and when I recently went on a long drive, say about 25 kms, I remembered how much I enjoyed long drives. And that too if it was a very scenic one, who wouldnt. With the big Nilgiri mountains spreading on one side of the road and the farms and farm houses spread across the other side, with tamarind trees on both sides of the road, and cool air breezing through your hair locks.

There are a few trips which I made in my two wheeler in Bangalore which I really enjoyed that I remember every second of it. I might sound bit crazy , but it is very strange how even trivial things (and at time maddening for some) as a drive through a city in the traffic at times can be so pleasing for some aint?

Once we made a trip from Bannerghatta Road via the Outer ring road to Marathahalli and then from there to Ulsoor and then to Rajajinagar and back to Bannerghatta Road, and I was driving all along and it was I guess Friday or Sat evening (if I remember correctly). We started at around 4 pm and ended up home @ 11 pm. :). This was my first ever long drive and I almost went round the city and that is why may be I remember it so well.

Well it was helluva trip and it was me, who was driving and even though we had terrible traffic in a few places, I enjoyed the drive throughout, even though the next few days I had a slight pain in my hands ;)

I wish I could do more of such drives. I love this stretch of road that comes on the way to Mrudeshwara, where we have the sea on the left side and either a backwater or a river on the other side. What a pleasure would it be to drive on such roads. Hmm...

'Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination' ~ David Russell
“All of life is a journey which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. We determine our destination, what kind of road we will take to get there, and how happy we are when we get there.”

Flying high

Recently on a cool sunday evening, I was standing over the balcony of my flat and was watching the sun go down so slowly behind those big buildings and suddenly a pigeon from the nearby wall just flew very close to me. Oh! how lucky, it can just fly whenever it felt like. This thought somehow reminded me of the days when I used to fly so much :), well in airplanes though.

It was the time when the flight rates rocketed downwards and it was a 1000 Rs from my place of work to my native town, and it was the cheapest among all. For almost two years, I hopped in and out of my native town in flights (well I have been in Kingfisher, Deccan, Sahara and Jet and even Indian Airlines). It was like riding a bus for me. I was used to flying to my place so much that our house owners kiddo, who live in the ground floor in our native town, (he must be 2-3 yrs old), remembers me as the one who comes home always in a flight :D. Whenever there is a airplane going up in the sky, he just shows it to me and asks me, did you come in that ?. And if anyone asks him about how I came home, he would signal a flying plane.

For a person who is afraid of heights, flying was a new experience altogether. It was so much fun and somehow, irrespective of my acrophobia, I enjoyed each and every flight journey of mine. There was this time when I travelled at night and it was so rainy and so much of turbulence inside and it was lightning outside. It was so good to feel the jitters. And one more time, it was as if we are on a cotton bed, it was fully covered with white clear clouds and nothing was seen down. I enjoy the ride above the western ghats especially, where we could see in a clear day light the never ending stretch of the mountains.

I do miss them all now, because of the high tickets rates and the distance between my place and the airport (it got shifted to a very very far off place). Wish I could fly to a new destination and to a differently new place sometime this year. Let us see..... But I was lucky enough to enjoy the pleasure of riding high :D anyways. It was really a time when even a comman man could afford to feel the sky. Hope those days come back soon.

Happy New Year

It has been a very long time since I really blogged :)
Let us start with a Happy New Year. Hope this new year brings in joy and prosperity to one and all.
Well for me, it started on a very hopeful note. Overcoming my fears and renewing my hopes. It was a little bit stressful, but all is well that ends well aint ?
But in general, I guess this New Year brought in lot of surprises to all with the Satyam , Maytas Scam, Economic Slowdown etc etc. But let us hope that it doesnt depress us and let us wish that in these dark times we try to keep up our hope that things will be better tomorrow.
Just like what Dumbledore says, Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Ok, now coming to my usual stuff of books and movies :)
Recently I just finished one of my ever favourite book which I had always wanted to read. And completing it gave me so much of relief that I have achieved something. How much pleasure does one get when one get to do what they *really* want to do.
The book was "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. I have read this in my school years as part of the non-detail text. But reading it in full classic mode, was something so much of pleasure. I guess everyone who likes to read novels, fiction, stories, should read this once atleast. The kind of english used, the emotions, the characterization, wow. You feel as if you see them before your eyes alive, as you read them.


My next book would be "Bram Stoker's Dracula". Well more about it after I read the book. I have loved the film though, more for the performances of Sirius Black (aka Gary Oldman) and Little women Elizabeth (aka Wyona Rider) and the cinematograph. It was the first ever movie which made me scream :), when I was watching it with my friends in the hostel at night.


Sari rombha late aayidichu. Feeling very sleepy. Buenas noches.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein

If we live another day to see, it is a miracle. :) Keep smiling and Keep your hopes high.