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