Ramblings Of A Lost Voyager

Eternal Return

2009-05-17T23:19:00.003+05:30

Around midnight, sitting alone in my bedroom and listening to "Main Pal Do Pal" on youtube.

If there's a thing called "Eternal Return", this would have been my closest encounter with it. This is atleast the third time that this has happened to me, I've had a feeling of deja-vu, while watching that youtube video on my lappy on my bed with no one in my room and I am convinced that some things(if not all) repeat multiple times in your life.

It's a strange feeling, every time I enter that moment I am instantaneously reminded of all my previous encounters with it and surprisingly that part of my brain that stores this memory, lightens up just like that. I am totally clueless why this happens and what should I do about it. That feeling of being lonely deep down, that missing soul to soul connection is one of the reasons that I know exist. What could be the other reasons for it or what am I supposed to do about it, is what I wonder.....

Jane woh Kaise log the

2009-05-17T23:03:00.001+05:30

Out of touch, out of share ?

2009-05-17T21:29:00.004+05:30

Whether we like it or not, we all tend to share things first with our immediate/active circle(of friends) before inactive or slightly inactive(out of touch) one irrespective of whome we are closer too.

It might sound simple and obvious but it never fails to make me think, what does this mean and if this is a good thing etc. This means that if you are not in touch(regular) with your best friend or very close friend at some point in time and you feel like sharing something then you'll reach out for someone whose in touch with you(meets you, talks to you more often) instead of that close/best friend whose not in touch.

Firstly, does it happen with everyone ? Secondly, what do you think about it ?

Google Mother's Day Logo

2009-05-10T12:19:00.003+05:30

Love Google's Mother's Day Logo

Humor @ Durex

2009-05-01T15:09:00.003+05:30

Proprioception: Knowing where you are

2009-04-24T22:59:00.005+05:30

"Proprioception is a distinct sensory modality that provides feedback solely on the status of the body internally. It is the sense that indicates whether the body is moving with required effort, as well as where the various parts of the body are located in relation to each other. " - Wikipedia

I bumped into this term while reading "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" and it some how caught up with me and is still stuck in my head. "Muscle Memory" as people commonly refer to it, is basically the sense that tells the mind the exact position of various body parts and what's their movement status. While we all hear of this term "muscle memory" numerous times and in all sorts of situations, we don't think too highly of it. Easily taken for granted like most other functionality that are powered by our brain, it's extremely helpful in being where we are and even a small damage to it can leave us in a sordid state. It could be painful situation when your brain doesn't know where a body part exactly is, to understand what I mean imagine that you have to look down at your feet while moving to see where/how they are or if you don't see any body part and try to control it, it just might be hanging vaguely or twisted in a painful position or something scarier.

I've been a student of Jazz dance for quite some time now(in my second stint), the total duration has been about a year or so now. One of the things we've been told from day one is to walk/dance(maybe sit, stand and even sleep) with your stomach pulled in (not relaxed and all over the place). Superficially speaking it's just about pulling your stomach but there's more to proprioception then just that. The point is that if you keep your body parts in a position for long enough, the brain will learn their new positions/locations and after some practice they will be the new default position for those parts. It's surprising how unaware we are about our body posture/parts and their default states. Unless someone points to us specifically we don't realize if our stomach is relaxed, or our shoulders are loose or hips are hanging(forgive the dx lingo) or worse the back(bone) isn't straight.

Discovering your body is a beautiful experience. It's a journey only a few lucky people get to take and being aware of where you are in space and what's good/bad about it, how can you align them to stay fit,look good etc is a truely great feeling. It's one of my many learnings at Danceworx, being aware of how exactly is your body aligned/placed as you do certain things. Stopping in middle of things to check what's the location/position of various body parts and how they should be instead. While other things will come and go, this vision of seeing your body as it is, is one of the wonderful things that I've experienced and learned, and I wish to carry this with me forever.

Do you observe your body enough to understand it ?

The Expectation Trap

2009-04-06T21:51:00.004+05:30

For as long as I can remember I have this strange problem of expecting people(especially close friends) to do things in a way I would have done had I been in their place. Needless to say I've been disappointed more times than I remember or can count. On the face of it, it's not that big a deal to expect people to act in the way I would have acted had I been in their position, for ex: I need some help from close friend in a particular situation, then I would expect that close friend to help me to the extent in which I would have helped in had he been in my position but trust me, it's really a great deal(full of disappointments).

I get particularly fed up when people(read friends) fall way short of expectations and behave in the most weirdest of ways. Add to this the fact that through most of my life I've given equal(almost) importance to my friends and family but many a times I have felt let down upon. Maybe it happens with everyone but I certainly have had my share of such experiences. Be it closest of your friends or people who met you somewhere on the crossroads of life and happened to get along enough to hang out for few months or years. The sad bit being I am not yet able to identify any pattern in this and thus have run into such situations again and again. I hope I am not this way to anyone I know.

Last two months have been really hard for me, harder than anything I've ever been through and I expected people around me, especially those that matter to have behaved in a certain way but I have no qualms in accepting that I've been hugely disappointed. Barring a couple odd people, most people have let me(and my expectations) down to the extent that now I regret spending the time I spent with them. I am cool about all other things but the time I spent(read wasted) on them, hanging out with them, listening 'em out and if needed offering a helping hand in their hour of need(or breakup as in many cases).

I know I might sound over critical and rude but more often than not people suck at communicating. They just can't communicate. I still don't understand how can people be like that. Some of my supposedly good friends either didn't call me to ask how are things or did it just once/twice in the span of 60 days and only I know what did I got to hear from those who did.
It was a surprising(which might be and I hope too it's wrong) realization that people are way too out of world to handle crisis like situations because of limitations in which they see things and how they approach them(within a restricted realm of possibilities).

On sharing the above mentioned with a dear friend I was told that it all depends on the type of individual, some people who are helpful and likes will be supportive, caring etc with all their friends alike(irrespective of who spends more time with time) while those who aren't, will be the same i.e at a superficial level. It sounds like a logical thing to me and I guess that's the case but if that's the case 1) why didn't I realize those people are like that and 2) I don't think I need more people of that kind in my life.

Moral of the story: If you can't lower your expectations, lower the number of people who fall in the area of expectation to lessen disappointments.

Friends First ?

2009-03-22T13:47:00.006+05:30

It's a fairly common(and apparently logical) belief that two people who share an intimate relationship(affair, marriage etc) should be friends first and lovers later. The premise being "It's important to connect as friends first(sharing, caring) and getting comfortable before going a level higher i.e Love". While it sounds like an ideal thing it's not really as good as it sounds especially if taken literally.

From my personal experiences and observations of people around I've learned that one(especially guys) should never really become friend friend with their girls and instead be boyfriend friend. Sounds confusing ? Ok, let me clear it a bit.

At the start of most relationships there has to be a different way of approaching things especially between two same aged people of opposite sex. It requires both to be frank, honest, understanding, accommodating, caring and so on. It's not only like putting your best foot(read nature) forward but in some cases also portraying traits that aren't even remotely yours. Getting back to the main point, guys somehow know that they have to be a girl's friend before being her boyfriend and that's what they start being. While there's nothing wrong with this approach but like most medicines the dosage needs to be precise to avoid its side effects i.e you have to be a friend only to the extent that the situation(or girl) requires and not over do it. When a guy starts being more and more friend like in order to either impress her or try and be a more mature, caring, understanding guy(maybe in his own eyes only) he starts loosing it all together for reasons and is more often than not being taken for granted.

It's human nature to stretch things until some signs of cracks start appearing. To put things in context for example if the girl you are trying to woo starts talking about her ex(or ex's) with you and you like a good boy that you are actively listen and participate in discussions. Not that it's wrong or anything but it BEWARE: UNLESS YOU PUT A FULL STOP OR SHOW THAT YOU DON'T REALLY APPRECIATE IT, GIRLS WILL NEVER REALIZE HOW DETRIMENTAL THIS IS(OR COULD BE) TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP.

While being understanding (and showing it) is good, here also if you try to understand everything like it's your duty(or that's what love is all about) you are in for some trouble. Because unless you are truly great you pot of patience and understanding will start overflowing and you'll end up feeling bad because you feel your partner doesn't really understand you and is only concerned about his/her convenience and priorities.

I've seen use and abuse of "friends first" in many cases with each one different from the previous one. From what I've gathered, it's perfectly OK(if not good) if you are friends with your lover to just to an extent and not in totality. It's ok if you tell her/him to not talk about this/that(read past relationships) too much. It's ok if you tell her/him to not get too friendly with x,y or z etc etc because from my observations people who rather than waiting for their patience, understanding to reach their threshold tell their partners much earlier what's cool and what's not cool with them end up fairing better than those who don't.

Back with a bang

2009-01-10T15:21:00.003+05:30

I know I've been really irregular at blogging but trust me I am trying to change this and hopefully you will be seeing a lot more of me in times to come. This, incidentally is also one of my new year's resolutions. Yes, I still believe in resolutions and shit :)

I've often wondered, how come there isn't even a single post about or around sex on this blog despite it's sexy title ? This too shall change soon and to get things going, here's the link to an interesting and informative website I stumbled upon recently.

Check this out and tell me how you found it.

Sorry Bhai

2008-12-01T15:57:00.004+05:30

Off late I've been watching newly released Bollywood flicks pretty regularly. This Saturday I went for a film that I was awaiting for quite some time, "Sorry Bhai". The moment I got to know Chitrangada was starring in the film, I knew I had to watch it. Ever since I saw "Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi", I've been a huge fan of Chitrangada Singh and Sorry Bhai marks her return to Bollywood after a brief hiatus.

Director: Onir Anirban
Cast:Chitrangada Singh, Sharman Joshi, Sanjay Suri, Boman Irani and Shabana Azmi
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
My Rating: 3.75/5

While writing about a film I intentionally don't share the plot as I feel it kinda kills the suspense and fun. "Sorry Bhai" has a very eclectic cast and this is one of the reasons it managed to attract a decent audience to the theaters without much publicity and buzz. Onir of "My Brother Nikhil" fame manages to pick yet another difficult(emotionally) plot and handle it well without loosing touch with reality.

The performances were very good all across the cast. I particularly loved the roles played by Shabana and Boman, they make a wonderfully cute couple and have excellent on screen presence/chemistry. Sharman might not fit your image of a physicist/scientist but he plays the role convinsingly and is particularly good at comic timings. Chitrangada is apt for the role of a passionate women who wants to live life to the fullest and doesn't want to be tied down by others version of right and wrong. Sanjay does his bit in the film flawlessly with ease.

Though I am sure most others in the theater and outside wouldn't have liked it but the fact that the film ended with what might not be a typical man's happy ending gave me another reason to love it. It's a cross over film in the sense that it brings out in open a certain type of relationships/affairs which most wouldn't like acknowledging leave alone accepting or approving . The way the people with whom I had gone to watch the film reacted to this confirmed my belief.

The cinematography was quite nice and the script well written but Editing is something that didn't go down well with me or for that matter people who were sitting around. When a random guy from the crowd says "film beech beech mein kaati hui hai kya", there's something wrong. The transitions from one scene to another were abrupt and rough especially during the middle half(when Chitrangada and Sharman, were out for a walk with Shabana following them).

Things that made me raise eyebrows:
1) An AIEEE physics book on the desk of a physicist/scientist
2) The film goes back 11 years and shows Sharman driving a swift.
3) I am not sure if stock market blues were that prevalent/feared of 11 years back.
4) According to me the physicist/scientist aspect of Sharman wasn't established that strongly, in fact I guess the same goes for Sanjay too.

I would have loved if the film went a bit more deep(real life like) about how the trio entangled in love felt about the surprise discovery. There are(according me) various facets of that situation which I would have loved had they been dealt with in the film. All in all its a nice film, worth watching for lots of reason comedy and a different and bold, well dealt with plot

Secondary Affairs aka Fallback Relationships

2008-09-28T15:25:00.005+05:30

I've always been inclined to categorize relationships people share,like the one here Desperate Relationships. Relationships would arguably one of the most complex forms of social interaction as a LOT goes into getting them started and even more to keep them going. Many a times people who are into relationships don't on the surface know why they got into it, why they are still in it and if they are getting what they had in mind before getting in. Relationships here include Friendships too.

Most of the categorizes I put relationships into are a result of my own imagination so don't be surprised if Google doesn't offer more on these categories :)
I've been observing quite a few relationships around me for some time and have reached a conclusion that having "secondary affairs or fallback/backup relationships" has caught up lately. I doubt if things were this way sometime back.To get some context lets consider a few examples:

1) A girl doing her Post Grads and in a serious relationship(plans to get married) with a guy for a couple of years is great friends with another guy and shares things with him that she doesn't/cannot share with her boyfriend. Not only this on the physical plane they share mutual attraction towards each other(just short of the first step) but they aren't in a regular touch and the frequency of their contact depends on how her relationship is going with her boyfriend. Her Boyfriend doesn't have a clue about this.

2) A Casanova in his early twenties despite having numerous flings hasn't let go of a girl who loves him. He sets aside some time and space for her on a regular basis. This has been going on for some years now and should unless someone decides to take a decision.

3) A married women who can share things with another friend that she can't even think of sharing with her Husband. Every time she has an emotional low she runs to him(think Emotional whore).

4) Heard on FM: A married lady with a kid has got into relationship with a guy because he stimulates her intellectually more than her husband. She still loves her husband and gives some time(and other things off course) to this relationship.

These relationships have attributes of what can be called 'extra marital affairs', 'two timing' etc but the main point being that people are in not necessarily for their carnal desires and they don't want to let go of the secondary affairs because they know in some senses these relationships are a surprise ingredient in their primary relationships and thus the success of one is kinda dependent on the presence/success of other.

Some attributes of a secondary affair could be
1) Emotional/Intellectual/Physical backup
2) The subject chooses to keep the details to him/herself and his/her partner is for most parts unaware about the comfort/chemistry he/she shares in this other relationship.
3) The time and effort that goes into these relationships is quite less as to some extent both parties know how it fits into their scheme of things and probably that's why they look so attractive.

What people fail to realize in the "cushion effect" of secondary relationships is that they are instead of working on the problem and making effort in a lasting solution are opting for an easy way out and a solution that can be temporary at best and might cause more harm than good. Having said that I am afraid but I see more of these affairs/relationships in times to come.

The Love Problem of A Student - Part One

2008-09-14T11:08:00.013+05:30

By a stroke of fate I ended up spotting, buying & reading Carl Jung's
"Aspects of the Feminine". Ever since I began reading it I've been completely lost in the ideas/thoughts presented in it and feel like spending more time wandering in those deep thoughts of human psyche. What follows below is an attempt for the same by quoting some of the ideas from a chapter titled "The Love Problem of A Student" which can serve as bookmark for the thoughts presented.

Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell.
The bone of contention here is Love problem involving a student, what causes it and what becomes of it because unlike love between two adults marriage is not the socially/morally apt solution.

The discussion starts from the fact that why child marriages(marriage between two students) isn't particularly good. The most obvious reasons being lack of social, financial & psychological maturity and some practical problems concerning parents education and livelihood and child's upbringing. Since having children by a child marriage is not the best thing the discussion wanders to the importance of having children in a marriage and how they act like a cement between parents and prevent them to think on a purely individualistic/selfish terms.

Another interesting aspect of the whole discussion is the effect puberty and sexual maturity has on boys and girls. While in girls the sexual maturity comes gradually with time in boys there's an outburst of sexuality around onset of puberty but on the contrary the psychological maturity comes earlier to girls as compared to the boys of same age. "He now has the sexuality of a grown man with the soul of a child" quotes Jung.On the other hand most women get in touch with their sexuality much later and at times by accident.

"Often the flood of obscene fantasies and smutty talk with schoolfellows pour like a torrent of dirty water over all his delicate and childish feelings, sometimes smothering them forever. Unexpected moral conflicts arise, temptations of every description lie in wait for him and weave themselves into fantasies. The psychic assimilation of the sexual complex causes him the greatest difficulties though he may not be conscious of its existence. The onset of puberty also brings about considerable changes in his metabolism as can be seen from the pimples and acne that so often afflict adolescents. The psyche is disturbed in a similar manner and thrown off its balance. At this age the young man is full of illusions, which are always a sign of psychic disequilibrium. They make stability and maturity of judgment impossible.His tastes, his interests, his plans alter fitfully.He can suddenly fall head over heels in love with a girl, and a fortnight later he cannot conceive how anything of that sort could have happened to him. He is so riddled with illusions that he actually needs those mistakes to make him conscious of his own taste and individual judgment. He is still experimenting with life, and must experiment with it in order to learn how to judge things correctly. Hence there are very few men who have not had sexual experiences of some kind before they are married. During puberty it is mostly homosexual experiences, and these are much more common than is generally admitted."

Moving ahead the author says heterosexual experiences come later and are not always beautiful. Because of the sexual complex, sexuality is reduced to animal play with no psychological distinctions thus just about any women will do. Author further warns us not to draw conclusions about a man's character based on this, however many experiences of this kind bring negative influences to the personality of the concerned.
"The result is that though the man in question is outwardly a respectable citizen, inwardly he is prey to sexual fantasies of the lowest kind, or else he represses them and on some festive occasion they come leaping to the surface in their primitive form, much to the astonishment of the unsuspecting wife--assuming, of course, that she notices what is going on. A frequent accompaniment is premature coldness towards the wife."

These are some of the thoughts put forward by the author and I could relate A LOT to them. Could you ?

Next part would cover college-love affairs, how they effect personalities of those involved and the case with a student being involved with an older person.

We are all actors and news channels our stage !!

2008-06-06T13:58:00.005+05:30

The following post is meant to be a participant in the ongoing
Yellow Journalism game and shouldn't be taken seriously

There was a time when people use to frequent theaters to watch
stage plays but ever since "Ekta Kapoor" catapulted on the stage
and charmed people into watching her serials things have changed,
changed like never before. It's an Acting/TV renaissance as all
the actors have taken acting more seriously and everyone is
now getting under the skin of the character to show their acting
prowess to the audience.

While this paradigm shift was taking place some amateur actors
who couldn't find work neither in theaters nor in the soaps
thought of teaming up with the near by lala(who apparently
made it big by selling adulterated ) and decided to create
"24 hour hindi news channels" to prove their acting talent
to the world and give a purpose to their otherwise slightly
unrewarding n not so socially responsible lives.

With that started the wave of actors donning the anchor's hat
and presenting oops acting news on camera, not just by modulating
their tones but by changing the backdrops, playing suitable
background scores and wearing costumes to suit the news item
relayed. Don't believe me ? OK have a look the image below
in which the anchors are enacting the "unfamous Gujjar Protests"
for reservations in "Scheduled Tribes" category in their style.

Once again this post is meant to be taken lightly.
More stories here
kaa, supreet, dipankar. amit

Psychologies

2008-05-25T15:13:00.005+05:30

I am particularly fond of a Q/A section in Tehelka by the
same name. In this post I'll try to answer the questions
asked in the latest issue of Tehelka(31st May) for myself.

Q1) What do you miss most about childhood ?
A1) Relaxed and easy paced life, not worrying much about
things other than studies. Simple thinking with less
responsibilities and less facades. Back then I had more time
and less things to do, these days its just the opposite.
Also, I was physically more active then.

Q2) What makes you glad that you're at this age.
A2) I can take all sorts of decisions for myself. I am
financially independent and understand things at
a much deeper level then what I could even imagine during
my childhood. Also, that I understand myself better.

Q3) What kind of people repel you?
A3) People who crib too much about things without really
making any efforts to change things. People who exploit
the weak and less fortunate. Most politicians and lastly
those who are extremely materialistic.

Q4) What is the biggest dilemma you have faced?
A4) Biggest dilemma that I've faced and still continue
to face would be "what would be the perfect way to lead the second
innings of my life and how to go about it"

Q5) So what do you think of marriage now?
A5) Firstly not everyone is supposed to get married and
secondly I feel those who decide to get married should
be mentally prepared to give what it takes to make it a
success. Its much much difficult than it sounds.

Q6) So would you prefer a live-in relationship to marriage?
A6) Hmmm.. No, I don't think so.

Q7) What would you change about yourself?
A7) I'd like to be in control of myself a bit more both emotionally
and spiritually. Also, be a better time manager.

Q8) What do you think of the Indian youth?
A8) Indian youth is going through a phase of self-discovery and
exposure to a bit too many things in very less time and
this era of "Instant Gratification" is taking its toll too. I feel
they need to think a bit about the things that they don't think
at all about to make better sense of things around.

Q9) What about the man-woman divide?
A9) It's unfortunate that there still exists this divide in
many parts of the country but I hope with time and efforts
that are going in this direction things will be better in
future.

Q10) So you think women are less empowered?
A10) If I look around then I don't think so but yes in general
I feel they are. While I feel they should be more empowered
at the same time I hope they don't loose touch their real/true
self on the path to empowerment and post it.

Q11) What would you never change about yourself?
A11) *thinking*........
Giving some quality time to myself and those close to me.
The habit of thinking a lot and without bounds. My observant
nature and ability to not loose cool in most situations and
lastly being able to act irresponsibly and kiddish whenever the
situation permits me.

I'd like to tag the following to answer the above mentioned
questions .

Faded_Glory, Kaa, Smriti,
Sanjukta

7 Din, Ladki IN..

2008-05-24T01:04:00.011+05:30

This post intends to share experiences of a friend with
some girl over the last week and shouldn't be taken too
seriously.

It all started about two weeks back @CCD when this 25 years
old friend of mine decided its high time that he's
single(not to suggest that he was single all this while)
and he should get a girl in his life.

So since this friend is more offline person than online
(unlike ME) he took one of the few/common ways of
approaching a new girl i.e by taking a couple of phone
numbers from another friend and started smsing them.
Though I don't have the details I presume something of
this sort must've happened

1st SMS --> some random kinda cute, friendship wala forward
1st reply --> who r u ? do i knw u ?
2nd SMS --> hmm..I am xyz, I kinda know you though you
don't blah-blah
2nd reply --> how did you get my number ?
3rd SMS --> from here starts the 20-20 of lies, flattery,
exaggeration, flirting and God knows what.

So luckily this friend was able to clear(easily) the screening
round as the girl in question gave her a call back after a
few smses but to ensure she doesn't look easy in anyway she
insisted on knowing how the guy got her number which to anyone
whose familiar with this game knows is often a superficial
concern which still needs to be replied however vaguely in
order for the talks to proceed.

"Well I'll tell you how I got your number but not now,maybe
when we meet up for lunch" .Yes this and trust me I've seen
it work quite often. In most cases successfully evading this
question for the first two conversations is the best answer
because after that when both people are in the process of
knowing each other it doesn't really matter.

Day 2 and 3 sees them talking a couple of times once in morning
and again in the evenings.

Day 4 and 5 sees the evening talks stretch to night, and its
obvious that once you start talking to someone late in the night
the game changes which changes with it the content of talks
which sooner or later will come down to SEX.

What I particularly found surprising was the fact that when it
started off the girl was in commanding position. I have to go
now, I am busy lets talk later etc etc and in just 5 days the
positions have been swapped. I vividly remember day before
yesterday the guy had to literally plead to keep the phone down
in order to have his dinner, she agreed only after the guy
promised to call her after exactly 15 minutes.

But what I saw yesternight was toh amazing. The guy was supposed
to call at night but forgot so the girl called up 1ish but the
guy was too tired to talk so requested if he could sleep NO came
in the reply. I was incidentally spending my night at his place
and had a really hard time waking him up after every 2 minutes
of lull while still on phone and surprisingly every time he woke
up a bit to resume the conversation with a characteristic "hmmm"
the girl was there(probably talking). Finally the guy woke up,
munched something and moved to another room and came back after
an hour smiling looking more tired but satisfied.

The Hot-Crazy Scale !!

2008-05-24T00:19:00.000+05:30

One of my favorite scenes from "How I Met Your Mother".

I totally buy this funda and feel its common place.

So what do you think ?

3rd Habitat Film Festival

2008-05-09T15:12:00.000+05:30

IHC's film club is organizing 3rd Habitat Film Festival.

The festival spans across 12 days(till 18th May 08) and will include lots of
regional films and a retrospective on "Sudhir Mishra" of
"Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi" fame.

Two films will be screened in the evenings on weekedays
and four films will be screened on the weekends.

you can checkout the schedule here
http://www.habitatfilmclub.com/filmcalendar.asp

Entry is supposedly free and tickets are available at the venue itself.
You can also expect some celebrities there.

See you at IHC

Shaurya

2008-04-14T22:39:00.000+05:30

Rahul Bose & Kay Kay Menon together and I was easily convinced
that Shaurya deserves a watch in theaters despite being told that
its Copied(or nicely put Inspired) from "A Few Good Men".

Ten Minutes or at max 15 minutes into the film I began feeling
out of place and started looking everywhere but the screen. Then
I was reminded of what I had read on Twitter "2nd half is good",
this gave me the patience and strength to wait for the second
half without thinking/caring too much about the first which took
its own sweet time, shabby acting and some supposedly heavy
dialogues.

Minissha Lambha whom from the begining of film I found cute alas
couldn't garner another compliment. Jaaved Jaaferi too didn't
strike any chord with his performance. Some nice landscape shots,
a couple totally uncalled for songs and some weak drama later the
film begins. Film that I wish had started some 100 mins or so back.

Filled with loopholes, weak script and screenplay Shaurya reduced
some great actors and a great film to nothingness(add almost as a
consolation). Wondering why weren't KK's dialogues for most of his
role even half as good as those towards the end.Wondering was
Rahul in the film just to fulfill his childhood dream to don the
uniform and walk the corridors in it ? What made the director
think that Mini can deliver serious dialogues n look worthy of
some seriousness?

Though I feel a situation like this is a rare possibility in the
forces I'll still give some marks to the story and some marks to
the closing scene as well, without which it would have been
impossible for Shaurya to score a 2.5/5.

The way to a Stripper's Heart

2008-04-14T18:21:00.000+05:30

http://justinesane.com/?p=103

Awesome Quote

2008-04-13T03:09:00.000+05:30

“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”

Tom Ribbins

Awesome One Liners

2008-03-12T12:26:00.000+05:30

I'm a simple man with complex tastes - Calvin
Is it a right to remain ignorant? - Calvin
I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept - Calvin

logic in emotions

2008-03-07T12:57:00.000+05:30

Feelings are not supposed to be logical.
Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions
-David Borenstein

Awesome quote and great thought behind it....

What the Bleep should we know ?

2008-02-29T12:52:00.000+05:30

Who are we ?
Where do we come from ?
Why are we here ?

These are the classic questions that have perplexed the thinkers
since time immemorial.Not just the thinkers almost everyone has
(or will) come across these questions, while some choose to skip
them in no time, some ponder over them for most of their lives.

"Asking yourself these deeper questions opens up new ways of
being in the world.
It brings in a breath of fresh air.
It makes life more joyful.
The real trick to life is not to be in the known ...
but be in the mystery."

In case you are wondering what's going on here lemme give you
some context, I happened to watch no wait I made myself watch
this documentary titled "What the Bleep do we know?" that was
gifted to me long back by a film maker friend of mine.
This is probably the only film after "Waking Life" reviewed
here that got me to sit back and think.
This post is a non-critical take on the documentary
and tries to highlight what we can take home.

The film takes us through a journey of Quantum Mechanics,
Consciousness, Reality, God, Emotions, Time Travel and more.
WTBDWK would easily be one of the most controversial piece of
cinema I've seen. What follows are the things that clicked with
me.

"Why do we keep re-creating the same reality?
Why do we keep having the same relationships?
Why do we keep getting the same jobs...
over and over again?
In this infinite sea of potentials that exist around us...
how come we keep re-creating the same realities?"

The question that comes next to our mind is
"Are we affecting the world of reality that we see?"

I totally buy that "we are", its our thoughts and
actions that will make our(and to some extent others)
realities/future and that the external world mirrors the
internal.By believing in this you feel in much more
control.

Another interesting question is
"Who is in the driver's seat when we control
our emotions or we respond to our emotions?"

How it basically works is that our brain is
made up of tiny nerve cells called "neurons" which branch
out and connect to other "neurons" forming what's called a
"neural net" and each place where they connect is incubated
into a thought or a memory.The brain works on the law of
"Associative Memory" and all our thoughts, feelings and
ideas are constructed and interconnected in these neural
nets. Every concept is a result of various smaller ideas,
say "Love" would be a result of combination of different
feelings for you and a combination of different
feelings for someone else depending on your experiences
both internal and external over the years.This model
keeps on changing with time according to our experiences
and as aptly put
"Any information that we process, any information
that we take in from the environment...
is always colored by the experiences that we've had..."

Those who feel they've become "Mechanized" there's more.
acc to WTBDWK?
Nerve cells that fire together wire together

"If we practice something over and over,
those nerve cells have a long-term relationship."
Also
"nerve cells that don't fire together no longer wire
together thus losing their long-term relationshiup."

So every time we interrupt and think those nerve
cells that are connected to each other start breaking
the long-term relationship.

When we start interrupting and observing not by
stimulus and response and that automatic reaction
but by observing the effects it takes then we are no
longer the body-mind conscious emotional person
that's responding to its environment as if it is
automatic.

on Right & Wrong
On the notion that some people have about right or
wrong like If I do this I will get punished by God
If I do that I will get rewarded..Instead of
viewing things this way the doc suggests another
approach of viewing things in the light of

things that you do and they'll evolve you.
and other things that will not evolve you.

In the wake of all that there is and how li'l we know
I'd conclude by quoting this extension of Descartes's
"I am much more than I think I am."

Links:
1) Creating Your Own Reality
2) Script
3) Hackery/Quackery in Scientific American
4) What the (Bleep) Were They Thinking?
5) What the bleep are they on about?

Favourite Quotes:
1)
But you know, it's, uh--
it's like positive thinking.
It's a wonderful idea,positive thinking...
but what it usually means is that I have
a little smear of positive thinking...
covering a whole mass of negative thinking.

2)
Isn't it amazing that we have options and potentials
that exist...but we're unaware of them?

Is it possible that we're so conditioned to our daily
lives...so conditioned to the way we create our lives...
that we buy the idea that we have no control at all?

3)
For the average person in the world who lives life...
and considers their life boring or uninspiring...
It's because they're so hypnotized
by their environment..they've made no attempt...
to gain knowledge and information
that will inspire them.

4)
If I change my mind, will I change my choices?
If I change my choices, will my life change?
Why can't I change? What am I addicted to?
What will I lose that I'm chemically attached to...
and what person, place, thing, time or event...
that I'm chemically attached to
that I don't want to lose...
because I may have to experience
the chemical withdrawal from that?
Hence the human drama.

5)
We have to formulate what we want...
and be so concentrated on it
and so focused on it and have so much
of our awareness of it that we lose track
of ourselves. We lose track of time.
We lose track of our identity.
And the moment we become so involved
in that experience that we lose track of
ourselves, we lose track of time...
that picture is the only picture that's real.
And everybody's had that experience...
when they've made up their mind
that they've wanted something.

6)
We've been conditioned to believe that the
external world is more real than the internal
world. This new model of science says just the
opposite--
It says what's happening within us
will create what's happening outside of us.

Desperate Relationships !!!

2008-02-04T00:00:00.000+05:30

Came across this phrase while listening to a talk show on Meow..
I know it's a all women radio station but then what the heck ?
Ever since I heard this phrase I couldn't stop thinking about it..

Desperate Relationships or DR's ....It kinda reminds of Desperate
Housewives but its no where related to that or my previous
post with a similar title..

The way I see, DR's is a class of relationships which can be
characterized by some basic/common traits. A DR stands for a
relationship in which someone enters to either cater to a strong
unfulfilled emotional(or physical) need or to run away from some
grim realities of one's life.

A careful look around yourself will reveal that this is not as
uncommon as it sounds..The causes and symptoms may vary but
sadly the outcomes are almost all the same. A potential symptom
for a DR is when deep down the people involved
(at least one of them) knows that this won't last long. It's not
uncommon to find someone who just got out of a serious
relationship get into another (apparently) serious one in almost
no time or to find someone whose already in a relationship trying
to get into another one for some unmet wants/needs..

These wants and needs could arise due to various reasons ranging
from facing phases of extreme loneliness in their lives to the
unsaid social/peer pressures of being single for quite a while.
Think about it.. Don't you know someone who got into a wrong
relationship just because she couldn't handle all sorts of pressures
(emotional, social etc) of being in mid/late 20's and single ?
or someone who got into a sinking relationship because almost all
of his school and college( or maybe work) friends were in
some sort of relationship ?

A relationship that begins in such circumstances is bound to hit
the rocks sooner or later and what's sad is that it takes down along
with it the people involved in it, particularly the emotionally
sensitive one or the who got into it without enough consideration..
Thus causing a further downfall which can potentially lead to
disastrous psychological consequences particularly when someone
has already been through a lot in their life.

Saying all that I think it would be wise for people who've been
through a tough time in their previous relationships to give
themselves enough time and thought before boarding this ship
otherwise ................................

Trivia:
1) Another term for a DR could be Comfort Relationship, a relationship
which might give a sense of comfort to the involved people in the short
run but won't last long.

Soulmates - tracing fire behind all the smoke

2007-12-25T15:39:00.000+05:30

It's not often that you get mails like this

in your inbox and as it happened I had just watched the episode
of HIMYM where Ted uses a service "Love Solutions" to search
his soulmate. Yes, SOULMATE

For a word whose quick search in Google fetches about 5,42,000
results, it hardly needs an introduction. However for records
Soul mate : a person who strongly resembles another in attitudes
or beliefs -- Merriam Websters
Soulmate is a term sometimes used to designate someone with
whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, friendship, love,
intimacy, sexuality, and/or compatibility -- Wikipedia

My first references to this word probably go back to some novel
by Paulo Cohelo I read in my early twenties and like most I too
was fascinated(to say the least) by the idea of having a soulmate
somewhere out there who would be all that I could ask for or more.
The more I thought about it then, the more rosy it seemed and the
more rosy it seemed the more I thought\fantasized about it.

People's perceptions about the word SoulMate are as varied as
people themselves. While someone may see soulmates as people
who are made for each other, someone sees soulmates as soul
companions who have spent previous lifetimes together and if you
thought that's all there is check out Soul Sister/Brother,
Karmic Soulmates, Twin Soulmates and more....

The legend has it that this concept/theory of soulmates dates back
to Plato's symposium in which he wrote a mythical story describing
a world where there were men, women and people who were both
men and women (Androgynous), not only this the people then had
four hands, four feet and two faces. Those mighty humans once
attacked Gods and while discussing how to retaliate without loosing
out on the worship offered by the humans Zeus came up with an idea.
He suggested cutting all human beings in half as it would weaken
them and double the number of people making offerings to the Gods.
Thus the humans were split into halves and are ever since seeking
their other halves(twin flame).

Split into halves or not many people were, are and will be on
the search for their soul mates or twin flames
but
Do you believe in soulmates ? Have you found your soulmate?
or you are looking/waiting for your soulmate ?

Id finish this post here, leaving on this note and would be back
with more soon..

Trivia:
1) While writing this I am constantly reminded of a romantic film titled
"Serendipity" which is based on the same premise.
2) It is probably the most time consuming post I've ever written
3) Due to enormous content I intend to split this into multiple posts

Links:

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulmate
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Plato)

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Someone Like You

2007-12-22T23:23:00.000+05:30

An Extremely Special Song for an Extremely Special would be ;)

Khoya Khoya Chand

2007-12-16T22:35:00.000+05:30

Director: Sudhir Mishra
Cast: Shiney Ahuja
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
My Rating: 3.5/5

First things first It's good to see a Sudhir Mishra(SM) film
after about two years, his last film I saw was
Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi(HKA).Was looking forward to KKC
for quite a while and finally got the chance to watch it in
its second(and probably last or second last) week in cinemas.
I am not too sure if HKA lasted any longer.

The movie is a tribute to the Hindi Cinema of 1950's and portrays
the Film Industry that existed then under various lights.The Good,
The Bad and the Ugly. We all as avid movie buffs to certain
extent know what goes inside the tinsel town so lets not delve
in to details of how this industry works or rather revolves around
the precious few and how favours are given and paid back.

I particularly loved the cinematography of the film, liked the music
and the old cinemaish feel of the film. The first half of the film
was good to the extent that you start wondering why did the movie
get such a thrashing at box office but this sense of wonder doesn't
last by the time u finish half of the regular popcorn you took
during the intermission.I can sympathize with the regular cinema
goers for running out of patience during the second half as I
myself felt a couple of times that movie is kinda dragging.

Needless to say I liked Saurabh, Shiney and Vinay's performances
but the find of the movie was Soha..Impressive bit of acting
there, totally justifying her place in a SM movie. The chemistry
between Shiney and Soha was beautifully and poetically captured
as everything from camera movement and angles to lighting worked
great. You cannot but notice the pretty Soniya Jehan for all her
beauty which shadows almost everything that's going on the
screen(her acting included).

While for HKA it was man yeh banwara for KKC it's
the title song Khoya Khoya Chand sung mellifluously by little known Swanand and Ajay which hums almost
through out the film. The writer/director's take on the
passionate love affair between Nikhat and Zafar was quite
commendable and a few dialogues carefully distributed amongst
Shiney, Soha and Rajat stand out and almost haunt you like this one

"Koi kissi ko dhokha nahi deta, sab halaat hote hain"
and that witty one by Shiney "ya toh apne aap ko dhoka deta
ya aapko toh aap hi sahi".

The Switching between present and past lives of various characters
in the film is also handled nicely. While the movie scores in all
these departments I feel it somehow lost track towards the end and
went kinda wayward. But in more ways than one its still a classic
tribute to the classics.

Links:
1) Wiki
2) Sudhir's blog
3) IMDB

Trivia:
1) All the actors had to learn Urdu for their roles
2) The film was originally titled as Bahut Nikle Mere Armaan
aka Many Of My Wishes Were Fulfilled.
3) Soha's role was initially offered to "Vidya Balan"

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BarCampDelhi3 on 8th Dec @ Noida

2007-12-06T19:45:00.000+05:30

Sorry for posting this late..

This is to inform all the nerds and geeks that barcampdelhi3 is being organized this Saturday at Impetus Noida..

If you are into Web Technologies this is the place to be...

details here..

For those who plan to attend drop a comment

PS: Barcamp is followed by a beer party sponsored by Opera :)

How I Met Your Mother(HIMYM) Quotes

2007-12-02T13:40:00.000+05:30

Started Watching this American sitcom off late and am
loving it. It's about a man who shares with his kids how
he found love of his life(their mother) and the events/incidents
that happened all this while.

Nice concept, fresh comedy and good acting.

Here are some of the quotes I liked:

Future Ted: It was like something from an old movie, where the sailor sees the girl across the crowded dance floor, turns to his buddy and says, "See that girl? I'm gonna marry her someday."
Ted: Hey Barney, see that girl?
Barney: Oh yeeeahh, you just KNOW she likes it dirty. Go say 'Hi'.

Barney: There are only two reasons to date a girl you've already dated:breast implants

Robin: How do you do this Ted? How do sit out here all night, in the cold, and still have faith that your pumpkin's going to show up?
Ted: Well, I'm pretty drunk. Look I know the odds are, the love of my life isn't going to magically walk
through that door in a pumpkin costume at 2:43 in the morning.
But it just seems as nice a spot as any to just ...
you know, sit and wait.

Barney: [chuckling] Marshall ran away from a cockroach.
Marshall: It was a mouse!
Barney: Sorry, my bad! You're a man!

Barney: Come on Ted, this is an incredible opportunity, we'll meet our soulmates, nail'em and never call 'em again.
Barney: Ted, these chicks are desperate and hot, that's a perfect cocktail. shake well, then sleep with.

Barney: Ted, your problem is all you do is think, think, think. I'm teaching you how to do, do, do!
Marshall: [giggles] Doo-doo!
Barney: Heh heh, totally!
Ted: So I think a lot! I happen to have a very powerful brain. It can't be helped.
Barney: Oh yes it can. [places a shot in front of Ted]
Marshall: Interesting!

Barney: No no, it's a great idea. That's the whole point of getting drunk; you do things that you'd never do in a million years if you were sober.

Ted:Know what ? I am done being single,
I am not good at it. Look obviously you can't tell a women u just met you love her but it sucks that you can't. I'll tell you something if a women not you just some hypothetical women would bear me through all this I think I'd make a damn good husband, because that's the stuff I'd be good at, stuff like making her laugh,and, being a good father and walking her five hypothetical dogs, being a good kisser
Robin: Everyone thinks they are good kisser.
Ted: Oh I've got references !!
Robin: Good night Ted !!
Ted(shaking hands with her): and I am good hand shaker

Ted: But that's the funny thing about destiny it happens whether you plan it or not..

Home Made Quotes..

2007-11-15T11:34:00.000+05:30

I've been a Quotoholic ever since I can remember..
Reading(n quoting) quotes has been a passion and a while back
I started zipping my thoughts/feelings in a line or two in the form
of quotations.

This post intends to serve as an archive for the same.

1) I might not know what I want, but, I know what I don't want
--- On the bike ride to office (15/11/07).
2) Blessed are those who feel no Remorse
--- Scribbled it long time back while regretting some things
that I did in the past (15/03/07).
3) Get life, before life gets you.
--- (20/11/06).

Will post old one's soon..

American Pie 4: Band Camp

2007-11-09T13:18:00.000+05:30

Director: Steve Rash
Cast: Eugene levy, Tad Hilgenbrinck, Arielle Kebbel
IMDB Rating: 5/10
My Rating: 3/5

American Pie, for the uninitiated these words might lead to
thoughts about an eatable or something but for anyone whose watched
even a couple of minutes of action from the American Pie Pentalogy
these words would conjure images of Wild Campus Life, Wannabe Teens,
Bikini Clad Babes and Couples in Love or rather Couples Making Love
n that to scores of them.
That's Pie for you......

It was refreshing to watch another Pie after a long while and good
to know that they still make Pie's the way they used to a while back.
I still can't forget the opening scene from the last Pie(3) ;)

The backbone of all films in Pie Pentalogy is the experiences
of a bunch of really wild and whacky guys from a high school who are
ultra high on testosterones. Pie has all sorts of situations
and can easily make you fall on the floor laughing unless you find them
disgusting rather than amusing( which I think can be the case with
some girls).

Pie 4 sees a new bunch of people lead by Matt Stifler younger
brother of the infamous Steve Stifler who tries to fill into
shoes of his elder bro and gets it all wrong.The new cast is what
gives the film a refreshing look but you can see a few commonalities,
spy cams to capture chicks for one.Also there was Jim's Dad(Mr. Levenstein)
who never fails to amuse and there was that Sherman-ator
which I didn't particularly like ..

Other then all the Super Wild stuff, the film has a tinge of
cute romance and also a happy ending.

Go watch it if you wanna have your dose of laughter ...

Trivia:
1) Tad Hilgenbrink really bared it all in the scene where he undresses in front of the girls while playing the trivia game. He didn't inform the girls in advance, who were expecting him to keep his privates covered somehow, so their reaction is quite genuine

Links:
1) IMDB
2) Quotes
3) Wiki

I love the way they kiss :D

Mumbai Salsa

2007-10-28T13:17:00.000+05:30

Director: Manoj Tyagi
Cast: Virdas,Indraneil SenGupta,
Dilip Thadeshwar, Raymond Irani, Manjari Fadnis, Amruta Khanvilkar,
Linda Arsenio, Neelam Chauhan
Rating: 2.5/5

As TOI put it aptly it easy to label this one as Metro part two.
After reading just this line and seeing a rating of 3.5
I decided to watch this film instead of another new release
(Jab We Met)and as it turned out, it was a case of choices gone
wrong.

After almost a month of not being able to watch a movie at
theater I went for an morning(early) show of Salsa at a
neighborhood multiplex and here's what I got....

The film starts with a peppy song by Adnan Sami which starts
getting you into that frame of mind where you forget everything,
including the fact that it's just 9:30 in the morning on a Sunday,
but by the time the theme song fades away you inevitably start
falling back to the point from where you started.
Maybe it was just with me and my friend but quite a few people
from the cast looked lookalikes of some bollywood stars.

Vir Das looked like a pre-release version of Imran Hashmi,
Manjari reminded me of Shilpa Shetty while Indraneil from certain
angles looked like Priyanshu..

The feeling of deja-vu doesn't just stop there because
quite some scenes/situations seem to be picked from other
contemporary bollywood films,Metro, Jhankar Beats and Pyar ke
side effects to name a few.Maybe it's just a coincidence
or maybe not....

Most of the themes picked in the film are banal while situations
and their outcomes easily predictable.Over acting by few in quite
a lot sequences and vanilla dialogues take the film farther away
from being an entertainer. It's hard (atleast for me) to find out
how Salsa is different from Metro. Metro had better music for sure.
A couple of monologues and few fairly innovative scenes, dialogues
and songs save Salsa from being an outright flop show.

I particularly liked the scene where Maya gets dumped for the first
time,the one where Shahji compares how the drink a women orders in
a bar tells what's her state of mind, the one where Raj's boss tells
him the time one's personal life gets screwed his/her career begins
to peak up and the closing scene in which the narrator talks about
how some people need someone to find happiness while some find
that happiness in themselves.

Keeping in mind the khufiapanti(Salsa lingo) involved I think

Mumbai Salsa = 0.7*(Metro) + 0.1*(Jhankar beats n PKSE) + 0.2*(Tap Water)

Trivia:
1) In all there were 6 people in that audi, 2 of us, a middle
aged man (who seemed to be there to avoid her wife's Sunday
Morning nagging), a teenager and a couple who were more
interested in doing Seat Salsa.
2) One thing that stuck me was the
Sad but True "Code of Honour" that guys
(not sure about girls) have.
3) As both of us noticed that the background score
was quite mismatched atleast once(when Xen breaks down in front
of Neha).Funny thing is that rather it sounded a tune straight
from a horror flick
4) It's nice to watch a film early in the morning as it leaves you
with most of the day to spare plus the tickets also cost less.

Links:
1)India FM
2) Bollywood Archive
3) On Youtube

Philosophising Soccer

2007-10-07T01:33:00.000+05:30

Links:
The_Philosophers_Football_Match
Script

More SATC Quotes

2007-09-12T23:37:00.001+05:30

TGISATC.........

Taking it forward from my last post on SATC Quotes

Samantha : Honey, you look back so much you should have a relationship rear view mirror.
Miranda : Relationships may appear closer than they actually are.

Charlotte : TREY! I'm tired of being married to your penis. I'm a person! And this is supposed to be a relationship! And I am DONE walking on eggshells. Ooooooo, don't talk about moving in, in front of the penis cause it might go soft. And, and the penis likes this and the penis doesn't like that and THE PENIS WANTS TO BE MEASURED!

Samantha : Sex is a barometer of what is going on in a relationship.

Carrie : I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love. And I don't think that love is here in this expensive suite in this lovely hotel in Paris

Samantha on kilts : I like the idea of men in skirts. Easy access.

Charlotte about Elizabeth Taylor : She's getting a little fat.
Pet store clerk : Oh, she's not fat.
Charlotte : You're right, that's an ugly term. She's... full figured

Carrie : People say 'Everything happens for a reason.' These people are usually women. And these women are usually sorting through a break-up. It seems that men can get out of a relationship without even a 'Goodbye,' But, apparently, women have to either get married or learn something.
Why are we in such a rush to move from confused to Confucius?
Do we search for lessons to lessen the pain?

Samantha : I tell you, it is so refreshing to be with someone who likes to fuck outside the box.

Carrie : Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are. After all, seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

Miranda : I'm telling you: the fat ass, the farting .. it's ridiculous. I am un-fuckable. And I have never been so horny in my entire life. ... That's why you're supposed to be married when you're pregnant, so somebody is obligated to have sex with you.

Samantha while milking a cow and squirting herself in the face : I usually get a little warning before that happens.

Charlotte [After the wedding] I finally get to sleep with Trey.
Carrie : Excuse me?
Miranda : You haven't slept with him yet?
Samantha : Honey, before you buy the car you take it for a test drive!

Carrie : Wallis was right. The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't, but in the end they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.

Doctor : Your right ovary has stopped producing eggs.
Miranda : Is it possible it's just on strike?

Miranda : I'd like to forget some of the men I've slept with.
Charlotte : I keep a list.
Miranda : Oh, how sweet. "Men to do today."

Carrie : It all seemed so familiar. She was having a deja fuck.

Charlotte : It takes half the total time you went out with someone to get over them.
Carrie : I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Woman on the street : They say the average 33-year-old woman has sex 3.5 times a week. I'd like to know who that woman is.

Miranda : So all I have to do to meet the ideal man is to give birth to him.

Samantha : Money is power. Sex is power. Therefore, getting money for sex is simply an exchange of power.

Funny Laziness Quotes

2007-09-06T14:53:00.000+05:30

Some funny quotes on Laziness...

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
- Edgar Bergen

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
- Jules Renard

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

Cheers,
Have a Lazy/Laid back Day Ahead

What Women Want....

2007-08-26T12:36:00.000+05:30

"Nice guys don't finish last" read a poster on the sets of sitcom
Joey. In fact that's how I first got to know about the popular phrase
"Nice guys finish last".

Nice Guy is a term in the general public discourse and in popular
culture for a male with certain personality traits and behaviors.
Many traits, both positive and negative are associated with "nice guys".
These traits include sensitivity, agreeableness, pleasantness,
considerateness, respectfulness, altruism, understanding, kindness,
sympathy, dependability, honesty,trustworthiness, passivity,
sexual cautiousness or inexperience, chivalrousness, effeminacy,
passive-aggressiveness, conflict-avoidance, "wimpiness",
"spinelessness", being "whipped", manipulativeness and submissiveness.
-- Wikipedia

From my experience I feel girls/women in general do tag some guys
as "Nice Guys" and from what I've gathered, it essentially means
that women find these people Harmless, Helping, Caring, Comforting
and someone with whom they can share things close to their hearts
and be themselves.The chemistry that thus develops between girls
and "Nice Guys" is quite conspicuous and it gets people to start
thinking that Girls prefer "Nice Guys".Next and the obvious thing is,
guys trying to be nice or pretending(at times going out of the way)
to be nice. Till here it's as simple as ABC. But the climax of all this
is the question

"Whether nice guys are attractive to women or not".

Apparently there is a huge variance in women's stated preferences
and their actual choices in guys. That is they say and
show(or maybe believe) that they like "Nice Guys" but while
making a choice they often tend to do otherwise.

While one research claims that
"many 'Sensitive' men do not believe that women want 'Nice Guys'
due to their personal experiences" other says
"women are less likely to have sex with men who are 'nice' than
men who are 'not nice'" and another says
"women looking for long/committed relationships prefer the 'Nice Guys'"

By now your brain cells must have started firing and you
are thinking what's the real deal.. Now what if we add
"Women like when guys are nice to them,
but only when they don’t have to be" to the concoction ?

To make things worse add the concept of
"Nice Guys as Intellectual Whores".

Intellectual Whore (a man whom a woman befriends only for the
intellectual stimulation he gives her). A theory goes on to state that
women seek two things an aggressive sexual partner and an
intellectually stimulating or entertaining partner. It concludes
that if these qualities cannot be found in one single man, a woman
will seek out two (or more) separate men to fulfill all of her needs.
The nice guy only fits one of these categories.

and perhaps thus the above mentioned discrepancy between saying and doing.

Is there any set pattern or it differs from case to case ?
Whatever it be, but then can someone really say what goes inside
a girl's mind ?

Poll Time(girls only):
1) You meet two men. One, Rahul, is nice but somewhat shy and
has not had any affairs. The other, Ribhu, is attractive, a lot of fun,
and has had history with 3 women. Both wish to date you.
Whom do you choose?
2) Whom will you choose a nice guy or a fun/sexy guy ?

Trivia:
1) The term "Intellectual Whore" is derived from a short-story by
Woody Allen called The Whore of Mensa'.
2) "Women like when guys are nice to them,but only when they don’t
have to be" roughly translate into something like "Being Nice at
times but not always ..."
3) I am somehow reminded of a dialogue from the film
"Manorama 6 feet under"
"Yeh aurat bhi ajeeb hoti hai, agar galat marad mil jaye
toh saari zindagi roti rehti hai aur jo sahi mil jaye to usse
saari zindagi rulati rehti hai"

Links:
1) Nice Guy
2) The Nice Guy Paradox Solved
3) More on Whoredom
4) Average Frustrated Chump

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

2007-08-15T22:32:00.000+05:30

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Been there, Felt this ??

Me, Myself and My Randomness

2007-08-10T21:48:00.000+05:30

Dated:9th Aug

After having an okiesh day at office I left for home(with some emotional
baggage). Thought of meeting my best friend in order to talk things out
and feel better but unluckily or luckily our rendezvous couldn't happen.
Took a Cab for home from Dhaula Kuan along with 3 other people
including a stylish guy with a pony. After being lost in my own world for
10 minutes or so I started to over hear what the guy with a pony was
talking on his phone.

"Nahi yaar tu usse jaane de, agar usse khud hi galat nahi
lag raha toh theek hai" "Agar tu mera bhai hai toh usse kuch
mat bolna main tere se haath jod ke request karta hun"

Needless to say after overhearing this I was Intrigued and started one of
my favorite time pass games "Guess, what they are talking about". Soon
I thought the better of it and thought of starting a conversation and
asking him what's wrong .

Me: Hi, I am sorry but I kinda overheard your conversation.
Waise generally speaking how comfortable would a person be
about talking his/her problems with a complete stranger ?
etc etc...
Pony Guy: Hmm Ya, at times it happens that people are so overflowing
with emotions that they can share anything with anyone even a complete stranger.
Me: blah blah
Pony Guy: blah blah

That's how we started talking and kept going on and on. He started telling
me what was he talking about on phone

"My girlfriend made a friend about 6 months back and she wants
to go n wish him birthday at 12 in the night, I feel this is not kinda
right, though she asked me to join her. I mean giving a call at night
etc is ok but going to wish someone at that hour is not ok"
"Maine toh usse mana kara hai but if she still goes then there will
be some trouble"

Honestly speaking I was anticipating something bigger given
all the issues that I have been getting to know for quite a while now.
Exchanged a few sentences about where we worked,lived etc and then
again we were talking about his problem, I also got so engrossed that
I skipped my stop and went on...
{Every time I have to make a decision like this I ask myself do I do this
regularly and since the answer is mostly NO I happily go ahead}.

Took an auto from where the Cab dropped us and then this guy
(we don't know each other's name as yet) asked me "Do you drink?"
Me: Yes but occasionally and beer mostly
Pony Guy: Beer peeni hai ?

Next 10 minutes saw us sipping a king fisher in auto, never thought
I would be drinking beer in an auto. We drank and talked till we got to
our destination.Not knowing my appetite he had got 2 beers so we
found a suitable place on the main road to finish off the other bottle.
Heart to Heart talks followed.
I Got to know more about his life story n he got to know a bit about mine
(Mind you this was the first time I opened a portion of my heart out to someone).

By now the hours hand of the clock had reached between 9 n 10 and
needless to say he was feeling lighter/better and I slightly high(drunk).
The job was done so we decided to head home and exchanged numbers
(Initially I was keen to keep it anonymous) n the icing on the cake of
coincidence was that we both shared the same surname.

Trivia:
1) I had a similar experience 6-7 months back in my previous
company with a girl working in our BPO dept.
2) Realized each couple has a unique set of issues.
3) I have this random thought of doing something of this sort
regularly in a slightly more organized manner. Lets see if
some comes about.

Ajeeb Shakhs....

2007-08-10T16:08:00.000+05:30

Thanks to an Orkut friend from Pakistan who sent this to me:

Ajeeb shakhs tha kaisa mizaaj rakhta tha..
Saath reh k bhi woh ikhtilaaf rakhta tha..
Main kyun na daad doon uss k fun ki ay logo..
Mere har sawaaal ka pehlay hi jawab rakhta tha..
Woh khud to roshniyon ka baasi tha magar,
Meri andher nagrii ka bara khayal rakhta tha..
Muhabbat to thii ussay kisi aur se shayad..
Ham se to yunhii hansii mazaq rakhta tha..

Trivia:
1) The Arabic term ikhtilaaf denotes taking a different position or course
from that of another person either in opinion, utterance, or action.

That's how I lost my other key

2007-08-01T20:13:00.001+05:30

It rained heavily in the evening n we(office friends) got drenched and
had "Gol Gappas"at the Green Park market..Got back to office after that,
wrapped up my work and left for home....

As expected the traffic was at its worst best..Every lane clogged and every
traffic signal choked..Took me some biking/maneuvering skills and a good 15
minutes to hit the ring road. Things were seeming to be better with running
traffic, flowing cool breeze and slight drizzle. A part of me enjoying the
weather and other driving the bike.

Zipping,Zapping and Zooming on the ring road while thinking a thousand
thoughts. From "Quippy" to "Office Work" to "Crashing Markets" to
"A friend's drinking spree" everything was bombarding my mind in an
absolutely random manner.Driving at 60+ I had crossed "Dhaula Kuan"
and was about to reach "Delhi Cant" ki red light. The signal was not
working and a cop had taken it's place to manage the traffic.

Everyone was rushing, trying to cross the signal in time when all of a sudden
the cop showed his palm at our side of traffic and as a reflex action the two
cars that were ahead of me came to a sudden halt and BANG....
My bike skidded and rammed into a Wagon-R that was just ahead of me.
My heart skipped a beat on realizing that some damage had been done by me.

Almost half a minute passed without any response from the two guys
who were inside the car..I calmed a bit and sort of instinctively started
pretending as if I had hurt my left hand(which obviously wasn't the case).
And then the guy who was sitting next to the person driving the car
came out to take a stock..To his(and my) displeasure he found that the
bumper was damaged and thus began the blame game.

He: "Yeh kya kara hai"
He(To that other guy): "Yeh toh bumper tod diya hai"
Me(Innocently): "Bhaisahab maine jaan bhoojh ke thodi na kiya hai,
aapne ek dum se break laga di"
He(Turning Red): "Aagey wale ne break maari toh maine bhi maari,
tumse break nahi lagi to tumhari galti hai"
Me(Still pretending to be Innocent): Blah Blah Blah
He: Gurr Gurr Gurr

The cop signaled "green" and horns started blaring. He then indicated the
other guy whom he kept referring as "SIR" to cross the signal and took
the keys of my bike n asked me to come to the side. I was trapped.
He sat on my bike and told me to cross the signal. I did as I was directed,
for it was me who was guilty.

We drove and I tried to wheedle out of the situation giving all sorts of
excuses but all he had to say was "Aapko iske paise dene padenge".
I didn't even consider that option as my mind had already done the
calculations and informed me that the amount in question would be some
4 digit number.So were yet to reach a solution and then I realized that I was
not even carrying the registration papers for my bike.FUCK
If he involves a cop in this, rest assured I will be screwed.

We reached Naraina market and started waiting for the guy who was driving
the car. My pillion rider got down, called up his "SIR" and started explaining
him where we were. By this time even I had started to feel irritated
and then with a BLINK I got into my helmet, started my bike and Vroooooooom

Didn't look back even once and zigzagged my way to Naraina's Traffic Signal
and from there to my locality.

God willing, I had once again managed to pull it off....

Trivia:
1) Read how I lost my first key here.
2) Stopped at near by repair shop and took tomorrow's appointment to
get back my first key.
3) Used a friend's key to lock my bike for the night.
4) Every time I start feeling sorry for that guy I wishfully think
"That guy was not the owner of the car and he was trying
to butter his so called SIR who super cool and hardly bothered".

When Harry Met Sally

2007-07-22T01:31:00.000+05:30

A week doesn't seem complete until I watch a movie or two(at least).
This feeling that somethings missing got the better of me and
I decided to watch "When Harry Met Sally" (Yes this is the film that
inspired "HUM TUM") on an ideal Saturday.Had heard about this a long
time back but somehow couldn't watch it earlier.

Talking about WHMS

Director:Rob Reiner
Cast: Billy Crystal,Meg Ryan,
Carrie Fisher,Bruno Kirby and Lisa Jane Persky

It's a Romantic Comedy that
revolves around the lives(and relationship) of Harry Burns and
Sally Albright played beautifully by Billy and Meg.The movie opens up
slightly unusually with an elderly couple(not part of the movie)
sitting on a sofa set, sort of being interviewed with the Man going like

"I was sitting with my friend Arthur, in a restaurant and this girl
walked in ----
--- and I turned to Arthur and I said, "Arthur, you see that girl ?
I'm going to marry her." And two weeks later we were married. And
it's 50 years later and we're still married."

Similar scenes with old couples of different cultural backgrounds
summarizing how the they met their partners, got married and are still
together, occur intermittently throughout the film and give a subtle
feel to the story.

For the uninitiated its d movie that gave world one of the all time famous
lines "Ek ladka aur ek ladki kabhi dost nahi ho sakte" OR in Harry Speak
"men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way"
Yes, that's how those lines came into existence(1989)and are still
being used and reused by people(basically guys I believe) all around.

Harry is a forthright, pragmatic and maverick glib talker whose in touch
with himself while Sally is a pretty looking, picky women with cerebral
approach whose kinda out of touch with herself(away from her reality).
Harry and Sally start off being acquaintances and eventually end up
falling for each other.The movie focuses on their relationship
as acquaintances, friends and more then just friends. I think any/everyone
who is or was in such a relationship can correlate a lot(I do for sure).

Beneath the layer of consciousness where the people
involved care n feel for each other(in we are just friends way) is another
layer(unconscious) where they secretly and unknowingly like/desire that
chemistry and want it to never end.

I strongly feel(it happens in the film also) that a guy and a girl cannot
be just very good friends, no it's not really that the sex part that gets in
the way but its the emotions part that does. There's a very high chance
that one of the two persons involved would be knowingly/unknowingly
feeling much more about the other person. But then not every pair of
very good friends end up the way Harry n Sally do. Maybe cause there
is not a Harry(Guy or Gal) in every such case.Think about it..

The movie has its share of some really funny and some really
touching moments.Even while writing this I cant stop thinking about some
scenes and laughing out loud.

A must watch

My Rating: 4/5
Imdb Rating: 7.6/10

Scenes that I loved:
1) On way to New York when they enter a restaurant and Sally loudly says
"It just so happened that I had plenty of good sex".
2) The one in which they meet on a plane
3) Harry n Jess raise n do Mexican waves while discussing Harry's wife.
4) When they talk on phone before going to sleep.
5) The one in museum where they speak in a different/funny way.
6) Harry n Jess while practicing baseball
7) The one with "I'll have what she is having"(Orgasm Scene)
8) When Sally breaks down n Harry goes to her place
9) Harry n Sally calling Jess n his wife
10) Harry proposing Sally on new year's eve

Dialogues that I loved:
Well there were lots of them so I put them in a separate post here

Trivia:
1)In the famous faked orgasm scene, the woman who says, "I'll have what she's having. . ." is Rob Reiner's mother.

Links:
1) Answers.com
2) WikiQuote

Osian Film Festival - 2007 (20-29July)

2007-07-18T23:56:00.000+05:30

This goes out for all the cinema lovers out there..

"Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art" is organizing 9th Osian's-CineFan Film Festival in
Delhi starting from the 20th to 29th July(in 7 theaters across Delhi).

[from Osian's site]

Osian’s-Cinefan is one of Asia’s leading film festivals devoted
principally to Asia and the Arab world. Established in 1999 in New Delhi
in July every year, the Festival enjoys an international reputation for the
quality of films screened over nine days complemented by panel discussions,
one major seminar each time, an Auction of Popular Culture and Film
Memorabilia along with a number of exhibitions, the Talent Campus for
budding young filmmakers from South Asia, and the presence and
participation of film professionals from all over the world and all over India.
We present a Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished contribution to
writing on cinema – perhaps the only Festival in the world that recognizes the
role of the scriptwriter and the critic in the creation and the promotion.

This year, the Festival, with the tagline ‘Recreating Cinematic Culture’
will focus on Japan, with a nine-film tribute to Kenji Mizoguchi. A number
of contemporary films and films on the samurai will be shown.

A must attend event for serious Movie Buffs and a should try event
for all the rest. Those of you who prefer staying in the confines
of Bollywood can try any of the following

Shatranj Ke Khiladi(Satyajit Ray), Dor(Nagesh kukunoor)
The Rising : Ballad of Mangal Pandey(Ketan Mehta),
Mr & Mrs 55(Guru Dutt),Omkara(Vishal Bharadwaj),
Mithya(Rajat Kapoor), Khosla ka Ghosla(Dibakar Bannerjee)
Anubhav (Rajiv Nath),Thang(Amol Palekar),
Jashn-e-Azadi(Sanjay Kak), Kaal(Bappaditya Bandopadhyay),
Devdas(P C Barua),Via Darjeeling(Arindam Nandy),
Kya Tum Ho(Anish Ahluwalia), Shoonya(Arindam Mitra),
A Little Box of Sweets(Meneka Das),Chaurahen(Rajshree Ojha)
Lage Raho Munnabhai(Raj Hirani),Manorama Six Feet Under,
Jagte Raho,Return to Rajapur,1971, and even
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd(Reema Kagti).

Piece of Advice: In case you are thinking of trying a foreign movie
search more about it on IMDB and see if fits the bill.

Drop in a comment if you plan to catch a flick,also mention the
name of the films you are planning to watch...

Hope to see you there

Ciao !!!!

Links:
1) Schedule
2) Osian's Site
3) Archives
4) Osian's Booklet
5) Event @ Facebook

Movie Quotes from When Harry Met Sally

2007-07-13T22:45:00.000+05:30

Harry: I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible

Harry: It is so nice when you can sit with someone and not have to talk.

Sally: You see? That is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it impossible for me to hate you.

Harry: You realize of course that we could never be friends.
Sally: Why not?
Harry: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry: No you don't.
Sally: Yes I do.
Harry: No you don't.
Sally: Yes I do.
Harry: You only think you do.
Sally: You say I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry: No, what I'm saying is they all WANT to have sex with you.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally: So, you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive?
Harry: No. You pretty much want to nail 'em too.
Sally: What if THEY don't want to have sex with YOU?
Harry: Doesn't matter because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Sally: Well, I guess we're not going to be friends then.
Harry: I guess not.
Sally: That's too bad. You were the only person I knew in New York.

Harry: The first time we met, we hated each other.
Sally: No, you didn't hate me, I hated you. And the second time we met, you didn't even remember me.
Harry: I did too, I remembered you. The third time we met, we became friends.
Sally: We were friends for a long time.
Harry: And then we weren't.
Sally: And then we fell in love.

Harry: Would you like to have dinner?... Just friends.
Sally: I thought you didn't believe men and women could be friends.
Harry: When did I say that?
Sally: On the ride to New York.
Harry: No, no, no, I never said that... Yes, that's right, they can't be friends. Unless both of them are involved with other people, then they can... This is an amendment to the earlier rule. If the two people are in relationships, the pressure of possible involvement is lifted... That doesn't work either, because what happens then is, the person you're involved with can't understand why you need to be friends with the person you're just friends with. Like it means something is missing from the relationship and why do you have to go outside to get it? And when you say "No, no, no it's not true, nothing is missing from the relationship," the person you're involved with then accuses you of being secretly attracted to the person you're just friends with, which you probably are. I mean, come on, who the hell are we kidding, let's face it. Which brings us back to the earlier rule before the amendment, which is men and women can't be friends.

Harry: There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.
Sally: Which one am I?
Harry: You're the worst kind. You're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance.

[On Orgasms]
Sally: Most women at one time or another have faked it.
Harry: Well, they haven't faked it with me.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because I know.
Sally: Oh. Right. Thats right. I forgot. Youre a man.
Harry: What was that supposed to mean?
Sally: Nothing. Its just that all men are sure it never happened to them and all women at one time or other have done it so you do the math.

Harry: I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Harry: With whom did you have this great sex?
Sally: I'm not going to tell you that.
Harry: Fine, don't tell me.
Sally: Shel Gordon.
Harry: Shel? Sheldon? No, no, you did not have great sex with Sheldon.
Sally: I did too.
Harry: No you didn't. A Sheldon can do your income taxes, if you need a root canal, Sheldon's your man... but humpin' and pumpin' is not Sheldon's strong suit. It's the name. 'Do it to me Sheldon, you're an animal Sheldon, ride me big Shel-don.' Doesn't work.

Harry: Oh, really? When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it
ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Marie: All I'm saying is that somewhere out there is the man you are supposed to marry. And if you don't get him first, somebody else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that somebody else
is married to your husband

[after Sally fakes orgasm in a deli]
Older Woman Customer: [to waiter] I'll have
what she's having.

Sally: Well, basically it's the same dream I've been having since I was twelve.
Harry: Which is?
Sally: Okay, there's this guy...
Harry: What does he look like?
Sally: I don't know, he's just sort of faceless.
Harry: Faceless guy, okay.
Sally: He RIPS off my clothes.
[pause]
Harry: And?
Sally: That's it.
Harry: That's it? Some faceless guy rips off all your clothes, and THAT'S the sex fantasy you've been having since you were twelve?
Sally: Well sometimes I vary it a little.
Harry: Which part?
Sally: What I'm wearing.

Sally: No. But why didn't he want to marry me? What's the matter with me?
Harry: Nothing.
Sally: I'm difficult.
Harry: You're challenging.
Sally: I'm too structured, I'm completely closed off.
Harry: But in a good way.
Sally: No, no, no, I drove him away. AND, I'm gonna be forty.
Harry: When?
Sally: Someday.
Harry: In eight years.
Sally: But it's there. It's just sitting there, like some big dead end. And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had kids when he was 73.
Harry: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up

Harry: I don't know. May be you get to a certain point in the relationship where it's just too late to have sex, you know?

Harry: You know you just get to a certain point where you get tired of the whole thing.
Sally: What "whole thing"?
Harry: The whole life-of-a-single-guy thing. You meet someone, you have the safe lunch, you decide you like each other enough to move on to dinner. You go dancing, you do the white-man's over-bite, go back to her place, you have sex and the minute you're finished you know what goes through your mind? How long do I have to lie here and hold her before I can get up and go home. Is thirty seconds enough?
Sally: That's what you're thinking? Is that true?
Harry: Sure! All men think that. How long do you want to be held afterwards? All night, right? See there's your problem, somewhere between thirty seconds and all night is your problem.
Sally: I don't have a problem!
Harry: Yeah you do

Harry: You know the first time I met I really didn't like you that much.
Sally: I didn't like you.
Harry: Yeah you did, you were just so uptight then. You're much softer now.
Sally: You know I hate that kind of remark. It sounds like a complement but really it's an insult.
Harry: OK, you're still as hard as nails.
Sally: I just didn't want to sleep with you and you had to write it off as a character flaw instead of dealing with the possibility that it might have something to do with you.

Jess: I don't understand this relationship.
Harry: What do you mean?
Jess: You enjoy being with her?
Harry: Yeah.
Jess: You find her attractive?
Harry: Yeah.
Jess: And you're not sleeping with her.
Harry: No.
Jess: You're afraid to let yourself be happy.
Harry: Why can't you give me credit for this? This is a big thing for me. I never had a relationship with a woman that didn't involve sex. I feel like I'm growing.

The Never Ending Post .....

2007-07-01T02:00:00.001+05:30

Yeps, it a post unlike a post and what does that mean ???
For one it means that it'll be updated and outposted......

And what we'll have in it..Hmmmm...OK
It will have some of the nicest movie quotes, lyrics,
one liners and all those sort of things

Lights, Camera, Action..........

Movie - Dead Poet's Society

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas
can change the world.
----------------------------------------------------
I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to
die, discover that I had not lived.
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Boys, you must strive to find your own voice.
Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you
are to find it at all. Thoreau said,
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Don't be resigned to that. Break out!
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Carpe Diem! Seize the day. Make your lives
extraordinary

Movie - Me and You and Everyone We Know

I can't sleep at night thinking about her. I just wish
I had met her 50 years sooner.- Yeah.- But then
maybe I needed 70 years of life...to be ready for a
woman like Ellen
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Ice Land is—It's kind of like that point in a relationship,
you know...where you suddenly realize it's not gonna
last forever. You know, you can see the end in sight.

Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayi(Song)

"Bin tere koi bhi aas naa rahi...itna tarse ki pyaas bhi naa rahi"

Movie - Waking Life

"What is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?"

"Actually, the gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human."

"They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"

"And on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion."

"The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything."

" The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving."

"Did you ever have a job that you hated and worked real hard at? A long, hard day of work. Finally you get to go home, get in bed, close your eyes and immediately you wake up and realize... that the whole day at work had been a dream. It's bad enough that you sell your waking life for minimum wage, but now they get your dreams for free"

Movie - Shall We Dance

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet..... I mean, what does any one life mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things..... all of it, all the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I will be your witness'.

Movie - Fight Club

This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Movie - Someone Like You

"There are very few things sadder in this life than
watching someone walk away after they have left you.
Watching the distance between your bodies expands
until there is nothing left but empty space and silence"

Movie - Forrest Gump

Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you`re gonna get.
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I am not a very smart man, but I know what love is.
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Movie-Scent of a woman

"some people live a lifetime in a minute."

Movie-The shawshank redemption

"Get busy livin or get busy dying..."

Movie - Being Cyrus

Once the game is over both the King and the
pawn go to the same box

Movie-Phenomenon

George: "Do you think that you could love me for the rest of my life?"
Lace: "No, I'm gonna love you for the rest of mine."

Movie - Vanilla Sky

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Movie Karam (song)

Tinka Tinka Zara - Zara
Hai Roshani Se Jaise Bhara
Har Dil Me Armaa Hote To Hai…
Bas Koi… Samjhe Zara

Movie-Masoom (Song - Tujhse Naaraz Nahi...)

Jine ke liye socha hi nahi dard sambhalane honge.
Muskuraye jo to muskurahton ke karz utarne honge.

Song - Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you
want to do with your life. The most interesting
people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most
interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes
you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can.
Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it,
it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Movie - Clueless

Cher: I want to do something for humanity.
Josh: How about sterilization?

Movie-The Lion King

...the way I see it, you can either run from it,
or learn from it.

Movie-A Beautiful Mind

I don't exactly know what I am required to say in
order for you to have intercourse with me.
But could we assume that I said all that.
I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange
right? So could we go just straight to the sex.

Movie-Departed

Marriage is an important part of getting ahead.
It lets people know you're not a homo.
A married guy seems more stable. People see the ring,
they think "at least somebody can stand the son of a bitch"
Ladies see the ring, they know immediately that you must
have some cash, and your cock must work.

Movie - Swordfish

You know the problem with Hollywood? They make shit.
Unbelievable, unremarkable shit.I'm not some grungy filmmaker-
wannabee searching for existentialism through a haze
of bong-smoke. It's easy to pick apart bad acting,
short-sighted directing, or the purely moronic stringing
together of words many of the studios term as prose.
No,I'm talking the lack of realism.Realism.
Not a pervasive element in the modern American
cinematic vision.............

ROBERTS: You know, this movie of yours, I don't think it would have worked.
GABRIEL: Really? How come?
ROBERTS: Audiences love happy endings.
GABRIEL: Pacino escapes. With the money.Boyfriend gets the sex change operation. They live happily ever after.
GABRIEL: No?
STANLEY: No.
GABRIEL: Homophobia?
STANLEY: Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the
other, he's gotta go down.
GABRIEL: Oh, well. Life does tend to be stranger than fiction

Movie - Hitch

One dance, one look, one kiss, that's all we get, Albert. Just... one shot, to make the difference between happily ever after, and oh? he's just some guy I went to some thing with once.

So how does it happen, great love? Nobody knows... but what I can tell you is that it happens in the blink of an eye. One moment you're enjoying your life, and the next you're wondering how you ever lived without them

Movie - The Notebook

I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.

Movie - Omkara

Mann meri nahi maan raha hai aur main mann ki

Quote:

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. - Aldous Huxley

Films I Watched

2007-07-01T01:13:00.001+05:30

Here's a list to keep a track of the films that I watched..

43) Bhootnath(Rating 2.25/5)
42) Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi(Rating 4.5/5)
41) The Departed (Rating 4/5)
40) The Mating Habits of Earth Bound Humans (Rating 3.5/5)
39) Opera Jawa(Rating 4/5)
38) Shaurya(Rating 2.5/5)
37)Race(Rating 2/5)
36)Goodwill Hunting(Rating 3.75/5)
35)What The Bleep Do We Know?(Rating 3.5/5)
34) American Gangster(Rating 3.5/5)
33) Anything Else(Rating 3/5)
32) Pay it Forward (Rating 4/5)
31) Taare Zameen Par (Rating 5/5)
30) Khoya Khoya Chand (Rating 3.5/5)
29) Lions of Punjab (Rating 3/5)
28) American Pie 4 Band Camp (Rating 3/5) {09/11/07}
27) Jab We Met (Rating 3.5/5) {31/10/07}
26) Mumbai Salsa (Rating 2.5/5) {28/10/07}
25) Bombay Boys (Rating 3.75/5)
24) All You Got (Rating 3.25/5)
23) Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda (Rating 4.25/5)
22) Chuk De India (Rating 3.25/5)
21) Borat (Rating 3.5/5)
20) Cut and Paste (Rating 3.75/5)
19) Return to Rajapur (Rating 3/5)
18) Manorama Six Feet Under (Rating 4/5)
17) Tak-Derakhth (Rating 3/5)
16) Anuranan (Rating 3.5/5)
15) Mithya (Rating 3.5/5)
14) Hia W'Houa (Rating 3.75/5)
13) Bes Vakit (Rating 4/5) {21/07/07}
12) Sansho Dayu (Rating 3.5/5) {21/07/07}
11) Domicile Conjugal (Rating 3.5/5) {13/07/07}
10) Die Hard 4.0 (Rating 3.25/5) {02/07/07}
9) Before Sunset (Rating 4/5) {30/06/07}
8) When Harry Met Sally(Rating 3.75/5) {30/06/07}
7) Cheeni Kum (Rating 3.5/5) {23/06/07}
6) Ocean's 13 (Rating 2.5/5)
5) Omkara (Rating 4.5/5)
4) Shootout at Lokandwala (Rating 2.25/5)
3) Before Sunrise (Rating 3.5/5)
2) Life in a Metro (Rating 3.25/5)
1) Bheja Fry (Rating 3.75/5)

Celebrating World Music Day

2007-06-30T10:12:00.000+05:30

It all started when while sifting through the pages of HT a few
days back I stumbled upon an ad for "Genre of The Day contest".
On an ordinary day I would have skipped it like it was never there
but that day I chose to be different, chose to act because the prize
was very enticing, "Invites for finale of HT's World Music
Day celebrations featuring Atif Aslam and Rock Bands"

I (for a change) sent a sms but nothing happened for a couple
of days and then i received this sms
"Hi HT congratulates u for winning the GOTD contest.
Collect your prize from .........." . Wow I had just won my
solitary prize in the real world. But then can things be
really this simple for me ?? Noooooooo is the the obvious answer.
Moreover what fun would a good thing like this be unless it flip-flops
between Ifs and Buts ?

From receiving just one pass for the concert(plus a music world
gift voucher) , staying late in office for work to standing at
venue's entry with a pass but being told that admissions
are closed everything happened with me in a kinda planned manner.

But then, things happen when they ought to happen and in the way
they ought to happen. Luckily I got inside in time(before Atif had come).
Had to sit through an obscure song by Manthan and a super silly
question followed by a sillier answer. No, I can't help but quote them

Dumb guy with mike(to some random guy): "aapko Atif
ka music aacha lagta hai ya Atif ke good looks ?"
Random guy:"Nahi, Mujhe Atif ka style sabse aacha lagta hai"
Dumb guy with mike:"Yes I can promise you all he is a style icon"
Me: WTF ?

Next few minutes saw Atif's band doing a sound check and once it
was done the Dude(Atif) stormed the stage.
Girls screamed and swooned, Mellifluous music wafter through the air,
Girls screamed and swooned even more. His husky resonating voice had
everyone in trance and his subtle (apt for a disco) dance steps made girls
hysterical.

Apart from his popular songs Atif treated the audience with
U2's "With or Without You", Rahat Khan's "Naina", Adnam's
"Bheegi Bheegi Raaton" and "Yaaron yahi dosti hai" but
nothing could match the effect that "Kuch is tarah" and "Tere Bin"
effortlessly created.

Piece of Advice:
For such events reach the venue even if you don't have passes/tickets
and keep trying because chances are that by hook or by crook
you'll get in.

Trivia:
1) The performance lasted just slightly more then an hour but it
gave enough to sustain nostalgia for a long long time.
2) The event saw people coming from as far as Kashmir and Mumbai
3) Special mention was given and dedications made to the Aadeez.
4) The passes were available at select Barista and Music World outlets
free of cost(Even i got to know this on Thursday afternoon).
5) Thanks to a random guy who broke the plastic seal(that
had kept the gate locked) courtesy which I got in.

Links:
1) Atif's website
2) Check this out

Tracks that Featured on my Winamp

2007-06-26T10:59:00.000+05:30

These tracks reflect my state of mind at various
points of time..

15) Way back into Love - Music and Lyrics
14) Mann Yeh Banwara - Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
13) Mauja Hi Mauja - Jab We Met
12) Perhaps,Perhaps,Perhaps - DJ Shadow
11) Sini Re Sini Re - Jawani Deewani
10) Unke Nashe Mein - Unke Nashe Mein
9) Six Days - Doris Day
8) Hello - Lionel Richie
7) All The Things She Said - The Ordinary Boys
6) Zeehal-e-Miskeen - Ghulami
5) Loose Yourself - Eminem
4) Mahia - Annie
3) Only God Knows Why - Kid Rock
2) You Fill Up My Senses - John Denver
1) Coming Back To Life - Pink Floyd

I Want You To Know....

2007-06-26T00:11:00.000+05:30

PS: Dedicated to ..........

Desperate Men

2007-06-22T12:40:00.000+05:30

Warning: Shocking/Appalling Content below

Picture these...

1) 12:30 pm on a Tuesday @ some packed blueline
bus to AIIMS.

A school girl is sitting on a seat that's towards the center of
bus (adjacent to the window seat). Lost in a novel that she
bought yesterday when she feels something is pushing her
shoulder from the right. She’s shocked and embarrassed to
find a middle aged man thrusting his ..... on her

2) 3:30 pm on a Saturday @ a cousin's place.

A teenage girl awakes from her sleep after feeling something
rubbing on her lips. Her half open eyes catch glance
of her cousin brother sneaking out of the room. Unsure how
to react she stopped talking to that guy and broke all ties
with his family.

3) 5:15 pm on Thursday @ the road from maitreyi to
shanti niketan bus stop.

A couple of girls are walking back towards the bus stop after finishing
a day at college when they start hearing weird moaning/groaning sounds,
after covering a distance they are sickened on seeing a bunch of men
............ while leching and flashing at girls passing by.

4) 7:45 pm on a Sunday @ some market in West Delhi.

A working woman is walking back to her home with her head
facing down and hands folded, reflecting how her day went
when all of a sudden three boys on a bike swoosh by her and
she realizes that something just hit her on the chest.
Tiny drops of water drizzle from her eyes ...

5) 9:30 pm on a Friday @ an office party.

A lady is tapping her feet to the music along with a couple of her friends
when she feels someone pinched her back. On turning around she finds
out it’s the same drunken guy who deliberately bumped into her few
minutes back on the same floor. Caught red handed, the guy tries to
run but unluckily (for him) he gets caught, receives a mild thrashing
from the lady and is eventually let off with a warning.

Perhaps Samantha was right(when in one of SATC episodes) she said
"An erect &^%*# doesn't have a conscience"

Streets, Public modes of transportation, Malls, Offices and
even Houses of people you know, these weeds germinate
everywhere but only when they find a prey they show
their true colour. Colour of that repressed and untamed
basic instinct which when in control effaces the distinguishing
line between humans and animals. It defies me how can
anyone(read boys/men) stoop to this level, the level which is
perhaps the nadir of immorality.

Try to imagine how things would be say in a city
like Delhi when one not to so fine day people wake up and
are told that there is no police or any other law enforcing
body........

How far could you stretch your mind???

Trust me on this, things would be worse ..........

Links:
1) An article on Eve Teasing.
2) The Blank Noise Project
3) Bosharivale
4) Testimonies of harassment
5) A blog post on eve-teasing

Trivia:
Each one of the above mentioned is as real as you n me and
what exalts my pains is the fact that i personally know every
girl/women involved. I remember breaking down in
anguish a couple of times on hearing sordid details of these
ghastly acts and I don't think I'll be able to forget them.

Omkara !!!

2007-06-09T23:40:00.000+05:30

Don't read further if using/hearing/reading or writing offensive
words(gaallies) in hindi makes you uncomfortable..

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Cast: AjayDevgan, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi,
Naseeruddin Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma and Bipasha Basu

Watched Omkara today for the 3rd time.Yes, after watching it twice on the
70 mm screen i sat down to had another go at this contemporary
Bollywood Classic...Shoot...

"Bewakoof aur chutiyee mein dhaage bhar ka farak hota haiga
bhaiya.Dhaage ke inge bewakoof aur unge chutiya, aur jo
dhaaga hench lo to kaun hai bewakoof aur kaun hai chutiya,
crore ruppey ka prashan hai bhaiya."

How often does a Hindi film start with a dialogue like this ??
Perhaps once in every 55,486 films that are made..

I still remember the rainbow of expressions that followed this dialogue
when I watched this film for the first time in theater..From a group of boys
laughing like crazy to parents looking here and there pretending as if the
film's first dialogue is yet to be spoken...The swear words keep pouring
intermittently through out the film from everyone's mouth barring
Kareena..It was surprising to see actors like Konkona Utter the "C" word
casually even while serving food..

Omkara, Vishal Bhardwaj's fourth directorial venture (Makdee,Maqbool
and The Blue Umbrella being first three) is a hindi adaptation of
Shakespeare's Othello. Set against the milieu of political warfare in wild
backwoods of Uttar Pradesh, Omkara revolves around the life of Omi(Ajay),
bahubaali(right hand) of a local politician Bhaisaab(Naseeruddin).

The movie entails a complex web of human emotions beautifully portrayed
by deft actors to perfection..Saif who has been in the acting business
for long had a rebirth with a powerhouse performance as Langda Tyagi
Ajay Devgan once again played the role of a local goon with panache and
Konkona Sen reaffirmed her acting prowess by playing the role of Indu.
While Vivek,Kareena managed to do justice to their roles,Deepak Dobriyal
stood out in his role as Rajju and needless to say Naseeruddin
did his bit flawlessly.

The scene where Dolly's father traduces about her

"Bahubali aurat ke Dariya charitra ko mat bhoolna, jo apne
baap ko thag sakti hai woh kissi aur ki sagi kya hi hogi"

sets the tone of the movie and marks a change in its course.
Next turn of events is depicted by
Langda smashing the mirror and smearing his forehead
with his blood
Soon after this the basic darker human emotions of envy, suspicion
and revenge that were foisted earlier begin to manifest themselves
and what follows is a dirty game of insinuations, perfidy and deceit
only to end up as a gory tragedy.

Exquisitely written poetic lyrics by Gulzar and Brilliantly composed music
by Vishal(himself) adds another beautiful feather in the cap of Omkara..
From haunting "Naina" and belligerent "Omkara" to the soulful instrumental
track "The Tragedy of Omkara", they got them all bang on the target and
who can forget the frenzy that "Beedi" still creates effortlessly on dance floors?
The cinematography, screenplay and script too deserve full marks.

Also I had a realization of the power that background score carries and subtle
hints that it drops about anything important thats going to happen in the next
scene.Actually its a Meticulously prepared concoction of apt background
score(which evokes pertinent feelings) and camera movement/speed..

I loved Omkara for it's authenticity and starkness, though I haven't
read Othello so I am not in a position to compare the two but I
strongly feel that Vishal would have done justice to Bard's work.

Dialogues I Loved:
1) Sarat ghoron pe lagaate hain, kathor! Seron pe nahi
2) Arrey dekh rahe hain bhaiya kahin chuna khariya toh nah utha laye,
aisi gori laundiya susri humare desh mein kahan se ho li ?
3) Mann meri nahi maan raha hai aur main mann ki..
4) Jab granthon ne kalank ko humare maathe ki bindi bana diya hai toh
aapki kya galti hai omi bhaiya, hum apne ghar bar naate, sab tyaag kar
aap logon ke sansaar mein nange haath chale aate hain, agni se bhi nikal
jawen na toh bhi sagey nahi thagey hi kehelawien hain.
5) Jab ghoree ke khoor mein naal thuke, to menduki bhi paun (u)thaa
leti hai bhaiyya
6) Baadi lakdi mat ttha (uttha)

Scenes I Loved:
1) The opening scene
2) Omi's negotiation with kaptaan on a truck
3) MMS expose of Indor Singh, the scene before title track of the film.
4) Announcement of Keeshu as the new bahubaali and the riot of colours,
and gunshots that follow.
5) Indu teasing Omi on his arrival(with Dolly) at their home.
6) Cops visiting Omi's house being frisked and made to deposit arms.
7) Langda and Rajju drinking atop a river bridge.
8) Langda ridiculing Keeshu
9) Bonfire with Langda talking about the kamarband.

Trivia:
1)

Character in the movie/ Character in the play
Omkara 'Omi' Shukla/ Othello
Ishwar 'Langda' Tyagi/ Iago
Keshav 'Kesu' Firangi/ Cassio
Dolly Mishra/ Desdemona
Indu/ Emilia
Billo Chamanbahar/ Bianca
Rajan ’Rajju’ Tiwari/ Rodrigo
Bhaisaab/ Duke of Venice

2)All characters in the film share the same alphabet or sound in their first
name as in the original Shakespeare classic

3) There was a shot where Saif Ali Khan is in the shadows, looking at a mirror.
Vishal Bharadwaj suggested that it would be very artistic and beautiful if Saif
did it naked. The actor answered,
"I am prepared to do that as long as you direct me naked."
That was the end of the topic

Links:
1) Official site for Omkara
2) A Comparison of the Antagonists of Omkara and Othello
3) Omkara on Wiki
4) Omkara's music
5) The bard and this dud

Mac Chicks !!!

2007-06-08T23:32:00.000+05:30

Like Mac ???
Like Chicks ???

So here's something for you that has it all:

Mac Chicks = Mac + Chicks

Enjoy !!!!

Road Trip

2007-05-28T22:20:00.000+05:30

6*Guys + 3*150 CC Bikes = 795 Kms in 50 Hrs.....

This equation gives a basic idea of what this road trip was like but
there's more to it than what meets the eye..

After a hiatus of more than an year I took the road on my CBZ for
my 2nd bike trip ever and 1st one on the hills..After a tiring day at
office and numerous attempts of convincing Mom about the safety
aspects of the trip I joined other gang members at the starting point.

Starting Point: Madhuban Chowk(Rohini, Delhi) 25th May,9 PM

All of us gathered here and began our longest bike trip ever...
The biking skills varied from someone who had driven to about 600kms
on a previous trip to someone who had barely managed to complete
100kms(including trips to petrol pumps) on bike.

By the time we were getting petrol tanks filled and tire's checked
for hawa it started to drizzle, Could there be a more ominous start ?,
I don't think so....

It was decided that Sukhdev Dhaba,Murthal would be 1st stoppage....
As soon as I parked my bike someone came to me and told that
there was some leakage from my bike..On closer inspection
it turned out that there was a leak in the fuel tank
( Did I tell you that I had got my bike serviced that very morning ?).
Before this strange phenomenan could sink in a fellow Sardarji nonchalantly
said "Ispe M-Seal laga dete hain".The next minute saw three
of us emptying the fuel tank in mineral water bottles(of all shapes n sizes),

two on a hunt for MSeal and one keeping an eye on our stuff.

After an exhausting half n hour the tank was emptied, MSeal carefully
put on the tank and dinner finished [followed by burps
smelling of petrol(that went while sucking fuel from tank)] Luckily
it did work and all of us were set to resume the attack and
then OH FUCK..
It so happened that I put the Lid of fuel tank ulta(opposite way)
and bang the bike keys went inside the tank..so here were we
out of the frying pan and into fire..Another set of Numerous
attempts with Spoons,Forks, Magnets, Steel Wires and Seekh
(Used to roast paneer and chicken) followed but all without avail..

Finally a guard offered his bike keys to see it can be of help and
bingo that did the trick of unlocking my bike..We were now slightly
better placed, atleast the bike could be started..Without wasting
much time we departed from there and drove with lid of tank carefully
placed so that it doesnt fall and doesnt get locked either...Next
stoppage was also dramatic, this time also it was me, the Clutch wire
had gone loose....Luckily found an auto mechanic who fixed it, got the
tank filled again, closed the tank's lid firmly and set off.....

Reached Paonta Sahib at 6:30 Am, slept for 2 hours, had bath at
banks of Yamuna, had Langar at a near by Gurdwara and left for
Chakrata. Reached Chakrata at around 5 and stayed overnight at a
dormatory..Cracked Jokes and laughed like crazy..Without a doubt
it was the funniest trip i had ever been on, Yes funniest as we laughed
like crazies(can't forget that ASS Buster series of jokes and
lighting of agarbatties to get rid of stench in the Loo).

Early Sunday Morning left for Tiger Falls, the ride was RAW,
I still remember a friend saying
"road tutti hui hai or beech beech mein road hai mein farak hota hai"
Drove for about 17 kms at speeds of 30-40 and trust me I
was scarred half the time. Driving a bike on hills is an unparalleled
experience unlike driving/travelling in a car as on a bike you get to feel the
heights more.Trekked another KM to reach falls..and the falls were
quite worth it to say the least...

A cave just adjacent to the falls(perhaps a tiger used to live there and that's
how the fall got its name)
Best part was a rainbow that was formed in the falls .

We were overwhelmed on seeing such a high/beautiful waterfall,
no doubt its one of the highest in India..

Bathed, Swam and had breakfast in falls and left for Chakrata
around 10:45 AM..

Reached Chakrata on Time(there are timings for entry and exit) and
then immediately left for Delhi..Stopped at a restaurant in Dehradun for
lunch,drove back till Jain Shikangi(Modinagar) with three-four
10-15 minutes breaks and managed to reach home by 00:15 AM

Trivia:
1) Total Expense per person Rs 1050\-
2) 3 people got bruised (including me)
3) Everyone is still finding it hard to sit(given those long hour drives on hard bike seats)
4) Road Stretches worth driving
a) Last stretch of road leading to Dehradun
b) 2nd half of Kalsi-Chakrata road
c) Chakrata - Tiger Falls
d) Last stretch of road leading to Paonta Sahib
5) Saw a passionate married sardar couple on way back(to kalsi) that
had parked their car in the middle of road and were french kissing
away to glory outside it.
6) Commonsense is the most uncommon thing in the world.

I doubt whether everyone will get it in the first go....
7) A pair of my bike keys is still in my fuel tank

Links:
1) Where is Chakrata
2) Dehradun
3) Chakrata
4) Funny

Sex and the City Quotes

2007-05-17T10:55:00.000+05:30

For all those who've loved Sex and the City Aka SATC here are some of it's most
Famous/Memorable/Funniest/Raunchiest quotes....

Adam: Come on, give me a little BJ, up and down a couple times, you're done, it's easy!
Samantha: Easy? You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy? Honey, they don't call it a job for nothin'!

Carrie: Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they're supposed to run wild until they find someone -- just as wild -- to run with

Carrie: Have you?
Mr. Big: Have I what?
Carrie: Ever been in love.
Mr Big: Absofuckinglutely

Carrie: A fuck buddy is a guy you probably dated once or twice and it didn't really go anywhere, but the sex is so great you sort of... keep him on call.
Samantha: Ooo, he's like dial-a-dick!

Charlotte (to Samantha): Is your vagina in the New York City guidebooks?
Because it should be - it's the hottest spot in town - it's always open.

Nurse: Do you swallow?
Samantha: Only when surprised

Samantha: I've lost my orgasm.
Carrie: In the cab?
Charlotte: What do you mean, 'lost'?
Samantha: I just spent the last two hours fucking with no finale.
Carrie: It happens. Sometimes you just can't get there.
Samantha: I can always get there.
Charlotte: Every time you have sex?
Carrie: She's exaggerating. Please say you're exaggerating.
Samantha: Well, I'll admit I have had to polish myself off once or twice, but yes! When I RSVP to a party, I make it my business to come.

Samantha: I'm so sick of these people with their children. I'm telling you, they're everywhere! Sitting next to me in first class, eating at the next table at John Schu— [A child runs by.] Look at that. This place is for double cappuccinos, NOT double strollers. [Glances at Miranda.] I'm sorry.
Miranda: Hey, no need to apologize. I wouldn't bring Brady here. Mommy needs two hands to eat her eight-dollar cake!
Charlotte: You're not going to defend children?
Miranda: No, I don't like any children but my own.

Carrie: How did this happen? How did they get the message that the ass is now on the menu?
Miranda: I bet there's one loud-mouthed guy who found some woman who loved it and told everyone 'women LOVE this!'
Carrie: Who is this guy?
Miranda: Who's the woman who loved it?
Samantha: Don't knock it 'till you've tried it!
Carrie: Bingo!

Charlotte: We're having Trey's sperm tested.
Miranda: Is it not doing well in school?

Carrie: Why do we let the one thing we don't have affect how we feel about all the things we do have? Why does one-minus-a-plus-one feel like it adds up to zero?

Carrie: Your vagina's depressed?
Charlotte: The mood elevator sort of corrects the imbalance.
Miranda: Wait a minute, how do you know your vagina's depressed?
Charlotte: There are symptoms!
Carrie: Like what, it can't meet its deadline?
Miranda: It always wants to go to Krispy Kreme?

Samantha: Is he that bad in bed?
Miranda: No. He's just... he's a guy. He can rebuild a jet engine but when it comes to a woman... What's the big mystery? It's my clitoris, not the Sphinx.

Mr. Big: After a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.

Samantha: The only place you can control a man is in bed. If we perpetually gave men blow jobs we could run the world!
Carrie: And at least our hands would be free to greet dignitaries and stuff.

Carrie: Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Samantha: I will not be judged by you or society. I will wear whatever—and blow whomever—I want as long as I can breathe and kneel!

Carrie: When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psychotic.

Miranda: I'm sorry, Steve, I'm an asshole.
Steve: Yeah you are. But you're my asshole.
Miranda: That's sweet. And gross, at the same time.

Samantha: Well, let's just say it: you won.
Carrie: Was there a contest?
Samantha: Oh please! There's always a contest with an ex. It's called "who will die miserable."

Carrie: New York City is all about sex. People getting it, people trying to get it, people who can't get it. No wonder the city never sleeps. It's too busy trying to get laid.

Charlotte: Did you know I read that if you don't have sex for a year, you can actually become re-virginized?
Carrie: And, I would imagine, quite frisky.

It takes half the amount of time you dated someone to get over them.....

more SATC quotes here

CommaSutra

2007-05-11T15:55:00.000+05:30

Got hold of this amazing li'l piece of creativity courtesy a friend..
Absolutely Loved it...

aBOUT nOTHinG

2007-04-30T23:53:00.001+05:30

After numerous failed attempts to watch a play or screening of
a foreign film at IHC, I managed(just in the nick of time) to reach
their today to watch "About Nothing" a musical directed by
Ashley Lobo, as a part of the ongoing Hungry Heart Festival '07..
Got slightly disappointed initially as we were made to buy tickets
@Rs200/person and not @Rs50(the amount we had settled for earlier)..

With 500 coming from one pocket, 200 from another and 100
from another we managed 800 bucks for 4 tickets
(A friend also had to sprint to the ATM to get some cash for our dinner).
That was the day's end for our disappointment,anxiety and any other feeling
that can be categorized as non positive..

Enter the world of Drama,Music and DANCE.....

About Nothing is a visual interpretation of story of a boy named
Salman, his moments of joy, despair,angst and pain in his quest
for survival.

The Musical was narrative in nature, with just one protagonist who
verbalized about various things/feelings that one encounters in
the journey called Life. A bald guy in late 20's played the
protagonist, speaking in English with an occasional word or two in Hindi.
The motifs change every 5-7 minutes varying from
"The pressure children go through these days" to "Relationships".

I found it extremely good that after every few minutes of
"food for thought" by the narrator, a Dancy(another word is born)
version of the same followed..The performances came in numerous forms
with eclectically chosen, made for each other, pieces of music..I wonder
if anyone from the audience could pronounce which had a broader
spectrum, the topics that narrator's spoke on, the forms of music or
the styles of dance....

Few lines that clung to me

Relationships...Why at all do we need relationships ?
Why are we always on a lookout for new relationships or
trying to better the existing ones ?
Can't we all be living on isolated islands, Alone without being Lonely ??

Profundity...
Is the Joy a rich kid gets from fiddling with a new remote control more
than the Joy a street urchin gets by dragging a tyre with a rope ??

Sophistication,Love, Relationships,Respect,Family,Joy
and a few more were the words that were dissected and shown various
facets of...Though the verbalizing was quite good, the dance got better
of it almost every time..From Rumba to Tap Dance, Dance all the way
it was..Young girls and boys performing the toughest,never seen before,
how can she do it moves had the audience enraptured....

For the songs that were played the ones that familiar ones were
chamma chamma, welcome to the jungle and a song from devdas
..As far the dance was concerned I particularly liked the Tap Dance
(they created music by clapping/tapping n what not), rumba and
another concoction that came after the theme "Love"..The on stage
chemistry for this piece was as amazing as the dance itself....

It was a bonus to see some familiar faces(from Dx) on stage namely
Pooja, Garima and Shohini. I am quite certain that I would have
enjoyed "About Nothing" as much had I not been a Dance Enthusiast myself.

Kudos to Ashley and the Danceworx team for this splendid effort.

Dead Poet's Society

2007-04-29T09:39:00.000+05:30

Dir: Peter Weir
Cast: Robin Williams , Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles

At some community on Orkut a random poll question read

"When u r not happy with ur surroundings wat would u do???".

I nonchalantly voted for "Watch Movies".

After two days I found myself in that very situation and I did
Watch Movie the movie being "Dead Poet's Society". I had
heard of this movie before but it was when i read
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.
We read and write poetry because we are members
of the human race. And the human race is filled
with passion. And medicine,law, business,
engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary
to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance,love,
these are what we stay alive for." that i decided DPS
would be the next movie I'd watch(at home).

Carpe Diem is the phrase that comes to mind every time I
think of DPS, as it's the essence of the movie. The movie is
beautifully written and has much more to it than the life at
a boys school, it hints rather it hits at some of the all time
deep philosophical ideas like freethinking aka freethought
and Carpe Diem. The movie is to each according to his/her
perception.

Robin Williams does his role as Keating quite naturally and is
needless to say quite good at it. Robert and Josh also do
justice to their roles and as far as other's are concerned their
wasn't much of acting needed in their roles..With some
visually appealing scenes and a nice background score DPS
is a heady mix. The movie also has it's share of some really
funny moments like this one

Keating: Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is,
Mr. Anderson. Come on, are you a man or an amoeba? Mr. Perry.
Neil: Uh, to communicate?
Keating: Nooo!! To woo women

Parent's enforcing their ambitions on their children, corporal
punishment, Institutions thriving on tradition are some of the
more explicit themes in the film. It is one of those films
that can and should be watched multiple times to bring
the prescribed thoughts home.

My Rating: 4.25/5 (after flip flopping between 4 and 4.25)

Imdb Rating: 7.7/10

Dialogues I Liked:

1) No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas
can change the world.
2) There is a time for daring and a time for caution,
and a wise man knows which is called for.
3) We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.
4) I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to
die, discover that I had not lived.

5) McAllister: "Show me the heart unfettered by foolish
dreams and I'll show you a happy man."
John Keating: "But only in their dreams can men be truly
free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

6) Boys, you must strive to find your own voice.
Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you
are to find it at all. Thoreau said,
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Don't be resigned to that. Break out!

7) John Keating: Now we all have a great need for acceptance,
but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own,
even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even
though the herd may go, [imitating a goat]
John Keating: "that's baaaaad." Robert Frost said,
"Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less
traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

8) Just when you think you know something,you have to
look at it in another way. Even though it may seem silly
or wrong, you must try! Now, when you read, don't just
consider what the author thinks. Consider what you think.

“Carpe Diem! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.”

Scenes that clicked:

1) All of Keating's classes.
2) The one on soccer field.
3) The first DPS meeting.
4) Tow Knox meets Chris for the first time.
5) Tow "The world's first unmanned flying desk set".
6) Tow "Phone call from GOD".
7) Tow "Knox asking Chris for a play".
8) The last scene with boys standing up on their desks.

Trivia:
1) DPS partly inspired a Bollywood hit called "Mohabbatein"
starring "Shah Rukh Khan" and veteran actor "Amitabh Bachchan".
2) DPS is Loosely based on the experiences of private school
students with Samuel Pickering, who is currently a Professor
of English at the University of Connecticut.
3) The movie's line
"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
was voted as the #95 movie quote by the American
FilmInstitute (out of 100)
4) Originally, Professor Keating was supposed to die of leukemia.
But the director decided to have the story focus on the boys instead.
5) The film was also inspired by the book Goodbye, Mr. Chips
by James Hilton, which has been adapted for television or film
at least four times.
6) The quotation from Henry David Thoreau read at the
beginning of each meeting is incorrect. It actually reads
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not
learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived. …
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear;
nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite
necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow
of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all
that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to
drive life into a corner…"

Links:
1) Script
2) Wiki
3) Peter Weir
4) Misc Link
5) List of Poems in DPS

Are You The Favourite Person of Anybody ?

2007-04-24T23:15:00.000+05:30

Got to know of Miranda July after watching
Me and You and Everyone We Know  reviewed here. Obvious
that it is, she's got loads of Talent that too not just for a
particular thing or two.

"Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist,
musician, writer, actress and film director" --Wikipedia

Anyone whose wathced MAYAEWK can vouch for the fact that MJ
can write, act and direct beautifully and it can prove difficult to say
which one's better, MJ the actor or MJ the director.

Sample this No One Belongs Here More Than You . I haven't come
across something with creativity quotient(Aah another term gets
coined) this high for a long time. I mean who scribbles on a stove,
takes its pics and make a tiny website of it ? Getting back to
AYTFPOF. It's a very small short film lasting 3Minutes and
57 Seconds. But this doesn't mean that it's trivial in anysense..
There's nothing more to the movie then its title but that itself is
quite thought rich content.

What would you say if someone out of no where asks you
Are you the Favourite Person of Anybody ?

Lemme think it for myself...hmmmmm....The answer that comes
Naturally is "NO"..
How sure am i about this ? 1) Very Certain 2) Confident
3) I think so 4) Not so sure 5) Could be..
Confident is my answer

I know it doesn't sound good but then that's the way it is, unless
there is some small kid somewhere who doesn't know much
about the world and myself and therefore has me as his/her
favourite person...Not quite practical though..

Ok now how about taking a 180 degree turn ?
Whose my Favourite Person ?

That's kinda interesting as well...Eureka...With very li'l thinking
i found the answer and the answer is "My Mother"....
Yep, she's my favourite person..For all she's done for me and
the way she makes me feel....Love you Mom...

Things that clicked

1) The concept of the film.
2) Some many prominent people are not anyone's favourite.
3) The 2nd responded being very certain about not being anyone's
    favourite (despite havin a g/f)..i know but still...
4) (A) I am not interested in these kind of things
     (B) what sort of things?
     (A) These things Free Love and all that..

So Are you the Favourite Person of Anybody ?

Thought's / Quote's

2007-04-24T09:57:00.000+05:30

Quid me nutrit me destruit

- Latin Saying

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog....

Mark Twain

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Life's a bitch and then you die -- Kurt Cobain, Nirvana

I haven't deciphered it yet......

_________________________________________________

Movie-What Dreams May Come

You have to break in half to love somebody....

I'd say:

You have to break into a million pieces to love somebody...

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Once in a while I come across a quote/line or something about whose meaning
i am not really sure, here's one of them

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simple - Albert Einstein

Any thoughts ???

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Days are always blank;
you can fill them with whatever you wish to...
or whatever mood you are in...
It is the nights which have their own flavour
and you can just get drowned in that flavour...

Me and You and Everyone We Know..

2007-04-14T20:50:00.000+05:30

Dir: Miranda July
Cast: John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff

Asked a friend for a thought provoking, that's how i came across this film.
Couldn't think of anything better than watching a movie on this ideal
Saturday evening so thought of trying this one out.

Abstract, that's the word that comes to mind when I think about this
movie. Don't know why but it reminds me of a movie titled "Happiness",
hmm...probably because it's also got a whole lot of stories running in
parallel. Short stories of a few people who stay in a neighborhood and of a

few who are somehow linked to these people(neighborhood).

The best thing about the movie is the sheer variety of characters
involved and the multiple facets of the contemporary life it reflects.
I am quite sure everyone can relate to something or the other from
the movie. There are some movies that start in a not so different way
but slowly start showing their mettle while there are others that start in
a unique way and set the mood for everything that follows..MaYaEWK
being the latter. The way it starts made me sit back alertly just to ensure
i catch finer nuances of the dialogues.

The stories flow seamlessly into each other and back while the
background score adds another subtle layer to these stories. Love,
Experimentations with Sex, Troubled Relationships, Falling Marriages,
Fatherhood, Peer Rivalry and Longing for Companionship..the movie
has it all

))<>((

My Rating: 3.75/5

Imdb Rating:7.5/10

Dialogues I liked:

1)I'm gonna be free.I'm gonna be free. And I'm gonna be brave.I'm gonna be brave.Good.And the next one is—I'm gonna live each day as if it were my last.Oh, that's good. You like that? Yeah. Say it.I'm gonna live each day as if it were my last.Fantastically.Fantastically.Courageously.Courageously.With grace.With grace.

2)Cause it's life—It's life.And it's happening.It's really, really happening...right now

3)No one is going to live your life for you. Okay. That's not how it works, but okay.

4)I can't sleep at night thinking about her. I just wish I had met her 50 years sooner.- Yeah.- But then maybe I needed 70 years of life...to be ready for a woman like Ellen.

5)People think foot pain is a fact of life...but life is actually better than that

6)I don't want to have to do this living. I just walk around. I want to be swept off my feet,you know? I want my children to have magical powers. I am prepared for amazing things to happen. I can handle it.

7) Ice Land is—It's kind of like that point in a relationship, you know...where you suddenly realize it's not gonna last forever. You know, you can see the end in sight.

8) How did you do that? Oh, well, do you want the long version or the short version? The long one. I was trying to save my life, and it didn't work. What's the short one? I burned it.

9) I've long since stopped trying to make people...do things they don't want to do.But she's the love of your life. You're just gonna let her go? No. She's just... going

10)We have a whole life to live together, you fucker! But it can't start until you call

11) You can be sure Pam and I would be sent to our rooms for all our fighting. Yes, they would give us a time-out...and tell us we could not come out until we had really thought about what we had done. What have we done? But... there are no time-outs. There's not enough time for time-out.

Scenes that clicked with me:

1) The Opening Scene with Christine.
2) Christine and Michael try to save the fish.
3) Christine's and Richard walk towards Car Park.
4) Neighborhood Girls with Peter.
5) When Robby meets his chat friend.
6) When Christine scribbles on the inside of her car's mirror
7) "Me" and "You" shoe scene.
8) Slyvie discussing interiors of her future house and talks she'll have with her daughter.

Trivia:

1) Took me 1.5 hrs to watch the movie and about 2hrs to write this review
2) Wrote the whole of it single handedly(with just my left hand as my right thumb is injured)
3) Movie Script
4) Movie's official site

Trailer:

Cuteness Personified

2007-03-30T13:36:00.000+05:30

Presenting "The CuppyCake Song"

Have you seen/heard anything cutter then this?

I Haven't

Trivia:
1) Thanks Shilpa for introducing me to this song.
2) It's the original 1994 video of "The Cuppycake Song" (words and music by Judianna Castle) being recorded by the original artist (Amy aged 3) at her home studio.

Q and A

2007-03-26T20:49:00.000+05:30

Q1) What to do when you feel sleepy but don't feel like sleeping ?

CDLC

2007-03-25T16:32:00.000+05:30

Yes, it sounds something like the SDLC(for those of you who are away from
software, for good, its Software Development Life Cycle). CDLC is a self
coined term meaning "Chapati Development Life Cycle".
Today being 2nd (or 3rd) time when i practiced making chapatis aka roti's
aka fulka’s,partly in order to help my mum who has an injured finger
and partly for the fun of it.

First things first making chapati's is not at all difficult and like most of the
things it gets better with practice. In not more than 10 minutes in totality
i learned how to make a Chapati and a namak mirch parantha.
Wow, its quite an achievement for me.

Things that I learned in the process.

1) Making something yourself gives a unique sort of satisfaction.
2) You get to know more about the things that you have been taking granted for long, things that run in the background
3) Preparing a chapatti, Preparing tasty Chapati and Preparing a beautiful Chapati are three different things.

Trivia:
Chapati is now a word in dictionary

Pics i took some time back....

Bhaiya please green light kar do...

2007-03-23T23:49:00.000+05:30

Do you often find yoursef running late for a meeting or a party or perhaps
a movie, driving like a Ghost Rider only to find yourself getting
stuck at that crucial traffic signal simply because some bulb chooses to
go RED and not GREEN ??..If yes, then chance are that like everyone
else you might find yourself uttering curses and praying for those lights
to flip colours instantaneously( by magic perhaps), but then magic doesn't
happen right? and you end up sitting/waiting there feeling helpless and hapless..

As far as my answer to that is concerned, it would be an emphatic YES,
yes it happens quite often to me and so to say it happened today only
and that's why i am writing this..

What happend today was quite an unusual thing, unusual to the extent of being
unbelievable for some..

Scene 1: Rushing from greenpark at 7 Pm for PVR Saket(had a show at 7:10)

Scene 2: Waiting at IIT Redlight in a friend's car, telling them how these traffic
signals are manually controlled during peak traffic hours.

Enter a random thought: Someone tell that traffic policeman to turn the lights on our side green

Scene 3: I getting out of the car and running towards the traffic policman and...

"Bhaiya hum log movie ke show ke liye late ho rahe hain, please humari light ko green kar do".

In less than a split second that guy acknowledged my request and granted my wish. Wow..

Scene 4: I rushing back to our car and finding that the light has already changed its colour to Orange/Yellow/Amber.

Scene 5: Us crossing that red light and laughing our asses out thinking about what we just did :)

Well you don't really expect some one to ask for such a thing and moreover someone( a POLICEMAN at that) doing such a thing.

But then things happen when they ought to happen..

Trivia:

1) The social engineered traffic signal saved a couple of minutes and saw us reaching
almost on time for the show
2) I lost 85% of this post as i pressed some key and was not saving it while writing.
3) After this my comp mysteriously restarted twice, making me re-write few lines
4) All in all it took me more than 1.5 hours to write this post..GOSH

My Unbridled Pain

2007-03-22T23:00:00.000+05:30

What follows are some feelings that i had some time back which came out in form of a short poem, mostly its something bad/sad that makes me write...

Written during my stay in g'gaon last year...

Sat down alone, to scribble again.
Vying to subside, my unbridled pain..

Intermittent waves of sadness, are driving me insane.
Forever trying to analyse , but always ending in vain..

Wondering why only on me, does it always rain.
Still not to sure, if it's a boom or a bane.

Hoping to figure out one day, what he was trying to attain.
Dragging my life, with traces of hope that remain

Nothing much has changed yet, i can still relate as much to these lines as i did when i wrote 'em..

(KK + PK ) * SE

2007-03-18T16:21:00.000+05:30

For those of you who are not familiar with the acronym PKSE, it stands for Pyar Ke Side Effects(yes, title of that Mallika, Rahul Bose flick) and if you dont know what the hindi word "Pyar" means than....

I love this phrase and off late i've vicariously felt quite a few these EFFECTS especially the Post Pyar Effects , its like those intermittent afterwaves of tremor that keep coming back after an earthquake and squash the residuum of whatevers left(Hope included). More on it later..

Happened to attend a lavish corporate bash yesternight and what follows are some of the details

First things first, Kay Kay (the singer) rocks and rocks damn good. It was the first time that I saw him perform live and it was so to say truly amazing. A possible reason being the sheer number of hits he has given...Less than 5 seconds after he started the opening song "Yaaron" almost everyone knew that they were in for some real melodious treat. One after the other the Songs kept pouring and all were drenched down to their hearts.

"Tu Aashiqui Hai", "Tadap Tadap Ke","Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai", "Pal","Awarapan Banjarapan","O Humdum" he sang 'em all and i believe each one of them did its' share of killings...Off all the songs that he sang a few that seemed to come deeper from his heart were "Awarapan" and "Tadap Tadap"..The crowd went crazy with girls swooning to just get a
Hand Shake or two. It was in most senses the stuff great music concerts are made of..

The party saw me meeting old pals, having a few cocktails, hypontized by the music and dancing my body off..For a minute I thought about the power that music has and the emotions
(to various extents) that it can generate in almost no time. Its like you listen to any meaningful song(HINDI particularly) and you'll find a line or two atleast to which you can correlate and they'll be sufficient to entrance you and take you to a different plane of thought n feelings alltogether.

Post show it was time to catch up on friends and happenings with/around them. Had late night conversations about lots of things, most of 'em can be labelled as PKSE.
That's how another night out came to an end and here i am making a note in my NOTEBOOK for some future nostalgic reference.

Kahan Kise Ke Liye Hai Mumkin
Sab Ke Liye Ek Sa Hona
Kahan Kise Ke Liye Hai Mumkin
Sab Ke Liye Ek Sa Hona
Thoda Sa Dil Mera Bura Hai
Thoda Bhala Hai Seene Mein
Awaarapaan Banjarapaan
Ek Hala Hai Sine Mein

Kay Kay's Trivia:
http://www.hindilyrix.com/singers/singer-k-k.html

Afterwave: I Don't think there's such a word but then that's how words are coined right ? :)

Do they have adjectives for her ?????

2007-03-14T23:57:00.000+05:30

The Pursuit of Happyness

2007-03-10T22:49:00.000+05:30

Director: Gabriele Muccino
Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith & Thandie Newton

This part of my life, this tiny part of my life is called "writing movie reviews"

Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and philanthropist.
--Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The movie is inspired by a book with the same name authored by Chris himself and is about
his life and his struggle(in early 1980's) with marital life, career and homelessness while raising
his toddler son. As it happenes most of the times,the movie adaptation of a book
tends to miss out on some vital aspects of the story on various pretexts, here also the movie
doesn't refer at all (sparring a dialogue when he refer's about not knowing his father)
to Chris's life before his marriage.

First close up shot of Chris Gardner(Will Smith) drops a hint about the tone of the
movie followed shortly by, a beautifully sequence( in which he feels quite left out on seeing a crowd of happy passerby's), that makes the tone more apparent. Of all the actors the one
that stood out for me was cute li'l Christopher, who apart from acting beautifully made audience
have their share of laughter. Will did his job good enough to be nomitated for the
Best Actor's Award at the Oscars. The movie picks up slowly and continues to do so till the very end with getting Painfully Slow for a good 10 minutes. The film has some intermittent
beautiful and touching scenes. Particulary touchy one's being "The one in which Chris and his son spend there night in a restroom","when there reach a Flophouse only to find a long queue"
and "being thrown out of the motel".

The soapy background score, witty yet meaningful dialogues and nice direction work together
to make the movie worth watching.

Memorable Dialogue's:

"You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period"

Martin Frohm: What would you say if man walked in here with no shirt, and I hired him? What would you say?
Christopher Gardner: He must have had on some really nice pants.

"Maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it no matter what."

Trivia:
The spelling of happiness came from the daycare center Gardner attended as a child, where the word was misspelled with a “y”.
The expression "pursuit of happiness" was coined by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his 1759 novel Rasselas.
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence.

My Rating: 3.75
Imdb Rating:7.4

Waking Life

2007-03-04T00:22:00.000+05:30

"The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving.
Saves on introductions and good-byes"

"It’s like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. Now, you may get the 8-pack, you may get the 16-pack. But it’s all in what you do with the crayons, the colors that you’re given. And don’t worry about drawing within the lines or coloring outside the lines. I say color outside the lines. You know what I mean? Color right off the page. Don’t box me in."

Above mentioned lines come straight from the script of "Waking Life", one of the movies that beckon you and without realising you are lost in 'em (or with 'em). Written and Directed by Richard Linklater, Waking Life is the kinda movie that makes me(atleast) say WOW out loud, partly maybe because its about the thing that i am quite passionate about, yes if you are observant enough its TALKING.

Mostly its about the young protagonist in a dreamy state conversing with people from different walks of life and some random people talking randomly about anything from Information Revolution to Collective Memory, Free will to Evolution and much much more..

This is just the kind of Cinema(I am in love with this word) that gets your brain cells working overtime, the way mine are right now...If you are in a habbit of thinking then chances are that you might find a discussion or two on some familiar topics. This being perhaps the only movie ever, that i watched in both directions, going back again and again to some mind-expanding dialogue or the other from the beginning right till the end.

"I’m afraid we’re losing the real virtues of living life passionately, sense of taking responsibility for who you are, the ability to make something of yourself and feeling good about life"

"In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It’s always our decision who we are."

So if you are one of those compulsive thinkers or one of those who are into experimental cinema or someone having a high curiosity index( a self coined term) or someone who found the above written prate intriguing, then you know where to go from here.

Thanks Linklater for this Intellectual Coming....

My Rating: 4.5 ++
Imdb Rating:7.4

Which is the most universal human characteristic - fear or laziness?

Black Friday

2007-02-25T13:39:00.000+05:30

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

After years of making movies that heads on ran into controversies one after the other, Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday finally saw light of the day and also managed to run (successfully at that) for weeks at movie halls across the nation. Got to watch the flick today after weeks of wait and it was well worth the wait to say the least.

For the uninitiated the movie is aptly named(and colored) after the serial blasts that rocked Bombay on 12th March 1993 and takes a 360 degree view of the same. This ain't a movie for the week at heart and definitely not for those who want to take a tour of fairy tale cinema. It's a gory, hard-hitting, haunting and extremely veridical piece of cinema narrated chapter wise.

The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch and yes, they did push the envelope. Right down from mixing scenes across various time spans flawlessly, to using red filter for some hard interrogation scenes, to soul stirring background score by Indian Ocean the movie has it all. Ten minutes in the movie and you'll get why was the censor board had apprehensions about clearing the movie. Unlike Omkara, Black Friday isn't inundated with foul language but has ample usage of the C word and for a change people neither laugh nor whistle every time it is uttered.Apart from some rare exceptions nothing has been toned down to make things less unsettling.

The best part about the movie is that it not preachy or has a happy ending in which people of different religions live happily ever after. It enters the world as it was, peeks for an unbiased look and leaves it as it is. It just puts forwards the hard facts and lets the viewer do the thinking. I appreciate the director's courage for making a film like this which can easily tend to upset anyone (Hindus, Muslims, Govt & Police men alike) and admire his patience for not loosing hope and making it see a release.

Kudos to Black Friday, Tehelka et al

My Rating: 4.5/5
Imdb Rating:9.5/10(312 votes)

Aray rukh ja re bandeh, aray tham ja re bandeh ke kudrat has pare gi.
Aray nenndein hein zakhmi, aray sapne hein bhoke, ke karwat phat pare ge.

Guten Tag !!

2007-02-21T07:42:00.000+05:30

Wohnt => Lives

I live in Delhi => ich wohne in Delhi
He lives in Delhi => er wohnt in Delhi

Urs wohnt in Zurich => Urs lives in Zurich

spricht => Speakes, sprechen => Speak, auch => Also

Er spricht auch Deutsch => He also speaks German
Sie spricht auch Deutsch => Sie also speaks German

All drei sprechen Deutsch => All three speak German

aber => but, wo => where, wer => who, welche => which

wer spricht englisch? => who speaks English

sprache => language

welche sprache spricht er? => which language does he speak?

Zombiessssss

2007-02-18T00:20:00.000+05:30

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?

That's precisely what's going on in my mind, a fierce battle of countless zombies of sorts..Homegrown and Borrowed,Tiny and Humongous, Emotional and Practical, Good and Evil,Physical and Metaphysical..

Just got back from a short,refreshing and relaxing trip from THE HILLS of Dun valley
and within hours of homecoming i was inundated with stuff i had kinda forgot how to deal with...Isn't it Ironic that I've had a deficiency of sleep during these holidays and there's no visible sign of it coming to an end..

A random but true thought found its way to my mind that I've been in a state of persistent tension and thoughtfulness due to the complexities involved in the lives of people around me..Tension of sorts ranging from Issues with job/work to age old ego(n other) tussles in affairs...Such is the amount of talking/soothing that has gone that I at times feel like a psychologist( at least i like to think like that)

I am wondering how tomorrow would be when few more zombies would begin to battle for a place in my consciousness...

INSOMNIA COURTESY PEOPLE WHO TALK TO ME BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP

Please Note:
No Offense meant for Nears & Dears (AND NOT DEARS OF NEARS or Vice Versa)

Happiness Revisited @ Flow

2007-02-05T23:53:00.000+05:30

Flow --> The state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sake of doing it.

The Universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly, it is simply indifferent - J.H. Holmes

There is no problem in our desire to escalate goals, as long as we enjoy the struggle along the way.The problem arises when people are so fixated on what they want that they cease to derive pleasure from the present.

How many people do you know who enjoy what they are doing, who are reasonably satisfied with their lot, who do not regret the past and look to the future with genuine confidence ?

The roots of the discontent are internal, and each person must untangle them personally, with his or her own power

Ontological Anxiety or Existential Dread
a fear of being, a feeling that there is no meaning to life and that existence is not worth going on with

I Believe

2007-02-02T12:21:00.000+05:30

Found it on a piece of paper lost in oblivion

I believe
That no matter how bad your heart is broken,
the world doesn't stop for your grief

I believe
That wer don't have to change friends if we understand that friends do change

I believe
That no matter how good a friend is,
he's going to hurt yo every once in a while and you must forgive him for that

I believe
That you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life

I believe
That it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be

I believe
That you can keep going long after you can't

More of Germania

2007-01-31T12:47:00.001+05:30

Seems the German Fever is catching up slowly..

Wie du bist? --> How are you?
Mir geht es gut --> I am well
Viele Grüße --> Many greetings, Regards
Büro --> Office

Germania

2007-01-30T23:39:00.000+05:30

Time for some quick action in german

Ich = I --> ish
du = You --> du
er = He --> er
Sie = She --> zee

freut mich(froyt meesh) --> Pleased to meet you
Freut mich auch --> Pleased to meet you too
Ich freue mich --> I am pleased
ja (Pronounced as ya) --> yes
gut --> Good
ich bin --> I am
sind sie(zind zee) --> Are you
nein (nine)--> No
bitte (bitah, a silent )--> Please
danke (dangah, a silent) --> Thank You

Guten Morgan --> Good Morning
Guten Abend(aabund) --> Good Evening
Guten Tag(taakh) --> Good Day, hello

tschuss (chyusse)--> Bye
willkommen --> Welcome
in --> to

Vovels
a(aa)
e(e)
i(ee)
o(o)
u(uu)u as in ullu, umar

Bestimmt --> Certainly
Herr --> Mr

Simple puzzles

2007-01-05T19:26:00.000+05:30

The Birthday Problem
The birthday problem asks how many people you need to have at a party so that there is a better-than-even chance that two of them will share the same birthday

The Children Puzzle
I tell you that a couple has two children and that (at least) one of them is a boy. I ask you what is the probability that their other child is a boy.

for solutions refer to

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4542341

A Quick Teaser

2006-12-30T13:26:00.000+05:30

Each child in a family has at least 5 brothers and 4 sisters. What is the smallest number of children the family might have?

Books on Entrepreneurship

2006-12-29T19:06:00.000+05:30

Here's a list of books on Entrepreneurship compiled for your reference.

* The High-Performance Entrepreneur by Subroto Bagchi
* The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
* Zero to One Million by Ryan P. M. Allis
* Zero to IPO by David Smith
* Rich Dad's Guide to Investing by Robert Kiyosaki
* New Venture Creation by Jeffrey Timmons
* Good to Great by Jim Collins
* The E-Myth by Michael Gerber
* The Young Entrepreneurs'Edge by Jennifer Kushnell
* The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Running a Business by Steve Mariotti
* The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship by William D. Bygrave
* Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
* Good to Great by Jim Collins
* At Work with Thomas Edison by Blain McCormick
* Multiple Streams of Income by Robert G. Allen
* On Entrepreneurship by Harvard Business Review
* Entrepreneurship.com by Tim Burns
* Fire in the Belly - an exploration of the entrepreneurial spirit by Yanky Fachler
* Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Hope they'll do some value addition

Funny Quotes

2006-12-24T22:55:00.000+05:30

"This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a president, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50."
-Jay Leno

Especially for girls:

i came ...i saw ..i did a little shopping...

Virginity.. can be cured !

"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police."
Jeff Marder.

God made alcohol as a social lubricant. To make men brave, and to make women loose.

The Name is Bond, James Bond

2006-11-19T00:02:00.000+05:30

Movie: Casino Royale
Starring: Daniel Craig,Eva Green

After a long wait got to see the new bond..oh, yes and the new bond movie..Despite facing vocal opposition for his selection as the latest model for brand 007, Daniel Craig(aka James Bond) was able to pull it off( more or less)..It's takes you a while to get over your homeostasis which doesn't accept the new Bond easily and continues(throught out the movie) drawing comparisons of sorts..Admittingly DC doesnt have the panache that his earlier version PB had but despite this he has a strong case for himself..The Raw look that he has compensates for Flirtatious(Ohh I Lovvvvve Women) looks that Pierce and a scene in which DC is standing infront of a wash room mirror reminded of the Old Spice Cologne Ad .

For a change the bond movie didn't seem to revolve in a circle with bond at the center..The movie takes off with a long awe-inspiring stunt that leaves you mesmerised, good enough to set the tone for the movie and from their you wait and hope for better things but as in life this also doesn't happen often..The movie is nicely prepared and neatly packed but is missing on a few and important spices..

The dialogues are not quite tastefull and Glossy barring a few, so is the case with Gadgets and Stunts..It just might be because the Directors were too busy making the new bond look nice and worth the brand so much that they forgot there are things other than bond that people want to see in the movie.

Overall its a nice movie, worth the time and the ticket cost spent on it.

Fav Quotes:
DC: You are not my type of women
EG: what is it smart
DC: No single..

DC: Why is that people who dont listen to advice, insist on getting it.
( or something of this sort)

My Rating: 7

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

2006-11-15T17:16:00.000+05:30

Do one thing every day that scares you !!! Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good. !!! Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. !!!

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

These are some

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

2006-11-10T15:42:00.000+05:30

Was shortlisting the movie to be watched on my Day of Birth and stopped at TBOCH ( it looks like a slang to me) . It turned out to be a worth watch..

As it turns out to be this is my first attempt to write a structured review ( i also reffered a how to)

I liked the movie spot on from the starting/casting that was done in a nice n clean manner. The movie is based on a Guy's life in a desert and his love for it. I found the name quite intriguing so much as to it took me some time to get the movie and watch under the right circumstances..For the uninitiated the movie gets its name from the protagonist i.e. Cable Hogue

While watching it i was reminded of another movie(maybe quite similar overtly) called Zorba the Greek..

The Character CH is just adorable despite the fact that he's quite stingy and sees no issue in asking a Reverend money for a cuppa water..The closing lines of the movie pretty much sums up the character leaving little to the audience. Jason Roberds's was a wonderful performance and so was David's ( i like his character too)..The landscape chosen was quite nice. I liked the Sound Design of the movie too. The movie was a mix of comedy, very li'l action and butterflying.

The Dialgoues were apt and tastefully written( and seriously funny at times).

Fav Character:CH
Fav Quotes:
Did it ever occur to you, Cable, how wise and bountiful God was to put breasts on a woman? Just the right number in just the right place. Did you ever notice that, Cable?
Citations:
He wasn't really a good man, he wasn't a bad man but Lord he was a man.
He never went to church, he didn't need to, the whole desert was his cathedral.
Hogue loved the desert, loved it deeper then he'd ever say. He built his empire but was man enough to give it up for love when the time came.
Take him Lord...but knowing Cable i suggest you do not take him lightly.

My Rating:8

Happiness, where are you?

2006-11-08T00:00:00.000+05:30

from the movie HAPPINESS..

It seems the things  I've wanted in my life                  
I've never had  
                   
And so it's no surprise that living only leaves me sad   
                   
Happiness, where are you?   
                   
I've searched so long for you    
                   
Happiness, what are you?                   
I haven't got a clue

Happiness, why do you have to stay...
                  
So far away...   
                   
From me?
     
When I'm in despair and life has turned into a mess   
                   
I know I don't dare to end my search for happiness
                 
Happiness, where are you?

tr@inspotting

2006-11-07T22:06:00.000+05:30

choose life.
choose a job.
choose a career.
choose a family.
choose a fucking BIG television..........

First saw these statements on a billboard a friend used for his debut directorial venture..and from there i got to know the term trainspotting or train spotting..

A movie in a narrative mode, based on a novel by irvine welsh about a group of heroine addicts and how they go about sustaining this habbit by doing all sorts of crazy stuff..Renton the protagonist is just another teen whose got himself into drugs and courtsey which his life is falling apart...He goes on from being hospitalised, sent to state sponsered de-addiction program, a gal (Dianne) falling for him, shifting base andworking for a hotel and eventually betraying his mates..

Various scenes captured my attention like Renton saying he's felling lonely despite being with his family n mates, Tommy videotaping his sexual experiences with his g/f, renton diving in the pot to search the pills( hideous), renton hallucinating after being brought back from the hospital.

Nice camerawork especially the scene when the guy is running and camera is kept sideways and then its turned the other side when its bypassed.

Fav Char: Renton
My Rating:7.5-7.75
Fav Dialogues: Lots

I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin?
The streets are awash with drugs that you can have for unhappiness and pain, and we took them all. Fuck it, we would have injected Vitamin C if only they'd made it illegal.
People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid. Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you're still nowhere near it.
The downside of coming off junk was I knew I would need to mix with my friends again in a state of full consciousness. It was awful. They reminded me so much of myself, I could hardly bear to look at them

IMDB Rating - 8.0

A different movie that needs to be seen multiple times to get to its subtleties...

Happiness

2006-11-04T22:22:00.000+05:30

It's slightly unusual( or maybe not) name of a movie..Rated at 7.7 on IMDB and tagged as Drama/Comedy...

I'll try to keep the of the movie aside while writting it's review however i'll give some very basic idea of the story n characters to make some sense.

Central Characters:
Joy(i like her name a lot though its quite ironic for her character): Does her part of acting quite nicely, works as a part time teacher and is a wanna be musician.
Bill: Shown as a pervert who has this normal and pleasing personality on the outside so much that even no one in his family has any clues as to what he's going through.(Fine piece of acting)
Allen: Another desperate and frustated soul whose a sex maniac..A couple of his scenes and dialogues are quite gross(Brilliant acting)

I expected this movie to be a nice and light comedy or at most a light movie that'll ask some questions are force you to introspect but nothing of that sort happened, at least for me

The best part of the movie was coverage of a lot of different and socially relevant issues
from pedophilia,Sexual obsession,Lonliness,Breaking marriages
It's End is quite funny though: "I CAME"

It's not the kind of movie that'll make you feel good about the world once you are through it but will bring some new perspective to the problems of the society and just might help you understand and handle them better

Fav Character: Joy
Fav Song: Happiness
Fav Quote:
It's just I'm... I'm so tired of being admired all the time. All these men I mean... they're all beautiful, artistic minds, great sex, the whole package, but hollow, you know what I mean? I feel nobody's really honest with me. Nobody wants me for me

My Rating:7ish

The Weather Man

2006-10-08T14:48:00.000+05:30

For the uninitiated it's the name of a movie starring Nicolas Cage which i happened to see today.

The movie is slightly different from other movies yes slightly different..As the name suggests its about a weather man(who does the weather bit of news) and how he struggles (and fails) to fix his broken marriage.

The visuals were good with frozen lakes, snow falls, drizzles and more...I liked the fact that the protagonist used to get hit by junk food for most of the movie. Junk food: Something thats fast,okay on taste and doesn't have any nutritious value

well there's not much that's coming to my mind about the movie despite the fact that i just saw it so i'll take a break now and brb with something else

ciao

Dedicated to Dance

2006-07-11T16:24:00.000+05:30

trying to write something funny after scribbling a couple of sad poems..i think its a simple and decent effort for a novice..and people seem to have liked it (seriously i believe)

Some people dance, to impress a friend
Some dance simply coz its a trend.

Some people dance to shred weight
Some dance to help 'em get a date.

Some people dance for the buck in it.
Some people dance for the fun of it.

And why of all do i dance
Hmmm
coz it's like giving my life another chance.

Quote Time

2006-05-31T11:29:00.000+05:30

Well apart from things like books,movies (and girls) i like quotes very very much.

A line (or may be a couple) from a movie script or a zipped version of someone's philosophy, a quote can be pretty much anything.

i'll show case some of the quotes that had made a mark (Consciously or otherwise)..

Shoot

*********************************************************************************

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

The best inheritance parents can give to their children is a few minutes of their time each day... and the best regards and love children can give to their parents is again a few minutes of their time each day...

What was silent in the father speaks in the son - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All you have to decide is what you're going to do with the time you are given. - Gandalf

If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich. - Greg Meyer

I have great faith in fools. Self-confidence, my friends call it. - Edgar Allen Poe

We read Knuth so you don't have to. -Tim Peters (explaining what the Python developers do in their spare time)

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw

Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.

Success is doing what you like and making a living at it.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train - Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? - Jean Paul Getty

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. Jean Paul Getty

Boyish/Girlish

2006-03-04T12:01:00.000+05:30

You Are 60% Boyish and 40% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch.
Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes.
You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them.
You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

Frenchh Name

2006-03-04T11:59:00.000+05:30

Your French Name is:

Chaney Fougeres

What's Your French Name?

Weirdooo !!!

2006-03-04T11:56:00.000+05:30

You Are 50% Weird

Normal enough to know that you're weird...
But too damn weird to do anything about it!

How Weird Are You?

GodLike Gibran

2006-01-06T13:38:00.000+05:30

Khalil Gibran..wow..what a guy he was..heard a lot about him, that he's a great philosopher and an even greater painter but the moment i read his "Prophet" i was awe struck..

Its a beautifully written piece of philosophy, quite a bit of unthought, unheard and unfelt things..

This week i read his sayings(if thats the right word) from the same book..and they were like straight from god to us mortals...from being extremely funny to extremely philosophical in a poetic way..It was tooo good..Made my night and the next day as well.

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You Are DIFFERENT !

2006-01-02T01:19:00.001+05:30

You Are Different, YOU are DIFFerent, You ARE DIFFERENT....got to hear that these many times yesterday..and took them each time as a compliment....

well it's 1:22 by my pc's clock and there's not an iota of sleep in my eyes leave alone brain(with the assumption that i have one)

Hey HAPPY NEW YEAR to you...yup with resolutions ready i m looking forward to the new year 2006, a leap year haan...

Its become sortta fad to make a resolution or two and you arent considered normal unless you have them...

saw a couple of movies today namely Sex and Lucia , AmorePerros..

loved S and L..yet to decide about the latter...eyes have started to wink so i think i shud give sleep a try..c ya latersss

The Joke !

2005-12-23T12:23:00.000+05:30

Offlate am reading a book by the same name, written by Milan Kundera.

It's the second book by him that i am reading, first one being The Unbearable Lightness of Being..It doesn't seem to be half as good as it though but still its a nice read...

I am sorta biased about this guy and whatever he writes...I've even jotted down few of the lines he has written...

Next in queue is Vine of Desire..whose about 20 pages i have already read...

Nothing much happening per se .ahh n yes watched Girl Interrrupted last weekend...Nice movie
and amazingly awesome looking angelina....The babe makes me go week all over not just knees..

She's got tonnes of attitude..and i love every iota of it..

Whats In The Name ??

2005-12-17T23:53:00.000+05:30

Well in case you are still wondering what made me choose this name for my blog, then lemme tell you that this came from a book by OSHO by the same name.
Sex to Superconsciousness, though i havent read it yet but i plan to ASAP....
Well finally got some sense @ Adsense..Lets see how things turn out..

well this blog will deal with the part of my life that is supposed to be out there on the internet for Public Access...Rest will find a more suitable place...

Googling For Gold !!

2005-12-17T00:03:00.000+05:30

Well it's my 2nd blog...rather 3rd i should say..
And there are some ulterior motives to it(i know it's not good but still)...I Can write here as myself and will write stuff freely and try to make it a cross of DT and Tehelka...Karan johar and RGV

and in case you have read all this then i m sorry for you..Lets see how far can google take us

Ready for a voyage through uncharted waters