Tinkling of Anklets

City of Seven Islands

2010-04-04T02:48:00.003+05:30

You know you are in Mumbai when u remember train routes by the names central line/western line/marine line/harbour line

When everyone boards the bus from the rear and gets off from the front (as opposed to the arrangement in Hyd - where the women get in and out from the front while the men get in and out from the rear)

Mumbai

2010-02-23T18:07:00.003+05:30

You know you are in Mumbai when you are particular about timings like 8:23 and 7:17

when you know that fast local doesnt only mean it travels faster than a slow local :P

when you get dabbas for lunch and

pizzas home delivered at 5:00 in the morning (Malad Smokin Joe's - courtesy Vamsi)

Mumbai by Choice

2010-02-11T19:36:00.005+05:30

When you hear sumone say "Sheev" and you know they are talking about "Sion"

When you see people parking their Hyundai's and Honda's to travel by the local train :)

When you start travelling with an umbrella as soon as its the month of June :D and when you know that even if its pouring heavily you have to go to office/school/college

The last point is actually a complete contradiction to the way I have been brought up for the 18 yrs before the last 5 years.....

From where I come, if it rains.... you stay indoors till it stops raining. You call up to confirm if the school is closed...so basically when it rains... you get a day off and so you rejoice.... but here.... if it rains (which it does after every 5 min in those 3 months) you just promptly open your umbrella and go on with your work.... and the only pain about mumbai rains is the traffic jams...otherwise who wudnt want to experience what actually "raining" means :)

Best Article of 2009

2010-02-03T21:54:00.003+05:30

I really don't remember reading nething in particular tht blew my mind

Actually trying to think reaaaaaaal hard :(

Ah well.... if blog posts count... then I'd call this my fav one :)

Always loved her writing.... so I am sure this counts :) coz its more special to me than ne of the gifts I had received :)

Bombay Blues

2010-02-03T21:44:00.003+05:30

You know you are in Mumbai when you say "airport chaloge" and the rick fello asks you "domestic/international"

Adding another point on the same note ...

You don't have to leave 2-3 hrs before your flight time when you are in mumbai coz its not located outside the city.... well... I knw it must feel like outside the city for those stayin in Navi Mumbai... but then... they r soon to get an airport of their own.... its not like you need a shuttle bus to take u frm and out of the airport coz practically no ricks or taxis come till the airport (except the prepaid cabs who charge u like a fortune)

P.S: comparing it to the Hyderabad Airport which is located outside the city

Aamchi Mumbai

2010-02-02T09:07:00.005+05:30

You know you are in Mumbai when you say "bhaiyya andheri chalna hai" to the auto fellow and he asks "east ya west"

P.S: to those who don't know : Every place in Mumbai which has a station has an East side and a West side...thts like practically the whole of Mumbai :P

P.P.S: Running out of titles :P

The best Restaurant Moment

2010-01-31T10:09:00.003+05:30

I think I have two actually.... knowing me tht i go out so often to eat outside... every moment would be a normal one.... but its probably the people who were thr tht made it spl :)

1: With C and M in Pearl O' Orient where we ate while we got a full view of the beautiful Marine Drive .... it always looks like a Christmas decoration to me.... with all those lights :)

2: With mom and dad at Wild Dining where I bought Dad a drink with my money :P Though obviously knowing the way we eat in our family it wasnt a good return for the money we paid there.... but still...who cares when your daughter is treating you ;)

so...there I go.... I aint saying tht I'll write one everyday.... but i'll try to.... looks like I am more lukkha now than you can imagine :)

Mumbai Meri Jaan

2010-01-31T10:05:00.001+05:30

You know you are in Mumbai when you say kanda for pyaaz, batata for potato, bajiya for pakode and kakdi for keera

Mumbai

2010-01-24T23:11:00.002+05:30

I totally totally love this place.... for whtever reasons....

And I came across this facebook community which says "you know you are in Mumbai when...."

Planning to write my own set of reasons why I know I m not in Hyderabad but I am in Mumbai.....

One per day.... not more than that....

Here goes the first reason:

When the restaurant fellow gives you a discount for getting food home delivered instead of charging you more

The best of 2009

2010-01-24T19:08:00.003+05:30

I thought I'd start writing this in December itself.... but well... back then I didn't have time.... and now I am bored.... and feel like I have neglected this blog a lot after I have started the other blog

So here I am writing one thing each day.... (or every other day :P ) about the best of the things that happened in 2009 :)

Here goes the first one :

The best trip in 2009

I would definetly say the trip to Kerala .... probably also coz thts the only trip I've been to in 2009 ;) But well... it def was a beautiful trip....The scenery...the house boat.... the walk in the clouds.... the tea gardens.... the beautiful landscape everywhr....the kathakali dance show....the kalaripayattu....The homemade chocolate.... the spice gardens....the carrots on the road side.... the elephant ride....everything was fabulous.... and the company I was with was for one thing :)

They don't call its God's own country for no reason :)

If I should say the one thing you shouldnt miss in Kerala is then it would be the house boats on the back waters :)

Trek

2009-12-13T18:09:00.010+05:30

Went on a trek with N

and here are a few pics frm the trek....and also the trek was totally worth it.... especially coz I got to see the peacock in its full magnificence ..... A realllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy beautiful creature.... I mean beauty at its maximum !!!

Extra Innings

2009-11-28T16:09:00.003+05:30

Time for a lil extra smiles :)

I had Jalebi with Rabdi after a long long time .... and I have decided now.... it is my favorite sweet dish apart from Double-ka-meetha and Qurbani-ka-meetha (both being Hyderabadi dishes) I totally love the combination.... the hot juicy jalebi just melts in your mouth..... aaaaah!!!! I want one now :(((((

For the second moment .... N ( not Nithya :D ) called up yesday and asked me if I was free for hanging out.... it was sad tht I had a class and so cudn't go... but it felt nice to her a call from her unexpectedly like tht :)

Love you sweetheart :***

Though now I am waiting for S also to come back so that the 3 of us could go to watch Arya 2 :D:D:D:D reaaaaaaalllly excited about going to tht movie :D:D:D

Smiles

2009-11-21T21:53:00.005+05:30

The extra happy moments which I can't post on my other blog due to my resolution of not posting more than one each day

19th November:

Went to R-city to have a look at the cams and went to Big Cinemas (just in case a new movie came up) and was delighted to know that Kurbaan for God knows what reason... released on Thursday itself... Yippeeee !!! Knowing the kind of Movie buff I am you would understand why this made me happy :P

20th November:

Finally kind of sorted out things with A. I still am kinda pissed off at N for telling her about things, but it kind of turned out in a good way :) Those issues probably don't matter nemore but were kind of deep seeded inside for too long to be forgotten that easily. But decided to let go finally and talk about it, and thankfully turned out in a good way :)

so all smiles for that... though actually after the chat i cried :P but that was coz I was missing her and not coz I was sad. So still... all smiles :)

4 years

2009-10-29T22:41:00.004+05:30

Never realised time could fly so fast

its been four years and come to think of it now..... its good in a way.... tht its stable as of now... touch wood !!

at the same time doesnt feel like its been tht long..... a few things do get boring after this long.... thr is sumtimes nothing left in the name of suprise to long for or lok forward to when it becomes this long....

but then yet again comes another 27th and u are thrown off ur feet in the most unexpected way !!!

the morning was jus like any other morning.... got up went to class.... and then at 4 o' clock i get a bunch of purple orchids and carnations delivered to the class.... now tht wasnt expected.... or maybe i expected it in the morning but forgot abt it by the evening time and the card read.... Happy 4th.... P.S: waiting down for you - Bugs

i cudnt stop smiling after tht.... looked down frm the balcony nd thr he was all smiling.....

finished the lecture in the next 15 min and went down.... was promptly stopping an auto when he said.... dont bother....and he jus he made a call and a car came and halted in front of us ....feeling like a princess already...got into the car.....went to Mad Over Donuts.... 12 Donuts.... can u imagine :P well didnt eat all... got them packed :P finished 6 though ;)

Went to Colaba from there.....went to this place which was supposed to be the dinner halt for the night.... but we reached thr at 6:30 and it doesnt open till 8 pm.... having no choice we decided to spend time at colaa causeway -- with me shoppin like crazy :P

even b4 we reached the shoppin area my eyes fell on Leopold cafe.... and hence halt at Cafe Leopols estb. 1871

a shot of cherry brandy mixed with some other liquors and a plate of pasta and french fries and scrambled eggs with ice tea :D

and then soon after started the shopping spree..... 4 pairs of shoes and loads of bangles and ear rings.... aaah !!!! total bliss.... nothing cud beat the happiness one gets after shoppin ...and tht too when its cheap chindi shopping !!!

after the round of shoppin it was time to leave for this restaurant again....

frm outside this place was a total mood spoiler.... felt like..... after all this bliss.... y this? :P

went up abt 5 floors in a cramped up lift.... the smallest i have ever been in i shud say...and the lift man has to b one person out of the 4 tht can hardly fit into it

the lift halted on the 5th floor...had to climb up 2 fleets of stairs and then opened doors to the best place i have ever been to till date.... awesum ambience (or maybe i felt so coz the day was spl) and smelt good with all the flavoured hookah..... it has this raised platform a lil secluded frm the rest of the place frm which u can have the view of the sea with all the fishing boats and tourist motor boats hangered. we got a table after abt 20 min of waiting.... ordered food...fabulous i shud say ... never had such awesum biryani except in hyderabad :P

Ordered a hookah (grape) and its naaaaaaaaaaaice :P

awesum place i shud say.... and to complete wat was a perfect eve+night sumone was bursting crackers (the celebration rockets) into the air and it felt like the 27th of last yr when we went to Pearl O' Orient one night before diwali when we sat in the revolving restaurant facing the marine drive and all the colorful lights .....it felt the same even now....maybe even better.....

on the whole it was probably the Best date till date !!!

P.S: the pic so damn fits in.... !!!!

Random Thoughts

2009-10-23T14:10:00.002+05:30

decided to better post this under this heading.... and will continue this label for these kinds of thoughts were i dnt have time to actually write a big post abt these thoughts but i still want it on jus for archives

--> got a new laptop

--> sumtimes better to stay away

--> need a holiday

--> hate it when they dnt listen to me in class but they listen to him x-( x-(

This or That

2009-10-09T17:04:00.003+05:30

Sumtimes this question makes life miserble :D

To go out or not to
To buy a new laptop or save money
To buy the blue shoes or the red ones
To take it seriously or not
To tell them or not
To do it or not
This one or that one
Gym or Jogging.... or neither :D
Ghar ka khana or Bahar ka khana
Premier show or first day show
Romance or Comedy
Action or Drama
Get up early or Walk in late
Train or Rickshaw
Sony Walkman or Apple Earphones
Change Flat or Dont change
Spend Money or Save money
Gas Laws or Periodic Properties :P
Objective or Subjective
Purple or Black
Call or Not to call
Talk or not to talk
Meet or not to meet

each one in a different context but each one equally important :P

Happy Teacher's Day to me :P

2009-09-05T14:39:00.004+05:30

well..... i was worried before i took up this decision....worried if i was doin the right thing...worried if i cud make it or if students wud reject and kick me out :P didnt want to end up in the library like the others.... and well guess wht.... looks like I aint a bad teacher after all ;)

I dont knw how or wht the students think abt me but as for me.... I enjoy each class equally and each batch equally (well but i do have my favourites :P )

I look forwar to each class.... and i am really glad i took this up....sumtimes i really feel like....who cares wht the others have to say about my decision.... i am lovin wht i am doin and i am gettin paid well so how does it matter.... but well thr come those other times when i feel ki maybe i took a wrong step but then along comes another class and i feel all high again :)

right now in hyd...enjoying a weekend with my parents.... looking forward to monday when i can go back to work :)

After shopping its cooking

2009-07-30T23:43:00.002+05:30

Yes.... thts my latest obsession..... if its south indian sumtimes like masala dosa.... other times its the authentic north indian mushroom makai paneer... while at other times it has no regional barriers - i make some pakode :D

list of things i have made and turned out good till now :D... in the order tht i made them

maggi ;)

sada dosa

aaloo fry

bhindi fry

omlet

egg burji

kheer (payasam)

aaloo ki sabzi

bhindi ki sabzi

tomato soup

kashmiri pulao

paneer butter masala (paneer makhani)

veg kolhapuri (disaster)

masala rice

scrambled eggs with toast

pasta

mac and cheese

boondi raita

masala boondi chat (own creation :P)

upma

sevaya

poha

pakode

masala dosa

paneer makai paneer

and in the desserts list i have my own creations

and i'd like to call them.....

Landslide and Curious Gorge ;)

both of them were awsum (this i knw for sure)

next on list is chicken which will be ghar ka recipe and chole

hope they turn out good too :D

and yeah...i think i will make a good cook coz i had two best critics eat my food today and this is how it turned out

critic 1 : a picky fellow who has names for everything and nething cooked....nd who compares it with his mom's cooking and leaves the table if its bad..... but suprisingly he finished 3/4th of the sabzi today

critic 2: a frnd who i knw for sure has been the best cook i know and she jus wanted to taste it but instead took a second helping because she said she liked it :P

and these two things are enuf for me to believe tht i am good (though i havent eaten it myself becoz of the mushrooms :P )

The girl in the green scraf

2009-06-24T16:13:00.004+05:30

If you have watched the movie "Confessions of a shopaholic" you knw wht exactly i am talking about

Shopping is just wonderful !!!

Would like to quote sumthing frm the movie here :

"The joy you feel when you've bought something,and it's just you and the shopping.

All you have to do is hand over a little card.

Isn't that the best feeling in the world? You wanna shout it from the mountaintops... You feel so confident and alive and happy and warm "

I wish i could just add more adjectives..... its just an amazing feeling when you come back home carrying all those bags.... it doesnt matter whether you've bought those shoes at Loft or Inc.5 or Catwalk or you picked them off from one of the roadside shops at Bandra....it all still counts.... its still the same amazing feeling

I never enjoyed shopping this much....well buying cute girly stuff i always enjoyed..... but the last two years have been like a shopping spree for me....clothes...shoes....accessories...everything and anything. I have shopped more than what i have shopped in the last 20 years of my life in just these 2 years.... and no regrets... except when i have to look at the balance in the account :P

Been a long time since i have been shopping....but with the monsoons here.....its just round the corner :)

but officially, i have already done my first monsoon shopping with a beautiful bright blue umbrella :)

Aaaaaahhhh... I love shopping :)

And proudly.... I have turned into a shopoholic :D

It's not just a phone.....

2009-06-09T02:44:00.005+05:30

we wake,we wonder

we blink, we yawn

we switch on,we switch off

we breathe in, we breathe out

we organize,we categorize

we rush, we waste

we're tacky, we're charming

we decide,we cant decide

we do this everyday

we're smart,we're dumb

we're cute,we're juggling all the time

we take calls, we make calls

we laugh, we cry

got friends, lots of friends

we call friends, we text friends, friends of friends

no....we're just friends

we're hooked, we're addicted

we're inseparable

we're on it, we're in it

we love it, we need it

we check

we check again...

we're hot, we're hotter

we're naughty, we're nice

we cant live without it

Its not just a phone..... its who we are !!!

Seems so apt and true... its like ever since i owned a phone (no matter whether it was the first one or the eigth one) it was always thr with me.... whereever i went... whtever i did

Kudos to whoever invented the cell phone :D

the link for the inspiration :D

Of Summers and Mangoes

2009-05-16T22:42:00.002+05:30

With summers come loads of wonderful things.... the sweet smelling jasmines.... the summer heat and the cooling ice candies.....the holidays...... the tours.....the coconut water......and last but the most important..... MANGOES

This is wht makes me look fwd to summers sumtimes.... i like loads of other fruits... but nothing tht can beat mangoes

Mangoes and me.....We go back a long way.... my grandparents owned an orchard or a farm.... whtever u wanna call it .... and they had rows of mango trees and coconut trees.... the mornings wud start with me carrying a huge basket in my teeny weeny hands trying not to trip over it on my way frm the house which stood right in the middle of the orchard to the tree which bore the sweetest fruit.

First i would pick those fruits which have fallen on the ground becoz they were too ripe or becoz some bird had pecked too hard or a monkey was trying to steal them from the tree but dropped the mongo instead. Then i would climb up to the lower branches and pluck more fruit. I would carry the basket back with the help of my grandfather who wud stand by and watch me all this while.

That tree would be my tree....I would water the tree each day and the tree would make sure it gave me the sweetest of mangoes. By afternoon a small cot would be put under the tree and i would lie down beneath its shade to with a comic book in one hand, which i make sure i pack b4 leaving hyd and a mango in the other

atleast 3 mangoes a day and as if this wasnt enough i would eat raw mangoes too with salt and chilli powder. By the end of summer holidays my mom wud b compelled to get a new set of clothes for me coz i wud have gone by atleast 2 sizes :">

I jus had my first mango of the summers today.... it wasnt as sweet as those mangoes i collected from my tree... the tree is no longer mine though.... my grandparents shifted frm the orchard to a more urbanized town....good for them coz they no longer can live all alone thr ..... but i really wish sumtimes tht they hadnt moved out from thr and i cud climb those trees to pluck my morning fruit and have yellow mango stains on all my summer frocks

P.S: this image is only untill i go back to bbay and upload a pic of me from my childhood, with the mango :D

Last PAF

2009-03-29T03:01:00.008+05:30

I still remember the day i saw my first PAF in IIT (not the videos)

Asrar..... though it was tough to follow the whole sequence properly.... i got the crux of it.... and wht thralled me more was the prod... a magnificent Tajmahal on the centre stage......white....glowing in the darkness of the OAT.... and the chess board... the way ghotu jumped arnd without a pant for the choreo =))

the secnd paf.... kharashein... our very own paf... centre stage pe 2 floor ka chawl.... a wonderful puchless and very well executed paf....awesum matki phod song (though i later heard the song elsewhr and found out tht it wasnt an OC...much to my dissapointment)... and wht makes it more memorable is tht i was in the acting team... and this particular scene where i come running to hold GP's legs was so well taken by the audience tht u cant even hear the rest of the dialogue... and well ofcourse it was the gem of the paf :P

camouflages .... all i can remember of this paf is bhangi getting out in between the scene fro behind the prod and adjusting the torn piece of backdrop... and ofcourse the very (in)famous daya daya song ;)

Deja vu... well need not even talk abt this one.... script toh hai ki god ;) :P... uske alawa.... first paf to b made on IIT.... and the prod.... canteen....oat in the oat.... coffee shack... maingate... evrything.. and the putch well covered =)).. the red light scene... everything abt this was jus amazing !!!

then comes another round of PAFs... not ne tht i am really proud of....

Aashayein..... was in the voiceover team this time.... didnt really like a few ppl back then who were involved in the paf and then there was this other set of ppl i was pissed off at coz they stole his concept without telling him.... and made it into a story tht i am sure no one ever understood (including me).... and yeah....things i cant forget abt this paf... the 11 choreos we had and he cowboy position ;)

Saare Jahan se Accha.... pumba's air lift.... and the fellow who they got in the end to senti marofy... these r the only two things i remember abt this paf....it turned out to b the better one among the bad ones i guess :D

Numb D.... the story starts with 2 rivals nd then ends with drugs..... whtever.... bad centre stage prod... but awesum tunnel effect... and yeah tweety's wardrobe malfunction .. he he ;))

GoodMorning..... a paf wayyyyyy too ahead of its time i guess :P... the only thing i remember of this paf is the rising sun which the junta started booing for... but i found it pretty :D... and yeah the out of sync gulti choreo ;)

PAF - 3rd yr

Arsh... god this was a disgrace to all the prods ever made... horrible horrible horrible prod.... well... script was neways taken directly frm the movie.... cudnt they have atleast spent time on the prod?? a wonderful image i have in mind is tht of agyeya... who is maybe 5' 4" tall standing in front of a backdrop which has a table painted on it...yeah not kiddin... and a book shelf painted hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh above... lets say atleast another 4 ft above him?

U-turn.... it was fun working in this paf... majorly becoz its junta tht i knew... and then there were these chillar junta... parmar...renil...ronak....saini.... who were always arnd to crack jokes and make us laugh... the 3 days in OAT were wonderful.....shailesh...ankit...aseem...maggi...swati....vikash.... everyone frm the whole team... pulkit...sonal...sai.... god it was a lovely team :)
bhavani juice centre...working sugarcane juice machine....palat de pasa slogan....the song kaise karoge bhaiyya....everything was jus too good :) nd ofcourse the senti video in the end with ankit's voice in the backgrnd :D

1985..... a beautiful and magnificient golden temple... this was the only thing tht cud beat the beauty of the tajmahal.... the colorful and vibrant backdrop tht covered the centre stage... and ganne ka khet.... the awesum dance/martial art thingy of the sardars... (sorry dnt knw wht its called)....tried using the vidarbh waala senti by getting simmy in the end to speak :P which felt stupid... he eh he... but it was a good paf otherwise :)

The show goes on..... i dnt think this paf deserved to b 4th... c'mon..... arsh was way worse than this.... but well... this paf didnt have ne positive aspect either... well... except maybe the fountain they made on the centre stage and sudhi's fire fighting stunt :P

and the LAST Pafs

Karwat.... the shadow dance was wonderful... and the trees of ramleela and backdrop of the ghaat were awesum... and yeah thts to it.... talli's dances... again ... yet once again he steels the show =)) baawra mann??...seriously?? =))

If tomorrow comes.... nice punchlines here and thr.... a nice copy of ground hog day :) ... no i am not sarcastic... its a good copy...though i knew and saw the film.... i still did clap sumtimes in between like whr he stops the airport manager frm stopping the airhostesses frm fighting... tht was a cute scene :) ... well i guess its the feelig tht they managed to create in the audience in the end tht is probably making put their high stakes on this paf :)

Nazafgarh ..... yeah... MY last paf... stayed away frm the dram part of the paf as much as possible coz for once i jus wanted to b an OC and not b involved in the dram part... and i think (no matter wht others have to say) did a decent job... i dnt think i did an awesum job but i dnt think u wud say i was bad either :P its jus tht for the first time i am not being involved in the dram part so i dnt have those reminiscing thoughts abt the paf.... its like... phew !!! thank god its over !!! and i cant share those old jokes tht dram ppl crack aftr the paf is over... a diff feelng altogether... but again.... it was nice working in the middle of the aftrnoon in the OAT..... seeing how the structures r built.... how the paperwork is done.... how crates r tied together... and how even though u plan for eveyrthing well in advance.... thigns do pop up in the end :)

Arthur Road..... the last PAF i will b watching while still being a student here.... as long as i am in mumbai.... i will not miss any PAF... come wht may... and this wud b till they stop i guess.... coz seeing the decline in number of freshies tht r working for paf each year...doesnt look like its gonna last long...

another wonderful thing about iit tht i am goin to miss :(

False Pride

2009-02-27T02:13:00.003+05:30

Head lines of Bombay Times the day Oscars were announced :

"Slumdog makes India proud with 8 Oscars"

"India has never shone like this before...."
"There's not a single Indian heart that does not seem to be echoing the sentiment, 'Yes, we have done it'."

And the first thing tht comes out of my mouth is WTF !!!

say Rahman made us proud... i agree
say Resul Pookutty made us proud... i agree
say Vikas Swarop made us proud... i agree
maybe i wud even agree for Lovleen Tandon or Freida Pinto or ne of those Indian actors in the movie or the technicians of the movie

but how the hell did Slumdog winning at the Oscars make us proud???
Ridiculous !!!

They did the same thing when Water had acclaimed international fame... no production house was ready to accept the movie here but aftr it was made under international banner... oh then thr we r to claim it as an indian movie and ready to come under the wings of fame... or whtever u wanna call it

Calling slumdog an indian movie is equal to calling Kal ho na ho an american movie since it was based in America.... Oh... sorry maybe ppl wud argue here saying tht the actors were indian and the story was abt an indian isnt it??

Dev Patel to my knowledge is British

I do agree tht we indians are happy for Rahman .... and as for me i am more than happy for him (and equally for gulzar, sukhwinder and resul pookutty).... an indian to win the oscars ... wht more cud ne one ask for

But being happy for slumdog??? C'mon its lagaan tht we shud b happy for not slumdog... no matter wht argument u giv me... i stick to my opinion... dnt want u to agree to it... but when wud we realize...especially the press which adds up to half the reason ....tht IT IS NOT WE WHO SHOULD BE PROUD.....We were only the subjects of the movie... WE ARE NOT THE MOVIE MAKERS... Danny Boyle is not Indian.....the credit for the movie goes to HIM not US !!!

and as for the movie ... i wanted to write abt it earlier.... but cudnt...

my review for the movie Slumdog Millionaire

the first half of the movie is awesum where the camera work esp in the song "they cant touch me" is god !!!
the scene of amitab's arrival and the way they travel in the train and how he becomes a guide.... really shot well and for the story i dont knw whom to giv credit to.... vikas swarop or danny boyle

but things were goin pretty well till a few things seemed a lil out of place... i still find it illogical tht the blind kid knew tht benjamin franklin was the man on a 100 bill.... c'mon i dnt knw it myself and i am sure most ppl dnt.... if it was asked abt a normal indian currency it wud still have made sense.... even if i assume he went to school b4 getting his eyes gauged out....atleast i wasnt taught this in my school.... as to which famous personality is printed on which american bill

nd for sumone who has been watching movies on general mumbai slums and movies like salam bombay, maybe this movie wudnt have appealed so much incase u didnt knw tht it was an oscar nominated movie or tht it won a golden globe or tht it was made by a non bollywood man.... knwing the background of the movie itself makes a lil diff i guess.... coz all the while tht i was watching the movie thr was this bell constantly ringing in my head tht kept reminding me.... "this is danny boyle who made the movie... not madhur bhandarkar or ram gopal verma"... and i sumhow myself automatically appreciated it more to think tht a foreigner who understood the depth of making a movie on the slums of mumbai... wow!!! now tht is wht i appreciated more than the movie itself... havent read the book so cant say whether it is a good adaptation or no... but danny boyle has definetly done a fantastic job and done total justice to "slums of mumbai".... i wonder if the movie wud have been appreciated the same incase it was made by ne indian director :D
and i shud say... awesum acting by the two slum kiddos..... u deserve an oscar if it was in my hands :D

finally.... the only ppl i think deserve a hats off are Rahman (and gang) and Resul Pookutty !!!

and danny boyle for understanding the depth of the literature and making such a good movie

and to all those ppl falsely feeling happy tht slumdog has made it in the oscars.... i pity u :|

Last Midsems in IIT

2009-02-21T00:47:00.002+05:30

:)
and the least prepared for :P

IITB Dram.. Will Miss You !!!

2009-02-06T15:56:00.005+05:30

If thr is one thing i will miss apart frm frnds @ IIT... its definetly goin to b Dram @ IITB

Ad Making - Gro Gro
Impromptu
MI One Act Play - Stangers in the Dark
Freshie Monoacting
Chaos One Act Play - Strangers in the Dark

IITB's First feature Film - Deja vu

Malhar Streetplay - Kya hoga ab yaar
Sophies Production - A + iB
Inter Hostel Streetplay - Godgiri
Main GC Dram - Writer's Block
Open Monoacting

Freshie Orientation - Monoacting
Sophies Production - Andhon ka Hathi
Main GC Dram - 111 Rupees
MI Streetplay - Agnipareeksha
Inter Hostel Streetplay - 70 Crore
Chaos Streetplay - 70 Crore

Filmaka Contest - Chamatkar
Filmaka Contest - 7 stones
Filmaka Contest - Guddi

Freshie Orientation - Andhon ka Hathi
Prithvi Performance - Agnipareeksha Day 1
Prithvi Performance - Agnipareeksha Day 2
Fourth Wall Orientation - Agnipareeksha
Freshie Open Stage Judging
Freshie Weekend Monoacting Judging
Theatre Fest - Kuch Khatha Kuch Meetha
Streetplay Workshop for PGs
Thespo Audition - Sonu ka Gold Medal
Prithvi Performance as a part Thespo Festival - Sonu ka Gold Medal
Main GC Dram - Ek Chidia Anek Chidia
Annual Productions - Epsilon Delta

And apart from this... there are always workshops that i have been part of or impromptu events as a freshie or sophie... and the bigger picture of all these... the Baap of all Cult events - PAF

PAF 1 - Hostels 6,10,13,Tansa - Kharashein - Acting
PAF 2 - Hostels 3,8,10, Tansa - Aashayein - Voiceover
PAF 3 - Hostels 4,9,10 -U Turn - Acting

Thanx to all the seniors who believed in me..... thanx to all the juniors who trusted me...... thanx to all the audience who sat thru any of my performances.....and not to forget ... thanx to IITB for letting all this happen in the first place....and a big...huge thanx to the one special person without whom this wudnt have been possible (atleast i like to think tht way)

Annual Productions 2009.... this was my last ever stage performance in IITB... and Epsilon Delta is wht we called our performance..... a tribute to the MA course tht was taught to us in the first yr :P
Enjoyed making the play more than sitting and watching it.... got to knw ppl better becoz of this.....good way and bad way :)
But the end of all this.... I cudnt ask for a better ending to My Dram @ IITB.... A Standing Ovation !!!

Wht else cud i ask for.... Never seen a standing ovation in an LT b4..... and probably wudnt b able to see one again either :)

All in all..... I am happy i chose this path :) :) :)

Adios !

2009-01-02T23:22:00.002+05:30

To many things....

The year gone by
A wonderful uncle who will always be missed
A horrible placement season
Autumn Semesters
Combined DD & BTech courses
Job Hunting
1 month Winter holidays
Resumes/JAFs/PPTs
Labs

Cant think of other things.... probably loads of other things to look fwd to :)
Wudnt call it an eventful year... not everything went as planned.... but things always happen for the best.....still holding on to tht theory :D

In the Memory of

2008-12-24T23:23:00.003+05:30

An uncle of mine passed away (a distant relative but a very close family frnd).... he was part of a four-families team

we went on summer vacations together.... most bdays were spent together.... ne joyous occassion and he was thr to celebrate it with us as was he during ne greiving period to support us... and now i cant believe he is no longer with us... and it all jus happened in less than a month...

Death is painful and the memories of the loved ones who have left us r even more painful. No reunion of the frnds wud b the same without him now.... We will miss u uncle and u will always b remembered

Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him, may his soul rest in peace
Amen !

A whole lot of confusion

2008-12-24T22:55:00.003+05:30

Why is it happening like this jus when i thought i had it all completely worked out? do i like these holidays or do i not? Do i want them or do i not?
Its a whole mess up there in my head.... the only person i shud b sorting this thing out with is the one i shudnt b confronting in the first place
Am i doin wht i am coz i want to do it....or jus coz i am scared of the consequences? if it is the other way then its bad...isnt it? i dnt think u r supposed to take decisions (esp very imp ones on which the course of ur life cud depend) jus coz u r scared of wht others might think... or wht ppl mite say....isnt it supposed to b coz u want to do it?

and on tht note....relationships rnt easy to handle...b it ne of these...... frnds....cousins...bfs....both Xs and present....parents....siblings....their gfs.... nething !!!
they r jus too complicated

jus being incoherent in my thoughts here..... probably had a good time today... probably didnt.....probably did the right thing.... probably didnt.... probably spoke the right things.... probably didnt......shud i or shudnt i..... the question still remains unanswered

Mood swings :D

2008-12-17T17:15:00.002+05:30

jus having one of those since yesday .... feeling nice now...actually better ...much much...partially coz i have things figured out :D

feeling nice...happy and joyful... except tht i am not doin good health wise... a catch in my back and coupled with cramps :(

its ok.. my first 'official' dinner :D

Nawab Sahab - Renaissance

looking forward to enter my new world :)

P.S: thts jus whr i am goin for the trt :P

Blue

2008-12-16T17:09:00.002+05:30

Was feeling blue from quite sometime..... and was thinking abt all the possible ppl i cud speak to ... but it jus turns out... i cant talk my heart out to neone..!!! jus not left with neone i cud confide in i guess or neone who without judging me or jus looking at it like some stupid talk i always have... cud give me some advice here

Feeling lost... unhappy and blue

D-Day

2008-12-16T10:56:00.004+05:30

Phew !!!!

Finally its over.... its done !!! doesnt seem like ppl i xpected to b happy for me r really happy.... but i jus dnt have to keep worrying every min abt not getting placed now or tht i might have to take up a 4 lakhs job sumwhr away frm hyd or mumbai

he is unhappy tht i am goin home now... or for whtever reason i dont knw.....
munna cried yesday tht i am placed in mumbai...and tht means i wont b coming back home.... he was crying yesday saying tht he was feeling lonely.... I Miss You too sweetheart ... uuuuummmmmmaaaahhh !!!
mom is unhappy.... says its a bad job.... y doesnt she get it tht its the rescission period and getting placed itself is a big deal...she still has this image in her head tht iitian hai toh per month 1 lakh in hand ka job toh lagega hi &$%^#$%$#%$%^%^&%%@#$% JUS FORGET IT !!

y is my happiness a function of everyone elses??
cant i jus b happy becoz i want to b?
am i happy with the job i got?
is neone happy for me ?
does neone want me to b happy?
shud i leave the job and jus take up a job with some reputed company even if it is paying me less than this one?
shud i jus take a year off to do MBA?
why do ihave to do an MBA?
y am i joining this company if no one is happy with it?
is 6-7 lakhs package less in this crisis situation?

too many questions... none i can answer....

always wanted to knw how getting placed would feel.... but trust me.... this is not how i imagined it wud b

Congratulations to myself !!!

Day 07- Day 13

2008-12-13T16:26:00.003+05:30

Can anyone not jus open their mouths in a GD...esp sumone like me? the answer is Yes !!! .... but not bothered abt it coz company didnt shortlist neone frm my GD grp...and took noone frm campus :P

got shortlisted in sabre travels ...wasnt int in the job profile.... felt like a really mechanical work...and screwed up the interview slightly on purpose... as in interview was goin bad.... and though if i wanted i cud have turned the course.... i didnt put ne extra effort :D

he asked me wht kind of a job u want..... and though i knw its partly core and it is jus abt taxing and numbers.... i told him i wanted a creative job :P
which wudnt have been my answer in a normal case :P

the interviewer was handsome though :D

the companies of 3-6 lakhs have begun..... hmmm.... being choosy now... c'mon i am not working in a company tht pays less and at the same time i dnt like wht i am doing...scope !!!

john deer ... the company tht took buddhu (a family frnd) frm NIT Warangal paying 5 Lakhs.... and placing in pune ...is coming to us...with a package of 3.25 Lakhs... i dnt knw the profile... but i am sure its the same.... even if it is not.... doesnt an IITian mean nething to them??? revolting and not signing their JAF :D

Day 6

2008-12-07T01:04:00.002+05:30

well...jus yet another day..... Adventity shortlist out.... not in..... waitlist to b coming out tomorro morning

Nithya left for hyd.... sahi leaving tomorrow.... gurveen leaving on tuesday....navya and aarathi already left.... i wud have died of depression if he wasnt thr probably

Day 5

2008-12-05T23:49:00.002+05:30

Nothing today.... D.E. Shaw which was supposed to come didnt come......coz of the black day thingy.... will come later on apparently... and being in civil suxx as usual.... no company wants to hire us at all !!!!

Day 4

2008-12-04T19:35:00.002+05:30

gave an aptitude test for adventity.... company tht is known to have fired 11 freshers it recruited this year...

i runway took abt 10 ppl.... atleast one company wants us :D

Day 3

2008-12-03T20:14:00.002+05:30

Nothing today.... jus like yesday.... and maybe nothing tomorrow too.... it jus keeps getting worse !!

Day 1-2

2008-12-02T14:30:00.002+05:30

well..... I did give my first ever interview yesday....and i cleared round 1.... i goofed up round two....didnt get placed hence.... but welll.... atleast my first ever interview was fun..... feeling a lil more confident aftr tht... though not getting placed has got my spirits a lil low.... clearing the first interview jus got my hopes up high....and not getting thru the next round has dissapointed me.... if i didnt get thru the first round itself maybe i wud have felt better..... dunno...whtever happens i have learnt frm sumone tht it is for the good..... so jus trying not to loose my senses and get emotional :|

being in civil suxx.... hardly ne companies tht r open for us now tht itc/schlums/consultancies are gone..... few finance companies and a few other analysts left...jus hoping to do well....hope i wont have to attend too many interviews b4 i get a job....coz with each passing day it gets more difficult to hold it up

and i jus hope thr r ppl apart frm me out thr parying for me to get a good job :|

Placements '08

2008-11-29T04:16:00.003+05:30

8 is generally considered an unlucky number....and maybe it is holding true this time too.... as if the serial blasts were not enuf....as if the financial crisis wasnt enough.... now we have the war on mumbai :(
holding hostages like they show in movies...killing ppl randomly.... Leopold cafe.... i mean i wud have probably been goin thr sumday myself for a nice meal or for a trt....and now i hear on TV tht every bit of the place is covered in blood....ppl being shot at randomly.... and wht not...

i knw this should be the least of my concerns at this point of time.... but i am scared like everyone else abt my placements.... tht point whr it is decided whether wht i have done till date is of ne use or no.... how well i stand in competition to my peer group.... and it is the major point in life which will decide wht or how i will b frm henceforth

I am ready for ne job at this point of time... but i do want a job which rewards my efforts also ....another criteria actually.... but i dnt knw how imp tht shud be
but i do knw tht this factor wud also be imp in deciding a lot of other things....

and becoz of the bloody attack and coz of fall of markets... ML london.... schlums... Credit ... Sony japan.... are all backing out of the placements....and estimated number of ppl to be placed on first day is 20 compared to the number 93 of last yr :( thts really sad :( wish i cud get into iit one year earlier.... or i dnt knw ...it wud have been a butterfly effect thing whr i wudnt have done or been a lot of things tht i have done becoz of the extra one year tht took me to get into iit....but then...jus for these few days i wish i was placed last yr itself :(
this is bad :(
but jus trying to be positive ....grrrrrrrrr...... really if this phase ends fast.... i'd b really really glad !!!

Whts not straight??

2008-11-23T04:21:00.003+05:30

Looks like 'gay' is whts hep and happening right now apart frm John Abraham's butt !!!
Well....dostana...thts wht i am talking abt...another gay priyanka movie :D

A karan johar production.... wht else do we expect :d now he cant publicly show who is gay with him :P so he decides on showing AB and John gay :P ....well they cud b...not denying...but atleast to the outside world they r a happily married and committed couple respectively (not to one another :P )
I was seriously LOL though not LMAO....not bad i shud say....well still only talkin abt the first few min... bobby deol enters the stage and phwwoooooossshhhh !!! the movie goes bad :(

everything is predictable and old jokes..... no new style also...except tht this time its not the US of A or London or Australia and for a change its Miami

God does Shilpa look hot !!!! aweeessssssuuuuummmmmmmm figure i shud say :D
Priyanka wasnt tht gr8...but cud do with her more than Rani mukherjee in Thoda life thoda magic...well only comparin in the sense tht rani does for yash raj wht priyanka is doing for karan
=))) jus realised how shady tht sounds..... well i dnt knw ne inside stories or gossips ...jus talkin abt the roles :D

tomorrow's exam is an open notes...open book and anything u can think of exam :D Luv Prof. Dasaka Murthy for this...wht can b of more relief in this horrifying period....jus avoiding ne talk pertaining to the last hurdle in my status ....dnt want to think abt it.... :D

not as happy as my smiley....but doin jus fine :|

Belling the CAT

2008-11-16T23:03:00.001+05:30

After all looks like the CAT did escape like expected this yr :D
not tht i really wanted to get into it this yr...coz like i mentioned sumtime b4 ... i have no clue as to why i have to do an MBA in the first place....so this is jus like buying myself more time to think abt it once again...and see y i really need to do it aftr all

So with 2 things of the major 4 hurdles of this month/sem crossed.....jus eagerly waiting for the next 2 to get done with asap

Dasvidaniya

2008-11-15T17:17:00.002+05:30

Meaning good bye in rusi language.....the movie went fine for the first half....very much natural....i mean not like bucket list.... it was real like... but then the second half wasnt upto the mark....things jus kept happening without a logic now...like how he wishes now for a photo in the first page was very very arbit....and then clippings with end credits was also stupid...i mean the actors were stupid....cant they jus list out things they wanna do b4 dying??? one of them actually said have two babies... i mean in 2 months u r goin to die and u r gonna sit and try to have babies???? woman !!! and another was stupid to say i wud like to get close to my kids and knw them when they r 25 yrs...ok ..!!! u r dying in 2 months not 20 yrs...

i always kept wondering tht if i knew i was goin to die in a few min who all i wud b making phone calls to...and i have always wondered on this....relatives...frnds...old ones...new ones.... the list is always big... but was wondering wht i wud b doin if had enuf money to do nething i wanted to and knew tht i wud die in say a year.... 2months is too short a time to do nething :D

hmmmm....lets see....

visit disney land
see all the wonders of the world (old new latest...everyone of them)
live near a beach for a few days
go sking, paragliding, bungee jumping, water rafting, ne other adventure sport i can think of :D
learn a couple dance
buy flowers everyday :D
shop like i never did b4...a new dress evryday :D
buy a MAC laptop...the latest and the most psuueeeeeed one !!
i phone :D/or whtever is in then :D
a lavish car
watch as many movies as possible
get stoned once
champagne :D

thts all i can think of for now... will keep adding to the list as and when i think of nething new :D

Long time no see.....

2008-11-14T02:35:00.006+05:30

Well not particularly busy but jus too lazy...or not in the mood sumtimes if not lazy....
loads of things happened... frm performing at prithvi theatre (the Mecca for theatre artists) to meeting his parents.... frm watching movies like maan gaye mughle azam...woodstock villa...drona...kidnap....roadside romeo... to getting my hair streaked..... frm finishing my btp on time to getting scared in a presentation and xcusing myself to shed two drops of tears b4 i cud gather myself and start all over again.... frm writing the most crappy resume to not cleaning my room even once in the whole semester...frm losing a whole lot of wt to getting to talk to M's first gf....frm meeting with an accident to losing another phone.....yeah...pretty much i've done it all this sem !!!

cant sit and play the 5 months flash back now...but had some really good time this sem.....fought with sum, for the good....got close to some, for the better and distanced from others for the best.

got a whole new wardrobe....with loads of clothes and shoes like never b4 :D

4 major hurdles....

1) btp report submission and presentation
2) CAT
3) Endsems
4) Placements

done with the first
preparing for the second
waiting for the third
and fearing the fourth

with the stupid recession in the market.... placements this yr r apparently goin to b bad...jus hoping for the best... i dnt wanna b left out in the end...thts the only thing tht scares me more than ending up with a bad job

i dnt knw the reason i wanted to post today...of all the days... maybe coz frm the last 1 month i wasn supposed to be really busy...notice the supposed :D

now again.....was chatting and writing the blog...and also browsing arbit stuff.... i lost interest half way thru this stupid post.... unlike some frnds and co-bloggers.... i dnt really approve of drafting a post jus coz its not complete....its as complete as u want it to be...so y not post it now !!!

yaaaaaawnnn !!!

sleepy also.... :D will continue my movie reviewing again.... i dnt think i will ever b able to keep track of all the movies i see ....its sad sumtimes coz i keep forgetting the names of some really good ones too when it comes to suggesting names

thts it for now i guess..... jus gonna add a few into the list of 101+ things abt me now

Awesum Foursome !!!

2008-06-14T22:18:00.004+05:30

yesday...

I prefer callin this movie an utter shitty movie...priyadarshan has jus got loose frm god knws whr...he is not fit to make movies...well ....all he does is make remakes of nice south indian movies to turn them into bad hindi movies....and this one is jus getting worse..... bad bad bad...super bad.... and i dnt like genelia's voice (if at all thts her original)...her dubbing in gult is better off whoever gives it....she looks like a bad actress on hindi screens...she better stick to south

not bad.....liked it....i mean the thought was nice.... but the ending was arbit...well i dnt have a better end to it....but then...tht didnt explain nething.... !!!so aftr all its jus not a superb film i guess...or rather not an "aww"er

Today:

not a bad animation....good..ok...but the thing tht is making me think abt this movie even now is tht ...i still think they got one avatar wrong....coz firstly....they show buddha on the promotional title image or whtever....and they show mohini in the movie...with no mention of buddha.....still gottu read abt it....but the music....i mean the bachground score is awesummmmmm...loved it !! very tappy....sounded like tanhayi frm DCH ka initial beat....but luved it !!!

another crappy movie....i mean i guess when they started off they wanted to make a movie on collge politics...but midway....like abt 20 min b4 interval....they decided tht they wanted to make a movie on farmers dying....well...ok....but then during the course...they realized once again tht they had an RDB in the making....so y not giv it tht touch...if they said jai jawaan...we'll say jai kisaan....cmon..... doesnt sikandar look like kunal kapoor....well..not exactly with his horse face and giant body....but maybe jus the height....and the hair....sorry...got the hair part wrong....maybe jus nothing.....and doesnt gulpanag giv off a lil ...jus a teeny weeny bit of a soha ali khan.....cmon yaar...both of them r fair !!! yeah...so lets put our stakes on tht side of the story....but yaar...sikandar has to make sumthing blasty in the end isnt it....so we'll send him to jail....jus like tht.... for a change....and we'll get gulpanag raped....jus like tht :D...sexy rahega naa...no movie these days has ne rape scenes...toh isliye :D waaah !!!! kya alag se socha hai...movie toh kadak ban gayi hai ab...bas audience pe thok dete hai ab....oh shit...lekin yeh kya ho gaya...humne toh socha 2007 mein release karenge...lekin ab toh 2008 ho chuka hai.....koi baat nahi...audience is stupid yaar....jus use ne title u want...summer 2007 ya monsoon 2008 ...unko kya farak padta hai ....as though we mentioned nething abt the yr in the movie...neways the title has nothing to do with the movie naa..... jus go ahead....and giv them another Crap to waste money on .......

well...thts how my weekend was....oops.... i still have another day to go b4 i can say weekends over :D
fundoo time :D 4 movies back to back ...well not exactly back to back...2 frm yesday afty to night... 2 frm today afty to eve...so like a back to back... :D ate loads and loads and loads and loads of popcorn :D:D:D
done with the week's new movies....waiting for the next friday :D

My first "Official Pay-Cheque"

2008-06-07T22:18:00.004+05:30

:D:D:D

I am actually enjoying work...cud b coz i am not sitting idle nemore....beign appreciated for working fast :D and also one major reason cud b tht Murugan is nomore my incharge and Lloyd is :D:D...though for some reason ppl r asking me to b careful abt Lloyd... i find him nice... i mean he is young....so kind of fun to b arnd....chirpy...jovial...and most importantly...doesnt make work feel like work....chilled person.....exactly opposite to wht murugan was :P

neways i jus like whtever i am doin now though it is least related to civil :P

i am doin things with software =))

jus uploading and creating pages :P

but still ..... as long as i am busy life is fine thr...and yeah also coz i got adjusted to the timings now....till lunch time i wait for it to turn 12:00 and aftr tht i wait for it to turn 5 :P thts how i pass time :D

All smiles !! :):)

and yeah....how can i forget to mention this..... Monsoons r here !!!!!!!

i looooooovvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeee the climate :D :*****************

Having no Past

2008-05-25T12:27:00.003+05:30

Thts wht i am now...i have no past....no more memories frm school or nething tht i was b4 goin to IIT.... i made sure i had loads to take with me at every point of life tht i thought was memorable...but now....nothing's left of it. Thanx to my parents for this...
I wanted to take them along with me when i went to IIT....all of them.... my school tie...belt...10th class hall ticket...ramaiah entrance exam hall ticket....farewell invitation...to the teachers and the one tht i got frm my juniors....keychains....pics....class grp pic....farewell pics of a teacher who left when we were in 7th....my first ever senti letter....the gift wrapping paper of the gift i most cherish....sri mega i card....and god knws wht.... !!! Already the graffiti lab coat...than to my washerwoman who decided to wash it as clean as possible was as white as new just 1 yr aftr school.... and now this....
Miss them too much :(
I dnt have a past nemore....if they cudnt take care of it why did they stop me frm taking them to iit when i wanted to in the first place....Hate them for this
just too sad right now :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

The first day :((

2008-05-02T23:07:00.004+05:30

i never thought it wud b this way :((
nothing to do the whole day....i mean absolutely nothing...and jus when i wanted to leave....i was given these 25 ppts...each with a min of 50 slides to read so tht i wud knw wht exactly i wud b dealing with..... my foot !!!
my "boss" apprently didnt feel like turning up for the day...and my associate apparently didnt feel like letting me home ....grrrrrrrrr !!!
and he thinks he did some kinda ehsaan to me by giving me access to this BC dated comp...which takes ages to perform ne task and moreover....no access to ne kind of sites.....blockign mailing sites is one thing....blocking... forums and discussion...entertainment....and god knws wht else.... the only sites i discovered tht work thr r google (though the result pages dont seem to open) and wikipedia....tomorrow i am goin to take sumthing to read thr...though i am not sure wht since i have no books in hand....maybe i will take my lappy along so tht i have sum or the other kind of entertainment thr....i mean i am totally gonna turn crazy with 9hrs of office hrs...and nothing to do...well atleast tomorrow i will have the lunch hr to wait for....today i didnt have tht also....long story abt tht...dont want to sit writing abt tht now

as for the movie review promise.... OMG !!! i think i wudnt mind giving a review of SATC..... i cant bear to write abt tht ewwwwwwwwww movie i saw today "Mr Black, Mr White" nothing related to the title for one thing....dont knw wht those charlie's angels char were doin throughtout the movie....actually dont knw wht half the char r doin in the movie ...dont knw why they were existing for 99.99% of the movie and the comedy .....plz hang urself Mr dialogue writer or whtever or whoever u r.... i mean pathetic...patheitc ka bhi baap...and acting.... i wonder if execpt Arshad neone else in the movie can act...including Suneel Shetty....well he cud never act as it is....the heroines...whtevr their names were....whr did they find them??? some daily soap?? well i think even soap artists are better these days ... horrible horrible horrible acting pathetic dialogues....aweful movie in a single word... dont ever ever try watching this....thr isnt a single thing i liked abt the movie... ONE TWO THREE was 200 times better than this.....so for those who saw the later movie must understand how bad the former is

jus a bad day at work and at play :(

My first day at Work

2008-05-02T07:13:00.002+05:30

well....thts wht i like to call it :D
goin to b starting off in another 1 hr frm now.... i dont have my entry pass though and i was supposed to take a print out of the appointment letter which i forgot....so i have no clue whether they r goin to allow me or no :D jus hope they wud
and hope i dont fall off asleep.....coz i have no clue as to whether i will have work today or no...and no clue as to who this man is tht i am supposed to meet...its weird tht i have to b thr at 8:15 though i dont knw if this guy tht i am supposed to meet is goin to come by 8:15 no or :(
aaaaghhh... too many things tht i am unsure of :(
thts a bad start thr......jus hope i wud b writing differently when i come back :)

The CAT call !!!

2008-05-02T00:14:00.002+05:30

Hmm.....quite a few ppl i knw got into the IIMs ......
i wonder wht i would be writing abt myself at this time of the year next year :D
i dont knw whether i want to get into it or no
i mean right now i have no motivation to get into it...at this point of time i really dont mind not getting into it....i mean i dont knw if its wht IIT has done to me...or whether jus getting into IIT was the only thing i ever wanted. I might jus b doing it for my parents... i cudnt care less abt not getting into it....i mean wud i really need an IIM degree?? right now if u ask me...well i dont think so...but then maybe 1yr or 2 yrs down the lane i wud want to do it....coz remembering my obsession for having those numerous graduation/post graduation degrees.....well i do want to have sumthing like tht sumtime....but i dont knw if now exactly is the time...or i wud really want to b writing another competitve examination like JEE or CAT for tht matter to get into one... i mean i dont want to write these F**king exams again....i jus want to get into a university ( a reputed one though :P ) and complete my PG and get out of it... I dont want to b judged based on stupid a b c d options tht i put which i end up being bad at all the time...i mean objective type of questions and me....dont go together....ever ever....and i wonder how ever passed JEE screening also...if i was just a year late...i probably wudnt get into IIT at all :D
and i opted for stress and coping as an HSS option and if i get into tht (which is less likely) i wonder i wud score in tht course :p
well finally let me try and wait to see if my notion abt the CAT exam is gonna change by november when i wud b taking it...coz i dont want to end up feeling bad abt not getting thru it though i never wanted to write it ...i still dont understand y i am writing tht exam right now...jus coz everyone else is doing it???

End of another year.....

2008-04-30T02:15:00.002+05:30

well i think i wanted to start off with how eventful this yr has been with details of probably each month...but naah...!!! in no mood for tht
i will b getting my lappy back tomorrow (hopefully) so i shud b blogging more regularly :D
and since its holiday time..... so shud my movie reviews section :D
i had this urge to start on a restaurent rating thing...or like wht u shud b eating if u go to this place....but then knwing us....i dont think we wud b eating in too many places....we wud probably end up at the same place time aftr time....or probably with the same thing if not the same place :P
so no point in tht....so lets stick to "our" thing....the first day movie thing...for a few weeks now....i thought we lost it...i mean watching movies on the first day was "our thing".....and we hadnt done tht for quite sumtime....but then....
then came summers...and then came sirf and tashan....back to back....tashan hadnt even released in the theatres on the first day....i mean atleast not in the multiplexes....andu knw wht we did :D :">
i saw the movie in shreyas...he he he....gave me a proper feel of some high class theatre in tenali...with all the whistles and all...i mean kareena enters...and the crowd goes noisyyyyyyy.....
it was an awesum experience !!!
and then again...who cares abt the movie....we have our thing back... !!!! and we r rocking !!!

let me start off today so tht i dont discontinue.....

The last Mimzy:
Sci-fi movie...weird logic tht children r innocent and blah blah....but then...nice funda of nano technology and artificial life etc....but stupid logic on the children thing..i mean cliche

P.S. I love You :
Neone in a real relationship shud watch this movie.....i was crying the whole time...though thts expected of me.. but still....i mean atleast all the girls shud watch the movie for the hero...i mean....cuteeeeeeeeee hai yaaar!!! and theirish accent....GOD !!!! cant blieve he is the same man fr 300 ...he is cutely cute....but at the same time...a nice movie...not really tht nice also...but a few scenes were really goood !!!

Meet the fourth type !!!

2008-04-15T01:46:00.005+05:30

There are three types of people in my world.....

one...who are spl frnds....take time out of their schedule to make every event tht is spl to me more memorable with their presence even if they have a hectic schedule and even if i didnt invite them to b with me ...and if they cant make it due to some reason...make it a point to say "sorry i cant make it this one time"

second kind.... i m good frnds with them and so r they....they try being thr with me when i want...and if they cant make it... i dnt mind it tht much....and if i cant make it nor do they...but they do have their reasons...and it wudnt bother me much incase they dont make it...coz atleast i dont have ne expectations from them

the third kind....
who claim to be friends...who r jus thr.... and find time to hang arnd with others even when it is an imp event in my life....need spl invitations...and even then dont turn up...but have time to hang arnd with others "jus for fun" and have excuses to giv me for y they rnt thr with me on "my day".... dont think it was imp to b thr to b with me on my spl day...for them...if its my performance.....so wht ...its jus another thing i do....if i win something....so wht....jus another thing i won....a spl moment....so wht...jus another part of my dumb life....but did i mention.... "they r really really good frnds" and i need to take time out frm my time to hang arnd with them...coz they r "my" frnds

and then meet the fourth kind.....

ME.... who doesnt giv a damn for all this nemore .... !!!

i guess i have learnt a lot over the last 2 sems..... loads in the former sem for sure !!!

and learning new things now....

i cud have misunderstood some......i cud have overexpected frm others .... and then thr r a few whom i didnt care a damn abt earlier maybe coz of some reasons....and even if they r still like tht....atleast i "knw" tht they have been... r .... and will b like tht....
and if i dnt mind those few insignificant things abt them....then i guess they r pretty much better than those "second" kind who make flase claims and show menew faces at every instant

always nice to meet new ppl....always nice to get to make up with ppl u didnt like b4....but it hurts when u start to feel indifferent towards "frnds"

The Others......

2008-03-30T15:41:00.005+05:30

Sumtimes it is better to leave people to make their preferences...their life...and wht they do with it is upto them...even if u knw tht person well or u think tht person isnt doing the right thing...sumthings r better left for them to find out for themselves...."limts" as i wud like to put it shudnt b crossed....as friends or partners there is always a thin line after which we wud b intruding into the other person's life which is also called their "personal life"....and advice... Oh Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaassssssseeeeeee !!! keep it to urself unless they ask for some.
If they really think they need your advice they wud b knocking on your door to ask wht u feel abt it...and if they dont...then understand your position in that case and how much right u have in talking about it. And before you give advice...always think of this one line "LOOK WHO IS TALKING"
If you cant stop urself frm bitching behind their back ...well go ahead...but when u r told how much position u hold in decisions they need to take....do understand.....tht u might b good at work with them......u might b good in the relation u r with them....u might b the greatest of friends...no doubt about tht.....but then...they dont want u to decide for them wht to do and wht not to do.... i mean essssssssssspecccccccccialllllllllyyyyyyyyy u. When u cant fit in their shoes and see sumthing tht they see in wht they r doing.....then y not jus keep quiet....instead of losing the little respect they have for you in the process of trying to give unwanted/unasked for advice. They do understand u care for them...but tht doesnt giv u a right to try and change their preferences....if they like wht they r doing it then let them go ahead..... If u didnt want advice about ur relationship....if u didnt want advice about ur changing lifestyle....if u didnt want advice of ur social behaviour.....then how can you be the one giving now? And paaaaleeeeeeeeeeese if the decision has u concerned in no way then y the hell r u the first in line to comment or give away free advice...? its not like u r living a perfect life tht u need to preach others about it....u like the way u live....they like the way they live.... you take ur decisions and they do like to take theirs'

Cud b crap..... stupid logic.....WHTEVER this is how life is...and shud be.....jus dont b "THE OTHERS" who have to have a say in every damn thing not concerning them !!!

Bade Log !!!!

2008-03-14T19:04:00.004+05:30

Bacche sab ab bade ho gaye !!!
By bacche i refer to all those sophies/freshies whom i have worked with in the last one year :)
Pupun - Insti Dram Secy
Ahana - ECell Manager
Edla - Techfest Manager
Agyeya - Techfest Manager
Shekhawat - MI CG
Samarth - MI CG

and Neha who is my room beti is also an ECell manager :D

when i was in 1st year tab anshul awasthi pondy in sabko dekhke lagta tha ki these ppl r so close to their juniors....they even knw us freshies so well...unke valfi mein aane ke liye ya job trt pe jaate time ...to spend time they have a gang of ppl which includes ppl not frm their batch....and tht i only knew sr...hardly ppl frm y batch also....lekin now i can say...all thanx to DRAM@iitb i have my own sweet grp... we worked together....gone for trts....and played MAFIA all night.....wht more wud i want :D (jus realised tht i already mentioned this point in my prev post :P )

The FOUR letter word !!!

2008-02-29T13:43:00.003+05:30

These are the answers i gave to sumone's questions on their blog
and since they r my views neways...thought it wud b good enuf to have them up :D

- Do you think that all love stories are almost the same... or each one is different

The only same thing probably is tht it has the common element "love" in it...like no two ppl can think alike...no two ppl can luv alike ;) we cant expect a relation of a combination of 2 ppl (who can vary ) to b alike....so it gives us more combinations which makes it even more unlikely tht it cud b alike :D... lets see.... if thr r n ppl..... then n ways of loving...and since thr r pairs of 2...it makes it a combination of nC2 ...he he he

- Do you think ... love can be as fleeting as for half an hour

i think tht wud b compassion or jus liking...luv is sumthing which is more stronger than mere attraction of half an hour. when u luv sumone ...u will luv them till u die.... or lets b practical... u will luv them till sumthing/sumone changes ur opinion to change the luv to hatred. and if its not hatred... u probably still have a soft corner for the person and wud def giv the thing another chance sumtime in the future :)

- Do you infact believe in the word defined love.... or do you think its more of you find someone compatible with you

thr r loads of definitions/varieties for luv... u luv ur mom...u dnt jus luv her coz u think she is compatible with u... tht wud b more of having common interests.....so u wud go out with tht person and hang arnd with them....luv doesnt need ppl who share same interests.and its more fun when u dnt have common interests....coz then u learn to sacrifice/adjust for tht person which shows to the opp person how much they mean to u

- What does it feel like being in love

feeling like u have sumthing others dont have ;) ...feeling like u cud do nething for the one u luv..... actually...no.... it jus feels like "being loved" or if its one sided....it jus feels like "luving" :)

- Can you fall in 'love' more than once in your lifetime......

yes coz thr might b more than one person u r in luv with..but probably not at the same time ... but then even if it is at the same time, u luv one more than the other....thts whr the difference comes in

- imagine a person likes you .... you know it but dont share the same feelings.... somehow you are stuck ina romantic situation.... that other person............. says he/she would like to kiss you .............. What would be your first thoughts........... not what will you say ....... but what will be the first thing going on in your head......

i dont think kissing is a big issue as far as i am concerned unless u mean a french kiss :P and even if tht is the case.....the situation comes...and then the mind jus acts...u cant sit here in front of the lappy and think abt it :p

- Also anything else you would like to share on this topic

luv is sumthing very abstract...for each one it wud vary... like u can obviously guess frm the answers u r going to get....so dnt bother catering to everyones definition... ppl wud accept ne definition tht u want to giv to luv as long as they see a possibility of "luv" in it :)

After a long time......

2008-02-25T00:58:00.003+05:30

well.... now i am used to this i guess.... :D
went to chaos.....came first in streetplay.....bahut bahut bahut ganda kiya...lekin pata nahi kaise....first aa gaye...maybe others were worse ;)

bus mein infi mazaa aaya.....and aftr tht..... trt pe mazaa aaya....
and now midsems ke baad toh aur zyaada mazaa aaya.....reason.... "MAFIA"...whoever made up this game.....godgiri and hatsoff to tht person....and hatsoff to the person who got it into IITB :D
aftr midsems....friday night..... 11:00 pm to 7:00 am continuos mafia playing......mazaaa aa gaya :D

jus looking fwd to more games like this....maybe we shud have it every friday nite ;) lemme suggest it and see...
midsems were kind of bad...compared to the usual way i perform.....
got a new soft toy today..... and missed the batch trt :( dont want to talk much abt it...coz i didnt wanna miss it :((((((((((
got pickles frm home.....waiting to go to hostel tomorrow and have loads and loads of pickles

neways...... now i have a new gang of ppl..... first yr mein sochti thi ki anshul...awasthi....pondy....all of them have frnds in jr batch...will i ever have jrs at my valfi..... and now i am proud ki ........ya...i have a sweet cute team...jismein sophies aur freshies dono hai :)

loads of ppl getting married :)
niharika's sis...... Deepu baava....and hopefully Nanda's sis :D
so gottu gear up for them....lets see !!!

Jodhaa Akbar

2008-02-22T03:25:00.002+05:30

I really dont knw wht history says .... but atleast the movie shows them as divine lovers destined for each other :P
I particlarly liked this one scene whr she is holding the aarti plate expecting him to take the blessing or whtever....and he is staring at her and then the plate not knwing wht to do...she looks at him and then the plate....it goes on like this for a couple of sec or maybe a min....and then she does wht she expects him to do so tht he follows her lead...he does it...and then now she wants him to put the sindhoor ...but she doesnt say it...and he doesnt knw wht she wants him to do......awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!
tht was the most romantic scene i have seen till date.....true love blah blah i dont care....but thts def the most romantic thing i have scene
3 cheers to the Jodhaa and Akbar on screen :D

The same damn thing every sem !!!!

2007-12-11T02:04:00.000+05:30

yet again it happens......
8.97......worse this time.....just missed 9.0 by 1.5 credits.....y y y ...!!! y does this have to happen to me all the time..!!
last time 3 credits....and this time 1.5 credits :(
but still close to 9 is pretty good i guess....but again...this time everyone scored well...not a big deal....but then...i got it....so it matters to me :P
yayyyyyyyyyyyyy !!!!!!
but well...again....just missed...shittttttttttttt !!!!!!!

Happppppyyyyyy Diwaliiiiii !!!!

2007-11-10T00:55:00.000+05:30

I dont knw whts so happy abt it...but well..i aint sad atleast :D
have to still put up a theft incident which i will later...apart form tht the diwali was pretty much normal i guess...jus tried to avoid ne fights by doing things tht pleases my parents :D...like i wore a half saree though i got a new jeans yesday ..and this helped out coz i said i wont go to somebody's place she had asked me to go to...and she was fine with it :D...so i guess its a make me happy i wont b angry with u business :P and then in the night....all four of us were talking so much...we didnt realize tht it was 1:00 am :) really wish i cud have more of these talks....really looking fwd to coming back home sumtime soon and staying for a good number of days :(
we were talking abt really arbit stuff...frm chiru's daughter....to credit cards....to our assets ....to my parents DOB....to their silver jublee aniversary which they want to b celebrated grandly :)...loads of arbit stuff really :)
and now for sum gossip ;)
thr is this particular Ms ...lets say alpha?? good enuf name.....well she went back to bbay..b4 the hols got over...and tht too on diwali itself....reason??? well the pretty obvious one..."naya pyaar" ...he he he..and this Ms Alpha is one of those who used to ask me as to y i dont stay much at home..and tht i go back so early to bbay without spending time with my parents or without staying at home...and tht bbay mein toh hum humesha hi rehte hai..and blah blah....and thts exactly wht she is doing now =)))))))))
well...wht can i say.....u dnt knw how it is untill u r in my shoes :P and now since u r in it...hope u get it... ;)

A good holiday...!!!

2007-11-06T23:22:00.000+05:30

having a real good time at home...again the reason being...mom at home :) and also whenever she goes out i am going with her....
conducted 2 quizzes....saw a dram....met loads of relatives.....watching movies with her.....eating with her.... scolding dad also along with her :P
this is fun when both of us r complaining about the same man :P ;))
and also the better part this time is tht he is also at his place....so i dnt have to worry abt him either :P hope he is also doin well at his place....not calling me up...so guessign he is doing fine
though i wont b goin back till 3-4 days aftr he goes back
i wont b able to come back in december for a long time since i am managing the street play this time....but hoping i can take out a few days :( i really want to come back this time...and this is the first time i am having to go back on a very serious note...as in cant postpone at all...usually i can postpone but i dont since thr is usually no point in staying here coz i am here all by myself with jus a dog for company like i always say...but this time i am enjoying myself....hoping tht i cud stay here for longer in dec hols :(
neways i am hardly staying online also...gottu do a mini project also :(
loads of writing to do.....loads of learning to do....

P.S: finally got my ears pierced...dad doesnt approve of it :P though my granny also says they look good :P

Among yet Alone...!!!

2007-10-24T12:58:00.000+05:30

An old friend asked me wht was wrong with me.....really....wht is wrong with me??
am i fine? or am i not? am i happy or am i not? am i sad? feeling left out or not? feeling into the grp or not? feeling nabbed from the back or not? loathing it or not?
well whtever i am feeling i really dnt care abt it nemore....maybe thr does come a stage in life when nothing really matters to u....u dnt care abt wht ppl think abt u....u dnt care whether thr is sumone to think or no also :P
like i said...i was telling this frnd in brief abt things...and this is wht i said....and i like wht i said...

Its hard to find friends who stick by you at all times...and once u find them...it is equally hard to lose them :)

Nohting seems right :(

2007-10-04T12:05:00.000+05:30

Life is definetly a sine wave like sumone said....but i shud say -- a deformed sine wave...with the depressions more than the altitudes....or whtever.
So many things to do...so much to manage...and not feeling like doing nething :(
Didnt have an entry for socials...and now even the gyrations junta are paining...and my health isnt letting me manage nething on top of it....going to the hospy almost everyday...taking sleeping pills (wud prefer calling them tht) ....which is the only way tht i can see to stop myself from scratching myself till i bleed :(
And now feeling left out in grp also....nothing in common to share abt....and then when i complain to him abt it....all i gettu listen to is "learn managing things on ur own now"...well yeah...thts wht exactly i wanted to listen to
Nothing seems to go right...nothing seems fine....wanna run away...but still cant...wanna go home...not possible...wanna take time off....wht to b feeling "Huhhhh....!!!!!! for once i have nothing to worry about"
Will tht day ever come ???

Leader

2007-09-27T23:54:00.000+05:30

We had his PT/Placement fundae session the other day in campus and this is wht the person who was giving the fundae said.......
"A leader is not the one who speaks the most.....he is the one who is spoken to the most"

This is one of the many things tht interested me in the session....i dnt knwhow much i am goin to put ne of those to use....but well...the 1:30 hr was worth it :)

oh...and ya... India won the first T-20 world cup finally...by a very less margin :)
this makes me think...maybe finally india is worth to play only these kind of matches :P
but the way the match was won was awesum... i dnt care really as to who won (well maybe i do) but tht was one hell of a match..neone who missed it has definetly missed sumthing :)

Hoo Haaa India....Aaay Yaaay India

2007-09-24T20:23:00.001+05:30

Right now i am watching the india pakistan match....the match between those two temas which didnt even make it to the super eight in the world cup finals.
pakistan just made its 100th run...6 wickets down...58 runs to go from 27 balls

lemme predict.... India is gonna win..incase it does then i'll put up a post tomorrow...else naaaa :D

Pak just lost another wicket :D
guess i'll have to put up another post tomorrow :P
Sumone said he wud take me out to Loins of Punjab incase india wins :D

The gift planned didnt go out tht well...
2 reasons....1 -> my today's lab got postponed to wednesday...so i had to shift the whole dinner plan to today
2-> india pak match ki wajah se he left his class early and came back home fast.

well...atleast the food isnt tht bad..the dessert is still to b served...thts the best part of the dinner :D

pak gained the game again....it just has to make 28 runs frm 17 balls.... i guess pak has enuf good chance of winning
27 from 15 balls

thr goes another 6
and tht makes it 20 balls frm 13 balls

an easy win for pak i guess

oooooooooooooooooooooooo......
thr goes another pak's wicket ...tch tch tch tch...
signing off to watch the match
:D

Sweet mistake :D

2007-09-24T09:02:00.000+05:30

A post aftr a pretty long time tht is actually a post and not a cut copy paste frm newhr....and wht is the reason for me writing this post today.... :-"...well.... i thought i had an 8:30 lecture today....and promptly went upto the dept...thts whr i realised tht noone else frm my batch seemed to b goin to my dept....thts when it dawned on me tht i didnt have an 8:30 lecture....well...chalo atleast i cud put this time to good use :D
Had gone home for a few days (3 days)...and for the first time ever i guess i thouroughly enjoyed staying at home...mom was at home all the while becoz she had undergone a surgery and had to stay in bed....granny and pinni (aunt) were also at home...so had hell lot of a time...watched movies with mom...had loads of big-girl talk with her :P...maybe i do like spending time at home..but since thr isnt neone when i go...maybe thts y i dnt go. This time...i didnt want to come back this fast..but well...had classes...toh had to come back..!!!
Had freshiezza this weekend....those secys who worked all sem/last sem stopped working now...and those who didnt work at all were working...well..thts makign things difficult :(
this weekend is the first dram GC event ...and also 30th sept :(
planned a lil ...lemme see how it works :|
Gottu go to the doc (harmones :( )....and oh ya....almost forgot....midsems were....hmmm..ok...dunno....cant say types :D
didnt apply for UBS...jus didnt want to get dissapointed...c'mon i knw it....scope ki i cud get a PT in tht ....i realised now.....i have good extra curriculars and organizational posts...but who wud want sumone good at organisational post for a PT...jus hope it works well for me in the placement.
its time for the next class
signing off !!!

Me and My Life in IITB

2007-09-13T07:50:00.000+05:30

This is a mail i sent to a frnd of mine in my first year at IITB...it felt really weird for myself to b reading abt loads of stuff tht i wrote in the mail....Well...maybe all i can say is "I was a Freshie then" ;) My view point has changed so much since then...I have changed so much since then :)...a few for the good...a few for the bad...never mind..i still like the way i am :)

hows life there???? i know its gonna be cooooooooool....but still jus asking......here guys dont look good at all......senior guys look good....better than the freshies;) .....girls here are very diff 4m wht we see in hyd.......completely......we find guys in every senior's(girl) room even at 10:00 in the night....they have project works.....ok...thts excusable....but....they dont have to lock themselves up for tht......anyway...wht bother abt them now.....leave it.....but still.....girls here
are very fast....and they dont care abt the way they dress.....whether they look good in it or no....they jus dont mind dressing up really weird.....they expose a lot.....thts mumbai....but its ok...we r getting adjusted.....
classes r fine...we have comp class in an ac lecture theatre...tht too jus after lunch at 2:00.....lights are switched off for the sake of the projector......so.....happy ga padukuntunnam....no attendance for the comp class....the rest of the classes are fine except eco...tht fello opens his mouth and i start sleeping.....he doesnt bother if we r listening or no..he just goes on blabbering....phy sir and maths mam are good.....chem is ok....he teaches...we understand or no is left to us....we have 3 lectures and 2 tutorial classes every week for all
the 5 subjects.
we have comp practicals once a week from 8:45 to 11:00 in the night ......and NSO frm 6:00 to 8:00 in the eve...thts 2 days a week.....if both of them coincide...its really hectic....and if we have a mech workshop tht day....we r dead.....we dont have time here to even sit and watch TV(its not working anyway now ;) the quality of food is deteriorating day by day.....but we cud get fat at this rate...thts coz...then we r goin to eat out everyday kadha....

i dint cry when my parents left also.....butjus a few days b4 my b'day i cried for 2-3 days...thts coz i really missed all the frenz way back in hyd....everyone......i wished i was in hyd jus for those 2-3 days....but cant help it...gottu get adjusted kadha.....

mood indigo(iit culturals) is on 26th dec....i might be goin to hyd on 29th or 30th oct...we have 1 week off for diwali.....thts not official declaration...but we r jus hoping......there r loads of cultural activities here......loads and loads....we had so many orientations in the first 2 weeks....even now we have the orientations goin on......seniors are really sweet...they encourage us to take part in all the cults....and they r really helpful....they r really good
all the freshies are frenz with me now.....even then.....i miss everyone there.....missing the kind of life tht we lead in hyd
here we dont get time to go out of iit campus only...at the max we go to the market outside the maingate thts it.....thts basically due to the hectic schedule.....even though we have the weekends off...we prefer sitting in the hostel and whiling away the time than goin to HN(hiranandani) or any other place in mumbai.we havent gone to any other place xcept HN till
now....tht sounds really bad....but thts the truth...really slogging with the xtra activities
here....NSO...comp pracs.....orientations...auditions for the diff activities.....club meets....puff.....they occupy the major part of our 12-13 hr schedule....we have only 3 hr classes frm mon-fri....and wed-fri xtra labs for 4 more hours....thts all for acads.....xtra activities

ekkuva.....hostel is fine....acads r fine....xtra activities also fine....but still....missing everyone....sahi doesnt seem to miss much....forgot to tell u...she is also in iitb..but naa
valla kaavatam ledhu.....not missing my parents also....but missing the rest.....

the mail has bcome too long......its time i stop
bugging u with this trash....
---love,
Ravali

Jus as cheerful as cud be !!!

2007-08-28T08:24:00.000+05:30

Suprisingly ....yes!!!!!!! :)
have loads of posts in mind
will def put them up as soon as the quizzing week ends :(
till then jus cheerful and happy unlike the last time i posted :)

P.S : A very old pic of mine...but i am just as cheerful as i appear in this ... cudnt find sumthing much better than me to show how i feel now :)

Dot dot dot dot dot......

2007-08-22T20:59:00.000+05:30

Feeling all grown up from the past few days.... first was fillling in the ITC internship form.... whr firstly i hardly have nething to fill up with which i cud b sure i wud get shortlisted and secondly having to fill it up >:P i am still sumhow sure i wnt get thr the shortlisting process also
And then today we have this presentation whr we go all formal and giv it...weird
and now a sophies prod to handle..... put up a show by day aftr and perform it on sunday...wonder if i cud take it or no :(
jus hoping for the right things to happen....
hey and to top it all.... we have a week of quizzzing :((((((((
28th flu
29th struc
31st geo
and i missed today's soil quiz :(
i didnt bunk a single class frm the last one month and the one ...and only 1 class i bunk tht too coz my eyes were pricking frm the cont wearing of lens and coz i was damn sleepy :( (truthfully sleepy) and the prof has to choose this day only to giv a quiz >:P>:P>:P
jus hoping i do the rest of them well :(

Weekend :(

2007-08-17T20:02:00.000+05:30

Well.... no one arnd... jus me and the lappy... everyone has something to do.... and me... not wanting to do wht i have to.... and not able to do wht i want to.... jus alone in the room....lukkkhi hoon ...lekin lukkha kaatne ke liye koi hai nahi.... cant go out to eat... coz i have digestion problems now (aftr the food poisioning thing...and jus now my frnds ask me if i want to go down to the mess and i said no...well dunno whr i wana end up eating finally :-/
saw loads of movies since my last post... but no more updating business since i cant (read dnt want to) do it on a regular basis
all of a sudden feeling all down down and moody
jus not feeling like doin nething.... not even watching a movie on my lappy
want to watch sumthing short like maybe a sitcom or sumthing.... but well... i've watched frnds for the second time and it doesnt fascinate me nemore
and scrubs i am up to date... so cant go with tht also :(
and though i watched chuk de frm like 5 min b4 interval (first time ever tht i watched a movie frm half) i didnt want to go again (dont knw y...not int in watching it again)
got loads to study... loads of quizzes gonna splash on me in the next week.... but dnt want to study (looks like i lost int again)
the student i taught in the hols is now ignoring my calls... not tht i really care....but i want my salary for the first month atleast...and dude... courtesy hai ki atleast u tell me tht u dnt wanna cont nemore...
and ITC PT ke liye last date is 20th midnight...and i havent started filling in the form yet...
i knw tht i wnt probably get into it..since it is open for all depts...and lets face it... i practically suck if u look at my resume... nothing tht i have to boast abt in it academically or experience wise or nething for tht matter.... jus a stupid freshman and a bob i guess.... which i am sure they r not goin to consider at all for a 2-3 month PT... how wud it even help them ... huh..!!!
basically i am jus pissed off with nething happening arnd me :(
life is bad boring bugging and a burden..... thts an alleteration !!!
jus took the cat word list frm winnie... wanna see if i cud try and rem nething at all :D
well thts it for now i guess.... i jus hope i find a pic good enuf to depict my exact mood and state of mind [-o<

found it :)

After a long long time

2007-08-13T23:22:00.000+05:30

Looks like i was really busy or didnt feeli like blogging once the sem has started .... usually happpens with me :(
i have my schedule a lil less hectic in the next few days... so lemme see if i cud get back to blogging... i aint blogging mostly coz i am sleeping b4 11:30 pm these days.... tht cud b a major reason for my non blogging also :D though things like b'days and sick leaves count in too :D
neways... new sem new things happening arnd... no regrets abt nething tht i did till now :)... hope thts how it works till the end :)

Routine Life

2007-07-19T03:49:00.001+05:30

Jus waiting for all my frnds to come back... kinda getting bored with nothing to do around :(
well if u r counting watching movies as doin sumthing then well i am doing.... and yah...jus doin the 10th season of frnds...was jus thinking i'll go back to watching scrubs also again :D
these r the only 2 sitcoms i really really luv watching :) i dnt think i can take a whole stretch of frnds again though :D

movies... jus tons and tons of them waiting to b watched....

Another list of movies...those tht i have seen and also those i think i'll forget tht i have seen

NottingHill
K-Pax
Fantastic Four-the rise of the silver surfer
Fight Club
Andaz Apna Apna
The King and the Clown
The Longest Yard

i guess thts it :)

i shud soon put up the list of movies tht i have watched (aftr comign to iit in specific) with the ratings i guv them i guess :-?
but b4 tht i gottu finish this arti we r writing for the freshie magazine....get all our rooms painted... prepare for a few tuition classes (not tht i really need to )....chck if i can get more papers....and gottu talk to the prof once :( :-s....and to top it all....i cant shift into my room till shud i say... 25th?? :((((((((((((( everyone elses room is vacant except mine :(

nothing else tht i can remember much...yah except tht while i am waiting for the new HP-7 to release....rumours (or facts???? ) have it tht the book has leaked...but not really interested in reading the book online.... i wanna have the book in hand and read it :D
and guess wht...though i can type really fast i never tried typing without looking at the keyboard....this whole msg tht i am jus typing i tried typing without glancing at it (except for occasionally)... i guess i am looking fwd to 3 things now.... freshies....settling my room and for the day when i can type without absolutely looking at the keyboard :D

very arbit posting :D

High Spirited
In the Air
Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy !!!!!!

Philosophy in the Air...!!!!!

2007-07-17T01:38:00.000+05:30

Was arguing with one of my frnds a few days ago abt life...the essence and blah blah blah....i think i'd like to put here a few points frm tht conversation.....
I agree i was being a lobbyist most of the time...coz mostly wht i was arguing abt isnt wht i blive in...and also...

STATUTORY WARNING : Very Boring

She : take things frm west
She : things dat r gud, not things u like r are easy
She : if we spk abt west
She : dating b4 marriage, many marriages datz wat it'l lead to in d end
She : u know it better
Me : well i dnt blame them....how many ppl who r married in india u think r happy with their married life?
Me : divorce cases in india r also increasing baby
She : yes
She : but datz bcz of their influence baby
She : multiple sex , group sex , all such stuff in hyd, and y is dat?
She : doing all dis whoz happy wid one husband?
Me : :)) Me : u wanna get into all tht now?
Me : i mean discussing all tht
She : its jus d western influence nothing more
She : wat do u mean?
Me : discussing all tht :P
She : y ru in a mood to do dat?
Me : na
Me : but i dnt mind being a lobbyist for those who do it /:)
She : lobbyist?
Me : hmm
Me : a spokesperson
Me : :D She : ohh so u think its rite?
Me : i dnt judge them
She : for dem to do all dat?
She : y?
Me : i dnt judge them
Me : y ante
She : yes y
Me : its all in their sexual interest
She : wat do u think of it?
She : datz wat
Me : u cant force it on them
She : ppl r busy dng things they like, no 1 is botherd abt wat id correct nd wat is wrong
Me : it isnt wrong...we think its wrong...since we have been modified to think tht way
Me : who r u to judge whts right and whts wrong?
She : yes wat is wrong in having sex wid 2 -3 ppl on d same night Me : its not like wht u knw is right is a universal all right thing
She : thn saying bye nd gng away
Me : yeah....its upto u
She : becoz i hv brains
She : its not up to u
Me : u r jus looking for sex..and no conditions attached..then y not
Me : its not of having brains..
Me : its jus abt how u wanna pick things coz its been happenning since u were born
Me : and since u have been told
She : we have somthng called, our culture nd religion which tell us the way to live, if at all we botherd abt it....to read them we wud know watz rite nd watz not
Me : is talking abt sex bad??? oh hell yes till a few yrs back..till ppl realised aids awareness was more imp than shutting up abt sex
She : therz somthng called future , u dnt do things for d present
Me : we have decided whts in the religion and culture
Me : they never existed b4 u created them
She : u know who created dem?
She : u know wat it is?
Me : sum abcd
Me : who cares?
She : if u know it, only then can u spk abt its authenticity, its simplicty, its use
Me : its all made up
She : its becoz u thiink its made up
Me : its jus a few things made up by those who think they can make things right by making things too simple
She : wen u can beleive theories of einstein, nd wateva y cant u believe theez?
Me : u have evidence of it?
Me : u have evidence of multiple sex being wrong according to ur religion?
She : ohh ya, better than ur einstein :P
Me : coz they have written proofs
She : they have jus written proofs
She : but our proofs r not only written but evn experienced
She : its not jus knowledge its wisdom
She : wat we got
Me : i have reasons to blive einstein....if i dnt...then u wudnt b able to do a lot of things tht u r doin....
Me : :)) Me : its not exp..
Me : u dnt exp the other thing...in fear of being left out
Me : u try to go with the mob since u fear standing alone
She : ya datz becz u read abt einstain did u read our veda? no, so u cant spk abt dem
Me : wht the vedas say isnt the ultimate isnt it
She : ur mistaken its not fear, but its d confidence dat makes u stand out
She : nd wat pl say it is?
Me : wht if i wrote a new book and enuf ppl came fwd (those who rnt scared of the mob) and start following it..then ultimately...this wud become the veda
Me : :P
She : no datz d diff
She : wat do u know abt d vedas to spk lik dat
Me : they r modified in their thinking to feel tht the veda is right
Me : and if they dnt follow it then they r commiting a sin
She : first of al its not written by anybody so u go wrong there itself
Me : and tht blah blah blah
Me : well u told me it was a written proof
Me : like einsten theory
Me : u r contradicting urself
Me : :P
She : i say its not written by a person
Me : like i told u...i am being a lobbyist...not tht i dnt knw abt our vedas or tht i support multiple sex
Me : dnt tell me god wrote it =))
Me : =))
She : vedas r words spoken by god, they were heard by rishis
Me : =)))))))))))))))))))))))
Me : ok....
She : ya it does seem funny
Me : now dnt get me into sumthing like god speaks to ppl
Me : he he he
Me : i can debate better on tht :P
She : it doesnt seem funny wen u read abt einstaein theory of reativity rite?
Me : coz this is sumthing i blive in..i mean i blive god doesnt speak to ppl and all tht temple ritual thing stuff
Me : oh c'mon dnt gimme this crap abt god coming and talking to ppl
She : who sed hez in temples
She : talkng doesnt mean literally coming and dictating, but it can happen too
Me : oh..he comes toppling frm the sky (heaven) and speaks to rishis?
She : well its not d sky dat he exists in
She : its in every1
Me : so..i say .."god is in me...and god told me multiple sex is right"
She : u known wat d whole purpose of our life is? ever botherd to know?
Me : wud u add it to ur veda list?
She : ohh shut up, it more than dat
Me : dnt tell me u started readin on karma and all also
Me : y not?
Me : god is in me also
Me : isnt it?
She : wen u realise d untimate..............u dnt need evrythng to b taught
Me : and he cud seak to me as much as he cud speak to those rishis
Me : jus dressing like tht wud make a diff?
She : ya, but u havnt realised him
Me : he he he
Me : sare
Me : got it
She : who sed its dressing dat matters
Me : <):)
She : u shud crave to be like dem
Me : its jus giving me giggles
She : ohk u'l let me tell u wat our purpose is?
Me : ok
Me : go on
She : it is to become a brahmnana
She : its not a brahmin mind u
Me : does tht brahmama eat nonveg?
She : its not abt eatng or not
She : it makes no diff to him
Me : jus asking
She : cause he isnt after sensual pleasures
Me : life giv up kotteste brahmana avuthaara? (bas giv up marenge toh brahmana ban jayenge kya ? )
She : nope, who sed so?
Me : well..thr r mad ppl i knw like tht to whom sensual pleasures wudnt make a diff....r they also brahmanas?
She : ravali if ur really busy tryng to critice evrythng i say, u never get it
She : first let me complete it
Me : k
Me : i thought i cud argue in between
Me : :|
She : ur mad ppl dont hv a proper nervous system, my brahmana is very healthy :P
She : got it?
She : found d diff?
Me : not really
She : wassup?
She : got ur answer r still wanna argue?
Me : then the giv up thing is true right?
She : giving up wat?
Me : i mean life giv up kotteste brahmana
She : life giv up enti?
Me : hmmm...how do i explain tht now
Me : no aim in life kind of ppl
She : u mean becoming a sanyasi?
Me : jus life happens to them coz they r alive
She : :))
Me : not really
She : u think brahmanas have no aim?
Me : dnt tell me their aim is to meet god
Me : feel god
Me : :-&
She : they hv d highest aim, the aim for which we r created
She : ohk ravali so u think dis world is all abt having fun?
She : njoyng to d max?
Me : asking wht i personally think???
Me : :-/
She : yes
Me : well..to me
Me : it means more
Me : not jus fun
She : better
She : wat elz?
Me : to me its being in the limelight whrever i am
She : to love nd be loved
Me : in whichever field i am
Me : and loads of other crap
She : ohk
She : ohk it means jus dis succes rite?
Me : but not to attain slavation or ne other such things
Me : well ne more terms u got thr?
Me : apart frm success?
She : ya datz wat i say, being in d limelight is ur way of fun
Me : maybe...whtever
She : or happiness
Me : yeha yeah...like i said...all those crap
She : but do u think datz y god created us? jus for such simple things?
Me : i really dnt care u knw
She : yah datz d problem, no body ever cares to know d purpose
She : listen now dont interupt
Me : k
Me : :|
She : u dont know, u dont want to know...............do u ever remember reading a proper religious book with loads of interest wich speaks highly of having morals and values, and the way to live? She : i never did
Me : i never did
Me : obvi
Me : i have no int with all tht
She : d point is we r never exposed to such stuff
Me : ok...now whr did we start and whr did we end :P
She : u dnt hv interst in knowing watz d rite thing to do? so u thin anythnig u feel is rite is corect?
She : we startd at brahmana
Me : things go my way...or no way :)
She : i know where i am
Me : no i meant multiple sex...and even b4 tht ..abt me..and we ended up with all this ani
She : ya datz it, its cz we think watever we know is rite, never botherd i know dat mam
She : il come to dat Me : hmmm
She : to know how exactly things r suposed to be, ..................like wat is rite nd wat is not.............. She : se d prob is deep -rooted ravali, we dont have faith iin anythng..............
Me : :-??
She : wat i mean to say is first of all frm childhood we never were exposed to real stuff we need She : so never had d interest to think abt gud, bad things jus went our way
She : but this isnt the way................our goals r small compard to our ultimate goal
She : and d ultimate goal of evry person is to become dis brahmana
She : ehem ehem, kuch samaj main aaya?
She : :(
Me : he he he
Me : tht isnt the point...the point is whether i agree with u or not :P
She : abt wat?
She : i forgot
She : :(
Me : abt all we have been arguing
She : multiple sex?
Me : i told u...we started at jammu snd reached adaman
She : of course
Me : naa
She : wat im tryng to say all dis while is its not wat we think dat is rite, r wat majority ppl think is
She : there is somthng more
She : ya got it.............god speakng?
Me : wht matters to me in life is jus tht ...am i doing wht i feel i want to do....
She : adhega?
Me : gaadidha guddu (donkeys egg)
Me : edhole (whtever)
Me : y try rem the topic now
She : ohk, let it be rite r wrong ur not botherd?
She : jus do wat u want to?
Me : as long as i feel its right...and i knw i wont regret it...yeah it doesnt matter to me
Me : but i shud b sure i wont regret it
She : yeah datz d prob, each has his own definition of wats rite n wrong............and u wont know u'l regret it till u do
She : till u regret it
She : ohk we wer talkng abt god speaking rite?
Me : not really
She : il give u a scientific example
Me : multiple sex b4 tht
She : madam let me tell u ...............u sed ms is correct
She : i sed its wrong
She : i sed our religion says its wrong, u sed u dnt believe it
She : nd im tryng to explain abt its authenticity
She : got it? wer we r?
Me : i really dnt care now
Me : had a nice long argment...thts it :P
She : very funny
Me : dnt want to b proved right or wrong...
Me : jus proves once again....we differ in thoughts :)
She : but u gotta listen to 1 thing im sayng
Me : he he
Me : sare cheppu
She : ohk cz i statd wid brahmana il finish it
She : our goal accordng to our religion, as pronounced by vedas is to become dat
She : brahmana
She : it means a perfect being
She : nd such a person realises himself to b d spirit i.2 the state wen he can feel god within himself
She : now done wid brahmana
She : il tell u an interestng example
Me : go on
She : its a book i read
Me : hmmm
She : its an experiment done in some university
She : some whwer in ny
She : i dt remember who did it an all
She : but its real, not fake
Me : glass compartment?
Me : soul leaving ?
She : it is to prove dat man has televisional powers
She : nope not dat, we heard it in shcool
Me : hmm
She : im teling u dis to giv u an idea of hw god can communicate........
Me : go on
She : nd let me tel u thoughts r passes like vibrations, and like a radio if u can tune ur mind to d desired person, u can catch his thoughts
Me : telepathy :D
She : ya thank god
She : #:-s
She : so telepathy is it, nd it can me very very far
She : ok noe d example
She : a person was made to sit in a room in front of a big audience
She : he is separated frm another room by a wall, he has never b4 been to dat room
She : there r some things in dat room...........
Me : hmmm
She : the scientist applied pressure on some specific areas on d right side of the thorax of dis person
She : and he cud say wat things were preent in dat room
She : without ofcourse seeing
She : :)
She : enti no reaction?
She : :-/
Me : not a wonderful thing
Me : i mean not stunned or nething
She : ohh realy?
She : y so?
Me : emo
She : endhuku? teling watz on d other side of room widout seeing?
She : is it so natural?
Me : i dnt half blive it i guess
She : ya datz d prob
She : but its not some layman who did it
She : its a very famous professor frm a big university in new york
She : i have d source
She : and can tell u too.....................u hv to belive it

Aftr this was mostly more crap like b4 this....
Wanted to jus note it down here...becoz tht is one good argument i had aftr a long time...whr i didnt blive in wht i was arguing...but argued coz i didnt like the way the other person didnt want to accept tht the contrary to their argument cud also b right.....Again...and yet once again....i am just being a Lobbyist :)

Harry Potter

2007-07-14T07:08:00.000+05:30

Jus like the earlier ones in the series...not upto the mark of the book.....esp the scenes in the "Department of Mysteries"....really dunno how much ppl who didnt read the book wud understand....coz frm the perspective of a frnd who hadnt read the book but is a good movie critic and usually shares the same taste for movies as mine said tht he had liked the first half though the second half wasnt upto the same level.....but it was def better than the prev ones for sure.....for those who prefer imagining their own movie by jus reading the book (like me ) avoid goin....if u like daniel and emma....go ahead and watch it :D ...though i shud admit daniel's first on screen kiss looked like a bad one :P doesnt seem to b tht gr8 a kisser ;) :P......emma as usual was awesum and stunning....its feels so goos when they keep showing scenes frm the prev movies in the series...coz we gettu see the lil harry and he's sooooo cute...though he is more like "handsome" now ...and emma is jus a darling...then and even now....never really fancied rupert.....but tom felton is jus one eye treat :D.....though tht shud b a big flaw as ron is "supposed" to look better than Harry and Grawp who is the least bit scary looks more friendly than scary :D......neways i dnt care....i jus like the cast more than the movie :P...jus waiting for the 7th book...jus 6 days to go :D....and i better finish reading half blood prince once again in the meanwhile....coz i seem to have forgotten most stuff (even things like Ginny and Harry were dating :( )

jus a footnote....
saw Starter for ten
Goodfellas
and presently watching Little Children (is int till now atleast)

Outing :)

2007-07-11T07:30:00.000+05:30

The last 3 days were pretty eventful :)
went out to Mainland China and had to wait for arnd 30 min owing to the weekend factor...so was walkin abt a lil and ended up goin into the optician shop beside it and ordered a new pair of colored lens :D this time its aqua...sumthing i once saw my Jr wearing and wanted to get for myself too :D
still gottu collect it though :P...and then went back to China (hehehe...wanted to call it jus china and see how it sounds :P ) and ordered a fruit punch (one of my fav mocktail drinks) and a taipei chicken whose name i always forget and end up asking them to suggest...and very obidiently they always suggest the same thing :D...i cant rem a time when i was in mainland and i didnt feel like "gosh !! they r so courteous"...they r extreeeeemmeeeeelyyyyyyy hospitable.....really nice people...jus for their hospitality we always end up givin a very large tip :) didnt try out ne cocktails this time coz i wanted a fruit punch and he ordered a pincolada as usual and i didnt have the mood for pineapple rum....jus had 2 starters (taipei chicken and crispy corn) and then done....we were full :( jus had desserts aftr tht lichi with icecreame(his choice) and 1 scoop of strawberry and 1 scoop of butterscotch for me :D
The second nite was at Utsav ...mostly coz vipin promised a trt first and then we dropped out coz bhavna had an exam >:P...but it turned out for my good :D coz i gottu get him like more chicken stuff....tried out achari chicken kebab.....fundooooooo tha...awesum....i normally dnt like kebabs coz they gimme a burnt feeling...but this one was too good...had 1/2 chicken manchow soup( i wanted vegbut he wanted chicken (weird) ) and then masala papad :D maincourse was equally good...hara masala (or sumthing like tht) chicken and butter chicken ,as a precaution incase the new tried one went bad , but turned out tht the new one was good..and butter chicken was sweet????? ewwwww...neways had 3 half pieces of nan....never ate so much frm a long time :D
Next daywas movie timeeeeee :D:D:D aftr a real good break of 1.5months...back to the multiplex for a popcorned movie... diehard 4.0 ...not a big fan of action movies ...but still went for the sake of goin out...cant really comment on the movie since all action movies r the same to me :D we got this sum stupid combo with popcorn sandwich burger and pepsi and in return we got free passes to water kingdom or essel world ....finally i guess i gettu go thr :D...got a silver plated sterling or whtever chain for my diamond pendent .....and tht was it for the day i guess
yesday nite was again supposed to have gone on vipin's trt but this time he had work....so gonna go out on thursday hopefully...but still ordered acchari kebab and dal khichdi frm utsav :D to accompany a small amt of "water of life " :P
and here i am all up in the morn ...thanx to tht student of mine who didnt answer my call X-(

oh...almost forgot....went off to do a lil social service tht backfired :(...always wanted to teach those NGO kids (which i thought they were) in the campus...and went thr on monday to do the volunteer work....and turns out tht they r jus normal kids who go to school...maybe not exactly normal...they r those who cant afford tuitions and need remedial help coz they r bad at school...this is not wht i wanted...not tuitions for these kids....wanted to teach those who actually wanted to study but cudnt >:P i dunno wht i shud do now....cont or no....coz its not sumthing tht is giving me satisfaction...and upar se taking away my eve also...maybe i'll drop the idea for this time :(

movies lately

Jaane bhi do yaro
The pianist
Requeim for a Dream
Hot fuzz
Finding Neverland
The good, the bad and the ugly
Die Hard 4.0

dnt rem any more even if i have watched... :D
will write again later abt the reviews...already the entry is too long :P

Seeing is Believing

2007-07-06T17:58:00.001+05:30

Not really i guess.... i have been watching a lot of movies lately (not really...jus the normal number) and this one movie.... "Finding Neverland" made me feel so good.....reminded me of how much i miss my childhood.....i still remember those days when i stayed at my grandmother's place.....in the orchads......made kitchen sets frm coconut shells....broken bottles...thrown away papers...handle-less cups....leaking jars.....and once we made the whole set frm this sticky mud tht dried in the sun (i dunno wht its called)...i luved to play the elder sis...who stayed back home...while the other sisters and brothers went to school and college according to age...then cook for them....dress them.....cutting 1 piece of caramel to equal pieces to giv everyone "their dinner" :)....how much i miss those days....how much i miss imagining things tht rnt actually there...but u pretend they r there.....now....well..things change with time...and here i am ....jus sitting in front of a comp and watching sitcoms or movies...instead of being out in the fresh air and the green grass tht has gone greener aftr the shower.....
i wish i cud write how exactly i feel when i remember those days when i luved being outside and wud do nething to jus run out of the house.....and now......its changed
i dnt really think seeing is believing.....tht wudnt make u happy....not in all cases........y not blive tht u r seeing it....imagine ur world....build it...dream it....y not..!!! when u cud imagine a whole family with jus 1 kitchen set or a wonderful party in ur doll house with jus 1 barbie doll....or a terrorist attack with a few G.I. Joe toys....or a whole gangwar or cowboy scenes with absolutely nothing but u and a bed or sofa to cover u up.....when an imaginary gun cud blow up a person...when imaginary dressing cud heal a soldier.....when imaginary food cud feed a whole family....is really seeing necessary to blive tht its thr?? isnt tht joy better ???
i really wish i cud go to neverland with all these fairies and pixies....or hogwarts (to those who read harrypotter (not jus watch the movie >:P ) ) where i cud learn witchcraft....how i sumtimes really wish i wasnt here at all...but in this abslutely diff place.....whr everything u wished for...or everything u blived was thr....wud actually b thr..!!!

I miss my childhood days and esp those games :(

Anne Geddes :-******

2007-07-04T01:05:00.001+05:30

Adored her and admired her ever since i knew of her....!!! An amazing photographer and i wud prefer saying more of a baby stylist than a photographer also...Hats off to her ideas....hats off to the initiation of such a thought....i came upon this website of hers maybe abt 7-8 yrs ago...and ever since it has always been one of my fav...and she has this remarkable thing in her pics.....which makes u giggle when u look at them....and go all awwwwwwwwwwww!!!!
I see a pic i knw its taken by her...she leaves her signature (invisibly visible) on every pic of hers
once again Kudos to this wonderful woman :)

This is her website --All those more normal (by this i mean those who rnt baby haters like my roomie :P ) go ahead and have a nice ride :)

I almost forgot...i have a poster in my room with babies (and i knw its one of her pics) on which i get whoever visits my room to sign on the baby they like :) i had a frnd(Sr) who did sumthing like this with a poster of puppies in his room...stole the idea frm thr :)
This pic i uploaded is the one i have in my room for the signing thing :)

I like the big fat one i.e third frm the right....
My roomie likes the 5th frm left...i.e. the baby with the flower decoration...not for the baby....but for the flowers =))
One of my friend signed on the baby hiding its face coz she thinks tht everyone of them is cute...and she says....who knws maybe the one hiding is cuter.....who knws whts behind....so she signed on it....

so...which is ur pick???

Back to Blogging...!!!

2007-07-03T00:03:00.000+05:30

Well....was away due to many reasons....mainly coz i was travelling or away frm net access .....and coz of un-necessary publicity(never mind this part)

Was attending a function at my aunt's place....and it was a hell of a thing to attend...the whole ritual thingy.....ewwwwwww.....and to top it all....my MOM X-(...had to wear this traditional dress of andhra for gals called a "langa voni"...which i normally loooovvvvvvvveeeeeee to wear.....and becoz of all the gold she wanted me to get dressed in....it was a pain in the neck.....imagine a 20 yr old girl crying in the midst of abt atleast 100 relatives.... and i was literally crying...they must have taken me to b...i really dunno wht...but then i have my own point...i hate getting dressed with all tht clumsy jewellary....its sick...i hateeee ittttttttttt :((((((((( but finally with all my moms yelling i had to giv in :(((((((((((((((( and imagine this is goin to happen to me for the next ...i really dunno till when....coz all my cuz r ready for marriage....and the first one is this Aug.....and OMG....imagine then...... marriage is far worse than this dumb function :(((((((((( ....i wish i knew how to escape this gold torture :((((((((((((((((

GOD SAVE ME !!!!

leaving the torture aside.....

movies !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lemony Snickets and a Series of Unfortunate Events -cute

Six Days and Seven Nights - ok (cast away was a better version)

Thank You for Smoking - nice :)

One thing i learnt frm this movie..... To win an argument it isnt necessary to prove tht u r right...jus prove ur opponent wrong :)

framed in my own words :P nice one and i like it :)

again ...and yet once again...back to the same old topic...."Marriage"

My eldest cuz apparently told my parents tht he saw sum chick (or whtever) and liked her...asked them to talk to her parents abt the proposal....and aftr a lil enquiry abt her they gottu knw tht her father plays cards and throws away money...and her mom is...aaammmm.....characterless (to put it straight) and so match rejected.....RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!

I mean whts the fault of the girl (who apparently looks good and is working in a software company in banglore)...tht she was born to bad parents....my parents argue tht since she doenst have a proper backgrnd...she mite not turn out to b a good egg either....BULLSHIT !!
I knw hundreds who have a good background...but have a bad char....y balme this girl for wht her parents do...not necesary she wud b a bad egg isnt it???...their argument was tht see....when those hundreds itself have turned tht way though of good backgrnd....wht bharosa of this girl who has come frm a bad family....isnt it like taking a risk when u knw u r taking one......SILLY..!!!...more apt word ATROCIOUS!!!!!
but like most arguments....this jus ended in me getting hushed saying tht i dnt knw nething...or tht i aint supposed to talk abt all tht...or blah blah blah :-@

i guess i am gonna get a lil more philosophical in the next few blogs :P actually have a lot goin on in my head...so... :D

Alone
Thinking
Solitude
Moody
Deep Thoughts

Do all posts need a title :-?

2007-06-27T01:32:00.000+05:30

Just an old pic....but shows the fun we have at trts in Mochas :)

done nothing fruitful till now except tht yeah...went to Mochas today aftr a long long time ...really been a while since i have been thr....last tht i can remember is on valentine's day...and tht is very abnormal of a gen iitian to not b goin thr for so long...esp for sumone like me who eats out so often :P ...actually not been eating out much these days....no particular reason...this way jus saving a lil more money i guess :D

The Illusionist :
For those general viewers who cant guess the suspense mite b a good one.....but aftr watching "the Prestige"...this is no match for tht...and the suspense is too cliche tht i guessed it on the first go....nothing fascinating...though most of the tricks used seemed to b tricks of the camera more than magician tricks..probably coz they dnt justify as to how tht cud b done by a magician...felt more like a wizardy thing....but neways...not a bad one....maybe rightly rated for its stuff :)

jus goin ahead with my paper correction tonite....so probably a nite out :)

Mumbai experiences 10% of its Annual Rainfall in a single day

2007-06-25T18:19:00.000+05:30

:) well...i dunno abt those less fortunate ppl who sufferred frm this downpour....but for me....i enjoyed myself with a pizza....hot chocolate and popcorn and not to forget movies and F.R.I.E.N.D.S(watching it for the 2nd time in a cont sequence , though done it infinite times in a haphazard way :D )....wht else do i want in life.....thts wht i call a SUNDAY :)

now thr is LAN at his place too....thts a relief...coz he can b online too now :)...thts jus too many smileys in a single post...but well...i guess thts wht i am right now...jus too pleased abt everything and nething arnd me i guess :)

gonna go home on this thursday for a family function to b happening at my native place (tenali)...dunno when i wud b coming back...now i kinda feel...maybe i shud have let him take the data card :P so tht i cud take it along with my lappy whenever and whrever i want :D

movie updates.....

Just My Luck :

not bad...jus a fun movie to watch when u cant go out becoz of the rains :) was discussing abt whether i wud sacrifice the luck incase i had it :P well..i dunno if i wud do it or not ...it is sumtimes tooooo nice to have all the luck tht u wudnt want to leave ur it behind (no matter whom u r giving it away to :P )

Run Lola Run :

I had already seen Butterfly Effect....so i guess the movie didnt "awwwwwwwwhhhhhh" me.....but i heard tht butterfly effect was supposed to b a remake of this movie...in tht case then this movie is really good.....sumtimes i do like to think wht if i didnt do tht...or wht if this happened instead of tht....life wud have been so much diff if we got a chance to go back and make choices :D it wud have been a weird world with everything changing coz at every point more than half the world wud have been wanting to change wht happened earlier....but nice tryign to think tht way :D...overall nice movie...and simpler to understand than Butterfly Effect

heard today tht IITB dropped frm 1 to 4 in the last 3-4 years...i dunno which place it was in in the last yr...but i rem it was once on the top accrding to india today's ratings....jus dropping down with ppl like me getting into it i guess :P
but its still good tht it manages to get the least starting rank and closing rank for most branches :) htts a good sign...thts maybe also becoz of the past craze...and the kota factor :D

well...too happy like i said tht nothing seems to squash my mood :D

and tht's the picture for my mood today :)

pure
fresh
delicate

Nothing Much

2007-06-23T17:31:00.000+05:30

well..thts whts happening with me in life now-a-days..... "Nothing Much"
wish thr was more happening...kinda getting a lil bored...but then well....feels like i have all the tmie in the world for a few things.... like lukkhagiri for instance :D
neways gone more purple shopping today :D
and goin for a frnd's daughter's b'day :) 1 yr old....i luv babies :) jus thnknig abt wht to get for her ...wonder wht ppl gave me on my 1st b'day...i jus knw abt those gifts in gold tht i received :( but i dnt fancy gold much...so not of much use i guess :D
really arbit blogging i guess....but well...got nothing to write except this thts y :D

Princess Diaries :
Watched this movie for the secnd/third time....nice one...not tht bad also....jus watched it coz a frnd was watching :D

GroundHog Day:
Amazing movie.....how much and how differently can a person do things each day if the each day is the same day... :Di sumtimes wish it was the same day...but then...u cant even kill urself...and if a bad thing happens....tht same bad thing wud keep happening (if its sumthing like death of sumbody and unavoidable) ...in sum way its good and sumway....badd....but well...the movie was good i shud say.....nice entertainer :)

started off with usual suspects but stopped it aftr 15 min....jus one of those movies tht goes above my head maybe....wil try and giv it a scnd shot...but i dnt hink its gonna appeal to me :D :(

Busy busy busy busy..........

2007-06-21T18:34:00.000+05:30

Been busy since the day i've come back to bbay....With mostly the same thing...but atleast i was busy....
Thelast 3 days mostly went into getting details on an affordable..light weight...reliable Lappy...and finally got one...got it upgraded....then installed the OS...and all the software...and blah blah blah....
Finally i can have my lappy all for myself :P

Movies....well seems like i aint goin to b watching ne in the theatres unless a really nice one comes up...coz "sumone" apparantly has becmoe choosy abt movies :O:O:O
neways....now since i have my own popcorn machine...i can watch movies on my lappy.....and eat as much popcorn as i want :D

jus 2 till now though since i didnt have time

Dr. Strange Love

kinda weird...dunno wht to say.....but ok...chalta hai.....and i really enjoyed all the conversations between the american and russian president.... =))
didnt knw tht 3 char were done by the same person till sumone told me....good job i shud say in tht case :)

Oldboy

Though i kind guesssed a part of the suspense...i didnt want to blive it since i knew it was too gross and ewwwwwwww to blive....but welll thts wht the movie is...gross....with ants comign out of the body...cutting out tongues....chopping hands....eating live octopuses or whtever those r....and most horrid thing of all (dnt read ahead if u want to watch the movie).....a sexual relationship between a bro and sis.....and then a punishment to a guy who stars off a romour/fact at school which ends up in him having to sleep with his daughter aftr 15 yrs....not for the indian audience atleast

thts it for the movies and popcorn ...more def in the next few days since i can use my lappy at nite also now :D

got my salary cheque today...but bad since they paid me less than wht i am supposed to get :((((((((
called them back...hope they gimme back my hard earned...well deserved moneyyyyyy :(((((((((((

The Old Man

2007-06-18T00:18:00.000+05:30

Today...for the first time in my life....i felt really happy for a noble cause :)
I am hopefully thinking tht i had made an oldman happy ...which inturn is making me happy :)
I went out to get grub today and other stuff tht i wanted to pack for bbay....and whole driving i noticed a crippled man on a wheelboard and he was moving fwd by pushing with his hands coz looks like his legs were affected by polio or sumthing likewise......and he was moving along the sides of Ameerpet X Roads..which at this time of the nite is very dangerous even to cross or drive owing to the heavy traffic....thr was a bus in front of me and had stopped for hardly 5 sec due to the traffic.....and he kept asking ppl footboarding in the bus for alms...as soon as he saw tht the bus was moving fwd he kept moving along side the bus hoping ......but aftr he realized tht no one was ready to shell out any money , he turned to the other side and started asking the ppl walking on the footpath(rather the side of the road since thr is no footpath)
I dunno why...but this really moved me....more than nething did till date...not tht this is the first time i am seeing sumthing like this....but becoz maybe i felt guilty tht i was sprayign out money on useless stuff tht'd only b thrown away incase no one wishes to eat for a long time untill it starts smelling...and this man overhere was risking his life for sumthing tht cud fill his stomach for this nite.
I cudnt take it....desperately wanted to giv him sumthing ...but cudnt stop the bike since i had ppl honking behind me and i had to get petrol filled in the SCooty....got the fuel filled and bought a Kg of ripe mangoes (dunno y i picked mangoes...maybe coz i felt tht he deseved to eat sumthing good and sumthing tht i was sure he wudnt b able to taste...and also thr were loads of fruitsellers on the side selling particularly mangoes) and also decided to giv him sum money.....went back on the same road searching for him...cudnt find him...went up on the road again...no luck :(
Turned back dejected and feeling a lil bad tht maybe i shud have tried stopping and giving him the money i paid for the mangoes and also the xtra cash i wanted to giv....cont my way to SR nagar to get Hyderabadi Biryani ~=P :D
And i was thinking wht i wud tell my mom abt the mangoes i had in hand since dad had bought abt 10 kgs jus this afty...and was passing a closed temple when i saw him....sitting beside the closed temple was this OLD MAN
Unable to move unlike tht guy...helpless....probably knew no one wud come to a closed temple on a sunday at 9:00 in the nite....but he didnt move...jus sat thr....asking the few ppl who passed him for alms...and then i knw wht i had to do with the mangoes :)
Wht if not a crippled...maybe an oldman who cudnt even move as much as tht guy .....not a bad alternative to enjoy the fruit-dinner :)
Stopped my bike 1 foot away frm whr he sat and handed over the packet with the fruit...guess he is not used to ppl driving stopping by to giv him sumthing in a packet :)) he didnt react to it...jus kept staring at me open-eyed....i got down frm my bike....gave him the fruit...he opened it and saw wht was thr in it while i was searching for the money i wanted to giv him...looked at me with wide eyes...as though it was a mistake i made or sumthing :).....i gave him the money....he counted it...and looked back at me again...i had started my bike by this time...and jus looked at him and gave a smile...he looked back at me...and i still can feel the warmth in those eyes....i can see him even now and his faint smile which i thought i saw jus b4 i left
And I can definetly say...this day i am more happy than i was when i won the Freshman....than when i cleared JEE....those were jus achievements for me.....but this....i dunno wht i cud call it....but its a very happy feeling....makes me feel like i made sumone's day...though i dunno if the old man really thinks as much of wht i gave him.....but atleast i am happy thinking i made him happy.
And now i knw exactly whether i am sure of the social service thing i wanted to do sumtime in life or not...yes i am sure....a frnd had told me earlier abt donating Rs 3 / day to cry..and tht i cud meet in person the kid i was goin to b fundinng for ...was thinking abt doing it...but now ...i am sure abt it :)

101 + things about me :)

2007-06-17T00:14:00.006+05:30

Already wrote 100 things abt me earlier...this is jus a cont...
101. I like the smell of wet mud
102. I cant touch my nose with my tongue
103. I can roll my tongue in a freaky way
104. I forgot how to drive a four wheeler (now I knw... but fear tht i mite forget it soon)
105. I like guys who look manly
106. I knw little abt a lot of things
107. I dnt have any particular field of expertise on which i cud giv a lecture
108. There are very very very few people of the thousands i know personally who can call me by my name as it is supposed to be called
109. I am an extrovert
110. I no longer enjoy gult(telugu) movies like i used to
111. I prefer watching movies with subtitles but not sitcoms
112. I had 2 dogs till date....one jus for 3 months and the other I have right now is 5 yrs old ( 8yrs old now) and both are called Naughty(Knotty)
113. I have received 3(4 now) pay cheques till now (jus got another one :D - gonna be paid regularly now , so gonna stop counting)
114. I have a purple soft toy-pappu (I have a purple Giraffe also)
115. Except 2 all the other soft toys i have, were gifted by the same person
116. I had a huge collection of key chains once
117. I like buying stationary even if i dnt use it
118. I like star gazing lying on my back in a green grass field
119. I lived in a farm/orchad most of my summers and a part of my childhood at my maternal grandparents place
120. My mom is a working woman
121. I always put off things till the last min
122. I still make a mess sumtimes with the gender "ka" "ki" "ta" ti" etc in hindi...can never clear tht mess in the head for sure
123. I like candle light dinners
124. I like walking under the moon on a beach
125. The only fruits tht i dnt like eating r apple and chikoo and papaya got used to watermelon...havent really eaten musk melon ever
126. I like arbit shopping
127. I can wax / thread my own legs though i dnt do
128. I once tried drying myself (clothes and hair :D) under the hand dryer at Mc D aftr getting wet in the rain :D
129. I dnt like KFC/garcia's/barista/smokin joes/papa john's (now i like KFC hot wings more than nething else)
130. I like pizza hut/dominos/Mc D/CCD/Mocha
131. I like ordering loads of stuff at the table and not having to finish them
132. I really wish i cud do sum social service...always wanted to ...but never did
133. I always dream tht sumthing i invent /discover/prove wud make me world famous(never likely to happen)
134. I dnt like physics..dnt mind maths...luv chemistry though most courses i do have 1% chemistry 11% maths and 88% physics
135. I wanna finally end up doin sumthing in mass communications/public relations/general administration etc etc
136. I wanna go on a world wide tour sumtime
137. I am scared of the dark (rarely)
138. I met with an accident more than 5 times ( 7 now)
139. I like being in the limelight
140. I dnt like dancing in public though i like it when i knw noone is watching me and its in a grp of close frnds with whom i am comfortable
141. I donated blood once
142. Till date i have lost 2 Pendrives, 3 Cellphones(5 now - new count is 8) and 1 Laptop..though i found the laptop and 1 cell phone again
143. I get a bunch of flowers (purple carnations + orchids) on the 7th of every month as an extended b'day gift (liliums now - its back to carnations + orchids)
144. I dont knw how to swim though i plan to learn sumday (learnt now :D)
145. I like Maaza/Frooti/Sprite/Marinda more than ne other drink
146. I like coconut water better though
147. I can cook
148. I like reading Crime Reports in newspapers or watch detective stuff (true stories) on TV
149. I wear 8 diamond stones on me at ne given time (7 in the pendant and 1 in the ring)
150. I prefer using the mouse to the touchpad
151. I met with an accident more than 7 times in the last 4 yrs....and if some person who told me my astrology is to b believed...i have a bad period goin on and becoz of which i am accident prone and shudnt drive 2 wheelers
152. I got my hair streaked
153. I like watching movies in theatres as soon as they release b4 readin reviews so tht i can be unbiased

154. Popcorn with movies is a must

155. I've recently realised I'm a shopaholic....and i'm proud of it :D

156. I enjoy listening to the radio and reading books while I travel on the local train

157. I like the Double Trouble and ChocoBomb flavours of MoD

158. I dont like having drinks on the rocks

The Eve :)

2007-06-16T23:57:00.000+05:30

Its the much awaited day atlast.....finally....all the waiting has paid off :P
Tried my level best to make the stay better than the usual ones....and it did seem a lil better (to me atleast)

and now.....babk to bbay...back to the rains ...back to the insti...back to lukkhagiri.....back to bike rides....back to balloon.....back to a whole lot of things

jus searching for an apt pic for the mood :)

and found it :D

Looking Forward
Hope
Morning Bloom
Pure
Shades
Rising High
To reach the sky

Picturesque

2007-06-15T20:20:00.001+05:30

Just coz i wanna cont wht i started.....

Alone
Waiting
A new morning
Separated
Clear Sky
Colour Contrast
Vacancy

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

2007-06-14T21:48:00.000+05:30

I was jus wondering today how often i change a group of friends and yet do maitain it with a few jus the way it was ...and yet others tend to grow apart....not sumthing i wish to do.....but jus happens with me.

My really close friends till now (jus the really close ones....if i say only frnds..the list goes on and on

School :
Srilakshmi ,Makara, Sreesha (till 7th)
Niharika , Makara , Sreesha , Dolly

still in good contact only with Neehe and Mak

Inter 1st and 2nd yr (Ramaiah) :
Jahnavi , Shruti , Dolly

in touch with non

Repeating (Mega) :
Sahithya , Venky , Harsha , Rishi (close)
Shaan , Tarun , Vipul , Deepak , Nitin (hanging out gang)

Sahithya is the only one in touch completely . occasionally talk to Venky,harsha,rishi
Rest only on chat sumtimes

IIT 1st Year :

Arti,Sahi,Navya,Winnie,Roomie (in hostel) obviously in touch with al even now

Sudhi , Soham (batchies) talk to sudhi occasionally...hardly with soham

Seniors:
Vikash - didnt talk for sumtime in between...now jus occasionally
Awasthi - distance grew aftr he got a job and i told him abt "it"
Anshul - Ahem...still in touch :D obvious :P
Vipul - Stopped talking aftr Chaos
Vipin - Been in touch since he is his flatmate :D

New Friends:
Gaurang , Sappy, Simmy , Ankit , Golu

well looks like i do change frnds often though i dnt want to agree to it :|

P.S : Sorry if i missed out neone....but i really cant remember a few since i am on vacation and it has probably been 2 months or more since i last met u :D

Daffodils

2007-06-14T16:06:00.000+05:30

I wander'd lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretch'd in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

By William Wordsworth

Words Unspoken

2007-06-13T23:02:00.000+05:30

Jus wanted to put up a pic to show my mood.....and then maybe i wud comment on it frm an outsider point of view...as to wht i wud think if i saw tht pic...

P.S plz leave comments on wht u think was in my mind when i put up tht pic

Things tht came to my mind:

Fallen
End of sumthing nice
Changed times
Suprise
Wht lies beneath
Alone
Left untouched
Death

well thts it for now i can think of i guess

Movies & Popcorn

2007-06-13T02:10:00.000+05:30

Nothing much lately except shopping for the function to come and boooks for munna etc

Watched sum really good movies..i'm really glad tht i didnt miss these

Hotel Rwanda:
Really one of those movies which moved me to make me feel guilty abt a few things...i dnt knw if it is a true story...still gottu verify the facts....one particular scene with all the dead people had given me a shiver....really one of its kind...though i had seen many movies on war tht r rated on imdb top 250 like No Man's Land...Full Metal Jacket etc i still place this higher than those two coz it moved me more than them ...if u havent watched it then u r missing sumthing for sure

A Beautiful Mind :

Another good movie....though i had seen a bollywood movie with the same kinda situation i think that one was no whr a match to this....beautifully brought out....and hats off to John Nash and his wife Alicia for having fought sumthing like tht in real life ...really was cursing myself for not having gone to the technoholics this yr coz thr was a live video conference with him...coz i wanted to knw more on his life....but winnie told me today on chat tht he hadnt spoken nething on his life but jus on mathematics and stuff...so i guess i hadnt missed much...read up a lil abt john nash and his autobiography.
hats off to tht man !!!

Babum Ve Oglum:

A really simple and sweet litlle story with family emotions...very nicely taken....its a sweet lil movie thts got a really good proportion of everything. Recommended if u havent watched....really cute movie

Mr. Bean's Holiday:

I didnt have the subtitles to this movie so first i downloaded the subtitles frm the net and was shocked to see a 3 KB file only...wondered whether i ahd dwnloaded the whole thing or no. But this is a movie completely based on the actions and facial expressions :) not a really gr8 thing or nething but appreciate it for how it cud convey wht exactly it wanted to jus thru expressions since the movie had to do with frech and russian languages mostly..and very lil english. Reminded me of Charlie Chaplin times :)

pretty much occupied with tht and was writing down other points for the 100 + things about me...will put them down sumtime when i have a decent number to put down :)

Surety

2007-06-11T23:20:00.000+05:30

One thing is for sure....tht nothing in this world is for sure....but doesnt tht contradict my first statement of being sure ?? tht means i am saying i am sure tht nothing is sure...which means i am not sure of nothing being sure which means thr cud b sumthing which is for sure....but then if tht sumthing which is for sure is this thing abt nothing being sure then there exists a cyclic funtion whr i am sure of sumthing tht proves my being sure as not sure :D

really realy arbit...cud b false also...who cares :P

Watching "A beautiful mind" has done this to me ;)

The "Colourful" day

2007-06-11T00:37:00.001+05:30

but jus tht it was mostly in purple :D

had fundoo homemade chicken today....and aftr tht went to charminar to a zaree work shop to giv mom sarees there....with gr8 difficulty finalized on the designs...and then the bargaining starts....imagine my mom got down the rates frm 3000 to 2200 for one saree, 2500 to 1800 for another.....and not to mention the rest....i can never bargain for more than a few tens or max 200 rupees...can never make it more than tht no matter wht the rate is :D

got back home and then we went off to this place called metro sumwhr in kukatpally whr its a really really really big outlet...and everything is got on wholesale prices....but jus tht in case of a particular few itmes u need to buy bulk.... and this is how my mom ended up with 12 soaps and 4 talcum powder bottles =)) i wonder when we r even goin to b using another brand soap at home =))

as for me....it was awesum....no restriction on wht i wanted to buy....nething i got i wud say...."wahaan zaroorat padti hai" ;)

got a purple umbrella,purple curtains for the room...tried for a purple bedsheet..didnt find one :( so got a contrast yellow one :D...loads of stationary...which includeslinc purple gel pens (whic i knw i wud never use :P )...a purple penstand....2 purple colored (spinz) deos ...well they came as a twin pack cudnt help it :D and waise i like the smell...+ the color attribution :D got new towels files....A4 Papers....loads of chips ...diet coke and frooti...and lays kurkure pringles...rusks(1 kg) didnt sell less than tht...not my fault :P face tissues (handy pack) i got 12 packets of these which hold 10 tissues each (well they didnt sell less than 12 :D ) got munna 6 new reebok and proline t-shirts....first picked up 4 but then had to rush in and pick the other two coz apparels min pieces 6 =)) wanted to buy floaters...but u had to buy min of three.....gosh...!!! who wud need 3 floaters???? purple door mats for my new bedroom at home :D and a purple bedsheet for the bed at home.... well..loads of other little sweet purple things...though i cant rem much now :D..was shopping for others things for the new house also....imagine dad convinced mom to buy a carton of 15 500ml appy fizz bottles jus coz he wanted to serve it to everyone who came home in the new wine classes tht he had got =))

came back aftr shopping for about 5 hrs.....and spending 17000 on the whole purchases....mostly coz we got stuff for the house and to double up..we got more than 2 of most of them ;) looks like mom doesnt need to go shopping for another 5 months atleast =))

as for me....the best part was tht i cud shop as much as i wanted....pick up nething i wanted....and....to top it alll....i wasnt goin to pay :D neither wud i b having to restrict on buying sumthing else coz i cud see the accnt balance goin low since i paid with my(his) atm :D...well thts wht makes being here more colorful i guess :)

LOTRing....

2007-06-10T00:08:00.000+05:30

(thanx to karthik for the title :D )

finished with the trilogy..... jus one word "magnificient" tht shud jus describe it all....i can imagine the effort tht went into each part of the movie....each tiny detail tht they took care of....the wonderful sets....the wonderful graphoc work....its jus awesum......worth the credit i shud say...shud have listened to anshul long ago and watched the movie earlier itself.....i dnt knw abt the book....but definetly the movie is a masterpiece.....i am solely talking abt the making here....no credit to the book since i do not mention the storyline ....jus a mind blowing one :)

and apart frm tht was also "snatch"ing also.....this is also a pretty decent movie.....loads of characters....but cud remember each in a peculiar way....felt like it got over pretty fast ...maybe becoz i watched it aftr the long lotr series.....but it was ok types nothing really wonderful abt it...except for brad pitt's body ;)

All efforts in vain

2007-06-09T22:59:00.000+05:30

well....wasnt of much use trying to avoid it frm 2 days when it did finally have to come today...the same old thing...the same old issue... "i dnt talk to her and i get up late....i am always in front of lappy...and blah blah blah..." (read prev post for more info on this)

trying not to bother much abt it....but cant avpid it totally also....becoz its not like i am doin it this time....i am putting all my efforts in not trying to do it....but then for 2 min i was online today and she had to brag abt it also...and she has to remove all her frustration of works on me?? and as if tht was not enuf...her frustration on dad also on me?? this is making me feel more like "keep away frm home"

i knw its not the right attitude...but well...when it feels tht way u sumtimes cant help. try talking and not complaining tht u rnt talking ....i guess thts wht i'd wish to say sumday

jus making me wish more tht i wasnt here at this moment....wish i was sumwhr else....wish i was thr whr i was more comfortable crying .....jus waiting to get back...and counting the days till i did

Day 2

2007-06-08T22:54:00.000+05:30

I wish i wudnt count....becoz it wud make it more difficult.....but i think it hasnt yet dawned upon me still tht i wudnt b goin back for quite sumtime.... tht also cud b becoz i am busy either watching movies or doin sum work mom gives me....like i already said....avoiding all possibilities of getting necked up upon....but morn....late waking had its dose....never mind...!!!

i am still to watch the third part of the LOTR trilogy...will post on the whole movie aftr having watched tht also tonite

I had called up once in the morn....cut the call.....called up again now....no answer....didnt talk at all today :| kind of missing :|

Home (Sweet Home for a difference)

2007-06-07T23:10:00.000+05:30

Well....came here today morn...things have been pretty fine for this time i shud say...thts maybe since i am trying not to giv a chance for it to go wrong....or maybe coz thr wasnt much time tht it cud go wrong...its jus the first day aftr all....and also the new house has changed things a lil bit i guess.....coz me not finding it the boring place nemore for a starter..and then with all the settling to do..and all the new things here and thr....its pretty much better than usual times....and then i ahve this whole room which feels like exclusive now though i did have one b4....it was more of a common place than a place for us .....now its just for us....and then the usual purple walls :) and jus not tht now since the bathroom tiles r purple and the dining room is also purple....mom has got all stuff matching for most things :D makes it much better since sumone else also wud b shopping "purple" jus not me ;)

and as for other stuff.....movies...thts one thing tht is always happening in life :D

Stranger than fiction:

pretty much fine i guess.....not a bad watch...actually a strange thing....and does make u giggle at places....the screenplay is awesum i shud say...the script...i cant really comment....but wonderful taking :)

the Weatherman:

how did this movie miss being on imdb top 250...its such a sweet movie...atleast rating toh acchi honi chahiye....its a movie aftr watching which tht i'd def say ..."wht a life".....bechaara...its like a proper depiction of how he is struggling to make his family come back together...how he wants to b liked by his father....wife..children...how much he is trying to give his shattered marriage another chance....and its hilarious :)

Pirates of the Carribean 2 & 3:

I watched the second one on my lappy to make sure i understood wht was goin on in the third ;) and i wudnt b the first one or an odd one if i said " I love Captain Jack Sparrow" the movies were ok types...with all the fundoo graphics/animations and all...and yah...its def not a waste of time....nice entertainer :)

Shrek 2:

Not as good as the first one....but well...wanted to watch the third...so finished with the second b4 tht though didnt manage to see the third....hope atleast thts better than 2nd..though heard its bad in some user comments :-ss

V for Vendetta:

ok...ok....now y do a few movies fail to satisfy my senses though they seem to have gathered a lot of appreciation frm others????wht was so god abt this movie tht it made it to the top 250?? and y didnt weatherman ???

just wanted to write the names of a few movies which i remembered a few days ago tht i mite forget tht i had watched :D

shattered glass
me you and evryone we know
adaptation
donnie darko

will name others as and when i remember them

got a 250 GB external hard disk :d now tht makes my lappy a proper 80gb one .... he he he...and ya apart frm tht...nothing much i guess....jus gonna brush up with harry potter sumtime.....lost track of events i shud say ;)

The First Shower :)

2007-06-01T08:39:00.001+05:30

Finalllyyyyy.....thr r here....yesday was the First Shower :) and also May 31st....thts one date i'll never forget...and it felt good tht it rained also on the same day...coz its not tht i cud enjoy this particular day with sumone....so..it was like a compensation....i wish i cud b at the lakeside gettign wet like one of those days last year....i wish i was out on a beach or on a long drive....but well...its jus the start of a 4 month long season :) ....gottu shop for the rains now \:D/ !!!!!

Was supposed to have gone to Sheesha yesday but since we didnt find a single Autowaala who was ready to come to Kanjurmarg...we had to giv up on the plan...hope to go sumtime soon....wanted to desparately eat the Lemon and Chinken Sizzler...not tht i am a foul freak or sumthing....but this particular one is my fav apart frm the Ginger Chicken we get in hyd....def not the one in mumbai...now since i have started off writing abt my fav dishes....i think i'll continue with it sumtime though not now :)

Gottu go to Dadar today and also do loads of other chores...like washing clothes :(( i have to do it now since the rains cud spoil the clothes with all the fungus tht comes in :(( this is jus the one thing i hate abt bombay rains...the fungus >:P

I pity all those poor souls who cudnt enjoy the FIRST SHOWER OF MUMBAI this year :) >:)(esp for sumone) :P ;)

oooops....

2007-06-01T08:33:00.000+05:30

i wish i kneew this better...well....for one thing then i gottu take my words back abt the director changing his watch thing (thanx to rutika) but well..it seems odd tht i never noticed this fact (considering me being such a big movie freak) in any movie actually...i have actually never noticed tht (cant do it with a personal experience since i havent been thr) and how come this is the first movie tht has brought this to my notice???? well then this is probably the only good thing abt the movie :D...and i do knw a few ppl who probably didnt knw this fact either coz they agreed with me when i pointed out this :P well....so i can see how writing blogs has been helping in increasing my knowledge :D

but even now dnt take me words back abt it being a pathetic movie >:P

Cheeni Kum

2007-05-31T02:37:00.000+05:30

...ahaa..... really??? well...if u ask me...everything kum....its a real dumb movie...and the worst part.....i had to hear ppl laugh at the most dumbest jokes .... all through (atleast mostly through) it felt like...ok see...thr thr thr....i hit a punchline...go on..laugh u dumb ppl....
why does tht sexy girl char exist...wudnt the movie b the sae without her??? i mean..no purpose of creating such a hype abt her i guess.... finally she dies...and they dn use tht also for ne thing...she jus dioes...and it doesnt make a diff to the movie...jus 3 tears frm Big B....thts it???? I guess she was only thr so tht ppl wud listen to her baby talks and laugh....he he he ha ha ha...... >:P>:P
and the director or screenplay ...or whtever he is called....does he knw tht he is in london and is supposed to change the watch according to tht??? its 8:00 or even later in the night...and i see a bright screen...coz the sun is pretty much up in the sky.... well..and then its 5:00 and then instead of 5:00 the hero turns up 2-3 hrs late...whihc wud b...leme assume the earliest....7:00 pm and then ...i see them glaring coz of the sunlight...dude...if u shoot at a time tht is not 7:00pm then plz plz plz use color correction...ahaa...!!!
i wish i cud comment more...but i think i'll store itin for later...but finally...its a piece of junk...!!! esp since i had an expectation..!!!

Million Dollar Baby

2007-05-29T01:17:00.000+05:30

Ok...dnt b a nut like me to ever ever think tht this movie has cute chubby babies in it...or it has sumthing to do with ransome etc...nothing of tht sort...its gross....not exactly tht way...but well...to sumone who expected this movieto b all cutey and etc (all other similar adjectives)...then well..this movie is as unpleasant and as unexpected as it cud b.... no particular reason (well maybe thr is) why its called a million dollar baby.....its a movie with boxing...thts the first reason why i wud hate it...coz violence.....and i cant take ne of tht in the first place...and secndly...no babies X-( ...and then ok...i go ahead and watch it...expecting a neat endign to it...i wanted it to end in a happy note...thought tht maggie wud at first keep losing but eventually wud win...and it turns out...she keeps winning...and then... :O:O:O:O@-)@-) she breaked her spinal cord...and then skin blisters.... which leads to... artificcial respiration and no movement...hence has to get rid of her infected leg...wow...and thts not the end of the misery.....she asks frankie to kill her...coz she doesnt want to die a loser...or whtever...adn since he refuses...she bites her own tongue .....ewwww......then stitched back..then bites off the stitches again....ewwww...ewwwwwwwwww....and then finally frankie gives away and injects sumthing ...tht klls her..... I hate this god damn movie.....i kept crying for more than 30 min... i do knw tht i cry during most (or rather all) movies....but then...this is the movie tht made me cry the longest till date... (Dead Poet's Society got beaten- 10 min )

this is the movie i'd never ever forget in my life...not coz its gr8...coz it was .... i dnt knw wht to say...but i wish i hadnt watched it :|

Punctured Balloon....

2007-05-26T23:21:00.000+05:30

Wanted to take a break frm all this.....u knw wht i mean by "this".....but well....a small accident changed everything......showed tht i cudnt stay long without him...and vice versa...and also how much it wud hurt me if i really left him.....and how i cudnt take the fact tht he'd leave me netime tht is.....so jus thought abt giving a brk...to the giving a break idea :)

Punctured Balloon :))

Lazy Bum :D

2007-05-22T14:43:00.000+05:30

not exactly..... done with 1 chapter for mom's school project..... and got papers for corrrection ....but apart frm this....wht else am i upto...literally nothing :D
seen a few movies..... theatre- Ek chaalis ki last local....not a real good one...but chalta hai...
Gult- Manmadhudu (dunno if i had already mentioned
Nuvvu Vosthanante nenu vodhantaana
Nuvvu naaku nachav
KshanaKshanam

English-Dont remember watching any

so guess thts it

and as for the projects...no work in tht direction....didnt mail the prof also...and everytime i open my inbox i cross my fingers :D and i gottu go home also sumtime....maybe next week...and will mail the prof aftr i come back i guess....really dunno wht to do abt tht :(

confused

Misery struck..!!!!

2007-05-15T19:25:00.000+05:30

Its pathetic...i was fine with the HSS thing naa.....din mein lukha kaatti thi....life mast tha...and then comes this monster who mails a prof and hence i have to study so much now :(( and the worst part is tht i dont even know wht i am suposed to study :(( as in wht i have to study...i have no clue abt it...its supposed to b done next sem and becoz of a mahaan insaan ...i have to study it now....mujhe khush rehte hue kyun nahi dekh sakte hai yeh log :((

ok...movie updates...nothing much...

SpiderMan III
Life in a METRO
Manmadhudu
Shaolin Soccer (saw at home)
Provoked (dnt knw if i ahd already mentioned or no)
Desamudhuru (halfway)
Munna (theatre)
Aaduvaari maatalaku ardhalu verule (theatre)

dnt rem nething else for now