A Perfect 10...

Today is definitely one of those days that I am thankful for..a day that makes me realise how many things I have in my life that I am thankful for!
I am thankful about being healthy, thankful about having a wonderful family, thankful about having friends and family who care! And basically thankful about being me!
A day that makes me realise, that if you look around you, and feel it - with an open heart, mind & soul you will realise just how lucky you are!
Just one of those days which makes you go to bed with a smile on your face! Thank you for making me realise this atleast for the moment. I may just about go back to my usual self tomorrow or something might happen to make me feel otherwise 5 mins from now. But for here and now...am just happy being me...and it's a real good feeling....
Thank you big fella out there! makes me feel good to know. 

What's happened to the good old romcom movies- why don't they make them like they did earlier :(

Watched Ek Main Aur Ek Tum yesterday. Seriously should have waited for the movie to be shown on TV (which happens within 2-3 weeks of release nowadays) instead of wasting my monies . Secondly, I do miss Nikhat Kazmi's reviews in TOI (RIP - Nikhat Kazmi). The new reviewer at TOI for Hindi movies, I think is very generous with his ratings. A 4/5!! Really! Have the standards dropped so drastically? I would at best give it a 2.5 or really if pushed hard maybe a 3.
I first thought I was probably getting a lil too old for these now - but then give me a Dil Chahta hai, a DDLJ or a Kuch Kuch hota hai even today and I can sit through and watch it for it's entertainment and music value...this one..NAH!!
Really. The only thing I thought was good about this movie was it's ending - its definitely 'hatke'...else very mediocre..I miss nice romantic movies....what's happened to these people..why are there no more movies like Dil Chata hai coming up :(....
Anyways if anyone's planning on making this a valentine outing movie ......BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEP....you're better off spending your monies on something else I think....

And ya!! the only other nice thing - HINDU ads being aired at the theatres...really aggressive. Seems like the sleeping lion may have gotten threatened somewhere! But lashing out it is!! Seriously loved the Ad...way to go HINDU. Not that you need to prove yourself. But definitely reminding people what you stand for always helps..considering generations are changing every couple of years now!!

The Past comes visiting

Yesterday was one of those days that my past came visiting me. It's quite ironical though, it's not like the past has ever given way to the new in my head. It's always maintained it's position quite possessively in those corners. I keep thinking the head needs a spring cleaning very badly since there is too much clutter up there! But well, each time I sit down for a spring cleaning session, I get too emotionally attached to each of those ideas, moments and memories and tell myself, maybe, just maybe the next time around I will throw these out.
Anyway I digress. Yesterday was a day when a certain part of the pleasant past came calling. Quite out of the blue though. Something I least expected. Though I should have guessed. Yesterday was one of those days when different people I had kept in touch from the same time zone of my life all called. With a mix bag of information. Some of them gave me some really sad news, some of them just reminded me of who they were from when I knew them (just reminding me how people really do not change at all) ..One of them just reconnected after a really long time..so I should have kinda expected this part of my past to come calling too! But good that I didn't expect it. Like with all other things in my life, when things happen when I least expect them to, is when I am happy about it (atleast all things that I consider good, when shit happens, it just does. expect it or otherwise). Happy might be a wrong word to use here. But when you are not sad, then maybe being happy is the best way to describe what you are??? Don't know. So for now let's just say not knowing it will happen, and not putting my super active imagination to work here was a blessing in disguise.
All in all a pleasant end to a somewhat usual, boring day. Also made me realise how the world has moved on and when I look at myself from the outside, realise that a part of me has been standing right there in the corner while everything around me has moved on. The trick question here - how do you move on?
Maybe it's time for that spring cleaning after all! The toughened me should get out there broom and mop in hand to take some serious action! Let's hope that happens soon enough!

First Weekend of February 2012

Topsy turvy weekend it has been literally. It had all the promises of being a great one while it started on Friday evening with a nice kannada play at Ranga Shankara. A sattire on the life we lead today as the new age Bangaloreans. After that pleasant evening, came back home only to start a sickness drama of my own. Woke up multiple times in the night to throw up. Looks like I had successfully poisoned myself with something I had eaten through the day. So thus the whole of Saturday was spend lying down the different beds and couches around the house and dragging my feet around. The sick feeling in me refused to go away all through the day.
Took some tabs and had a good nights sleep, to wake up late today morning. Sunday (today) seemed promising enough. A family lunch. The usual get together that happens when one of my multiple India Born confused American desi come back home for a quick visit :). So off we trouped into 1947 (an Indian restaurant at the High Street Mall in Jayanagar)  for a long LOUD family lunch. Am sure all the waiters there heaved a huge sigh of relief after we left the place.
Had plans of continuing to spend time with the troupe, but the sickness set in again. This time the world around me was spinning all over the place. I first thought it was a blood rush because I got up too quickly. But then the spinning continued giving me the feeling that I was going to go round around the world in split secs. So decided to stay put and call in sick. So thus ends my weekend. Anyway the way my life is going around nowadays, week days flow into weekends.
The only sad part of it all is that I missed my guitar class on both the days. Though I do not play the guitar (The only days my guitar sees the light of day is when I take it to class) I love going to class. It has so much energy in it and it totally fills me in and rejuvenates me. So I do look forward to those couple of hours that I spend there.
And then of course this week I also missed my volunteer to teach program :(. Should write about that too sometimes. It's the name of the program (self given) at the government school I teach at. Well, the time I spend there - I love it!
Anyways that's for another post. Wow. I have material to write about. So what if my brother tells me I cannot write to save my own life! Write I will. After all I write for myself. As long as I enjoy doing it...does not matter if it's any good or not..
....so until we meet again! Hope the world around me stops spinning so much!

Ha Ha..back again!

It's funny how I seem to make an appearance so rarely on my blog. The intentions to write regularly are all there...right there in their respective 'right' places. It's just that the intent, turning into an action is the biggest challenge. This is like how my 'intent to regularly practice and play my guitar or the animation software is also there - right there. None of them have converted themselves into an action yet.
I wonder is it the 'me' that I have turned into offlate or has it been the 'me' all along - the procrastinator. Would growing older make it worse!!oooooooough! can there be a worse off version too!! I shiver at that thought! uggh!
Recently I was reading on a blog that I regularly follow. Apparently most people spend (read as waste) most of their time thinking about they have so little time on hand to do things. I am definitely one among 'those' people, I must confess. Every night I go to sleep with the resolve that tomorrow I shall do this , and do that. Well that tomorrow never comes! And before I know it, its nightfall again and then yet another resolve. Man! managing time between my thoughts itself is getting to be so tough! Where do I find the time for action I say!
One month of the new year 2012 is already up. There are now just 11 months left for the miracles that I expect to unravel themselves.. 2012 better be a better year than before. I am quite tired of thinking....oops another year just zipped by with nothing positively significant happening around me or to me.
Ok until I wander by here again...adios. Hopefully the next entry will not be in 2013. But then let's see how it goes!
As always 'promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.'