Life is a highway

Wow, it's been so long since I updated and I just have so much to say I don't know where or how to start.
Let me give it a shot.
So as my faithful fans (:P) probably know, I am in the Yoonited States on a semester abroad program and living alone for the first time. Firstly, can I just say how awesome it is to live alone???
Because it totally is.
You don't really grow as a person until you have to make it on your own. And boy, these past few months feel like they've been the most important of the 242 months of my life.

I have experienced-
The true form of education- through application and thinking for yourself.
(Although, I still fall asleep in class.)

I have discovered-
Mexican food and Japanese chicken teriyaki ;)
(I still can't stand most healthy food so this is probably not reeeally a good thing)

I have learned-
Not to be so judgmental and to just 'chill out'
(read as-not working hard but convincing myself to not freak over it)

I have changed-
My perspective on what's important in life and in a person(well okay, not so much, but I just feel like I'm seeing things differently)

I have never felt so free, so independent and so...well, me.
Because I am now on the path to self discovery (who knew there'd be something to discover?) and it holds surprises(sometimes shocks) around every corner. Whatever it is, it's certainly not a boring journey! And when I achieve self-actualization, it's going to be awesome B)
I never thought I'd say this but I'm actually glad I'm single right now and am not in the throes of a violent crush. What most people don't see and what I didn't (or more like ignored) is you can't love someone else if you don't learn to love yourself first. I mean really, give yourself time to figure out what you want to be, what you want to do, who you really are. You owe that much to yourself. Chase your dreams down, the wildest ones.(Or just you know, watch TV and eat popcorn.) Friends, boyfriends will come and go(hopefully not go), but this age, this time in life comes only once and we gotta make the most of it!!

Y'all get my point?

These are pearls of wisdom folks! So don't just say "Pooh, baloney" because this baloney is straight from the heart. You have to experience 'letting go' at least once in your life. Who gives a f*** about what people think?? You shouldn't!!

Dance like there's no tomorrow

Laugh loudly

Sing loudly(and badly)

Hug your friends like you're meeting after 20 years

Be bad sometimes :)

Cuss colorfully when you're pissed

You get the general idea!

Okay, lecture over.
Really

But you see how serious I am?? I mean, this is me! Writing sentimental stuff!!
Yikes, I better post this quick before I delete it.

Next update coming soon, no more corny stuff, I promise;)

Ciao!

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Blue and Red

Hmm. I don't exactly know what to write.

Maybe I should give you an idea of what sort of a mood I'm in.
1.I spent yesterday alternating between wanting to bang my head against the computers in the lab and binging on junk, then rounded off the day by listening to old hindi songs. From the 90s.
2.I woke up to the sound of an excellent marching band, plus bon jovi and justin timberlake songs and all I could think was 'shut up shut up shut up!"
3.Everyone and I mean EVERYONE, is watching the game(Wisconsin vs. San Jose)-there's like tons of people on the road, in bars, everywhere, all wearing RED(wisconsin colors are red and white)- and I'm thinking of going to the lab again.
I don't know if that helps you understand, but it should!
Oh and my tooth hurts. :(
Yes, this is going to be a whiny post so DO NOT READ if you can't handle THE TOOTH! :P
I know I can't handle it. It's really bothering me, stupid wisdom tooth. Who was the idiot who named them that anyway??Is all this pain supposed to make you wise? I tell you the guy who named them was being a 'wise'guy :P
Apparently, the first stage of culture shock is the 'honeymoon' stage. Well, that's over for sure!
I don't think I am in the hostile stage yet though. Because I still like it here (sooo pretty).
But I am now Freaking Out about my courses. I so wish I could have done my undergrad here right form the beginning then I'd probably be used to this whole project thing by now and I wouldn't have to Freak Out and also I'd actually know something about my subject!!
I love the way they teach here.
But, er.. expecting me to learn C++, MATLAB and OpenGL all at once?
Man, that's crazy talk!
Okay now I'm a bit afraid to even walk to the lab through this sea of crazy folk in red!
Haha, I do love their spirit though! The Badger spirit is awesome. Wish I really was one and that I did understand football.
Alright, I better go, very short post, I know I know, but lets make it a long one when I'm in a good mood!

Bye y'all




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Let's hear it for New York!

YOO YES!
(As Whatshisname-tightypants used to say)
It's such a brilliant place! Ok, so far at least. Everything is so different here. And so CLEAN :D(which itself is enough to win my approval:P)
Here are 5 things I love about living here-
1. The way people here talk. It's so.....cute!:P For want of a better word. I asked a cop for directions once and when I went up to him he goes "Talk to me" and I'm thinking "ooh, suave!" :D(the cop was good looking, by the way:P) and then he gives me directions like "Go through that turn pike, go left and then straight and you don' wanna stop"
:D
2. The shops!! AAAAAAHHHH!!!!
Where do I start?? I find the grocery stores and pharmacies exciting! By the way, I found beer in a pharmacy; isn't that weird? Oh, I could waste hours in a supermarket. It's crazy, the sheer variety of stuff. And the clothes are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo darn AMAZING! Er but kind of expensive :( sigh.I'm going to get rich someday...just you wait!
3.FOOD.
I swear if it wasn't for all the walking, I would have put on like 10 pounds by now, in just a week. Especially with my partiality to Oreo mcFlurries :D, not to mention fries, which people seem to eat very large servings of. Portioning everywhere is huge. A medium sized popcorn is really large, a 'snack size' ice cream will screw up your dinner for sure and their regular cokes are like 500 ml or something.
So here, there are like two extremes- either people eat cheeseburgers, fries, coke and ice cream or they go total health-crazy with the fat-free and organic everything. That's another thing-buying food at the supermarket is never a simple process unless you're used to it. Everything comes in fat-free/low-fat(2%,1% etc)/organic/multi-grain or some other alternative. Yeesh!
Buying milk was never so mentally taxing!
4. I love how they put up signs and public service notices everywhere and try to make stuff simple for people, like at the subway stations and even inside the trains. I like how they have provisions everywhere for the disabled and people with strollers and prams(there are a LOT of these).
There's a park here, close to where I'm staying which is for dogs to run/play in(there are a LOT of dogs here, people seem to like to put them in their bags and carry them around). There's a sign at the gate which says "Dogs not allowed without owners" :P I'm not quite sure if that sign is of any use!
5. I love the weather! It's great here, especially after Chennai's horrid humidity. The sun sets around 8 in the evening. No, I'm not kidding. :D I feel so much better, I'm sleeping 9 hours everyday! It's been so long since I did that, I don't even remember. I'm eating fruits and cereal for breakfast(big nice ripe peaches, strawberries, plums, red juicy watermelon :D and count chocula cereal:D:D), walking a lot and I'm out like a light before 12. Yes, before 12. It's like magic.
:)
More later,

Peace out!
:P
P.s.- I saw The Naked Cowboy at Times Square today. All he wears is underwear with Naked Cowboy scrawled across the...er....back. :P So he's carrying a guitar and he's wearing a cowboy hat and people want to take pictures with him! Check it out-http://www.nakedcowboy.com/
It's so weird, it's funny!

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Dream a little dream

Dreams do come true! They do, they really, really do!
Okay, I don't mean the Prince Charming-on-a-horse kind of dream. Ew, by the way. I don't know what is so romantic about a guy named Charming on a horse(who rides a horse these days anyway??) snatching you up and riding off into the sunset. I should be very uncomfortable indeed. I think I would prefer a bike, or a car. And a guy with a less pansy name. Wait, I was talking about one of my dreams which came true.
I GOT TO SEE COLIN MOCHRIE AND BRAD SHERWOOD DO AN IMPROV COMEDY SHOW LIVE!!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
Okay, so I didn't get picked for sound effects even though I waved my hand in the air and squealed(not VERY loud) "Ooh, pick me, pick meeee!!!", but the awesomeness of the show cannot be put in words.It just cannot. I love you, cast of 'Whose line...' dudes, I do. So much. Even though you didn't pick me for sound effects and picked the bald guy who could make a beer can popping sound but could not do a whip.:|
'Whose line is it anyway' always cheers me up, even when I'm in the blackest of black moods. Like, really black. I was so excited before the show, I was actually jumping up and down because I had to let it out somehow. Not in public, don't worry! :P
So, if there are possibilities of insane or impossible-sounding dreams coming true, then I better make up a list. So here goes-
Ten things I want to do before I die(subject to change and in no particular order)-
1. Meet Ian Somerhalder. Marry him if possible. Go ahead and laugh if you want but I'm sending signals out to the Yooniverse to help me( you know, that whole if you want something bad enough the universe conspires to help you-thing? er, something of the sort) and when I have the last laugh, don't be jealous! :P

Relax folks, I'm just kidding!

Well, mostly. :P
2.Do something bad-ass, like get into a fight!


3.Build me a swanky house with expensive furniture, fancy gadgets, lots of TVs, a video game room, and a bathroom like the Harry Potter prefects' bathroom. :D
4.World Tour!
Well, duh. Oh and stay only in posh hotels.
5.Do something crazy! I don't know, bungee jumping? Actually I'm too chicken for that:P
Ah, well I'll think of something!
6.Learn to dance the salsa, cha cha cha, tango, jive and waltz.(because more than this would be being waaay too optimistic)
7.Get a walk-in wardrobe. sigh. Picture it-sliding doors, white walls, dresses and shoes lined up on either sides, big mirror at one end, exquisite scents, the works!
8.Get a job with Dreamworks. Now that would be insanely amazing!!
9.Buy me a red Ferrari. Not that ugly Enzo nonsense. Maybe a 360 or F430 or something.




10.See Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie perform together live. Although, I don't think that's going to happen but ah we're talking dreams aren't we??







More Later,
Bonne nuit, mes amis!


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Just Dance

I love dance(dancing and the art in itself). Not that I'm a great dancer...I'm okay you know, as in I don't have two left feet. Tis a wonderful thing, is dance. In the words of Osibisa-

"Dance the body music,
Makes you feel so happy"
Can't sum it up better than that!
You know how that awesome song plays on the radio and you just sort of unconsciously start mouthing the words and swaying a bit and then you're all "Oops, public place" and you stop but your foot is still tapping??
:D
Zat eez ze magic of DANCE! Okay, music too. But, you know, shoe and sock relationship.
Personally the songs I can't resist are Flo Rida's "low" and "right round", "Rise up" by Yves Larock, "Shine on" by RIO, Pitbull's "I know you want me", Shakira...aaah many more!
Like at the gym, I'm doing some lame stretching and suddenly "Waka Waka" is playing and I'm hard put to stay still! It is sooo annoying not to be able to dance when you so so want to!!!

In the same way, dance movies too have an effect on me. I inevitably hum "Time of your life" for ages after watching "Dirty Dancing" while imagining that I'm gliding across the floor like Jennifer Grey did.
After watching "Step Up"or "Center Stage" or one of those random dance movies, sometimes I feel I could slip into their shows and miraculously become an awesome dancer!! :D Then, I could pop and lock and er... jam? Is that correct?? Not to mention glide and twirl and prance and whirl...ooh I feel a rhyme comin' on!
To glide and twirl
To twist and whirl
Swaying gracefully
Like a billowing silk
Like a melody waiting to happen
Like the trees that whisper in the wind
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly???
:P:P
What??
I'm no poet!
Never said I was, so don't look at me like that.
* crosses arms defensively *
Also, my er "poem" reminds me of that Audrey Hepburn song from My Fair Lady-"I could've danced all night". Now that's a pretty song. Makes me want to make like a ballerina and fly away. Sure, ballerinas look like they're going to sprout wings and fly off any minute, don't tell me you haven't noticed!! They're so graceful and not-klutzy. Sigh. I bet no ballerina walks with a hunch or waddles a bit.
Ahem. Never mind. :P
Okay, so 5 dance movies not to miss-
Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Center Stage, Step Up, um did I mention Dirty Dancing?? :P
I probably missed some stuff out, but who cares??
Dirty Dancing!!
Good Night, mi amigos!


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Ghosts from the Past

How do you deal with your demons?

Those little annoying memories which pop up at inopportune moments and render you extremely uncomfortable?
Come on, everyone has their share of embarrassing crushes, incidents, painful memories that they would rather never be reminded of. Especially post a long struggle to get over them.
This ever happened to you-
You're in a very public place, possibly with friends, and a song plays on the radio; you cringe, almost visibly because that was the very song that reminds you of so and so, or the time when you danced with so and so(the so and so is now a He/She-who-must-not-be-mentioned.Ever.) or the time you sang in front of an unimpressed and unfriendly audience, or the time you were dancing on stage and fell off??
You're first instinct is to run screaming, but that would look excessively odd, so you settle for saying "Fuck, Fuck, will not think!!" repeatedly in your head.
If you're nodding as you read this (and I'm assuming that you are) then phew, I'm not nuts! Okay, maybe not so much at least.

So what is one to do? As discussed, running and screaming will not really help. So when do these phantoms go away?? Do we have to deal with it till our dying day? DOES EVERYBODY NEED THERAPY?? How come therapists don't need therapy??

What?
Did y'all expect an over-smart solution to the problem?
I admit, normally, that would be the case but I really don't have an answer to this one.
Thing about ghosts is, they're going to haunt you till you're not scared anymore right? And for one to be not scared, one would have to accept and laugh off all the embarrassing stuff which would involve thinking about it at length which would totally drive anyone into alcoholism, shopaholism or at the very least to finishing an entire 2 liter bottle of coke and the contents of three ice trays within a span of a couple hours.
So screw that!
I'd rather take the temporary bouts of shudder-inducing unwanted recollections.
Ah, human mind, thou art so er...chicken.

More Later,
Ciao!

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Rainy weather has it's merits

It's raining and I'm euphoric! This means no gym today!

*does a little dance around the room*
So yay, I can now concentrate on whiling away time comfortably in a very pleasant manner by-

1. Reading 'The Quiet Gentleman' by Georgette Heyer. Have I mentioned how much I love Georgette Heyer?? I may even end up naming one of my unfortunate future maybe-children after one of her characters. That's how much I love her! Only consider!
2. Reading Heat Wave. I just discovered this today :O Cannot believe that a book by 'Richard Castle' based on Beckett actually exists! Must find out who actually wrote it, am pretty confused. No way did Nathan Fillion write it.
3. Watching 'Before Sunrise'. Some supposedly cute movie, starring Ethan Hawke and a French Lady. Although this movie may be a little spoiled for me because I saw aforementioned French Lady transform into ugly werewolf in an awful movie called 'An american werewolf in Paris'.
4. Watching Whose Line Is it Anyway. Damn, they're so funny, I don't know what I'll do when I'm finished with all seasons :(

Sigh, I'm off :) We all know there aint nothin' better than lazing around in weather like this!
Happiness and inner peace y'all :P

Whoa, loud, scary crack of thunder. Hmm. May have to re-evaluate stance on inclement weather.
More Later..
Tschuss!

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Enlightenment

Okay, this is real important.

I had an epiphany last night....

You know how people meditate and do all kinds of stuff to gain true happiness and peace?
I totally found inner peace!
I was lounging on my bed late at night, reading an excellent book and eating chiwda and I was thinking "Damn, this is the life!" and suddenly it struck me that I was totally worry-free, want-free and content.
How cool is that? Who'd have thought that the secret to inner peace lies in the soothing effect of the night air(ok, fine, AC. details, details:P) and in a bowl of potato chiwda(whatever works for you I guess:P).

Man, I'm lucky I love me some me-time. The secret to survival, it is. Try it, y'all. Next time you sit down on that super-comfy couch to watch a good movie or lie down on your bed, listening to the rain fall while reading your favorite book, take a moment to feel great and really soak in that feeling of contentment.
I'm gonna go before I get arrested for the crime of being too corny=/

More Later...

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Take me away

So, I've officially gone and dug my grave. I've joined....

THE GYM.
(awed silence)
I can't back out now, all paid up. I am so mad at the receptionist guy though! He asked me for my weight and my height and then he goes all " Oh, that comes under obese."
Excuse me?? Obese? I hardly think I am that far gone jerk-face. :( I nearly walked out but then I was like no, must not find excuses to quit before even starting. So I stayed and worked out and all. Yay me! Oh and there is not a single TV in the gym. Also, they asked me to put my mobile phone in some drawer. So basically, I have to work out with no distractions. If they play Umbrella once more, I don't know what I'll do. Must think thin, must think of old jeans which am not fitting into. Oh dear, this is going to be an agonizingly long month. And the television is mocking me by not showing any nice movies. Frankenfish is on now. Frankenfish!! Who, may I ask, is going to watch a movie named Frankenfish???!
Sniff , anyway, I've got a list.
My top 10 holiday destinations(inspired by sayonee and vidya):P

1. Holly Hollywood!

2. New York, the streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you :D

3. Viva Las Vegas! Casinos, fancy hotels, and all-you-can-eat buffets! Need I say more?

4.Switzerland-ahh ze chocolates and ze ddlj place!

5. Paris- Must go to Paris and eat french fries.

6.I'm thinking Greece. The only place where I might actually be intersted in historical buildings because hello, greek mythology rocks! Except for the Oedipus thing and another freaky story I read.

7. Orlando- Well, duh, Universal Studios.

8.Venice- Something so romantic about venice, I don't know. Must sit in Gondola. Santa Luciaaaa(or whatever that song is)

9. Okay, fine, London. :P

10.Rome- Something so romantic about Rome too.It looked so pretty in the Lizzie McGuire movie. Must go.

So what do you think? Hmm I don't know where to fit in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami. Damn. Anyway, I think I'd like to get married in Switzerland. You know, if I ever wish to get married. Or in Vegas, in corny Elvis suits! Bit much? :P Oh, or on a beach. Heck, all three!
Hmm, time to stop writing:P
Good night y'all


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Public Transport From Hell

Autos. How does this word make you feel? Does it make you feel like clawing somebody's eyes out or just clawing at anything? Then you know what I am talking about. What was Volkswagen thinking when they said "Das Auto"? In India! They just probably travel in their little fancy cars or large fancy cars never having known the Indian auto. I know I am babbling(read the title of the blog guys!)

God, they are the epitome of annoying! They should all be banished to Tartarus, only fit place for them. Autos I mean.
I know I said I wasn't making a list but this isn't just a list.
It's a HATE list.

Top 5 WORST things about autos-

5. The way they take speed-breakers. Bumpity Bumpity bump bump. I can practically feel stuff rattling around inside me.

4.They will either take you round and round in circles or say that they know the way and then ask you for directions. If not either of these, the meter will be tweaked. This will probably happen in a completely unfamiliar city. Result-daylight robbery.

3. When you say where you want to go, they grimace and shake their heads and drive off into the sunset. Why? I am not asking you for a loan or something, buddy. Paying you aren't I? I don't want to go to the bloody moon!

2.The way they find excuses to make you pay more. "It's raining" or "It's night" or "You won't get any other autos" or "I'm an asshole". Oops. That was mine. :-/

1. Attitude. Oh my God. And how much! This guy was so rude to me because I didn't have change...He was all "Oh you should have asked if I have change or not before getting in, Go and get change"
Me:"Where am I supposed to go and get change ??"
Auto-jerk(raising his voice, if you please)" I don't know all that! Otherwise, give me the 100 bucks and go"
Me:!!!!!!!
No way was I paying him 70 bucks extra. So I went to the petrol bunk and got change. Bugger.
Somehow I calmly paid him(relatively calmly) and didn't throw the money in his face. We virgos are known for suppressing our feelings.:P

Yes , I suppose there are some decent auto guys but mostly only in Mumbai. Generally, they just piss me off. Like, so bad. Wait, I already said that didn't I?
Okay, I'm going to stop now. Blogging is really therapeutic. Take all the anger and turn it into words I say and er post it on a public forum anonymously:P That's the ticket.

Good night y'all.

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The Lister is back!(no I do not care if that's not a word)

I cannot believe that in the entire 6 month existence of this blog, I have not made a single list. Hell, I love lists! Kind of. :P

Would it be too much to do a hot list??
Damn it, it's my blog!! Why am I even asking??
So here goes...The Hot List(guys only duhh)
We'll take it from the bottom, my faithful fan following already knows number one!

5. James McAvoy-Kinda dorky in Wanted but in Becoming Jane and Penelope...Whooaa! I cannot believe this guy was Mr.Tumnus.
4.Patrick Swayze- Only in Dirty Dancing...but mostly because I haven't seen other movies of his. Such an amazing dancer. RIP Patrick.
3.Ryan Reynolds-Eeeep! Oh the sarcastic comments! :D
2.Chace Crawford. You make Gossip Girl worth watching and er 'dating' a married woman not seem slutty!
1.Ian Somerhalder-Have you seen The Vampire Diaries??? No? Then you will not understand.Orr you might...Just look at him!

Okay I've been wanting to do that for a long time. I feel much better now.I have this weird feeling I missed someone out though. Oh well, he'll understand. :P

Ooh I've got another one. Very very random.(I know, I know, over-usage of the word. Bite me.)

Top 5 things to do when it's raining!

5.Maggie Noodles:)

4.Rom-com+coke+munchies+sofa.

3.Capuccino and cake+Two and a Half Men

2. Bed+Blankie+Chick-lit

1.Lotsa Blankies+pillows+Sleeeeeeep.

Oh Yeah.
Bangalore weather is good for all of this. Lucky Bangalore people. Sigh. Heat is so overrated.

Got one more coming up. Post I mean, not list(What I'm only human!):P.
Stay Tuned...;)






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So damn random

I'm sure all of us, at one point or another, have mulled over the extreme complexity of life. When we were little, things were simple, like, dislike(kinda like facebook :P), do, don't do, listen to parents, don't listen, tell the truth, lie and so on. Then the inevitable happens- You grow up. You read stuff, you experience stuff, you meet complex characters, the world isn't black and white anymore. It's like this messy, abstract painting with the random spots of bright color representing happy times with people you love. Gradually, your perspective changes, what seemed horrifying before doesn't seem so bad now. You're old enough to start fighting your childhood fears, you're old enough to hide stuff from your parents without feeling guilty, you're old enough to realise that people are flawed. Life is pretty short and we all want to get it right, because hello, we only live once. Wait, what I'm saying here is that we'll probably never understand the complexity of life, the irony of fate, the selfishness of human beings, why things don't happen when we so badly want them to, why one has to go down to go up(seriously, what is up with that?), whether fate really controls us, whether karma will catch up to us....I mean, who knows?

I think there are hardly any boundaries left these days. Nobody defines any, who even started it? The thing is boundaries, though limiting and prehistoric, make things feel simpler and safer. Remember those days when we had 'best friends' and used to literally declare it? "Oh, she's my best friend". Now we have a bunch of close friends who are probably close friends with another bunch of people, you don't really talk about how close you are. When we were kids, friendships were simple. Now you find yourself wondering, we were so tight, how did we drift apart? Should I call? Maybe they don't want to talk, what would they think? When did things become so complicated?? Even with romance, the more books I read, the more movies I watch, the more convinced I am that there's something we don't know. What if love doesn't exist? What if, in the end, everyone just succumbs to attraction and you know gets married because everyone around them is doing it? And, then they just either have affairs or carry on with life because they're too lazy to change anything? Happiness after all is transient. The happy life people refer to is just a term for peace and satisfaction. You can have that without being truly happy, you know, if there's something you know you're missing out on.
Oh, heck what am I going on about?Noone is going to get this!!I'm reading too many sordid books. I just read one where this girl says yes to a proposal from another guy even though she doesn't love him because he's good and makes her feel safe and crap n then realises she's really in love with her sister's husband whom her sister has just walked out on and probably has been for years! Wait, before the boring guy, she had an affair with a very much married man(to his college sweetheart,no less) and she basically liked the boring guy because he made her feel good. In the end, they get together(duh- ex-husband of sister guy and our heroine), of course,(I don't read books with sad endings) apparently he's loved her for years too. Yeesh. That was just disturbing. And yet one finds oneself rooting for just the kind of character we love to hate in chick-lits and one sees things from her point of view- hell, things are complicated, no black and white, everybody has a side, a reason, and a not-so-insane-sounding explanation. Who am I kidding? Crazy book! Stupid love is so complicated(Not that I have much experience but what I do have is plenty of time for brooding). Some people just chase after it all their lives and some people just don't bother. Maybe the latter are happier, they have no expectations after all.
Life gets complicated when you expect things.

I think I just aged like, 30 years.


In my defense, I did title it the disconnected ramblings.


p.s.- All movie and book ramblings from now on only on my page(tell me a story).

p.p.s. I probably shouldn't publish this but I'll go ahead anyway because that's what a blog is all about.

Good night y'all

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An Education

Warning: This post may contain inflammatory statements due to the writer's passionate and er generally 'pissed-off' feelings on the subject.


Everyone raves about the education system in India and how smart Indians are. Personally, I think we need some SERIOUS changes around here. Kids are trained from childhood to compete, get 'good' marks and top. (Do you know that kindergarten fees are skyrocketing to crazy amounts like 1 lac? I also read something about toddlers listening to Beethoven and stuff. ).But, I'm telling you, from what I've seen, the education system is all about only one thing.
MONEY.
People lose their childhood because first they are studying and taking tuitions to top in 10th, then for 12th, then a fancy engineering college(oh yeah, you know which one I'm talking about) or whatever. In fact, as most of us know, the training starts from 8th grade to get into a coaching center after 10th grade which will then train you to get into above-mentioned fancy engineering college. There are so many supposedly 'great' coaching centers around, promising excellent results. They're more like torture chambers. Mental torture, that is.

Assignments.
Unit test.
Some other God-forsaken test.
Some more assignments.
Class tests.
Oh, look! Another test!
How about some fun? Hell, no! Write another test.
Sports? What's that?

Jesus. It's like a nut-farm. They're all obsessed.
Arre sab first aayenge kya??
All these institutes have but one goal. Show better results, and therefore make more money.
They're like factories which want to make zombies out of us. All the same. All toppers.
It's the same in college. They only teach you how to pass exams. Knowledge, who needs it? Read whatever is enough for the exam. What's alarming is I'm starting to think that way too. And that's how I am a 2nd year BTech student with not much knowledge in my subject and not much drive to learn either. Because when learning is all about text books with their unintelligible babble, who's interested? We mug, we remember for 24 hours, write the exam and forget.
I wish we could get a real education. Not the bookish sort, the kind which makes us grow as people, not only in mugging capacity. More of practical stuff, less tests, less pressure, no endless boredom.
I wish I had done so many things I never did. I wish I had not been so obsessed about topping all the time. I wish I had evaluated my options and figured out what I wanted instead of blindly jumping on the IIT bandwagon(which anyway was a huge failure). I wish I had spent more time having fun and going out(not like I studied but still.) I wish people would make more movies like 3 idiots so the next Gen kids don't get enrolled in the robot factories.
I am going to stop now because I am THIS close to quoting 'Give me some sunshine' from 3 idiots.

All I'm saying is, this sucks. We should be able to have fun while we're young. The system needs a HUGE makeover. Degrees right now are meaningless. Everybody gets one. It's not at all hard. The point is what knowledge will we have at the end of this charade? I guess the joke's on me. Study all your life and you're still no closer to being knowledgeable. I should have woken up sooner.

Ah whatever, like I said, it just sucks. Who's going to give me my teenage years back? Supposedly the best time of one's life, mine was spent in a rat race for a piece of cheese which wasn't enough to feed even 1/10th of the rats. From now on, no freaking out much over exams and grades and stuff.
I am SO over it.
*blows a raspberry*

Movies, books, friends, fun, life.

It is time to LIVE!

p.s. I should change the blog name to The disconnected ramblings of a confused, lost, disgruntled, and moody soul. :|

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Color me sappy

Today I just feel like quoting this song...I don't know why. I think it's very profound.

'Love is real , real is love
Love is feeling , feeling love
Love is wanting to be loved

Love is touch, touch is love
Love is reaching, reaching love
Love is asking to be loved

Love is you
You and me
Love is knowing
we can be

Love is free, free is love
Love is living, living love
Love is needed to be loved'
-John Lennon


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Cricket and Random Weird Stuff

April 26th, 8pm
Hello, guess who's back with more randomness?...yes, JUST for you guys, my faithful fan following..
Aren't you excited??
Well, actually it's because I'm pretty jobless...
Having done with my exams, I took off to Bombay for a break-you know coz I worked so hard during my exams:|(What?? I DID!)-and so am sitting in my Grandparents' house, waiting for some relative to get back home so we can visit. Fun fun fun eh?? Actually, its' pretty nice, not having to do anything but sit around,eat,shop,watch Two and a Half Men, or Dirty Dancing all over again. Boy,do I love that movie or what...I love Say Anything too but Dirty Dancing is Dirty Dancing and Patrick Swayze is just...well I can't think of a good enough word right now. I mean John Cusack is adorable but can he dance like that? Nuh-uh!

Okay,okay I'll change the subject. CHENNAI WON! How cool is that??
Hah to mon cousins; told them Mumbai would lose. I watched a bit of the match with them and you know I never realised what it's liek to watch a match with actual sports buffs. I was just sitting there and and feeling happy when CSK hit a six or cursing them when they got out or whatever but these guys have something to say at EVERY single ball. What's up with that?? The guy bowls and they go all "Ooohh" and I'm like "Huh? What'd I miss?" Was that a good 'Ooohh' or a bad one?? Then they use terms like 'long on' and 'leg side' and I'm wondering which leg do they mean when they say leg side? SO how do I know what the hell leg side is?? I never remember that stuff!! So I just wisely kept quiet and pretended to be super absorbed in the game. Anyway after all that bandying around of super-knowledgeable crickety-phrases also their team lost. Couldn't tell that was going to happen, could they? Well, I knew! I'm clairvoyant,you know :| Seriously, ask me anything. I veel tell you your fyuucher!(In case, you didn't realise, that's a dorky accent).

April 28th, 1 pm

Yeah I know what you're thinking...Don't ask. I don't have internet in Mumbhaaii.
So, yesterday, I met Nikita at linking road and I was carrying this large backpack on my shoulders and walking around looking at the shops. I was eating an ice cream and i finally gave up on it and threw it coz it was like pathetic(DO NOT eat raspberry twist or whatever the hell it's called from Mc Donald's okay?? Or fine, go ahead, if you're someone I don't like :P)and then i needed a tissue so I'm trying to get to my tissues by bending my arm back and digging into my bag without taking it off my back and it's stuck, see, so I whine " Oh mannnn!"; This weird-ass shopkeeper standing nearby says " Oh yess, madammm"!!!!
I was like WTF!!!! What a *beep* *beep*!! I suppose it's kinda funny though, in a creepy way. Nikita seemed to think so :|
Whoa, writing about this is making me feel more creeped out! I'd basically forgotten about it!

Anyway, I'm in Bombay, I'm actually getting good food to eat, found a pair of jeans that fits me (okay, jeggings, but that just sounds so wrong) , my hair actually shines and no studying for another week.

La Bella Vita!!

More later,
Bye y'all

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What a Cartoon!

Okay, this is completely out of the blue and I know I haven't posted in ages but I just have to say that I really really miss cartoons from the nineties!
Seriously, what have they done to cartoons these days?? They're just SO WEIRD. I stopped watching Cartoon Network when I saw they have shows called 'shamsher sikandar chaddie buddie' (!!!??) on. The only thing worth watching on it these days is the tom and jerry show.(You know, I can never ever get tired of that.) They don't even show The Looney Tunes! OrThe Flintstones or The Jetsons or The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab.....all the classic stuff we grew up on...
It makes me so sad to see CN these days, or whatever it is because as far as I'm concerned Cartoon Network is DEAD. SO much for 'The best place for cartoons'.

I miss it soo much. I even miss Swat Kats and The real adventures of Jonny Quest, which I only ever watched if I was really bored. (They're making a movie on Jonny Quest by the way, starring......drum roll.....Zac Efron!) And even all those miscellaneous Hanna Barbera cartoons which I never really liked at the time but kinda miss now because they can never EVER bring back the hanna barbera humor...come on....who didn't love the sound effects huh??? crash, bang, boom, ping, boingggg :D Yeah, you know what i'm talking about- Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Scooby Doo, Quick Draw McGraw, Atom Ant, Top Cat(oooh I liked Top Cat!),Secret Squirrel, even that weird cat and mouse cartoon where the cat calls the mice 'meece'...




I mean hello...LOL! Where have the laughs gone? Am I supposed to laugh watching Ben 10 or whatever shit they're showing these days???

I have these Boomerang collector cards and they're hilarious, there's this one card of Dick Dastardly and Muttley(remember Wacky Races guys??



It was sooo cool, also, I LOVED Muttley, you gotta love a dog that laughs like that and likes medals:D, I mean he had a whole routine for when he gets a medal! ) and it reads-

Name: Muttley
Species: Snickering Dog
Favourite Saying: "Heh-heh-heh-heh"
Hobby:Daydreaming

Now I don't know about you guys but that cracks me up!!

Also, does anyone remember Scooby Doo's All Star Laff-a-lympics?

That was fun too. I always supported The Yogi Yahooies. And what about The Addams Family? That was weird, although funny and I miss that too. There were so many, I can't even list em here, suffice to say I miss all of it.

Bring the REAL cartoons back!! (I know that is an oxymoron but y'all get the point.)
Maybe I should write posts on my favorites to honor them. Hmm.

Okay it's been pretty much established by now that I CANNOT end a post without babbling on the various perfections of my weirdo-hot-fictional character-crushes so can I just say that us Vampire Diaries fans get to see Damon in a tux next week?? :D I don't actually remember if he's ever worn a tux on the show before but whatever! Damon in a tux! :D Also, Stefan finally shows his grayer side...Elena is so stupid, why would anyone pick Stefan over Damon???
I suppose that whole Damon-not-caring-much-for-the-value-of-human-life-thing must get annoying but still. Stefan is a dork.

Anyway, gotta go, I said Chennai would win today's match and the jerks are losing! Off to cheer em,
More Later,
Tschuss!


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Movie Madness pt.2


Okay, I'm still going through the movie phase so if you're bored don't read this ;)

Some Kind Of Wonderful




I just saw this, like right now, and I gotta say wow :) Exactly what I wanted to watch....The story is clichéd but does that count coz ya know it was made on 1987 so maybe it wasn't clichéd at that time? I really really liked this movie, daresay I shall love it soon..because that's how it started with The Breakfast Club.

When I saw it, I thought it was weird but funny and now two days later I'm convinced I love it? What is that?? It creeps up on you and grows on you. You know what? Unlike the teen movies of today, these movies actually have some heart, and some honesty. I know it sounds corny but it's true. Sigh. Find me a Keith Nelson somebody :P :P

Atonement made me want to cry and the only reason I didn't is because I could see which way it was going and I didn't get too involved in the story. Otherwise, that would have been me sitting in front of the telly, a huge pile of tissues next to me, bawling my eyes out.


.
Na, I'm kidding. Only one movie ever did make me cry like a baby and that was The Notebook. No, I don't know why. So yeah, it was a well-made movie and all that, but it made me go aaaaarghhhhh! Why why why does a supposedly 'good' movie have to be excessively depressing and kill off a couple of people for good measure?? And the oscars encourage this in the name of good cinema. Well guess what? People go to theatres to watch movies for ENTERTAINMENT. They.
Do.
Not.
Want.
To.
Cry.
They.
Do.
Not.
Want.
To.
Watch.
Their.
Favourite.
Actors.
DIE.
Dammit!
Okay, I'm okay now. I feel better. Really.

Sense and Sensibility, very nice movie. Watch instead of the other movies of the genre which all inexplicably seem to star Keira Knightley. Go figure. Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet are perfect for their parts and so is Alan Rickman surprisingly. Who knew Snape could clean up so nice eh? All gentlemanly and stuff! Hugh Grant just looks confused for most of the movie though he gets all the funny lines.
Some actors nowadays whose popularity I simply can't understand include Keira Knightley, Kristen Stewart, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie....but yes that is for another post.

Saw some other random stuff, not really worth discussing. An education, another really lovely oscar-nominated movie. Do watch it. Really. You'll only want to kill me later for suggesting it. :P

Good night y'all

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Movie Madness

Movies are on my mind people and I had to type this while it's still fresh! :) Really, I've just been watching random stuff on TV. And it's fun! So, in the past week I've seen 3 movies which I liked pretty well and bits and pieces of other crap which isn't really worth mentioning. Seriously if any of you ever see The Island coming on TV, run. Okay? I know, it's Scarlett Johanssen but still.


Now on the other hand, Penelope is a pretty nice movie. Guys may not like it(chick flick alert) but I know girls will enjoy it. Don't we all love the handsome guy-falling-for-a-girl-purely-based-on-her-personality tripe? Er I mean very believable stuff(read tripe). ;) But James McAvoy guys! He's really climbing up the hot list....my hot list at least :P In fact, he's way up there, just under Ian Somerhalder. Sigh. He's got really blue eyes, like really blue :) James McAvoy, I mean. Must watch his other movies. (Note to self, start with Atonement.) So yeah, I liked Penelope, Christina Ricci was cute too and it was pretty funny in parts.

Oh, and I saw Godzilla on TV! A little late in the day, I know but still, I enjoyed it. Probably shouldn't have watched it at 1 in the morning though, it kinda creeped me out. I still liked it though. Jean Reno was so funny as the French Secret Service guy who chews gum because he thinks it makes him look american :| and loves to drink coffee :D Also, Matthew Broderick was cute too as 'the worm guy' who never really screams in front of the bad lizzies at any point in the movie, now that I come to think of it. Basically, I thought it was funny and kinda scary and gross at the same time so definitely worth a watch for us creature-movie-lovers.

Finally, I saw Avatar in the theatre in 3D. Amazing, really amazing vfx. I'm sure everyone's seen it and loved it but don't y'all think the story was a little blah? Same old guy insinuates himself into enemy society with intention to bring them down but changes his mind and turns 'good' or whatever and then the evil guys-with-guns attack and kill innocents so hero must win back his credibility and save the day after the intermission. Deja vu baby. And the flying creature thingy choosing it's rider is so Harry Potter meets Eragon. Also, what's up with the plugging the braid into creatures and trees and random stuff???Weird. Anyway the movie was still really good. It had so much visual appeal, and shiny glow-in-the-dark stuff :D Don't you just love the shiny glow-in-the-dark stuff??

More later,

Bye y'all

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The month that was

Yeah I know, I know, we're already well into march but I had writer's block, y'all know how it is!:P
Things I learnt-
1. Messing around with html.
We had dot net classes in college and the only useful thing I learnt from them was a bit of html, and I can now use this knowledge to mess around with the template of my blog:) How cool is that??
2. We get really good ice cream in college at the boys hostel super market:P The choco-bars are drool-worthy. Must stay away!
3. My college can sink to new lows. That's how we now have successfully completed a 'microsoft certified' course in dot net without actually learning much or understanding any of the questions in the exam.
4. It is damn hard to start work on a project. Getting the flailing-around-in-the-dark feeling.
5.Paneer and dosa actually go together...whaddya know??
Movies I watched-
I've sorta been watching random movies on tv, if the story catches my fancy and it's quite fun sometimes. With 8 English movie channels, I have plenty of choice:D
I saw The replacements and The longest yard which were both basically football comedy movies with the whole ensemble cast and one major actor thing. I like these movies though I prefer The replacements because they didn't kill off Chris Rock and Keanu Reeves is so much cuter than Adam Sandler. ;)
I made a brave attempt to watch Amelie but I tell you it was weird with the random- photograph-collecting and hypochondriac-selling-tobacco and amelie stalking some weird guy n I just got lost. Dayum.
The Condemned was a crazily violent movie in which they throw a bunch of criminals condemned to death on an island and the one who survives gets to live. In other words kill or die. I really don't know why I watched it. I plead boredom.
I can't remember any more that I watched and y'all probably wouldn't want to know after reading this eh?;)
Well I'm still partially blocked and I can't think of anything else to report. Ugh there should be some sort of a tonic for this...
More Later,

Bye y'all

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Let me vent

Well, I knew it wouldn't be long before it came down to this. I'm indulging in one of my crazy-moody-sulky fits. Sigh. It's not that I wish to sulk....A bad mood feels like a vortex to me, once you get into one, there's no coaxing yourself out of it. The lamentable part is that it doesn't take much to put me in one these days, being a born pessimist(yes, in addition to confused)...wonder if I was always like this...


I miss my friends ya know. It aint the same in college, though I do know I got it easy...I tried to be grateful and count my blessings and stuff the other day so i was muttering to myself as I walked down the stairs- after getting a test result not up to the mark, and feeling myself being sucked into the vortex- "grateful grateful grateful grateful...." but it just made me feel like throwing up. Really! How unnatural of one to feel that way when one does indeed have a load to be grateful for in life. But the grass is green on all sides and i'm standing in a dry spot, the way it looks to me. I am so going to hell for this. :P But, I daresay God knows all about venting and mood-swings.

I must have changed a lot since I moved away from Hyd, because I've been noticing things about myself I own I cannot like. It makes me think if I'm just discovering myself or if I've just changed. Yes, yes, I tend to introspect a lot and stuff. But what is one to do when the best conversation to be had for miles around is inside one's own head??? So I talk. To myself. Or the little voice in my head. Whatever you choose to call it.

Point is, my brains are rotting. Slowly but surely. All the vernacular I am obliged to speak is eating away at my spoken English. My poor, prized 94%-in-ICSE-English. I couldn't summon up a witty remark without cudgelling my brains for a whole minute, not even if the offender annoyed me VERY much. In fact, i'm much more likely to come up with an expletive, now that's not smart neither does it suit a lady!:( Any chance remarks are wasted....Gone with the wind. I feel melancholy as I watch them sail over several heads around me. As I wave to and reflect upon the sad rarity of these ill-fated witticisms, I have to own that that it scares me that I shan't ever see any of their like again.

Wait. That wasn't the point was it?? No I was saying...er typing...how sad it is that I've become this judgmental, suspicious creature who doesn't care much to make new acquaintances and who I'm afraid is turning into a full-fledged brat. Ok, I suppose it aint as bad as all that. I have become less sensitive than I was used to(ultra-sensitive), wised up a little(I hope), lightened up a lot and learned a lot. But I do find myself judging people too quickly or writing them them off after an alarmingly short acquaintance with them. My temper grows shorter and shorter and I find myself losing my patience with people more and more often and nothing I can tell myself can convince me that such fits are irrational. What right do I have to even think rude thoughts about folks?

I'm sorry, I'm feeling down today. This post I know is not like my usual rubbish. Well actually it is, but melancholy rubbish. But what's a blog for if you can't indulge yourself?

More later, Hopefully not in the same strain....

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Fairly Odd Tales

Er i sorta went on a Disney fairy tale movie-watching-spree the past couple of weeks...I know I know...dorky right? You're probably thinking "Gosh,how old are u??"
Fine, I am 19 but I do love me some Disney :D The man was a genius!
But all the fairy tales seem to have a formula...the same old thing in different packages....Here's what I noticed...

1)The princesses ALL sing!!
What's up with that?? And in really squeaky voices too...Take Snow White for example, I was near to tearing my hair out..."haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" *glass breaks*

2)The princesses also talk to and dance with animals.
Or in the case of the little mermaid, sea creatures.
In the REAL world, people who talk to animals usually only get eaten or pooped on for their loquaciousness. They DO NOT walk off into the sunset with a prince.

3) The prince's name doesn't really matter. It's true! In Cinderella the prince had no name! He was just "His Royal Highness, Our Noble Prince". A bit of a mouthful, dontcha think??
The same with Snow White and Beauty and the Beast....in fact, Belle calls him "Beast":| I really don't know how they managed the entire movie with the guy only being called "the prince" or "the beast" or "you" or "the master"...Jeesh!
Even the mention of Prince Eric and Prince Phillip has one going "huh who??" and when told "You know, Ariel's prince" or "Sleeping Beauty's prince" one goes ooohhh that guy!!
So basically, the ladies rule the fairy tales...Oh yeah!! :)






4)The prince has a convenient habit of running into the princess when she's a) dancing with/without animals, or b) singing with/without animals or c)both of the above and INSTANTLY falling in love with her.
Men.

5)The princess is always INCREDIBLY stupid. No, really. Consider...
Aurora goes and touches a large pointy thingy egged on by a mysterious and sinister voice.
Ariel makes a deal with Ursula, a sea-witch(witch!!) and expects her to play fair.
Snow White takes an apple from a scary elderly woman even though the dwarves told her to be careful and bite into it without the least suspicion of something wrong.
I'd like to see a smart-ass princess for once :D

6)Somehow, they get the songs exactly right. All of the disney movie tunes are classics. And they have this annoying way of getting stuck in your head for days after you watch the movie.
Believe me, took me a while to get rid of "Hi Ho hi ho..*whistle whistle* "

7) The dialogues and the song lyrics are essentially of the same stuff..."Dreams come true blah diddy blah... Once upon a dream...true love...blah blah...something more about dreams..." You get the point :P

8)Good triumphs over evil.
This part, of course I like. We're all suckers for happy endings, aren't we? :)

Now, don't get me wrong...I don't mean to go all "Bah, humbug" on y'all, I'm just writing down what I see now, at the age of nineteen as opposed to the age of...8? 12? whatever... But, you know what? In spite of the obvious flaws and gaping plot holes and unrealistic characters, I love these movies! The beauty and the beast almost made me cry, fancy that!!



And the little mermaid too...! I suppose it's because of the whole happy ending thing...I really am a sucker for that :P
Oh and I like the princes:D they're all cute and er.. princely:P

Not all of them, I dislike Cindy's and Snow White's princes...they were dorks...all they did was sing and dance. They weren't even there to rescue their princesses from dire situations/evil stepmothers.*Shakes head disapprovingly*
I suppose they can't all be perfect:P

My favourite is Prince Eric:) Also(how could I forget) Aladdin:D


And my favourite Princess is Ariel or maybe Jasmine or Belle...I can't decide:P

I'm too lazy now to find nice pictures to put here:P ;they are unbelievably hard to find...And would you believe some jerk has doctored a pic of prince eric with one of them thought bubbles reading "I'm a homo" ??
What is that huh??? Sick freak. :X

And the side-kicks are usually really funny...like gus-gus the mouse and sebastian and flounder and lumiere and cogsworth.....they crack me up!

So yeah, I guess i'm never really going to grow out of "Cartoons" as people so wrongly call them. i would prefer 'animated features' or something like that...They're not just "cartoons". Jeesh. Yeah back to the point, which is...I forget.
Crap.
But I love Disney!
And I hate Disney too...fairy tales indeed! Putting dashed silly notions into our heads in our tender years :P
But, mostly, I love Disney!!
Sorry y'all sleep deprivation has this effect on me. I'm going to stop before I bore myself to tears.
Adios Folks!


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You're beautiful

Beauty...I've often wondered what strange hold it has over us...


What attracts one to somebody? What makes us say they're beautiful?

They say that "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" but how do you define beauty?

Why is it that sometimes we perceive people as beautiful as soon as we clap eyes on them, and sometimes it takes ages of knowing them to feel that way?

And then, that idea suddenly takes hold of the mind and one becomes blind to all else.

Some people have a mysterious charisma. Never understood that, you know.
Some indefinable charm which attracts everyone to them. Some sort of that elusive 'X factor' I guess. All actors have it...the popular ones at least. That's why they have so many crazy fans who idolize them. But then they grow older, and their opposite sex fan-club has no more takers.

The other sort of beauty is the one we perceive when once we know the person.... once we know what their smile means, what the twinkle in the eye indicates, what makes them laugh...

GH said in one of her books, "She realised it wasn't so much the smile that attracted her to Mr. Calverleigh, but the understanding that lay behind the smile"
Now wasn't she wise?? :D

It's true that folks often fall in love with a 'pretty' face, but it's also true that more often than not, they fall out of it too, once the person's personality is revealed.
I've noticed, at least with some movie stars who are extremely good-looking...you know, the works...that once they open their mouth, one feels like going "Shhhhhhhhhh, damn it!". You know?? And one feels an instant repugnance. Alas, the beauty dims. :P

So it's pretty certain that personality plays a big role in attraction or love, if u must.

I guess basically we are all looking for someone akin to us. Someone who understands, you know, really gets us.

And.. er... if you throw in a gorgeous smile and big broad shoulders, no one's gonna complain;)

Whaddya think?

Toodles

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The beft and worft of 2009


It's been 4 posts and I haven't done one on movies yet. Unacceptable!!!

So, I present to you...

The best and the worst of the Hindi film industry in the year 2009 (because big B doesn't like the word 'bollywood' :|)...


Best films of the year
3 Idiots
Kaminey
Um like duh!!
3 idiots came, it dazzled, and made engineering colleges look silly...
Oh and not to mention the cute lil' birdie dance number :D
Can we ask for more?? Seriously?

They made it alright to fay the word 'kaminey' not to mention giving uf two Fahids and a kickaff ftory with the most infane characterf...I would be guilty of kaminapan if I didn't include thif one :) "Aife aife kaife kaife?" :D





Best Music of the year
Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani
No i don't think 'chor bazaari' was all that great and nor have I understood that song till date. Really, I don't know what the fuss is about...
'Dhan te nan' was awesome but I wouldn't say the album was killer...
All the songs in this movie were great...come on...who hasn't hummed 'ku ku ku kuu kuu' to themselves?? :P Or sang loudly along to Tu jaane naaaa??? Not to mention sighing over the lyrics...
I rest my case. :P

Cutest Actor of the year
Ranbir Kapoor
I'm not going to explain. Really. Just look at him!


Worst films of the year
Kambakkht Ishq
Delhi 6
Do knot disturb

Oh sweet mother of god, these movies were torture.
Delhi 6 was baaaad even in fast forward. All I can remember is something about ram-leelas.
As for kambakkht ishq, Denise Richards telling Akshay Kumar "I wanna have golden babies with you" is going to haunt me for EVER.
Do knot disturb was not even funny. Not even close to funny. Tsk-tsk Govinda....I really liked your older movies.

I got wise after these and didn't watch some movies which were you know, bound to be terrible.
De dana dan for example. And Luck too...poor Imran Khan, sure doesn't know how to pick them eh?

Damp squibs of the year
Chandni Chowk to China
Dil bole Hadippa
What's your Raashee?
Kurbaan
We expected great things, they disappointed.
Shame on you yashraj, for daring to cast shahid in such an awful film with an actor who looks like his aunt.
Apparently what's your raashee had 12 songs and was 3 and a half hours long. It starred Harman Baweja too as we know. Need I say anymore?
Kurbaam was just lame in parts and cc2c could have been great if they had focused on the story and fights rather than on promoting a certain acor's ego trip.

I am certainly not going to sully this blog with photos from these er dhabbas on our 'film industry's ' name.


Biggest loser of the year
Akshay Kumar
Five flops last year guys...
Believe it!
cc2c, kambakkht ishq, blue, de dana dan, 8x10 tasveer
And not like the year before that and the one before had some gems from him. Tashan. Namastey London. Welcome. Shudder.


Movies not even worth mentioning
Main aur Mrs.khanna
Aladin
London Dreams
All hype, absolutely no substance.
And sallu and ajay devgan as rockstars in london is really the height of absurdity!


Movies that became hits by some unknown process...can't be because they were good or something!!
New York
Radio
Wanted
New York was I dunno ...weird...they weren't taking sides on the terrorism issue as usual, the acting was bad, the accents were grating on my ears so please, just please ew!!
Radio was.........
HA did u really think i watched it?? :P Apparently it recovered costs before release because of the music sales or something!
Wanted was again, super lame. You have to watch it to see how lame the dialogues are.
Example?
"Ek baar maine commitment karli toh uske baad main khud ki bhi nahi sunta!!"
:D:D



Underrated movies
Luck by chance
Rocket singh

They had nice stories and great ensemble casts. These movies were real. We can ignore the lil flaws...keep the good stuff coming!




So all in all, 2009 wasn't all that great.
We got only a half-dozen good films. Many atrocious ones. But, the trend seems to be moving toward good stories rather than the nonsensical comic-capers that were used to be popular.

So here's to intelligent cinema and the phasing out of the oldies(with all due respect, but honestly you can't expect to set the cash registers ringing by prancing around with much younger co-stars and absolutely no story-line)...ahem so yeah here's to 2010!! :)

More later,
Toodles

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Love, actually??

Have any of y'all ever wondered if the 'L' word actually exists?? Of course you have!! Especially us girls ;) eh? It is really is MOST annoying that we grow up reading books and watching movies and then are suddenly catapulted into the real world when we realise that we've been fed a pack of LIES.

I am sure everyone is familiar with the quintessential 'prince charming' who comes in many different packages but is essentially always made of the same stuff. He's nice, he's charming(of course), he's terribly handsome and never fails to fall for the 'princess'. But what they don't tell you is that he probably is a narcissist, handsome in a pretty boy way really and in the real world will probably marry a really bitchy rich female and who suits his consequence more than poor old Cindy.
Then there is the 'tall, dark and handsome' variety who's the brooding sort and holds the female gender in contempt except of course when he meets his 'one true love' and 'reforms his life'. Fiddle!! and Poppycock too!
THEN they feed us with ANOTHER pack of nonsense about a nerdy best-friend guy who apparently has been in love with his girl-best friend since ever he can remember and she doesn't realise it, if you please! She, naturally, lusts after the 'hottest but meanest guy in school' (another stereotype) and only after a lot of drama does she realise that her best-friend is actually kinda hot and she's been in love with him her whole life and not known until now! *rolls eyes* Let me tell you something, if a guy likes a girl, more often than not she can definitely tell and especially if he's supposed to be her best friend so that's rubbish and what's more, being in love your whole life and not knowing is rubbish too ! I mean, how weird is that?? How out of touch with yourself do you have to be to not realise? And the nerdy guy's feet probably stink too :P :D Come on!! He can't be that perfect!

So you see, we've been subsisting on made-up idealistic notions and in the real world it is not at all like that. Boys are no prince charmings. The tall, brooding chaps are probably actually dangerous or... er.. just touched in the head. Lets face it. Boys don't brood. :D I'm not saying girls are perfect, far from it. But I am saying that it's not our fault on account of having grown up on books and movies which turn us into silly, sentimental fools.
I wonder if there is anything such as a perfect relationship. I was watching that pathetic show 'emotional atyachar' out of sheer boredom and the host guy said that 30% of females and 50% of males admit to being more interested in their boy/girlfriend's best friend rather than in their boy/girlfriend :| and he very cheerfully added "So you see, your love may actually be eyeing your best friend". Eeep! The statistics, if true, are rather alarming don't you think?? Almost enough to drive me into becoming a nun!

So does 'true love' and crap really exist?? Or is it just something the mysterious 'they' made up so that people will get married and the human race won't die out? :P
Speaking from observation rather than experience, maybe we should learn not to expect too much from guys, acknowledge our superior sense and pardon them for their lack of it :P . And they should learn to think a little of things other than themselves and not run away from emo-stuff. Don't you think they would get along much better then??

Damn, I should write a book!

:D:D

More later,
Toodles

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Vampires and Hip-hop

Guess what? I finally did something worthwhile! I joined dance classes :D We're going to be doing hip-hop and jazz...ain't it cool?? The first class did not impress me much- I mean we were 30 or 40 people stuck in this relatively small room with no place to dance. It was ridiculous, we couldn't even do a step without treading on someone's foot or hitting someone's head and the guy says "you're bumping into each other because you're all not turning at the same time":| Today's class was good though, the steps were hard and the song(thankfully) was 'Right Round' :) So yay for hip hop!


VAMPIRE DIARIES IS BACKKK!
And it just got even MORE intriguing! As though I should care even if it didn't, I'd still watch for Damon:D and his pretty ice blue eyes...sigh. I call him Damon because that's who I like. Who knows what Ian is like in real life? I saw his twitter thingy and it was a snore, I regret to say. It's a shame...how can he play someone so deliciously evil and smart and witty and be a duhh in real life?? huh?? Although I'm starting to have mixed feelings about Damon too...He pulled that lady''s heart right out of her body.. eeeewww!.. and killed like dozens of people. I may have a lamentable tendency to be attracted toward 'bad boys' especially vampires and other vicious mythical human-like creatures but I'm not that pathetic as to drool over a killer. Hmm maybe I shan't be soo excited about VD from now on...

....ORRR I could just watch anyway and admire his pretty ice blue eyes without freaking out over the whole morality thing :P Who can resist those eyes eh??

More later,
Toodles

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Back to college...sigh

I cannot believe my holidays passed by so quickly...it's crazy..one day I'm falling asleep in class begging providence to make time fly so i can get to my four glorious days of freedom and the next thing u know i'm begging for time to crawl. Back to sleeping in class from tomorrow. Although I probably shouldn't do that. I should pay attention like a good girl. :| Have I mentioned that being good is totally overrated?? Well, it is. It's no fun. But the irony of Fate is such that when you want to be bad and have fun for once in your life, Fate does it's best, it's very best to keep opportunities out of your way. Haha Fate, I don't see nobody laughing.


So I saw this really funny movie 'Analyze This'...superb parody on mobsters. There's a scene where Billy Crystal is doing the Italian mafia guy accent...it's hilarious:)
I also saw this ridiculous movie called 'A view from the top'. Seriously what KIND of a girl would leave Mark Ruffalo to become an international, first class-serving, paris-flying AIR HOSTESS???
Or as they say in the movie, "FLIGHT ATTENDANT":| Same old story, small town pretty girl, big dreams, cute guy, choice between love and ambition, pretty girl picks ambition, regrets it, comes crying back to cute guy who, of course, takes her back. I could have written something better than that. Seriously.

Aaannd my Grand Slam Tennis game finally got working so that's great :) I totally whupped computer game Davenport's ass :) But Serena Williams got the better of me :P And Fedex is wayyyy too hard to beat! He's like alll over the place! Shall show no mercy tomorrow. They're all going to wish they had never been animated.

I suppose I should sleep now, gotta wake up in less than 6 hours :( Ugh, stupid college.
More later,
Toodles

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A new year,a new me....(hopefully)

So here's 2010 at last and I am mighty glad of it. 2009 really pissed me off for various reasons. But you know what, I have great hopes for 2010....I just have a feeling that it's going to be different. I want it to be different. I want to BE different. I want to be SOMETHING.

So here's the plan:
1) I am going to try new kinds of food. I have already developed a liking for pasta, a food group which I never thought much of before(is it a food group? I'm sure it is to italians) and i gotta say...I LIKE it! I am also going to learn how to cook; not boring stuff like rotis n all but interesting stuff like.. er...pasta!
2) I am going to find out by the end of this year, what exactly it is that I wish to do in life. I need to find out if I have an aptitude for a career in animation..
3)I am going to watch different kinds of movies. I have already tried a few and it's quite refreshing...I used to always watch those silly rom-coms but post 500 days of summer,becoming jane, oceans eleven and julie and julia, I feel quite changed :P
(btw, this does not mean I don't still love those silly rom-coms:))
4)By the end of this year I will have advanced my knowledge in the field of computer science, either through an internship or through classes...n I will do it!
5) I will not give up halfway on stuff...like this blog for instance. I SHAN'T abandon it.

So there it is...My year-long plan.. What do you think non-existent readers? " I don't think she'll go through with it"? Hah well I'll show you, I will. I am going to decribe my progress or lack-thereof right here and lets see how it goes. I will not let this be just a product of weekend boredom. It will be THE product of weekend boredom!
Igor, pull the switch!

More later,
Determined not to quit....


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