Life

Rohini and I saw this movie yesterday in a theatre. Yeah, those deserve mentions because it may not make economic sense to go to the theatre these days when you can catch very good quality right in your ipad and youtube. Sometimes going to the theatre has a good feel to it, provided that the movie does not kill it for you. This one did not. I read this book by Chetan Bhagat about 3 yrs back. IMO, this book is one his better works. And I feel the movie has remained fairly faithful to the book unlike the earlier two. I don’t remember the call center thing – did that become a movie too? Alia, sort of notorious for her IQ, seems to have done a good job of the acting. Either she scores or the makers score for fixing things post production. The male lead is ok too and I seem to see a resemblance to the B which may have helped somewhere. I am not sure if he acted as well, but he did not stick out too bad. ...

Annoying, hilarious or however else you look at it, this program is perhaps the best thing a movie based channel ever came up with. For once, it makes us realize how difficult it is to deliver a dialogue with appropriate tonal variations and timing, body language even if the entire picture is not clear. So what if it took a 100 takes, most of us would still find it difficult. ...

That’s like the best thing that keeps happening to me. A lot of people around me, do their best to motivate me. And they do succeed for a brief while, before they have to start again. Apart from being a lucrative value proposition, I doubt if motivational speech can be of any good! Of course, it has its short term values. And perhaps some people can, by themselves, stay re-assured with what they heard. But some like me cannot. So fundamentally, the entire concept falls apart. Like my wife quips, I might need a miracle to trust in God. And I might need it quite often too! ...

I usually take a bus to work around 930 in the morning. Late, yes, but I usually start my work day at 8. Anyway, that’s not the point. I usually manage to catch the same bus – by time, route and the driver! And for two reasons. One is, duh, that’s the first bus around this time. Second is the driver! This guy gives you a “good morning!” as you board the bus. And I usually wish him back. And this simple exchange brightens up my mood for a very long time into the day. ...

So, I am running behind schedule by one post. I definitely have to catch up and fix. Or my eventual ambition of writing my biography would become a dream! Why would I write my bio? Simple, how else will the world know my existence. Why should they know? Good one. Maybe for what I am today, they are better off not knowing. But by the time I get to writing my bio, I would be someone they might as well know! ...

I already missed to keep the date. And its not even a week now! Anyway, to compensate, I ll write two posts today 😀 Sunday was eventless. Mostly lazing around in the couch with “hay day” and the idiot box. By night, I gathered motivation to run 3kms! I ll post my running adventures later. I was watching snippets from movies like “Singaravelan”, “Mudhalvan” etc. I am surprised how these movies were so big. At least the latter had an interesting story. In both the movies, scenes involving the lead couple are immature and pathetic! Wow and to think my younger self actually enjoyed this! ...

The thing about the 3-in-1 Nescafe Rich instant coffee is: it smells like the perfect coffee but is really nothing better than flavored water with a lot of sugar and some coffee essence!

The condo we stay in has a row of shops at level 1 (ground floor). Most of the shops are not taken so far. But one of them came in along with our moving in. They do astrological consultation. But like most Indian astrologers, they have about two dozen services including Feng Shui and Tarot card reading. First few occassions, both me and my wife had a feeling that the lady in the shop was trying to talk to us! Hmm, that’s nice. Only later did I realise that the lady had no one but us to talk to – rather sell astrology to. This is a new condo, so not many have moved in yet. And not so many pass by this road either. Obviously, she needed someone to walk into her shop! ...