Everything is fine :-)

Going through a new phase, appreciating these times more, I'm feeling good :)



Read Very Good Jeeves! by P G Wodehouse.




As usual, an impeccable work by the genius. An easy read. Delightful to say the least :)


Watched Dostana :x

Well I knew it was going to be a holy f*ck movie, yet didn't want to miss on getting together with friends. Plus there were girls ;-) Hence, yours truly obliged and went along.
This is the first movie where I ever got out of the theater while it was being screened. Damn! Seriously a brain numbing, no brains movie with carcass stupidity splattered generously. And people were laughing!! :O :O
Priyanka in skimpy clothes was the only part that I thought would be worth at least 50 of the 150 bucks I spent for the movie. But even she didn't appeal to me :|


Of the 80 odd minutes in the first half, I might have spent at least 25 near the snack bar.

Well, in the second half, I got a girl to sit beside me and there on I didn't even know when the movie got over! ;-) :D


Truly a crap movie. Guess Tashan was better :|


Then watched some more on my comp.



Mumbai meri jaan

Honestly, I didn't understand it. Watched it in 10 parts. A heavy movie.


Quantum of Solace.

Damn! I expected more from a Bond movie. The action scenes seemed lifted from Casino Royale. Craig looked tired all through. The girls were :| The story also wasn't that great.

C'mon get back the charm of the Bond movie.

Honestly, Casino Royale is the only Bond movie I actually liked:D

The Dark Knight

All the hullabaloo went waste. It wasn't that great except Joker who stole the show. Damn cool performances. If you've got enough time to waste, go, watch it.


Hello

Wow! I meanter say I never expected it to be this good. I threw away the book after reading just 50 pages of it. So put it on with zero expectation. Makes for a good watch. Get your popcorn and go for it.



Apart from that, I've been battling with my nose for a month now. Caught cold twice!!
The first one- when i returned from Kerala owing to the drastic climate change.
The second due to the cold wave :x ( Damn Ankit)
Still struggling with it.


In between, I'd a wonderful birthday :)

Enjoyed, some what :D
Can say had fun :P


Met some old buddies, looking to meet some more.

Rest, as I said earlier, I feel good, blessed, gifted :)
I feel closer to life. And all those philosophical things repeated over and over. :-P



And yes,
I'm looking forward to watch Ghajini. I liked the corporate look of Aamir Khan in it.

And about Rab ne bana di jodi- I didn't dare. That's it!

Just read somewhere else with the song changed to:
Sab mein rab dikhta hai yaara main kya karoon :D :D


Chalo, as I said earlier I need to study and I want to study.
But i know that i won't study. :|



Hope it changes for the better :)



PS: Tomorrow marks the first year when I entered the world of blogger, That's the 1st b'day of my profile. :) And I can say safely that this is the best blogging site B-)

Cheers to google!!! ;-)

Book review again

Just finished reading a book recommended by everyone who has read it.

tuesdays with Morrie




But I didn't like it too much. I mean it's a good piece of work but doesn't seem to be a life changing piece of literature; at least to me! The pain of the teacher, his sufferings and how he rises above it to teach his student, Mitch and so many others around the world, the greatest lessons of their lives has been well described. The way he looks at life in his final days, his understandings, theories, everything written in a lucid style. It manages to churn the emotions in some places.

But in my opinion, it isn't that great as it is hyped to be. It might be appreciated, lauded, might have moved people to tears. But still, I feel it won't do any good to any person. Because such lessons in life can't be explained like this. You need to experience everything first hand to get the real gravity of things. Like there is sympathy and empathy- another aspect is living through it. The first hand experience which actually gives you real insight into things is the best teacher.

Plus you don't find reading through things, you already know very well, interesting. Do you? ;-)

For that matter I didn't like Rang De Basanti too. Coz it's something like- you have already thought about all this earlier and someone else copied your true script and put it in a less effective way.

Same with tuesdays with Morrie.

But one can't deny that it'll make a great read for those whose thoughts never touched these lines. Not bad to buy one and go through.Cost me 175 bucks. Happy Reading! :)

Books, Movies and the usual zany!

Boy o boy!

Haven't I been busy!?!
Or is the word negligent? :D

Without any delay, here I go:


* I'm back to reading books nowadays. I've taken membership in a library *Happy* :D

Read 'The Brethren' by John Grisham the last. I liked most parts of it; just that the ending was abrupt :OThis one was my first Grisham novel and I liked it till it reached the climax. It's almost the usual Archer stuff and I tell you Archer writes better. In here are three judges (The Brethren) in a prison who run a scam, a CIA chief who suddenly gets the info that Russia will attack USA and goes about turning around the presidential elections, too many homosexuals and the whole story is entagled in not so significant things. The suspense isn't very great. And it finally reaches a good point the author just rushes through the story!
All in all, it doesn't make a very productive reading. I wouldn't recommend reading it.


My 'Parker Pyne' was stolen!! :o :O :x


Now this is a decent one by Agatha Christie. Some good short stories and for a change, it isn't repititive. A happiness specialist Parker pyne goes about solving problems of people to grant them happiness; and he charges a very specific fee for that! :D
I had reached its middle when I made the mistake of taking it to college. *poof* It was gone! One should read it :)

The Three mistakes of my life by Chetan Bhagat. I threw it away after reading fifty pages of it. Need I say more?

* I'm nowadays learning how to play guitar *all smiles*
But mind you, it isn't easy at all. Your fingers start aching badly. You need to get the first and the third fingers at the correct places ( I know only this much as of now :-D) and also get the beats correct. Try doing that while reading the notes and there! You botch it up! :x
I hope I will get over it soon :D
I'm loving every moment of this though I get sweaty with nervousness and desparation while at it.

* I started working out again :D

* I discovered myself! :D
My calling, were I want to be and almost everything :-D
I'm convinced that I'm a technical dud. :D I'm convinced that I'll make a good manager :P


* I watched some movies:


Jaane tu ya jaane na


I didn't like it!! :O
All right. Stop staring now! :D Though the performances were very good and the characters were well etched, the story dragged on! Rest, it was good. But I didn't like it.



Singh is King:


My brother warned me against it. Still I made the brave decision and went for it after a real messed up day. So, I liked it. I roll along comedy. I was actually laughing during the movie. A forget all stress movie. But had I watched it some other day, I might have loathed it! But full points for getting me back in mood :D
My brother said, "tera taste jal gaya hai" I still laugh at it!! :D :D

Now the big one:

ROCK ON!!!


Man! This is a lesson for all directors. I loved the way the script was treated. Everything appeared so real and the acting was very natural. The actors appeared to belong to the characters and it was real fun. Some people might say that it was a very bad mix of Dil Chahta Hai and Jhankaar Beats but who cares. I loved every moment while i was watching it. And the concerts! Just mind blowing. You committed a cardinal sin if you didn't watch it in a theatre!
Go, watch it!!



Rest, the things I'm looking forward to do:

* Read 'The Prometheus Deception' by Robert Ludlum, 'Tuesdays with Morrie' by Mitch Abloom, 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini and some by P.G. Wodehouse
* Go to IIT-Delhi for Rendezvous-08
* Learn how to play a guitar well! *chuckles*
*Study, for heaven's sake, for my semester exams!
* Go to my Native place. God! I'm so exctied about going there :-)


Things I'm not so enthusiastic about:

* My fourth sem results. How I wish a cow ate up our answer sheets!
* My fifth sem exams.
* An electronics project that I'm supposed to work on with some even dud guys.


Wish me luck people!