Parineeta

I saw Parineeta today :-D Its awesome :-D.

There was so much colour on the screen and mind you it never looked garish. Everything on screen was beautiful. I read in rediff reviews that Vidya Balan can sleepwalk through the movie without a single dialogue cos she has speaking eyes. I believe that now. The lady is very beautiful and has given a superb performance.

I hated Saif so much in the parts where he is jealous and so rude to Lolita. Credits go to Saif's acting :-) Being a hopeless romantic, I was overjoyed at the ending. :-D I'll remember this movie. I actually dont mind watching it again on the big screen :-D

Next in the queue is Paheli and now me waiting for the double mazaa cos of two Sharukhs :-D I already support the ghost SRK and dislike the living SRK. May the ghost win lacchi :-D I wonder how they end the movie. Does lacchi die and join the ghost Sharukh like its always done in hindi movies? :-D Or does the ghost become a living person aka City of Angels? I would prefer the 2nd choice. Are there any handsome, charming, well-mannered, sharukh-lookalike ghosts floating around me ? :-D :-D

Ok I have done enough of gushing about the movie and now Ill get back and enjoy the rest of the day:-)
Good night :-)

Sivamani

I was listening to the songs of Swades today for the nth time and noticed another thing. One of the percussionists is Sivamani. I have seen sivamani perform live in the insti culturals.

Once he was invited along with Louis Banks and Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasiya and it was to be a fusion concert. Everything about that show was too good for words. A solo by Pt. HC was followed by the jugalbandi between these three. Sivamani's percussions made their own place in the concert inspite of Pt. HC's genius. He was a complete showman in the sense that it was a pleasure to watch him too. He would throw his sticks in the air, the sticks would perform their own acrobatics and still would manage to land on the drums to create music :-D That was my first insti culturals and it was quite an experience.This was in 2K1.

The next year Shankar Mahadevan was invited for light music show. Anybody who has attended the last few culturals would agree unanimously that this one was the best. Other artists have to compete really hard to outdo that performance. The show was charged with untappable energy - be it SM on stage, or the students on their feet in the gallery dancing to the vibrant tunes. And there was a surprise for us too. Sivamani was in town, he had heard that SM is performing here and so he just dropped in to join the show !! SM + Sivamani was a deadly combination.

In the following years, we have heard artists like shaan ( he had bad throat that day, and still obliged to our encores! a sweety :-) ), udit narayan ( this was the worst, with him singing all the tere naam numbers!! and a very annoying compere ), KK ( again a good show ) in the light music section. But none came close to that show :-D

The things I like about this place include the culturals, the campus, and...........
well let me think about them and get back to you :-).

Sob sob

I'm so angry at my negligence. I paid Rs. 108 as fine for late return of the library books today. Late returns are usual and I feel no grad student is complete without these nuances. But so far my fines never ran upto this amount , that too for just 4 books and moreover for books which I hadn't touched since the day I got them from the library. grrrrrrrrrrrrr

I could have had a nice dinner for that amount. sob sob.. Such is the way of grad life. :-( I will put in a demand to name the topmost floor of the library after me. After all I have contributed so much to it.

As I was returning from lunch, I saw a bunch of monkeys hanging upside down from the tree and playing with each other. I was thinking these monkeys don't have to worry about anything, and whatever worries they do have are a part of our life too. So why the heck did humans evolve from apes?? Couldn't we have stayed that way! It isn't even as if we got rid of some problems by evolving.

OK by now you would have realised these are the ramblings of a person who really wants to go take a nap now instead of sitting in front of my USB (the Ugly Square Box). So I better get back to what Im supposed to be doing right now.

Good Day :-)
My 108.. booohoooooooooooooooooo

snakes and panthers!!

These days we were cribbing that nothing exciting ever happens in our lives. We wake up, get ready for the same old lab, stare at the same old screen the whole day, and get back to room and crib again that our life is monotonous. So the person in the heavens above has heard our pleas :-D Today we came to know that a snake has been spotted in the route that we take to go to our department. And mind you its not just any snake. Its the king cobra himself! :-D We knew the campus has plenty of snakes but we were told they are harmless ones. So now that we have a real poisonous snake which can attack us anytime, the adventure starts :-D Everytime we pass that way, we can imagine we are passing through a dense forest infested with snakes and ferocious animals ( we see a lot of these in our mess these days! they spend half their time looking at others instead of eating! ughhhh ). The evil spirits wander near that forest and their den lies at the edge of it ( our acad secn qualifies for this. Its inmates spend their time devising ways to ensnare the innocent passersby and waste the rest of their(Inn passersby) lifes wandering in the acad secn corridors). Ok now I realise my fantasy has reached the bizarre level so lets leave the evil spirits out of this..so fast forward...

Anyways, anything doesnt attack until it sees itself in danger. And believe me Im the most innocent looking creature around so I have no fear although looks can be deceptive :-D Will try to avoid keeping really late hours :-D thoda bahut darr makes us real human beings :-D.

I had a classmate who had to do her summer project in GMRT near pune. Thats a very deserted area and panthers were regularly sighted there and this female used to return from the library to hostel at 11 in the night!! Had to admire her daring. She has also seen fresh pugmarks near her hostel and still she maintained the routine. In her place, I would have abandoned my project and returned home the very first day :-D The feline beings are very graceful and majestic to look at but I love them on Nat Geo Max. No closer than that please :-D

Ok now, Ive gotta finish whatever epsilon-delta I hoped to accomplish today and pack up early. So bye for now.

Btw I havent seen any of the movies I thought Ill see. I missed a real good chance to see Hitch last week when it was screened at OAT and I was absconding from the campus. Paheli, parineeta are still on the cards and a friend suggests that 'Batman begins' is also a must watch. Main kya kya dekhungi!! Plus the motivation to work is seriously lacking these days. Maybe Im celebrating or rather mourning the passing of half of 2K5 so soon. Time really flies these days!!

And hey I was listening to the songs of Swades and wow the music really rocks!! My pa used to call ARR "the tin ka dabba man" in his initial days. But ARR doesnt stop surprising you everytime!! He has used such a variety of instruments!! Song 'aahista' has beautiful santoor pieces, Ye jo des has shehnai, and Pal pal has beautiful flute work. Too good!! and Vividh bharati uses the shehnai piece for its announcements. I came to know only now. I have lots to say about vividh bharati but i guess that demands a totally new blog for itself. This cassette was a gift and was a really good gift :-D.

Bye for now finally :-D

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Bad food, worser mess staff, rains at last, bursts of work, bursts of boredom- thats what has been happening with me these days. So nothing much to key in today.

Hey but Im looking forward to seeing Parineeta. It will be a serious story so Im a bit sceptical about watching it but dekhte hain and I saw the first half of Finding Neverland on Star movies today. Had to miss the later half as others in the common room were not too keen on watching it. I liked the part I saw. Hope I can catch the rest of it sometime soon.

Tata now.

Sunil Dutt

One really sad news was the passing away of Sunil Dutt. OK I agree many good people are lost to the world unknown to the major mass and we mourn Sunil Dutt because he was famous so we knew about him. But then he also showed that being famous can be utilised for a better cause.
I have grown up as a kid on the movies shown in DD. One of the memorable movies was Mera Sayaa. I have watched it as many times as it was shown on TV. Sunil Dutt is so devoted to his wife in that movie. I wish my hubby also wont sign up for shaadi.com as soon as I pass away :-D
I was hooked to aaj tak, star news and ndtv that day and followed the whole coverage. Like I said earlier I was utterly-deliciously-jobless those days :-D. The huge crowd which had gathered for the funeral was such a tribute to the man! Come on everybody has a news channel to watch these days. Why would anybody be a part of that huge mass in this heat if they didnt feel anything for him! Doesnt it feel good to know that so many people will remember him and prayed for him that day! Hope atleast a bunch of people miss me when I go :-D Abhi bahut door ki baat hai :-D Till then Ill try to make the bunch as large as possible (not the sunil dutt-way but kuch na kuch to kar hi loongi :-) )
By the way, star news coverage was awful. I wish the ekta kapoor scriptwriters stay away from the news people. There was so much senti on screen that it literally made me cry although for a different reason. Another chatpati piece on screen was to see both Salman and Vivek Oberoi give a shoulder to the body. Ofcourse there was a scapegoat in between to separate them. I was expecting fireworks on screen anytime :-D.

Me back!

Im back after a looooooooong vacation :-D. I did exactly what I said I'll do before I left - ate-slept-watched tv :-D Ahhh! the bliss of doing nothing!! :-D
I watched Bunty and Babli. But I must say the movie was a let down. I didn't enjoy it to the extent I expected. Jokes were good. Movie improved a lot after Big B came on screen. But still parts of the movie were so jarring. I was actually looking at my watch which I have never done even in Main Hoon Na. But then that was a different thing altogether :-D. Rani looked awesome as usual and Abhishek also looked cool. Good performances from both of them. But still there was something lacking in the movie :-( The most jarring parts were the songs which were totally unnecessary- Nach balliye and the Ash item number. Putting in Ash doesnt buoy up the movie in any way. So overall the regret remains ki mere paise barbaad huye :-(

Hey a yash raj movie called salaam namaste starring saif and preity will be released around august it seems. Im looking forward to that too! :-D

This vacation I also saw the song Wo lamhe and Mahi ve ( faakhir) n^n number of times on TV. Both of them are really good songs though my bro says I watch Mahi ve mainly for faakhir :P Believe me I like the song more :-D Then, I saw Lion King on Disney. Mast tha! I actually saw it twice :-D
I also went to the beach with the family and had a blast there with my sibs :-D. The previous night had been a full moon night. So the tides were pretty high. Mom next day was shocked to see the tons of sand dropping from our dresses :-D Talk about illegal sand ferrying!! :-D U know it was so nice to see so many familes and kids back there on the beach in deep waters even after tsunami. Marina has returned to its normal state :-D
So after all the pampering and cosseting at home, Im back here :-D
Back with a fresh enthu! Dekhte hain kya gul khilaati hun ab !! :-D