Let The Right One In..Contd.....

One of the best movies i've seen this year. I am slightly disappointed with the way it ended but again i am not sure how else it could end too so i guess i have no right to complain. Coming to the story , its about a 12 year old shy, loner boy who befriends a 12 year old girl who moves with her father to next door, only problem is that the girl is actually a vampire and no its not your typical vampire movie, it has its share of murders, blood sucking and gore but after watching the movie nothing registers except the sweet relationship between the kids. Its like a John Huges sugar candy movie with a dark background.So, yaa its a sweet Vampire story and there is nothing sweet about the things that happen around these kids the sweetness is just between the kids. The kids are awesome, especially the girl.
The movie is based on a book but not all the contents of the book are taken. The book is more dark and gore. FOr example, the old guy who stays with the girl is shown as a caring person for the girl but he is patroyed as a pedophile in the book and the movie has a backstory about the vampire actually being a boy who has been castrated 100 years back. Though there are subtle references to the second part, the pedophile part is completely eliminated and rightly so giving the movie the right feel. If added all these parts will take the movie into a completely different genre which is a blasphemy to what it is right now.
In my last blog, i suggested people can wait for the american remake but guys i don't think thats a good idea now for one its being directed by Matt Reeves whose last film was 'Cloverfield' which was a good movie in its style but basing on that movie i am not sure he has the sensibilities to make this movie, moreover, it is said that the movie will be based on the book rather than on the swedish movie and that makes me even more skeptical. The swedish movie right now is too perfect to be tamperered and even a slight change to it can make the movie a completely different one , the one without a soul. So guys, try to catch the film now itself and if you could'nt then pray that Reeves should pull out a miracle.

slumdog-II

I will be posting videos about slumdog millioniare as i keep find them and i guess i will keep finding them till i stop looking for them ,i.e, till i watch the movie :)

Let the right one in

Just watched this beautiful film, its a swedish film so had to rely on subtitles. Its a vampire story but totally different than any other vampire movie seen till now. Instead of the typical patroyal of vampires are scary beasts which feed on blood, the films makes us empathize with the vampires reminded me of one other movie 'Interview with the vampire' though both have nothing in common they both show vampires in a different light. A must watch!!! If at all you couldn't get hold of it due to the limited release you can always wait for the remake hit the screens sometime around end of next year but i am not sure if it would be as good as this one.

slumdog millionare

Everybody has been raving about this movie, i have been following the updates from a month now eagerly waiting for its release at last its releasing this weekend but all that enthu went into drain when i didnot find any screenings of the movie in houston , but again after some more research i found that there are some free shows all over the country and in houston its this tuesday nov 18th at 7:30 .. amar and mike get ready its only for the first 200 ppl so we better go there early. People interested to watch this movie check out when its releasing at your place at: "OC ga slumdog chuseyyandi"

and for ppl who don't have idea what this movie is about hit the youtube and check out its trailors. Its from Danny Boyle the man who directed Transpoitting and if that doesn't ring a bell well check youtube.

One small clip for the enthusiasts: (reminded me of the opening scene from city of god only this time we have rehman in the background :) )

My Encounters with the Coens

Well i am talking about the Coen Brothers, actually i saw Burn After Reading yesterday , loved it, i guess i can easily give it a second viewing right now without feeling bored and that made me think are my movie tastes changing??? This movie never interested me before , it has so many A list actors but still i was not interested till now fact being i am not a big fan of Coen cinema til now. My first 'Coen' movie was 'Fargo' which i watched like i don't know around 8-10 years back i guess, that was the time when all i know about Hollywood was Bond, Rambo, Terminator and Aliens , that was the time i thought Arnold Schwarzenegger was a great actor ( no offense) , Terminator 2 and Rambo first blood are the best movies ever made, Independence Day is a masterpiece... i guess now you have a clear idea about my approach towards cinema those days and obviously i hated Fargo, i mean the hero is a pregnant women , no good action sequences nothing i could never figure out how on earth this movie is such a rage and by know you should have realized i din't have the 'maturity' to look who is the director , who are the actors and details about any movie i watch so i don't know who are these Coens (actually i never heard about them till 'No Country for Old Men' :) i know i know i am just hopeless ) , so now where are we yaa 'Fargo' i hated it, my next encounter was 'Hudsucker Proxy' .. hmm didnot hate it .. enjoied it in parts i guess.. i still remember the scene when the fatso suddenly gets on the conference table and starts running and jumps out of the window and of course Jeniffer Jason Leigh.. well i like her... to be more specific her assets .. never looked beyond those to every think about her acting and this movie for the first time i did watch her beyond that and she was not that bad .. This was the time i saw 'shawshank redemption' so i picked up this movie just seeing 'tim robbins on the cover of the dvd no idea of the director still ... then it was 'ladykillers'.. picked it up for TomHanks and just hated it period and then was 'intolerable cruelty' which i watched for .. u know Catherine zeta jones , didnot like the movie but enjoyed watched her so paisa vasool and then came 'No Country for old men' .. i was completely bowled over , love every moment/frame of it and this is when Coens arrived for me but still i was not aware of their other movies and came 'superbad'... ok ok i know superbad is not from Coen brothers i am just talking about a scene/dialogue in this movie when jonah hill is talking about his porn website subscriptions and says to Micheal Cera who looks for good story in a porn movie that he is sorry that Coen brothers donot direct these movies and that day i opened imdb to look for other movies that they directed and was pleasantly surprised when none of them are the ones i liked and was bit more surprised when all those movies are considered to be very good (esp. Fargo) and i decided Coens are not for me , except for the occasional No Country for old men i should stay away from them and when Burn after reading opened in theatres i decided to stay away from it and after reading the reviews that this was not 'as good as' fargo i was sure i will hate it but i was pleasanty surprised when i saw it yesterday everybody were awesome , story was simple , comedy was subtle and i was never bored John Malkovich , tilda swanson being their usual self , Clooney's secret project and ofcourse the icing of the cake Brad pitt, he was just awesome
"Pitt, who plays a particularly unintelligent character in Burn After Reading, said of his role, "After reading the part, which they said was hand-written for myself, I was not sure if I should be flattered or insulted.""
"Pitt also said when he was shown the script, he told the Coens he did not know how to play the part because the character was such an idiot: "There was a pause and then Joel goes...'You'll be fine.'" (lifted from wikipedia)

Looks like my movie tastes are changing.. may be i will like Fargo if i watch it now...i guess.....

Back in Action!!!!

I am seriously thinking of reviving my blog and this time mostly i will strictly write on movies , not that i have written on anything else before :) , but this time its going to be completely on movies that reminds me that long long back i guess few years when somebody has commented on my one of the posts that i should change my blog name to Movie thoughts or something as its anyway always about movies.. well i might as well do that but again who knows may be once in a while i feel like writing about something else too so i will keep the name as RandomThoughts. So guys & gals, help me in this endeavor.. keep reading , commenting , cursing and encouraging

Shraddhanjali…

It is with immense grief and sadness that we announce the untimely deaths of two of our friends and colleagues; Kiran Kumar Allam and Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma.

We are outraged by the blatant violence that has brought an end to such precious lives and condemn it. As expatriates, we know how friends become family in this land away from home. And it is this family that we turn to in our hour of need.

We would take this opportunity to thank the community, faculty and students who attended the memorial service and acted as a show of strength for the families of Chandrashekhar and Kiran. Many offers of help were made and we hope we will be able to assist the families both financially and emotionally.

As part of our small but significant Indian community here in the USA, we ask you to extend your heartfelt support to the bereaved families of these two young men in these trying times. As a first step, LSU has established a support fund for the families of the victims. We urge you to donate generously. Those wishing to donate to the "Komma & Allam Support Fund" can do so online by visiting https://www.lsufoundation.org and scrolling down For the Benefit of:" select "Komma and Allam Support Fund." or send checks, made payable to LSU Foundation, to 3838 West Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.

We would appreciate it if this information could be communicated across the country and that the Indian community in the US would stand as a united front with the families.

If you wish to support the families by way of donating services, please let us know. Our contact information is listed on the website. Or you can email us at isa@lsu.edu.

No Smoking!!!!!

Ppl plz watch it... i am dying to discuss abt this movie with some one... I have just one word for it... 'mind blowing'.... i mean literally... there will be very few movies like this.. which makes absolutely no sense as long as u watch it but strangely makes you sit through the entire movie without feeling an iota of boredom and keeps haunting you for hrs after watching it making you think about it and may be you will end up having your own version of the movie which will be changing every time you watch it... This movie is strictly for ppl who enjoy movies. This is not for entertainment. I mean , if having a good time means just being able to leave all your tensions behind and enjoy a feel good experience for some time then this is not for you. If it includes taking you on a ride for varied emotions and leaving you with a strange calm satisfying feeling then this is for you. Ppl who have seen it and think its interesting do let me know what you understood from the movie i am eager to to know that.. and ppl who think this is the crappiest movie of all times don't bother you are not wrong too this is just not your kind of movie. BTW , after saying so much if you ask me if I understood teh movie completely .. well my answer is both yes and no . I just understand 'my version' of the movie and i am dying to add things to 'my version' after listening to 'your version' and watching it again.

jhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!!!!

new post after 7 months ahhh.. quite a long time... and ppl who know me will obviously know what this post is goin to be about.. as expected movies... Happenend to watch Jhoom Barabar Jhoom yesterday after watching it.. i felt review no critic has given the movie its due... i mean i have read teh reviews.. i expected the film to be bad... but i was surprised this is the first time a move fell below expections when i dint even have any expectations in the first place. I mean even quoting this movie to be 'worst' or 'crap' is also not enuf... i mean those words are too good for the movie Everybody was talking about the non-existence of any kind of story in the movie but why dint anybody talk abt the crappiest screenplay and direction of all times... But one thing is for sure , this movie has made history.... i'll tell u how..... Big B is more than a actor now.. hez more than a star.. hez an icon.. he has the charisma to take a crapiest movie and make it watchable . One thing is for sure he never lets u down... just his sheer presence in the movie is enuf.... but Shaad Ali has achieved the impossible.. He tried it in Bunty Aur Babli and he was partly successful but in this movie he has done it.. for teh first time of history of indian cinema you can't help but to hate Amitabh... everytime he comes on the screen he feel like tearing the screen , find a way to into the movie and slap him and kick him out u will just plainly hate him.... in bunty aur babli too he was bit boring but this movie he has achieved it to the fullest extent and the full credit goes to Shaad Ali. Only person who got something to do in this movie i thought was Lara Dutta , though a pretty small role atleast it has shades .. both of them interesting.. the french accent was good felt authentic.. and the tapori language was good enuf somehting i never expected she could carry off but she did.. if u say BigB became a jack ass acting in this movie.. i donno what i can say abt Bobby Deol well he needed a hit badly and yash raj film offer is irresestible but i dint know he was this desperate .. First half he was overacting.. well that is understandable but second half .. i donno what made him accept this spineless side kick role... First of all the hero character itself is boring and to be a side kick to a boring character he just made a caricature of himself and his hairstyle...ufff mindblowing .. as if threads of some brown hair definetly not human hair has been stuck to his scalp haphazardly..... I hope Yash Raj gives one more movie to him for the sacrifice he has done for this movie and the main hero and heroine.. well there is nothing to talk abt. This movie is perfectly fit to be done with the background of mumbai subway and suburbs.. they forcefully introduced London into it.. i mean everyone around , place they live everything is again indian suburbs of London so whats the point of doin it in London.. even at the train station all the shopkeepers are indian and the dance competition in the end which is the most horrible part of the movie is like some recording dance show rather than a competition. Add they have done this movie with background of mumbai , this could have been the least budgetted venture for yashraj. Only saving grace for this movie is the big poster of CHIRANJEEVI from Stalin in the background in the final scenes of the movie. That is the only scene when i could sense a change of expresssion on my face from a awestruck blank expression to a smile luckily i am a fanatic fan of Chiru and for ppl who r not and watched this movie... i hope they r alrite... god save their souls!!!!

Taggedddddddd!!!!!!!!

I've been tagged.. well took me a while to understand what it means.. Prathyusha this post is for you..for making the effort to 'tag' me.. looks like my non-filmi post after sooooooo many filmi posts ..... now here we go...

9 Favorites:

Favorite Season: Nothing .. like everything.. every season is good and bad for some or other reason..
Favorite Sport: Cricket or Raquet ball.. hmmm cannot make up my mind on one.....
Favorite Time: 6:00-7:00 ( will be playing raquet ball or eatin something at this time ).
Favorite Month: End of Nov and Dec (Holidays time.. thanksgiving , christmas and new yr).
Favorite Singers: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , KK , Shankar Mahadevan , Shreya Ghosal , AR Rehman.
Favorite Ice Cream: Anything n Everything.
Favorite Food: Indian, Thai, Chinese, Italian….the list goes on.
Favorite Drink: Water.
Favorite Place: Visakhapatnam.

9 Currents:

Current Feeling: 1 more hr to go before i pack up and go home.
Current O/S: Windows XP.
Current Windows Open: Gmail, Orkut , Meebo , Google,
Current Drink: Water.
Current Time: 16:45 PM.
Current Mobile(s) Used:Nokia 6620.
Current Show on TV: God knows no TV around .
Current Thought: Too lazy to work for the day...
Current Cloths: The Usual.

9 Firsts:

First Nickname: Street Hawk (not the obvious reason)
First Kiss: ************************************.
First Crush: I think in school but dont remember who.
First Computer: Samsung Hardisk and KeyBoard , LG monitor , Mercury MotherBoard , Intel Processor .. the best of all brands...
First Vehicle I drove: BSA-SLR.
First Job: Data Entry Job in LSU .
First Movie I watched: Ten Commandments or Veta (dont remember exactly)
First Pet: sorry no pets.
First Shave: dont remember year must be 1999

7 Lasts:

Last Chai (Tea) : A week back with pakodis ( Tea by Maama , Pakodis by Sharbari).
Last Movie: 4 weddings and a funeral.(worth a watch 10 yrs back not now.. definetly not now..)
Last Time I Drove: 3 hrs back for Lunch..
Last Time Shaved: Today Morning.
Last Web Site Visited: Gmail
Last Software Installed: ITunes ( for updating my Ipod)
Last Pill I Had: Long Long Back.. should be crocin


6 Have You Evers:

Have You Ever Broken the Law: All the time..make it a point to skip a red once a week atleast.
Have You Ever Been Drunk: hmmm…drunk.. Yes.. wasted .. No.
Have You Ever Climbed a Tree: zillion times.
Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn't Know: Nope
Have You Ever Been in the Middle/Close to Gunfire or Bomb Blast: Gun fire.. yes fired a beretta and M16 myself at a Shooting Range
Have You Ever Broken Anyone’s Heart: hehehe, good question..

5 Things:

Things You Can Hear Right Now: Tu hi Mera Shab Hai (Gangster) from my ipod... too loud to hear anything else...
Things on Your Computer Table: An extra monitor, a phone , loads of papers and computer glasses which i seldom use and a bottle of water.
Things on Your Bed: A pillow and a blanket
Things You Ate Today: Cornflakes , chinese buffet so lots of unknown stuff..
Things in Mind: 45 min more to go........

4 Places You Have Been Today:

Home
Office
Chinese Inn

2 Choices

Black or White: Black.
Hot or Cold: Hot.

1 Thing You Want To Do Before You Die:

What ever i do or not do ..but should be content and with no regrets when i die..

Now my turn to tag…..

well i donno.. ppl who read this post.. u r totally jobless like me so u r tagged start blogging best passtime for u...

Deja' Vuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Last friday , i was catching up with 'The Departed' and before the film there was a trailor of Denzyl's 'Deja Vu'... at the end of trailor i was left with a 'Deja Vu' feeling.. thats becoz of the background score in the trailor .. i felt i heard that somewhere before... and i was right.. we can hear the same score in the climax sequence of 'SAW' .. The pefect climax to a gory movie with a perfect , haunting music score which sends chills to ur spine.. now if the ppl of Deja Vu wanted the audience to have this 'deja vu' feeling by having the same score well... they did it.. but if that was not the intension.. well then what can i say, they have really good taste .... i donno if that score was original for SAW or not but i remember it only from that movie!!!!

The Departed.....

Jack Nicholson , Martin Sheen , Leonardo Di Caprio , Matt Damon , Mark Wahlberg , Alec Baldwin in the hands of the gr8 Martin Scorsese and the story line is taken from one wonderful hong kong movie..well this is destined to be a blockbuster and it is. Everybody was gr8 in the movie especially Jack Nicholson.. its his movie , he was awesome in every frame he was in. The only problem here was Martin Scorsese. This story could have been wonderfully told in 2 hrs but then Martin doesnt make short movies.. thats not his mark so he has to strech it and this is the major drawback.. i still cannot understand what Mark Wahlberg was doing in this movie , his character is not there in the original hong kong version and his character just adds loopholes to the script and ofcourse some masala dialogues. The original movie 'Infernal Affairs' was pretty slow but u wont get bored .. not even for a sec.. it holds your interest from the first frame to last frame..and 'the departed' well it keep on tries to hold the audience attention from first to last and even at the last frame its still trying..ppl who hasn't watched the original may find the movie interesting in the last 15 min but those scenes were just carbon copy of the original (except for the climax). It was heart breaking to see even Martin Scorsese was trying to play safe by adding crude dialogues which try to be witty and does achieve that once or twice and the climax the worst part of the movie.. Actually, Martin didnot get the main theme of the movie.. The original version was always about the phychological battle of the characters played by Matt Damon and Leonardo but here its more about Jack Nicholson character .... he should have taken a look at the original atleast once more before starting this movie...The basic plot may be the same but the story is entirely different and this version is just ridiculous

For me this movie is a big let down..it will be for everyone who saw the original ..so guys if u could find the original 'infernal affairs' watch it.. if not well u can go ahead for this movie... But again this is my opinion.. i found goodfellas just okay and am still trying to figure out why is 'taxi driver' such a big hit (Robert Di nero was gr8 in the movie but not the movie as a whole)..

Never say Bye!!!

I am impressed. I did not like the movie but I am impressed. KANK is good. I have read mixed reviews on the movie. To all ppl who felt this movie sucks I just want to ask to one question. What did u expect?

Karan Johar movies are long 3 and ½ hrs is what we should expect.

His movies have long sugar coated dialogues which are not used in real life. Come on, No one will use the dialogues like "never say goodbye, it kills the hope of meeting again" to someone whom you just met.

Karan Johar is a businessman… he sells dreams, his movies are about grandeur, wealth, love etc , every character in his movie is 'sweet' , some of them may be a bit dumb but they are always sweet. This movie is no different. It has amazing star cast , everybody is rich , it has some good sweet dialogues and everything which a Karan Johar movie has and of course, it will be a hit. Karan made sure of this in every possible way.

As for me I have never been a fan of his movies and obviously I did not like it but the main thing that I am impressed about is the characterization of his lead character. For the first time, one of his characters is not 'sweet'. The main protagonist, Sharukh Khan is not sweet. He is not his typical hero and I think that is a great risk taken but he is successful in covering that up. He roped in a huge supported cast to cover it up. Abhishek the current heartthrob to be his chocolate hero and as usual he delivers what is expected no wonder everyone is talking about him and well that's what he wanted people to talk about and he has Amitabh to add few lighter moments and of course the chemistry between the father and son and then the final cover up , the climax of the movie a happy ending, I still did not understand if a the character of Rani could not be happy with a character like Abhishek how could she 'live happily ever after' with a character played by Sharukh. But hey the movie does not discuss about this. I never expected a person like Karan to create such a character to Sharukh and be able to pull it off but he did it and I am impressed about that.

One thing I did not like in this movie is the narrating style , half the time it runs like a story narrated by Sharukh and half the time it is like happening in front of our eyes and I find it very confusing but I don't think anybody is talking about that either so all I can say is this movie will be a hit.

My first bullet....

I don't know who first got this idea but some 3 weeks back we started looking for rifle shooting alleys in my place and we found a place.... well i was pretty sure this will be more like a baloon shooting alley.. with air guns and iron pellets , it took us 2 weeks to make time to check out this place , the first question i asked my frnds (who have reached there a bit early) when i reached there was "Enit Bomma gunlee kada" but to my astonishment they are posing with real guns.. there are around 10-15 varieties of guns ranging form berettas to AK 47 , M 16s to choose from ... i rented a beretta and a pack of 50 slugs and went into the alley with ear plugs and gogs on....as we entered ... everybody was excited and afraid at the same time... we were the only ppl there... and we have a real gun with real ammo... and as soon we entered we selected our lane , fixed our target and placed it at the farthest possible end and on the other side others started loading the gun... they loaded 10 slugs and i had the loaded gun , no one asked to go first not even me and some how the gun was in my hand... i went to the lane removed the safety lock , loaded the bullet and now i need to pull the trigger and there was pin drop silence ...... How will the recoil be? Can i handle the recoil ? what about the back fire..... am i going to pull a muscle or two becoz of the recoil? how is the shot goin to sound? will I be able to hear the bullet whistle thru? ... these are say few of the millions of questions popping up in my hand...and somehow i managed to pull the trigger...there was a huge boom... a flash of fire in front of the barrel and the empty shell flew back and fell on the ground.. again a pin drop silence for few secs there and i slowly turned back to my frnds and i still cannot figure what i was feelin then firing my first shot..... and after that it was only excitement around... i completed my 10 shots , then all by frnds had their turns and i was the only person who didnot get even a single shot on the target but that is a different story!!!!!!

This is what IT does to ppl....

This is sent by a frnd .... enjoied it... felt its worth a place in my blog....
"Two IT guys were chatting in a pub after work. "Guess what, mate," says
the first IT guy, "yesterday, I met this gorgeous blonde girl in a bar."
"What did you do?" says the other IT guy.
"Well, I invited her over to my place, we had a couple of drinks, we got
into the mood and then she suddenly asked me to make her feel special"
"You're kidding me!" says the second IT guy.
"I then I lifted her and put her on my desk next to my new laptop."
"Really? You got a new laptop? What configuration?"
"It's a 1 GB RAM and mobile internet connectivity card and............"

The story behind MI3

One fine day , Tom Cruise got up and suddenly he felt something was wrong.... so he started thinking what he did for the last few years .... he didnot have a hit for the past 2 years , people were talking about him more because of his punching in air and ground and fighting with oprah in the oprah winfrey show... people were slowly forgettin that he can act too... and so he decided to do something what every actor did in ages whenever his career went down. Do a sequel!! this is what
schwarzenegger did just before jumping into politics ( he came up with Terminator 3!).... The idea here is simple , you should start shooting as soon as possible , story can be written as we shoot , its ok if we don't have a story all we need it publicity and the name gives what we wnat "Mission Impossible 3" .... its just that name made millions of people like me to wait for its release and tom got all he wanted .. people started talking about his work ...his movie again... and hez back... now he didnot have a story so he was not lucky to get a good director and he had to adjust with Jeffrey Abrams. Even in MI2 , the story was just like a typical balayya's movie (infact balayya was pretty much inspired by this movie and made 'Vijayendra Varma' )... the only thing that saved this movie was John Woo and his stunts...... and now even John Woo was also missing.... so now no story , no stunts... so he had to play safe...so just like a typical Bollywood/Tollywood masala movie.. he tried to incorporate everything into it.. love , sentiment , comedy and some action here and there... the only problem is HOllywood guys are not as capable as our directors to incorporate everything into a single movie and the result was a disaster to the core ... MI3 . The whole story was based on something called 'Rabit's foot' and even after seeing that movie iam referring to it as something becoz even the writer/director also didnot know what it is ... so they won't tell us. Action .. well there is one good but very small episode on the Chesapeake Bay Brige was good... well that's the only one worth watching.... love... oh we have loads of it for the first 1/2 hr.... and sentiment ... well i cannot go ahead before describing a scene.... the epitome of senti.... Tom goes into a building to get the so called 'Rabbit's foot' ... now that building has pretty good security so I was expecting some heart poundin action sequences instead ... we see Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Maggie Q waitin for Tom... Maggie closes her eyes and started chanting some prayers and Meyers asks her what she was doin... the answer was simple 'praying' but hey we need to add some senti here so Maggie says somehting like this: ' When i was a kid i had a cat and it used to run away and i used to pray for her to come back and now i am praying for ethan' ....thats it i was in a sense of shock...by the time i could recover Meyers replies ' Teach me that prayer' and thats it i don't remember what happened in the next 15 min after that.... there are lot more senti dialogues and episodes.... so if you like mindless sentiments and want to see the most wierd love story... this is the movie for you.... and afterwards don't blame for for not warning you!!!!

I Hate................

Things i Hate in my day to day life:

• Waking up early in the morning...i have been getting up every weekday at 8 since 2 months and i am still not used to it....
• Eating the same breakfast every day....CORNFLAKES...god this is one time of day I really miss India
• FM crooning my fave song just when i am about to get out of my car
• Listening to Kidd Kraddick 's banter (Radio show host) every day on my way to work
• Folding my clothes after washing them....as i wash clothes once in a month i will have a biiiiiiiig lot .....amma!!!! i miss u
• Cleaning the kitchen after cooking
• Lunch time!!! god knows how much time I spend deciding where to eat each and every day....
• And ofcourse , Friday afternoons at work.....
  

Be a student for life!!!!

.....I am at the verge of jumping into the next phase of life......the ever menacing job life....After my BE , most of my frnds decided to start working....everybody was 'fedup' with studying (as if they studied their ass out till then) but i was sane enough to not to take that stupid decision....job gives freedom thats what everyone feel but in reality except a small amount of monetary freedom all you get is a big burden with a great name 'responsibility'....u have to be responsible of yourself....your family....suddenly parents start treating you like a big boy...come on you will be asked opinions on lots of issues....suddenly your opinion starts to count..this seems to be fun first and by the time you get to know what you are getting into you are completed sucked into this web of responsibility..... i was 'mature' enough to understand this so i decided that i will study.....so off i came to US to do MS...but one thing i couldnot understand then was that i cannot hide the fact that iam old enough and so responsibilities started creeping in....had to work ,take care of my finances , had to take care of myself....then i started regretting...... why the hell did i take this decision to study more...any way i had to take up all these responsibilities so the main purpose of me comin to US is not fulfilled........but now at this point when i am entering his new phase of my life....i came to know one thing....I under estimated the wrath of responsibility...i am just an intern now.....not even working full time and i already started hating my day to day life.......guys!!! no matter how worse things are in your student life they are always a hell lot better than any other phase of your life....so just try to stay as a student as long as poss.....one gr8 reason to study a lot.......

Rang Barse...........

Its Holi time...i suddenly remembered it holi when i saw wishes pouring through emails and offlines....but i am not sure (even today) on which day it really is...well i got emails on 14th and 15th so i dont know exactly which day it is......neways...we i saw these all i could do is to think about my old memories....my Holi during B.Tech....roaming all over the city with colors and ending up in beach...and ofcourse the last yr holi...my first in US...the most muddiest holi of my life....uff!! it started with colors then it went to eggs and ketchup and then it went to mud....i never played such 'mass' holi back in india.....thats what i remembered ... good old days!!....on the 15th.... Ram's (a good frnd of mine) defense is done....hez just crossed the final hurdle between him and his MS degree.....and god everyone was elated....and at that moment we decided to celebrate the occasion....and what could the best way .....its holi....i donno if its the wrong day according to the calender but for us..that was the best occasion.....so started our search for the colors....had to go to all the indian stores for that and at last we got a few packets.....by the time everyone was free it was around 6:30 pm...and then we started playing...my first after dark holi...we had a gr8 time....we had colors , water and of course mud...

I'm back!!!

Phew!!! has been a while since my last post...well things were a bit hectic 2 weeks...these days its like running the whole day , waking up in the morning...running to office hammering my brain till evening..goin home a quick bite and off to lab....coming back if i have even a peck of energy left...iam off to Rec..play for an hour at the most wierd times...around 10-11 ...haing a bath , havin dinner , watchin a movie and then sleepin around 2....this has been my schedule for the last week and still there is hell lot to be done ... its friday today so a bit relaxing...and weekend hah!!! i can relax a bit more....and guess what if everything goes as planned i may go on a boat ride on monday....actually its more than a boat ride...it falls between a cruize and a boat... a 6 hrs ride on the gulf of mexico well people are goin to do some research and stuff and iam goin with them to have a good time...