I recently took a complete u-turn professionally. All my life, I have steered clear of journalism, simply because, well.. I don’t like writing too much. I have never been able to keep a diary and was definitely the last person around to explore the realms of blogging.
But well, now I am a journalist, in ever sense of the words. I write, report, sub copies ( never said I was good at ant of the above) but the thing which bothers me is that I really enjoy what I do!
Not that it is a bad thing to enjoy work; it’s just that, I have lately begun to question myself if I really know what I want to do in life. Do I know my priorities? Do any of us? A very senior member of the editorial team keeps lamenting that he nothing to show for in his life. Blessed with a good amount of talent and a decently high position, for most people this would seem like a typical case of ‘life is made’ but that’s just the outside. Doubts, more doubts and this stupid nagging lil voice gnaws him (I am sure more often than once) and I am so afraid, 20 years down the line, I will feel the same.
Infact, I am sure. I have this theory that if by 21 you don’t know what you want in life, you will never know. Seriously, you end up studying every subject in school you do your graduation, your post-graduation and then after a point you just stele into anything. After school, I was always so happy that I chose the ‘road less traveled’ – media and design. While I could have prob got into any engineering college or atleast a decent law school but I choose to study the flexible- media. I wish I had not, with a plethora of options in front of me, I dunno what I want to do and what’s worse, I suddenly feel I could have so conveniently stepped into the path laid out for me but an engineering college.
Of course, what takes the cake is the fact that most people assume I am on the road to success ( just like my boss). I have a decent job, good college scores and generally a happy life. But, But But , Am I happy ? I don’t know, Am I doing what I want to do in life? I don’t know . The problem is, I think life has two options open to you
a) You touch peoples lives, make a difference and come out with decent work but make a pittance
b) You are another face in the crowd, you work your backside off as an anymayus work but really rake in the moolah.
The problem is, I want both! I want the routine and easiness of a corporate job, a plush office , standard work-timings and lots of money but at the same time want my flexibility, to be able to have my say and take a stand? Am I asking for too much? Well, apparently it is….
So who will be 15 years from now? A revolutionary with no money or just another face in the crowd who lives oblivious to the surroundings. Time will tell.. But the fact is .. I still dunno who I want to be… Do you?
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
Aaja ‘Nene’ Nachle!
Movie: Aaja Nachle
Cast: Madhuri, Madhuri, Madhuri and well others...
Rating: ***1/2
3 things to look out for in Aaja Nachle!
1) Madhuri falls in love with a man called “Steve” (Mc.Curry) – A National Geographic photographer, who specializes in Indian and Asian photography. Wonder what Mc. Curry has to say about this!!!
( Note: For the clueless people, Steve Mc. Curry is the famous NGO photographer, who shot the Afghan girl – the one with the purple dress and soulful blue-green eyes)
2) The scene when Madhuri discusses marriage with her to-be husband , she says
“In India most of us get married just once, Do you understand that ? “ SCORE!!!
3) Vinay Pathak’s- Mash of Zorro act …
Ok I gotta stop, before I give away the entire story …..
What are the three best things about Aaja Nachle? Madhuri Dixit , Madhuri Dixit and well…did I mention Madhuri Dixit? Yes, She IS a 40+ mother of two and NO she doesn’t try to hide it. She is definitely not playing a college-student (which many of our Tamil heroes continue to do at the age of 50+)
While Madhuri’s age shows on her face, it has absolutely no effect what-so-ever on her acting or dancing prowess, which is tremendous!
While, it’s worth watching the movie just to see the “original queen bee’ of Bollywood come back with a bang, there is more … Konkona Sen, Kunal Kapoor, Askhaye Khanna (I tried really hard not to like him, but dayem! I end up falling in love with that balding old man agagin!) And the Channel V duo – Ranvir and Vinay!
Madhuri (Dia) a dance choreographer in NYC (cut to flashback - her falling in love with a ‘Gora’ photographer (Ghosh! We are racist), bringing shame upon the family, the family leaving town etc etc .), comes down to her hometown Shamili because her Guruji (the one who taught her to “Deiance” – don’t miss M’s Umercian accent ..) is on his death bed.
Back in Shamili, she realizes her dance school is going to be razed to the ground and her Guruji’s last wish to preserve his place of worship. How madhuri comes up with a plan to outwit the local politicians, the suave MP , building contractor etc. and puts up a
“Laila-Majnu” play with the well artistically-challenged town folk is what makes the rest of the story.
Predictable fare – yet again! If you have been watching movies day once a month for the last 2-3 years of your life, you can figure out what the story is going to be and how the movie will progress. No surprises there.. No great script-writing either..
But I would definitely say .. Watch Aaja at least once .. be it for the songs, or Madhuri’s dancing or simply because of the fact that, refreshingly the movie has no caricatures – no silly villains thirsting for revenge till the end, no extreme mother-daughter crying and sentiment scenes and no ‘bad people’ trying to ruin the climax .. Phew!!
For all you people who actually sat through Om Shanti Om ( I am not even going to mention the people who actually “loved” the movie) and the ones who thought Saawariya was not all that bad – A must watch!
For all the people who actually thinking of taking dance lessons, go watch Aaja- if Madhuri does not have you at your feet at the end of the movie … then well.. Take lessons anyway.. Someday we might all just be able to dance like her :)
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
After Black it's Blue!
Movie : Saawariya
Cast: Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Ranbir Kapoor
Rating: Rediff / Sify / Indiatimes : *1/2
My rating: ****
After Black, it is Blue!! Sanjay Leela Bhansali really has a penchant for colours ( or the lack of it)! Saawariya for many reason is like an under-water diving experience, there is blue , blue and well still more blue! Underwater you see fauna of different colours but here the cast, extras and even the table linen is blue!
Flashback! ( mine )
With people trashing the movie left, right and center! An incredible amount of negative publicity and the movie being not-so affectionately being nicknames Saawariya – Sethuporiya ( which means will you die, if translated into Tamil). I was prepared for the absolute worst!!
The first hurdle was finding company, for some reason noone shared my enthusiasm to experiment a bit with an ‘insipid movie which is almost monochromatic’ … lol.. I did find two bakras nonetheless, my poor colleagues, one even dragged her husband! The final verdict however was mixed, one colleague liked it, I loved it and the other detested it!
There is and believe me there definitely is a way to enjoy the movie! Keep in mind the
three characteristic which are unique to Saawariya, put all logic aside , sit back, relax and enjoy the visual splendor!
· Serial-lights!! You see serial lights everywhere, on the roads, under the bridge, inside the waste-paper basket, on the road, near the chicken coop and even under Sonam Kapoor’s skirt!!
· A ghost township! My colleague along with half the world had the same doubt! Where the hell is this town? I have another to add to that doubt, why the hell does it look like a bad matt painting (for all those who don’t understand that term , it’s used to describe the digital imagery you see in fantasy movies). There are boats which move on less than foot of water, people who stand around like zombies , 3 feet wide lakes so on and so forth!
· The time frame- At time you feel like we are in the present day world, there are times where u feel like you are hundred years behind but what you constantly feel is that you stuck in a monochromatic world! Don’t try determining the time frame!
· I DON'T LIKES Rani Mukerjee!! GAWD I DETEST HER ANS HER FAKE CHIRPY VOICE DIALOGUES...FRANKLY..GET A LIFE WOMAN… WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU PLAYING THE ‘FALLEN WOMAN’ … now could you please retire after you impending wedding to Adi Chopra?
So do the move make sense? Absolutely not! But it tugs at your heart strings, every scene has been canned with emotion, with love with passion and that shows!! Yes, every single frame has been tireless made to look visually splendid … and yet.. the same detail hasn’t been rendered to performance and script.
Saawariya is one of those movies where you take home something with you and one of those things is a absolutely, fantastic, superlative performance by Zora Segal! Her act as lilli-pop itself it worth every bit the Rs.120 ticket! The other is this warm fuzzy feeling, the one who get while hugging you teddy bear . Ranbir Kapoor does look gay but there is a certain sincerity in his performance which melts you.
Contrary to reports “you are NOT assaulted but he music” . The songs are simple, melodious, fabulously choreographed. However what I was pleasantly surprised by is that the songs were all delightfully short, never more than 3 minutes, always leaving us
( atleast me) asking for more.
While Ranbir is a fabulous dancer the same can’t be said about his attempt to act but I am sure he will learn with time, Anyways since when does talent determine success in bollywood ? Sonam on the other hand, is refreshingly un-perfect looking ! I made a few catty comments about hoe she need a lip-job done and a few tweaks on her face but she is an ordinary looking woman well cast in the role, which she plays ..eeeeerrrrrrr. ummmmmmm….. well to the best she can!
The story is a simple innocent boy-meets girl tale. A wandering minstrel falls in love with a fair maiden on a lonely bridge. He falls madly in love with her only to realize she has given away her heart to another man, who she waits for tirelessly. He bowls her over with his charm and exuberance but will she falter ? Will she give up her love for the young man who sweeps her off her feet??? Watch Saawariya to find out !!
If you want a second opinion ( a rather contrasting one at that ) read Neeraja’s blog
(the one who hated it !) http://whatifeel-neeraja.blogspot.com/
P.S. I say watch the movie, leave logic behind and get lost in a mesmerising, monochromatic azure melange’.
Monday, November 12, 2007
ATM - Arruvai Tamil Mokkai !!
Movie: Azhagiya Tamil Magan
Cast: Good Vijay, bad Vijay and dumb blonde’ Shriya
Rating: hahahahahahahahahaah – What’s that agagin ???
Cast: Good Vijay, bad Vijay and dumb blonde’ Shriya
Rating: hahahahahahahahahaah – What’s that agagin ???
ATM stand for Arruvai Tamil Mokkai
My problem really is optimism. After having seen Saawariya and Om Shanti Om, I decided masala works best with a Tamil ‘mass’ hero. Besides, I had seen the worst, so why worry?
Unfortunately I was wrong (yet again!). Vijay’s two worst movies are easily Sivakasi and Sachin, Now for all those you have seen or even heard of these movies.. Extract the mokkai value of both these movies, multiply it by 20 and cube it.. You will get a ball-park figure on how “Kadi” Azhagiya Tamil Magan is !!
The highlight of the movie is definitely his punch line : Pinni pedal yeduthuduvain
(literally translated into : I will plait you and remove your pedal .. and no it does not make sense in the Tamil context either .. so don’t even bother!!! ) But then what the hell.. When have punch dialogues ever made sense? Also the chemistry or lack of it between Vijay and Shriya is worth a deko, especially for men who like to fantasize about women with perfect abs, loads of moolah and ‘kaarpu intact’ chasing them around.
My north Indian friend wanted to know what the hell the movie was named Azhagiya Tamil Magan” – which btw literally translated in “beautiful Tamil son” , when the protagonist Vijay is not by any standards known for his well.. eeerr inherent good looks!! I wait too.. Watching ( almost ) the entire movie .. For that one little clue!!
But naaahhh!!!
I should kick myself for calling Om Shanti Om unbelievable!! If OSO is unbelievable, then ATM is just ridiculous! Two Vijay’s .. one good and one bad ( obviously!!) .. The story is a two-liner… The good Vijay meets and falls in love with Shriya but then develops ESP where he can see the future and in his (ahem!) mind’s eye sees himself killing Shriya. Dejected and afraid, he leaves the city only to see a body double ( who despite being born and brought up in Bombay speaks flawless Tamil with local Chennai accent intact’ ) . It suddenly strikes him that the body double would be the person killing Shriya and hence begins to chase him while the Bad Vijay escapes and reaches Chennai where Shriya mistakes him for the good Vijay !( obviously!!) (Phew!)
In well true Vijay style, the good Vijay (who meets with an accident) runs away from the hospital only to come back to Chennai to rescue his lady-love from the bad Vijay! Well, the torture doesn’t stop there, Shriya (who is as dumb as she looks) has a knack of choosing the wrong Vijay over the right own, until she finally discovers who her true lover is while keeping her ‘kaarpu’ (chastity) as Saakshi (witness) … sigh!!! And we thought those movies went out of vogue in the 80’s…But no the climax doesn’t end there.. Shriya lying wounded in the hospital tells the bad Vijay about how she is not sad that her life is hanging in a balance but is happy that her “kaarpu’ ( sigh!!!!!! Leave the darn thing alone .. will you ) has been saved for her true love.. The bad Vijay who heard her moving Kaapu speech decides to turn over a new leaf while the lovers live happily ever after!
If the movie doesn’t sound bad enough, wait till you are assaulted by A.R Rahman’s music.. and insipid art-direction and third-rate animation!! Of course if you are the type who likes Shriya’s belly-button, well the director has definitely done a lot of justice to showcasing that, just wish he took as much trouble while canning the scenes.
On the whole, ATM is worth 120 rupees of the ticket , if you watching in INOX since the seats are comfortable, but don’t attempt buying the flavorless popcorn for Rs. 40, because the movie is definitely not a cent more!!
P.S I just gave Om Shati Om , four stars after watching ATM
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Oh Shitty Oh!!
Review: Om Shanti Om
Cast: Shah Rukh Kahn, Deepika Padukone, Shreyas Talpade and everyone who is anyone in Bollywood except ice-princess Aishwarya Rai
Rediff / Sify rating: ****
My rating: * ( barely!)
Cast: Shah Rukh Kahn, Deepika Padukone, Shreyas Talpade and everyone who is anyone in Bollywood except ice-princess Aishwarya Rai
Rediff / Sify rating: ****
My rating: * ( barely!)
With more masala than 5 Vijay movies put together, more unbelievable than Rajini’s stunts and a script slimmer than Shilpa Shetty’s waist, the optimist that I am .. I still find five reasons to watch the movie!
5. The Deewanagi song, it’s a visual treat to see all the stars grace the screen together in one frame.
4. Shreyas Talpade!! Sigh!! Now only if he weren’t married!! Superlative performance
( as usual)
3. This is for the men !! Deepika’s legs
She shows a lot of them .. No matter what she wears, you can see them in every second frame !! Don’t expect her acting to be on the same caliber of the legs though! You will be sorely disappointed. Also look out for the song where she romances yesteryear’s stars in a very bad VFX job .. you can totally make out the super-imposition using After Effects & Shake ( yes !! I am showing off here ) but fun nonetheless…
2. So that you can stare in awe at how SRK invested 40 crores of his money in such shit!! And actually expects to make a profit over and above this!! Hahahaha
1. So that we South-Indians will make a fitting reply to anyone who ever dares make fun of a Rajini movie !!
So what exactly was Farah Khan thinking? She supposedly penned the script on Andrew Loyd Webber’s letterhead when she on a holiday . I can see why! The entire script won’t take more than half a letterhead and definitely had to be written when one was high!!
Watching Om Shanti Om, you can actually count the good moments!!
The movie opens up with a extremely plastic, artificial looking film set of Shubash Ghai’s Karz and yes it’s a delight to watch Rishi Kapoor roller-blading to the yesteryear hit tune of Om Shanti Om, in true filmi ishtyle… the Rishi Kapoor metamorphs into SRK himself … and well the dream is cut short … very nice for an introduction scene, but when the entire first half is stretched on a smilar note, you tend to get irritated. Very irritated!!!
Om Prakash Makeja ( Shah Rukh) is a small-time film extra who is insanely in love with super-star , dreamy girl ( good one that !! ) Shantipriya (Deepika padukone) . He is her biggest fan and would without batting an eyelash give up his life for her (yes yes, how original I say !) which predictably Deepika overhears and she hence develops a soft spot for Om. A few rendezvous and a magical date( literally, with much snow and some good special effects ) later, Om to his shock and surprise find out that Deepika is actually married to the rich, ruthless Mukesh ( Arjun Rampal … Oh so hooooooooooottt!!! )… Did actually expect the big star to be in love with him, after a few hi-byes??? Arjun doesn’t want to acknowledge his marriage to her, because he feels her market as a heroine will suffer a downfall! (even more creative this one !! ) Despite being a big star . Deepika still hold the traditional values of Sindhoor ( Yaaaawnn ! ) in high esteem and she forces Arjun to marry her, because she is (Gasp!) carrying his child !!
A furious Arjun tricks her into thinking he loves her ( Note: exceptionally predictable dialogue follows ( vaguely translated into English )
Deepika : You love me !! I am sorry that I didn’t trust you!!
Arjun: You should be sorry that you trusted me !! I am now going to burn you along with this film set!!
Deepika : Nahiiiiiii ( nooooo !!!!) Nahhhhhhhhhiiii !!
This, unfortunately is not a lift from a B-grade gangster movie but the nail-biting suspense which leads us to a much-required interval. Yaaay ! Atleast I have popcorn to keep me company through the rest of the movie! Also, I made the mistake of thinking.. the movie cudn’t get worse, so it would definitely get better !!
Post interval – Cut to 30 years after !
Om Makeja is reborn as superstar ( Om Kapoor) ! Well obviously Shah Rukh is Om Kapoor and the fact that he has the same face as the junior artist who died so many years ago and absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to his father-and mother .. well !! noone bats an eyelid ! What bothered me the most about he second half was Shah Rukh’s cool act! We have seen enough of it ! It was refreshing in DDLJ, it was passable in Kuch Kuch Hota Hain but it is just done to death now !! Pleaseeeeeeee…….. We don’t want to hear more of your fake accent and the swagger just doesn’t suit you at 45+!!
Of course, since SRK is reborn… Deepika is rebon too as “sandy” , a model from banglore ( yaaaaaaaaaay .. sooooo original Farah .. how did you zone on B’lore?)
The rest of the story is about how Om (the reborn one) and Sandy ( who looks exactly like Deepika but has absolutely no relation what so ever to her ! ) get back at Arjun Rampal for killing them!! Sigh!!
This wafer thin story-line is peppered with numerous star-appearance ( I am sure all those stars are thinking their lucky stars , that their involvement with the film was limited to a special appearance) and well more unbelievable stunts !! There are a few moments which are funny , Esp. SRK’s bit as Mohabatman and the mock Filmfare award ceremony but certainly nothing which can make the tortuous 1 hr 18 minute second half more bearable.
You wait till the end for the movie to get sensible, but well.. There is a twist ! The third Deeepika!! I am not going to tell you who that is, so that you can hope for something more original than what occurs… but you will be disappointed!!
As for the music!! Well the pick of the lot - Ajab Si is reduced to something of a background score and Dard-E-Disco makes absolutely no impact whatsoever, unless you fancy old men jumping around with half-naked women dressed in fur and leather!!
On the whole, I would say this is definitely a movie I would send my pesky little sister to, so that she can pay for sins, or better still send a couple of tickets to an ex who you can’t stand. A sure way to make them pay for their sins ..
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
At the beginning with you
At The Beginning
For all those who matter, you know what I am tlaking about, who I am talking about and what I am saying ..Shit! I miss you guys ...
P.S Highlighted all our favoutire lines :)
We were strangers starting out on our journey
Never dreaming what we'd have to go through
Now here we are and I'm suddenly standing
At the beginning with you
No one told me I was going to find you
Unexpected what you did to my heart
When I lost hope
you were there to remind me
This is the start
(chorus)And Life is a road
and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep flowing
Life is a road now and forever
A Wonderful journey
I'll be there when the world stops turning
I'll be there whenthe storm is through
In the end I wanna be standing
At the beginning with you
We were strangers on a crazy adventure
Never dreaming how our dreams would come true
Now here we stand unafraid of the future
At the beginning with you
(chorus)I knew there was somebody somewhere
Like me alone in the dark
I know that my dream will live on
I've been waiting so long
Nothing's gonna tear us apart
(chorus)In the end I wanna be standing at the beginning with you
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
10 NRI habits which PISS ME OFF !
10) Complain about the incessant heat!
After 3 months in the US, you come to India for 3 days and suddenly you can’t deal with the temperature? You friggin lived here for the first 25 years of your life!! Remember?
What is even more pissing off, is that the provincial gulf-returns, from Qwait, Dubai Muscat who complain about the heat? Yeah sure, it’s snowing there in the dessert?
9) The act of surprise!!
Oh wow, you actually get Coke in India? You have a Marks and Spencers? There is KFC here!! Man!! This place has really changed!!
No we are still 350 years behind, we are the land of snake-charmers and elephants , remember ?
8) Their constant need for mineral water!
Believe me, you don’t have to start every sentence with “ Is this water boiled?” remember the times in school and college where u ate off a pushcart, a la’ Kaiyandhi Bhavan? And contrary to your belief, we Indians do not have a penchant for contracting deadly diseases and so (surprise!) we try and drink water, which is safe!
7) The dismay at power-cuts!! Friggin India.. Still so backward!!
Yeah we do have power-cuts, so what now? At least we have safe neighborhoods, which is more than what I can say about your countries! And yeah just for your information, we don’t particularly love power-cuts and black-outs either, and believe me ..it is really not as bad as it was 5 years ago, so just shut up !
6) Their universal proclamation : Indian politics is all shit….. ugh!
You are living in the country where Bush is serving a second term and Arnold Schwarzenegger is a governor!! Really … you shouldn’t be talking!!
5) Their really mixed-up, annoying fashion sense
Yes I understand that you just discovered banana republic and GAP but no I do not understand how you could possibly think that wearing a $100 T-shirt with bright red shorts and teaming it rubber chappals from BATA is ‘cool’!
4) Sudden love towards ‘spiritual enlightenment’
We all know that you are not spiritual, who uou trying to fool now ? You never ever learnt Yoga the figgin 25 years you stayed and it’s not like you religiously hit the temple everyday either ..and suddenly you become foren-return and start preaching bout the benefits of Osho, Ravi Shankar, Yoga and want to make a trip to half a dozen temples to study spiritualism ..
3) The fact that they come back to India looking for a wife
If you so want an American life.. then why not an American wife ?? You have all the fun in the world and then unfailingly come back every year because you want a nice, obedient and yeah HOMELY ( wht the hell does that mean ? )Indian woman!! And then complain about her not being broad-minded and open and bla!! I mean make up your mind .. you want homely or non-homely .. ugh .. whatever !!
2) Health food fad !
Is this low-fat? Is that low-cal ? for heaven’s sake you spent 25 years gorging on oily parathas and eating rasam-sadham dripping with ghee and lapped it all up quite well!
1) THEIR STUPID FAKE ACCENT!
I don’t understand this … you send 25 years In India without acquiring an “indian accent” but you pick up an American accent in just 15 days !! Whats worse is the rare breed of people who pick up Brit-accents after staying in the US , American accents in Dubai ( shouldn’t you be picking up a mallu accent then) and yeah the Whooper … Brit accents after short 2-days official tours to the UK !
Note: the author ( yours truly) doesn’t have anything against NRIs and I really don’t think all of them are that bad, but please if you have made more than 3 out the top 10 listed statements at least 25 + times during your 3-day visit to India, Time to go drown your head in a bucket of cold water :) ( Eeeerrrr.. m not saying what I really wanted to say .. but well ! )
After 3 months in the US, you come to India for 3 days and suddenly you can’t deal with the temperature? You friggin lived here for the first 25 years of your life!! Remember?
What is even more pissing off, is that the provincial gulf-returns, from Qwait, Dubai Muscat who complain about the heat? Yeah sure, it’s snowing there in the dessert?
9) The act of surprise!!
Oh wow, you actually get Coke in India? You have a Marks and Spencers? There is KFC here!! Man!! This place has really changed!!
No we are still 350 years behind, we are the land of snake-charmers and elephants , remember ?
8) Their constant need for mineral water!
Believe me, you don’t have to start every sentence with “ Is this water boiled?” remember the times in school and college where u ate off a pushcart, a la’ Kaiyandhi Bhavan? And contrary to your belief, we Indians do not have a penchant for contracting deadly diseases and so (surprise!) we try and drink water, which is safe!
7) The dismay at power-cuts!! Friggin India.. Still so backward!!
Yeah we do have power-cuts, so what now? At least we have safe neighborhoods, which is more than what I can say about your countries! And yeah just for your information, we don’t particularly love power-cuts and black-outs either, and believe me ..it is really not as bad as it was 5 years ago, so just shut up !
6) Their universal proclamation : Indian politics is all shit….. ugh!
You are living in the country where Bush is serving a second term and Arnold Schwarzenegger is a governor!! Really … you shouldn’t be talking!!
5) Their really mixed-up, annoying fashion sense
Yes I understand that you just discovered banana republic and GAP but no I do not understand how you could possibly think that wearing a $100 T-shirt with bright red shorts and teaming it rubber chappals from BATA is ‘cool’!
4) Sudden love towards ‘spiritual enlightenment’
We all know that you are not spiritual, who uou trying to fool now ? You never ever learnt Yoga the figgin 25 years you stayed and it’s not like you religiously hit the temple everyday either ..and suddenly you become foren-return and start preaching bout the benefits of Osho, Ravi Shankar, Yoga and want to make a trip to half a dozen temples to study spiritualism ..
3) The fact that they come back to India looking for a wife
If you so want an American life.. then why not an American wife ?? You have all the fun in the world and then unfailingly come back every year because you want a nice, obedient and yeah HOMELY ( wht the hell does that mean ? )Indian woman!! And then complain about her not being broad-minded and open and bla!! I mean make up your mind .. you want homely or non-homely .. ugh .. whatever !!
2) Health food fad !
Is this low-fat? Is that low-cal ? for heaven’s sake you spent 25 years gorging on oily parathas and eating rasam-sadham dripping with ghee and lapped it all up quite well!
1) THEIR STUPID FAKE ACCENT!
I don’t understand this … you send 25 years In India without acquiring an “indian accent” but you pick up an American accent in just 15 days !! Whats worse is the rare breed of people who pick up Brit-accents after staying in the US , American accents in Dubai ( shouldn’t you be picking up a mallu accent then) and yeah the Whooper … Brit accents after short 2-days official tours to the UK !
Note: the author ( yours truly) doesn’t have anything against NRIs and I really don’t think all of them are that bad, but please if you have made more than 3 out the top 10 listed statements at least 25 + times during your 3-day visit to India, Time to go drown your head in a bucket of cold water :) ( Eeeerrrr.. m not saying what I really wanted to say .. but well ! )
Sunday, October 21, 2007
10 ways to figure out you have become FAT
10 ways to figure out you are FAT
10) People begin to refer to you as a well ‘normal-size’ as opposed to the previous ‘skinny’ and ‘slim’.
9) Despite sucking your breath in, you still can’t pull your 26-inch levis above your thighs.
8) You prefer ‘smart Indo-western’ wear to the usual ‘jeans and t-shirts’.
7) Fat people say things like “ Lets hit the gym together” or “We should really get into shape”
6) You religiously swap to “DIET COKE” – like it is going to make a difference!
5) You turn your nose up at skinny jeans and leggings even though they are in vogue , because you think – “they look silly”
4) You spend a bomb on a body-sculpting corset and then don’t wear it because it gets uncomfortably tight after lunch.
3) You stop looking into the mirror as often as you used to.
2) You look at old pictures and exclaim loudly “ I was so skinny” , you also stare at other slim women and classify them as ‘anorexic’
1) YOUR GRANDMOTHER FINALLY BEGINS TO APPROVE OF YOUR SIZE AND SAYS – AH! NOW YOU LOOK NICE! ( A sure sign of loads of extra flab)
If you experience even five of the above ten symptoms, it’s well.. Time to hit the gym!
Kaavya Krishna
9) Despite sucking your breath in, you still can’t pull your 26-inch levis above your thighs.
8) You prefer ‘smart Indo-western’ wear to the usual ‘jeans and t-shirts’.
7) Fat people say things like “ Lets hit the gym together” or “We should really get into shape”
6) You religiously swap to “DIET COKE” – like it is going to make a difference!
5) You turn your nose up at skinny jeans and leggings even though they are in vogue , because you think – “they look silly”
4) You spend a bomb on a body-sculpting corset and then don’t wear it because it gets uncomfortably tight after lunch.
3) You stop looking into the mirror as often as you used to.
2) You look at old pictures and exclaim loudly “ I was so skinny” , you also stare at other slim women and classify them as ‘anorexic’
1) YOUR GRANDMOTHER FINALLY BEGINS TO APPROVE OF YOUR SIZE AND SAYS – AH! NOW YOU LOOK NICE! ( A sure sign of loads of extra flab)
If you experience even five of the above ten symptoms, it’s well.. Time to hit the gym!
Kaavya Krishna
Saturday, July 7, 2007
What I learnt from Sivaji!
As a person I have two primary passions : education and cinema !Taking this into consideration , it is really no surprise that my proposed career goal is making cinema a medium of education . All that said , obviously June 15th drew in for me with much excitement , it was the world-wide premiere of Sivaji and being an adrant “Thalaivar” fan I had the privilege of catching the movie.
Well , it being a rajni movie would have definitely been reason enough for mje to go and watch it but it being a “rajni movie which throws light” on education really drew me to watch it. I was fascinated , cheered , whistled and had a great time and Sivaji went back to the back my mind and another issue cropped up .
Why did the Ambanis start an International school and not a free education center?
Today as an very proud Indian, I can tell you one thing – there is only one future for this country and that involves education at the grass-root level, it is only when we all are educated , can read-write and comprehend what is happening around us that we can stop blindly taking shit from a disgusting governance and nod our heads in dismay as we see 30% of our earnings being squandered away to the pockets of our politicians.
For me it would be a very simple idea, if the government does not want to privatize the running of government schools then why can’t corporate open free schools of their own? If they can do it for their staff and employees, then why not for the poor?
Can the Ambanis not afford to open a free school? Or is it that they needed ANOTHER moneymaking venture?? Kinda hard to believe that it is the latter don’t you think?
Coming to think of it, makes a lot of sense, the whole picture after you see Sivaji, maybe Thalaivar’s movies are not just candy-floss, as for the Ambanis .. Shankar are you listening ? Think we just found the subject for your nest movie!
Well , it being a rajni movie would have definitely been reason enough for mje to go and watch it but it being a “rajni movie which throws light” on education really drew me to watch it. I was fascinated , cheered , whistled and had a great time and Sivaji went back to the back my mind and another issue cropped up .
Why did the Ambanis start an International school and not a free education center?
Today as an very proud Indian, I can tell you one thing – there is only one future for this country and that involves education at the grass-root level, it is only when we all are educated , can read-write and comprehend what is happening around us that we can stop blindly taking shit from a disgusting governance and nod our heads in dismay as we see 30% of our earnings being squandered away to the pockets of our politicians.
For me it would be a very simple idea, if the government does not want to privatize the running of government schools then why can’t corporate open free schools of their own? If they can do it for their staff and employees, then why not for the poor?
Can the Ambanis not afford to open a free school? Or is it that they needed ANOTHER moneymaking venture?? Kinda hard to believe that it is the latter don’t you think?
Coming to think of it, makes a lot of sense, the whole picture after you see Sivaji, maybe Thalaivar’s movies are not just candy-floss, as for the Ambanis .. Shankar are you listening ? Think we just found the subject for your nest movie!
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Alone and no idea why !!
Have u ever felt alone ??Really ? Have you ?? Felt an emptiness inside you ?? Something which noone can fill ??? Not yr best friends , not your parents and sometimes not even yr husbands, boyfriends etc etc etc …Well , If u have read-one and if you haven’t I should say congratulations .. u are very very very very lucky !!!
Well , I fall under the first category … there are these days .. These days when u feel so lost, lonely, alone, down, sad, unsatisfied…. and the worst part is that you have absolutely no idea why !!You don’t feel like talking to people , you don’t feel like well doing anything and then everything u eat begins to feel like cardboard , you stare blankly at the screen ( computer, television ) , a 50 songs have passed on yr I-pod and u still think you are listening to the same one you heard an hour ago !! The u lift yrself with super-human effort and go to the loo and sit there for hours staring at the ceiling, looking the tiny cracks the cob-web which was due to be cleaned over a month ago, well then u slowly graduate to the couch in the living room … stuff yr face with everything possible unhealthy ( cheese fries , coke, chocolate)..and just crash there for the rest of the day. Occasionally flipping thru all the channels on TV with the same dead-pan expression and a boredom without limits.
The next day however you wake up, totally fresh, happy and normal with absolutely no trace what so ever of the previous except for the recollection of a sad waste of a whole day ( 24 hrs ) and this continues except for every once in a while this redundant, lonely, sad day pops in !!
Tell me, do you know why this happens?? and you think there will ever be a person who has that much control as to sway yr emotions make you happy and smile despite it being “one of those days”- honestly I don’t!! Well I have had some of the happiest time with my friends who have been my strength, support, joy and always been thr even during the slightest forewarning of misery but yet during one of these days “I JUST DON’T WANNA TLAK ABOUT IT” because I don’t know what the heck that feeling is … ppl trying to help gets on my nerves and I just wanna be left alone to wallow in my own misery and sorrow .Tell me if we are really so happy and thrilled with life .. and the course it is taking .. then WHY DOES THIS FEELING COME ? WHY WHY WHY ???
I don’t think I will ever know but I know those days , those days when it is just “one of those days” , those days which is worse then PMS , worse than a metallica concert with a head-ache .. those days … days which we all go through and never know why !!
Well , I fall under the first category … there are these days .. These days when u feel so lost, lonely, alone, down, sad, unsatisfied…. and the worst part is that you have absolutely no idea why !!You don’t feel like talking to people , you don’t feel like well doing anything and then everything u eat begins to feel like cardboard , you stare blankly at the screen ( computer, television ) , a 50 songs have passed on yr I-pod and u still think you are listening to the same one you heard an hour ago !! The u lift yrself with super-human effort and go to the loo and sit there for hours staring at the ceiling, looking the tiny cracks the cob-web which was due to be cleaned over a month ago, well then u slowly graduate to the couch in the living room … stuff yr face with everything possible unhealthy ( cheese fries , coke, chocolate)..and just crash there for the rest of the day. Occasionally flipping thru all the channels on TV with the same dead-pan expression and a boredom without limits.
The next day however you wake up, totally fresh, happy and normal with absolutely no trace what so ever of the previous except for the recollection of a sad waste of a whole day ( 24 hrs ) and this continues except for every once in a while this redundant, lonely, sad day pops in !!
Tell me, do you know why this happens?? and you think there will ever be a person who has that much control as to sway yr emotions make you happy and smile despite it being “one of those days”- honestly I don’t!! Well I have had some of the happiest time with my friends who have been my strength, support, joy and always been thr even during the slightest forewarning of misery but yet during one of these days “I JUST DON’T WANNA TLAK ABOUT IT” because I don’t know what the heck that feeling is … ppl trying to help gets on my nerves and I just wanna be left alone to wallow in my own misery and sorrow .Tell me if we are really so happy and thrilled with life .. and the course it is taking .. then WHY DOES THIS FEELING COME ? WHY WHY WHY ???
I don’t think I will ever know but I know those days , those days when it is just “one of those days” , those days which is worse then PMS , worse than a metallica concert with a head-ache .. those days … days which we all go through and never know why !!
Lessons I learnt !!( The hard way )
Long time , no blog ….
After what has effectively been the worst week of my 21- yr old life, m back to write abt how the experience made me a wiser and well ugh.. more mature person !
Well here are the lessons I learnt :
#1 CINDERELLA – IS A FAIRY TALE !! NO SUCH THINGS HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE AND YES .. FAIR GOD-MOTHER – DO NOT –EXIST !!
#2 YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE , ALL THE TIME AND ALL
THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME BUT U CANT FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE
ALL THE TIME 1 ( o believe me … very very profound this statement )
#3 WELL U CAN WANNA DO A THOUSAND THINGS , BUT U AINT GETTING NOWHERE DOING THEM , UNLESS U GET ON ARSE AND ACTUALLY DO THEM !! U GOTTA WORK IF U WANT STUFF TO HAPPEN
#4 WELL , DO NOT ASSUME STUFF .. U MIGHT BE THE MOST CHARMING,INTELLIGENT,SUPER BEING ON EARTH BUT BELIVE ME NOT EVERYONE SHARES YR OPINION … eerrrr actually noone does !!
#5 SOMETIMES .. THE BEST WAY OUT IS TO JUST SHUT UP !!
( Actually make that all the time !! )
( no actually make that lesson no.1 ! )
After what has effectively been the worst week of my 21- yr old life, m back to write abt how the experience made me a wiser and well ugh.. more mature person !
Well here are the lessons I learnt :
#1 CINDERELLA – IS A FAIRY TALE !! NO SUCH THINGS HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE AND YES .. FAIR GOD-MOTHER – DO NOT –EXIST !!
#2 YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE , ALL THE TIME AND ALL
THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME BUT U CANT FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE
ALL THE TIME 1 ( o believe me … very very profound this statement )
#3 WELL U CAN WANNA DO A THOUSAND THINGS , BUT U AINT GETTING NOWHERE DOING THEM , UNLESS U GET ON ARSE AND ACTUALLY DO THEM !! U GOTTA WORK IF U WANT STUFF TO HAPPEN
#4 WELL , DO NOT ASSUME STUFF .. U MIGHT BE THE MOST CHARMING,INTELLIGENT,SUPER BEING ON EARTH BUT BELIVE ME NOT EVERYONE SHARES YR OPINION … eerrrr actually noone does !!
#5 SOMETIMES .. THE BEST WAY OUT IS TO JUST SHUT UP !!
( Actually make that all the time !! )
( no actually make that lesson no.1 ! )
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Aishwarya Bachan or Aishwarya Rai Bachan ??????
Aishwarya Bachan or Aishwarya Rai Bachan ??????
Yes, If you were wondering what the hell that was all about trust me so was I ! I really shouldn’t be complaining because afterall my job involves watching movies , watching movies and well watching move movies and while I am at it I also read-up on celeb gossip and yes , I do get paid for doing exactly that !!
Yeah my friends have cursed me , abused me , told me how lucky I am a million times over and over again but frivolity of the whole thing is really getting to me ! Honestly, not that I don’t enjoy reading the celeb-gossip column in Deccan Chronicle everyday and yes I definitely have read both Stardust and Filmfare more than once but seriously the we give celebs and their lives way toooo much importance.
So coming back to the topic, believe me , very recently this was the topic of discussion fro the day in one of India’s leading news websites , will Aishwarya call herself Aishwarya Bachchan or Rai Bachchan after her impending marriage to Abishek ??? Honestly, when I saw it as the discussion forum for the day, I was thinking to myself, who the hell cares, she could probably call herself Muniyama after her wedding … but then that cheap lil voice inside me ( yeah yeah the same one which makes me do all the wrong things ) , made me go back and check the forum next day and the topic had a whooping 976 posts !!
Of course, me being well.. Me , I just had to go back and check on the previous topics , well , most of them were filmi and lot of them trashing the cricket team but when I looked into a discussion forum relating to Citizen Bang lore , the no. of posts were a disappointing 92 !!!! Well , that got me ! So, what is it with voyeurism, what is it about celebs or for that matter anyone, why is it that we (me included )are so so interested in what everyone other than us wears, eats , how much they make , what they do , what their third aunt six times removed gifted them !! why !!If we prob exercised one-tenth of that concern in issues relating to our environment and society, well we would have progressed so much .
Well, not that I should really be one to talk because as I type this blog I am working on my next assignment which is researching on “Where Celebs holiday “ .. sigh !!!!
Yes, If you were wondering what the hell that was all about trust me so was I ! I really shouldn’t be complaining because afterall my job involves watching movies , watching movies and well watching move movies and while I am at it I also read-up on celeb gossip and yes , I do get paid for doing exactly that !!
Yeah my friends have cursed me , abused me , told me how lucky I am a million times over and over again but frivolity of the whole thing is really getting to me ! Honestly, not that I don’t enjoy reading the celeb-gossip column in Deccan Chronicle everyday and yes I definitely have read both Stardust and Filmfare more than once but seriously the we give celebs and their lives way toooo much importance.
So coming back to the topic, believe me , very recently this was the topic of discussion fro the day in one of India’s leading news websites , will Aishwarya call herself Aishwarya Bachchan or Rai Bachchan after her impending marriage to Abishek ??? Honestly, when I saw it as the discussion forum for the day, I was thinking to myself, who the hell cares, she could probably call herself Muniyama after her wedding … but then that cheap lil voice inside me ( yeah yeah the same one which makes me do all the wrong things ) , made me go back and check the forum next day and the topic had a whooping 976 posts !!
Of course, me being well.. Me , I just had to go back and check on the previous topics , well , most of them were filmi and lot of them trashing the cricket team but when I looked into a discussion forum relating to Citizen Bang lore , the no. of posts were a disappointing 92 !!!! Well , that got me ! So, what is it with voyeurism, what is it about celebs or for that matter anyone, why is it that we (me included )are so so interested in what everyone other than us wears, eats , how much they make , what they do , what their third aunt six times removed gifted them !! why !!If we prob exercised one-tenth of that concern in issues relating to our environment and society, well we would have progressed so much .
Well, not that I should really be one to talk because as I type this blog I am working on my next assignment which is researching on “Where Celebs holiday “ .. sigh !!!!
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Am I superficial ?????
Well honestly I am one of "those women" , yeah the same type looks down on the well-dressed , well-kept types and says things like " God knows how much she spent in the beauty parlour" or "I'm sure she has the brains of a butterfly" . You could probarbly put Madam Curie in trendy boots and a well cut shirt and I am sure I will be just as prejudice. Well to drive home the point , I am also one of those people who takes a peverse pleasure in well 'un-maintaining" myself ( yes that includes , having a bath once in two days , brushing my hair one a week and being on a strict "junk-food" diet).For all this , I brand myself as not-superficial , then I go on to say "well take me as I am because this is what I am ". But then really am I really not superficial ? or am I just trying to hide my insecurity or maybe that fact that I am incredibly superficial behind this facade ???
Well , coming to why I really thought of this .. I went through my blog last night and found the below comment
Anonymous said...
hey gud work.. i like the way u've expressed urself..but u seem to be writing a lot on physical appearances [urs especially!!:)] ........
and then I realised , for someone who is staunchly not superficial why do I keep writing about physicial appearences , seriously ... If someone were to ask me what is the one thing I would like to change in myself - though my reply would be something like " my temper , or I would really like more patience" the little voice inside me would definitely keep saying " my nose , my nose, my nose " So cmoing back to the question ,Are we all superficial ???? though we claim so much not to be ? Do we all secretly admire ourselves in the mirror ?? So we all secretly fret over - ears which are too big or noses which are too blobby ?? Even us the ones who , well ... have a bath once a week ...
comeing back to Anonymous .. the latter half of his/her comment was :
PS- i was jus readin ur 'abt me" n realised u've picked topics where u've discussed bein fat,short,clumsy n i wonder if the next one's abt havin a bath once a week! hehe
well , yeah ... it is :D
Well , coming to why I really thought of this .. I went through my blog last night and found the below comment
Anonymous said...
hey gud work.. i like the way u've expressed urself..but u seem to be writing a lot on physical appearances [urs especially!!:)] ........
and then I realised , for someone who is staunchly not superficial why do I keep writing about physicial appearences , seriously ... If someone were to ask me what is the one thing I would like to change in myself - though my reply would be something like " my temper , or I would really like more patience" the little voice inside me would definitely keep saying " my nose , my nose, my nose " So cmoing back to the question ,Are we all superficial ???? though we claim so much not to be ? Do we all secretly admire ourselves in the mirror ?? So we all secretly fret over - ears which are too big or noses which are too blobby ?? Even us the ones who , well ... have a bath once a week ...
comeing back to Anonymous .. the latter half of his/her comment was :
PS- i was jus readin ur 'abt me" n realised u've picked topics where u've discussed bein fat,short,clumsy n i wonder if the next one's abt havin a bath once a week! hehe
well , yeah ... it is :D
Monday, March 26, 2007
Me , Myself and My Sari
As any other respectable south-Indian Iyengar girl , the first thing , I should have probably done at the age of 16 , is well learn how to wear a sari !!Well , I did ... I swear I really really did ... I lover sari's and for some weird reason they end up looking incredibly elegant and unbelievably beautiful on every single woman other than yours truly ...
I dunno ,what exactly it is about me and my sari but for some weird reason It just refuses to stay in place for more than a total of 10 mins ..Of course for the first 2-3 times , I happily put the blame on my mother and told her that she just cudnt tie a sari which stood on me for more than 10 mins , and then when she finally gave up , I blamed a bunch of friends , aunts , cousins etc.etc but that elusive sari never stood still .
I have had my own experiences with each of my sari's , the green one is Ms. Slippery Slip ( named after the slide down the faraway tree from my favorite Enid Blyton series ) , well I dunno if the sari is jinxed or what , but unbeliveably I slipped a total for 58 times during my school farewell party , ( yes yes , that included slipping on stage , spilling oil from the lamp we were made to carry and generally making the stage slippery for all after me )
The Blue one is nick-named " meen kaari " ( well yeah , that wuz my nickname for a long long time ) This time when I was assuming a post in the college student union , well my sari just HAD TO GIVE WAY THE PRECISE MOMENT I WALKED ON STAGE well I really cudnt have continued walking up , Could I ? so I bundled up the entire sari (in skirt included) and lifted it and walked up on stage with the audience letting out a collective GASP of horror ... and it definitely didnt help that my aunt who also happened to be the principal of the college - WELL GLARED AT ME - SIGH ! NEVER MIND , well thank goodness for it being a women's college .
Of course , my most recent incident has been Ms.Peek-a-Boo , M not even going to dwell on this one , but well , A very good friend's brother was getting married and all my friends decided to wear ( guess what !! ) a sari !! sigh !! of course bad enough me being the pigmy hippo I get mistaken for a 10 -yr old ... so well , I put up this brave front and said , yeas yeas sari is good ... sigh !!!! little did I know !!!!!
Well , all that being said , I havent given up as yet ... with more determination than ever I embark on yet another journey today ( I am wearing a sari to office !!! ) .. so will let u know how that one goes , now all I need is a Hug and someone to say "All the Best "
I dunno ,what exactly it is about me and my sari but for some weird reason It just refuses to stay in place for more than a total of 10 mins ..Of course for the first 2-3 times , I happily put the blame on my mother and told her that she just cudnt tie a sari which stood on me for more than 10 mins , and then when she finally gave up , I blamed a bunch of friends , aunts , cousins etc.etc but that elusive sari never stood still .
I have had my own experiences with each of my sari's , the green one is Ms. Slippery Slip ( named after the slide down the faraway tree from my favorite Enid Blyton series ) , well I dunno if the sari is jinxed or what , but unbeliveably I slipped a total for 58 times during my school farewell party , ( yes yes , that included slipping on stage , spilling oil from the lamp we were made to carry and generally making the stage slippery for all after me )
The Blue one is nick-named " meen kaari " ( well yeah , that wuz my nickname for a long long time ) This time when I was assuming a post in the college student union , well my sari just HAD TO GIVE WAY THE PRECISE MOMENT I WALKED ON STAGE well I really cudnt have continued walking up , Could I ? so I bundled up the entire sari (in skirt included) and lifted it and walked up on stage with the audience letting out a collective GASP of horror ... and it definitely didnt help that my aunt who also happened to be the principal of the college - WELL GLARED AT ME - SIGH ! NEVER MIND , well thank goodness for it being a women's college .
Of course , my most recent incident has been Ms.Peek-a-Boo , M not even going to dwell on this one , but well , A very good friend's brother was getting married and all my friends decided to wear ( guess what !! ) a sari !! sigh !! of course bad enough me being the pigmy hippo I get mistaken for a 10 -yr old ... so well , I put up this brave front and said , yeas yeas sari is good ... sigh !!!! little did I know !!!!!
Well , all that being said , I havent given up as yet ... with more determination than ever I embark on yet another journey today ( I am wearing a sari to office !!! ) .. so will let u know how that one goes , now all I need is a Hug and someone to say "All the Best "
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The life of a Pigmy Hippo !
Well , to give the devil it's due credit - the term Pigmy Hippo was first coined on September 1 2006 by a close friend . Of course this came into being , when I made the mistake of asking him who I resembled ( of course I expected something like Bipashu Basu or Kajol ) but no ,he had to come up with this creative (according to him ) description and he came up with Pigmy Hippo !!
Well , The Hippo bit I could understand well errrr mostly because I have a rather ball shaped nose with big nostrils and well , my current size does well resemble a Hippo ( in certain ways ) but the Pigmy bit is rather unforgivable !! A little over 5 feet I would definitely consider myself the height of the average Indian woman and Pigmy !! well is just pushing it . Anywayz , he wuz above 6 feet 2 himself and a good Friend and all so I let it pass.
Well , It wasn't really dat bad until my own mother !! my own flesh and blood , went and bought Junior Complan for me @ the age of 20 saying that I have to grow taller and now forces me to drink it three times a day :D oh yes I do get a host of advice from my Grandmother ( even she is taller than me !!! ) and she thinks if I hang from a window for 10 minutes everyday my bones and muscles will stretch and I will grow taller !!( yes yes , wnt it be fun if i just fall off the window pane now ???)
Well even this I can take but every time I switch on televsion it is almost as if the stupid TV is mocking me !!!It always plays juts one programme and thats TSN and for some weird reason the only one product I alwayz see advertised are :yeah yeah ! "The grow taller slippers" - a pair of rubber chappal looking things with some magnets strewn in between and it claims that 'the magnetic induction will increase the working on such-and-such muscles and increase growth by 4 inches in just 2 months ( yeah right ! and I am Andrea the gaint) , Of course this is again validated by some hot model who says that she never got her big break in the industry until she she used "magic slippers" and grew tall !!! sigh !! - a la Fair and lovely !
The list dosen't end , I can barely reach the clutch in my car !!My gym instructor stifles a giggle each time he setz the exercise cycle height to level (ummm 0)!! Yeah and for some weird reason I alwayz end up with a six-footer right in the seat in front of me at movie theatres !
Well , I should say my size has it's perks too , I still remember fining a 2nd year student Rs.500 while I was in the Student Council for ragging me , thinking I was a fresher when I was in my final year ( evil smirk - SWHEEEEEEEET REVENGE!) and I also love the way I can scare people with my voice (for some weird reason people think size and voice have some sort of co-relation) , I can still go jump on a bouncing castle ( hehehehe I still stand below the requisite height bar )and yeah everyone thinks I am this sweet , little girl who needs to be protected from the big, bad world ! ( hehehehehehehe - How true I say !!!)
Anyway , so well back to my friend ,I gave him a dirty look and screamed and stomped and shouted how rude !!! but I secretly liked the name and so my blog is named hence :D of course as someone recently told me "itz not size which matters but how well you use it" !!
Well , The Hippo bit I could understand well errrr mostly because I have a rather ball shaped nose with big nostrils and well , my current size does well resemble a Hippo ( in certain ways ) but the Pigmy bit is rather unforgivable !! A little over 5 feet I would definitely consider myself the height of the average Indian woman and Pigmy !! well is just pushing it . Anywayz , he wuz above 6 feet 2 himself and a good Friend and all so I let it pass.
Well , It wasn't really dat bad until my own mother !! my own flesh and blood , went and bought Junior Complan for me @ the age of 20 saying that I have to grow taller and now forces me to drink it three times a day :D oh yes I do get a host of advice from my Grandmother ( even she is taller than me !!! ) and she thinks if I hang from a window for 10 minutes everyday my bones and muscles will stretch and I will grow taller !!( yes yes , wnt it be fun if i just fall off the window pane now ???)
Well even this I can take but every time I switch on televsion it is almost as if the stupid TV is mocking me !!!It always plays juts one programme and thats TSN and for some weird reason the only one product I alwayz see advertised are :yeah yeah ! "The grow taller slippers" - a pair of rubber chappal looking things with some magnets strewn in between and it claims that 'the magnetic induction will increase the working on such-and-such muscles and increase growth by 4 inches in just 2 months ( yeah right ! and I am Andrea the gaint) , Of course this is again validated by some hot model who says that she never got her big break in the industry until she she used "magic slippers" and grew tall !!! sigh !! - a la Fair and lovely !
The list dosen't end , I can barely reach the clutch in my car !!My gym instructor stifles a giggle each time he setz the exercise cycle height to level (ummm 0)!! Yeah and for some weird reason I alwayz end up with a six-footer right in the seat in front of me at movie theatres !
Well , I should say my size has it's perks too , I still remember fining a 2nd year student Rs.500 while I was in the Student Council for ragging me , thinking I was a fresher when I was in my final year ( evil smirk - SWHEEEEEEEET REVENGE!) and I also love the way I can scare people with my voice (for some weird reason people think size and voice have some sort of co-relation) , I can still go jump on a bouncing castle ( hehehehe I still stand below the requisite height bar )and yeah everyone thinks I am this sweet , little girl who needs to be protected from the big, bad world ! ( hehehehehehehe - How true I say !!!)
Anyway , so well back to my friend ,I gave him a dirty look and screamed and stomped and shouted how rude !!! but I secretly liked the name and so my blog is named hence :D of course as someone recently told me "itz not size which matters but how well you use it" !!
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Fire dance 1995 (Oil Pastels)my first attempt at abstract and
also the closest to my heart , I think at that point of time I was just trying to achive movement
through abstract strokes .
"Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
I doodle occassionally and make the odd little sketch on the back of a napkin... unlike Picasso restaurants tell me they'd prefer the cash though!
Roger Moore
MS- Colour pencils on textured paper - 2003
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is
a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
Man-Dry Pastel and ink on paper 2000
Still not sure , if this is a portrait or abstract , think
this one to me more represents the emotion behind the idea than the visual behind .
Baby Croc - Colour Pencil - 2003
My first and I think only sketch on which I spent
more than 1 hour , took me almost 2 and half hours.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Fair and lovely ???!!!!!!!!!
I just got back to Chennai after spending over 8 months in Banglore and the first thing people say when they meet me is " O my god , you have tanned so much !! how ??? ", after which they usually proceed to give me a host of totally unwanted suggestions which includes everything from fom smearing turneric powder to cream to ugh! just about anything on my face , This is ofcourse punctuated with the usual don't go out in the sun ( what they expect me to go out in the snow in Chennai !! ) and use fair and lovely and go for a bleach .. blah blah blah ....
Of course it's not that I take offence to such concern (which ofcourse is never shown with regard to my career or other interests ) but dosen't it strike anyone that maybe I am happy being the way I am ?Black !!Dark-skinned !! (well I'd prefer the adjective dusky ,ofcourse ) . Seriously , what is this obsession with fair skin ??Read through any matiromonail column and I bet one of the three main adjectives used to describe any propsective girl they are looking for is "fair" ofcourse 'homely" ( which I btw still don't get what da heck homely is ! ) runs a close second .
But seriously , what is this stupid obsession we have for fair skin ????? I mean there is a "fair and lovely" - for women , a fair and handsome ( for men) and fair and teen ( for teenagers) and a fair and god knws what else!compare this with the west , where u have an equal number of tanning creams to make them look darker !! God ! messed up ain't we ???
First of all , I would attribute this to the host of stupid "fair and whatever" adveertisments which are shown on TV ! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr .. here a womn getz a job , getz a marrige proposal, gets famous , getz noticed by the guy she likes , gets discoverd by a film director all because she is fair !! I mean are u seeling fairness lotion or some sort of genie inside a lamp ??
But ofcourse that is nowhere near the worse !! what is worse is that , we actually fall fro rubbish like that - and that's whay 80% of the face cream sales in India is fairness cream !
Well , belive me , fair is not beautiful !!! I have a very good friend , fair enough for all the fairness cream companies to fight to put him in as a model but the poor chap getz ragged terribly and is called everrything from snow-white to GE bulb to ahem! vanilla pudding !!!!!!!!!!!and yeah no amount of aroaming/travelling/wandering in the sun has made any difference to him , and if anything it looks like he has only gotten fairer !!The fact that he is a really nice person , has a great sense of humoour not withstanding most people only remember himmas the "white/very fair guy "and I don't think he find that very funny or complimentary.. poor chap !!( last known , he was playing basketball at 12 noon to get darker:D)
lol well here goes , first of all ..LEAVE ME ALONE , THANK YOU VERY MUCH , I AM VERY HAPPY BEING THE COLOUR I AM ( well , Bipasha Basu is the same colour :D), secondly .. GAWD PEOPLE , PLS. GET OVER THIS OBSESSION , ITZ IS OK , IF 99.9% OF THE MEN WHO ADVERTISE IN THE MATRIMONIAL COLUMNS FIND ME UNSUITABLE ... I don't care !!! I MIGHT NOT BE FAIR BUT M DEF LOVVVVVVVVVEEEEELY :D
Monday, February 5, 2007
DEAD END -2 ( people who didnt see the end !)
Well , couple of days ago I had written asking people if they think they were confronted with a choice between 2 institutions one reputed with a good course and one unreputed with a much better course , if they would be gutsy enough to go for the unreputed one (without placements etc.)just for the sake of passion for the subject .
Well frankly , I wouldn't have had that kind of guts and a friend of mine ( but from IIT ofcourse !) who visited my blog left a comment saying " we all need to make money , no one has the guts to say fuck everything , and I will follow my passion ".Well , at least for the fact that he made such a comment , I decided to write about the few people who think otherwise . People who ave inspired/influenced/affected me in a positive way , prob making me believe that there is still hope from the path we are conditioned to follow
Well , the two biggest "cracks" I know are my two bestest , closest friends , well if u prob ask either of them to describe me in one word the would probably say "weird" (yeah right !) well , Monte a.k.a Amitha Maria D'monte is one of my best friends from school , well if u probably see her the first thing which will strike you is how good looking she is , well she is one of those other snobs I was was talking bout "the good at everything types" , here is my babe , who topped school effortless ( yeah she went for a party one night before her Business Math exam and ended being state first in the same subject) , topped college again ( obviously!)and finally decided to follow her passion ( believe it or not - hairdressing !!! ) and this woman had to take a lot of shit for this , people coudnt understand why someone as smart as her wanted to be a barber !! she is thrilled doing what she wants to do and shez bloody dam good @ it , so what da hell !
Now we come to my other favorite carck.Prarthana.another brillaint child , who got some 97-odd percent in SCIENCE GROUP ( gasp ! and m sure got into half da engineering colleges here )and then ended up opening her own dance school :D ofcourse da woman is a fantastic dancer but starting out on her own @ da age of 19 , taking a bank loan to start something totally on her own with no support and doing dam well , just to follow her passion , well amazing !!
I was studying with a 54 yr old software engineer in Bangalore ( yeah54 ! ) who quit his incredibly high paying job in the US , came back here and is starting out afresh as an junior animator , family friends who gave up fantastic jobs to open up a library for children , a guy who ragged me while I had gone for my NID interview who put his diploma project on hold for more than a year to fight with the college administration for m guessing better facilities for students (after her leaves ) !!
M sure there are many more prarthanas and Amithas and Ganesh uncles who I probably dont know , but when we see people like this we all think they have prob lost it or they are just crazy , well stop , coz I personally admire all these people and think Itz amazing what they have done , dunno if either of us will ever have their guts !!
Well frankly , I wouldn't have had that kind of guts and a friend of mine ( but from IIT ofcourse !) who visited my blog left a comment saying " we all need to make money , no one has the guts to say fuck everything , and I will follow my passion ".Well , at least for the fact that he made such a comment , I decided to write about the few people who think otherwise . People who ave inspired/influenced/affected me in a positive way , prob making me believe that there is still hope from the path we are conditioned to follow
Well , the two biggest "cracks" I know are my two bestest , closest friends , well if u prob ask either of them to describe me in one word the would probably say "weird" (yeah right !) well , Monte a.k.a Amitha Maria D'monte is one of my best friends from school , well if u probably see her the first thing which will strike you is how good looking she is , well she is one of those other snobs I was was talking bout "the good at everything types" , here is my babe , who topped school effortless ( yeah she went for a party one night before her Business Math exam and ended being state first in the same subject) , topped college again ( obviously!)and finally decided to follow her passion ( believe it or not - hairdressing !!! ) and this woman had to take a lot of shit for this , people coudnt understand why someone as smart as her wanted to be a barber !! she is thrilled doing what she wants to do and shez bloody dam good @ it , so what da hell !
Now we come to my other favorite carck.Prarthana.another brillaint child , who got some 97-odd percent in SCIENCE GROUP ( gasp ! and m sure got into half da engineering colleges here )and then ended up opening her own dance school :D ofcourse da woman is a fantastic dancer but starting out on her own @ da age of 19 , taking a bank loan to start something totally on her own with no support and doing dam well , just to follow her passion , well amazing !!
I was studying with a 54 yr old software engineer in Bangalore ( yeah54 ! ) who quit his incredibly high paying job in the US , came back here and is starting out afresh as an junior animator , family friends who gave up fantastic jobs to open up a library for children , a guy who ragged me while I had gone for my NID interview who put his diploma project on hold for more than a year to fight with the college administration for m guessing better facilities for students (after her leaves ) !!
M sure there are many more prarthanas and Amithas and Ganesh uncles who I probably dont know , but when we see people like this we all think they have prob lost it or they are just crazy , well stop , coz I personally admire all these people and think Itz amazing what they have done , dunno if either of us will ever have their guts !!
Saturday, February 3, 2007
over-achivers!!!!!!!! uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggh !
well , here I am a very normal person leading a rather happy normal life like any other normal 20 year old , well , I have always been an above average student , with a decent amount of interests which include sketching , cartooning , debating , eeeeeerrr writing ( k dnt go by how bad da blog is :D), of course for a long time I have never really felt that I wuz lacking in anything , until one day I came across a rather old crush of mine on orkut :D , well it had been long since I had seen or heard from him and I was well curious as to what this "cute guy with curly hair " ahem .. coz that was solely what I knew of him ,was upto . Of course I was thinking , he would have either ended up as a model or a cabin crew with some airlines or whatever whatever , I mean ain't the cute ones always dumb ?????????
So well , I casually scrapped him asking him if he remembered me and well , SURPRISE ! he actually did , oh well .. so we got talking and all and yeah as I was generally asking him what he did and found out that he was from IIM (gulp !) and a topper at that too (sigh!) ofcourse there are still a lot of things in life , fer example ( he could be a snob , terrible at sports , mebbe have a bad gas problem .. yeah who knows :D) so I mollified myself and spent the next 1 week trying to figure out the teeniest detail as to where he could falter , well , I wasn't succeeding ( yeah I mean he did have his moments of terrible wit and da occasional "yeah , I am God " attitude )but I was pleasantly surprised to find him with a firm head of his shoulders and yeah also happens that he is an athlete to boot ( dam dam dam !)
Of course , with my flowery description you would probably think I am in love with him by now , but oh no ... The bottom line being - I would have prob liked him way more if he was just and average goodlooking guy with a mind of his own, I mean why is he so perfect , so too good to be true ?? Of course studying in a girl's school and a girl's college , I have spent numerous days chatting with my girl pals about what kind of guy we want but when u actually find someone like that , what it with the whole too good to be true completely scaring us off ?????? is it because of the little-green eyes monster ? is it because being around people like that gives us a sense of insecurity ? an inferiority complex ??????? why is that that only "over-achievers" get along with "over-achievers" and why is it that we turn up our noses that people like that ?????
Anyway , coming back to him (btw , he also happens to be a fantastic writer and incredibly creative and m posting something he wrote below this ( without his permission of course :D))yeah , well to prove my point - believe it or not , the guy is actually single :D so any women out there interested ?????
So well , I casually scrapped him asking him if he remembered me and well , SURPRISE ! he actually did , oh well .. so we got talking and all and yeah as I was generally asking him what he did and found out that he was from IIM (gulp !) and a topper at that too (sigh!) ofcourse there are still a lot of things in life , fer example ( he could be a snob , terrible at sports , mebbe have a bad gas problem .. yeah who knows :D) so I mollified myself and spent the next 1 week trying to figure out the teeniest detail as to where he could falter , well , I wasn't succeeding ( yeah I mean he did have his moments of terrible wit and da occasional "yeah , I am God " attitude )but I was pleasantly surprised to find him with a firm head of his shoulders and yeah also happens that he is an athlete to boot ( dam dam dam !)
Of course , with my flowery description you would probably think I am in love with him by now , but oh no ... The bottom line being - I would have prob liked him way more if he was just and average goodlooking guy with a mind of his own, I mean why is he so perfect , so too good to be true ?? Of course studying in a girl's school and a girl's college , I have spent numerous days chatting with my girl pals about what kind of guy we want but when u actually find someone like that , what it with the whole too good to be true completely scaring us off ?????? is it because of the little-green eyes monster ? is it because being around people like that gives us a sense of insecurity ? an inferiority complex ??????? why is that that only "over-achievers" get along with "over-achievers" and why is it that we turn up our noses that people like that ?????
Anyway , coming back to him (btw , he also happens to be a fantastic writer and incredibly creative and m posting something he wrote below this ( without his permission of course :D))yeah , well to prove my point - believe it or not , the guy is actually single :D so any women out there interested ?????
Friday, February 2, 2007
DEAD END !!!!
Am I the only one or does everyone at one point of time feel that they had reached a kind of dead end ? I mean like u dont know what the heck you are doing and you are just doing what you are doing without knowing why you are doing just for the sake of doing ?
I mean lately I have begun to think so , like i really don't know what the hell I want , despite talking so much about passion and dreams, but then agagin I wanna know if anyone really knows what they want ?
I mean , for example , letz say, right now Ive just given my IIT exams ( yeah pretty sad for a vizcom student , no chance I know - Thank you very much ) , now I dunno why I want IIT , do i wannt go there because it is IIT ?Do I want to go there becasue I wanna be away from home and independent , being able to make my own decisions , or do I genuinelly have a passion for the course I am applying to - Visual Communication ??? If u ask me it is a bit of all three , but then shoudnt it be a decision solely based on passion ? i mean would u still do an MBA frm an intitute which was not IIM but then better in terms of coaching ????? In a place which didnt have a fancy hostel or culturals as elaborate as Saarang or campus placements which start at 6 lakh/p.a???????
( to be contd.)
Why eggjactly am I blogging ?????
wogay , first of all my spellings suck ! ok good just saw the spell check on the toolbar ( me happy :) )
well , where wuz I ? yeah , m one of those types who put my nose up when ppl started creating blogs ,
a) I thought it was a waste of time ( I mean who da heck wants to read what u write anyway unless your Sydney Sheldon or something )
b) My spellings suck , so even if i start posting , noone is going to understand.
c)Itz for losers with no life - I mean , who just sits and writes stuff
d) well a-c is all untrue itz just that I am too lazy and well not a talented enough writer to prob keep people's attention.
well , where wuz I ? yeah , m one of those types who put my nose up when ppl started creating blogs ,
a) I thought it was a waste of time ( I mean who da heck wants to read what u write anyway unless your Sydney Sheldon or something )
b) My spellings suck , so even if i start posting , noone is going to understand.
c)Itz for losers with no life - I mean , who just sits and writes stuff
d) well a-c is all untrue itz just that I am too lazy and well not a talented enough writer to prob keep people's attention.
anywayz , now m coming to terms wid the fact that i guess most importantly i should just write for myself first , mebbe it will deliver me frm my temporary insanity and my neverending need for approval :D so well !
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