Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Wisdom Tooth


"well i can only thank god...that "my husband" is not like u....N its not bad betraying ur parents...its abt making them understand....cuz there is nothgin WRONG in chasing ur own life partner
and its my persepctive......u can ve ur own perspectibve
so its OK
good luck wid ur life"

---- Annoymous on question of
Parents' fidelity vs. chasing Love.......

I have plenty of points and reasons and situations against it but there exist one argument in support:

"I generally talk about the 25 years of faithfulness of my parents towards me and their much apprecaited toil for my up-bringing..... but how can I forget my responsibility towards a person with whom I am going to spend my rest of the life (obviously more than 25 years!!)......"


Monday, April 09, 2007

Movie Reviews - Part2

A Walk to Remember (2002):
A nice romantic movie having same tragedic end as of Mallika Sherawat's fame "Khwahish", but with a strong storyline and direction. Jamie and Landon shows a nice chemistry on the screen. It is again one of those movies that strengthen my argue that "girls have that amazing capability of turning life by 180Degrees." Liked the "One Hope" song in the movie.

Bridge to Terabithia (2006):
A fantasy movie specificallly targetted for kids in their primary school but could be liked by anyone. Being a fantasy movie I was expecting it to be full of graphics and special effects and it really disappointed me in that regard. Here, two small kids socially rejected by their colleagues searched their own kingdom, announced themselves King and Queen and spend great time together. However, as opposed to my expectation movie had a tragedic end. No idea how kids will take it who are the target audience of the movie and i dont think if anybody in my circle will like this movie.

Pursuit of Happyness (2006):
Based on the life of Chris Gardner who digged out his way from nothing (21$33cents) to multi-millionaire. I appreciated the persistence and confidence of Chris Gardner (Will Smith), his son's faith in him, hardship, and his presence of mind. Some years back in my high school days I also tried that cube and I admit that I couldn't go beyond making three faces of identical color after spending my several precious days. Anyway Will Smith is a great actor and you could actually realize the sleeplessness in his eyes. Liked the scene where Chris didn't have enough money to pay the cab driver and the situation made him to run away shouting "I m sorry....I m sorry....". A great recommended watch.

Must Love Dogs:
A nice romantic-comedy movie which I decided to no go ahead with as I found it to be a girlish kind in initial 20-30 min. But, by the time Bob and Jack appears they made it watchable, and as the movie proceeds towards end it gets deeper and deeper. The movie sails through too many emotions, confusion states, changing realtionships, people dating in 40s and 60s. There are several unforgottenable nice dialogs in the movie too:
- 60 yr. old Doly told her age 43 fakely to her 15 yr. old date and execuses to sarah saying, "Sorry, I couldn't go beyond 43...."
- Jack's and Bill's meeting near the end where he described Sarah by saying "she was a unique constealltion of attributes. She was my Haily's comet..."
Sarah, Carole, Jack, Bobby, Bill, Doly each of them were good. Too many funny situation and consequences keep people watching it without losing interest. I liked the end of the movie.... too classic :) ....

Poseidon:
Poseidon was the god of Sea as per greek myth and in the movie it was the name of a ship that was devastated by ocean tides. Movie is not based on any such real incident but is based on a novel and is a remake of a 1972 movie with the same name. It is about the struggle of some people to come out of the broken sinking ship with great expectancy for saving their lives.

Children of Men:
A fictional sci-fi movie depicting the year 2027 when people stopped giving birth to children due to some natural calamity. Youngest child on the planet was 18 years old and was killed in a bomb explosion. Everywhere in England (the locality of movie) there is some kind of rebel due to immigrants and there is complete anarchy and instability in situation. Theo a diplomat somehow came across to a girl named Kee who is the lonely pregnant on earth. He has to save the child from being misused by a group of rebels and has the reponsibilty to find the Human project Tomorrow ship and handover her. Only thing in the movie to watch is the child birth and the escape of Theo and Kee between fighting soldiers and rebels, when all of them got stunned with the child cry, stopped firing, gave passage and everybody from rebels to soldiers to general public started blessing the child and after their successful passage firing resumed.

Letters from IwoJima (2006):
IwoJima was the critical island of Japan and Japanese army failed to save the land from the US invasion during second world war. This movie illustrates frustration of lack of fighting resources, reinfocement army and fear of Japanese army before the US attack. It is also the complimentary movie of "Flags of our fathers" directed by the same director (Clint Eastwood) as they claim, but as I watched the movie I felt that this movie again sings the US glory from Japanese perspective. Whole movie is made in Japanese langauge and you need to rely on subtitles to get the movie.
Just to prove my point why I consider it a US persspective even after directors' such claim and movie being in Japanese language and described in words of a Japanese
private:
1. Saigo (a baker turned first class private) from the start of the movie was not in the favor to fight with US --> despite the fact that Japanese are considered as the most patriot comunity of the world.
2. Saigo's explanation to Shizumu using words: "Kashiwara died of honorable-dysentry" .... when Shizumu told him that he should be proud of being a part of honorable Japanese royal army.
3. Commander Nishi's argue of sinking island instead of fighting with US troops.
4. General Khurbayaschi's fear of technically advanced US fighters.
5. When Japanese captured a US soldier and wanted to kill him saying that Americans are barbarian and should be killed down...then Nishi's argument saying... "have you ever met any of them?".. and then reading the letter from his (after the death of captured US soldier due to injuries) mother to him only glorifies US not Japanese.
6. Finally, Saigo himself was a fictious character (thanks to Wikipedia!!) ..... from whom eyes most part of the movie has been described!!!!........

The Great Raid:
I watched this movie some months back. It is about a true biggest rescue operation in the history for surrendered US POWs captured by a big batallion of Japanese army in Philippines. It shows the merciless Japanese officers, their strong secret agents network, POWs pity situation and the perfect rescue plan designed by an officer and its successful execution with very few casualties in any such operation (probably two). A great recommended watch.

POTA9:
A Russian movie (you need to work with subtitles) where Russian army being sent to Afghanistan to fight the rebels. A very nice illustration of such a war (Guerilla warfare) where whole batallion of a Russian army killed (except one) in the lack of reinfocement on Afghan land.

My next watch:
Enemy @ the gates
Thief LorD
Eragon
Namesake
Dirty Dancing.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Londonstani

ok ok... don't get confused with the title, I left this book by "Gautam Malkani" after somehow finishing three pages of it @ my favorite vendors' shop....(thank you for saving my precious money)...

This blog is about "Namastey London" that I got to watch today. I liked this comedy-romantic movie. I am writing about this movie because as oppose to my expectation it was good from many different point of views and let me try to enumerate all those reasons for which I liked this movie:

1. Content and the way the story has been woven was good.
2. It gives a very mature and real form of love - "Love is not the name of getting it.." (forgot the original Punjabi version which Arjun recited and told that this phrase has been created for losers)
3. It highlights the real pain of Hindustani parents in English culture which they detest when it comes to their own child and like it for their own selfishness at the same time.
4. It shows the regular embarrassment of Indian origin in European conutries and the way they look down to Indians and Pakis - e.g. considering India as a country of snake charmers, asking Imran if he has any involvement with terrorist groups etc.
5. It very successfully refelcts the pain of Arjun in a very delicate manner where he unknowingly turned victim of a fake marriage done by Jazz to revenge her father.
6. Arjun's persistence and playing with all the odds patiently with full confidence and extending hands of friendship to Jazz (even after the biggest betrayal of his life) was truely a remarkable thing to note in the whole movie.
7. I loved the way KhanSb. presented the Birthday Gift to his son for his son's nice advice to Jazz. Appreciated that "khan sb. wala andaz".....even I wish to do someting like that :) ..agar mereee aulaad itnee hee nalayaq niklee toh... Khuda-na-karey...
8. Director avoided all the Gurinder Chadhdha way of stupidity to appear anywhere in the movie.
9. Also, felt better that Indian directors are learning to make no-nonsense movies with a good sense of humor and movies those deals with mature understandings.
10. And after-all Katty was there all the time and most of the time on screen, enuff to love the movie.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Absolute Idiot

It was 2:30 am in night when I just thought about it and started searching desperately for some small and FreeIQTest. I have already done a tickle IQ test and one more, this time I wanted to try a new one. Did google and found few search results and out of them one that caught my eyes was a test that was promising me to tell the answers only in 5 min by annswering just 9 questions!! This was exactly the thing I was looking for at this moment.I strated test with the counter in my mind and time set for 5 min., honestly completed the test to find this result by clicking over SubmitIQ test button :( -



First my eyes and then my mind didn't agree that I am that great foollll.... and it made me to read those scribbled text further.....Fucking bastard #$@!%^&&^^#$@!!! it was a prank....

A Long Story Cut Short...

Following is the short form of a true story told to me by one of my cousin during my Kanpur trip in a highl descriptive manner consuming a lot of my precious time. I found this story too inspirational that I decided to post it to my blog page:

There was farmer in a village in Ghazipur. He was eldest among the three brothers and father died in his very young age. He took care of his brothers very well, his immediate younger brother also started farming with him and the youngest brother continued his study to get a job as a custom duty officer. They has 4 children in the next generation, one from the eldest brother, two from the younger brother and one from the youngest. Son of eldest brother was a deaf-mute child and her mother was much worried about him. Just to secure the future of her only son she once told her husband to deposit a fixed amount of lumpsum of Rs. 2 Lac in bank for her only son for suture usage. Farmer was a rich person, he went ahead and deposited the same amount not for only his own son but for all the 4 children and told her wife. Her wife responded him, "you can never understand anything". Old farmer just gave a smile and left.
Some years later, farmer thought to buy a cold storage and found himself in short of money. He talked to the youngest brother if he could invest money in it. Youngest brother immediately responded by sending a cheque of very huge amount, more than sufficient to buy the cold storage but with a short note requesting him to not to talk about it in the house (means not to tell any of the wives of brothers). Farmer took the cheque, but after a night he returned the cheque back by saying if his brother has not the courage (and faith) to talk about this thing to his wife then he is not supposed to financially contribute for the project.


So friends, this story tells something very important about family values and traits and respect but I am leaving the conclusion part for you.....please feel free to comment about all the morals you received from the story....

**Just to clarify the end - "Some days later he again got the cheque with the clean-chit from his youngest brother's wife and with an apology letter for his mistake..."

Being "ISFP"

Tried this personality test called Bloginality and came out as ISFP personality. So following are the traits of an ISFP:

As an ISFP, you are Intraverted, Sensing, Feeling , Perceiving.
This makes your primary focus on Introverted Feeling with Extraverted Sensing.
This is defined as a SP personality, which is part of Carl Jung's Artisans (Sensation Seeking) type, and more specifically the Composers or Artist
Because you are in touch with the inner-artist, you see things heavily in relationship to your feelings and their beauty. You may not be as likely to have a public site, because you feel better sharing with only those who are closest with you.


Once I wanted to be a teacher (after giving up my desire of career path as IceCream vendor :( ),and then a Psychiatrist (Neurosurgeon) but never an Engineer!! My Personality Career Path bolster my this desire....find my Career Path here, my Relationships here, personality type here, and psychological traits here.....but I liked this analysis as it bolster my philosophy of "Action speaks louder than words"...