Love! Today and yesterday!

LOL! It’s just the literal translation of the title “Love Aaj Kal” which released last friday, the Saif, Deepika and Rishi Kapoor starrer that was overly hyped before its release cos of the director and the cast was somewhat a disappointment.

Well to begin with the promos are quite clear that there are 2 story lines running in the movie, the kal and the aaj. They’re pretty much simultaneous and sort of show in the end that even if times change the relationship that exists between a man and woman is the same.

The storyline, was slightly vague and wasn’t pulled together effectively enough. It could have been more crisp and concise. Though the movie was rather short… just around 2 hours, I feel the editing wasn’t up to the mark, there were parts which seemed to drag on unneccesarily, they could’ve allotted that time to something that would have been more binding to the story I suppose.

The cast… Saif did a good job portraying the character of Veer who is a earthy 1965 punjabi munda better than the new age Jaivardhan Singh, well I feel the latter was somewhat poor in terms of the way the character was written and the way it was pulled off.

I’ve never particularly been a fan of Deepika Padukone, neither her looks nor acting skills. She does have good height and body structure and her wardrobe was amazing! I think she carried them off really well and that’s pretty much her contribution to the entire movie!

Rishi  Kapoor as the affable old Sardar… is just very endearing, the ol’ man hasn’t lost any off his charm or acting skills. He was just very cute!

Giselle Montiero, a surprise find whose name they’ve not disclosed in the credits of the movie, at least in the beginning… surprisingly played a very good Sardarni…

I liked the Veer-Harleen track better than the Jai-Meera one cos it keeps you wondering till the end what happens and is very soft and like-able!

Overall, it’s just old wine in a new bottle, watch it for some zingy dialogues, and entertainment… It was a rather entertaining movie, with some really good music, I think a breakthrough for the not-so-original Preetham (though,he’s used music from elsewhere here too!)

Rating: ***

Grade: A

Legend:
* awful! Who even thought of making the movie!
** All right. Watchable but you can still do better by staying at home.
*** Decent. Watch it for pure entertainment.
**** Good. Worth the 150 bucks.
***** We have a winner here. absolute must watch

O- Outstanding
V- Very Good
E-Exceeds Expectations
A- Average
B-Bad
T-Troll!

General Compartment.

I just returned from Mumbai and the local trains there were an experience of sorts…This I observed is the typical scene in a general compartment in a local train in mumbai.

A middle aged clerk in a small time office, with frown lines on his forehead which read that he’s probably the sole bread winner of his family, wearing his thick glasses sits and eats his apple.

A college going girl wearing a chic tunic with peep-toe shoes and music plugged in her ears is reading a book

The group of giggly salwar clad girls huddle and look to be discussing the news with a lot of enthusiasm, probably of the latest couple in their college or someone who was not-so-cool!

Two or three men who are in their mid forties with receding hairlines, sitting and discussing how the politics in the country has taken a toll for the worse, and how it was better in the good ol’ days!

Women who are selflessly going to a faraway place for work, and spacing out are probably thinking “Did I switch off the gas stove” “Has my daughter reached school safely ” “I wonder what my husband is doing right now”

A young techie, who’s carrying his heavy laptop is sitting blankly, with puffy under-eyes and looks like his soul has been sucked out by a dementor.

Maharashtrian aunties who are wearing the paithani saris are discussing the “bhaav” of vegetables and how they are unable to keep up with the soaring rates and other household affairs.

The working class people who are making a loud chatter in some vague language that only they understand and cleaning and chewing unprocessed tobacco with their litter of kids dangerously running around everywhere.

An old couple who are traveling to a function or someones house, proudly discussing their son who stays abroad and sends them tidy amounts of money every month.

Rich hypocrites who don’t want to be spotted in the general compartments who hide their faces, but don’t want to blow 80 bucks on first class and look at everyone else with disgust.

And a few here and there’s like me, who are just observing and absorbing all the proceedings without much thinking!

You can find a pot-pourri of people. It goes to show how all kind of people are equal and travel in the same manner irrespective of their background! It boils down to this. It was really an experience for me cos I’d never seen such different kind of people, altogether in one place.

Rakhi Sawant and Roger Federer!!!

NOOO!!! They’re related in absolutely no way, so don’t worry! To me, they’re just stuff on TV! I’m just addicted to the television (and other such wonderful distractions!) during the exam time! I end up watching all kinds of rubbish.

Well one of the things I stumbled upon was “Rakhi Sawant ka Swayamvar” and all I can say is I’m APPALED! At how ANYONE in the entire world can commercialise, publicise and bring a sacred thing like marriage down to such a CHEAP level. No, really anyone who has seen the show and anybody who thinks it’s the least bit entertaining has to be crazy in the head.

And what’s with the contestants on the show? Who would want to marry Rakhi Sawant. She’s overly dramatic- “Aaj doodh ka doodh or paani ka paani ho gaya” and all that. And not like she’s pretty, she’s exceptionally fake. In every sense of the term and she behaves all coy and all that which she is so NOT. And it’s very evident that she’s a bad mouthed ugly looking cheap female. And the men go all ga-ga about her “main tumhare liye chand taare todke laaonga” and all that… How could marriage be based on who maro-s the most filmy dialogue! These men are so corny, it’s disgusting. It makes me want to throw up.

I don’t want her to be the epitome of the “modern Indian woman!” That’s how she’s portrayed and she behaves like she’s Aishwarya Rai and with all the “I am what I am” attitude She appears nothing short of senile!

And why I had the audacity to mention Roger Federer in the same sentence with Rakhi Sawant?! Cos unfortunately they both appear on the same television set in my house! (Bad joke! )

I watched the Wimbledon final last Sunday (despite having an exam the very next day) and oh-my-God what a match. I’ve been watching Tennis for a while now and this arguably was the best match I’ve ever seen. Andy Roddick was such an awesome opponent. I’ve always been a Federer supporter. His level of tennis is a whole class apart, but that day Roddick put up such an amazing show. It was really really gripping. I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed the last set of any match going up to 15 points. That was SO awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed the nail-biting game. And sometimes Sport has to be unfair and declare only one winner. Federer deserved it. But Roddick also deserved it.

But Andy Roddick- A true hero. This post dedicated to him!

A random post on absolutely nothing!

I’m posting after a month, it’s been a LONG month because I had exams, which kept me continually stressed out. And I think the more stressed out one is, creativity gets blocked and hence the inactivity on the blog. I don’t know if anyone missed me at all, but I certainly did miss writing.

I realise writing is such an important part of my life, I think it’s part of my life. I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned it, but my blog is something that is completely mine, I’m not answerable to anyone here. This is my own little world where I get to be who I am without any obligations, without any commitments, nothing. I can express myself as well as I want to and alwa know that there is someone out there who understands. My blog is one thing that completes me, helps me grow as a person. It has honestly changed a lot about me and my perspective to life!

I guess everyone blogs for different reasons. And I blog to express. I want people to know my opinions. I’m very opinionated! (not good! As I have more opinions than information quite a lot of times!) And be it about movies or books or anything. The knowledge I have I want to spread and I want to gain some in the process too…

Well, for the last one month I just sat at home, and tried to study! In the process binged a lot. I think my nerves are directly attached to my appetite glands. As a result I’ve put on an unhealthy amount of weight that I’m embarrassed to carry around. I’m seriously planning to do something about it. Usually I’m not one person with a strong will-power when it comes to such things, so the best option for me could be a yearly gym membership, thankfully at least I’m economical and might end up working out religiously for the amount of money I’ve spent!

Besides that I’m having backaches (and other issues related with old age!) at age 20, so I’d better get moving! I lead such a passive lifestyle (At least during exam times) that is SO unhealthy. It makes you feel awful about yourself. What’s worse? You look much worse than you feel. I feel like I’m lugging around a person behind me when I walk past the mirror! And my dad’s just taken to advising me about weight loss every time I cross paths with him!

My exams are almost over and I’m going on a break for a fortnight to Mumbai (which was incidentally on my short term bucket list for a long time! )but it’s increasingly seeming like a bad idea now because of all the rains! But once I’, back I’m totally kicked about getting into shape! It’s my heyday and I gotta make best use of it!

Well I sure wanna know wassup with all you guys! I’m surely going to visit you right away and catch up!

My friend!

In standard 1B of Baldwin girls’ high school I met this young and very tiny girl called Rashmi, this was 14

Rashmi was always a very bright rank one student. For the last 14 years I’ve seen her and she has always achieved high academic excellence, but this is not the reason why she is one of my closest friends.

She was the model student. She was helpful and was a good leader and everybody liked her! She was always miss. Popular in school. But this was not just it, she’s exceptionally talented. Somewhat musical can play the keyboard and the guitar. She’s also good with art and craft! An extremely intelligent girl and damn smart too! All my life, probably I’ve NEVER accepted, but I’ve always looked up to her. Be it in academics or even things like clothes preference, tv shows, books, movies or anything. If Rash gives a recco I’m sure to follow on!

Though we’ve always been in the same class, it was somewhere during the 7^th or the 8^th that we got somewhat close.. But we got really close in the school trip in standard nine, when we would discuss enthusiastically, harry potter for hours on end!

We both sort of possess this joint quality of just talking a HELL lot over the phone during exam times! And that’s what brought us even closer!

I think more than a quarter of the telephone bills both our parents have paid in the last 6 years is cos of Rashmi! I can talk anything under the sun with her! Ranging from south park to intense philosophy and books to food! From girly gossips to problems, and to cooking up vague words and names for other people! She’s my wall! If I’ve anything in the world to tell! (and trust me I “tell” a LOT) I go to her! If something happens, even a minute thing that probably has absolutely no significance whatsoever HAS to be told to Rashmi, not a day goes by where I haven’t randomly ranted to her about a million different things!

Even after school, though we went different places to college we’ve always been awfully close, we don’t need to meet each other or anything. We’ve just remained close.

There’s some kind of an inseparable bond between us. We’re dreadfully similar, ranging from our family backgrounds (only child, both working parents etc!) to the usage of words! That’s what has kept us together. And we’re not similar cos we were born that way, we’re similar cos we grew up with each other and we’ve been around each other for too long to be different!

As you turn 20, I couldn’t think of a gift to give you in return for making my life this way, cos if you weren’t there I wouldn’t have been like this. And this is the least I could do. I don’t think any amount of words can express what kind of friends we are. Just a feeble attempt!

Happy Birthday Rashmi!

It’s just a personal thing that I had to write, I don’t expect any comments or anything, cos “I don’t need any, I’m just expressing myself, cos my blog is where I put up whatever I feel

Extremely jobless post! :P

Picked up this tag from Pixie!

LAST TIMES… 1. Last beverage: Coffee
2. Last phone call: Kavya
3. Last text message: LP, “do you have the assignment questions!” (which I like as usual didn’t have! )
4. Last song you listened to: Aye Bachchu-Ghajini
5. Last time you cried: can’t really remember – this morning! (I’m the cry-er of the world! )

HAVE YOU EVER…

6. Dated someone twice: nope
7. Been cheated on?: I guess not.
8. Kissed someone & regretted it?: no
9. Lost someone special? : yes
10. Been depressed? : I guess yeah.
11. Been drunk and threw up? : no

LIST FOUR FAVORITE COLORS:
12. Black
13. White
14. Pink/Purple
15. Red

FIRSTS :
16. Made new friends: yeah, I’m rather friendly, but somewhat shy at times also!!
17. Fallen out of love: yes!
18. Laughed until you cried: Oh Damn. So many times! (cry as in just teary eyed!)
19. Met someone who changed you: YES. every person you meet makes an impact on your life and changes your life in a tiny way.
20. Found out who your true friends were: yes
21. Found out someone was talking about you: Not close friends (touch wood) but just random people (I guess I come across as these “attitude” types to people.) and bitchy aunts!

HAVE YOU:
22. Kissed anyone on your friend’s list: Hey, I don’t kiss and tell!
23. How many people on your friends list do you know in real life: On networking sites most of them, but on the blogroll, very few!
24. How many kids do you want to have: 2 period. I don’t want to have 1 kid like my parents did.
25. Do you have any pets: NO. I want a doggie
26. Do you want to change your name: No. I love my name!
27. What did you do for your last birthday: Hung out with friends, had a surprise bash and ate dinner with folks!
28.What time did you wake up today: 7.15. Late by 15 mins!
29. What were you doing at midnight last night: Was online
30. Name something you CANNOT wait for : The rest of my life!
31. Last time you saw your father: A minute ago! Actually he’s sleeping right here!
32. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life: I’m pretty happy, but would like to be a little more hard working and focussed onto stuff.
33. Most visited web page: google, facebook, blog, wikipedia.

WHAT’S YOUR :
34. Name: Niveditha:)
35. Nicknames: Niv, Nivi, and certain bakery products when people like mum and etc are in the mood! nobody’s got really creative with a nickname for me!
36. Zodiac sign: Capricorn
37. Male or female or transgender : female
38. Elementary: done in Baldwin Girls Bangalore
39. College: a JNC PU and now Dayananda Sagar-Engineering
40. Hair color: Very dark Brown, but not black.
41. Long or short: midway
42. Height: 5 feet 5
43. Do you have a crush on someone? : yes!
44. Ever been in love? Very subjective, depends on what you call “love” But yeah completely! Love’s just a very happy thing!
45. Piercings? : ears.
46. Tattoos? : None yet. But I think I want one, haven’t made up my mind though
47. Righty or lefty: righty
48. First surgery: none yet! (Scary!)
49. First piercing: No idea, within the 1st year though.
50. First best friend: Don’t remember.
51. First sport you loved: Cricket!
52. First pet : my pet plant zizou!
53. First vacation: No idea!
54. First concert: Don’t remember. I’ve never played. Only listened.
55. First crush: Hrithik Roshan!

RIGHT NOW:
56. Eating: nothing
57. Drinking: Water
58. I’m about to: go to sleep
59. Listening to: Rahman
60. Waiting for: this post to be done with!
61. Want kids? : obviously not anytime soon!
62. Want to get married?: Same as above
63. Careers in mind? : ABSOLUTELY CONFUSED!

WHICH IS BETTER WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX?
64. Lips or eyes: dunno!
65. Hugs or kisses: Depends on who’s giving them!
66. Shorter or taller: taller.Definitely!
67. Older or Younger:hmm… No idea!
68. Romantic or spontaneous: both.
69. Nice stomach or nice arms: stomach. I don’t like anyone with a pot belly!
70. Sensitive or loud: sensitive
71. Hook-up or relationship: relationship.
72. Trouble maker or hesitant: troublemaker.

HAVE YOU EVER : 73. Kissed a stranger: NO!
74. Lost glasses/contacts: Plenty of times!
76. Broken some one’s heart: Sometimes, my parents
77. Had your own heart broken: Yes, due to my own actions!
78. Been arrested: NO!
79. Turned someone down: yes.
80. Cried when someone died: yes.
81. Liked a friend that is a girl?: I’m straight, but I like all my friends who are girls!

DO YOU BELIEVE IN: 81. Yourself:  Of course!
82. Miracles: Yeah, in a strangely optimistic way!
83. God: Yes. Very much.
84. Love at first sight: Blah! Overrated question.
85. Heaven: Not like a surreal place though!
86. Santa Claus: YES!
87. Kiss on the first date? Never done it, good for those who believe it, but I don’t have an opinion.
88. Angels: yes. A lot of them are right in front of your eyes!
89. Devils: Same as above!

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:

90. Is there one person you want to be with right now? : yes.
91. Had more than one boyfriend/girlfriend at one time? : No
92. Wanted to kill someone ever? : YESSSS!
93. Among your blog mates, whom would you like to kiss? : none.
94. Committed a blunder and regretted later? : Not really.
95. Wanted to steal your friend’s boyfriend / girlfriend? : No.

ASSOCIATE WITH SOMETHING YOU WEAR :

96. White: shirts
97. Black: little black dress!
98. Red: Salwars
99. Pink: T-shirt

100. Posting this as 100 Truths? : no! My title is very apt!

This is outrageous

26/11 2008 A day that will be etched in our memories for the rest of our lives. Why? Because India faced one of its biggest tragedies ever, the amount of people dead and physically and mentally injured and the amount of losses faced is irreparable.

And how can we forget Hemanth Karkare, Major Unnikrishnan, Ashok Kamte and all those martyrs who laid down their lives. Of course some exceptionally cheap people had comments about these people too. But anyway, the past is the past, let’s come to the present.

As we all know Ajmal Kasab was caught at the scene of the crime, he was CLEARLY A TERRORIST. This he himself is not denying. If you ask me or a billion other Indians this b****rd, son of a b***h should have been shot dead then and there. He was arrested and some brilliant idiot (who should be killed before the terrorist himself) had the idea of giving him a “fair trial.”

Firstly, a trial is given to a person who is “accused” of a certain crime, not some body who is caught red-handed. Secondly the kind of crime he has committed is not one that can be forgiven under ANY circumstances. He has taken innumerable number of lives. He is much more dangerous than any ordinary murderer. He is a TERRORIST. When will these people get the actual meaning and depth of that word. His basic job is to KILL and not in ones or twos, but en-masse. In hundreds and thousands.

These people have put him in jail and now Mr. I’m-the-king-of-the-world is unrepentant. He thinks what he did was completely right and people like Karkare, Unnikrishnan and all those innocent children, loving parents, and law-abiding good citizens deserved the most horrible death they could get.

Mr. Kasab is now sitting in the prison and is expecting red carpet treatment from the world. He wants flavored toothpaste, a perfume, an Urdu newspaper, walks in the prison veranda and he also wants his prison money to be put into a bank.

I’ll tell you what’s worse? The government is obliging. This is not even close to sheer audacity, it’s just much much worse. He has the bloody ba**s to come and make such demands.

The government is a horrible let-down. They are very crassly using Kasab and by keeping him alive are looking for the Muslim votes. And the people of our country, seem to want the same government again. This is downright unbelievable. All those people who laid down their lives serving the nation, serving these b****rd politicians are getting this in return.

I’m not only angry at the way things are going now I’m deeply disappointed and immensely scared. At this rate of advancement of the Taliban, they will not only take over our country. We never know when we could die.

Think before you vote. It’s very important. Do you want to be alive and safe or take sides to support religion?

Those tiny things!

Today it’s raining cats and dogs (and a lot of other things!) I’m just a complete water baby and absolutely LOVE such weather!

I came home, all tired and it was SO hot today, I wasn’t feeling good about the weather at all! Until this! Besides nobody was at home which was a good thing cos my mum who’s all paranoid about my health would’ve played party pooper and sent me inside the second I went out in the rain!

What I did: I took some music and went out into the rain and was dancing there like a complete maniac!
I was on my balcony, which is somewhat private, no one on the road can spot me, but my neighbors who weren’t there like  a boon!

I just got super drenched in the rain and was enjoying myself so thoroughly I absolutely cherished those moments! I couldn’t care less if anyone saw me or if I was going to fall ill later! All that mattered to me was the beauty of that moment! In addition to all this, there was some neighbor preparing biriyani and the aromas were teasing my sense all the more!

After just losing myself in all the shower I came inside and my mother came and me some fresh home made hot hot sandige! I sat at the door, drying myself, gorging on to some yummy food! Wow! It was amazing!

These are a few things that make life worth living! If we wait for our big happy moment, we let all these tiny moments pass! These are the ones that make you smile and they’re moments of such joy! It was beautiful!

How I forgetted the englees!

This is the direct result of having extremely vernac profs who can’t talk english and still make wannabe attempts towards it, thus making our lives miserable. It would just be better if they spoke kannada, I mean, most of us understand Kannada and for those who don’t… It’s high time they learn!

We’ve a host of dialogues that our profs have used, got us extremely confused with and sent us into peels of laughter!

We’d a teacher who said “Are you visible?” What she meant of course was “Is it visible to you?” (NO I’m invisible, I’m being awarded the Nobel for this great invention! )

“Outernal” for “external” “Jaaa- for  Jaw” etc!

Articles are just out of the question, I believe all the people in the world have forgotten/ never learnt the difference between A, An and The…
Bring me a an textbook.
Where is the your book?
Why are you writing in the pencil?
(I SWEAR I’m NOT exaggerating)

The other common ones are, differences between as and has. And they use the wrong one more often than not!

Has you can see…
This part as to go there!

And  other “alien” mistakes like, “you has to putten it” and “you has to putted it!”

Past tenses and plurals have taken an entirely new meaning in the dictionary…

You see-ed the project?
Where is you going?
It affect the machines if you don’t use oil.

Sometimes teachers want to use specifically complicated words and end up using the wrong words instead…
Somebody wanted to say “Please use technical words in the paper” and ended up saying “technical words should not be nullified in the paper!!!” You’ve no idea how much we laughed!!!

There are also “These respects (for aspects) should be kept in the mind!”
Why are you going into the inner ( for finer) details?

But this one has to take the cake!!! A teacher once said instead of “Can you make out what I’m showing?”
“Can you see me making out?”
That was ultimate! Damn, how minor mistakes  like this can give such a dreadfully different meaning!

Really, if somebody wants to teach, they need to correct such tiny mistakes rather than get themselves embarrassed. I mean, how can they not figure. They have to do something about it, if they’re in the profession right? They don’t need to be literary geniuses but at least basic communication skills is necessary, isn’t it?!

I honestly after going throught this feel I’m forgetting english. My thought flow and usage of words and even sentence formation has become weaker. It’s not that I was ever great, it’s just going from bad to worse and I don’t like it.

Working woes

Why I haven’t been blogging for a long time now, is A) because my mum’s been ill and I’ve had to take care of all the cooking and cleaning and B) I’m forgetting english. I swear, the next post on why I’ve FOGOTTEN english!

Well, My mum was in the hospital last week due to lumbar spondylysis which means she had lower back ache. And I didn’t come home. Was shuttling between hospital college and cleaning at home.

She got discharged and got home. Of course she doesn’t need 24 hour attention but she needs 24 hour bed rest. Which means I have to do all the work. Damn it’s a hell lot of work.

It’s just a hell lot more than what meets the eye. All of us who don’t do the housework just take it for granted that there’s nothing much to do throughout the day, but every nook and corner of the house needs attention.

Early mornings are the worst, when you’re a late riser like me… I’m already late to college and I’ve to follow around the house helps and supervise them. It’s all the more tough for a person who lives in a duplex house like me… You’ve to run up and down the stairs atleast 50 times. Boy it’s tiring…

There are clothes to be folded, vessels to be kept back in their place, food to be made and served (three times a day) and water and other stuff to be carried every now and then… etc etc!

I can’t believe how mothers do it every single day, especially working women like my mother! Kudos!
Less than a week through and I’m already very exhausted. I have no clue how I’ll do this for the rest of my life once I leave home and get married and all… Leaves me worried