Plan B

What do you do when it rains cats, dogs and donkeys? Sitting inside the house and watching an irrelevant IPL match would be Plan A. But we chose Plan B. We got inside the car and literally "boated" our way to Innovative Multiplex to see the movie "99". A movie released in a multiplex after a long time. But no one seems to know about it because we were a group of 5 and the total number of people inside the hall would have been 10 (which included the theatre guy who switched off the fan during the show - Go Green).

If you are reading this expecting a review of the movie, then you are at the wrong place. You must be checking out www.google.co.in and search for "movie 99 review" and you will get "about 83,800,000 results" and you can spend the rest of your avatars reading the reviews. What I wanted to do here is to just share a few things which I liked about the movie and the few other things which I did not like.

First, the 99 things I like about the movie. Since the list is very big and the reader might have better things to do in life, I will list out a few of them. Or in typical Google ishtyle - "Results 1-5 of about 99" -

1. The humour - it was clean and really funny. No dialogues with double or triple meanings. Even the consequences of having a mobile in your pant pocket are explained very neatly :-). There are lots and lots of funny moments.

2. The movie is set in 1999 - 2000. And the entire movie makes you feel that you are during that period - right from the movie posters, the mobile handset models to the banner which says "Welcome Bill Clinton".

3. Cyrus "Virus" Broacha - no one does not know that this guy can talk. Or should I say everyone knows that this guy can talk. But this guy can act also and whatever little he does in the movie is good.

4. Music - you have to listen to it. I liked it and you may like it too.

5. The theatre - it was more of a home theatre. To make it more realistic, they switched off the A/C. But long time since I saw a movie like this and it was definitely not the movie's fault.

Things I did not like are a very few. One of them is definitely Soha Ali Khan. They could have gone for a better actress. And the next one is Miss Mosquito - though it did not come in the movie it was very much there in the theatre. Well, what else do you expect when you execute Plan B on a rainy day.

Trip to My Utopia

Where do i start ?Alicia keys crooning 'No One'
in the background...me twiddling with my new haircut
while i wonder what it would be like to sit on a
speedboat right now ?!!Gushing water all over...i scream
"woohooooooooo"!!!! Now thats exhilirating :)
But what's even better is ,i now wish to see the world ,like i've
always perceived it ...upside down -And what better way that
to bungee dive ...too much on the same day ??Naaaaah:)

Next on the agenda : would be to slurp on burgers and fries
and then maybe a long island tea ;)
Or maybe we save that for later ...

Then i would love to try one of those exotic spas...
where they twist your arms and neck until you hear your bones knuckle...
Sipping on a cold lemon fizz tea...

And then I speed off in my red Ferrari (with no bloody
traffic to disturb!!) for a long,long long drive ...
and probably stop for shopping for a new hat !

Aaargghh!!! a meeting reminder snaps me back into reality ...
Gosh !will life ever get more colorful? :(

Actually life gets more amusing as i grow older...i remember
'trying' to study in high school the formula to calculate
pressure inside a bubble !!??Why would i ever need to know that?

Befuddled chromosomes

Yes,so why is the current generation so wayward?
I mean ,why do our parents feel that we are rebellious
and distracted? …….But then we just feel very restricted!
I mean i feel like a balloon who is tightly being clutched onto,
whereas i want to be left fee into the skies...and seamlessly float
around.After all,we all just have on life and shouldnt we experience
it to the fullest ?
Like a dear friend once told me (yes Deepu ,its you)i think we are a very
confused lot.We have grown up with traditional values ,but at the same time
exposure to the growing winds outside have also moulded our personalities.
(for the good or worse -now thats the question!)

For instance i might want to marry Nikhil Chinnappa (sorry Pearl),but heck would my mom ever see sense in that?She would freak seeing the number of piercings or rings he had! But i believe these are people who stretch life beyond all limits !Now thats what i define as "living" !

Now ,where do we draw the line ?or can we honestly do that ?Parents would explain
age mellows everything -but why would i want to give in ,when i want to feel every throbbing pulse of life?

Conclusion?...u dont have to look at van Gogh's 'Scream' - you can look at me instead :(

Life - A Prison

To lead a life
Is to face a lot of strife
Man's life from being a son
To his departure is life in prison

Body is locked
In his mamma's womb!
For a child
school is prison-home!
The dress like shield
Does arrest a man!
He fetters,himself
To his love's locls!
Being imprisoned
By her lovely looks!
He seeking employment
Chains himself to a chair!
Family does,no doubt,
Lock him in a closet!
Death does meet him then
To keep him in a cabin!
Thus from womb to tomb
He leads a life of prison!