I love my new wallet/clutch/purse..whatever you call it, I love it…

Maybe not my usual style..but hey its time for a change…

I love this song :Osf and this :OsD

Love them…

There was this guy who loved two gals at the same time but he didn’t know which one he loved more.
Someone taught him. Ask yourself this question and answer it honestly:
“When you are happy, which gal would you want to share your happiness with?”
The one you think of is someone you love.

Ask yourself another question and answer it honestly:
“When you are sad, which gal you want to share your burden with?”
The one you think of is also someone you love.

If you think of the same gal when you are happy & sad, that’s the most perfect.
But if you don’t think of the same gal, I would advise you to choose the one you are willing to share your sadness with.
In life, there are more sorrows than happiness. There are too many people with whom you can share your happiness with, not necessarily your lover.

If you live your life happily, you can also enjoy it alone. In sadness, however, there are not many people willing to share your burden with you.
If you are willing to tell someone your happiness, I am sure that person has got to be someone close & an understanding person to you.

But it shouldn’t stop there.
If that person only thinks of you when she is happy, but looks for someone else when she is sad, this lover is too
unstable, she doesn’t treat you as someone she can spend the rest of her life with.

Of course, I will be very happy if I am the first person to share her happiness.
But, if she is sad, I will be too willing to stay by her side & ease her pain.
Only then, will I believe that I hold a very important position in her heart.

If you are sad, who comes to your mind first?

Friendship is a strange thing.
We find ourselves telling each other the deepest details of our lives … things we don’t even share with the families who raised us.
But what is a friend?
A confidant?
A shoulder to cry on?
An ear to listen?
A heart to feel?
A friend is all these … and more.
No matter where we met, no matter how long we’ve been together …
I call you friend.
A word so small,
yet so large in feeling,
a word filled with emotion,
a word overflowing with love.
Truly great things come in small packages.
Once the package of friendship has been opened,
it can never be closed.
It is a constant book always waiting…
waiting to be read…and enjoyed.
We may have our disagreements …
we may have our appointments. …
We may argue …
we may have concern for one another…
friendship is a unique bond that lasts through all tribulations.
A part of each of us goes into our friendships …
our humor …
our experiences …
our tears.

Who comes first to your mind?

Chaos Theory and Butterfly Effect

I watched Dasavatharam on last Wednesday. I was waiting for this movie for a year or more. Finally after so many lawsuits and don’t know what other obstacles it came out with lot of expectations. Some are happy with the movie while there are some who think that the movie was not good enough for the great expectation. Before I continue, Dasavatharam means 10 incarnations. So far the most number of roles that a single actor has done in one movie were nine roles by Sivaji Ganesan in (I don’t know what is the name of the movie). The director of the movie K.S.Ravikumar. He is known for movies with a bit of romance, a bit of fight, a bit of comedy and a bit of sentimental scenes. In other words, he knows the formula for a good commercial movie. The actor is kamal hassan. A dynamic actor who sets a new bence mark in the acting field with every movie. If the actor is not the director of the movie, you cannot expect a movie with 100% style of the actor being reflected in the movie. Instead you will see even if it is a small bit, you will surely see the director’s style in the movie. So those of you who have seen Dasavatharam would have realized that K.S.Ravikumar’s style is reflected in the movie quite obviously, in a pleasant manner. Now to the movie. The movie started with a ‘bang’. The force of the starting leaves you craving for more. The first song is great. Actually more than great. It shoots right to your heart. You will feel the tears in your eyes for the
Rangaraja Nambi (Kamal Haasan). When they throw the great statue of Vishnu into the sea with him tied to it, your heart would just stop for a moment and you would end up sitting at the edge of your chair thinking whether will Rangaraja Nambi come out of the sea alive miraculously( it could be cause you know that anything can happen in a Tamil movie). But nothing like that would happen. The switch to the present is sudden but not abrupt. It would not confuse you instead it will make you want to know what is happening. And why has the movie shifted to the present. From here the movie is a roller coaster ride. There is no one moment of boredom. Dasavatharam not only teaches us Chaos Theory and Butterfly Effect, it makes our conscious debate between God and science. Whether God has a reason for everything that happens including a Tsunami that killed 100 and 100 thousands of people. It also makes you struggle between the usage of advanced technology to create weapons that may destroy millions of people. Is is justifiable to use a weapon just because we are being attacked when we know that weapon can kill millions? Or is it justifiable to cause a disaster that results in 100 thousands of deaths to prevent millions of deaths? How inferior are these lives to those who were saved by this natural disaster? And as always we have to debate on the ethicals of a human as a human. What he should do vs what he can do. And it also makes us reflect on the ironies of life. How the person whom we detest the most could be our life saver. Or how a bhramin lady hugs a lower caste man whom she would have refused to even touch in another situation. Or how a status(caste) is not important to fight for what you want. And how the look does not reflect who you really are. And how a person whom we call insane sees more than a normal being like us do. This movies makes you asks endless number of questions that would leave you reeling. Despite the romance, comedy or fight, it leaves you with food for thought. It leaves you with uncertainties and confusion.

Now lets move to the other parts of the movie.

Asin did a good job as both Andal and wife of Nambi. Her attempt at comedy was commendable. She did act in path with Kamal.

The songs were very great. The only disappointment that I had was Ulaganayagan. I loved that song. But I feel the scene did not live up to it. Firstly when the song started, quite a length of time was focussed on George Bush(played by kamal). And this may mislead people to believe that the song is describing George Bush as the World Artist. And secondly I feel that K.S.Ravikumar should not have danced for that song. I don’t know how but they could have done this scene in a different manner.

The 10 characters of Kamal: Rangaraja Nambi, Govindarajan Ramaswamy, Christian Fletcher, Shingen Narahashi, Avtaar Singh, Krishnaveni, Vincent Poovaraagan, Kalif Ullah, President Bush and Balram Naidu.

My favourite among these 10 characters are Vincent Poovaraagan, Rangaraja Nambi and Avtaar Singh. I like them because firstly, for Vincent Poovaraagan’s desire to save the soil whom he compares to a mother. He does not fear or back down because he is from the lower caste. Rangaraja Nambi stands by what he believes in even if it is to lose his life. And Avtaar Singh mainly for his dancing.

I felt that most characters out of the 10 brought out some kind of message for us.

Govind did what he should do to save millions of people. He tried his best. He stood by his ethics.

Krishnaveni like i said before the insane sees what we the sane do not see.

Fletcher shows the evilness that can exist among us.

Avtaar shows that if you love life, you would not want death any time soon. He loved life cause he loved his wife.

Kalif Ullah is the perfect example of how size or look have nothing to do with how a person is. His size do not go with his character(naivety). And it is quite real in our world.

Other then the acting, the camera work was superb. The computer graphics were excellent. Especially the beginning of the movie.

Some similarites can be seen among some secenes in the movie and other movies of kamalhassan. Especially the chracter Krishnaveni seems like the oldie in Micheal Madhana Kamarajan. And Kalif Ullah looked like Bheem Boy in the same movie. Some dialouges too sounded quite familiar. But I could not figure which movies are they from.

Other then this small pleasant hiccup, the movie is a must-watch. Even days after watching the movie, you would feel the impact of it in you.

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT.

The day started of with . WHICH IS A GOOD GOOD GOOD START FOR THE DAY. Then it was continued by lunch in MOS BURGER. Followed by . And to end the day we got treated by N’s mum with these : , , , and . That was a feast. Now wasnt this a great day or not…

Last Fri, we had a surprise for a friend. A birthday surprise at Swenson’s. The most ironic part is that I haven’t met her in the last four years. We studies in JC together. After graduating, we slowly drifted apart. By the way I was quite close to her in JC. And the drifting apart wasn’t her fault really. Its more my fault. She asked me to meet up many times, but every time there would be a reason and I could not meet her..And slowly she stopped asking and I did not take the effort to meet up after that. After four years, we saw each other and I realized that it is really sad coz, coz of our ‘laziness’ or not wanting to take the extra step, we actually lose some good friends. It struck me how much I missed her nonsense. Her sarcasm and her as a person. We just flow with life. Its more like life is carrying us through our living. We are not really living. We let the untouched be untouched. We don’t take the effort to correct something that has been in that particular way for many years. We get too comfortable in our situation that we don’t want to do anything to change it. In this way, we lose many people and get bored with life and get lazy.

When I was saying this to another friend, A. She said thats why there is MSN and blogs to keep in contact. Because we cannot meet up often. Then I realised that, I don’t even talk to 3/4 of the contacts in my MSN list. There is this particular group whom I always chat with. The rest, I don’t remembered when I really chatted anyone who is outside that list. In reality, MSN is a way for us to cheat ourselves thinking that ‘hey, she is in my MSN contact list. We are still in contact. ‘.. Now that is truthfully rubbish. We add long lost friends so we can console ourselves that we took the effort to maintain the friendship. And a stagnant relationship is not friendship. Be it once a week or once a month, we should chat with the people on our list. Meet up once in awhile..Even if it is once a year. Like a ritual. You would realize that you actually good friends. Its just that you never bothered looking more than you have to.

It has been almost 2 months since U me aur Hum came out. Ajay Devagan’s first attempt as a director. And another superb acting by the star couple. As a movie, its a great movie. With love, comedy and sentiments. The acting is marvelous. Ajay and Kajol has great chemistry.(duh!!!) The opening is very symbolic for the story. The way the letters join in one by one to form the quote, I believe says that there is no love or life without you and me in it. Maybe it wasnt meant that way. But thats the way I took it. Ajay as a lover boy and a good husband plays well. I think he really pulled of the caring husband. The pain and love that he brought in his eyes. It would make your eyes tear for sure. Kajol has given her best to go in stride with Ajay. But i think she did not quite reach the standard that she set for herself in Fanaa. Her acting was good, but not as good as Fanaa. I liked the actors who acted as Ajay and Kajol’s friends. Many would wish for such supporting friends. They were great.The setting was romantic. A cruise. The sea. The sky… it just creates the right mood. The other negative I felt was the make-up. I felt that it wasnt properly done. Esp for Kajol. It wasnt natural. And something that got onto my nerve was in a certain scene where Kajol and Ajay were talking, the camera kept moving the focus fr Ajay to Kajol and back again. After awhile it got boring and very importantly it gave me a headache. They could have avoided this. When I was reading about U me aur Hum in wikipedia, they wrote the movie is loosely based on the movie notebook. I did not see Notebook. But I have seen the first 50 dates..And i thought the story U me aur Hum may have been based on first 50 Dates. As a whole the movie is good and worth your time and money. At times it may test your patience, but believe me when you finish seeing the movie you will be left with wet eyes and a smile..

Which way is the bus below travelling?

To the left or to the right?

Can’t make up your mind?

Look carefully at the picture again.

Still don’t know?

Primary school children all over the UK were shown this picture and asked the same question.

90% of them gave this answer:

‘The bus is travelling to the right.’

When asked, ‘Why do you think the bus is travelling to the right?’

They answered:

‘Because you can’t see the door to get on the bus.’

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

‘Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things—God, your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.

The sand is everything else—the small stuff. ‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

‘Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first—the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.’
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. ‘I’m glad you asked.

It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.’

I don’t know whether it is a work of nature or of a man. But whatever it is, the carvings are great.