Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix

I've been to the latest Harry Potter movie on sunday.My first of the whole lot that were released so far.Well HP turned out to be good but can't watch it more than once kind.

And i must really thank my friend who patiently sat with me & introduced all the characters.The first 10 mins was something outta magic box kind to me (i didn't read the book) but then yeah the movie kinda captured my attention for the next 2hrs.No breaks & it's been a long since i enjoyed an English movie (Ocean's Thirteen doesn't count ofcourse) and i understood that the director really has a way to capture everyone's tastes - from a 5 yr old to a 40+ person which is simply amazing.Given the hype created about the movie & the book, i almost thought it too be yet another much hyped movies but then it definitely proved otherwise.

HP all in all was kewl & entertaining unlike some of the recent flicks i had the pleasure of watching :)

A 1000 Splendid Suns

When i bought the book all i was interested was just about the way the author had given the brief.But it turned out to be a real big surprise to me as i completed it at one go.

The story is about a little girl Mariam who grows in a remote village of Afghanistan & the way she's married to someone thrice her age & sent off to Kabul.How her life changes after that,how she copes with a husband who as days pass by changes into a volatile person.And then comes the part when Mujhahids occupy Afghanistan,their gruesome rule & the way each and every person's life change because of the same.At the same time we also get to see another young gal whose ife again changes after a single missile attack & how she gets attached to Mariam's life.Then the rule of Taliban..

It's all about 2 women who give up lot of things in their life,settle down in the same house as wives of one volatile mean husband who ends up getting killed one night by Mariam.And how Mariam makes the decision of accepting the crime but at the sametime makes a new life for Laila ,her daughter & son.You get to read about the extreme cruelties of every single person during theTaliban period has gone through & not to forget the period before that.And not to mention lot of good moments where in you get to read about how big the word TITANIC meant to them then.

Somewhere this book definitely touches a raw chord in every single reader.But then again some might get easily bored with the same.Afterall opinions differ - Don't they

A good read after a long time

IND(B)ORE

Aataa - Jhoom Bharabar Jhoom..That's how i would rate JBJ.As pathetic as it can get and i couldn't wait to get outta the movie hall for both the movies.Ocean's Thirteen on the other hand was good (can't expect anything else) atleast better when compared to those mentioned earlier.With this i think am done with my movies as of now atleast coz i never seem to get the tickets for the oh-so-great SIVAJI anyways.
Back at work,right now in Indore on a consultant jobfair which turned out to be a dampner,thanx to the rains and people giving the same excuse for not turning up here at the consultant's place.3 days of journey & nothing fruitful.

How i love this!!!!!!

Marathon...on movies ofcourse

I've been watching lotsa movies from my last trip to Chennai.In Chennai it was about some 18 movies within 3 days & last sunday it was back to back movies in Hyd & one each on mon & wed.But the best was this..Life in a Metro had a A cert & i feel that can be watched by everyone where in the gol movie Aata had a U cert but boy oh boy..Na na kind.Makes me wonder as to how it ever crosses the censor board :)My mistake that i even went for a gol movie..A gol movie is a gol movie is a gol movie as Krishna says & hey hats off to you

More to come..Probably starting with Ek Chaalis ka last local

Master / Visa - Do i care?

Flight ticket to Chennai Rs.4000
Taxi from Airort Rs.300
Ticket from Chennai to Hyd Rs.700
Surprise smile on sis's face Priceless

There are somethings money can buy & for everythingelse there's my Master & Visa card :)

And am getting back Chennai for a different reason altogether today but still the above said statement stands the same

Bad start

When things go wrong they definitely do in a big way.Or atleast that's the case with me.Wokeup late (which i always do),had my bath & then realised that i donot have a single set of salwar to wear :(..So stuck to casuals & took the auto to my new house..And then realised halfway through that i have forgotten the keys to my cases & my id card..So asked the glaring,fuming autowallah to get me back to my friend's place for the card & keys.Travel back to my new house,change & step out in the same auto to my office.Reached here around 1.15PM and saw that my VP for HR OPS is here :( Went out for lunch with him along with the team ofcourse.A nice person & special bond between the both of us coz of the Chennai factor.

So here am after a nice lunch,fighting a bad headache but still here.Hope nothing goes wrong and am able to push off home early today.Early by 10PM max

R&R

Never book a ticket in Air Deccan even for free is the lesson i learnt last Friday.2hrs of delay & they had not an iota of idea as to why the delay.And had the nerve to say Thank you for choosing Air Deccan & we regret for the slight delay :) On the whole last weekend was good.I never stepped outta my house for once, all 2 days i was there.And watched about 6 movies.What better way to R & R on a weekend.Only thing i missed was meeting my colleagues in Chennai Centre.Now back here in Hyd,and the hunt begins for a house & the regular jhunjat of joinees & attrition & what not.

Hope i get to find a house before i get thrown out of my GH.

Grrrrr

2 hectic weeks..My trip to Bijapur was uneventful except for Ayesha whom i met & befriended there.So simple & yet so elegant.She along with Aliya made my day when they took me to Golgumbaz & Ibrahim Roza which made my day.First thing that struck me when i entered Golgumbaz was thw way it's maintained neatly unlike some Golconda & Charminar (Phew).Really neat,no litter around & well maintained gardens.Was a different experience after visiting some of those oh so famous places in Hyd.Just back from Chennai & feeling a bit home sick :)

And from next weekend it's gonna be boring.No more ISB & no more Krishna in Hyd :( But that's way life is & i have to just take it.And the drooping of my eyes remind me that am supposed to shut shop & push off from work..Wish it's as easy as said

In Gol land

It's been a month since i have blogged.Too manythings,but the best of all is my move toHyderabad.Couldn't ask for more with just in time for my appraisal & complete move to recruitment.Now comes the tough part of food & langauge.I can manage telugu but the Hindi they speak here is BAD :) So much goingon here & never a moment of boredom.Feels a lot different to what i have gone thru in Chennai.Hope to see best of it in the days to come.All said &done,i miss Chennai..Miss it big time.Miss my home &miss my Chennai office

Have been to Golconda fort & Charminar.The former was super if you can just forget people throwing litter around,inscribing their love on the walls of the fort (bahhhhhhhh) :) & the latter,well i have no words..Charminar has no CHARM.We were actually disappointed rather disgusted the way it's being maintained & the crowd and the list goes on & on & on.The picture you see here in my blog,don't get fooled. :) It's nothing like this when you see the actual thing

The next time someone is going to talk about Hyd and Charminar as the most beautiful thing on earth,they sure will get a piece of my mind.Man thatz one trip which i really wanna take off my list & mind

Life Minus Sinus

Life minus sinus for me is a dream..It all started sometime last year when my doc said i have chronic Sinusitis.I then had no knowledge on that but then was on medication for a while which gave me temp relief for about 4 months.The next thing i knew was that my teeth has been affected because of the same & had it removed early this month.And now i know how chronic is Chronic Sinusitis.It's called Maxillary Sinusitis.And then my ENT doc told me that the mucus has hardened in my skull,infact he went a step further & explained "It's like water dripping in droplets & then turning into ice or frost or whatever & in my case it's the same way that my mucus has become hard".With that came lotsa instructions,list of dos & donts.Gave him a vague smile when i stepped out.People in my office are used to seeing me with a box of tissues in my desk & no longer make fun.These days they just give me a smile - an all knowing smile which says sorry gal but you gotto live with it.And now it's melting.After struggling with the goddamn thing for almost an year it's melting & iam not complaining.For almost a week i've been blowing out mucus so much that even my ENT doc was surprised.Like Krishna said i think all this while it has been some kinda cold storage & like how my sis commented the other day that my auto defrost system is up & running :)

Say whatever like said in the first line..it's just a dream & hoping that one day am off it.

R&R

Long weekend but an amazing one like it had been never before.Met a very good friend of mine after almost 3 yrs & was catchingup for a long time with him.It was good & made me realise that i do need to spend sometime with my friends & my family too.But the best part about the weekend was the wedding which we attended.Much as i was sceptical in attending that one,i htink i wudda missed something had i not gone there.Was pure fun & never before had i seen a procession like this in my family.And to think all along that my mom's side is orthodox.It was pure to dance with the groom when the groom came back to the mandap and i still remember th look on the bride's face.Shock,surprise & then the acceptance.Vibrant & colorful is all i can say about the marriage & ofcourse the same goes for the weekend too.

R&R is how i feel now :)

Hope

There's no end to my dental woe..End result is that am gonna have my tooth extracted on Saturday.Hope i don't have any problems atleast on the dental part post extraction.

Guru !!!!!!

GURU - Latest addition in my audio collection.

Starts off with Barso Re by Shreya Ghosal & Uday.Awesome way she takes you to a high right in the first track.Then comes my personal fav which is Tere bina by our man Rahman & Chinmayee..Perfect synchronization,can't expect anything less ofcourse.It basically has got a Sufi kinda beatWay too good.The next 1 is kinda ok which goes something like Ek lo ek muft.In Mayya you get to feel the taste of Rahman's speciality again..Very good beat & again takes you to a middle eastern kinda song.Ae Hairathe Aashiqui starts the same way as Tere Bina and with voices of Hariharan & Alka it only adds a feather to the whole album.Baazi laga well not all that great esp when Madhushree sings,u definitely will feel the slack.

Last but not the least & the best in the whole lot is Jaage Hain.Rahman & Chitra..Man they give a new dimension altogether.Not much of background of music & Chitra croons over with her soft voice & all of a sudden you get to hear Rahman's voice in a high pitch & in a different tempo.This song brings tears to my eyes everytime i listen to it.And can only be enjoyed if one understands the depth of the song..Rather the soul.Thanks to Gulzar & Rahman,they have once more created the magic..

Khuda Hafiz

Re-solutions...ugh ughhhhh

My love for my dentist seem to be growing stronger as i paid him this year's first visit y'day.And like always this is just a beginning before the whole session starts.As for my new year resolutions..here we go

1.Work hard (grrrrrrrrr..zzzzzzzzzzzzz)
2.Love thy neighbours (neighbours -- oh yeah)
3.No swearing (What the F***)

To hell with them,i just wanna be the way am right now..well maybe a few corrections here n there but..

Last 3 days

3 more days & one more year gone.It's been a great year for me interms of gaining good friends,change of job (for the better) & last but not the least the shift to Hyderabad.Only wish that it could have happened a bit earlier than this.Not that am cribbing.Am fine with the shift inspite of the hardship am gonna face there.

On the darker side,i have ended up hurting few but am trying to correct that.It's tough building back the trust but hey am not complaining afterall am the reason for all that happened. I can never undo what has already been done but i'll atleast try not to err again in the same way.

To ERR is afterall human & am one :)

Atlast

http://www.ndtv.com/breakingnews/default.asp?refno=1218200631310PM

Hats off

Judgment

It's strange that almost a week after Soren gets his verdict,the Delhi High Court is all set to give it's verdict for yet another high profile case - Jessica Lall's this time.But what irked me was the way our man Mr.Oh - so- Prejudiced - Jethmalani twisted the whole case around & way by which killing the already dead person once more but this time in a more sick way.And surpising that this case has it's own set of twists n turns like the Best Bakery case and it's key witness Zaheera who was the talk of the nation for a while.Will our judicial system give a verdict which is convincing enough; afterall it's we who brought back the case through repeated petitions to our Hon'ble President through media.

Will Manu Sharma & Vikas Yadav be given life sentence?Will our HC react the same way to Nitish Katara's case the same way it did?Will Shyam Munshi ever realise the damage he has done?Or will our Ram Jethmalani reveal the 'actual killer' according to his words?

Well it's time for us to wait n see afterall it's judgment day today

If only

What a way to start the week.Here in office by 9.15 & cursing myself as to why i missed my opportunity to speak up.Probably should try & get to watch the Airtel ad again :) Power games are something am used to but what am not is the dirty way it's being played here.And to say i have no control in this is putting it very mildly.

The other thing that's been bothering me for a while now is the way a certain friendship which is going down the drain.When i make friends it's mostly for a lifetime and that's the way it has been always.But maybe i expect too much out of them or maybe am not upto their league,it just hurts when someone becomes a virtual stranger all of a sudden.Yeah i accept that i do pickup fights but hey that's what best buddies are for & to make up.How do i put it across that whatever he's doing is just creating a rift between the both of us.But i think there's no point in just me saying all these coz that's what i hear fromt he other end too.

Kaashhhhhh......

Justice

"Soren, who was brought from Tihar Jail, looked pale and was shocked on hearing the sentence."
Very funny isn't it when the family of the victim wants death sentence for Soren.One can understand their feelings..Waiting & fighting for 12 long yrs.

That makes me wonder as to how Sidhu is going to react when his time comes & ofcourse not to forget Manu Sharma & Vikas Yadav.. ;) Afterall, 'you reap what you sow'

And just read the news that Sidhu has been given 3yrs RI & for which he signed a bail bond yesterday.WTF

Attitude

What a week the past week was..2 untimely deaths,one in family & one out had left me shocked & to say both passed away in Cardiac arrest.The one in my family made me sit back and also made me realise that am taking too much advantage whe it comes to health related issues.Made me fix an appointment with the ENT in the coming week & also made me realise that even am scared of death.Well i was always that kinda person who thought if n when the time comes i'll have to leave the world but hey now am scared..Don't want to die young just coz am careless.Now that's one thing.

Another incident that happened was the change in my office.One major change & well am not happy either but then as i always say "Change is the only permanent thing in life" & we gotto moveon.It's just the way as to how we react to those changes is what makes a difference.Easier said than done as am in the same transition phase and not different from my colleagues here.And i can easily understand as to why they are putoff.Attitude - am seeing the way it's actually breaking the team spirit.Makes me believe in only one thing "To Different Minds,the same world is Hell and Heaven" & as to how true it is.I only hope that this change is not permanent & that we get back to our normal routine

Heaven for some & hell for some.Isn't that true :)