Anywhere but home

Just came back from watching a movie - Anywhere but home. It was released with a new name here in India (Don't know why though!). It was released a long time back elsewhere as Four Christmases. It was a typical Hollywood movie. Sort of funny too. 

One thing that is common in all Christmas movies: there has to be a guy who tells the kids that there is no Santa Claus. Oh, the horror! And the kids are so shocked and everything. Is this for real!?

I must say though, I like watching Christmas movies... even though they are all the same.

I finally saw Bourne Identity! It was an okay movie, I honestly don't know what the big deal is! Probably my expectations were too high. This always happens to me! Next movie is Bourne Supremacy. Lets see how that goes. I liked the car chase though. I usually like chases. In The Dark Knight, there is a chase, where Batman is following the Joker. That was so good! Especially the way how Batman's cloak is flying(?) behind him! Hmmm.. too bad The Dark Knight didn't get as many Oscars as was expected.

I am watching a lot of movies, right!?

Stuff

Yesterday I watched Memento. Had not watched it before, and unfortunately I could not enjoy it. And this, only because I watched Ghajini. I knew Ghajini was a remake of the Tamil movie, but I didn't know that the Tamil movie was also a remake! I only got to know about it later, which was too bad. Had I known, I would not have watched Ghajini. And to think that I actually liked the movie! How could I have liked that horror?! 

I could not watch the whole movie (Memento). Only because I kept comparing it to the Hindi one, and it completely ruined it for me. I saw about 45 minutes of the beginning, and then saw the end. And then, I realised that end made no sense, so I watched the five minutes of the beginning again! (Yes, I do all this. )Apparently this is one movie where one has to watch it twice to understand it (is what my friend said). 

Today I will watch Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy. Have read the book before, and when I watched it I got irritated cause the whole story was changed. But now, I do not remember all the details in the story, so I figured I might as well watch it. Will watch Memento also someday, when I forget that I watched Ghajini (the horror!). 

Oh, and something completely unrelated: Sometimes I like how the day starts out being really bad, and then one incident completely makes it all better. This happened today; this morning I was moping around and now I am so happy! Damn cool! 

Also, I thought I had lost my Pan card (don't remember if I blogged about it), but today I found it. When I was searching for something else. Time for me to arrange all the stuff in my room, so I get what I want - when I want it. I totally hate this!

Funny!

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." - Robert Pirsig

Their world

Yesterday I was watching Amazing Race on TV, and they had come to Jaipur for the race. As the contestants were traveling in the car to some place near Jaipur, few of them started crying. Mostly because there are so many stray animals, and they were eating garbage, and such. They also saw a lot of kids near these garbage piles and were feeling emotional about the whole thing. That's what got me thinking - we Indians are so used to seeing poverty that it does not shock us anymore. Yeah, I feel sad that there is so much of poverty and that there is not much I can do about it. I don't like the fact that there are so many kids on the streets. But I don't think I would cry about all of that! I feel really bad, for a few minutes. That's it, I suppose. And then I force myself not to think about this, and try to forget it.

This is the main reason why Indians did not really like slumdog millionaire. We have seen slums, and we have seen such kids. And so for us, it is just a story. But for most of the Americans, this whole idea of a slum is horrendous, and when they see such things, it is time for them to thank god for everything that they have! It is sad, really. They have no clue of what is happening in the whole world. Their world begins and ends in America.

Being myself

Like a moron, I have been obsessed with the Big Brother show (the US one). It started on Saturday afternoon, around 1 in the afternoon when I switched the channel to VH1. I had never watched Big brother before, and was always wondering what the big deal is. I am a big fan of reality TV shows ( I don't know why!!), and when I saw that Big Brother is on, I could not help but watch it! And so I did. The only problem was that it was a marathon. Which meant that they would show the whole series at one go. No big deal, anyway it was a saturday, and it should finish by evening. Or so I thought. I watched it till 11:30 at night. Continuously. They stopped showing it at 11:30, else I would have watched it some more.

So on sunday, i woke up a little late, and I thought of just checking if the show was coming on TV. And it was! Yay!! So I started yet again to see it. Luckily ( phew!) I had plans of meeting friends, so I left home at one - for lunch, bowling and some ice cream. The ride back was so awesome. There was no one on the streets!! I mean, MG Road was empty! It was so weird to see hardly any people on a sunday evening! I reached back home around 6 ( I guess) and it started again. My parents were going mad. I tried making them watch it, and tried telling them that this is so much better than the stupid serials that they are so obsessed about. Obviously they thought I was a moron.

And so I watched. And watched. Till 12:30 in the night. Yes, 12:30! I had to see who won! I wanted any of 2 people to win (Sharon or Adam), and Adam won. Like I care.

And today is a monday. I can barely open my eyes. I just want to sleep.

Did I learn anything this weekend? Yes, of course. I realised that not eating chocolate ice cream makes me bowl really bad. (Yesterday I scored a pathetic 65. Yuck.) I also learnt that if you want to succeed, you should know how to lie and show that everything that you do is great (even know it is not, duh!).

Did I learn anything useful this weekend? No. Sigh. Atleast I could have read a book.

Sleep! I want sleep!!!

I love...

- being sarcastic, sarcastic jokes, writing sarcastic emails!

- music

- reading books

- sunshine

- watching the sky when the sun is setting

- watching movies on the TV when I am alone.

- trees

- sitcoms on Star World

- Coldplay

- google

- internet

- blogs

- firefox

- coffee

- one hour lunch breaks when there is a lot of work

- listening to Mr Barker on the radio

- bags from Wildcraft (I have one that I got 6 years ago! and it is still in a usable condition)

- cats

- waking up late on Sundays

- vacations

- nice, wide, empty roads early morning on the way to work

- anything which has bread

- junk food

- silver finger rings

- wearing jeans to work on weekdays

- being a rebel

- speaking my mind

- people who speak their minds

- honesty

- watching Roger Federer beat Nadal

- the colour blue

- watching the look on someone's face when they open a gift 

- being surprised

- questioning things I don't understand

- going out with friends

- making lists

- crossing out things I have completed on the list

- Google desktop!

- intelligent people.

- spell check

- John Grisham's books

- reading comments on blog I read

- reading comments on Digg.com

- watching Friends on TV with my sister

- wikipedia

- nokia mobile phones

- having food in open spaces

- coffee shops

- the movie Little Miss Sunshine (its hilarious)

- listening to music and reading on the way to office while everyone else is sleeping

- looking out the window

- listening to people

- visiting new places

- playing cards

- long journeys on a train

- reality TV 

- shopping with my sis and mom

- wearing sports shoes

- to watch people getting embarrassed for silly reasons

Grammy awards

This time there are so many songs that I like which have been nominated for Grammy awards! So this list contains few songs and albums that I really like listening to.

Record Of The Year and Best Rock Album AND Album Of The Year -- Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Gosh, I just love this album. Coldplay is so amazing. I just feel like listening to the songs over and over again. And I can keep doing this the whole day, or the whole week! My favourite songs - Viva La Vida, Death and all his friends, Life in technicolor (it is instrumental in the album, but however I have seen a version of it in a video with lyrics!), Violet hill, Cemeteries of London. I know there are too many songs listed, but I can't just pick one or two!

Album Of The Year  and Best Alternative Music Album --  In Rainbows - Radiohead
I just discovered RadioHead last year. Their songs are totally different, they sound simply amazing.

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
    I'm Yours by Jason Mraz
    Closer by Ne-Yo
These two songs I have listened on the radio, and I keep waiting for the radio to play them. I guess it is mostly the tune that I like, more than anything else.

Apologize by OneRepublic . This song is nominated for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals. I want them to win!

Disturbia by Rihanna. Nominated for Best Dance Recording. I usually don't like Rihanna's songs, but this one is just addictive! After listening to this song, I actually downloaded few more songs from her album, and I must say they are incredible. A song called Umbrella which used to irritate me SO much initially sounds good now? crazy.

Well, I hope they all win! I just realised that most of the songs I like are songs where I could sing along. (Not that I sing along, or anything. But atleast I have the option. )

Annoyed

Things were great at work till today. There is a moron who is working with me, and she cannot do a thing! She cannot remember anything that I say. Even after I tell her something, she would go back and sit in her place. And then she will ping me asking questions. What the hell? How can she be so incompetent? And to top it all off, my manager thinks she is good in what she does. However, all I see her do is chat with her friends, mail unnecessary things to everyone, make my life hell, and yap on the phone all day long!

So what happened today? There is something that the moron and I have discussed over and over in a period of 2 weeks maybe. And the moron still pings me and asks me the most basic question that one could ever ask. I don't get it, I really don't. If she does not know this simple thing, she does not know anything! What a waste of my time! This is totally annoying.

All I have been doing today is browse the net, and as the day passed by I have this bad feeling since I have not done anything. It is not a big deal though, I still have time to complete what I have to do. One thing is for sure, this time I am not bailing her out. She has to do everything on her own. Let me see what she is actually capable of. I don't know why, I just have this bad case of intense dislike against her!

Been listening to Pink Floyd lately, and man do they have awesome songs! All i knew before was Comfortably Numb and Another Brick In the Wall. But now I realize that there are so many wonderful songs. Listen to Coming Back to Life. Wow, it feels so good when I listen to it. I will almost always get a smile on my face when I hear this track!

Radio

I listen to the radio on the way, and back from office. And I realised how bad some of the RJ's are. The music is good, but when the RJ starts making no sense, its just annoying. 

Last week, an RJ just came on air, and he was commenting on the weather. And he said the weather is "Pleasantish gloomy". What the hell is that? It is either pleasant, or gloomy. How can it be both?

There was another time, where the RJs asked the listeners to name bands who they think are the 'worst band of all times'. Apparently, when you google for 'worst band in the world', it names Creed, and the RJs think they are not really that bad. So, some listener sent a text saying he thinks it is Korn. And the RJ says, "Korn? Who is Korn? I have not even heard of this band!" How is this possible? She is an RJ! How can she not know who Korn is?! At this point, I just switched off the radio and started listening to my own playlist. 

Pigeons and Crows

Yesterday, there was a "meet" in one of my friend's house. They have some name for it, I cannot remember what. It was something about Jesus, and praising the God, worshiping, and some stuff like that. There were 4 christians, and me. I have never felt so conscious about my religion till yesterday. They were playing some godly songs, and talking about their experiences with god!(?). I felt so out of place, that I left in 5 minutes.

I later joined for dinner. And they were still playing songs, and somehow the conversation drifted to pigeons. 2 guys were in a train station, and they were hungry. They saw pigeons, and were glad that they were not close to them, else they would have eaten them! What the hell, I thought. But it was not over.

One guy said he had an air gun, and that he shot a pigeon once and ate it. I was sick when I listened to it! And he was SO proud of it! He shot a goddamn pigeon coz he wanted to eat it! Fuck! Who does that, I thought. But, it's not over yet! Then, another guy said that he too had an air gun. But he didn't shoot pigeons. He just shot a crow. And then he hanged it at the top of his house. So that other crows don't come close! Whatever, man. You people are just weird! And creepy. I just went back home. I don't even know how I managed to swallow what I was eating. It was just sick.

I was so angry yesterday, I could not even sleep. I just can't get over the fact that there are people who see pigeons, and then just decide to kill them coz they want to fucking eat it. I don't even want to see these people anymore. Yuck.