I'm off..

I'm just going off blogging for a while.. dunno for how long.. cud b a day, a week or mayb more..( or mayb i'll b back even before that :) ) I'm just acting impulsively.. but i have to do this...

Well, hope to see ya soon!

Loud Louder Loudest

According the WHO, the permissible limit for hearing noise is between 45- 60 DB.
In India, 90 DB is ordinary permissible limit.
Delhi is rated as the 4rth noisiest city in the world and Bombay is 3rd.. we sure manage to beat the whole world in something!!

We Indians sure are loud people aren't we?

Hazaaron Khwaishen

Overwhelming. That's one word which comes to my head when I try to describe the movie I've just seen. Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi. A movie which released a long time back and which I've been wanting to see ever since, but somehow never managed to. Well I finally managed to see it today and it's left a deep impression on me... I would advice everyone who's not yet seen the movie to watch it. I've never seen anything like this and I just had to write about it..even though the first time I wrote and pressed publish, Msn just simply said this page is having difficulties and ate up my entry..grrrrrr

It's one of the most complex, interesting , 'different' movies I've seen.The characters are well sketched out, the acting is brilliant.. A love story set in the backdrop of the late 60's and 70's, the Emergency, the naxalite movement, oppression of the minorties. Three people who belong to different backgrounds, come together for a short period of time and then are thrown apart, each following his or her own destiny. A rich kid, disillusioned with his life, having ideals of ' I want to change the society', a woman in love with him who leaves her comfortable life and makes his mission in life her own.. and on the other hand, a middle class man who's doesn't care for these idealistic values and only wants to make his life comfortable.. Out of the three characters the characters of Geeta ( Chitrangada Singh) , who really evolves as the movie progresses, and Vikram( Shiney Ahuja), inspite of the grey shades, his unconditional love for Geeta, were more appealing to me than Siddharth ( Kaykay)'s. Maybe because towards the end he's defeated by circumstances and gives up.. even though it looks so real.. The movie makes you think about following your ideals.. and the ending is brilliant..

This review should have come 6 months earliar.. lol.. well it's not just a review..

I was thinking.How would it have been to live in those times.. the times which seem like a closed chapter of history now.. The Emergency, the times when one woman declared herself to be above everything else and noone could do anything about it, when you had no freedom of speech and expression, forced sterilisations, when you could be put in jail for following a particular ideology.. the times when you had no rights at all.. Life seems so different now. Even though there are things which still havent changed. Can anyone say that there is no oppression of lower castes, no police brutalities now? India of cities and towns is still very different from India of the villages.. Yet, we are moving ahead and will continue to do so...

20 random things about me!

Tagged by Geetu to do this.. looks like fun :) so lemme start.. randomly from the first random thing!

1. My hair. I don't like it, i mean it's not so bad. I just wish it was straighter, smoother, softer,shinier.
2. I'm very possessive about people.. things.. which can be both good and bad, more bad than good I guess. Well I wish I could learn to be less possessive.
3. I've never stayed outside home, i mean in a hostel or something and I feel like I'v really missed out on something. Wish I could do it..just once.. experiance how it is to live outside. I also wanted to go out of India and study once..cause I feel it's going to be a lot diff from wats it like here.
4. I hate cigarette smoke.. n don't like anyone smoking around me..it suffocates me.
5. I don't like talkin about myself..lol.. I think Describe yourself is one of the toughest questions you can ask me.(And I'm still doing this?? ;) )
6. I love dancing. It just makes me feel so full of life,so energetic. it just makes me forget everything..
7. I don't think I can live without my phone, I mean yeah I can but i would really not not want to do it!
8. I find it hard to say no to people. I mean being rude or blunt.. it just doesnt come easily to me.and I don't like it if someone's rude to me too, especially if it's without reason.I would really like it if people would be nice and cordial to each other and say thankyou and please..and smile more often.It's good to have cheerful people around.
9. I can really hurt people close to me, at times, when I'm hurt. I can say the most horrible things ever. And I feel really bad about it later but that doesnt change anything.
10. People who say things without thinking, or who pretend to know so much while they actually don't, or talk about dumb things..I don't like to have them around me..well maybe sometimes for entertainment value ;) Ok I'm being mean here !!:)
11. Cooking.I just can't do it, actually don't want to do it and don't know how to do it.. I'm not a foodie.. I'd eat whatever mom makes.. not everything of course.. infact I don't eat most veggies, but well I don't make a fuss usually.
12. Intelligent people, people who're well read, people who really really 'know' things and can talk without showing off their knowledge.. people who are genuinely nice, people who make an extra effort for others.. are some kinds of people I admire.
13. I'd like to travel all over the world.Every place is so different from the other.. there's just so much to see, so much to discover..
14. When an idea gets into my head, it just doesnt go away till the time I do something about it. It would just keep going on and on and not rest. It's like one day I somehow decided that I had to leave IT and do law, actually it didn't happen in one day.. happened over a period of a few months.. but then after I'd got it into my head it wud've been very tough for anyone to get it out of it.Or when I'd decided I wanted to buy a digicam, I went and researched all over the net for a few days.. even went to photography tutorial sites..lol.. till the time I got it..
15. Unfortunately I get bored very easily by things.. not always, but yeah it does happen. I mean I'd pick up something with a lot of enthusiasm and then a few days later I'll just totally forget about it!
16. I really want to start earning quickly now, and earn lots so that I can buy and do so many things for myself,my family, my friends.. and other people whom I'd like to help out.
17. I wish I could be more aggressive, not so laidback about certain things and take more initiative.. especially about things related to work..
18. I usually like most movies I watch, especially if I watch them in a theatre unless they are just total crap, cause I find something or the other good in every movie.. Therefore, I'm not the right person to come for a movie review :P
19. I love to be busy.Doing something or the other all the time,multitasking, having my hands full.. cause the moment I sit idle.. lol.. it's trouble for everyone around me!! I start thinking too much, end up fighting with some1..basically i follow the rule.. empty mind's a devil's workshop.. :)]
20. I just can't seem to keep my room clean, no matter how hard my mom tried to make me do it.. I take out books, things from shelves but forget to keep them back.. I like to have a lot of things around me..
21. I noe I noe.. twenty's done but I'll still go on.. I don't like to stick to rules when I don't like them :D
22. Right now the one thing I really want to buy is an MP3 player.. I've almost got my heard set on one.. I hope to get it soon :)
23. I wish I could just be casual, happy go lucky.. let go of things easily. When I get hurt, it just doesnt go that easily.. and when I'm angry till the time I take it all out it just doesnt leave me. But once I've taken it out I become absolutely fine. So I can get angry very quickly and get very angry but also cool down instantly.
24. I don't like interviews, giving them of course. Not that I've given too many interviews in my life. But somehow, I'm just terrified of giving them.
25. I love sleeping..hehe.. a fact almost everyone reading this already knows ;) and now I think I should stop before I put whoever's still reading this to sleep :)

Hmmm.. now who do i tag?No. 26.. I hate to take decisions..lol.. so I'll just tag everyone.. do it people.. it's good fun!

Blasts in Delhi

Absolutely shocking. Things are unclear right now, noone knows who did it and why.. but right in the middle of crowded markets, in the festive season.. it's just so awful.. Just a day back I was watching Black Friday, a movie on the Bombay blasts n i was thinking.. y wud someone want to kill innocent people to avenge killing of innocent people.. would you know if people killed in the blasts would be of some X religion or Y religion? What if you end up killing more of your own people? What sort of twisted minds can commit such acts.. and just look at the whole way of doing it.. Saturday evening.. just 2 days before diwali.. in crowded packed markets when there would be the maximum number of people.. God... y does this happen

What's wrong with all of us!

Was just reading in the paper.. a married couple shot by a hidden camera in a hotel room.. Damn.. wat's happening to everyone? Have we Indians turned into voyeurs? I mean.. How low can one stoop to..

I feel so dumb!

I just seem to have forgotten most of the things, atleast most of the details of whatever I studied all through school. Trying to remember..just can't!! I wish I could retain each and every thing I learnt in those 14 years.. I'm wondering, does all tht we study actually even go into our head? How much do we really understand in all those years? I used to hate history like anything, cause it involved mugging up chapters and chapters of stuff which i found so boring then. But now I love reading anything talking about the past.. the past really holds the key to what the world is today.. Well I think I like reading it probably because I know i don't have to remember all of it and then just go and throw it all out on exam day..

Knowledge is so important.. there is just so much to know in this world.. and so little time for everything..

Haphazard post.. i think it's the aftereffect of a haphazard education system..