Virtual Ramblings

I have been a real bad blogger, have not been doing my tags for a long long time, so decided that today was the tag day

Priya tagged me with this tag with 30 questions tag.. I have a doubt that one other person tagged with the same tag..I am wondering who it was

1)LAST MOVIE U SAW IN A THEATRE?
Taate Zameen Par, A good movie, but honestly did not find it all that great

2)WHAT BOOK ARE U READING?
My name Is Red by ORHAN PAMUK

3)FAVORITE BOARD GAME?
Chowka Bara…used to have loads of fun playing this as a kid

4)FAVORITE MAGAZINE?
Used to read Sudha/Taranga both Kannada magazine.. and also occasionaly filmfare

5)FAVORITE SMELLS?
The smells of:
* Any kind of food
* Wet hair
* good smelling hair in general
* Fevicol
* Fresh paint
* fresh musk
* Sandalwood

6)FAVOURITE SOUNDS?
The sounds of:
* laughs
* flute
* melodious songs

7)WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD?
Feeling that you are helpless and a feeling of loneliness

8)WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN U WAKE?
Things I need to do at to work today

9)FAVOURITE FASTFOOD PLACE?
Snack street in VV puram, Bangalore, just love the place

10)FUTURE CHILD’S NAME?
I have one.. but too personal to give out

11)FINISH THIS STATEMENT—IF I HAD A LOT OF MONEY I’D…
Build my self a big home theater

12)DO U DRIVE FAST?
No

13)DO U SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL?
Is this a valid question for males?

14)STORMS–COOL OR SCARY?
Too cool

15)WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?
Yet to own one..might be santro

16)FAVOURITE DRINK?
Vodka..or jaggery panaka that’s made during Rama Navami

17)FINISH THIS STATEMENT-IF I HAD THE TIME I WOULD…
probably learn a new language

18)DO YOU EAT THE STEMS ON BROCCOLI?
neither

19)IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY OTHER COLOUR, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CHOICE?
I hate hair colors

20)NAME ALL THE DIFFERENT CITIES/TOWNS U HAVE LIVED IN?
Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Pheonix AZ

21)FAVOURITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
Cricket

22)ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
A level headed person..as I percieve her.

23)WHATS UNDER YOUR BED?
Three pairs of shoes..and a couple of cockroaches

24)WOULD U LIKE TO BE BORN AS YOURSELF AGAIN?
not sure… depends on the choice?

25)MORNING PERSON OR NIGHT OWL?
Very early morning person.

26)OVER EASY OR SUNNY SIDE UP?
Easy

27)FAVORITE PLACE TO RELAX?
My shower.

28)FAVORITE PIE?
Apple

29)FAVOURITE ICECREAM FLAVOUR?
Does it matter?..like all kinds.

30)OF ALL THE PEOPLE U HAVE TAGGED, WHO IS THE MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND FIRST?
Not sure I am left with any other person who hasn’t done this tag

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gooddaysunshine tagged me with this tag with this musical tag, I generally am pretty lazy with doing tags, but as it was with music, got a little excited.
The rules are pretty simple, one needs to come up with songs for various situations that would sound apt if those situations were to happen in your life.
I have done some home work, and went ahead and linked the youtube videos to each of the songs, I know many of the kannada/hindi songs you might have not heard or may not appreciate..but I just love them, just the way they are

Waking up:

I dont know which movie but
subah subah jab khdiki khole,
baajoo vaali ladki haaye,
dil mera bole hello how are you…
ha ha .. wouldn’t that be fun?

Average day:

“Main zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya”

First date:

“Woh shaam kuch ajeeb thi”

Falling in love:

“Rimjim gire sawan“

“Kiss Me - Sixpence none the richer”

Love Scene:

There was this song in the movie Babul ..a classical based song…bawari piya ki,..it would be wondeful..but i doubt that I would stop what I am supposed to do and listen to the song instead
also this one from refugee.. “Mere humsafar mere paas aaa“

Fight Scene:

This is a great kannada song, anybody want translation please contact me
“bisi bisi kajjaya”

Breaking up:
A very recent kannada song, and sonu nigam has sung this just too well.
“Male nintu hoda mele.“

Getting back together:
“jote yali jote jote yali”

Secret love:
“Kitni baatein yaad aatin hain”

Life’s ok:
“zindagi ek safar hain suhana“

Mental Breakdown:
if am loving this song, then I am sure I must have had a mental break down
“sarkailo katiya jhada lage“

Driving:
“musafir hoon yaroon“

Learning a lesson:
“har ghadi badal rahin hain from Kal ho na ho“

Deep thought:
“Rishtey toh nahi rishton ki parchiyan mile”

Flashback:
“koi lautade mere beetain huve din”

Partying:
“Las ketchup..asereje“

Happy Dance:
“do you wanna partner…”

Regretting:
“zindagi ke safar mein guzar jatey hein“

Long night alone:
“Mujshe raat din bus mujhe chahti ho“ from sangharsh

Death Scene:
“Zindagi, ka safar, hain yeh kaisa safar”

Closing Credits:
“yava mohana murali kareyito“

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My blogger friend Nita who blogs wonderful over at “A wide angle view of India” tagged me here, with the song that inspires you tag.The tag goes like this…
Think of THE song that most inspires you to write, whether it gives you an idea for a story, script or just puts you into a better frame of mind AND/OR peek into the lyrics and find a verse that sums up the theme of whatever project it is you’re working on. If possible, post a video of the song to convey to readers the full context of the song and the mood it puts you into. Finally, send the assignment to five other writers to do as well.
As she said in her post, choosing one song is so very difficult, over the years I have heard so many songs, in so many different languages, some have really stayed back on my mind, made me think, and many even debate, but If I have to choose one it has to be this one

“Tujhze naraz nahi zindagi” from the movie Masoom,

It has everything I like, innocence, great lyrics, kids and a beautiful sentiment, deep relations what else I would want to inspire.?

I tag priya, Chennai ramblings and pri.

Rambler will be out this weekend, no not a big weekend vacation, just off to Mysore for a much needed break from all the hush hush affairs of this city. This means that you people are spared of the mindless ramblings for the next two days. Will be back Monday, so until then sayonara

Yesterday’s directions have still kept me wandering, I pick this quote from a lovely blogger friend Autumn who writes over at “Random Autumness“. She is a new blogger friend of mine, and its been nice to discover her over last couple of posts. Yesterday I was just bowled over by this quote she made in one of her posts.

“I can walk any path. I no longer need to control my direction.”

I think somewhere we need to pick this confidence for our life, I mean reach a stage where we feel secure, and believe that we can walk any path, so what if some of them are hard and take a little more than the other sections, so what if we lose our way a little, we will get back on our feet and walk the path.

I also picked up this small meme over at her place , its a set of questions for which we need to answer in one word. So here goes my attempt

Yourself: Boring
Your Partner: Absconding
Your Hair: Receding
Your Mother: Advicing
Your Father: Cool
Your Favorite Item: Food
Your Dream Last Night: Naughty [for a change]
Your Favorite Drink: Coffee [Vodka in alcohol]
Your Dream Car: Mustang
Your Dream Home: Crowded
The Room You Are In: Bedroom
Your Fear: Loneliness
Where Do You Want To Be In 10 Years: Travelling
Who You Hung Out With Last: Co-Workers
What You’re Not: Patient
Muffins: Blueberry
One of Your Wish List Items: Friends
Time: Punctuality
Last Thing You Did: Work
What Are You Wearing: T shirt
Your Favorite Weather: Rainy!!
Your Favorite Book: “Tuesday’s with Morrie”
Last Thing You Ate: Chat
Your Mood: Tiresome
Your Best Friends: away
What Are You Thinking About Right Now: Dinner
Your Car: yet to buy
Your Summer: hot and humid
What’s on your TV: IPL [Cricket]
What is your weather like: HOT!
When Is the Last Time You Laughed: A week back
Your Relationship Status: non-existent.

I was over at a blog of a new blogger friend “gooddaysunshine” , and her post on the sitcom friends got me all charged up about the friends moments which I have enjoyed a lot, and here’s one from that treasure

Just watch Joey’s expression at the end..hilarious..makes me want to see an episode right now

I got to watch a movie called Anuranan [A Resonance] on sunday. Its a bengali movie, dubbed into hindi, it has Rahul Bose, Rituparna sengupta, Raima sen, and Rajat kapoor in the lead. If you are wondering why bangla movie, well I had seen the promo of the movie some time back on TV, since then was trying to watch it, and if you are reading my blog for some time you would know what kind of movies I generally like.

Its a story about an Indian architect working in London [Rahul Bose], he lives with his wife[Rituparna sengupta], and is leading a happy life with a successful carrier, they enjoy a very good relationship but their only problem is that their child would have died and they seem to be failing to conceive ever since.

*sounds like a same old story right*

Rahul’s firm bags a big project at the foothills of Himalayas, and Rahul meets a marketing guy [Rajat kapoor] associated with the project, they bond a little in London, and because of the project Rahul gets transferred back to Kolkatta. Back In India Rahul starts his work, and his wife joins a Montessori as a teacher. The couple meet Rajat kapoor and his wife [Raima sen] at a party, and the families interact with each other. The other couple seem to be unhappy with each other and Raima likes the free spirited Rahul bose.

*sounds like the ever popular extra martial affair movie*

Well here’s the change, and why I liked the movie, the movie has nothing to do with affairs, its just the unnamed bonding between Raima and Rahul, and how she tries to free herself from the clutches of her life. Raima. It has a twist at the end, I don’t want to give out the ending though. Let me just say that its a little unexpected ending.

The movie is very slow to start with, and not much happening in the first 30 minutes, and it does not pick up too much pace towards the end either. Whats great about the movie, is a depiction of a highly unconventional relation, which has nothing to do with lust nor love, its just helping each other spiritually and as well as mentally, how one resonates in the presence of the other, and a simple wish of Raima to fly like a bird [totally symbolic]

Watching the movie in hindi was a little problem, as most of the dubbed dialogues looked out of place, still it was worth for the reason that it was totally on the lines of some of my earlier posts, and what I believe about relationships.

When I told one of my bangla blogger friend that I am planning to watch this movie, the person was surprised that I was interested in this movie, but I liked the confidence the person had, the person told me I am gonna like this movie, and the person was right. That was fun, I liked such confidence in friends a lot.

Nita who writes at A wide angle view of India has tagged me with a movie quirks tag, being a little movie buff myself, this tag was a little tempting, so here I go, try to list some movie quirks about me.

1. My mother tells me I was a big movie buff as a kid too, there was a kannada movie called “Bhandana” which was released when I was 3 years old, and apparently I forced her to take me to the same move for more than 5 times, well it hasn’t been many movies like that which I have watched multiple times, but movie buffdom [if such word exists] did start pretty early in my case.

2. I have a weird taste when it comes to movies, generally the movies I like, are for sure box office flops. My dad has interesting theory, if I go to the theater and like a movie he says the producer should bribe me to say I hated the movie, because if I say I liked it its gonna flop for sure.

3. One exception when it comes to hit movies which I liked watching has to be the blockbuster “Hum Apke Hain Koun”, It might be too easy for people to guess that I like family oriented movies, and I just loved this movie, may be it was the age, or just watching an ideal family/romance on the big screen, I used to keep count as to how many times I have watched the movie, I gave up counting after 50.

4. I like to go for the morning show, the one at 9AM, I used to like this because not many people prefer this show, so we can get tickets easily, even in the first or second week after release. The night show is the worst, because I can’t keep myself awake. I still remember two movies, Devdas and Koi Mil Giya which I went to a movie show 9:30PM-12:30AM, and almost sleep watched the whole movie.

5. I am the worlds only pop corn hater alive I guess, I generally prefer potato chips to pop corn, and even though I like to have an occasional coke/pepsi I kind of avoid it because I hate/lazy to walk upto the loo between the movie.

6. I am not a multiplex guy, I don’t like to spend 150/200Rs on a movie ticket, may be I am stingy.. but I think its too much to pay for a movie. I have watched quite a lot of movies in recent times in multiplexes paying high ticket price mainly because all the traditional cinema houses have been demolished in recent times in Bangalore.

7. As a kid I used to like movies with sad endings, I used to always say that if a movie has a ending where both hero and the heroine die, I would rush to watch the movie. Was I a sadist?

8. I like to watch foreign language movies where I don’t understand a word, its kind of interesting to watch a movie on the basis of just body language of the actors.

9. I like to watch the movie till the credits are over, if people stand up before the credits are over, and I miss the closing songs I get pretty irritated.

10. I like animation movies a lot, I still refer to them as cartoon movies, and many of them like “Open Season”, “Ice Age”, “Lion King”, “Shrek”… you name It and I love it.

Its been one of those days where one wake up feeling kind of low, and all he can think about are the points of lows in recent times, then he switches on TV hoping to listen to some good music, and all he gets to hear are sad songs, and making him want to listen to more sad songs. A day where one seem to wait for that ’single’ spark which shall light up the day…

I was tagged by BlueMist who writes at Colors And Lights and priya who writes at uniquely priya to do the “tag of the decreasing order”. so here it goes.

Ten things you wish you could say to people right now ( don’t take names)

-Can you speak a little lower,cell phones were not invited to scream at.
-You are supposed to know way more than me, even if you don’t know, and I am making a point, can’t you just listen and then use your brain before deciding?
-Glad you know what to give importance to.
-I lied to you, mainly because I was too scared of taking the huge step
-You should do justice to your talent and sing more, instead of being so egoistic and greedy
-It would be fun if you guys come back for a while
-I want to listen a little more from you, not sure if I should force
-It would be fun if all of us were dumb like you, or you were good enough to understand what we have to say
-I wonder if you have some time and if it is feasible to discuss a book we both love.
-You are invited, time of your choice and place of your choice.

Nine things about yourself

-I worry way too much
-I get impressed very easily,
-I am very paritcular about time, and hate when people are late
-I think god has been very kind to me.,
-I always try to plan and finish things much before the deadline
-I like spending time alone, specially in my room with not many to talk
-I am a big coffee lover, more importantly “cafe” lover, I like to spend time there with someone to talk to
-I could not have looked or sounded more geekier when I was in college, in fact even now.
-I like to argue/discuss things with people

Eight ways to win your heart

-Food, new dishes and old favorites, anything
-Be yourself, I will definitely find something good to learn
-Watch the tone in which you speak to me.
-Please don’t lie, if trust is lost you can never get it back
-Admitting you are wrong ,when you are
-Have a good taste with books
-Dont fake affection
-Discuss movies of my kind with me

Seven things that cross your mind a lot

-Am I smelling too bad today?
-Whats gone wrong with today’s media
-Are we getting too addicted to lifestyle
-Am I crossing the line
-Did I sound too eager?
-Where are all the good sitcoms
-when and where is my next vacation coming

Six things you wish you never did

-Fight with my mom often
-Be insensitive when it comes to my parents
-Worry so much about small things
-Ignore some really good advice
-Concentrate too much on my academics
-Fear of the unknown for so long.

Five Turn offs

-Bad odour
-Liers
-Bad dressing sense
-Gaudy colors
-smokers/smoke

Four turn on’s
-Blue jeans and a white shirt/top
-Great smelling hair
-women who talks great sense.
-One who has great sense of time

Three things you want to do before you die

-Adopt a child
-Travel as much as possible
-Live

Two smileys that describe you

:)..
smile without change in the facial expression

One confession
Some times I sound stupid to myself.

Last week one of the days, as usual I was reading blogs on my reader when I came across this post Roll Out the Red Carpet - A Night at the Vanilla Awards by Absolute Vanilla… (& Atyllah) . Thank you so much for so many awards that you have passed on to me Vanilla.

Vanilla writes from South Africa, giving us all an insight into the natural beauty of the surroundings. On of the many things she writes, and always attracts me is about the humanity, we get used to simple things in life around the world, and it needs immense observation to see what really is happening socially in your part of the world, and she does write about them with tremendous insights, and she is a great photographer too.

Here are the things she has passed onto to me

Thanks once again Vanilla, for these beautiful awards.
Now comes the tough job, passing it onto more people. I think I am going to be a little greedy and pass it onto everyone in the blog world, becase so many people whom I don’t read regularly make my day when I accidentally discover their blogs. There are so many people who have such powerful words coming out of them in their blogs, some I get to read, and many whom I haven’t found yet.  The people all around the world have accepted each other in blog world with so much respect, so the big heart award as well should be given to thousands of people who are willing to share their ideas, thoughts and feeling across this world.