Birthday 2011

Getting pampered by sister and bro-in-law.
The icecream cake.
The call from my not so fat friends. Couldn't have laughed harder.
Harshi buys the tickets and stuff to go to Chennai but packs the idea just because the train was at 8:00 AM and she just wanted to sleep a little bit longer. I miss her. Actually I miss being around her.
Suryatej called as usual bang on time.
Sisi celebrated my birthday in style.
Candess flipped out. Not my problem.
Driving with some good music on.
Cooking for my sister.
A fireplace. Some work to do. Coffee in hand. Good music in the background. Perfect.
:) I am 24 and I feel good.

Enroute

On the way to being a loner.
I enjoy being alone to the point that now sometimes I feel suffocated if I have too much company.
The prospect of company is a bit frightening.
I can't decide if its a good or a bad thing.
Moderation seems to be the answer to every question I ask myself.

Dhobi Ghat

Long over due and done.
I wouldn't have enjoyed the movie had I seen it with anybody else. Watching it alone makes perfect sense (to me at least).
What do I think about the movie? To me its a movie about obsession. Not about Bombay. Not about the immigrant issue. To me its purely about obsession with people. To me the movie wouldn't have changed much if it were in Chennai or SF. I have not seen a better ending in recent times. I am in fact love with the ending. Its powerful. The ending makes me feel as if the entire movie had to be there to build up the ending and that it couldn't have been given justice had the entire story not been narrated. The story builds up the obsession for each one of the lead characters and how it ends (?) for each one of them. For Munna, it ends with liberation. For Arun, it meets a tragic end. For Shai, well it continues because she chooses it to.
The director puts in subtle things into the movie without letting them distract the viewer from the main plot. The booty calls made by Munna to the rich fat woman, Arun's affair with his art manager, dignity of labor well respected by Shai are what come to my mind when I think of them.
Anyways, a good movie after a long time. Makes me think I should have blogged about the earlier movies. Talking about movies, Cat People, to put it subtly, one of its kind! and Talking about one of its kind kind of movies, Being John Malkovich - Whoa.
Dhobhi Ghat - 5 stars.

The first days of spring

Bing says today is the first day of the spring.
India won its match against the West Indies.
The US and the allies bomb Libya. More People are dead.
Japan still suffers from the aftermath of the Earthquake and Tsunami. More people at risk from radiation.
My sister decides to have a baby anyways.
I continue to postpone my work.
Very soon, I will be 23 no more.

A matter of Concern

I got up twice last night in pain and popped some pain killers ( after of course cleaning my mouth with salt water etc etc because it just feels like garbage all the time). I miss my Mom now and all I need in the world is to be with her right now. Of all the people I know, the one most concerned right now is my Mom and I for sure know that the concern is genuine. Actually she is concerned all the time but i brush it off when i don't need it and go for it when I do. Is that a matter of concern?

(sometime in Fall'10)

Still Sick...

...and it sucks even more. Its been about more than a week that I am sick and my body doesn't seem to be doing anything to recover as the doctor "wisely" suggested. I think my immune system is taking a nice little vacation of its own when an army of invaders is at its door steps. Actually no, the army of invaders is looting its country and making its inhabitants miserable. As I lie in this bed trying to be positive, I think of my immune system to be a race horse which won't let me down. But its hard to think of it that way for long. My race horse is just lying on its back on the ground at the start line refusing to move or budge and doesn't listen to me anymore. and as I keep thinking , I think I have decided to marry a good general physician who would take care of me whenever I am sick. That way I needn't make an appointment or call or listen to crap like your body will react fast and take care of the infection.

All this might make me sound like a sissy but in my defense I have had a burning mortar in my throat for the past 6 days, had only hot liquids and no real food. All this while having to worry about assignments and projects and midterms. Being sick sucks. School sucks. Being sick at school..... my vocabulary is limited.

Sick.

Sick for the first time in the US and hows the feeling? Well obviously not very good. My tonsils are white with infection and my head hurts. I feel weak. Part of the reason obviously being sick and part of it due to the fact that swallowing anything hard is painful. The cold makes the infected tonsils hurt even more. Long story short, I am in misery. All the doctor says is that he is giving pills to make me feel comfortable. my ass. He prescribed a bunch of pain killers which 5 different ones for every six hours which could effectively put me to sleep the whole day ( which I obviously cannot afford to).
Side effects of being sick:
1. Thinking about home.
2. Rethinking about the whole concept of isolation.
3. Evaluating people's reactions.
4. Thinking about when the entire thing comes to end.
5. 1 thru 4 should have already suggested this 5th thing which is not getting any work done.