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I went to the movies...

So, i'm at Gopalan Cinemas. I don't usually go to the movies, let alone by myself. But here I am, almost an hour early. It was an hour early half an hour ago anyway. Frankly, i'm bored. It took me about two minutes to buy my tickets and I was bored by the fifth. Figured i'd use this spare time to write my blog. Like everything else here, this will also make no sense (btw that's my signature style), and this is just random shit I see around as I wait for my show to begin. It's pretty good this multiplex thingie. AC, clean floors, nobody giving a fuck about the lonely guy sitting in the corner... I'M BORED! Enter entertainment. Have you seen grown women trying hard not to act their age? And when I say grown women I don't mean twenty or thirty somethings. I mean the ones who've been around for half a century or more. I did. They made a fuss about not wanting to pay a hundred and fifty bucks for their tickets. Oggling at Hugh Jackman's post...

Mani saar and Romance

Three things play an important role in Mani saar's stories- visuals music and an element of love. Everyone is all praise for the technical aspects, but no one talks about the romance in his films. But it's not the mundane run-around-the-fucking-tree kind of romance. His portrayal of love is more mature and almost matter-of-factish. There is no ringing bells or lighting or rain or violin music or any of that over the top bullshittery. I'm a novice here, but i guess that's how love is supposed to happen in real life. Maybe that's why they call it 'falling' in love, because it is supposed to happen spontaneously, with no effort on each others part. Although a lot of his movies have been love stories, the fact that they're set up in the backdrop of serious issues pushes the 'love angle' to the background and highlights the sensitive issues. Ultimately, his movies deal with how love is affected by those external factors. Terrorism, riots, political ...

SJP(uke)- dos: Whiskey in a Math class! (hic)

DISCLAIMER: This blog post does not endorse smoking and drinking alcohol, for both are injurious to health. DISCLAIMER 2: The above disclaimer was not intended to offend anyone who smokes and drinks. This is one of the few 'bad ass' moments in my life. I'm not saying what happened is, for the want of a better word, good. But you gotta admit, it was pretty bad ass and it takes some boulder size cojones to pull this crazy shit off. These are actually two isolated incidents, which for some reason have stuck in my mind with utmost clarity. Second PU. It was a Tuesday morning. It was a cold Tuesday morning. I was sitting in the fourth bench, right next to the large window not even trying to pay attention to Jayanna's math class. My ugly red jacket was keeping me quite warm, and the lecture was starting to sound a lot like my mom's lullabys. The only thing that kept me from dozing off was the cold wind that kept blowing into my ears. Now, Jayanna is a funny char...

Foreign films and my sister

Research shows that 97.32% of all siblings fight/ have fought/ have had thoughts of killing each other in their sleep. The remaining 2.68% are usually fictional and- or are 'ideal people', like i said, fictional. eg- Pandavas, Dasharatha's sons, Hansle and Gretle, Shivanna and Radhika (Mrs. Kumaraswami, not Pandit!) etc. Some say siblings have a love- hate relationship, my mother would disagree. My sister and I only have a hate- hate- gimme that, it's mine relationship. My mother used to stay awake all night keeping an eye on us. Not because she loved us so much, God no, she just wanted to make sure we don't strangle each other in our sleep. In fact my mother once tried to seperate us so that we wouldn't mortaly harm each other, and so that she could finally get some sleep. She set up an elaborate plan which involved a huge circus tent and some kickass protechnics. Alas, we all survived the big fire "accident", and our family was reunited twelve m...

SJPU(ke)- uno

Studying the CBSE syllabus has it's perks. You're already familiar with half the 1st PU portions. You can boast about having read Wordsworth and Coleridge and that guy who wrote Road Not Taken. The downside is that the results arrive about a month after the state board results. And that means getting an admission into a PU college becomes a massive pain in the ass. Each college plays by it's own rules- "sorry sir, friday was the last date to apply. you should've furnished a letter earlier, stating that you are from cbse"- and you should've told that to me when i paid you a hundred bucks for that admission form. Why, i could've just thrown my hundred bucks into the dustbin last week itself, no? "you better join 11th standard, and continue in cbse"- why, is your college too dumb for me? "sorry, there are a hundred students in a class already"- and you think one more is gonna make a difference? So at this point, i had to make...

28 reasons why I don't have a girlfriend yet

This one is for those ten fuckers who made the last four years liveable. They know why it's 28... 1. Smart girls think i'm too dumb 2. Dumb girls think i'm too much of a smartass 3. The one's in between aren't really stupid enough to go out with me 4. Pretty girls think i'm too ugly 5. Ugly girls think i'm too ugly 6. The one's in between don't exist- my classification of a woman's physical appearance is in the binary system 7. Every second word that comes out of my mouth is 'unparlimentary' 8. The third word is usually a derivative of the second word 9. I think snakes are cool and hope of adopting one. Most girls can't stand the sight of a snake. 10. Girls tend to have pretty much the same kind of feelings towards RGV 11. I have 'questionable' online activity 12. My offline activities aren't so different either 13. My mood swings beat a woman's mood swings by a mile 14. I intend to make her...

The end; and a new beginning

          Before I chew your mind : This blog post is in response to my friend Harish’s vlog . He had done a “user request vlog” once, and I had suggested a topic- ‘ How did you start doing something ’(links at the end). I also promised him that I’d write a blog post on that subject if he ever did that video. He did make that video (he makes some pretty cool game play videos as well, worth checking it out if you are a gamer), and that’s why you find yourself reading this right now.             I think I had an idea of what I would write about when I gave him the topic. However, for the love of God (or Batman) I can’t seem to remember what that was. I’m making it up with this one, hope it’s ok bro :) FADE IN: Superimpose “THE END” on black background FADE OUT TO BLACK: <insert new title>           This is where I (...