Birthdays come once every year and are special in more than one ways...
You are a year older, more mature, a year closer to turning completely grey/bald, a year closer to getting more wrinkles, a year away from childhood, one more year of misery...and my Birthday this year had all these ingredients and more which made it Extra Special!!!
Well it was fun because I had a complete Desi style Bday with my great friends, me darlings coming to wish me at 12.00am all the way from Irving (about 22 miles from me house)...I was touched...Girish was sick and I had just cut the cake and eaten it too when they knocked on the door...I was so excited. I am very happy for that...Thank you me Sweethearts! Hope y'all are having fun time in India!!!
The next day I had another childhood repeat experience of washing hair, wearing new clothes and feeling happy before I left for work...At work it was PF Changs for lunch. Girish was still sick so we were not sure about our evening plans...
By 6.00pm Girish had decided that he was going to celebrate my birthday irrespective of being sick and we invited some of our friends to join us at Mi Cocina for dinner...and after that we got back home and slept before it was 12.00am again...and that is how my brithday ended...
Happily older and wiser...
Anu
Monday, March 27, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
My Last Weekend
Total time pass...Girish and I got to do so many things that we were running short of energy and time...I think the age is finally kicking in!!!
Anyhoo...Friday evening Girish had finally decided to stay back in Dallas but was still sulking that he did not go to Manhattan, KS...My friend and I had other plans for him and by 7.30pm three of us were heading to Eiseman Center to watch singer Abhijeet live...Since my friend knew Abhijeet personally we got to meet him and got the super expensive first row seats...But we did not like sitting so close to the stage and so we moved three rows behind and sat at the third row! Close but not too close.
The show was mind boggling...amazing songs, good energy and we had fun. There was not only Abhijeet to entertain us but also another popular singer Krishna...It was totally cool...
Girish as usual got hungry and we decided to leave the show half hour before the show ended. Girish and I tried to find a restaurant but most of them were closed and we were always driving too fast to swing into an open one...Hungry we reached Al-Amir where a Desi party was being hosted and I had free passes to it...our friends joined us and we partied till we got tired...It was around 2.00pm...
The next day which was a Saturday both Giri and I woke up late...while I cooked and cleaned Girish made all his India/family calls and got ready for the gym...Meanwhile I got ready for my friend's sisters' wedding reception in Dallas...I finally had a chance to wear one of those cool skirts I had bought from India...
The wedding reception maintained ISD...an hour and half late...Girish and I were happy that we got there at 7.00pm (already an hour later than what was on the reception) and the bride/bridegroom did not arrive there till 8.30...so imagine!!Anyhoo...food, dancing and meeting friends the evening was great...incidentally the bridegroom was also known to us...He was Girish's friend from K-State...haha! Small world....Few friends came back home to spend some time with Girish and I...and we ended the night watching cricket...
Sunday was a slower day...in pouring rain we took my very good friend and his family out for lunch and then headed out to another friends house...We helped him pack for his India trip and sulked a little before we got back home to get ready for the week ahead...Little did we know that it was going to be a LOOOOOONNNGGG ONE!
(PS: Work pressure and general life tensions made me release this blog almost a week late).
Total time pass...Girish and I got to do so many things that we were running short of energy and time...I think the age is finally kicking in!!!
Anyhoo...Friday evening Girish had finally decided to stay back in Dallas but was still sulking that he did not go to Manhattan, KS...My friend and I had other plans for him and by 7.30pm three of us were heading to Eiseman Center to watch singer Abhijeet live...Since my friend knew Abhijeet personally we got to meet him and got the super expensive first row seats...But we did not like sitting so close to the stage and so we moved three rows behind and sat at the third row! Close but not too close.
The show was mind boggling...amazing songs, good energy and we had fun. There was not only Abhijeet to entertain us but also another popular singer Krishna...It was totally cool...
Girish as usual got hungry and we decided to leave the show half hour before the show ended. Girish and I tried to find a restaurant but most of them were closed and we were always driving too fast to swing into an open one...Hungry we reached Al-Amir where a Desi party was being hosted and I had free passes to it...our friends joined us and we partied till we got tired...It was around 2.00pm...
The next day which was a Saturday both Giri and I woke up late...while I cooked and cleaned Girish made all his India/family calls and got ready for the gym...Meanwhile I got ready for my friend's sisters' wedding reception in Dallas...I finally had a chance to wear one of those cool skirts I had bought from India...
The wedding reception maintained ISD...an hour and half late...Girish and I were happy that we got there at 7.00pm (already an hour later than what was on the reception) and the bride/bridegroom did not arrive there till 8.30...so imagine!!Anyhoo...food, dancing and meeting friends the evening was great...incidentally the bridegroom was also known to us...He was Girish's friend from K-State...haha! Small world....Few friends came back home to spend some time with Girish and I...and we ended the night watching cricket...
Sunday was a slower day...in pouring rain we took my very good friend and his family out for lunch and then headed out to another friends house...We helped him pack for his India trip and sulked a little before we got back home to get ready for the week ahead...Little did we know that it was going to be a LOOOOOONNNGGG ONE!
(PS: Work pressure and general life tensions made me release this blog almost a week late).
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Dreams...
I am a dreamer...
be it night or day...
Asleep or awake
I like to dream...What I dream while I am awake are things I want to do, to achieve and my dreams while I am asleep are what my mind wants to explore or unfulfilled desires.
Now that scares me because I sometimes get weird dreams at night, I have punched my dad in the face once, I have kicked people sleeping next to me and have woken up screaming. In most instances I explain in gibberish what it was about and fall back to sleep unless it is a scary dream...But when I wake up the next morning I know only small peices of why of my funny behavious. And my friends/family who were asleep also forget what it was about by the time we wake up.
I remember waking up from a scary dream and trying to fall asleep only to be chased by the same scary dream again...I turn sides and most of the time they go away. I have a very bad after effects when I wake up...
When I have happy dreams I am happy the following day. For example once I dreamed that Akshay Kumar had rescued me from villains (like he does in one of his movies) and ever since Akki is one of my favorites...
I start blabbering and my best friend lying next to me tries to start a conversation and guess what? I respond with answers and the next morning she starts blackmailing me that she has some important information...Hahaha!
I have also woken up crying...I wonder why because I really don't know why or how that happens...I guess my sleep-world is not a bed of roses. As much as I am at peace with my life my other life (that is when I am asleep) seems to be full of hurdles, troubles, hardships, crying, etc...
But the final say is that I love my dreams, good, bad, or funny, I would miss them dearly if they stopped occuring. They kinda sorta shape my day...and affect me a very acute manner...
Viva la Dreams!
I am a dreamer...
be it night or day...
Asleep or awake
I like to dream...What I dream while I am awake are things I want to do, to achieve and my dreams while I am asleep are what my mind wants to explore or unfulfilled desires.
Now that scares me because I sometimes get weird dreams at night, I have punched my dad in the face once, I have kicked people sleeping next to me and have woken up screaming. In most instances I explain in gibberish what it was about and fall back to sleep unless it is a scary dream...But when I wake up the next morning I know only small peices of why of my funny behavious. And my friends/family who were asleep also forget what it was about by the time we wake up.
I remember waking up from a scary dream and trying to fall asleep only to be chased by the same scary dream again...I turn sides and most of the time they go away. I have a very bad after effects when I wake up...
When I have happy dreams I am happy the following day. For example once I dreamed that Akshay Kumar had rescued me from villains (like he does in one of his movies) and ever since Akki is one of my favorites...
I start blabbering and my best friend lying next to me tries to start a conversation and guess what? I respond with answers and the next morning she starts blackmailing me that she has some important information...Hahaha!
I have also woken up crying...I wonder why because I really don't know why or how that happens...I guess my sleep-world is not a bed of roses. As much as I am at peace with my life my other life (that is when I am asleep) seems to be full of hurdles, troubles, hardships, crying, etc...
But the final say is that I love my dreams, good, bad, or funny, I would miss them dearly if they stopped occuring. They kinda sorta shape my day...and affect me a very acute manner...
Viva la Dreams!
Thambi (2006) - Tamil Movie Review
Ranking: 3.5/5
Cast: Madhavan, Pooja, Vadivelu
Director: Seeman
Music: Vidyasagar
This like many other movies released over the last few months follow the correct-your-society footprint...Which I must say is redundant now with so many movies...Indian, Ramana, Anniyan, etc., So let me go directly to the review...
Thambi (Maddy) stops crime from happening and brings about a change in the person committing the crime by making the criminal face reality. This does not sit well with the local don who already has a problem with Thambi for having sent his brother to the jail.
Thambi surely falls in love with the heroine a dancer and a college student and a few duets crop up which are all forward-worthy. The villain hates Thambi because Thambi was the reason his younger brother is behind the bars...and the villain has vowed to murder Thambi before his brother is released.
The villain chases Thambi but Thambi gives power-dialogue and leaves...The fighting scenes, thank god are not elaborate and boring...Thambi with his thoppai practices some form of martial art that is very powerful...
Thambi as usual has a past where his family was savagely killed by the villain and in spite of this Thambi helps the villain save his mother and daughter in a strike situation created by the villain himself...But the brother of the villain in rage hacks Thambi first thing after his release...
Does Thambi survive? What happens to the villains? What happens to the heroine? Hmm...I totally lost track of that...
Maddy should learn from Ajith and loose some weight...Really dude...You have a FAT THOPPAIS...But he still looks cute...His eyes pop out and his voice gets deep everytime he gets angry which is most of the movie...
The heroine...Cannot dance for nuts...But why is a dancer? Mystery...She cannot even act and leave alone looking cute...
I like the approach used to stop crimes from happening...I liked the logic Madhavan states...I think may be it could work...But will it be implemented??!!! Anyways as much as it is a 'message movie,' it does try to work on a slightly different path...On the whole it is not a totally bad movie...It is okay!
Cast: Madhavan, Pooja, Vadivelu
Director: Seeman
Music: Vidyasagar
This like many other movies released over the last few months follow the correct-your-society footprint...Which I must say is redundant now with so many movies...Indian, Ramana, Anniyan, etc., So let me go directly to the review...
Thambi (Maddy) stops crime from happening and brings about a change in the person committing the crime by making the criminal face reality. This does not sit well with the local don who already has a problem with Thambi for having sent his brother to the jail.
Thambi surely falls in love with the heroine a dancer and a college student and a few duets crop up which are all forward-worthy. The villain hates Thambi because Thambi was the reason his younger brother is behind the bars...and the villain has vowed to murder Thambi before his brother is released.
The villain chases Thambi but Thambi gives power-dialogue and leaves...The fighting scenes, thank god are not elaborate and boring...Thambi with his thoppai practices some form of martial art that is very powerful...
Thambi as usual has a past where his family was savagely killed by the villain and in spite of this Thambi helps the villain save his mother and daughter in a strike situation created by the villain himself...But the brother of the villain in rage hacks Thambi first thing after his release...
Does Thambi survive? What happens to the villains? What happens to the heroine? Hmm...I totally lost track of that...
Maddy should learn from Ajith and loose some weight...Really dude...You have a FAT THOPPAIS...But he still looks cute...His eyes pop out and his voice gets deep everytime he gets angry which is most of the movie...
The heroine...Cannot dance for nuts...But why is a dancer? Mystery...She cannot even act and leave alone looking cute...
I like the approach used to stop crimes from happening...I liked the logic Madhavan states...I think may be it could work...But will it be implemented??!!! Anyways as much as it is a 'message movie,' it does try to work on a slightly different path...On the whole it is not a totally bad movie...It is okay!
Kalaba Kathala (2006) - Tamil Movie Review
Ranking: 4/5
Cast: Arya, Renuka Menon, Akshaya
Director: Igor
Music: Niru
This movie is the remake of Vali using a lady-villain or villainess...In Vali it was Ajith versus Ajith and here it is Arya versus Akshaya...Anyhoo the story...
Arya marries Renuka Menon from a small village and moves her to Chennai where he works as a software engineer. Arya is a very romantic person and both him and wife live very happily. Renuka has a sister, Akshaya, who comes to Chennai to get her degree in multimedia and stays with the cute couple...
Akshaya starts falling in love with Arya...She starts to fantasize him and decides that she is going to ask him to marry her...Very bold indeed. Hearing this Arya gets angry and advises her to leave for her village...But Akshaya threatens Arya with life. She tries her best to seduce him but Arya stays away from her. There are few dialogue exchanged with sugar coating between Arya and Akshaya in front of Renuka who is now pregnant.
Enter villain, Akshaya's cousin who is a rowdy but deeply in love with Akshaya...He chases Akshaya in Chennai and threatens to kidnap her...To know what happens from here on you need to watch the movie...Does Akshaya marry the villain, or does she marry Arya, or does Renuka get a whiff of what is happening in her house? Suspense!
I checked many websites and everyone had bad reviews for this movie...But I gave it a 4/5...Because I appreciated a couple of things...First...Arya's acting...I was prejudiced that Arya might be too young to carry the role of a married working man...But he did it with elan and it was very impressive indeed. Second, I liked the acting of Akshaya...Very impressive for a debut. Renuka Menon could have acted a little less childish but she was okay...Also the movie is very fresh...there is subtle comedy and no separate comedy track...suspense...I liked the screenplay and direction...very fast and not many slow moments.
The movie had enough romance and suspense factor towards the end and also the ending was very impressive...As much as I felt bad it was probably the best way to end the movie...
If you think that this movie sucked let me know why...
Cast: Arya, Renuka Menon, Akshaya
Director: Igor
Music: Niru
This movie is the remake of Vali using a lady-villain or villainess...In Vali it was Ajith versus Ajith and here it is Arya versus Akshaya...Anyhoo the story...
Arya marries Renuka Menon from a small village and moves her to Chennai where he works as a software engineer. Arya is a very romantic person and both him and wife live very happily. Renuka has a sister, Akshaya, who comes to Chennai to get her degree in multimedia and stays with the cute couple...
Akshaya starts falling in love with Arya...She starts to fantasize him and decides that she is going to ask him to marry her...Very bold indeed. Hearing this Arya gets angry and advises her to leave for her village...But Akshaya threatens Arya with life. She tries her best to seduce him but Arya stays away from her. There are few dialogue exchanged with sugar coating between Arya and Akshaya in front of Renuka who is now pregnant.
Enter villain, Akshaya's cousin who is a rowdy but deeply in love with Akshaya...He chases Akshaya in Chennai and threatens to kidnap her...To know what happens from here on you need to watch the movie...Does Akshaya marry the villain, or does she marry Arya, or does Renuka get a whiff of what is happening in her house? Suspense!
I checked many websites and everyone had bad reviews for this movie...But I gave it a 4/5...Because I appreciated a couple of things...First...Arya's acting...I was prejudiced that Arya might be too young to carry the role of a married working man...But he did it with elan and it was very impressive indeed. Second, I liked the acting of Akshaya...Very impressive for a debut. Renuka Menon could have acted a little less childish but she was okay...Also the movie is very fresh...there is subtle comedy and no separate comedy track...suspense...I liked the screenplay and direction...very fast and not many slow moments.
The movie had enough romance and suspense factor towards the end and also the ending was very impressive...As much as I felt bad it was probably the best way to end the movie...
If you think that this movie sucked let me know why...
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