Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
A line matters!
"The truth can be adjusted" - Michael Clayton
"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire" - Schindler's List
"Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!" - The Apartment
"A homespun murder story." - Fargo
"On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody." - Taxi Driver
"Stealin' Stones and Breakin' Bones" - Snatch.
"Movies were his passion. Women were his inspiration. Angora sweaters were his weakness." - Ed Wood
"In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary...A year later their footage was found." - The Blair Witch Project
" The Strangest Vengeance Ever Planned!" - Touch of Evil
"The mission is a man." - Saving Private Ryan
Friday, May 9, 2008
Foo fighters, toothpicks etc
TV is boring, the IPL is very monotonous, and though I do read books, somehow that has gone down a bit.
So, I turned to the internet. Wikipedia to be precise. I started reading there, on a variety of topics.
The state of Maine in the US is the largest exporter of blueberries and toothpicks! Isn't that interesting! I have never tasted a blueberry, but I'm sure I would like it! It's blue after all, my favorite colour. And toothpicks, ah! I had a good four years training on them! I had braces.
And the UFOs! The probable reasons given for UFOs are - clouds, lightening, commercial planes, squid boats' lights reflected on the clouds(!), Venus, Mercury, baloons, light houses etc.
There is a page on wiki which lists the UFO sightings so far around the globe.
Some of them are really dumb - especially abductions - Who would believe that a Brazilian (or was it French?) farm worker was abducted by these little aliens, and on the ship, he had sex with this fab alien blond! Sounds promising; but what if she came back and claimed child support? Do they accept Mastercard in Andromeda galaxy?
One Chinese guy even claims that after he got lucky ( in his case, the alien blond came to his bedroom!) and when they took him to the ship, he was told that in sixty years on some planet, a Chinese peasants child would be born! I mean come on! Mao in the milky way!? No way!
A few accounts seem quite genuine - those reported by air force pilots of different countries. In some cases they include the UFO's radar signature, which strengthens the assumption that there must have been something up there! Most notable is the Tehran incident of 1976 and the Caron Sink incident, 1952
These stories are an interesting read. And there are plenty of them so I'm not complaining!
P.S. - What's a foo fighter? Any guesses?
Saturday, May 3, 2008
What sets you free?
Is it the challenge to live a better life, a moment of forgiveness, the laughter from an unseen corner, the lights chasing away the shadows, or is it something you don’t know yet?
Is it the truth that beacons, the moments that thrill, the love that transcends or the knowledge that enlightens?
What sets you free?
a modern midnight conversation
+ The things aren’t’ very normal anywhere. In your home, in the school, out in the market, in the government. Your eyes search for normalcy and settle their vision there where they find some.
= You are a big skeptic, aren’t you?
+ Look around you, man.
= I do look around. I find a perfect little normal world.
+ You have to look beneath the surface, examine the cracks a little better. How are things at home?
= How does that make sense in this discussion?
+ How are you folks, I mean with each other?
= What are you talking about?
+ Let me, ah, REPHRASE the question – How’s their married life?
= (a stare) it is quite seamless.
+ That’s the surface, my friend. When you go home after the exam, just observe. Little things, the way they sort out little differences, the unnecessary tiffs that happen over the slightest issues, the...
= You don’t know them, stop getting bloody judgmental.
They sit silently and sip from their Kingfisher cans. The night is warm and sweaty, without any wind, the moonlight making it seem extra warm. Typical summer. The balcony overlooks a slum dwelling, tin roofs and walls, but increasingly concrete houses, most of them under construction.
The two are in their early 20s, engineering grads. They are preparing for their semester exams, but at that moment, they are just killing the exam boredom that’s characteristically engineering-type.
He lights his B&H Lights and sits back
= Those things are part of any marriage. That is very normal. Nothing is ever 100%, is it?
+ Take my example. When I started going around with $, the first few weeks, were just a bliss, man. It was flawless Even the first year, we were cool. Now, after almost 2 years, it is not that, right? For me, that was normal, so what we have now is far from it. We fight, we take each other for granted, we try to have our way in things, and I see it happening. And it’s well past the normalcy phase.
= Look, you have to work on things. You can’t just say things got out of hands.
+ It’s better if things happen on their own.
= If you don’t contain a river, it’s bound to overflow its bank. If it matters a lot to you, you should be ready to go to any length to make it work
He suddenly grabs him by his arms – in a fake Irish accent – ‘What are you prepared to do?”
+ You have gone crazy!
= that was from...
+ I know, the Untouchables
= It seemed appropriate at this juncture
They both burst into laughter
= When I was returning from home, this really weird thing happened in my bogy. The TTE came, and started checking tickets, ok.
TTE, to this Bihari “Ticket dikhao”
The guy “khidki pe hai”
Everyone there, including the TE, was like, taken aback! Seriously, that guy was not kidding.
TTE - “kaunsi khidki pe?”
Bihari - “ticket wali”
TTE, trying his best to make sense of the whole thing – “to tum idhar kya kar raha hai?’
Both of them start laughing uncontrollably.
+ Kya badawala chuitya hoga wo..
= Abe bihari babu to mast tha. No tension. TTE to do minute tak ekdum chup!
+ fir settle kaise kiya?
= wo bihari babu aapne 2-4 dost leke aaya kahi se. to fir TTE ki thodi fat li (laughter)..
= tera kitna hua hai?
+ Pahele do ho gaye
= sahi hai be. Doosra kafi bada hai. Full architecture. I hate this CO shit
+ It’s not that tough.
= Dude, it’s a pain in my royal ass. I can’t remember all the schematics and block diagrams man.
+ Do it with thanda dimaag. It’ll fit right in. Chalo, bahut bukchodi kar li be. Wo harami laga hua hai nau baje se, saala kal tak poora chat ke phirse baithega.
= Ek sutta share karenge?
+ Thik hai
# What are you guys drinking?
The voice belongs to a short, tense looking fella. Red eyes and bushy hair. He is doing engineering for the knowledge’s sake
= Ho gayi teri padhai harami?
+ Kingfisher...mineral water
# Really? Does it taste better than Bisleri?
+ Yes it does...it tastes much better
# You are drinking beer!
+ Haan, ghante. You think we would waste time and money on some dumbass mineral water?
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Quotes
"Running introduces you to your worst enemy, to that person who tells you, "Ooh, our ankles hurt and we should stop. Why do we need to run eight kilometers? Let us run five". That is the same person who says to the man," Hey, your wife will never find out if you sleep with her," and the same person who tells a 16-year old, "you are not gonna be cool if you do not smoke it". If you start giving in to that person, you will never get to your goals"
- Will Smith
"Music should reach out to people, you can't afford to be so introverted. I think that anything that reaches out and touches people emotionally is doing a service whether people understand why it's moving them or not. We always wanted our music to have heart, you know. That's why we sometimes sound a little weird and cranky 'cause we always try to leave the heart in. And also, we always wanted our records to be like doors to other worlds. We wanted to say, 'Look, here's the door, why not open it and walk through to the otherside and maybe take a look around and see if you like it?'"
- Peter Buck (R.E.M.)
I tell people,"Start your career tomorrow. If you had a bad year, learn from it and do better. If you had a good year, I've already forgotten about it"
- Jeffery R. Immelt
CEO & Chairman, GE
"If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know."
- David Duchovny
Gavin Banek: "It's like you go to the beach. You go down to the water. It's a little cold. You're not sure you want to go in. There's a pretty girl standing next to you. She doesn't want to go in either. She sees you, and you know that if you just asked her her name, you would leave with her. Forget your life, whoever you came with, and leave the beach with her. And after that day, you remember. Not every day, every week... she comes back to you. It's the memory of another life you could have had. Today is that girl."
- from "Changing Lanes"
This one's not exactly a quote, just a piece of dialog. If you have seen the movie, you'll know!
Will: Do you like apples?
Clark: Yeah.
Will: Well, I got her number. How do you like them apples?
- from "Good Will Hunting"
a song for the summer (respite)
someplace colder
where the trees shiver
and sunlight seldom wanders
the night is icy blue
the day shiny cool
the coffee ever lasting
a fireplace for the fool
the smoke rings remind
the days foregone
the foggy window
forever alone
the air so clear
the leaves are frosty
the moon at the horizon
so cool and mighty!