Realisation # 2

I was much happier as a kid, but then i was too busy trying to grow old.

No hyperlinks

why is real life so unlinked? why cant i shout it out aloud that i hate her, and that i still love him after what he did or that the reason my eyes are puffed up is not because i am not well or that this cant be happening. wish i could link them, without ever taking names, with just pronouns.

why are there no hyperlinks in real life?

Realisation series

@ who ever is reading this - meet realisation series.
@ realisation series - meet the one who bothers to read this blog.

Introduction: Realisation Series
A publication of some ordinary and some extra-ordinary confessions by the author of this blog, which is intended to continue indefinitely.

The author has been scribbling these confessions on random office stationery like postage stamps, newspapers and notepads....and believes its time when the paper cribs meet the "digital rant" age.
So here goes the first one. (PS: the initial scribbling actually started as an advice by my sister)

Realisation # 1
I hate excel sheets and almost everyone who love them

many, many regrets

Its just one of those days when you regret what you did not so long ago.....you gave up on something you really loved, built it with all that passion and then gave up...
Gave up for no apparent reason to the world, but some insane reason known only to you.

You see it out today, its like meeting your X. there's the same cold something between you, the feeling that once there existed this strong unbreakable bond now gone forever.

"Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam;
but I am rather the fallen angel..." - Frankenstein

itimes is launched today

This one is for my blog!

Dear blog,

We have some serious expectations to fulfill and hence from now on we shall start taking each other seriously! No more keeping posts as drafts from my side and no more technical glitches from yours.

yours bloggingly,

GD

Ijaazat

i rarely watch hindi movies. i usually avoid them unless they belong to the category of 'Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi' or 'Arth' or 'Omkara' and maybe a handful more.

Today was no special day till about three hours ago. i came home after another hard day's work, after getting stuck in another traffic jam and after having listening to Bono being played over and over again in the car.
As i sat infront of the TV later in the night i wondered how long would i stay put infront of this today before i get bugged of the ads, unimportant news, fancy looking sadhus predicting how my next day gonna be and run to internet again.

Browsing through the various channels, i stumble upon one which shows Naseerudin Shah, in his early years and i decide maybe just for the sake of enjoying his retro look, fuzzy curly hair and broad check shirt...its worth staying on this channel for sometime.

It took me sometime to understand the story( partly because i started watching it from the middle). i gather that the film is about a couple, maybe now estranged who have a chance encounter in the waiting room of an isolated railway station on a rainy night. The story proceeds in flashback, which is skillfully intercut with the real time of the rainy night. As the night proceeds, Mahendra (Shah) and Sudha (Rekha) become equally interested in knowing about each other’s life. After initial hesitation, they start reminiscing about their past.
Through a series of flashbacks, you get a hint of their broken relationship. The plot seems to resemble a typical Jhumpa Lahiri setting....like in her stories no one makes obvious attempts to salvage their broken relationship, yet you feel that there exist this feeling of instant connecting, the feeling of being comfortable in each others presence and yet being lonely.

Without getting into the details of the plot....i saw the entire movie....wondering which movie was i watching. Wondering how could i not know a movie like this, of a song like "mera kuch saman" and of a brilliant female actor Anuradha Patel(who also made her debut through this film). How could i not know that this one of Gulzars best movies and that it won two national awards.

i cant help by attach this scene below where Maya recites 'ijaazat'



i am completely awed by it, and this goes down in my list of all time favourite movies!

Think of a cliché king company - think of LUX!

I mean if sunsilk "gang of girls" was not enough, Lux has another, better cliché to offer to its female audiences - "LUX Provocateur: Magic of Black". Don't even ask me whats this all about. All you need to know is it some new range of toiletries by Lux and the fact that they are black.

However, there's more interesting stuff you need to know - the fact the when Ms. Recent Bachchan who also happens to launch this believes"the black soap bar as reminiscent of the bygone era of delicate, elusive scents and women who seductively commanded attention by their mystery."

WHOAA!! that explains a lot, that actually explains why this microsite on the product has characters like "Bomshell", "Wildcat" and "Angel". i wonder since when words like Bomshell, Wildcat started being referred to as "delicate" and "elusive".


The whole site has this fairyland theme, which makes me wonder if the product is for women or some pimple-struck, Barbie lover girl?

i was actually amused by the whole concept and this is what happens once you are on the site. You choose one character of the above. After much deliberation, i chose being a 'Bomshell' ;).
And hence started the sickening fairlytale, and i cant resist quoting: "GD wore her favourite pink frilled dress and set off to the lush green woods with her faithful friends"...eeewww...

what next? in woods i am "stunned by a handsome young man, passionately playing his flute"...and i was like yeah rite! i only hope Eminem just see this and rips it apart in his next music album!!!

But it seems like the flute playing jerk(the handsome young man) isnt impressed by me , and he says "You’re very graceful, generous and kind hearted, but i have always longed for someone with a dark streak. A shade of stunning black that seduces and lures. And so hearing this the inconsolable me run into a black tunnel that seemed to be inhabited by the largest black bats, it is here that i "pluck the biggest black wild rose in the garden and slowly inhale its intoxicating aroma" and turn into some irresistible Bombshell... i mean come on guys give us a break! It’s so obvious and blatant that even a schoolchild can see through it. How did it ever make it through all the gamuts through which ads have to go in the advertising agency?

Not only is it overtly sexist, but what were the Lux guys thinking before making this? Do they actually believe people who first would be online to watch this crappy website, be lured into something as shitty as a black soap, which says "well, you actually suck, but maybe this black crap can turn into you a tease" for some god forsaken vapid, sheeplike moron?

i am not ever purchasing this piece of black shit for sure now!