TRULY MAGICAL :--)

woke up wondering how the day is gonna b
my love greeted me with a tight great morning hug
looking at the vast blue sky up above
I started my routine walk with so much hope
wind brushed my hair with gentle care
smiled at me and sang on my ears
my dreams would sure come true
I cant help but smile
it's magical ....beautiful !!!!

Kissing the rain :--)

Rain fell in torrents and,
am lost in thoughts with the swaying trees...

Oh rain god, how do I thank you,
for bringing back the magical feeling...

The cool breeze brushing away my hair,
am amazed at the sight of showers softening verdure...

The rain is back again to purify the heart and the soul,
and am loving the rain drops perform a dance on the roof...

The rhythm of the heart is well blended with the rhythm of falling rain,
We 'll walk together forever, hand in hand, when it is still raining !!!!!!

Yet another day....

Today like any other day started off pretty well with the routine rejuvenating walk and a glass of cold orange drink seemed to give me a whole lot of energy to kick start the day.

While dressing up my sweet li'l pie, as always I came across a lota queries and amazing thoughts.Trust me the best lessons in life and the best ideas you gain from your lil ones. So keep ur eyes and ears open when you are with them. They are amazingly wonderful treasures who can unbelievably inspire you.They have no concept of the right time or the right place. Each moment is an opportunity for them to live life at its fullest. Thank u sweety for the positive vibe you transfer every morning which I very much require.

So far so good. But a friend's mood swing changed the entire high spirit you woke up with and how u started off your day. But when you have experienced a great deal of tensions in life, each additional disturbance is both unbearable and trifling. It's all just a passing shadow of a cloud that moves on, never to stay forever. But it took me time till end of the day to gladly accept and tolerate the whole turbulence.

Well now am back home rewinding the day and would wish to rewrite the script with changes here and there. But there is no going back, thats the way of life.

Life's routines overwhelm us and we forget to live each moment fully...Better late than never....!!!

Wishing you all a goodnite's sleep and wake up to life's many surprises :-)

A Christmas Carol

Well its time for the most universal of festivals...its really a joyous time and no other event make u feel more nostalgic..well, at least for me...Christmas means Scrooge...ie the novel Dickens made a household name. The novel which we first encountered in school, still gives you something to ponder about...I remember the times when we were taught this and how it really felt so close to our hearts...it starts with the Ghost of Christmas Past and takes Scrooge to his boyhood and youth...then comes the Ghost of Christmas Present. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to come, takes Scrooge to future which looks very bleak. In the last act, Scrooge wakes up, a changed man, with joy and love in his heart. A simple tale of transformation of a man...but its a wonderful fairy tale. If you really forgot this, its time to revisit the classic again.

Really dont know nowadays how much meaning the novel can give to our kids. When there are cartoon characters like Ben-1o, who fight aliens and stuff, will the kids be interested in such a tale? But u can really show them the 2009 Disney film by the same name and they will love it. So heres wishing you all A VERY HAPPY X'MAS & A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR!

Tees Maar Khan

Farah Khan is a director following in the steps of Bollywood masala entertainers kings Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra. Her films are great fun and i love them. So fingers crossed for Dec 24th release of her TMK, without her fav. star, SRK. Or shud be ex-fav.star, cos as per the grapevine, the films a parody of SRKs star tantrums. Sirish Kunder, her hubby dear, is an old thorn in SRKs u know..so hes the script writer for the film. Akshay plays an actor and he constantly complaints of back pain and go for surgery to London, ala SRK and also when a Hollywood director comes to see him, make him wait for more than 4 hrs and then rejects. Anil Kapoor gets the role and wins an Oscar. This is what really happened when Danny Boyle approached SRK for Slumdog, except for the Oscar bit for AK. Well, sorry about the gossipping. Love to do that. But the main reason for the film is...u all know. Its the best item number ever choreographed in Indian film industry. The reasons not cos of any great song or choreographer. Its juz that the gal is Kat. Well b4 kids were asking "Dad, Choli ke peeche kya hai" or "Dad, Munni kyom badnam hui". Now they are asking "Dad, Sheela ki jawani kya hai?". The song is nowhere near good as the first 2. But man, does the temp. soar when its Kat doing the number! Guess this one song is gonna carry that film. So folks tayar ho jao for TMK and Kat! And mayb u will also not fail to notice the poor hero!

Turistas

Been thinking about writing some excerpts from an imaginary book am working on. But like most times, persuaded otherwise cos of the news happening around. We read about crimes daily. Still this one caught the eye. It is something most of us have definitely seen in some movie or read about in a book. Anni & Shrien Dewani were on honeymoon in Cape Town, South Africa. They arrived there on Friday and had gone out for dinner on Saturday evening and after dinner caught a taxi and asked the driver to take them to a nightlife hotspot. On the way the car was stopped by armed gunmen, who asked the driver to get out and then they sped with the car, with the couple inside. At midnight the husband was released and he quickly alerted the police and next morning the cab was found with Anni's body inside. The wedding took place just 2 weeks before.

The reason i thought about posting this is cos we all go to new places and get into taxis and drive around in the night. While in Thailand, we even had an incident when we were late and couldn't find our hotel and was at the mercy of the cabbie. But he was a nice guy and took pain in finding the right address. So ensure that you have studied about the place you are visiting. Dont try to explore places yourself without any info from your tour guide. As you might be knowing South Africa has got one of the worst crime rates in the world. But the world cup was conducted quite peacefully mainly cos these crimes happen in poor neighbourhoods. Unfortunately, while exploring a hot spot, the couple had to pass through one of these, and paid a heavy price. The title I borrowed from a movie about tourists in Brazil, who are kidnapped for their organs. But better watch "The Beach", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which also got the same message, and still visually appealing. Still better, read that book.

127 Hours

Human perseverance sometimes beat all odds...The will power of man to face the toughest challenges never cease to amaze...this is one such story which was in the news seven years back, but back in the limelight cos of the film by Danny Boyle...127 hrs...

Aron Ralston, a Mech. Engg. working at Intel had resigned his job to climb all of Colorado's "fourteeners" or peaks over 14,000 ft. high. In 2003, while he was on a canyoneering trip in Utah, a boulder dislodged, crushing his right forearm and pinning it against the canyon wall. Since he had not told anyone about this trip, he knew no one will be looking for him. Five days he tried to extricate his arm and when they were found futile, carved his name, date of birth and presumed date of death into the canyon wall and videotaped his goodbyes to his family. Then, he did something only a really desperate man would do.....with no hope to survive, he started to cut off his arm...after succeeding with his tool knife, he had then to crawl down the 65 foot canyon wall and hike out....he met some holidaying people and they called for help....In 2005, Ralston became the first person to climb all the mountains in Colorado in winter, solo....his memoir is a best seller and ironically named "Between a Rock and a Hard Place". The film is gonna release soon and stars James Franco, Green Goblin in Spider-Man-3, and as my son says, Peter Parker's friend...its worth a watch juz because of him and Boyle...the trailers are already a big hit...

Another story which is around the same theme is the 33 Chilean miners trapped 700 m underground since August 5th and with no hopes of rescue till December... supplies being send down a hole, not bigger than a lemon and they are waiting for the escape tunnel to be completed....I started this around last month and as u all know, all the 33 miners were rescued yesterday..ie 13th Oct 2010 and in good health...

Still more happening with regard to truth and fiction...Its the story we all have been hearing and its been made into film by one of the best directors around...David Fincher....Well am talking about Social Network, the story of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg....how the networking site started in a Harvard dormitory became the most happening site with around 500 million users within six yrs and Zuckerberg is a billionaire three times over at the age of 26...Its based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. So u got 2 great films to watch out for...Social Network is already a blockbuster....Happy viewing....