From The RoofTops

EAT PRAY LOVE..........

2011-12-09T19:02:00.000+05:30

Oh GOD... this is turning out to be another lame blog on my personal views and rantings from my life... the most disturbing of facts to me is that, its on the movies, i watched these days and how i felt them relate to my life...

In fact in my bucket list of topics (my sms draft) i had so many much more serious and audacious topics i wanted to write about..., like freedom of speech and human hypocrisy and double standards and indian foreign policy and other blah blah blah... but in the end these are the very few things i can bring myself to write about...

I guess i will bring myself to write about much more serious and important topics in due course of time but for the time being i have to be content with these crappy creations... the important thing to me is that finally i have started to write something here...

So about eat pray love... the movie.... well its a good movie about another " how to be happy in life" philosophy.

But as someone (walt disney if i remember correctly) said sometime back, "man never takes a movies too seriously... if he had he would have easily found solutions to almost all his problems in the world, the movies are ripe with nothing but solutions..." But no one listens right...

Its a good movie that advices you to let go of things and forgive yourself and to stop trying to control everything, in life.

life's about enjoying the little things in life and appreciating it wholly for how it is panning out...

I just hope that i will be successful in identifying whats important in my life and work hard to achieve it...

lets say to the least that 'm confused...

2011-12-07T19:37:00.001+05:30

Lets say thats the my present state of mind...
And there are not too many reasons behind it...
It all started with a phone call and ended up with a movie...
lets go in the inverse order...

The other night i watched the movie london boulevard... and i wonder whether it was C**t in this movie or f*** in the Quentin Tarantino classics that holds the record for being the word used maximum number of times in a single screenplay... you can't blame me for being naturally curious... :)

But oh boy was it a wonderful one ... captivating to say the least, and for some moments i thought twas a Tarantino product... thanks to raman and his hard disk that i came by this one.

thats it about LONDON BOULEVARD i think...

and about my state of mind, i actually turned to watching this movie coz i was quite unable to process a particular piece of information... in fact a very pleasant one... nevertheless surprising...

A close friend of mine is getting married and for once i felt i dunno how... i was so happy for her that i couldn't stop smiling and was so confused at this new turn of events...
and for once i felt how its gonna be like once i marry off my little sister... she wouldn't be far or away but just not my little sister anymore... People are growing up so fast and settling into a life of their own...

It is so new to me but i guess i get used to it real fast... coz its just starting... and theres gonna be a downpour soon enough... my HR isn't gonna be too happy about all those leave applications... :)

'm so happy to see her starting this new phase of her life and i wish her the very best...
and spare a thought for the poor chap who is marrying her... forgive him oh lord coz he doesn't know what he is getting into... :) :) :)

Malaravadi arts club...

2011-12-06T20:02:00.000+05:30

Saw the movie just last night... was a real treat... with a lot of familiar characters and mannerisms and a wonderful story...

Yes it had a beautiful theme , thread and a good screenplay something which had been lacking in the malayalam film industry for quite some time...

And add to it the fact that it was conceived by a debutant, Vineeth Sreenivasan adds to its sheen.

If there was anything lacking in the movie twas experience both for the lead characters and the director. But as the great CHNAKYA once said ” no one is born great... only his deeds decide how he goes down in the history books” (err slightly modified, but i guess you caught the drift).

Some may question my evaluation of the movie, but my opinions are my own and i do not wish to impose them on anyone else.

There were several characters that caught my eye and helped me identify them to very real life characters... The introductory sequence of salimkumar and his pretences reminded me dearly of a close friend of mine( whom i won’t name here but will definitely give sufficient clues as he is an upcoming leader and the back bone of DYFI’s ullelam unit). The hand gestures and facial expressions of salimkumar were so similar that i was unable to control my laughter.

Oh god i miss my friends... miss my late night roamings through the college campus... late night foodings from double x fast food, the nights spend laughing and smiling and making fun of each other in the middle of the kuttimukku paddy fields... the last minute trip planning and nights spend at the various beaches of thrissur district... the carefree life and freedom and fun and happiness... and the joy of doing what you loved most in this world rather than taking part in this blind rat race called modern life and hifi living...

I always wondered why elders said that their academic days were the most memorable moments in their life. As some wise men said somewhere... you only understands the value of something only and when you have lost it... and i guess they were right...

Nothing...

2011-10-20T11:31:00.000+05:30

To be frank the reluctance to write an article after the last one was quite baffling to me.

i had made first foray into this blogosphere and wanted to be a regular joe here... but i guess i was not that ready.

i have something like 12 topics in my phones drafts that i want to write about but does not seem to be able to get myself to write about them. Call me anything but i always feel this starting trouble. Don't know why, but i always seems to have this reluctance to do something new and once i get a feel of it i just can't stop myself.

I hope to be able to express myself better and i am working on it. I am often left in awe about the clarity with which some of the best writers express themselves. Now i understand the importance of practice and the fact that the first drafts of very few articles see the daylight. Of course there are some great orators who can deliver heart-touching and mind stirring speeches but yes they have years of practice and knowledge backing them.

Now i expect to be able to make more posts much more often. keeping my fingers crossed.

Ciao

Priorities in life...

2011-09-17T10:04:00.000+05:30

The other day i received a very interesting SMS.
It went like this... "there is nothing in this world called busy... there are only priorities"
Well it couldn't have been put any better.

There are certain things in life that one should never miss for heaven or earth. But you seldom realizes what they were in time. So make sure that you have your priorities set right.

Writing this makes me wonder about my hypocrisy. Even i have avoided being in touch with the most important people in my life, my friends. Call it my inferiority complex or stubbornness, i just wanted to know how many really cared whether i was in touch or not, but then its my responsibility too to be in touch with the most important people in my life.
What makes me say all is the fact that people i thought who were unimportant in my life almost always turn out to be the ones who were the most delighted when i made an attempt to be in touch with.
There was a certain person whom i cared about very much and hoped sincerely that would have a wonderful career and life, made all the attempts to be in touch with. But now i realise that she never really cared about what i did. She was just trying not to hurt me or maybe she had other priorities in life. Its helps, getting a shock treatment every once in a while. It helps to keep you sane and realistic. :)

So i pray to god to make me understand what are the most important things in life, and he keeps amazing me.

Hello World

2011-09-16T11:23:00.000+05:30

Hello blogosphere...
I never thought i would ever actually start blogging.
I had been trying to start a blog for the past 5 years but never had the courage to say things out aloud i guess. Well its time i start making my opinions boldly. The quote "courage is doing the things you fear the most" from the Indian army page in facebook must have spurred me into finally making an entry here.
And what better way to start a post than saying "hello world" as we were taught that this should be the first program written by a programmer in any language that he is trying to learn.

Well here goes nothing...