Excuses Excuses

Happiness is a many splendored thing - I know Ive used that very liberally but you get my drift. However the feeling is so all pervasive that it really does not leave you time or inclination for much else. Blogging requires a need to share with the universe - happiness kills that need [for me particularly]. I am so busy sharing with real live people that I can see and touch that I don't feel a particular need to share with an unknown world at large. Possibly I have not reached that stage where cyberworld is so close that it is like real live people to me.

So in my case, I cannot blog when Im unhappy coz its too personal to put on the net and I don't need to blog when I'm happy which effectively means I only blog when I'm in limbo which is also possibly why my blogging is average!!

Ultimate Bourne

So I finally saw Bourne Ultimatum last night. This has really been the most awaited movie, since it released ages ago in the states and took like 6 weeks to get here which is something one is not used to anymore since the worldwide premiere thingy started e.g. Spidey 3, Casino Royale etc. All in All, it bes quite a nice film, wraps up all the ends neatly enough. Personally, I think Matt Damon [though a hottie!!] looks too young to play Jason Bourne - I think in the books, he was slightly older. Also, I think in the second book, he gets married and has kids, and what happened to the Carlos character? As Gamous put it, in this film, there was google, and the European union [since he moves from country to country with no issue], in the book, there was no cell phones!! I don't understand what Julia Stiles was doing in the movie tho...the movie did not need a romantic interest - it's gripping enough with the story line and the constant action. [ My recommendation - don't watch it in the Dome - I saw it in a large enough theatre and still felt nauseous!!]

Next film on my agenda, is Loins of Punjab which is supposed to be hysterically funny. But let's face it, the film I'm really looking forward to is 'Om Shanti Om'.....'Main Hoon Na' ranks as one of my nice films and this one looks kitschy as well - I mean there is a song 'Dard-e-Disco'!! Analysis of which has landed us at the conclusion that the song means there is a disco of pain in his heart - go figure!!

Michaelangelo perhaps??

You could have been a famous Artist

Oil painting, sculpture, photography. No matter the medium, it's clear that an imaginative soul like yours must have been an artist in a former life. With your creativity and originality, you've got a unique approach to the world that just begs to be shared with everyone.Like the great masters who came before you, you march to the beat of your own drummer and don't follow the herd. You live life by your own rules and aren't afraid to express your ideas. Lucky for all of us, they're great ones. So, keep expressing yourself. You're sure to be legendary!

Who Were You in a Past Life?
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T.V. Guide

Instead of a listing along side since I have too many side bar thingy's currently, I am just going to list all my favourite TV shows here with pictures - Yay!!

1. Buffy the Vampire slayer - each generation a slayer is chosen - she is living on the Hell mouth - she is in love with the most gorgeous man alive who happens to be dead for the last 243 year - a vampire with a soul - she kicks butt with her entourage - a witch, a werewolf, a demon and a general loser!!

2. Roswell - aliens crash landed - left their spawn with super talents - who can fall in love with humans but have to mate with their own kind since they are the rulers of their universe - have enemies chasing after them and the story continues....

3. Grey's Anatomy - McDreamy, McSteamy, doctors, emergency situations, life saving options, who can resist all the drama? and mostly a soundtrack to die for, all my current favourite songs are from the show - Chasing cars, How to save a life, Breathe...possibly they my favourite coz they featuring on the show but what the hell??

4. The O.C - oh to have lives like that!! U wear fancy clothes, go to fancy shcools, have all these cute boys living next door....sob sob!! oh and ur mother sleeps with your ex boy friend, ur sister runs away from school, ur boyfriend beats up people for no reason.....wowie!


5. One Tree Hill - I only saw one season of this but seemed very exciting - half brothers living in the same town - father won't accept one - the brother wont accept the other - falling in love with each other's best friends - my god the saga continues!!

6. Friends - a group of 6 who seem to have really odd work timings, can sit and drink endless cups of coffee - seem to fall in love within the group all the time without major drama - and can you make you laugh no matter the number of times you see it!!

7. Beverly Hills 90210 - the original teen angst drama - the rest are all copies. Country hicks move to the cool zip code and change their lives around. Good friends, great clothes and the original soap is born!

8. Charmed - a show about 3 witches - the power of whom combined is the most potent force in the universe - they have an enemy called the source - the source of all evil of course!!

9. Wonder years - who did not want to adopt Fred Savage I tell you? and which boy did not have a crush on Winnie Cooper!! The original show about the 60's which deals with the war, and how terrible growing up can be!!

Must mentions:

• Angel
• Picket fences
• Baywatch
• Doogie Howser M.D.

Face it! Facebook is here!

Last year at around this time - a little earlier in the year perhaps- I had blogged about how orkut was the new obsession amongst my friends - it was in effect a new avenue of communication that had opened up that was not as personal as a phone call or an email...so it let you keep in touch with the more random people amongst your circle of acquaintances/extended friends etc.
This year, THE social networking site is facebook and I know this for a fact coz my extremely Internet unfriendly best friend is actually on the site and working it thrice a week. I have to agree tho - the site totally rocks - I think it's ok for the staying in touch bit [Orkut is better for the sheer simplicity of the platform..] but there are the various 'applications' you can add which are like just fun. It has the original pacman game [Now I wanna go play that!!], it has this weird funda of zombies/vampires/werewolves [since I'm so Buffy obsessed - I love these!!] where you get to bite people and 'turn' them and the more people you turn, the higher you go in the levels [please note, I am currently a Bishop in the house of Zombie - I willingly add people to my friend's list thinking of them as potential minions in my army......muahahahahahah(**evil laugh**type thingy - sowwy)!!].
In addition to these, there are the quizzes which are ok, the superlatives and nicknames apps which I just love....case in point....I just[ as I type] nicknamed Best friend Bad girl - go ask her why!! Superlatives has these crazy options like person most likely to turn to Wikipedia to answer life's questions and I know a person like that - go figure!! For some reason tho, everyone seems to have nominated me to have a blonde moment....I mean really now! I just can't figure out why?? ;-)!!
Let me not forget to mention the poke pro/superpoke/xme options where people can throw sheep at each other [this is definitely for the kiwi population on facebook - ask R & R, they can tell you!!], bite, hug, kiss etc. My personal options is to defenestrate someone [Don't know what that means - wiki it!!] However I have also been l33t haxxored - when I figure that one out - will let you know!! It's cute and there are variations of it like fight club where you get to do only nasty things - so basically my point of the whole thing is that Fb is 'funner' since it has more interactions possible which make it really addictive. I mean for God's sake, while I'm blogging, I'm logged on!!

Random musings

I've not posted in a bit - mainly coz I've been too busy with life!! So I've been thinking [yes, I do that as well]...... I never prescribed to the theory that people write when they are unhappy or unfulfilled but it seems to be true for me also - when I had less to do or I was not so occupied, I wrote a lot more. Nowadays, I'm happy where I am so there is less need to vent or find an outlet for the energy. It's not like I'm doing anything different - I've seen a couple of movies, read a book [actually in the middle of it], hung out with people but nothing has motivated me to pour my heart out. The thing is...the movies were good - Transformers, Simpsons and Chak De, hanging out was fun also - new people espescially but I have not had that urge to share with the world at large. I seem to be happy sharing it at that moment itself and not need to publicise my opinion to anyone who wants to listen.
This worries me in a way - it means that my life is bigger than my writing! For a lot of people [authors mainly one would suppose..], writing is their life - nothing supersedes that. So again, I don't have a driving passion in life, other than life itself! I don't need to do anything to the exclusion of all else........ even work does not define me. This is scary because it's passion that crosses the line for you from mediocre to brilliant in anything you do. If I lack that passion, how will I ever fulfill what I can? and what's scarier is obviously I don't want to.....
Not that I think that being happy is not enough - it's more than!! I think it's important to have friends, enjoy life, marriage, kids - the works but I think in today's world, you need more definition than that - you need to have your own driving force - your " I need to do this to exist" bit which is seperate from "I need this person to exist" because at the end of the day if all else ceases, you will still have yourself and your "drive" to continue......

Spider Pig Spider pig

This is, by far, the only bloggable thing I've done all week, if you don't count working!! So finally, the weekend after, everyone has seen the movie, I go for it with a mega Simpson's fan who got all the political satire [anyone who knows me, knows I don't get satire or politics so I think that left me out of most of the jokes!!] But anyways....I was quite happy with the mufee. It was very funny and it definitely made you laugh but I have a couple of questions....

1. Why did Grampa have that vision in church?
2. Why was the Bono type boy there?
3. Who is Russ Cargill in real life?
4. Tom Hanks was in the movie....why?

Other than these minor issues, I found the following really funny:

• Spider pig Spider pig - does whatever a spider pig does [which is what practically anybody who saw the movie or went near it is singing]
  
• Beginning of movie, the itchy and scratchy show with the whole nuclear missile thingy
• Homer Simpson asking the audience why would you pay money to watch a cartoon movie that comes free on television at home
• Maggie Simpson always
• Bart Simpson and his blackboard punishment - will not illegally download this movie
• Arnie gets paid to lead not read

Other than this, went to the Lemon Grass at Pheonix which is tres nice since it's AC'ed. Fell sick :-( with the viral spiral again which kinda ruined the weekend in a way but hopefully will go see Transformers today and all will be well with life again!