Excuse - for one *Lazy* blogger

Came across the link while surfing...decided it would be a good fit for my lazy blogger buddy Aditya. Had a random bet...that we post this and connect to each other :-P

Well, here it goes...and no i didnt cheat!!!! And in my defense, I am not as lazy as he is ;-)

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OMG! I just woke up to the fact I have not updated this since you last visited... You would not believe that my hands were chopped off and I was waiting for bionic ones. Apologies to my regular readers! Even the little blue ones!.

I am going ahead with only your readership as life preserver, hoping you haven't found other blogs, just generally being asleep, dreaming and chancing to my husband, my day pisses me off from the first cockadoodledoo from the rooster to midnight. I am avoiding recapture. life is good.

I swear on the bones of my ancestors I will write something that makes sense soon. You wanna test me? This is for my ever faithful, devoted public..

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With lots of luv

Epitaph for my friend Namit Bhatia

Here lies Namit Bhatia
He died of blabbermania
As he spake too much of the spoken word
Of thoughts and ideas in his head
There was no dearth!

Here lies Namit Bhatia
Was very fond of trivia
Movies, music, comics and scrabble
And a lot of online babble
Anything and everything he liked to dabble

Here lies Namit Bhatia
Spending wisely was his criteria
Movies, music, comics and clothes
And of things about which he could gloat
No- he did not suffer from dementia

Here lies Namit Bhatia
He died of Gamophobia
As he tried time after time
Marry and make the two rhyme
But I guess it was not worth his dime!

Here lies Namit Bhatia
Was from Andulasia
As he travelled a bit too much
Across the green and the sand
Wherever his feet and the plane could land

Here lies Namit Bhatia
Under the dunes of Bahrain
Lays with all his energies drained
Under the basking sun
What next - his unending conundrum!!!

Chocolate Cookies

I have been reading a lot from Anita's Blog  lately and must admit that I got bit by the baking bug. Hence over the previous weekend, decided to try out my first sample of chocolate biscuits / cookies... call them what you like :-P

Well this is what my first tray and sample looks like.

My key learnings from this baking experiment:

1. Do not use Ghee (or processed Ghee - in my case Amul Ghee): It left a slight salty taste on the edges.

2. Use a good measure of Baking soda (actually more than 1/4 teaspoon)

3. Try not to make plain chocolate cookies... some dry fruits or choco chips could add a different dimension. 

4. Try baking more often....:-)

Receipe used for this baking experiment:

1. I dare not share it since the taste of the cookie was not something I was proud of.

2. The author might sue me :-P

Outcome of this experiment:

1. I praised my own baking to my mother and mother - in - law (since no one else was going to do it).

2. Hubby had half a cookie since he got a shock of how much sugar and "ghee" I had used.

Moral of the story:

1. Bake more.

2. Bake no more.

Think I will try the former :-)!!!!

Mid-week chutti - Yeh Saali Zindagi

Had a mid week holiday yesterday...wednesday that is...occasion being Maha Shivratri... was observing fast... hence had some "fast" food -if I may say so...Komal came over to my place...since she was fasting too...thought it would be easier :-P..well it was not...not wanting to waste much energy and then end up feeling hungry later, we stayed put at my place ...watching television... Got bored very soon...had a mid day nap... got even more bored....finally we decided to drag our lazy selves and catch a movie at a cinemax near by... "Yeh Saali Zindagi"....:-). The smell of the popcorns was all around but we focussed on the movie... Overall, the movie was nice..worth watching..paisa wasool... Well, what follows below is not exactly a movie review but something which I wanted to write about ....

'Yeh Saali Zindagi' is a thriller...fast paced...does not waste time.... and as for the movie goer - one better be focussed or you miss out on the understanding bit...

The movie was very well scripted. All the characters were defined properly. Since, the movie was based out of Delhi, NCR, it missed the dialogue delivery style of a typical Dilliwala. However, towards the end, the movie tends to become a bit slow and predictable, making one wonder about the ending. Too much complexity or inter-connection between the characters works quite the opposite at times.

Irfaan Khan was outstanding in this film...excellent performance and a very mature one at that...Chitrangadha Singh was good.... and well all the actors gave a good performance.

Its a typical Sudhir Mishra film and must be watched. Its not everyday that one gets to see a good thriller!!!!

Self Praise :-)

A little narcissism wont hurt I guess :-P :-) Some of the comments which matter....

 

Makes my day I guess!!!! Superlike!!!! :-)

7 Khoon Maaf

Based on Ruskin Bond's 'Sussana's Seven Husbands', Vishal Bharadwaj has done a good job of making '7 Khoon Maaf' wherein Priyanka Chopra plays the main protagonist while Neil Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham, Irfan Khan, Naseeruddin Shah play one of her 7 husbands.

'7 Khoon Maaf' is a story....just a story. Its no thriller, no romance and no - its not a sad story. Its a story about a woman who's quest for undying love ends in a very unexpected fashion with the death of all her 6 husbands. The story does not have the edgy touch of Omkara or a Kaminey...it flows...sometimes a bit slowly. Although the end wherein Sussana marries for the 7th time, could have been made more clear...or maybe it was open to interpretation...Christianity, Coorg, Kashmir and Puducherry play their very important roles in the movie providing a credible background to the story.

Priyanka Chopra has done a fabulous job of playing Sussana. She plays the character very convincingly of a woman wronged...who just didnt get the love she desired. One actually feels the death of all these men is justified simply because of the way they treated her / cheated her / exploited her.

Neil Nitin Mukesh, Naseeruddin Shah, John Abraham, Annu Kapoor give a wonderful and convincing performance.

Comparing this movie to other of Vishal Bharadwaj's creation, it may not really match up. It may actually not be fair to compare them in the first place. Where Omkara and Maqbool were adaptations of Othello and Macbeth respectively wherein the feelings of love and revenge were strong, Kaminey was a racey thriller about the twins, their interactions with the underworld and the local politics. '7 Khoon Maaf' is a flow of events which unfold forming a story line. It is not required for it to be edgy or thrilling or romantic...It shows a state of mind, a state of being and the eventual ending...

'7 Khoon Maaf' may not turn out a favourite with a lot of people, but then I guess it was not meant to be.

Random Thoughts

I want to chronicle my life...atleast some bits of it... however I am finding it a bit tedious to do so... I realise that once I start writing, there is no stopping me... Refer blog post 2006 and 2003. Hence, I have decided to take a break from it... infact have decided that I will write one post a month for that bit of jotting my past...well little bit...

Changing the subject, I am not really sure what I want to write about right now... but am just letting my mind do the processing... as various random events are floating through my mind...and I am sifting through them to decide as to what could possibly be an interesting read...Should I write about how much I have hogged today - well thats already on my twitter account... or should I write about the in-house marraige bureau I am running - well sort of... or should I write about my thoughts on the way my career is shaping...or should I write about how I have not written one single original thought on my blog... or one original shortest, tiniest story ....

On a sad note, my aunt died a couple of days back...she had been suffering from kidney failure for the last 4 years...had not met for almost a decade.... she always wanted me to come meet her...somehow I just couldn't find the time... or may be the will....makes me realise, life is too short....just too short...to do all that you wanted to do.... to be all that you wanted to be.... to laugh, cry, fight, or just be.....cos you never know which day might be your last....