Personal/Thoughts

Wishlist

Posted on by Archana K B / 5 Comments

My wishlist is extending without bounds. I am a total gadget freak, and wish to have that and this but i just drool and do nothing else. All keep saying I can do it, and can buy them n all, but I never ever could make decisions so fast. The very few goodies I have is the amd sempron pc, canon powershot a400 (posted in y!360), and my one year old mobile w810i. As time goes on, you get the upgraditis disease especially if you are part of any technology forums like this. I feel like doing the following as of now:

-Buying the following:
A brand new laptop,
An external hard drive or external casing for my 160 GB PATA or atleast a pen/thumb drive!,
Upgrade my pc monitor from 15″ CRT to anything higher!!!,
A noiseless keyboard,
An SLR camera to boast and show off pictures,
-Blogging and ranting about many things and install many plugins
-Travel around world,
-Study something,
-Bunk office (oh yeah!) and see movies,
-Spam in FE and TE
-Modelling! (am i sure!! :O ) ok.. atleast a ramp walk…
-Create a self portrait
-Cuddle around with mom’s hugs,
-Do house work with dad,
-A long drive in my kinetic,
-Meet so many friends,
-And finally a deeep sleep with a peaceful mind!!!
-And one more…hear and try out some english songs,
-And..er..never mind..

Aaaah.. the list is endless… hmmm..

Quotes/Relationship

25 rules for relationship!

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PS: Another forwarded mail which claims the source as Psychology today site…

Human beings crave intimacy, need to love and be loved. Yet people have much trouble doing so.

It’s clear from the many letters I get that lots of folks have no idea what a healthy relationship even looks like. So I’m using this space as an attempt to remedy the problem.

From many sources and many experts, I have culled some basic rules of relationships. This is by no means an exhaustive list. But it’s a start. Print them out and pin them up on your refrigerator door.
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Quotes/Relationship

Being a twenty-something…

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It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn’t know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren’t exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don’t recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren’t really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.

You look at wat ur studyin or ur job… and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you.

Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what isn’t. One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure.

You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can’t meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe you love someone! but love someone else too and cannot figure out why you’re doing this because you know that you aren’t a bad person. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself… and while winning the race would be great, right now you are scared just to be a contender!

What you may not realize is that every one reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your twenty-something friends… maybe it will help someone feel like they aren’t alone in their state of confusion…

Its called “Quarter-life Crisis.” nothing is constant……except change. wats life without a few risks?

PS: Got this as a forwarded mail, but found it to be so true……

Personal

Bangalore weekend…

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This weekend was a special one for me. My first trip to Bangalore to meet my friends (Tina and Reshmy) finally was successful!!! 😀 It was a long awaited plan. We were placed in our companies in 2005 and since then we were planning to have a meet in Bangalore!!
Last time when I had planned, I did not get the tickets and whole plan got messed up. Hence this time, I booked long before at KPN travels to and fro Bangalore for May 25th and May 27th night respectively.I had two friends(Saiyan and Vince 😛 ) along with me for the to and fro journey though our B’lore plans were different. We boarded from Adyar, and I got down at Madiwala at around 6 in the morning on Saturday.
I’d planned to stay at Tina’s house overnight. She came to pick me at the Madiwala bus stop and we went to her home. After a cup of coffee, we played around with the “acoustic” guitar and her brand new Compaq Presario laptop (!! 🙁 !!) At around 12 – 12.30pm, we reached at The Forum to book the film tickets for Sunday. There we picked up Reshmy and then tried for the film, “Life in a Metro”. But unfortunately we got the tickets for SpiderMan 3 only. Nevertheless, carrying the tickets, we moved on to take an auto to Garuda Mall, as we set aside Forum hang out for Sunday. But we indeed found time to have a double scoop icecream from Baskin n Robbins shared among three!!
The Garuda Mall was as big as Chennai Citi center with the food court and the huge shops. We had food at the food court, not to forget the struggle for finding a seat in that crowd!( 😮 ) I was too sleepy and tired (maybe cos of the journey, or else I don’t get that easily tired! I swear! 😐 You don’t believe me right? Thank you! 😀 ) After few mins of “bird-watching”, we were planning to go to Fab india and few more window-shopping, but I was too tired and sleepy, and hence we went back to Tina’s house, and I had an indeed good sleep! Woke up at 6-6.30 but still was too sleepy to hang out. We went to Reshmy’s place ; not to forget the horrible fight with the first adamant autowalah, who refused to put the meter!! In between BTM bus stop to her place, we checked in the food world, and then had “corn” on the way home.

Finally after reaching back to Tina’s place, we three placed home delivery orders which reached after few mins. We had Mazaa as “drink” ( 😛 ) along with the Kulcha’s and fried rice and the paneer curry. Since there was nothing else to do with the guitar and her lappy, we decided to play on scrabble at 11 in the night which went on till 1.30 in the morning!! Resh topped the game which finished with my “OZ” ( 😉 ). We also called some of our school friends Ashwini and Shino and the double coincidence was that it was Ashwini’s Birthday on Sunday!!! Memories flew back to our minds and started chirping heavily till we dozed off…

Sunday I woke up at around 10 am!!! ( 😮 ), crumbling all the planned schedule. As there was no other go, (yeah, 10 to 1 is not enough for 3 girls to get ready .. what you thought!! 😐 ) we had noodles as breakfast and managed to reach the PVR at exactly 1.15 for the 1.30 show. Grabbing popcorn n pepsi cups, we finally got in the theatre to find that the rows allocated were just 4th away from the screen!! Hmm…
After film, at around 4 we rushed to the Pizza hut in the Forum, as it was the long awaited wish of Resh to have pizza!! Resh’s friends-cum-roomies were also there with us for the film and also the Pizza. By the time we got out, it was already 5.30 and there was the Commercial Street left!! 😐 Before that, we checked in the Big Bazaar nearby and bought 2 handbags one for me and one for Resh. Strolling down the commercial street, we shopped from the road-side shops, and then checked into the Titan showroom for getting the Fasttrack for TRV. (Short form for Tina!! 😛 , nice abbrv. right??? hehe) After huge confusion, we finally selected one, and me n Resh decided to buy it for TRV as b’day gift! But alas!, with her sharp eyes, she found a small scratch which even the ants wont have found out and we had to drop the plan. Taking down the model number, we moved on back and forth the street, to get my watch repaired and also to get some shawls, with the main thing as the gift for TRV which we couldn’t get till the end! 🙁

After all these, when we were about to leave, rains splashed like hell and stopped us in the shop for about 15 mins!! 😐 Till that time, I had good opinion of B’lore with cool climate and good roads and malls n that n this, but now, when need came, not even one auto was ready to give lift for us!!! When the rain subsided, we had to walk in the water-till-knee till the nearest junction, across and forth, and finally as if miracle, one autowalah agreed to go till Koramangala!! In that shock I even asked him whether he is really ready to go!!! 😮 Anyways it was already nearing 8.30 and my bus boarding time was at 9.30 from Madiwala. The huge traffic at the night with the flowing water, and cars and motorists splashing them onto us, while some foreigners inhaled and puffed out stylishly in the adjacent car, throwing the last piece out in the road, the clear lightning through the trees above, reaching home half drenched, hurrying up with packing n changing, with TRV helping and Resh buying biscuits which I didn’t had, the running back to the main street to get an auto which we got finally for 50 bucks!!(From Venkatapura to Madiwala), and finally the checking in at KPN travels office!!! Phew! What a race!!
My friends left me at the office, after my travel-cum-online friends Saiyan n Vince turned up. The return journey was smooth except for the long wait at Bomanahalli as the bus was late and did not start until 11. I’d planned to get down as near as possible, but we came to know late that it doesn’t stop nearby my place and hence me n Saiyan got down at T.Nagar, from which at an expense of 170 bucks in auto!!, we both reached our respective homes!!! 😀

The trip was excellent and a refreshing one for me, and I am really planning to go there again.. Yeah baby one more time!!! 😀

films/Reviews/Thoughts

Film review – Spiderman – 3

Posted on by Archana K B / 8 Comments

Yesterday, watched the Spiderman 3 in PVR cinemas Bangalore. It was not as fancy and thriller as expected, but still I liked several aspects of the movie. I agree, there were several flaws in the screenplay and the story itself. Moreover it was too complicated with so many characters, and especially with no explanation of the black crawling substance. I had liked Tobey Maguire in the Spiderman-1 film, and had almost become a fan of his, but now, not more. 🙁 He indeed looks no more special, but M J (Kirsten Dunst) still looks cute and like the girl-next-door.
The main thing i like is the theme and the tagline: “The greatest battle lies within”. Exactly true. I guess this time, the director was overcome with emotions just like me and made the film, with a sentimental touch for the youth, who is ready to embark life on its own.

The symbolic representation of aggression, jealousy, revenge, in the form of black substance and the struggle within Peter to get out of it, gaves away the simple message that only you have the control of yourself. Though it is not clear why the sound of bells remove them. Symbolising church and evil n all???!

Few points of the film which really captured my heart:
* It is easy to bind, but hard to unbind – Yup! All the evil thoughts are easy to get into our thoughts, but very hard to rule them out.
* Each person is made of choices they make, and every person has the right to choose how to live their life – Life is indeed full of choices, and decisions, which we are supposed to make over time.
* Every one needs helps at some point, even the spiderman needs help – Each human being and even the strongest man needs help at some point in their life.
* Not all bad persons as are bad from heart. Its again the bad choices they made at some point in their past. The sandman chose bank robbery for saving his daughter’s life.
* A man needs to prepare himself for marriage by understanding his priorities. (I love Peter’s aunt so much!! 😀 )

But all these did not made the Spiderman 3 worthwhile as the first two in the series. The first and second was the real spiderman with stunning editing and photography and screenplay, while in the third, I guess, they tried to incorporate a bit of realism and ended up messing it.To cut short, the third in the series is meant not for fantasy but instead an attempt at family and individual values.
Overall rating of around 6.5/10

Lyrics

Lyrics – Boulevard of broken dreams

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I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know were it goes
But it’s only me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I’m the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk alone
I walk alone an’ I walk a

My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Til then I walk alone

Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah

I’m walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And where I walk alone

Read between the lines what’s
Fucked up and everything’s all right
Check my vital signs to know I’m still alive
And I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk alone
I walk alone an I walk a

My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Til then I walk alone

Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah

I walk alone I walk a

I walk this empty street
On the boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I’m the only one and I walk a

My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Til then I walk alone