This week feels like an extended…never ending weekend! 5 day weekend with the exception of Monday (today) but there’s no school for Vedant. It was kind of fun to write out the "love story" of my life in my last post…nice to see the comments on it too :-)…
Today morning is quite unlike Delhi’s normal sunny and hot morning, its dark outside…the sky overcast with think dark rumbling clouds. The rains come and go…what I long for is incessant rains. I have this strong desire to walk in the rains…just feel the raindrops on my face…running down my skin. Feel the breeze gently blowing against my hair…I want to feel that soothing feeling.
Today morning is quite unlike Delhi’s normal sunny and hot morning, its dark outside…the sky overcast with think dark rumbling clouds. The rains come and go…what I long for is incessant rains. I have this strong desire to walk in the rains…just feel the raindrops on my face…running down my skin. Feel the breeze gently blowing against my hair…I want to feel that soothing feeling.
I remember rains in Assam. I remember cycling home from school in blinding rain…it’s the most amazing feeling ever! I got soaked…I took off my socks and shoes and stuffed it along with my school bag in a plastic bag and secured it in my cycle carrier…and then cycled bare foot…! Reached home completely drenched but happyyy!
Mom was mad at me coz she had sent the car to pick me up but I didn’t wait for the car to get to school! But the whole experience was worth all her scolding!
I love sitting with a hot cup of tea or coffee and watching the rain. The sight of birds in little water ponds, ruffling their feathers and chirping away brings a smile on my face :-)… and listening to songs on the pc while I write this post…ironical na? In this dark cloudy monsoon day…my mind’s as bright & happy as sunshine in springtime! I wanted a reason to smile today, I found it mid morning when the rains began...*sigh*
Mom was mad at me coz she had sent the car to pick me up but I didn’t wait for the car to get to school! But the whole experience was worth all her scolding!
I love sitting with a hot cup of tea or coffee and watching the rain. The sight of birds in little water ponds, ruffling their feathers and chirping away brings a smile on my face :-)… and listening to songs on the pc while I write this post…ironical na? In this dark cloudy monsoon day…my mind’s as bright & happy as sunshine in springtime! I wanted a reason to smile today, I found it mid morning when the rains began...*sigh*
It’s Independence Day tomorrow. Just another much needed holiday for many I know. It’s not often that we stop to really think about the importance of such days and I’m not here btw to write a post on all that and talk about how we don’t value our freedom and the struggle to gain this freedom. That’s not true because we do…we’re not ignorant of our history and we’re not all cynical of the state of our country or for that matter the world at large. I think days like Independence Day and Republic Day here in India and similar days like these in other countries are special because in the midst of all our “living” and “existing” through our daily routine and mundane lives, we take time out to remember and appreciate and feel that sense of patriotism which in our otherwise regular lives, we just don’t really think about, do we? I feel a great sense of pride whenever I see the tricolor being hoisted and hear the national anthem. And I remember being in Chicago on 4th of July watching the fireworks display on Lake Michigan and I got to sense the same pride amongst the Americans. It’s there in all of us…
This brings me to another disturbing reality…another feeling we’re all going to learn to live with! It’s getting more real by the day. Yes you know I am talking of “terror”. Soon after the Mumbai blasts I’d said the same thing. We can’t wish away fear and just as real our lives are, so is the fact that we have people with their twisted minds and ideologies around us…irrespective of faith, culture or community. Twisted minds are their in every single country…every single community. There’s no sense of comfort or security anywhere…
I know I sound very pessimistic but then am I not being realistic?
If only life were like the movies…Good always scores over Evil…*sigh*
Speaking of movies, I saw “KANK” (Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna) yesterday. I would much rather have seen superman! I’ve loved Karan Johar’s movies in the past…”kuch kuch hota hai” … “Kal ho na ho”. But “KANK”…hmmmm, what do I say? Ekta Kapoor’s handled the extra marital affair theme in a million of her soaps! Amitabh as “sexy sam”…I mean yes some older men are sexy…it’s more to do with their intelligence and maturity…but I for the life of me, didn’t find amitabh “sexy”!! Cute yes…! :-) Shahrukh and Rani are gr8 actors individually…but on screen chemistry??? Nah…
This brings me to another disturbing reality…another feeling we’re all going to learn to live with! It’s getting more real by the day. Yes you know I am talking of “terror”. Soon after the Mumbai blasts I’d said the same thing. We can’t wish away fear and just as real our lives are, so is the fact that we have people with their twisted minds and ideologies around us…irrespective of faith, culture or community. Twisted minds are their in every single country…every single community. There’s no sense of comfort or security anywhere…
I know I sound very pessimistic but then am I not being realistic?
If only life were like the movies…Good always scores over Evil…*sigh*
Speaking of movies, I saw “KANK” (Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna) yesterday. I would much rather have seen superman! I’ve loved Karan Johar’s movies in the past…”kuch kuch hota hai” … “Kal ho na ho”. But “KANK”…hmmmm, what do I say? Ekta Kapoor’s handled the extra marital affair theme in a million of her soaps! Amitabh as “sexy sam”…I mean yes some older men are sexy…it’s more to do with their intelligence and maturity…but I for the life of me, didn’t find amitabh “sexy”!! Cute yes…! :-) Shahrukh and Rani are gr8 actors individually…but on screen chemistry??? Nah…
And in any case, why would any married couple (this includes yours truly and hubby) want to go watch a movie that shows us glimpses of a reality we want to get away from when we go to a movie theatre to have a simple enjoyable evening. The fights…the ego hassles…the misunderstandings….lolz…I mean it was serious stuff there in the movie but I see it happening at home too! Soo…what’s the solution? Where’s my shahrukh…huh? JK ;-)…!! He was a lot more complicated than abhishek in the movie…I’d be nuts around a guy with so many insecurities! Now abhishek :-) okk… gimme a guy like that professing his love to me every single day of our married life?!!
Okk enough of all this negative stuff, the songs were nice … and “where’s the party tonight” had Vedant and me tapping our feet and singing aloud! I did like Preity's character in the movie. And yes the movie wasn’t all that bad either. I was disappointed that’s all.
I also saw some movies at home…cds…which included old movies like “The party” and “Summer Holiday”. Had fun watching these :-)
Two days more of holidaying at home…R has an off on Wednesday too coz of “Janamashtami” (celebrating the birth of lord Krishna). So no posts for the next couple of days!
I’ve written this out now on Monday morning but probably will put it up tomorrow…my net connection's gone! Delhi’s back to the usual power cut scene…it’s quite pathetic here!
Have a gr8 week everyone!
Ps: The song playing is “To the moon and back” by Savage Garden…dedicated to ummm…all those married women (?!) who wanna get away from it all sometimes ;-)!!!
Okk enough of all this negative stuff, the songs were nice … and “where’s the party tonight” had Vedant and me tapping our feet and singing aloud! I did like Preity's character in the movie. And yes the movie wasn’t all that bad either. I was disappointed that’s all.
I also saw some movies at home…cds…which included old movies like “The party” and “Summer Holiday”. Had fun watching these :-)
Two days more of holidaying at home…R has an off on Wednesday too coz of “Janamashtami” (celebrating the birth of lord Krishna). So no posts for the next couple of days!
I’ve written this out now on Monday morning but probably will put it up tomorrow…my net connection's gone! Delhi’s back to the usual power cut scene…it’s quite pathetic here!
Have a gr8 week everyone!
Ps: The song playing is “To the moon and back” by Savage Garden…dedicated to ummm…all those married women (?!) who wanna get away from it all sometimes ;-)!!!
“…But somewhere in a private place
She packs her bags for outer space
And now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot to come
And she'll say to him…she’s saying…
I would fly to the moon and back if you'll be my baby
Got a ticket for a world where we belong
So would you be my baby?
She can't remember a time when she felt needed
If love was red then she was colorblind
All her friends they've been tried for treason
And crimes that were never defined
She's saying "Love is like a barren place
And reaching out for human faith is like a journey
I just don't have a map for"
So baby's gonna take a dive and
Push the shift to overdrive
Send a signal that she's hanging
All her hopes on the stars
What a pleasant dream
Just saying…
I would fly to the moon and back
If you'll be my baby
Got a ticket for a world where we belong…
So won’t you be my baby?”
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