What if...

Remember those stories we heard in childhood - about Spiderman, Superman, Phantom and other super heroes? Remember how amazed and happy we were when he heard these stories? Most of us would probably have made a secret promise to ourselves to become like one of them some day. Ahh.. those childhood fantasies!! :)

And, after so many years we think of them again, and they don't appear to be anything more than comic stories now. Maybe most of us don't even recollect what those promises were. But there are still a couple of us who believe secretly that, someday, God may become kind enough to grant us that wish. The wish to climb buildings like Spiderman, or, the wish to rule the world, the wish to be the favorite of everyone in the world, the wish to apparate...

Anyway, what if we do have a little out-of-the-way but still close-to-reality kind of wish? Maybe the next big thing science can amaze the world with? Like, for example what if we could program our minds to be able to hear and understand everything told/thought about us by people when we aren't around.

Like, say, you've had an interview and want to know right then, what the interviewers thought about you. You would get an exact picture of what they thought about you and what they actually told you. Try as hard as they may, but you would know whether they exactly meant what they said. You would know who your true friends/well wishers really are. And, you would know whether your boss means what he says about you. Handling people will be a lot easier because you would know what's exactly on their minds. I hate to say this, but this would probably help guys to understand girls a lot better. :P Maybe, also in those corner cases, this would help the girls too, where guys act weirder than girls would generally do.

And, for all those people who think this wish sounds a little too self-obsessive, we could have a beta-2 version - in which you give a particular person's name as an input to the program, and feed to any random person's mind. You would know what that random person exactly thinks about that particular person.

Maybe in a world where everyone would speak their mind out and stop acting diplomatic, this wish would be futile. Maybe its not a great thing to know all the time what people think about you. Like, when your friends plan a surprise party for you. But then, which super power did not have drawbacks?

Coincidences?

Today, I had been to the temple and just saw two friends meet each other. Both total strangers to me. But the smile on their faces when they surprisingly looked at each other, was something I haven't seen in a long time now. :)

How many times has it happened to you that you are continuously thinking of someone and suddenly that person comes right in front of you? Well, it has happened to me once and I remember it to be one of the happiest moments. :) Its like God expressing how much HE loves you and decides to grant you a wish, and bingo! you see what you want to see.

All this looks so simple, right? But is it all just about coincidences? Or, are they actually tricks God plays with us? Like parents do when they play with their kids? Just wondering on how these things work.. I've heard that the world maintains an order in which things work. And that things don't generally happen, by chance. There is a pre-planned sequence of things in which things go. And it is all having some reasoning. Hmmm...

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This is probably the best comedy scene I've come across till now. Absolutely hilarious!!!

Watch this.

hehe...

I learnt the 4 steps in dandiya today. Yay! :P

Lovely song!

Have you listened to Aruluva Hoovu from My autograph? Its a Kannada song, one of the most meaningful songs I have heard, off late!! :)

Click on "Aruluva Hoovu" in this link.

My Autograph...A Review..

I know that I am very late in giving the review of this Kannada movie, but I am so glad that I did get to watch it on TV this weekend. Its one of the best Kannada movies I have seen, off late. I would love to watch it again and again.

The movie is about a successful ad agency employee going to visit different places where he spent his life, starting from his childhood. He goes to invite all his old friends to his marriage. The best part of the movie, according to me, is the way they have narrated the story. The hero goes to the places where he spent his childhood, college, and they show the flashback. Just the way you and me, would remember our old days if we would go to our own schools or colleges. Aww, it touches your heart :)

They start with the school time love of the hero whose name is Kamala. She is a very simple village girl who wears a very pretty "kuchchu" ( its a kinda band) in her hair and fascinates the hero. Perfect childhood love! :) But since her family decides that 10th std is the highest degree a girl can get before her marriage, she gets separated from the hero and he is heart broken for sometime. Then comes his college love, Lathika. The hero is very mesmerised by this Malayali girl and despite the fact that he can't understand what she talks most of the time, he falls for her, and the heroine also encourages after some initial reluctance. But as happens in most of these dramatic love stories, the girls' parents get her married to a Malayali boy and hero gets into a big time depression.

Then enters Divya - the character I love the most. She is the one who makes the movie what it is, according to me. She plays the role of the hero's friend. She gives direction and purpose to the hero's life. Makes him an achiever in life. And mind you, its pure friendship, in its true sense. No mixture of love, no confusion. And Divya is one hell of a strong girl. I wish I could be as determined in life as she is. A go-getter and fiercely independent. She knows what she wants, and works to get it. She has her share of sorrows too, but is very positive in life. The scene in which she first tells the hero that he is her friend, is probably the best scene. She is just having his interests in mind, she wants him to do well in life. And thankfully, the director doesn't make them lovers. Best friends, thats all there is to it. Thats how sacred friendship can get :)

The hero finally marries a girl as selected by his parents and all his old friends come to attend his marriage. Though he is heart broken to see Lathika as a widow, he talks to Divya and as suggested by her, decides to move ahead with his life rather than marry Lathika for a wrong reason- sympathy. ( Divya is a good advisor too! :) )

As I had said sometime in my previous post, my expectations from kannada cinema are very high. And this movie exceeds all expectations. Sudeep rocks!!! :) But watch it for the story. According to me, thats the winner in this movie. Hope to see a lot more of such kannada movies! :)

Hmmm...

I have really started liking Avril's songs... The lyrics of this song esp.. and her voice.. WOW!!!
This song is called "My Happy Ending"


Oh oh, oh oh
So much for my happy ending

Oh oh, oh oh
So much for my happy ending

Oh oh, oh oh, oh oooooh....

Let's talk this over
It's not like we're dead
Was it something I did?
Was it something you said?

Don't leave me hangin'
In a city so dead
Held up so high
On such a breakable thread

[Pre-Chorus:]
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be

[Chorus:]
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be
But we lost it (but we lost it)
All of the memories, so close to me
Just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending

Oh oh, oh oh
So much for my happy ending (Oh oh, oh oh)

Oh oh, oh oh

You've got your dumb friends
I know what they say
They tell you I'm difficult
But so are they (So are they)
But they don't know me
Do they even know you? (Even know you)
All the things you hide from me
All the shit that you do (All the shit that you do)

You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be

[Chorus:]
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending

It's nice to know that you were there,
Thanks for acting like you cared
And making me feel like I was the only one
It's nice to know we had it all
Thanks for watching as I fall
And letting me know we were done


[Chorus:]
He was everything, everything that I wanted
And We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending...

[Chorus:]
You were everything, everything that I wanted
And we were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending

Oh oh, oh oh
So much for my happy ending
Oh oh, oh oh
So much for my happy ending

Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh....
Oh oooooh....