Home is where heart is

PS - dont faint after reading this..... but i trying my bit to be more creative so here it goes...

Many dreams were born here and many hopes have died,
Midas touch it had, yet few could not survive,
It gave you tons of joy with pinch of salt,
Nothing could deter its spirit, not even frequent assaults,
Like a phoenix it will rise from ashes,
Every time burnt of clashes,
This city never sleeps,
Memories here are for keeps,
With open arms it accepts,
everyone standing on her steps,
It’s a fruit of man’s resolve,
To succeed and evolve

Yeh Mumbai hai meri Jaan,
Kuch nahi Yahaan asaan


These are the most trivial words that can describe the city I live in, a city that has given me sense of belonging like never before, a city that I love and hate with the same ferocity. It’s a place of all the contractions that can subsist in this world.

Five years ago (whoops!!!!) I came here full of apprehension and anxiety with no plan how to survive this city after a sheltered life of 20 years. But I have not just endured but blissfully enjoyed each and every day of my life here. It has made me strong and tough in many ways and taught me some valuable lessons of life.

I don’t say that this is heaven on earth neither do I say it’s hell its somewhere in between. It will treat you so indifferently that you feel almost isolated yet in times of need you will never be alone.

My years in this place have taught me to value time more than anything. Never have I seen people working so hard for what they believe in. The civic sense of responsibility people have here is better than most of the places I have seen. Every one works hard and parties harder. Here I can be what I am without being bothered about what others will think because no one gives a damm to anyone here. People are busy in their own cocoons. The simplicity of life here truly humbles me. Yet I crave it to be better , to be ‘The Best’.

This place makes me crazy at times with the traffic , hustle bustle and crowd yet when I go back home this is what I miss most(it’s a strange life after all). God only knows how much I have cribbed about being here…about my “tough” life. Still on days like today (emotionally high) I thank god for me being here because, I would have never loved any place more than this

I don’t know what future holds and where will I be….. but after all these years I feel that the wanderer in me has found her home.

Vishesh Tipani

Here are my weekend updates saw …..completed ‘The Host’ ..saw ‘Kites’ and following is my vishesh tipani about the two

‘The Host’ by stephenie Meyer – It’s a pretty HUGE book considering the number of pages and characters involved. I did liked it in bits and pieces but it doesn’t grips you like twilight did so if a sequel is planned for it I doubt I would be reading it in contrast with twilight were I was dying to read them.
The best part about this book is the relationship between Wanda and Melanie the two main protagonist. The main trouble was that this book had the faint scent of twilight i could relate certain charcters within the two books here it is - :
1.Wanda/Melanie - Bella
2. Jared/Ian - Edward
3. Kyle - Jasper
4. Jaime - Alice
5. Jef - Carlisle
6. Seeker - This one I couldn’t Map(fill in if u have read the book)
7. Mangolia - Rosalie

Well..maybe I vampires charm me more than Aliens……..

Kites - : The much awaited movie finally hit screens last weekend and what a disappointment it was, nothing worth mentioning about this movie hence I will keep this review short and simple. “People please don’t waste your money as movie doesn’t live it up”.
Newspapers report that movie made 21Cr in three days and is second to 3 Idiots in terms of opening collection (off course idiots like me are there to splurge)
The meanest thing is that all the theaters (including the doomed one near my house) have increased the ticket prize (gwad… cashing on this hopeless movie yuukiess)

The parallel that I noticed between the above mentioned was both had a lot of hype surrounding them. Coming from extremely creative people they were bound to do so….a lot of media attention, publicity marked their release yet they failed ‘the mark’. Could over publicity lead to failure….well this is something I am not so sure about. Take KJo for example his movies follow the same trend. But somehow I have always liked the way he markets them. let’s see if his forthcoming movie ‘ I hate love stories’ would live upto expectations or not btw I quite like its title and off course Imran Khan though he is all looks and no substance.
Anyways….thats all from me …i am planning to revive my french dreams so hopefully i mite start blogging in french (kidding!!)

Theory about dreams

I am back…. again….
Well was busy since last few days so couldn’t manage much idle thoughts..btw..according to my friend I am doing “constructive idling”………. how much weird something’s can be.

So today my superfluous thoughts were around dreams. How many of us remember what we dreamt last night? At least I do(every single day). Its said that we always remember our dreams if we don’t sleep well or if we generally are not sound sleepers. I guess that’s kindda right in my case cause I belong to the latter category.

So here’s my theory Dreams connect us to our subconscious mind, a place which is beyond the reach of our brain. and when we sleep our brain also sleeps (it needs rest after a hard day!!). That time the subconscious mind takes control over the conscious one and we dream. I really enjoy interpreting my dreams at times.

Althoughmy dreams are never consistent and at times are very much disturbing and annoying (I get these really creepy dreams about lions when I am scared or there is something troubling me). At times I wonder if babies also dream? Because there conscious and subconscious mind isn’t developed so what happens when they sleep?
One more funny thing I never have dreams about anything I really want(which I expect would occupy both my minds).

How many times when something happens I do have this kind of déjà vu of going through the same experience before..spooky..it is

so….not much constructive idling today..ciao…
PS will write my reviews about ‘The Host’ as soon as I am done with it.

Friday Especialwa

Today is Friday…my favorite day of all days J and today(like all days) I hardly feel like working (sigh sigh)



Well..I am seriously thinking of buying a 2 wheeler for myself but that needs convincing everyone (grrrrrrrrrrrr). I mean, come on, I am good with two wheelers(at least) if you ignore few accidents that happened when I was just a ‘kid’. It will save so much time(obviously), energy ,effort and other bla bla and then 2 wheelers have their own charm + the risk factor of damage is also less in case of any mess up (high probability)

Day before yesterday on an sudden impulse I got my hair chopped and dear hubby didn’t even notice :'( in fact I had to ‘explicitly’ tell him that I had a haircut and his reaction was…." Now I know why u are not looking like my wife" sometimes guys are really grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…………………

Hopefully this weekend I would do something constructive apart from sleeping , eating and cribbing ;)

At times we require loads of courage and conviction to do small things ….and with time willingness to do so fades away….because we get inside that comfort zone where everything is not as desired but is as required. If we stay in that zone for a long period it becomes virtually impossible to get out and that causes a situation of conflict where no one is in peace with oneself.

Please don’t ask why am I writing this…remember these are my idle thoughts ;)

Anyways…have a rocking weekend….ciao :)

PS: I am back to CGs :(

idle thoughts part 2

I absolutely love reading … since I don’t have any particular taste in books so can read anything from first-rate to crap but yes I am more inclined towards fiction and I don’t like anything with economics (cant afford that much brain). I also like collecting books ….hopefully when I’ll be an old granny will at least own a decent library for myself.

So day before yesterday I bought myself four books namely Andre Agassi’s Memoirs, one Daniel steel (yes I love her weepy stories) , The Host by Stephanie Meyer and another book.

I have started off with ‘The Host ‘ as I am a big fan of twilight series. In fact I have not read the first book of this series but had watched the movie and was really curious about Bella Swan and Edward Cullen ..will they won’t they. You can imagine my curiosity by the fact that I had read last one online causing enough torture on my eyes. Although sometimes I doubt if the movie caused the book to be so popular or other way round. Anyways hopefully Miss Meyer will be able to bind her readers through the second series as well J.

Lord of the Rings is one of those few movies who have done justice to the book. Though I admit not reading the book cause it was quite fat and boring. But I liked the movie

Its very difficult to live up to the expectations once the bar has been raised. And its even more difficult to write a book suitable to everyone’s taste. Somehow I feel that writers generally get type casted. There are so many examples…JK Rowling, Dan Brown, Daniel steel, Stephen King…now I cannot imagine Dan brown writing a hard core romantic novel….or Daniel steel writing a crime fiction am not sure if typecasting should be the correct word. So let’s say that generally writers mark their own comfort zone and very rarely venture out. Not that I blame them… after all they would want to sell their books with minimal risks.

Recently I had also read Marley and Me and I absolutely loved the book and according to me anyone who loves dog(who doesn’t) or has every owned one ..it’s a must read for those guys. Now I am looking forward to watch the movie hopefully it has been well turned out.

‘The Class’ by Erich Segal is one book I wish some movie is made. He masters the art of writing about the typical Harvard guys their life’s and woes . I am also a big time fan of all the Judith mcnaught’s books..no one can write those typical mushy love stories better than her. There was also this book my friend suggested ‘Randy’s Last Lecture’ which I found quite absorbing considering that it was actually his last lecture complied in a book.

Lately I have also started reading books by Indian authors and I must say that some of them are really good.. last one that I read was ‘ Everything you desire’ an account of IIM guy about campus life and his life in that campus. Leaving the technicalities aside he book is quite entertaining.


Mark Twain has some very interesting quotes about books

” A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.”

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else”

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

Anyways..that’s all from me as of now….will update soon about my reviews of The Host ………ciao

Better luck next time...

Since the day we shifted to our new house (which was during IPL) I was waiting to watch some nice entertaining movie. Finally yesterday we (hubby dear and me) decided to watch Houseful in-spite of all the negative feedback.

So at 10:20 pm we reached theater assuming that we’ll get seats (who wouldn’t considering that we have never watched any movie in that theater with more than 15 people).anyways…. the booking guy very happily informed us ‘Sir Housefull to Housefull hai’ so hopeless me asked hubby dear to buy tickets for 11:15 show .Being the movie buff I am I was all game to sacrifice my precious sleep, and I noticed it was not just me but at least 20-30 kids.

So all keyed up I enter this theater and comes the first scene……….. a pathetic looking AK walking as if he has been stung by bee or worse he has finally realized that his time in this industry is over…and then starts painful(very) torture for 2 hrs 40 mins.

Never in my life have I waited for a movie to get over (not even phoonk 2) but this time I did. But what surprised or should I say shocked me most was the kind of cinema kids are being exposed to. I remember as a kid many movies were forbidden for us because ‘Vo bachoo ke layak nahi thi”…. Watching late night movie was complete NO NO . My parents use to ensure that we watch all the ‘right’ kind of movies…..I think standards to define that are really low now.

Considering the profound effect cinema has on us isn’t it wise to use it prudently. In our industry there can only be two aspects of movie quality and quantity. When I say quality I mean content with sense of direction…screenplay…acting. While quantity means attributes to generate revenue ignoring everything and anything else. Now these two sets have nothing in common and no movie lies between the two(not in my times).

We are yet to break that barrier that to merge the two sets. What we need now is something meaningful but at the same time entertaining. When I say meaningful I don’t mean some hard hitting serious kindda movie..but something that makes some sagacity…has humor in the correct sense and not non sense.

Anyways...hopefully I will have better luck next time….Ciao…….