Sweet Love

“ Love is a wonderful feeling which stabs you in the heart and leaves you bleeding on the ground”
Childhood sweethearts we’ve all had them, for some they last for others they don’t but ah… they all do leave behind a lasting impression. Whether that special someone was just a crush, a fantasy or an absolute nightmare they were always those times when we thought that “ we were meant to be together” , but later we realize that madam destiny had her own sweet plans and that’s when we move from being kids to adults………..
Little Manhattan is a wonderful movies which highlights the dizzying heights and neurotic lows of first lst love…….

“ Little Manhattan is a love letter to the joys and pains of first love, this is a giant sweetheart of a movie—a lightning-in-a-bottle rarity that will entertain adults as much as it will children (around eight and up) all the while never once talking down to any age group. This isn't merely a cutesy, lightweight romp (like, for example, Disney Channel series'), either, but a heartfelt, realistic, deeply touching motion picture that gets just right the feeling of being eleven years old and discovering your first pangs of romantic affection.
That is exactly what happens to Gabe (Josh Hutcherson), a boy on the cusp of adolescence who is enjoying a carefree summer of hanging out with his guy friends on the Upper West Side of Manhattan until Rosemary (Charlie Ray), a classmate he has known since kindergarten, shows up in his beginners karate class. Once friends before the whole cooties epidemic hit in the first grade, Gabe suddenly sees Rosemary in a whole new light. He doesn't quite know what it is, but his racing heart every time he looks at her is a feeling he likes. Paired up as sparring partners, they soon become good friends again—spending time at each other's homes, going to Central Park, secretly journeying downtown to the Village to check out a possible home for Gabe's father, Adam (Bradley Whitford), who is currently going through a divorce with mother Leslie (Cynthia Nixon). With Rosemary headed to camp in just a few weeks that Gabe begins to fear this may be his one and only chance to tell her how he feels about her.

Meanwhile, as the two become closer, Gabe grapples with garnering the courage to kiss her, something that he finds himself chickening out with. When they attend a concert with Rosemary's parents and finally hold hands for the first time, it is a purely magical moment. As the summer wears on and Rosemary's departure for camp draws near, Gabe grows all the more sure that he loves her. But, when the time comes to express his feelings, Rosemary's reaction to the news avoids going over-the-top or warm and fuzzy, and is played just right. She is, after all, still just a kid who isn't quite ready to start quote-unquote "dating." ”

This is not a “wine n roses and happily ever after” romantic movie but very moving in its utter simplicity so for all of you out there who have lost faith in the very phenomenon of “ love” it is a must watch as it rekindles one’s faith in sweet innocent love.

After a long haitus

Wow. Its been so long since I’ve written. Ok may be its been only a month and a half or so but it feels light years away. So life’s changed a lot since, so here are the updates…….
For starters I got into the “much coveted” rv college of engineering that to into the branch I wanted “telecommunications” so that was great, but then college started……
Its been hectic and stressful to say the least but I guess it’s a bitter-sweet existence, even though the course load’s tiring and the traveling overwhelming I’ve made some great friends already, touch wood, I mean I have to survive 4 years here. Other than that there’s guitar class and debating- the extra curriculars I have no intention of giving up,as a result I have to work double hard to keep up with the never ending homework, assignments etc( can u believe they make you do all this in college and check it too) so even though its just been 1 month into college I have to occasionally get up at 3 in the morning to finish the above mentioned crap, but I have kinda gotten used to this grueling schedule, at a personal level things are so-so but I guess things are not so bad after all I could have ended up in some hell-hole with no friends whatsoever ……………. So that’s a thumb’s up from me.

Sailing towards uncharted waters, better than drowning in dismay

Finally I’m getting a well-deserved holiday , I’m most probably going on a vacation to Visakhapatnam(Vizag) , a coastal area in Andhra Pradesh, with lots of beaches and enough “sun, sand and surf” to relieve me of all the stress I have been facing lately.
Of late life has been demanding in more ways than one, the details of which I shall not burden you with, but basically it has been pretty frustrating and its not helping that most of my friends have been pretty depressed themselves thus leaving nobody to liven my own dampened spirits. Some are depressed due to family problems, for others its work related issues and for certain others its just plain boredom, whatever the cause may be the effect has been more or less the same, and I guess its really not helping anyone that the weather has been so foreboding too.
Anyways I m glad that in a couple of weeks I shall be getting away from all this, like the Linkin Park song goes “ Its easier to run………..” , I would rather run than feel so low.
Anyways coming to the sailing part of it, you see Vizag is a sea port and my uncle ( who stays there) is some sort of director in the ship yard so I may actually get the opportunity to sail in a ship, so I’m hoping that as I sail in one of those majestic ships, I’ll also be able to sail past my own depression and cruise into happier times.
PS-: If there are dementors around spreading dread in the air, "HELP, harry we need a huge patronous".

Hibernating at home

Three months ago had you told me I’d be given a chance to sit at home doing absolutely nothing and be given the freedom to do what I want when I want to, I would have probably been ecstatic and jumped at the very idea of spending time so aimlessly, but now that I have the opportunity, I’m not so enthusiastic. Every day I sit at home, idle, having absolutely nothing constructive to do and my frustration gets the better of me. You could probably say ( like a lot of people have) watch movies, go out with friends, catch up with your reading etc etc………( and believe me the suggestions are endless)but that does get saturating after a certain point, since that’s exactly what I’ve been doing for the past 1 ½ months, now I long for something useful to do, a grueling schedule, even engineering maths seems highly appealing( I’m sure in the later months I’ll be cursing myself for saying this)…………. Anyways this clearly shows how ironic life can get sometimes, and I’m clearly not laughing at the irony in mine.

August to be spent in denial

Even though all this while everyone’s been focusing on which college or which branch to get into, everyone also realises its time to say goodbye, some for the better( mostly to the jain chem and physics department , who made my life in jain college a living hell and also to a few select students in class whose names I’d rather not mention) and others unfortunately for the worse. Even though most of my friends are going to continue to pursue their studies in banglore, a few are leaving for better prospects elsewhere………but even though this may sound a tad melodramatic ,considerin I can always keep in touch through the phone or the net, whether a few miles or millions this does make a lot of difference, and so this fact that I’m going to be away from people I’ve known since nursery has’nt really been accepted by me. I choose to live in denial…. Sad na but true because sometimes living in denial does give one a false sense of security and warmth and puts away a lot of unwanted mental stress and apprehension, and the only thing I’d like to say to justify this psychopath like behavior is that anyways in a month’s time I’ll have no choice but to face the truth so I’m just trying to avoid the inevitable while I can. .So for now I’m taking life day by day and plan to face the music( whether melodius or not)later…..

Speculating in July

If you guys have observed the weather in banglore lately,or atleast the past couple of weeks,it has been pretty weird, strange and unpredictable. Early in the morning the sun’s up and shining brightly as if it were summer however around noon it disappears behind the clouds followed by a constant drizzle as if monsoon and about 6 in the evening it turns unusually cold, making us hunt for our sweaters and blazers , as if winter.

I have been pretty jobless the past month and have spent my time mostly admiring the weather( you can easily guess that I have absolutely nothing to do),and so I feel that this strangely unusual weather reflects my confused and unsure state of mind.

Confused probably because I still have no idea whether I made the right choice in choosing the college and branch that I did and unsure as to what is going to happen in the fast approaching casual round .I m in a very unpredictable state of mind ( just like the weather) joyful, optimistic and highly hopeful at times , like the morning sunshine, while dull, sulky and moody at others like the gray skies of the afternoon and yet there are times when I’m highly anxious, apprehensive and scared like the cold and chilly nights.

So you can clearly see I’m see that I’ m spending way too much time speculating about the future but then there are those afternoons when there is bright sunshine accompanied by those typically refreshing banglore showers which results in those beautiful evenings with cool breezes and lovely sunset, and those are the evenings I look forward to when I can relish the lovely weather being careless ,having a nice chat with friends and a nice hot cup of chai in my hands…………….

The Mugg N Vomit Syndrome

This is a bloody endemic which has deeply inflicted and crippled the Indian education system. India’s youth is said 2 b 1 of d most intelligent, hardworking and academically inclined one in d world but thanx 2 d above disease which has gripped d mind of d Indian youth their potential is not being completely sapped. I m an ICSE student n thanx 2 dat atleast my ability 2 understand , contemplate n criticize was encouraged 2 a certain extent but 4 my 11 th std I shifted 2 d state board and was appalled by their system of education here let alone encouraging a student’s ability 2 understand , here d phenomenon of understandin is completely discouraged. Here d students r provided wid typed notes n r asked 2 completely learn it by-heart,n during d exam d student is asked 2 reproduce d same without missin a comma or a question mark. Here d question as 2 whether d student has an understandin of d subject does not even arise n is treated as irrelevant. If any student has any doubt regardin d subject he/she is asked 2 read d notes thoroughly again n if he/she further questions d teacher , he/she is made a mockery of or is shouted at for askin unnecessary questions……….hence in conclusion I’d like to say dat 1 has 2 take some sort of step 2 change how things work here because in today’s world where things knowledge keeps widenin its boundaries by d second 1 cannot continue 2 live in this ignorant n knaive fashon. Thus I’d also like 2 add by sayin dat after knowing how things work here it does not shock me when India inspite of being d home 2 d largest no. of docs n engineers in d world is not home 2 dat many scientists since even though d ppl here may b remarkably gifted, very rarely r they encouraged 2 use their brains.