Everyday routine...

Just thought I'll pen down the routine stuff that I engage myself with almost every single day...

- Music: Most of it is Rahmans. Be it film music, BGMs, albums... Ilayarajas pieces comes second. Other MDs do play occasionally on my box. CORRS is the latest find, an Irish band. The genre of music depends on the mood I am in and the work I am doing.

- Softthinkers: The email group which is for a close set of friends from our UG class (Anna Univ Comp Sc 2004 passouts). It is more like a forum and an excellent time pass that one can indulge in without affecting work productivity

- Office work: Of late it is more of coordination work for me and hence more of mails and meetings

- Yoga practices: The best thing I do every single day!

- Food: It is generally 2 meals a day and with a variety of cuisines in my office, and occasional cooking at home, I ain't complaining any more.

- Madha Makkal: The set of friends who stay together in Madhapur. One awesome group of friends with whom time just flies past.

- Enthu's PC: This is rather a recent addition. With a half Terabyte hard disk, this has the best collection of movies, TV shows, music, what not! One perfect stop shop for entertainment!

At crossroads...

Crossroads... plenty aren't they... at so many instances in one's life...
To make a decision, at the crossroads... phew...how I wish someone made the appropriate choices for me.

Am simply going to delay the crossroads for the time being. Am going to take a stroll in to the bush near by before again returning to the crossroads. But whatever be the road I shall choose, whether it is the one that is next to the stream or the one over which the stream is running, at least one of my legs is going to be in the stream.

While I am whiling away in the bushes, I wish I get the vision, the one vision that shall guide me in choosing the roads.

By the way do the roads really matter...not really! It's just a choice... whether I want to run and play in the stream or swim and play. Afterall, it's just a game and I am going to play it!

Movies...Lots of them...

Have been seeing a lot of movies over the last few weeks. Each movie in itself can be converted into a post, but due to lack of interest I'll stop by simply revealing their names so that you can watch it if you wish.

1. Bommarillu:
One of the sweetest (telugu) movies I have ever seen. The highlight being the heroine's character "Hasini" played adeptly by Genelia

2. Perfume-The story of a murderer:
A very very different movie in terms of plot and narration. BGMs and picturisation are amazing, not to forget the hero's performance and the most important, the story line.

3. The Prestige:
Another moview with a very different story line and and extra-ordinary screenplay that keeps the viewer guessing till the very last frame of the movie. An awesome suspense movie, nice performances, worht more than a single watch

4. Shrek the Third:
Am always an ardent fan of animation movies, esp the Shrek series. This doesn't disappoint me in any way. Yet anotehr roller-coaster ride for the crew and laugh-your-heart-out movie. I love the humour and the message of the movie that is playfully spun.

5. Water:
I've never seen Deepa Mehta's movies and by seeing just this one, I can proclaim her to be one of the very good directors. I had written a mail to my friends urging them to watch this movie, that I shall paste here...

Yest, at 1.30 in the night, I wanted to see atleast one song from the movie WATER and started playing the movie. I couldn't stop myself from seeing the entire movie inspite of the long day...

I wud recommend a watch of the movie. No wonder the movie bagged a number of awards and was an oscar nominee as well. (Sad part is that politicians in india banned the movie from screening. Even for shooting, the director wasn't allowed and i believe it was shot in srilanka)

The most important reason of the mail is the social reality that existed during those days and the movie claims sucha situation still exists in many parts of India, which, I wish isn't the case. A very very poignant movie. The theme of the movie simply sends a shudder down my spine. Though I've read abt the yesteryears, this movie brings to the eye how the world was a man-concocted world where women were treated sub-human, as objects of man's whims and fancies. Painful!

The cinematography is spell bounding. So is the performances and usage of songs.

Special mentions to:

Lisa Ray!!! Have I seen an angel on screen... no make-up, no non-sense giggles... I wonder if anyone cud hav done a better job... I am not able to get her out of my mind... clad in whites, eyes that speak so much... Class performance!

The little girl Sarala: Perfect! Awesome! She should have been awarded in at least a couple of film festivals.

Seema Biswas: I've never seen any of her performances and this one performance shall keep her high in my views.

If u get a chance, don't miss...

May be I saw a few more movies, but they don't demand a mention here...

Enna ezhudhardhu...

Knowing not what to write, with an urge to write something at this odd hour, I write this.
Total incoherence ahead. Better to skip reading this post...

The wooden log,
With the dead mind,
Constantly being pushed around by the current,
Though still thinking it was by conscious choice,
At last knows, at least knows,
It is the current that is making the choices.
With this awakening,
Is born a new mind...

No fear exists, for now the log knows the ways of the current
I can see the land.
The end is getting clearer with every push.
As I relish the last of my swims... I can see the land.

Tit-bits

1. Loved the Sivaji songs. Special mentions to Athiradee, Ballelakka, Thirupavai bit in Sahana (sad) and Style :-)

2. Having a tight week in office due to last minute issues

3. Having a hell a lot of time with Lokanetra and Sw.Rijuda at our house :-) While we attempted giving them a taste of our "host-(h)ellish" lifestyle, we seem to be miserably failing with Lokanetra beginning to take over the reigns.

4. Heard Sadhguru saying this somewhere "The problem is, you know everything in this universe except for one thing, YOU!"...Got reminded of this and hence thought of sharing it here...

5. Oh yeah...forgot that the tamil new year is tomorrow...Happy new year!!!!! Long time since I ever awaited a function/festivity. May be because I stopped confining my happiness to only certain dates in the year, wearing new clothes and all such trivial stuff.

6. Anything else...Hmmm???

7. Nothing is clear...nothing need to be clear...everything as it is, at this moment, is.

8. Excellent zen and sufi stuff at http://www.zensufi.com/index.html

9. Listening to Munbe Vaa from SoK for the umpteenth time...One song that keeps on growing with every single listening. Shreya Goshal is gonna give the listeners diabetes... Such sweetness!

10. TEN

Retro

The mad venom,
as it poisons through
the sheaths of ignorance,
on reaching the core
shall become the elixir itself, some day...