Hectic week, Lazy weekend

Week was too hectic; weekend was simply a lazy one. Finished Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome this weekend. This was my first Amitav Ghosh novel; book was decent, but since I had got some very good reviews, I found the book below expectations. I guess it could have been written in a slightly simple manner. The ghost sequence was cleverly presented, though.
Watched 3 movies over the week – Bheja Fry was good. Saw it on a weekday in the theatre, so had less of a crowd to combat. Movie was a good stress-buster after a hectic and harrowing time in office.
Watched The Maltese Falcon – featuring Humphrey Bogart. Had never seen a Humphrey Bogart movie before. Movie was decent – it’s considered among the all time top ten thriller/mystery movies. Humphrey Bogart as Private Eye Sam Spade was brilliant. The character was simply magnificent and HB did an astounding job playing it.
Saturday didn’t go that well – Meet the Robinsons in the evening was pretty ordinary – not withstanding all the great reviews for it. And dinner @ Rail Road was BAD. Appetite went for a toss after a dead insect surfaced in the fried rice; didn’t do too well for my feedback to the restaurant.
A lazy Sunday with some bits of roaming around in the locality brought up the end to the weekend.

Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting - a movie with Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Minnie Driver.
If I'm not wrong, this movie wwas the first & maybe the only script written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Both of them went on to be quite good crowd-pullers for umpteen movies; pity, no other script (as good) came from them.

A movie about friendship, love and respect. An absolute must-see...

...if you ever have had friends whom you cared for so much, that you meet them with a smile on your face & a hug and give 2 hoots to the fellows across the street who might be wondering if the show of affection borders on something more than "youknowwhat"...if you never keep in touch with those friends but when you meet them on a side street years later, it feels like there never has been a gap in your friendship...if you remember your college days as if it happened the week before...friends whom you can never forget your entire life.....

...if you ever have had loved a girl so much that you don't think twice of removing your armour and admitting unabashedly for the moment of weakness which encapsulates you when you meet her...the joy which comes across when you catch a glimpse of her....the satisfaction which the day brings for a few moments with her....

...if you have ever respected someone so much that you could bring yourself to admit that if you hadn't met that one person, your life wouldn't have been the same....

Dreamer - A feel good movie

Watched a feel-good movie - Dreamer...had Kurt Russell, Elisabeth Shue, Dakota Fanning & Sacrifice - a filly...one of those inspirational movies where the protagonist fights against all odds and comes out winning at the end. Everything goes wrong on the way, but the good guys keep faith and support the hero/heroine (horse in this case). The horse's name in this movie is Sonador - Spanish for Dreamer.

You watch the entire movie knowing very well that everything is going to be alright at the end...and you end up feeling good about that. Sometimes such movies can be a load of crap, but there are times when the same movies with the same kind of stories come up good...not extraordinary, but good.

What's the World coming to...

A teacher leaves the classroom for a few minutes and when she returns she finds 4 children having "sex"...and no these are not "high hormoned" high schoolers...these are 5th graders...10 year olds!!!

That's news.

Guess, that would be enough for some to say,"What's the world coming to nowadays?"

TV is Boring!!!

There's nothing good on tv....TV is so boring....you know it's boring when the only program you can even think of watching is Fit TV - where some fabulous looking bodies teach you different sets of work-out routines....

God, TV is boring...