BEING CURIOUS!!!!

A very common saying goes like "Curiosity killed the cat". In my life it tends to be a tad different! How so? My dog, Casper. It goes like "Curiosity haunts the dog"! Casper was the name of the friendly ghost! So unlike my dog!

People have been saying that I have lost weight. And the all in unison put the garland around my hectic schedule! I on the other hand beg to differ. It's not my schedule, but the amount of chasing behind my dog. It seems that all I do is to chase him. Away from the bedroom, from the kitchen, from the dustbin, from the dinning table (!), from the sofa, from the toilet (he loves the commode for some reason and tries like hell to lick the water in it), you name any place on this earth and he will be very curious to explore it!

Oh and did I mention that he simply hates kids? Very strange for a dog though! He is just 8 months old and all of us in the family have developed a crick in the back running after him. Oh and he is very vengeful let me tell you that! If he wants something and you don't give it to him, he does take revenge.

Like the time he was very curious to explore the car and was dragged out it. He went around peeing in the entire drawing room and himself sat in the middle of the circle with his tongue out as if to say, "So there! Ha!"

His best weapons are pee and poop. Any place any time perfect way of getting what he wants. He hates his trainer. Nit because he makes him work hard but coz he doesn't let him frolic. He is curious when the women of the house talks in conspiratory voices, he is curious as to what the milkman stores under his dhoti so on so forth. And the number of embarrassing situations that he has lead us to!

Like for the time when he filled a mug with pebbles (please don't ask me how?) and stuffed it down the servants toilet commode merely to see what happens when he did that. As am writting this he trying to play with my toes and I have no idea why. He is going through the phase of being curious. God knows what will happen when he turns horny!

WORST MOVIES OF ALL TIMES......(FOR ME)

These are my very own personal choices. After nearly two decades of cinematic experiences I thought of writing down about the ones that I regret the most. And for better enlisting I have decided to divide it into two categories of Hollywood and Bollywood. And these are only the ones that I have watched. There maybe others but thankfully I haven't graced their doorstep.

BOLLYWOOD

1. KRISHH :- Even when I am lying on my deathbed this movie will always top the list. I went to see this movie with my mom and aunt and within the first 30 minutes I was direly missing the Batman and Spiderman comics lying at home. Even at this age I feel they are worth 1000 times more than this movie.
2. LONDON DREAMS :- Okay, Salman Khan parts were good enough and the whole movie can be watched by fast forwarding it those Salman Khan moments. Otherwise the music and the movie completely sucked. Why did Ranvijay star in this movie and what was his character all about to Asin's OTT acting, this movie refused to get any worse.
3. DE DHANA DHAN :- Just one line for this movie. One of my uncles once watched it and said ,"If by the end of the movie anybody can understand who is whose husband and who is whose wife, then that person should win a Nobel Prize"! How very true, my glazed eyes were a proof of that.
4. GOD TUSSI GREAT HO :- Coming nowhere near Jim Carey-Morgan Freeman starer "Bruce Almighty" this was a huge disappointment for the Salman Khan and Amitabh Bhachan fans.
5. MAIN PREM KI DEEWANI HOON :- Completely Over The Top!!!!!
6. YAADEIN :- Okay the songs were mindblowingly good which touched the chords of any heart. But the lack of a good story sunk it.
7. CHANCE PE DANCE :- Only the dance were good enough to be watched. The rest of the movie turned out to be very predictable.
8. AAP MUJHE ACHE LAGNE LAGE :- One phrase - "Only For Asthma Patients"!
9. PYAR IMPOSSIBLE :- Can Uday Copra get any worse than in this film? I don't think so! I went with my sister to watch this movie and i found the scenes going on in the seats beside me much more interesting!!!
10. JANE KAHAN SE AYI HAI :- Even after all these months I have no idea what these movie was all about.

I think these 10 are enough! No more insults to apna Bollywood though there are lots of name in my head.

HOLLYWOOD

1. DUPLICITY :- This movie was about cloning. Actually multiple clonning. Then I have no idea what happened next.
2. PICTURE THIS :- This movie was too predictable with a very shaky storyline.
3. THE BIRDCAGE :- Yes it is a gay movie but somehow it has no charm. It got lot somewhere in the drag!
4. UGLY TRUTH :- The truth was really ugly and both Katherine Heigel and Gerad Butler lacked the chemistry.
5. MY BOSSES DAUGHTER :- A nonsense movie that's all!!!

Okay couldn't get any more movies to name. Seriously!!!

No I mean I love Bolly but umm Holly does sometimes get the stories correct....

No offense!

SERIALS!!!!!!

I was surfing through the TV yesterday and within a few moments I had to rush for a disprin. Not because I was suddenly unwell but because of the things that I just watched on the idiot box. Whichever channel I was opening there was the same the same thing going on. Collectively I have given a name to them How-To-Kill-Your-Family-And-Get-Rich-With-Plastic-Surgery-In-10-Years.

Its a pity that though "F.R.I.E.N.D.S" ran for 10 years it never once got this idea! Imagine how big a hit it would have been if Chandler and Joey tried plotting to kill the other over a girl, or imagine Monica trying to kill Ross for being the sweetheart of their parent's or even better imagine Phoebe trying to hit on the guys whom Rachel likes making life harder for her! It couldn't have gotten any better than that, could it?

Just open the television now and these kind of serials are fast filling all slots! Every serial will have a scheming plotting woman who will make life harder for the main protagonist. And the main character has only one job throughout. Shedding tears in slow motion. Yeah we do enjoy slo-mo! But really not when it involves dropping of 1 tear per episode or moving of the bullet in the air 3cm per week!

Every where these women with pancakes of make-up will scream their lungs out even if they are grieving or will cock their eyebrows when they manage to kill somebody in the family. I think that they should be given a daily dose of 'Rajshri Production' films regarding family values. And people blames western influences for growing domestic violence! Strange world it sure is!!!

None of these serials have a logical storyline. Gone are the days when people would enjoy watching serials like "Karamchand" or for that matter "F.R.I.E.N.D.S". Now all that they watch is some stupid crap serial dealing with domestic violence. Seeing my family falling prey to it I can thank my lucky stars for not falling a prey to it!

MISTAKES THAT I CHERISH

Going by the looks of it one would think that I just love making mistakes. Not exactly. I regret very few mistakes. Coz most of them have taught me something more about life. Now, there are certain mistakes that in hindsight, I just enjoyed making. Can't really say that I regret those mistakes. And well, there is no order to it so here goes .................

• When I was in class 4, we had this story by Ruskin Bond called "My Grandfather's Zoo". And a few days before "The World Is Not Enough" had released. So when my teacher asked of the class as to what we know about Ruskin Bond I had proudly got up and said "Ruskin bond is James Bond's father!"
• In college once I had bought a maths book which was really fat, and thick and very tough by the looks of it. One of my guy friends started teasing me and in order to threaten I picked up the book. But the book was so heavy that it pummeled sharply towards, well, a place that was well, a not very good place to hit! And how that happened I have no idea!
• According to my Mom when I was small I was very inquisitive. So inquisitive that I had actually put a cockroach inside my mouth to see how it tastes!
• In school I had once bought a Sprite bottle. My friend was taller than me and wanted a sip. So I was suddenly possessed with a demonic spirit that I would pour it into her mouth. So she lowered down her head to my level, opened her mouth, and I began pouring the Sprite. At that very moment a classmate called me and i began chatting with her forgetting the sprite thing. When she finished talking to me, I turned back to discover an empty Sprite bottle, Sprite filling every nook and crannies of the desk, chair and floor, a drenched friend with a horrific expression in her face and Sprite overflowing from her mouth!!!!

TIME

It is something that I have never understood.

The face beneath the dark hood.

It flies away when I try to hold it dear!

And drags when from my eyes falls a tear.

Time and you go hand in hand,

Falls from my hand like sand.

I try to hold on to you and make you see,

How good were the times when it was just you and me.

But your hand is fast slipping away,

I try to grip hard but it crumbles away.

You disappear in the mist surrounding you.

And am left alone clutching the memories shared by you.

I fight with the mist trying to bring you back,

But time smiles at me and says I don't have the knack.

What we had is past now.

And nothing can bring you back I don't know how!

I fall on the ground bruising myself,

As time flies by and there is no one to help!

Crossroads Of Life

Let me start off by saying this that I am the first girl in my family, who is studying in college, yet is unmarried!! Take my mom for instance. She got married off as soon as she passed her class X boards! Similar stories are shared by my aunts. My Boudi in that respect is pretty well off! She is a working-married-woman of our family who is still working in her 8th month of pregnancy! Hats off to her!

She has certainly set the yardstick for modern woman in my family. At least, she didn't let her life stop once she got married or as soon as she got pregnant! When i was a kid I used to ask my mom that what she used to do before I was born? And she would proudly answer that she did a MA in history and used to teach in Don Bosco. Those days B.Ed wasn't that necessary so she never had to give an exam.

So when she wanted to go to a higher levels of teaching she was asked to sit for the exam. As an innocent child I asked,"Then what happened?". Her answer was simple. "Then you were born". Fullstop!

Though, she never said it but the fact that her life stopped after I was born was pretty evident! I mean, yes, she did discover a new life as my mom- a mother's life, but she did stop living for herself. She began living for me.

If all goes well then after my graduation I might go out of the city for a better future. My dad will be as usual wrapped up in his work. I wonder what my mom will do then? Coz, till now she lived for me, getting things ready for me, arranging the house for me to return at night. But then I won't be there! So what will she do then?

I told her to start teaching again but she refused saying that she has lost the patience to teach and that she has to take an exam and she doesn't want to!

Boutique? My dad wrinkled his nose at it. Computer classes? She said what will she do by learning it. Somebody suggested sewing. My mom is actually oh-the-button-has-come-off-let-me-sew-it types not sewing-is-an-extension-of-my-souls types.

You see she is middle aged, and right now she is facing the dilemma of what to do with her life next.

My Boudi again won't go through this. Seeing her thriving on motherhood, job, marriage, I sometimes wish direly that my mother didn't stop working when I was born. She wouldn't have been caught in the crossroads of life then!