Mechanical Life

Nothing much happened in all these days. I watched Roman Polanski 's Oliver Twist . I've not read the book but I just didn't understand why anyone make that into a movie. Yeah its a classic novel and all that but it was pretty boring. Then I had some friends coming in. I had some relatives and nothing much actually. I'm reading Shantaram now. Must read. If you like fast paced stories and to top it all this one's true. And even better it's about Bombay which physically exists in India but it IS a country by itself. I've been there a few times but I just fell for it the first time i set my eyes on it. L A F Sight. No kidding. It happens. Even today. My latest Pic

I was watching my parents yesterday. I just realized that they've moved about (ie., meet/visit new people/places) so little that some times they take certain things for granted. For instance when they meet a new person, they take it for granted that the person's a Hindu, unless ofcourse their name suggests the religion (which is more often the case). They believe in all religions whole-heartedly and its not that. It's perhaps a small thing. But somehow when you wanna tie it up with other things like responsibility or duties of a son that's when it gets a bit tricky. My mom always wanted to go to a hill station. Any, she isn't particular. I've been working over 6 years now. I've done nothing about it. Now my mom hasn't crossed beyond Goa and Dad's even better... Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh :) It was my dad's b'day the other day and it was father's day some days ago. I've never really bought him anything (his needs of course are close to n...

That's me...I should've looked like that when i was wondering on the 10th of Oct 2005...Wondering what's wrong!

On the 17th of October 2005 my life changed. A blood report on that rainy bangalore day reveals to me what I feared. It said I may have Acute Leukemia. Two days later it was confirmed. A week later I was at Vellore. There is too much tell in between or on the other hand very little. So I'm skipping everything that happened during that interval. Like those last immortal words by Alex in "A Clockwork..." I was cured alright... (I Guess!)

Friday...nothing much actually. Think I crashed earlier than usual. i'm getting anorexic. Even if i'm not i guess i'd like to use the word. Saturday...Watched iruvar for the 3rd time. I still had no appetite (except for apples/oranges and tender coconut water). Maybe i've got bird flu. i'm falling for fruits. god! no cash. atm. Q fucking Q, foodworld,apples,oranges,limca,swipe card.home. My roomie made uppuma and we happily watched the intellectually stimulating "dawn of the dead" like any normal late 20's bachelors would! slept at 2am. Sunday...got up late. went out with sen in his new car to pick up his gf and went to his exgf's place. twisty eh? u bet. dropped us home. i dozed of till about 7pm. got up paid our rent. dinner. iruvar 4th time. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

ok. i'm back. no big shit...i know. sen's got the car down. brand new ford ikon black. i'm not feeling too well. i don't know the reason. i don't feel hungry and all that. damn this city. i wanna go back to chennai. "She's employed where the sun don't set And she's the shape of a cigarette And she's the shake of a tambourine And she's the colour of a magazine She's in fashion 00h 00h 00h........!" ok. diwali is 'round the corner. so is sivakasi!!!

Weekly Movie Watch WMW003 Apocalypse Now (1979) Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper Director: Francis Ford Coppola A masterful, thought-provoking, pretentious film, with beautifully-chaotic visuals, about the nightmarish, moral madness of the Vietnam War, inspired by the novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Considered by many to be the best war movie of all time, with incredible performances, especially that of hawkish Lt. Colonel Kilgore (Duvall) who "loves the smell of napalm in the morning." Sweeping, surreal, still-controversial Vietnam war epic. An Army captain (Sheen) is sent into the Cambodian jungle aboard a patrol boat carrying a young, spaced-out crew. Their mission: to assassinate ("terminate") a Buddha-like Colonel Kurtz (Brando) who has become an insane demi-god and now runs his own fiefdom. The grueling production in the Philippines led to vast budget overruns and physical and emotional breakdowns. Academy A...