Chehraa anyone??

So there was this movie I’d seen about a decade ago, which had a great impact on me in terms of storyline and I remember going WOWW at the end of it! I was flamed with a desire to watch it with hubby again just to prove that Bollywood had long since imbibed flavorful cinema and that this movie was no exception. The movie is called “Chehraa” and has a cast of Madhoo of Roja fame, and Ayub Khan- the king of soaps and TV shows. Its much against the lines of a rich heiress getting duped by a guy that looks like her love interest. Madhoo carries off her role with finesse portrayed by a dove in love, sadness like the quiet of a cemetery, flighty hopes of sudden love, masks of terror, calculated frenzies, of love unrequited and of a conquering lioness. Its an extremely well made movie minus the musical glamour and the oomph factor which the dance divas lend to movies now. Considering the movie was released in the 90s, among a bouquet of other movies like “Biwi # 1” and “Haseena Maan Jayegi”, it had an intriguing and different theme which means it might have been ahead of its time during production.

So I search all over Google for Chehraa and come up with the newer version of it that has Bipasha Basu and Dino Morea which in no way respects the older version. Feeble storyline and Bipasha looks like she carries a poker face throughout the movie with unfortunate attempts to display emotion. Not one link for the older Chehraa. I was quite shocked. I found links to movies like “Jaani Dushman” , “Dil”, and a zillion other bollywood movies which I thought had zero fan acclaim but all turned up on Google searches! The first thing I will do if I ever procure the DVD would be to rip it on you tube!

Of laziness and the human mind.

It has been a while since I blogged,My indolent nature has grown from a rare streak of color to completely being the rainbow permeating my life!! I'm surprised at my supine lifestyle..Get up at 6 am, sleep at 10pm, as if 8 hrs of sleep isn't enough, I sleep enroute my commute too! So its about 9 hrs of sleep I get every day! Darn,,I miss childhood. I'd sleep lesser before, eat 4 times a day, not feel sleepy after a carb meal, not gain an ounce of weight after eating cheesecakes and carbs and still manage to fit in my high school clothes! I sleep more now, eat lesser food, HAVE TO take a mini nap after lunch at my desk, avoid rice and stick to raw veggies and soups (blaaaaaa) and even after religiously working out an exercise pattern, can't seem to fit into my 2 year old clothes! Its just so unfair, that as a child, when I didn't care as much how well I fit into my clothes, and now when you're in your late 20s it really matters how you look, I can't seem to be happy with it at all. So also when you're a child, all you want to do, is grow up, get to be an adult, no school, no assignments, etc Funny once we get to be an adult, all we want to do is go back to being a child! Wonder why God fashioned the human mind to want something "Missing" in our endless list. Why is it that the human mind is never satisfied with the state of things. I can think of a zillion things that are going on with me that make me happy, yet my thoughts dominate over the things that could make me happier. I'm happy with my red dress, but wouldn't I be happier with a golden dress. Oh yay!I bought that awesome golden dress finally..but I be I'd be happier if I had golden shoes to go with it! the list goes on---At times I think its so much simpler being a squirrel or a ladybug, they don't cover their bodies with clothes, they move around naked in their bodies! Do they also have wishes and yearnings? Do they feel they're getting lazier as they age?! Maybe I need to undertake a course in studying animal behavior that would help in understanding human behavior!?

Hairtime.

Although, I do get my eyebrows done, everytime I visit the salon I do so with trepidation and pain misgivings. It really does not take that long, nor do I find it a tremendous pain from the 'ouch' perspective. I do, however, find it a tremendous pain, from the highly annoying, why do I have to do this, YET AGAIN, perspective. I find shaving even more irritating because of the whole 'hairy legs just aren't ok' outlook from society. Trust me, not that I would ever NOT shave my legs, because I'm definitely a fan of the not hairy look myself. I am curious though, who decided that women were going to be the ones who fall in the not-hairy category and for men to fall in the hairy category. What if the way of the world were reversed and men were the ones needed to be hairless, I would oh so love to see my partner and all the men I know getting wax sessions, threading sessions while we women could just gloat with hair all over and try and alleviate their hairy pain! Hmm..that's something to ponder. I'm not a quitter. But, if there was ever something I would want to quit, shaving would be pretty high up on that list...of things I will never quit, but would love to.

Emmys 09.

God...My Emmy predictions went astray! Neil Harris did more than an exceptional job and carried off a white suit awesomely well ! With the Sitcom gurus dressed in varying shades of black, Neil was swan white and had the nonchalant humor of Jack Sparrow only with a more manicured visage. NPH's opening number and monologue were exceptional and gave Hugh Jackman from the Academy Awards good competition...The Emmys felt like a re-run of all the familiar shows like '30 Rock', 'Mad Men', 'Monk', 'The Office'..same people..same themes...Comedy, Reality, Variety, Made for TV Movies and Drama. The extra category was the Variety section which entirely seemed made up to me. Alec Baldwin won the best Male ACtor in the Comedy series for 30 Rock, and surprisingly Toni Collette won the best actress in the comedy series for United States of Tara. Now I haven't seen United States of Tara but I was completely on for either Christina Applegate - Samantha Who? and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, New Adventures of Old Christine. Both women have the charm and the exuberance of personality to carry it off and it surprised me that Toni (who seems to me like a plain Jane) walked away with the award! Toni,,,you must've been really good and enamored the academy to deserve the award, but the only time I've seen Toni on screen is on the Hugh Grant movie, "About a boy" where she plays a distraught single mother striving to bring up her son. She hardly struck me as a natural for wit and humor though. Anyways, she won. Sigghhh....the LOL of the nominations was when comedian Sarah Silverman donned a faux mustache as Justin Timberlake read the nominees for best actress in a comedy. She had an incredibly pained and mournful expression and looked like a pitiful dog lost in search of its master! It was so classique and the idea so completely unique, it was an inimitable Emmy Moment - had people pealing in laughter! It was a show stealer when people sniggered and then had a good laugh - soo suggestive on the evil Silverman in play!

But I, in my opinion really wanted Neil to win...Jon Cryer...I mean okay,,,Jon could be good,,,but Neil is Barney ! And Barney never loses! He always makes it ! For those of you that watch " How I met your mother" and are familiar with Barney's flippancy, his easy-cheesy way with the women - you would be equally disappointed as me. Remember the intervention episode when Barney dresses up like a 80 year old version of his self and he is trying to attract young women while in old man makeup to prove to Marshall that he will still be hooking up with 22-year-old bimbos when he is 80. Or that other episode when Barney vouches he goes to bed all dressed up in a suit to be "PREPARED" for the sudden occurrence of hot chicks in bed! I mean come on --- Jon Cryer couldn't do better than that !
Oh well...the consolation is that all the chicks love Neil and all the baby boomers might vote for Cryer! So there! I content myself with the thought that Neil carried off an image of a well clad rebel perfectly well. He dressed in white as the world dressed in black, his humor was self deprecating and yet self-aggrandizing! So well played and well hosted. In comparison, Cryer looked like he stepped out of a period movie in his yellow-striped sweater vest under his pinstriped black suit. Not a big fan of mis mismatched tie, either.
So Cryer can have his award and gloat all over it - It ain't gonna make the women swoon over him.

Neil -- you're the man dude!!

Women and their personalities??

Hot Babes have poor personalities?? Now women, please don't hate me for saying this, but we know that there are very few women that possess the delectable combination of beauty and brain. How many of us have that one pain coworker who thinks dresses like a bimbo , thinks she is hot and super smart, but ends up foot in the mouth every time she talks!

You’re not born with personality. Personality is not a sign of intelligence- its more of what life has made you to be. If personality were a sign of intelligence, then those with good looks have used up all their genetic currency and therefore don’t have much left for other endeavors. Personality is more of trial and error. This trial and error is the friction that turns someone with a bad personality into someone with a good personality. talk about heat turning charcoal into a diamond--much the same!
Consider this following conversation.

Ugly Chick: I sort of enjoy family feud..it’s junk food but entertaining nonetheless.
You: Family Feud is a mockery. Don’t think I can just watch that kind of stupidity and walk away unscathed, that kind of cheese seeps in whether you want it to or not.

Hot Babe: I just love Family Feud. (I cannot add in the exclamation or the tone of false-interestedness here, pls to be imagined! )
You: Yeah, it’s a pretty good show.

Was that a conversation at all? It was an exchange of words- a few phrases- opinions were voiced- no reasons given. If someone does challenge the hot girl’s sensibilities, it will probably be disregarded because it’s coming from someone ugly.

Then there is the next kind of woman that is marginally attractive who thinks she is attractive and does not need to develop a personality. These are the most annoying because again, we value both looks and personality/intelligence but have obvious disdain for someone who has neither. Especially those who have neither and think they have both and pretend to be boisterous and funny to make others think they have a personality.

To sum it up, I hope that hot babes understand the theory of pattern recognition - of being dumped again and again for uglier chicks! But if they're still content to be shopping at the mall for the latest hip styles and designer wear, time is running out! These women will mostly end up embracing one of the religious cults by their late 30s or attend " The Burning Man" in the hope of meeting another male exactly like them to hook up with. And maybe the charcoal process by then would've taken its toll and given them a personality better than the former. Anyone know of such people??

Has it been long or wht??

Goodness me--the last time checked, I was still literate and was able to write, now my visits to the blogosphere was been over 6 months! Jeez...Got hooked to the social networking site- Facebook. Its a matter of minutes as you run into old pals..and friends from school. The one thing I found really interesting in FB is that it has a friend suggester option- I cannot imagine a website that hardly knows me, my interests, my personality to be suggesting friends for me!80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook are people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with? Duhhhh...Fb needing rational upgrade to match the user's personality! And there are these other folks on FB that continually update their status messages. The whole doesn't need to know you had coffee, or that your boss farted, or what song you are listening to. Like seriously..I was curious about what extents people go to make their facebook walls look cool, and I found this info on yahoo answers, "What are some funny things to put on your facebook status?" I didn't know how loud to laugh- The web is definitely goign further than I thought it would! One seems to find a fix for everything--or so at least it seems that there are suggestions of fixes, and one of those might just click!
And then there is the other category of people that indulge in farming on FB! Like yeha---virtual farming! FB has this feature called Farmville..and my FB home wall is covered with most of my friends either finding a lost black sheep on their farm and auctining it for adoption, or earning a blue ribbon for lettuce growth!! People must really be not so busy at work to spend all that time farming on their FB...hhoohhoho!!! In fact I might give it a hand to find out how one feeds livestock, how one milks a cow, cuts weed- online!

Oh well,,,inspite of all the talk FB suffers, its quite a novel way to keep in touch, easier to write on a friend's wall than send an email. But its more fun to blog and ridicule FB here- for all you know I maybe ridiculing blogging on FB ;---)) Welll----at least FB made me blog today after ages,,,so maybe its too bad afterall!

Things that annoy me the most while travelling

Okay the list begins---So here is a short version -

- Airline fantasy food (you need a lot of fantasy to call it "meal" or "snack")
- Taxi drivers who need a map to get you to your hotel
- Security personnel because they usually make everyone feel like a criminal
- Coming back to your room really late in the night which is on the 50th floor, has a mega-slow elevator , and realizing your room key doesn't work.
- Arriving late and being told that the hotel kitchen is closed - not even a simple sandwich can be obtained
- Airline check-in staff who ask me if I am carrying any knives, WMDs, explosives etc in my luggage (as if i would say 'yes' if i was!)
-Security devices that sound an alert when you have absolutely nothing metallic on you
- Hotels that charge about 20 times the real price to make a phone call
- Hotel porters who insist on taking my bag AND wanting a tip when it is only a light bag that my 83 year old mother could carry with ease