My Mechanical Engg course, Cricket n Time pass
Well, I am a dilettante in the true sense of the word. Though I
have been a good drawer I have been never been able to paint
well, I do draw on bits of paper sometimes. And yes I did manage
to clear elementary level drawing exam!
This time I have finished drawing what my friend had started and
it came out really well. I really liked it!
Can u guess the things drawn by two different people?!
And yes, Drawing Analysts are welcome to analyse!
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Genre: Comedy Marathi Drama
A good review in the newspaper prompted me to see this drama. However, it turned out below par. The most frustrating part of the whole drama was that there were only three actors. The story line was a catchy one with a last year engineering student desperate for a girlfriend out of frustration, fear and peer pressure. He along with his friend employs a “Hitch” strategy or “Partner” strategy (for Hindi movie bluffs). But no such motif would be complete unless there is anybody to portray the girl. Those incidents would have brought a real charm to the drama. “All interactions were left to the imagination.” quotes Aditya.
The only other character is a roommate of one of the guys. The typical take-it-all roomy, nonchalant and a member of “Sanghatit Yuva SAngh”. Though the character appears hilarious, the freshness is fleeting. And the jokes keep repeating.
The end though highly improbable in real life, was predicted, simply due to lack of other characters. Even that appears slightly stretched and fails to revive the smile on one’s face.
Some one-liners were really good, but not much pertinent. The theme essentially required a circumstantial comedy act than a witty one-liner one. And one felt that the topic was stretched too far with limited characters with just two people doing almost all the talking. The music between scene changeovers was really eclectic but irritating.
Though I had a good laugh, I would recommend otherwise. My enjoyment can be easily attributed to my jaunty nature or to the fact that I had just earlier laughed till my stomach ache over some really stupid scenes from the great ‘Tashan”.
Worth a watch if you are an engineering last year student and a still single hostelite. Perhaps you would associate with the characters a bit and enjoy the play.
Overall: 2/5.
Roughly translated as “Who will watch the watchmen?”, I first came across this phrase while reading Dan Brown’s “Digital Fortress“. Since then, it has sparked a train of thought in my mind, to which I return to whenever I come across any reference. Over the course of time, I came up with an answer which satisfied me completely. It is an answer, which for me, has forever silenced any further doubts and speculation on the question. I decided to put it down here in the form of a short poem:
“Who will watch the watchmen?
And who will heal the healers?
Who will guard the guards?
And who will lead the leaders?
Who will cook for the cooks?
And who will help the helpers?
Who will raid the raiders?
And who will kill the killers?”
“THEY THEMSELVES. EACH OTHER. GOD”
Well, I have never been much of a poet myself though many of my friends have come with their brilliant pieces. The reason for this I believe, lies in the type of poems I like i.e. ones with a good rhyme scheme. This poem here will be in contention for the universes worst poetry ever and will warrant a revision of the entry for the same in a future edition of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which would normally run as:
“Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe.
The second worst is that of the Azagoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem “Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning” four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been “disappointed” by the poem’s reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve book epic entitled “My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles” when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England in the destruction …”
So here goes nothing:
Awake at 3oclock in the morning,
Coz something stupid went into my eye.
And this line is just here coz,
I found a rhyming word in ‘why’.
Rhyming words are what I never seem to have,
So I will put in “Bye, Bye Miss American Pie”
And because I love reading Agatha Christie,
I will put in “A pocketful of Rye”.
So, on this fateful and sleepless night,
as GRE words doing am I,
But Yoda would say “GRE words doing I am”
How did I think about him and I wonder why?
Was it then a coincidence yesterday,
that I should come across a lullaby,
Written by an Android, Paranoid he may be.
‘&’ that I heard “Zaphod just this guy…?
Was it also a coincidence then,
That I came across a pie chart of pie?
Or that I could answer a quiz question,
Concerning both Isaac Asimov and Helen of Troy?
Now as I look out of the window,
Into the not so dark and not so starry sky,
Never have I thought so many rhyming words,
How did I think about them and I wonder why?
Doesn’t any poet find rhyming words difficult,
Or to everyone do they easily come by?
And do they have choice to make,
Whether to rhyme with “bee” or with “buy”?
And perhaps I am inspired to write this,
After reading the blog of this limerick loving guy,
And/or after reading this short poem by another friend,
Who gave a lecture, which introduced me to the cricketer CB Fry.
Rhyming words I have thought of many,
They include dry, my, cry, try, die, lie, even fungi and rabbi,
How to put them into lines,
I will think, till then BBYE!
Now I will put down my pen,
The magnum opus complete and the mind rested.
I don’t think I will write again soon,
Till I have so much time to be invested.
The latest BO news is that Tashan (brilliant review here) has turned out to be a super-duper flop. Not that I expected otherwise. A friend of mine who actually saw the movie the day his exams got over, was ruing the fact that he wasted 3 hours of his life. “Its a dud movie from start to end, not even good in parts”, he remarked. And yesterday itself the brilliant Tickr on MTV decided to take on Tashan. It begins as always with:
THIS IS IN FOND MEMORY OF TASHAN
And so on… For latest tickers keep watching MTV
For the Tickr on U, Me and Hum click here
Megs actually thought it was going to work.
Check out this RACE review from Aditya, the film i.e. (There have been atleast four to five confusions whether the talker is referring to the movie or to the F-1 race, so henceforth all F-1 races will be called F-1 races and the general term race will refer to the movie). Anyways, Aditya has reviewed both so it doesn’t matter to you. However, I do want to watch the race, F-1 i.e.
Genre: Drama / Thrill
Director: Pete Travis
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Mathew Fox (of ‘Lost’ fame), Forest Whitaker, Edgar Ramirez, Bruce McGill
My rating: 3.5/5
Well, I saw vantage point today and really like it! One and a half hours of pure action and thrill! A good plot, good characters and performances really all come together to make a brilliant film.
The plot is about terrorists killing the US President and bombing the site of a World Summit. The characters involved are personnel from the US side, a bystander with a video camera, a Spanish policeman, a TV network and the story evolves from their perspectives each beginning from a fixed point in time. The plot and suspense builds in each story, finally ending in a climax. The overall story from just one man’s point of view may have seemed too fantastic but when viewed through the eyes of each one of them, it really becomes plausible. The characters also are believable and take actions within limits of reason, no non-sense from any of them.
The narration of the movie can be compared to that of “Rashomon” , a question on which was asked in Chakravyuh quiz! However, this is not a court trial, nor finding the truth is essential and not the first priority of the characters in the story. We are only seeking the truth!
A brilliant car-chase showcases the brilliant camerawork which is coupled with excellent screenplay throughout.
Worth a watch if you have a couple of hours to spare!
Actually this needs a different category, but that is for later:
I know it by heart, obviously
“Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. “
From the movie V for Vendetta, in case you dont know!!
