odyssey of the unwaba ....

Unwaba revelations (third part of game world trilogy) is released sometime in dec..
an all india release is not done/planned by the publisher..dunno y?? :S

so i go to the nearest bookstore (odyssey by dunno who) and ask for a copy..
fine its not available..so i place an order..they say within a week the book will be available and i ll receive a call..
i dont get any call..and as m dying to read the final installation of the fantabulous book, i go to the book store and inquire bout status of my order..
i m told to wait for another week as the book s not available (though the publishers have a store house in my city!)
for two more weeks i dont contact them..
and when today finally i go and ask them about its status (trying to act angry..at which i was badddd :() i get confused (actually smirks..cos of the book s name :-\) looks from the store people..
amazingly they dont have any record of my order in their computer database (from where they actually track the books and orders ) though they had one in their so called register..FANTASTIC!! i must say..

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hate their guts when they open such big stores and provide null customer satisfaction!!
what on the face of the earth were they thinking while opening the shop..
}

i scrap my order..come home in a furious state and place an online order immediately..
the thing i should have done 3 weeks back..hoping to have my hands on the copy by this weekend!! :)

in the mean time ll catch jokovich-hewitt clash tom..
its going to be one heavenly encounter :D
till then..ciao :)

love actually ...

saw this movie for the umpteenth time today..
can not stop smiling :):)
the movie is so endearing that it makes u feel gooood just about everything !!
may be its the simplicity of 'love', shown through an extremely complex set of stories and cast which are interwoven intelligently, that, it clicks !
the story of aurelia and jamie clicked most to me..though its a bit fairytalish types (dreamy me cant help falling for such stuff u know :D or may be its the charm of colin firth!) the story is just beautiful..makes u believe in true love !! :)
the father-son (daniel and sam) and singer-manager (billy and joe) stories stand equally close..i give both of them the second place..the platonic love between billy and joe is something u hardly get to watch these days..and the father-son duo are just too cool to get ignored..plus the way their relation's progress is shown is too believable, considering daniel s the step father of sam, both fighting for their own love, one's lost and one's budding !!
well after this i dont have any personal favorites :)
though Hugh Grant is charming as always with his thick british accent and as the young, dynamic statesman..oh the Prime Minister !!
the treatment to the plot is superb..laced with witty,funny,sarcasm bhare dialogs its the perfect british film! it aught to be actually as most of the janta in there is British :) and plus the point that its set around x'mas season, makes it even more adorable..the spirit of the festive season is shown just in the right way..with the xmas lightings shown in and around every corner,the carol singers,the nativity play,the gift shops..oooh the excitement is overwhelming !!

Richard Curtis (the director and screenplaywriter) is well known and appreciated for his talent..this is the golden (may be platinum, heard its rarer and costlier :D) feather in this chicken's hat !

its one of those wonderful movies which raises ur spirits and makes u believe that..
love actually is all around :)

A New Beginning!!

2008 s round the corner..a new beginning!! indeed!!
i have started off with changing the look of my blog :)
sadly blogger does not offer much in the shades of blue, ob my fav :D, so picked tis one!!
pretty refreshing..unlike the stuff on this blog :D
and i guess this one's gonna stay as in i m getting this feeling 'this is the one' :):)

anyways as for me..lots needs to be done and undone!
my hair need a change..a cut will do..may be some hideous flicks to scare the hell outta my friends :D but 'mummi ko na kehna..kyonki mummy ko nahi hai pata!!' :D:D
on the serious side, need to join dance class, restart yoga, read loads of marathi books, catch up with studies, learn continental cooking, restart badminton....
bah...
the list is just overwhelming...
at least the spirit s in the right place..
as Swami Vivekananda says 'Arise, Awaken and stop not till the goal is reached!' (dunno how i still remember school days ka sayings!! )
Nightflier has started..wat bout u ppl..post and let everyone know :):)
till we meet again...ARISE, AWAKEN....

wish u all a cheerful new year ahead!!
adios 2007!

illusions ...

i was in mumbai sometime back and this peculiar incident happened with me...
had promised meself that would surely write about it..somehow could not (working lady saga :P)
well anyways, sad stories apart :D, here u go...

we were having lunch at this simple hotel in colaba, when suddenly, two hands poked my shoulder from the window (me was sitting beside the window giving an exotic view to the streets of aamchi mumbai:)) first i was startled then it scared the hell outta me..
two beggar kids, were asking for some food..i m pretty bad at handling this cos i dont like the whole idea, of giving food for free..well thinking i was, to somehow wriggle out of the situation, dont know what struck me..i took my bag, took out a five star i had bought for emergencies, and gave it to the kid..wild with joy it went to its other friends..the most astonishing thing happened then, instead of eating it him/her(dont remember the gender) self, the child gave the "5 *" to its younger sibling and both finished it happily..taken over by the whole emotional scene, i also took some snaps of them (now i know why the faarainers find indian beggars so amusing :))
although, the beggar kids' other friends thronged us for more '5 eesstarss' later, and i also found out that their whole family was into this begging business (i did feel sorry for meself then), i was happy cos i had made someone happy!!

hmmm...made someone happy...
taking a look back, i realize, what i gave to the children was momentary happiness..
after a day or two when, they or their parents could not find anything to eat, those kids would be left in the vicious misery..
is it always like this? may be i m thinking too deep, over a mundane matter..but it is worth giving a thought...there are people who are happy over small things in life and there are people who ooze happiness, like they dont know what happiness is?? may be the small kids had not even realized, that they were happy and they were in such euphoric state...may be the giver (me) was aware of what happiness (chocolat) m giving, but the taker (the kids) just knew that they r getting something exotic to eat and it needs to be eaten...so simple yet so complex, isnt it??

illusions i say are good for health :D
hadnt it been for writing and this blog, i was surely a goner ...:):)

till we meet again, stay simple..

p.s. good i dint write this blog then :D

Wat a comeback!!!!

M blogging after ages...and there could not have been a much better reason to make a come back...
Madhuri Dixit is back :):):)

dear madam,
its a pleasure to see u act,dance and emote...
and your latest movie was a treat !!! i was never sooooo taken over by someone :)
the dancing and the performance is just awe inspiring !!
speechless...is the word...when u danced on the very drab and ordinary title track, i was just speechless :) accepted that a musical needed a really deep, meaningful music score; just hats off to u for lifting the movie from nowhere to everyone's heart!!!
i dont want to review the movie, as there s, truly, nothing new about it...we have the usual culprits like poor script (believable in first half, but which flies off to lala land in the second half), not so great music...on the positives, its got great set design (thanks to cinematographer turned director), all characters are wonderful and i liked the whole 'shaher ko kala ki jarurat hoti hai' wala funda!!
but madam, its u, u and only u who has ruled throughout the movie...
i dont remember a single scene, when u were around, and my heart dint skip a beat :)
it just went mmmmmmm....:):)
once again i thank you.
it was a totally incredible experience, watching someone do what he s best at...ur dancing skills are just too much to write about :) and i dont really want to exert myself to come up with any more suitable adjectives :D
i would just say...ye dil maange more :)
love u loads!!!

your loyal fan,
nightflier !!

P.S. for beginners 'Aaja Nach le' s Madhuri Dixit s first movie after a 6 yrs sabbatical...and its much more than worth a dekho..u ll realise it when she dances :)
rest is great!! happy reading...

the film review thread!

this is a movie review thread, nightflier's starting to promote the film critic (:P) in her (more appropriately the film buff, ardent fan and who can watch anything, which will b proved in this thread :D)
so today's review is about a film called 'Laga Chunari mein Daag' (!!@@$**#!!)
lets start with some trivia......
the film's director is a noted ad film maker, who has recently won some award for aaj tak's campaign, who has shot some fabulous music videos (apparently, he shoots all the songs for Euphoria tha band) whose directorial debut Parineeta, highly appreciated by critics (i was not one then :D) won him a national award and blah blah blah..... stories can be written on how fabulous an add maker he is, or how some of his videos have moved me, or how Parineeta promised a director with his senses in the right place!!!

the synopsis in short: a small family in a small Indian town is in a financially crunchy situation, with meagre sources of income..the elder daughter takes the responsibility of leading them thro these tough times, as a son would have...goes to mumbai..her too-little-to-get-her-a-job educational qualifications land her up in a situation where she has to resort to the quick ways of money making (Smart people will understand the quicker ways :D and btw is the story writer trying to emphasize that Ajukeshan is still overly rated in the society and not human qualities!! this leaves me utterly confused :-/)..anyways all's well for some time..money is coming in..now a small twist..the younger daughter of the family (she has finished her MBA in the mean time) moves to mumbai..so the rest of the movie ends up in convincing everyone that how the elder daughter is a virtuous,little angel, who went haywire just for the sake of her family...heppy heppy ending for a not so heppy family :)

Anyways, now all said and done, mr. director disappoints big time with Laga! where is the script dude? my only question to the wise man!! Just a potentially great cast does not do wonders to a movie, the story needs to be told effectively, if u want to make ur film a success! The protagonists character is so drab that u end up feeling nothing for her.. the story moves forward in such a cliche way that, u feel like, ur watching a movie u thought we all movie lovers were done with! some scenes are very stupidly melodramatic...the ganges, banaras ke ghaat dont make u wonder at the simplicity of small Indian towns...simply because they look so repetitious (apparently, Sarkaar has done a song on same locations with a famous music band!)
the only high of the movie is konkona, who i first thought was wasted, but this female has an incorrigible quality of leaving the audience awestruck with her smooth, easygoing performance!!! Thumbs up to u girl! Jaya Bachachan suits the role to the hilt..no one could have done it better.. Lastly dear Rani feel sorry for this fact that, the most important character of the movie was so lifeless..better luck next time.. all the guys are just fillers, this being a story of the journey of a woman!
The music s just average, though talented Mr. moitra has tried to make it colorful with some folk touch...
All in all, a disappointment to the average filmy buff and a huge disappointment to the class movie goers!!

Happy viewing till we meet again!! :)
Cheers.....

The work life diary....

TO BE a working lady is a bit depressing sometimes....
u have a routine somehow woven into this fast life.. for eg. for weekedays i have a routine plan of going to work-work for 8 hours-hour 9 (this has a standard deviation of 3 hrs, at least :D depending on how badly u have screwed it up :P) get back home-home chores-chores like cooking (its a hobby which has become a chore :D),tiding up the the house, roomies' update-updates to family (pyaare gharwaale u know :))-........ Well, somehow, a normal working day ends on a very happening note, i.e. i go to sleep reading some book or the other, after dabbling in various activities for 16 hrs .....
it's very exciting actually... given that i discover new places everyday, when i commute to office ( the journey, calling it so, deliberately :), takes almost an hour).. i do my work efficiently and effectively, giving meself the pleasure of WORKING! ... take time out to decide what to cook everyday and plan accordingly .... share my day with roomies, share their experiences ..... talk to parents, share and get insights into their not so interesting routines ( they r both into happy retirement phase, u know) pep them up with liveliness, fun and exciting activities (recent was compelling them to watch Chak de!, which they did after much pestering from my side for 2 months :)) ........
Moral: i m happy at the end of the day :)
it can be very boring, actually, tooo ..... :)
given that i dont c the same route i travel by to office with open eyes.. i finish up my day's job just for the heck of it.. i drag myself home, to cook and eat half heartedly.. dont talk to anyone at home.. and sleep off on a tired note ....
Moral: i m less happy at the end of the day ( dont know wat emocon to put, confused may be :-\)
day after day of exciting days dont even bring to notice the fun i m having!! but a single boring day and here i am cursing the monotony of life... strange i say....
stranger fact is, a single boring day makes me think that how could not i strive for happiness today?? whereas an eternity of exciting days, and i dont even realize that im happy!!!!
Jeez!! its so complicated!! darn it!!
but its a boring day which brings to notice, the unknown unknowns ( as told by some great sage :D) of life...and makes u strive for an exciting day...it again proves that every dark cloud has a silver lining :D incorrigible optimism, i must say !! :)
but sometimes i do feel like, standing outside the ground, and watch others play..... do i thank god or wat, that, weekends exist :D !!