Yet another Baby

I finally had pictures of a friend's sisters baby. The one thing that gets me wondering whenever i see a baby is - were we all this small when we born! How do we (me in particular) grow this big. Imagine the suff we should have eaten:)

-VEnergy

I always assumed by default that people will be positive about things and will react negatively depending on circumstances. For ex: If you get mugged in a particular street, you might fear going in that street again. But of late, I have been beginning to realise that people by default are negative, atleast to me. I think one of the easiest things to do in life is to see the negative side of things, point out fallacies be it personal, professional or societal. the difficult part is to see the positive things - somewhat like the silver lining in a cloud( I have never understood whats wrong with a cloud though!). I always believe if you want to do something, people will give you 100 reasons as to why one should not do it but as long as you have one good reason and you believe in it, you should go ahead and do it!

Like DJ says in Rang de basanti - There are two kinds of people in this world, one who just take the life as it is and dont do anything about and the ones who take responsibility and change the world. I think there is a third kind as well, those who just take the life as is but blame everyone else in the world for it rather than taking responsibility!

Unfortunately there is no calvin strip on this one! I am hoping I can write a blog for every calvin strip sometime, relate it to something thats happening around us.. Will atleast make the blogs more interesting;)

Who controls whom?

Nice calvin strip. Was reminded of this when i read this - http://chitraaz.blogspot.com/2006/02/weekend-bonanza.html

Bill Watterson is god! He does leave you speechless. The strips I like most are the ones in which they are no dialogue and some of the sunday strips! Take a Bow Mr Watterson!

Latest reading: Akira

The latest book I am reading is the Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa called Something like an Autobiography. The book is indeed brilliant and is a must for anyone who wants to direct a movie. He gives beautiful anecdotes about incidents when he was an assistant director. He talks about how he learnt from his Guru - Yamasan. He does not discuss anything post Roshomon because he was hurt the way the movie was treated inside Japan. It ends with various discourses on film making by Kurosawa including why he used three cameras and the importance of not lying down and reading a book!

Paint it Yellow! Rang De Basanti

I like movies mainly on three counts- the execution, the content and the time pass value. I dont like movies to preach to me directly. I go to a movie to have fun, enjoy my time, not to get social education. I am a big Aamir-AR Rahman fan too. Mangal Pandey disappointed me badly. It was not well executed, there was no great content and it was surely not time pass value. So I was really looking forward to seeing RDB. The songs were far better than in Mangal Pandey and the promos looked good. I missed the first day first show for this one because I had planned a trip around the same time. I was keen to go on 25th night but unfortunately had no company. I finally managed to get tickets for the 29th night show.

I dont want to say anything much about the movie but in the end I was entertained. It scored on all three counts I like movies though people could have other ideas about the content but it was way better than other movies I have seen in the recent past. Go enjoy. Paint it Yellow!