H@rRy pOttEr & the HaLf bLoOd Pr!NcE

Hey... this is not a review... just heartfelt appreciation from a die hard fan... :)
It was awesome.... it is always endearing to see harry, ron and hermoine venturing into unseen avenues each year..... I just love watching the events unfold on the big screen even though I know everything by heart... every character, each dialogue, all the expressions....

Rupert Grint aka Ron is a sweetheart, with every part he is becoming all the more handsome and adorable... I am heads over heels in love with him..... just wondering why he has so less screenspace in all the movies... or may be I just can't have enough of him....

About the movie, sure there were some discrepancies.. or to put it in a better way, deviations from the book.... loads of scenes cut short and manipulated... I even spotted an extra one (wasn't there in the book), but to be fair it was necessary... how else can you imagine to squeeze a 600 page book into a tiny space of two and a half hours....

I want to read :)

Well yes.. almost literally... I bought three books like about a month ago, thinking I'll read all of them in a week or two but apparently I was thinking too much (not good for me; my friends tell me ;)).... I completed one of them, The Namesake (impressive read by the way) in more than two weeks... very unlike me as it was hardly 300 pages and considering I read the 700 page harry potter's last edition in one and a half days, it was nothing more than painful crawling....
though I must admit that I read a good part of it in a day itself.... made me think if it was just the question of getting my hands on the book....

It was always like something was holding me back.... I was always doing something or the other and when I was doing nothing getting bored, I simply just didn't remember that I had this leisurely option to pass time... So.. with this blog, I am putting this in writing (so that it registers in a better way, more of a bond u'd think) that I'll make sure that I get through atleast two books in a month, else its a waste really.. what say !!!

Its 9 in the morning... unusually I feel wide awake !!

Highly unlikely it is really... never happened during my two month stay here in US...
it has quietly slipped into my routine actually... sleeping through the day... setting up my laptop in a way so my colleagues would think I am deeply engrossed in reading some very important document and merrily dozing for hours at a stretch.......

But yesterday, somehow I slept early, got a good 8 hour sleep and now here I am... perfectly awake and raring to go.... a nice sleep can do wonders really....

Seems like a dream....

Last night I spent half an hour sitting at the front porch of my PG close to midnight.. just like that......... It felt so quiet and strangely lonely despite of the fact that there were two absolutely wonderful n warm hearted people who had made my life so much easier and happier here than it would have been sans them, cooking some delicious egg rice for me....
I fixed my gaze on a long distant star with a faint glow... it sometimes looked like it was not there at all and forced me to imagine that I might be reflecting on my tears may be... sparkling through my eyes and making me hallucinate of a far away star.....

It was then that I decided that this needs to go into my blog.... so here it is ....

$hEeR bL!$$ !!!

Last Saturday, I went to the Wildwood beach @ the tip of New Jersey... It was the 4th of July... the day of American independence.... we got to see the midnight fireworks n all... awesome..... rainbow colors sprinkled across the sky non-stop... for like half an hour there was not one second when the sky was not twinkling with its new found stars........

But frankly speaking, it all lost its shine in the pale yellow glow of the moon... standing at the sea shore, all I could think of was that nothing can match this graceful, isolated beauty..... every ounce of the sea bathed in the silent shimmer, so exquisite, so unaware of its own splendor.........
I could have stood there for hours, ages maybe.... who can tell !!
And it all made me think that ultimately its the natural, spontaneous beauty that has the ability to touch your heart and I am not just talking about the moon or the sea here :)

Chor bazaari :)

Hey.. I heard this song a couple of days ago from the upcoming movie "Love Aaj Kal".... awesome... m still to get a hang of the lyrics though.... it has a very catchy tune in between.. wish I could write it here somehow... neverthless I recommend it to everybody... great picturization too.... deepika n saif looking cute together.

I saw a mail today in my HCL inbox, the offshore team is having a movie party tomorrow "kambakht ishq"... I hate to be sitting here in my dull grey cubicle where it feels like I am the only one in the office... hope to get back and join the party soon :)
I have been around just about 2 months and already get a craving for my ODC's familiar faces every now and then... smiling and shining all around me.... really miss them....

I think I started with chor bazaari.... great song.. do hear it :)

Still an hour to kill....

I am sitting in my office cube... doing nothing basically... was reading some documents till like half an hour ago... got bored and moved to watching f.r.i.e.n.d.s. on my iPod (meanwhile I also fought with a friend and even wrote a threatening mail to other)... and now am thinking about when will I get to go home.... its still a complete hour to tick by for the 5'o clock shuttle... people say its jet lag but I am not sure... somehow my day seems to start from 4 in the evening these days.... mornings are living nightmares whence sleep creeps into my day and surrounds me till late afternoon but the moment its time to head home I become insomniaclly awake no sign of any sleep till 100 yards of my existence...

Well, I got my first paycheck in US yesterday, felt like the first time I got one... will be depositing in my account today... another task albeit an easier one compared to getting up in the morning for work... :)