THE BUCKET LIST

Iam not really an ardent movie viewer...I prefer reading over watching stuff since laterly a movie is just a transmutation of pages into visuals(ofcourse not that I dont watch em at all!).But on the suggestion of a friend I watched The Bucket List.It features the lambent Morgan freeman and the endearing Jack Nicholson substantiating a bucket list.

I was excogitating if all of us had a ken of our respective deadlines, life would have been so much more different.We would just have to make that special effort and go the extra mile to realize the most perfervid desire and thats it...you would never get caught up in a vicious circle!...so that way you could not just die quenched but also live mirthfully!

The bucket list shown in the movie goes something like this....I guess...
1.Witness something truly majestic
2.Help a complete stranger for a common good
3.Laugh till I cry
4.Get a tattoo ....et cetera
If bestowed with a chance to create a bucket list ...ofcourse one would include all his torrid desires ...if you were also to include something extreme you had to realise for/on someone else.....what would it be?

The CRAZY CATCHER

Holden Caulfield a very infamously famous fictional character who bears the brunt of wedging
some unforeseen occurences both positive and negative.

He is somebody who has successfully glorified dereliction.The character has influenced innumerable artistic works including
television....psychedelic rock music...and has also been equally controversial(supposed to have influenced john lennon's assasination).

Everything about the character is so damn significant....his lecherousness,even his name...rightly pronounced as hold-on caul(a protective membrane for embryos)-field.He is churned up by the terrible realities of the world and resorts to alienation as its solution,and has his own profound theories for everything in existence.



Now the relevance of the image...I discovered it somewhere dont remember where...its the image of the little lake near the Central Park South(new york city) which holden
caulfield used to visit in his seek out for ducks.

He always wondered where the ducks went during winter.Like I said every thought of his was momentous.I couldnt figure out the duck disappearing theory...although i'd lik to believe that he is talking about temporariness...

And the image is supposed have ducks in the background...but I have to admit I cant
see them!! can you?

Make PEACE With IMPERFECTION

Like its said "the pursuit of happiness is the motivation for life"....

We never seem to be contented with what we have.We are always focussed on what is wrong with something and our need to fix it...which i guess leads us to feel disgruntled and hence dysphoric.
Why are we always in the quest of something better than we already posses forgetting its something we yearned for sometime ago!!!Perhaps thats the jugular of us the "fallible human beings".

Inspite of the cognizance of the fact that nothing is perfect and nothing is likely to be perfect
why is it so hard for us to make peace with imperfection?Is there really a possible way to do so...or are we just bound to strive in a constant battle of setting things aright and perfect....

Quoting John Lennon-"Life is whats happening while we're busy making other plans".

We incline to postpone our gratifications,our happiness often convincing ourselves that "someday" will be better than today...that "someday" never arrives!!!
Why is it reckoned that the supply of happiness,pleasure and contentment is rationed out and is
not limitless?!!or is it really that way!!
Is striving for imperfection really a worthy goal??!!

CELEBRATION??

Hurray!!! yet another booker for India!!Arvind adiga wins the Man booker prize 2008 for "The white tiger".


Indeed a moment of joy and pride for India.Havent yet read the book perhaps will do it soon...but from what I can gather the book exposes the dark side of India.But is it right on the part of Indian authors to cash on the dark side of India?Isnt it like demeaning India before the world? And to top it all it is a work of fiction if not to uplift the image but to disparage it even further.


India will be construed by its readers as a country with invincible poverty,ever looming illiteracy,esurient beings,abandoned kids,grubby streets,trifling governance,nepotism,larceny and ofcourse as the land of corruption.

Iam sure my perception is not largely cogent since a book is just a piece of art!but it does leave an impact on the minds of the readers... So should we celebrate the booker??

HOLIDAY time...frenzy time

Its dasara time and hence holiday time for all the school kids. 

Every available piece of flat land  around my house and in its vicinity is being used to chase the cherry.Cricket is like the hobson's  choice for all the kids to keep themselves occupied

all  day.Its like they are on a spree to obliterate their surroundings.Not like I havent experienced this  before 

just that I havent seen it in this kind of intensity.Curtsy 

our state government for making yet another nugatory rule that 

all schools ought to have a common vacation time for dasara.... 

Its quotidian to find kids playing cricket in the evenings 

but it gets freakin chafing when you have to listen to -

quibbles over "out...no...not out",squallings of "run out" and "lbw",

and roars of "howz dat" for like 50000 times a day....

          But what is most admirable about this whole thingy is the 

insouciance these kids possess.Just some wood,a bouncing cherry

and a piece of timber and they are all set to play the gentlemen's game the way it should be played unlike our national paladins who get moolah for it and yet they fail to retain the sanctity of the gentlemen's game.

ANYTHING FOR YOU MA'AM

Dint like the book much though....as its too striking,dramatic and full of happenstances just like a pure hindi masala flick.Nevertheless it had a few "winning over" excerpts-


"When will it be right,I dont know
What will it be like,I dont know
We live in hope of deliverance
From the darkness that surrounds us."
-Sir Paul McCartney


"There is one thing u've got to learn
Life is full of twists and turns
You've got to break the rocks in the hot sun,
For the tide to turn
If there is night..There has to be dawn
Life goes on......."