what a walk...

well... I did take a walk and boy was it good or what... IIMC is blessed with a lake and by the time I reached its banks it was refreshingly windy... a jolly good experience, I'd say...













Inspired?? Sure I am... but not enuff to make me work.. Maybe a good dinner will fix that.. Plng to eat out and give the mess a miss...

In need of some inspiration...

Dunno how much longer I can hold on. The Calcutta weather is as horrible as it can get. The words hot and humid get a whole new meaning here...

Got lots of work left to be done. But what to do, me not just feeling right. Not even the least bit inspired to do an ounce of work. Maybe I'll go for a walk. That might just be the right receipe to cool off my nerves...

teri khubsoorti main hum Fanaa ho gaye...

AAh.. what a day... went to watch Fanaa today... due to the muliplex issue, had to go to a local theatre. With a melee of local crowds cheering and old plastic seats, the theatre was a far cry from the cozy (but ridiculously expensive) INOX theatre where we usually go... but the movie more than made up for all that...

With fantastic locations in Delhi and Poland, it is a real visual treat.. Fanaa is the story of Zooni (Kajol) a blind Kashmiri girl who falls in love with Rehaan (Aamir Khan) a tour guide with a dark secret on her maiden trip to Delhi...

Well, the story ain't that great.. nothing novel and easily predictable.. but the performances are fantastic.. Man, Kajol looks absolutly fantastic... Fanaa seems to be a perfect comeback film for her... And Manish malhotra has worked his magic again with the costumes...

And I never realised Aamir Khan was that old.. esp in all the closeup shoots in the beginning... Also wish there was more of Shruti and Kiron Kher... Two very lovely ladies...

Me, an out and out Kajol fan... waiting eagerly for her next release...

And Now.. I'm a beauty contest judge...

Well well... its not every day that one gets to be a beauty contest judge... Isn't it...

Of late I've been frequenting Crosswords, a bookstore in the shopping hub of Calcutta. Coz, its one store that allows you to read to your heart's content, for a long as you want, without chucking you out even if you don't buy a thing. Plus its got an inhouse coffee shop.. Great combination, ain't it folks..

After doing my usual rounds, I was sitting down on one of their cute lil cubical cushioned stools, browsing through some DVDs when a beautiful girl approached me with a cute smile and one of those mechanical "Hellow Sir" greetings..

"I'm doing a survey for a beauty contest, and I would like you to give me a little help.."(sure!) She hands me a sheet which has headshots of about 20 contestants.. "Sir, (all smiles) all you need to do is look through the photographs and choose the contestant whom you think is the most beautiful, stating you reason.." Dudes, how can I say no to such an offer! That too coming from a girl who was no less beautiful...

Eventually I chose one who had this big dreamy eyes... And with that she took the sheet back.. flashed her smile again.. and scooted off hunting for more men..

So, that's been my lil stint with the pageant industry.. as for the girls, may the best contestant wins...

What killed the video star?

Yawn.... its a lazy summer afternoon... Ever since a bug bit me a couple of days back leading to a series of allergic reactions, I've been a lil grumpy. I look really funny though. A very normal right side of the face, as opposed to a red, swollen and chubby left side. All this has reduced my wanderings pretty much within the hostel itself. Because I can't show up at the office looking like this, I've been doing my project from my lil non-descrpt room in a hostel at IIMC.

Anyway, coming back to the topic at hand.. well, I was getting tired of sitting in front of the computer all morning. Decided to give my poor sick self a lil break. Dashed to the Coffee Day Xpress outlet just outside my building, grabbed a Cappuchino and rushed back to the safety of my room. (Calcutta is very hot these days to venture out in the afternoons). Put on an ole fav of mine... "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles

This song has the ditsinction of being the first video to be played on MTV on its debut at 12:00 am on the first of August 1981.

Was googling for a pic for this post when I came across this interesting link. Incidently, a parody of the same song was released in 2001.. "Internet Killed the Video Star".. Its pretty neat. Do check it out.

Well, as for me.. I better get back to work.. :)