Pink or Blue....

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In a modern, developed society, what is this kind of ad doing in a mainstream daily??

Considering the male race is busy screwing around and wasting dollars over Toto and football, may be more expectant parents want girls. At least, that's what I would like to believe.

Mat ja Swades...

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I hate to start the new year this way. My first Hindi film in 2005 was a complete disaster.

Even god couldnt save the movie, let alone Shahrukh. No story, no logic, and no good enough reason to be back in India. SWADES--we the people leaves millions of NRIs writhing in pain.

Suave Shahrukh crying for Kaveriamma was fake and repulsive. Needless to say that in a quintessential north-indian village where ganga mausi's and jamna chaachi's are the norm, Kaveriamma sounds extremely displaced and sticks out like a sour thumb.

The lead actress, apparently from some behanji (conservative girls' college) college in New Delhi, stuns the hero with basic arithmetic. But the audience frankly dont give a damn if the herione can multiply 19.2 x 56.7 to give the domestic calculators a run for its money.

The entertaining guys from Lagaan were wasted beyond consolation. Writer, Producer A.G is still reeling under the post-oscar fever effect. So much so that he replaced humor with ham, and story with empty emotions.

The main theme of the movie was buried somewhere or got cut mercilessly on the editing table. Generating electricity with a O Level understanding of physics cannot hold a candle infront of an action-filled Cricket anti-climax.

Even A R Rehman's music couldnt help the movie. ...tsk tsk..

quite a mug

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Originally uploaded by viyered.

taken outside the largest pewter factory, Royal Selangor, in Malaysia, on a rainy day.

Asian TV Awards and other exciting stuff..

No apologies for staying away from my blog. There's lot been happening in life. I am now officially on the wrong side of twenties. And, so there was some obvious despair. Now that I have recovered and have come to terms with the "number 26", I will move on.

To start with the festival of lights, Deepavali, went off so smooth and smoke free that I felt it was just an off day from work. Miss the loud, thundering fireworks that were such an integral part of this festival. I mean lighting four small diyas is not an ideal way of celbration. Phew..

On the brighter side, I made traditional South Indian food for the first time, and to sheer joy it was quite edible. At least that's what Viyer and my Dad's best friend who had come home for a meal insisted. :)

Suddenly with a shoestring budget, we also managed to have a small getaway in Malaysia, at a short notice. I like KL so much better than my grey concrete paradise. It is not so fanatically organised and disciplined as my current habitat, but there was colour in the crowd and aroma in the air. There was commotion, excitement, dirt, believable cleanliness, and everything that is not irritatingly perfect.

The highpoint was however the Asian TV awards. My first awards night outside India. In the past, I have just seen similar ceremonies at home on TV. It was quite an experience sitting right there, in the fourth row from the stage. Sometimes, I had imagined that the dancers from the might just throw some props at me, coz I was giggling throughout—like a teenager in a Justin Kimberlake concert J

Met a colleague from Delhi at the event. With a little weight and coats of makeup somehow she looked quite different from when I saw her. Anyways, it is nice to get a smile in an event where the browns were about 0.2% in a quintessential 98.8 Chinese gathering.

Had my first brush with racialism here in the so called cosmopolitan, advanced tolerant society. Almost gave up but for Viyer and a friend’s advice. So now, like a friend of mine always says, I have “lost weight and gained thick skin!!”

Oh by the way also watched Incredibles, SAW, Princess Dairies -II, To Sir With Love, Monalisa Smile, Alfie, Addicted to Love…

More action in my blog when there is some in my life. Hee Haa..
Cheerio people!