My vow of not blogging frequently!Oh well, I need some help finding statistics of how Hindi and Tamil movies perform in Singapore. (w.r.t. box office revenues and theatre attendance) Any of you got any idea where I can get them? Singapore Film Commission and Singapore Film Society are of no bloody hel ...
Latest to join the bandwagon of stopping blogging temporarily - me!! With exams less than two weeks away, I think this declaration comes quite late!!!!Will be back by end of April, and wait for some changes in my blo ...
Some mystical forces are into play. I somehow find the temptation to blog soaring only when I study economics!!Today I'm blogging about one of my favourite movies of all time (to while away time). It's Kannathil Mutthamittal (A Peck on the cheek). It traces the story of a little girl who is being brought up by a writer and his wife in Chennai happily until she is told on her ninth birthday that she was adopted. A very beautiful story, and...this post will be a little long.What amazing portrayals ...
Maybe I'm not that hard hearted after all; I cried today watching a movie!!!! Surprisingly, for the first time, the other me did not say "Hey Vani, come on, it's just a movie.." Well, it was for real, it wasn't anything made up. I shed tears for a scene in Swades.What a beautiful movie! I got it from my friend to watch it for the n-th time, but I was amazed, I was so moved by one particular scene only when I saw it this time - the scene when King Khan buys that tiny pitcher of water from the little ...
This post will have lots of tamil; I really want to talk in proper tamil and..sorry for those who can't understand!!enga floor-la oru poonai irukku. one friend staying two doors away always gives it some food..so eppopaathaalum ava room vaasalliye kadanaa kadakkum. summa irundhaa paravaala...naan eppo andha vazhiya ponaalum "meow meow" nnu katthum. As though I had given it some problem in some way. Actuall-aa paartha enakku adha kanda bayam so sevuttha ottindu thaan nadandhu poven...still it has ...
Hmm...My phone just didn't ring today. It has been silent the whole day. I mean, yes, it did ring, but it was only for messages. And all the messages were from my project mates, for project discussions. Irritating that I did not recieve any interesting calls or messages. It's so surprising if the phone is silent for such a long time! WAaah....nobody interesting (to talk to) is calling me! :'(Equally worse, NOBODY's even mailing me! It is at these times that I'm almost let to conclude people have ...
I just realised that my posts are getting longer; god knows how! (Do not say, obviously, if you type, they will become long, silly!) and it is increasingly difficult for even me to scroll down all the way to the end of the article and check for comments. Let me try making them short... this is a test for my English skills as I was very famous in school for busting the word limit!This being my first ever visit to any foreign country, it was also my first experience to know how Indians living abroad ...
Please don't conclude that this blog is devoted to ridiculing Singapore..it's just that this "unique" place makes me go into peals of laughter everyday, about something or the other. Here are some things that made me laugh for the past two days.****Block supper and exam goodie bags.Here hostels are called halls. Each hall is divided into a number of blocks. My hall is really blessed. Just go two levels above my room, and you can see my whole university and some of nearby Singapore too. Why they ...
Ok, before any of you think this is a review of the latest PDA, let me tell you its not Personal Digital Assistant, but Public Display of Affection. ;)Coming from quite a conservative place like Chennai, of course, Singapore would be like almost watching a "live" English movie for me. I stared in horror and surprise the first day as I watched couples all around happily embracing each other in the crowd. Absolutely no inhibition! In the beginning, God only knows why, I used to feel embarassed if ...
Reading the comments for my previous post, I realize that all that I can do at my best is to laugh away to tears. And this reminds me of my innumerable attempts to cook in my hall canteen and how I've still managed to survive.It was only after I came here that I fully knew how to operate a microwave. So the first time I had to use it, I was bewildered at all those buttons they had, and took my Thai roomie along with me to the kitchen so that she'll be able to help me. All I had to do was to keep ...
Most of my friend-girls often wonder how I can be so. They even call me hard hearted at times. And I do feel like agreeing with them, but no, you don't have to agree, says the other me. You're just not being a sentimental *fool*, it says. (you'll get to hear a lot of what the "other me" says....)Well, all this is in reference to how I react to an emotional movie or book. While most of my friends shed a tear or two or at least choke, I sit with no emotion."How, Vani.." they ask, "how can you sit ...
It's been 2 days since I had proper food.Yesterday I was outside the whole day for a talentime as one of the organizing committee and was in Orchard with no Indian or vegetarian food. So what else, go to Burger King, eat french fries. This was lunch and dinner.Today, near the same place as yesterday covering an event. Same lunch. Thank god, I'm back in the room so I can make dinner!!!Whoa! Being veggie here is difficult!Yaara enakku oru nalla saapadu kudungalen... FREE-YA!!! ;) (seri, seri, venumnaa ...
DAV... The very name at once conjures up visions of a super grey building, a huge banyan tree, the grey uniforms, assemblies, and my most important and familiar feeling of looking at the whole thing from behind, the appointees' line, in the assembly. Four years as house captain gave me trouble, but more than that, unbeatable fun.The school split us into 4 different houses when we reached sixth class. It was really exciting. All of us madly went about promoting our own house, mine being the great ...
It all started with 12 midnight of March 1, 2005. Now my legs are tired, my hands refuse to co-operate. But my mind says write, and thankfully my hands have agreed.Today is a batch mate's birthday and as was the university Indian Gangs' custom, all of us met in the garden to give him the "sabo" ( a better name for birthday bumps, etc.). Happily we caked him, guys kicked him to their hearts' satisfaction, and by the time I returned to my room it was 1-45. And an 8-30 class in the morning. "Six hours ...
Long ago, a girl from Chennai; now a Dilli-waasi who's lived in Singapore, Mumbai and Coimbatore. Feminist, book lover, with a constant background score running in her mind.
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