Speaking of movies, which it looks like is all I ever do...but hey, its my blog, aint it!?!....
I watched this french movie called Amelie(subtitles ofc)...its one cool movie, man! the girl in the movie is a real whacko actually cor...the entire movie itself is totally whacky...i shud prob. see it again to completely get all the different parts of it. on the whole a real sweet movie. the protagonist , Amelie is almost like a fairytale character. She gets bored with her mundane life, (oh and the things she comes up with to keep herself from getting bored..whacko man..no other word for it..toally whacko) she starts to interfere in straightening other ppl's life and makes them feel happy.

And the colors..my!! so artistic..it was an explosion of reds and greens and oranges...ooh..and the city...am-aazing...wish I cud take a tour of france, if possible in a TVS champ..sigh..there was this one scene where Amelie opens her window...looked like it was plucked straight out of a painting and plopped into the frame...beautiful..wish I cud learn how to take pictures that way...even what Amelie was wearing is coordinated to be so aesthetically tasteful to the eyes...too good. great piano bg music too.
oh and for those who have seen the travelocity ad where a garden gnome goes globe trotting..i am guessing its been done after this movie.

Do see if you can chk this movie out...if at all u enjoy a whacky sense of humor, you shud feel right at home!

Creepy liking

what is it about ghost movies? why do people like to be scared? How can someone enjoyy the feeling of someone or some...thing as the case mabbe creeping up on you and scaring the daylights out of you??
dangit...mabbe I'm just not like others...mabbe I'm the only one who thinks its a waste of my time and that I can rather spend it sleeping or reading a book (:-))..ooh..now that sounds nice..I'll prob. go do just that...meanwhile, for those interested, chk out this link

Whew!
ok..here I am, back with a list of things to crib about...
Had a pretty hectic week..I had this huge project that I had to get done by the middle of this week and I was really pushing myself to meet the deadline.But now that it is over, I feel strangely flat... probably am just missing the ardrenaline rush, I guess.
oh, I also turned a year older this week. That's the other thing I wanted to crib...my b'day was alarmingly normal..atleast I got to cut a cake and I got a few gifts frm frnds but apart from that, it was just another day...I remember how it used to be when I was a kid...I used to get so excited abt my bday for days before...then on that day, my mom used to wake me up with a kiss and a smile, I got to wear new clothes and go arnd the neighbourhood with a box of candies to distribute and ofc flaunt my new dress wich everyone wud oooh and aahhh over. sigh...those were days...atleast if I cant be a kid again, I wish I was home with my mom and my frnds...anything is better than being in this strange country with nobody arnd you.
Anyway, that's life I guess. Whoever said that it wud get easier as we grew older was prob. a kid...

Haunting Melody
I've recenty been hooked onto this song by Shubha Mudghal....it is a song called :Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi-2'. The song was earlier sung by Jagjit Singh, another of my favorite singers. There are some songs that stay with you long after you hear it...this is one such song...there is a poem that is also recited along with mudghal's haunting voice which adds another dimension to the song. Do listen to it here and tell me what you think.

BOo
I recently got a DVD of 'The Signs' from a co-worker and was building up my courage to watch it. I was quite enthusiastic about it though coz I had watched M.Night Shyamalan's 'The Sixth Sense' and I loved that movie. I was very impressed with his storyline and was expecting something along the same lines for 'The Signs'.
But, now, you should know that I am a girl who normally enjoys comedies, romance(duh!) and action movies more than thrillers and ghost movies. So, well...just bcoz of the 6th sense, I gave myself a good pep talk that was something in the lines of "be brave girl...its just a silly scary movie etc.." and got ready to play the movie. I couldn't ask for a better setting...there I was, all by myself..(me who is a trifle weak-hearted wen it comes to horror movies, I admit) sitting in my dark living room with a storm ravaging outside..doing its best to create as much lightening and thunder as possible...oh and yes...the wind was moaning n howling like a dog with its tail on fire, frequently rattling all the windows n doors of my apt. ..ah...u get the picture now..don't u??
well..then...the movie started gr8...pretty decent...and I thot to myself...bah! this isn't so bad..I can watch this...the plot was abt some aliens and I smirked to myself and I thot...i know how this works, the movie will turn out to be not at all abt aliens...all this is just a ploy..etc and then a stupid alien who is really an alien had to come in and spoil the movie...oh and err.. make me jump on my sofa a few times too..:D
anyway, the entire movie turned out to be a total sop..oh..wat a let down..the alien was actually an alien, the moral of the story was err...drink lots of water and don't finish ur glass or was it live near a sea/ lake? dunno..!

grrrh..the one time I grit my teeth to watch a thriller/ horror kinds movie...and the movie was so lame...
I shud prob. scratch out 'The village' from my list of 2C movies, I guess. Sigh!!

Have you ever felt you had all these random thoughts that pop up with no correlation to the topic at hand? I get truckloads of such ones....I gave up trying to connect the dots...all I end up getting is a hopeless scribble!!