Who cares where the hell we land up...

..."but will still meet up and hang out" was the exact thought reverberating in every mind when our college days ended. I guess that was just wishful thinking. Things have changed, people have moved on and it's not the same. We are at different locations, have developed different interests, made new friends.
It's not like we didn't know what we were going to do after college as most of us had got our jobs and so knew where we were going to stay, had already chosen roommates etc etc. But still we thought and hoped we will catch up and spend days like the good-old-days of college, those long drinking/smoking sessions, literature, those nights on the hill (overlooking the half lit city) with loud music and smoke under the stary sky, long sweaty evenings of room cricket, chai with smoke (again) on the road side, dinner at three in the morning, movie marathon, lazy afternoons and long naps after a heavy lunch, heavy lunches/breakfast ....... .
Now we don't get to do any of the above due to the lack of time or the distance/location.
Huh...how much i miss those days....hope i had flunked and stayed in college for another year or two...

India, Rang de basanti & Chivas Regal...

Chivas Regal and 'Rang De Basanti'...what a virile combination...

The movie 'Rang De Basanti' makes you fall in love with your country all over again...
India, the myriad cultures and languages (yet united), numerous political parties with different idealogies representing different population, restless, ambitious and enthu youth, brilliant economic future. So vibrant. Soon-to-be-superpower. Worth living and dying for.
This part may seem cliched... but yes we do have our prblems and drawbacks. Which country doesn't have or hasn't had it's share of problems.

Coming back to Chivas Regal, it's good, not as smooth as Jack&Coke.
And Rang De Basanti...
The first half is interesting, refreshing and closer to reality. The song Ek Onkar and picturization of theme song surges patriotism bordering jingoism. The second half is more dramatic, slow paced and sends out wrong message - take law into your own hands. But allinall the movie has been shot aesthetically and truly deserves all the credit it has been getting. Indian movies are coming of age...

I ...

am slogging and working my ass out at work...

just finished 'Golden Gate' by Vikram seth and started to read 'Smartest Guys in the Room' by Bethany Mclean.

watched the first five episodes of 'Love Monkey'. It's hep and refreshing.

watched 'Capote', five minutes of 'Zinda', ten minutes of 'Pyare Mohan' and 50 minutes of 'Main Meri Patni Aur Woh'.
am waiting to watch 'Being Cyrus'.