Shhh... I am NOT Sleeping..

Sleep is one thing that i am having a lot of trouble with off lately.

I never get good sleep.

I go green with envy when my friends say that they slept for this many hours and I always wonder how do you guys manage.

I can never say proudly that i get deep sleep.

Actually I got this from my mom cos even she has a lot of trouble sleeping.

Going back a few years from now I used to hate sleeping in my school days.

I always used to feel what if our body wasnt meant to sleep we would have saved so many hours that we waste just lying like a dead body.

I secretly used to wish that i suffer from insomnia so that i get extra time to study in the night. I was a geek then.

Back then i dint know the consequences of becoming an insomniac.

And guess what GOD is actually giving me what i wished for in my schooling days now in my engineering years when i desperately need some good deep sleep.

I dont remember the last time I slept like a baby.

Even the slightest noise wakes me up.

No matter how exhausted I am with the entire day's running and my exciting lectures I still cant sleep instantly.

The Chinese Proverb actually holds true " only when one cannot sleep does one know how loooong the night is."

Its frustrating tossing and turning and changing sides and pillows , switchin the AC on and off.

And I am not in love. lol..

It atleast takes me half n hour to get sleep after i lie down.

I'll read some , then i listen to some music, drink water, take a leak that many times..and finally I get sleep and just when I am fast asleep its my alarm going beep and its already 7?

And I am like wtf i slept like half n hour ago.

Morning is the time i get the most amazing sleep and I just dun wana get up but college.

I know this isnt insomnia I guess I am just turning into a nocturnal animal but still I am missing my dreams that I get when I am fast asleep. :p

I hope it comes back to me again.

Sleep is the best thing God ever made.

Good Night..!!

Freedom to me?

So, 15th august 2009 we celebrate our 62nd year of "independence."

What does independence mean?

not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker

India got its independence long back. But are we really independent?

Ok fine I know India is a great country. India has diversity and it has variety and it has blah blah blah..

But how has it progressed as a country.

The other day I was discussing how India can never improve.

Ok you are not supposed to brand me as a cynic but its the truth.

What freedom are we talking about?

Freedom from corruption

Freedom from unemployment and recession

Freedom from not having a college even after scoring 95%

Freedom from reservation quotas

Freedom from trying to prove if AJMAL KASAB is a pakistani

Freedom from bombs going off like its diwali

Freedom from insane traffic

Freedom from jam-packed local trains

Freedom from farmers giving up hope

Freedom from the oh-so promising politicians

Freedom from everything that runs this :" money"

I know I am not doing anything myself for the country but I am atleast not doing anything wrong to harm it.

People are dying of breathing these days because of the swine flu.

Instead of providing masks at low cost , we start selling them at 5 times its actual worth.

I've heard this somewhere

"gandhiji apni poori zindagi ahinsa ka paath padhate padhate chale jayege.. aur unke jaane ke baad hamne kya kiya?.. unka photo ahinsa ke sabse bade dushman ke upar chhap diya--- 'paisa' "

India is no doubt a lovely country and even the other countries of the world who consider it as a threat in upcoming years cos sure it is on its way of becoming a super power but still we can bridge that gap of years by working towards making it one.

I know we are lot better than our neighbours and many other countries but mediocrity is not what you want in a country that u live.

So without getting emotional and thinking practically we have too see where we stand and what we are and then chant about the INDEPENDENCE.

Love Aaj Kal Parso Tarso..

I know its very late for a movie review,but i just cudnt get time to write about it and I'll keep it short. I was damn excited about this movie reasons being plenty from deepika padukone to the songs and imtiaz ali the director.

I went for the movie a week later after it released and I was getting mixed responses.

Some would come and say its amazing, some say its mediocre and some say its bakwaas.

I liked it.

The best part about Imtiaz Ali movies is the story he directs are so cliched but still there's a different and fresh feel to it.

Love Aaj Kal is a proper amalgamation of two perspectives of how people used to look at LOVE in 1950's and how its taken to be now.

The movie is worth a watch and dont compare it with JAB WE MET that was class apart.

You cant get a LAGAAN or DDLJ every second friday.

I give LOVE AAJ KAL its credit.

The movie has two different stories at the same time and how they are so similar yet so different.

Saif Ali Khan overacted himself in the suave town boy but played his part well as the sardar but kudos to the marketing brain he chose the perfect timing to get into the production world cashing on the JAB WE MET success.

Deepika Padukone sizzles.

Brazilian chick is pretty.

Rishi Kapoor is ok.

You start liking the songs slowly not at one go.

Ahun Ahun is foot tapping and please wait for the video after the movie its in fact the best part

Ye Dooriya is also a lovely song Mohit Chauhan is on a song these days quite literally.

Overall , go for it. Don't see JAB WE MET in LOVE AAJ KAL and you will like it.

RATINGS: 3/5

Lord Dont Move That Mountain

Hmm.. so finally my 1 month vacation ends and i look forward to start the beginning of my end.My final year of computer engineering. College starts tomorrow and the mad rush begins again.

But just when i was so pensive and so sad that my vacations are ending i again happened to see my all time favourite movie THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS.
I've seen that movie so many times that I've lost my count and i have even lost count of the number of times I've cried after watching it(yes i m a guy enough to say that i cry in movies)
But that movie just gets too much out of me. And this time i made my DAD watch it.
Watching it with dad was totally different. Discussing the movie with him, talking about it learning and I could see almost that not totally but he relates to the movie somewhere or the other in his life.

That movie tells you so much about life, about happyness , about disappointments and about struggles.
It tells you when everything is just falling apart how to get that courage and collect all the pieces together and move.
I mean when I am down and out i just cant stop cribbing to myself about the things that I have and how they are not perfect and how things are not going according to the way i plan.
But the movie tells you wait for the tide to turn.

wait for the clock to tick.
You just need to have faith,that belief in yourself and someone above ALL.
Life isn't easy for anyone. Try finding that happyness in everything,that hint of joy,the laughter in tough and trying times.

Life is too short for negative things,for stress , for frustration and for anger.
I owe a lot to that movie.
Its the pursuit of happyness that we all look for and pursuit for anything comes with a price,with sacrifices with a little ordeal and that make up a huge mountain.

now pray to the lord not to move that mountain but the will power the strength to climb it.

It is this song from the movie that comes in between

"Lord don't move that mountain,
Give me strength to climb it

Lord don't move that stumbling block
But lead me all around it"

There is in fact something for everyone.. just wait for it.

So i just want my life to be smooth, and whatever happens keep sporting that lovely smile.
Easier said that done.. but do you have an option?
I always believe..
Whatever happens, happens for good.!
Take care.

Entourage -The Boys Are Back

Entourage( /on-toor-ahzh/)

basically means a group of people accompanying an important person.

HBO's Explanation of the hit series

The series draws on the experiences of industry insiders to illustrate both the heady excesses of today's celebrity lifestyle, as well as the difficulty of finding love and success in the fast track of show biz. Now that the boys are getting used to the perks of stardom, Eric, along with superagent Ari, keep Vince's star rising while making sound decisions for a long-lasting career in a world of fleeting fame.

How I look at the show!!

Since long i've been just waiting to write about this show.

Vikram and I like to call it the SHOW OF THE CENTURY and undoubtedly it is.

I never used to watch SITCOMS that often just on and off on ZEE CAFE and STAR WORLD till KP and YASH made me see ENTOURAGE.

Its the best. Seriously it is amazing. The storyline,character sketch ,dialogues ,picturisation ,twists and turns ,everything is mind blowing and perfect. It is so damn addictive and the best DRAMA series to come out ever.

It is not even DRAMA its more like DRAMEDY.(Drama+comedy+Tragedy)

Few things that Entourage teaches you is,

-keep your friends close

-keep your enemies closer

-keep your feet firmly on the ground

-people you meet on your way up will meet you again on your way down

-how to treat friends.

These are the few things that make ENTOURAGE.

-4 friends

-stay together

-big shot agent

-gay assistant

-foul mouth publicist

-HOLLYWOOD and what it takes to survive

-FRIENDSHIP and what it takes to believe

-hot chicks and hotter cars

Entourage depicts the ultimate guy's world and how guys want to live their life.

Entourage introduced a new style, a whole new way and a complete different attitude of saying the 'F' word and you will come across never before heard slangs and swears which at times sound cool and at times hilarious.

There are many amazing characters each of them different from the other like chalk and cheese.

But i'll tell you something about my favourite character and i guess he is universally the most liked character of the show.The big shot agent ARI GOLD.

That man is the life of the show.He steals the thunder from anyone.You feel like getting up from your couch and applaud on every dialogue he delivers.

I am so inspired by ARI GOLD that i have also almost decided at the back of my mind that I am going to name my kid ARI...lol..

I so want to be him 10 years down the line.

Season 6 starts july 12 2009 punch line is.." Life Changes. But Friends Don't."

Entourage facebook group:http://www.facebook.com/Entourage?ref=ts

Entourage official site:http://www.hbo.com/entourage/

I am so waiting for it.

Some of Ari Gold's Famous Rants :

Hitting on his friend's wife

just i m sure wherever u go with this little hottie it ll be more than amazing.. fucking it will be orgasmic. i dont mean to be rude but ever since u have got here i have not been able to put my eyes off ur ass. i mean it is the perfect shape. it's like God came down, handcrafted it, putin on a silver tray and hand delivered it to my man scotty

Taking down his wife and therapist

I didn't go to the Lakers game because they were playing the fucking Bobcats... And I came here today because I thought this was a session on how my wife could learn to communicate, how to answer a question without a question, basic Humanity 101, which I thought, given your wall of fucking diplomas, you could easily fix, or if you couldn't, you could give her a pill that would either fix it or make her a mute. But now, to turn around and gang up on me? I have work to do. I have hundreds of clients to deal with, and just so we're clear, I don't care about ANY OF THEM. They're ALL just a number, like Wife #1 and Therapist #7... GOOD DAY!

Firing one of his employees

wat the fuck do we pay u for??to get ur agency card laminated,,so u can go to shelter and try to fuck mischa barton.u dont have to say anything,u know why..coz u pick up all ur stuff..BECOZ UR MOTHERFUCKING FIRED!!

Ari with one of his quotes

There are no asterisks in real life, only scoreboards, and ours is currently reading FUCKED!

Ari to E

No you won't... because you're fucked. Do you even know how fucked you are? I mean you are so fucking fucked. I mean I think you are the most fucked person I know.

Ari to his team at work

You all have one goal today... to get Vincent Chase's brother, Johnny Chase, a job. Any job. I don't care it it's a porn shoot in which he is being gang-raped by a gaggle of silverback apes... if there are cameras rolling, everyone wins.

and the best being whenever he is happy,sad,frustrated,angry or surprised he just says..

"fuck me!!" hahaha..

Some of the best videos of ENTOURAGE:

Sea-Link And The Turn Of Events

Ok before you go ahead and start reading, this is again going to be a long post.I just cant seem to keep it short, not my cup of tea.

Well as we all know the Indian Media of hyping things up, this time it was the turn of Mumbai's Latest Landmark "Bandra Worli Sea Link". I too was caught up with the whole ga-ga behind it and couldn't resist going on it as soon as possible.

It was Aditya's Birthday,1st July, we wished him late night and decided lets go and explore the sea-link and soon everyone was game.But no sooner did we reach there than we saw close to 50 cars already honking and waiting to get a ride on the 1600 crore bridge built in a time span of almost a decade.We were very nicely shoo-ed away by the cops(pandu - mumbai slang).He was shouting on top his voice that the sea link is going to be open by 7am in the morning.

Disappointed we went back.But I had this thing, I somehow convinced and lured everyone to get up 6 in the morning and lets be one of the 50 cars to travel first on the sea-link.

So there we were, it was only me,aditya and vyas. Not 6 am but 8 am.. and not amongst the first 50 but I am sure about the first 500.

The Aaj taks and the india tvs and the blah blahs.. were already on the bridge covering the so called " breaking news" which was..

" aur hamaare saamne ye pehli gaadi jo iss adbhut aur hairat angez sea link ka maza uthane ke liye iski savari par nikal chuki hai. kaisa mehsoos ho raha hai aapko"

And I was cursing if only all of us would have woken up on time it would have been our car.

Anyway..we touched the sea-link and started or i thought so we started because as soon as we started we had to stop and we started again and we stopped.

No there was no problem with the car but the traffic was moving at a snail speed.

Now I'll tell you the reason behind it. You give to the people of India anything that comes without a cost (free) and they will accept it with open more than willing hands and well I cant blame anyone because who doesnt like free stuff...I do...

There wasnt going to be toll charge for 4 days. So the Sea-Link that claimed to make commuting faster by taking the commuters from bandra to worli in just 7 mins.. it took us 37 minutes to cross the sea-link.

I was happy in a way that happened. Because I wanted to apprecitae its beauty and seven minutes are just not enough.

That was because the Sea-Link is just marvellous,you actually feel that you are somehwere abroad and even your normal Zen that you are sitting in makes you feel that you are driving in a BMW.

The very feeling of being right on the top of the arabian sea is amazing. The air was cooler , the sound of the waves hitting the base of the bridge, everything was just awesome.

Since the traffic was moving real slow we decided to get down of the car and walk on the bridge itself..o it was wonderful. I started clicking pictures and saw outside the corner of the bridge the waves gettin wilder. The architectural wonder was an absolute spectacle. Although only 4 lanes are open for traffic till now and the other side of the bridge is not built at all.

But the smooth roads and the sophisticated one lane to each driving was witnessed first time in Mumbai by myself.

Since this wasnt enough to quench my thirst we decided to come back from worli to bandra via the same SEA-LINK and that is where the turn of events started.

When we were still enjoying the view and our car moving at a greater speed this time we suddenly heard a squeak and started wondering what happened and where the noise came from.

After that, the car stopped right in middle of the sea link and till now when I was thinking I was in a BMW i finally realized i was actually in a ZEN.

The car had the momentum to cross the entire sea-link but finally we had to get down and push it from bandra reclamation to all the way till the nearest petrol pump which wasnt so near.

To top it all in the rainy season the sun was shining right on top of my head.

We reached there and tried all the possible things to start the car but all in vain.

Aditya decided to leave the car there and we called for a MERU( the new taxi service if you havent heard about) its nice and fast.

We finally saw a green LOGAN coming towards us and stopped right in front. We got inside finally all exhausted, saturated and worn out.

That is when my friend gets a call from the MERU driver who was actually supposed to pick us up and he said " guys we are in the wrong car"

I was like wow..icing on the cake it seems.

So when i started from my place at 7.30 in the morning i never thought, to enjoy a 7 min drive on the picturesque new landmark i would come back home 2 in the afternoon.

Aditya compensated for all the turn of events by throwing the most wonderful party and we enjoyed like crazy on the new roof top restaurant in andheri forgetting the back ache by pushing the car for almost 5 kms.

At last it was all in the fun and in the name of experience.

I wanted to be the first one to drive on the sea link and I was infact the first one to even walk on it.

New York or New Yaaawn..!!

Aahh... feels so good finally the smell of popcorn.. the rush to catch the movie right on time so that u dont even miss the national anthem..damn i missed the theatres.. it seemed like a decade that i'd been inside the theatre to watch the movie because of the stupid strike between producers and the multiplex owners.. so when we made plans for NEW YORK - the movie ofcourse i was all game..katrina and my theatres back in action.

NEW YORK - the movie of course .. had everything to pull you to the theatres.. decent star cast.. nice promos... perfect timing....and a good YASH RAJ banner written all over it.

I was looking forward for the movie but again too me its a sort of disappointment.

You cant call the movie good .. neither it is too bad.

The director KABIR KHAN.. i was a fan when i saw KABUL EXPRESS i liked the movie.
With terrorism as a back drop even here , this time the 9/11 twin towes blasts and its prejudices, he came up with a more commercialized flick , prolly many people thought that KABUL EXPRESS was more of a documentary.

So this time what he does is , he tries to make a mystery , then some suspense , then a love triangle , then some terrorism , then some chor-police chase and you get NEW YORK - the movie of course..

The movie starts of with some "childish" college scenes which have been re-repeated over a million times in many different movies in different ways. I am in love with this particular word which is gona catch up real soon with guys as the movie is seen .. TOTAAA!!.. haha..

love saying it again and again..!!

John Abraham the stud ,

Neil Nitin Mukesh - all three of them.. play the geek ,

Katrina - sweet pretty lady and the eye candy.

The movie moves at a real slow place in the first half with some flashback and interrogating scenes IRFAN KHAN being the COP.

(I dont understand this if its a bollywood movie and shot abroad and you have a crime investigation, from out of the world you will always have your friendly neighbour hood.. INDIAN COP who speaks fluent hindi).

Problem with this movie is that it grips ur attention for a while and then loses it by putting some un-necessary emotional scenes and stupid songs couple of times.

John Abraham said it in an interview that NEW YORK- the movie of course.. begins where the movie KHUDA KAY LIYE ends...

Actually he spoke sense.. this movie actually tells about life after 9/11 specially for the muslims living abroad.

But i should mention here where the movie loses its brownie points is the CLIMAX.. i mean a good end makes you forget about the tortured 2.30 mins in any other movie.

But then , though i wasnt tortured , i dint enjoy either and to back it up it had the most pathetic CLIMAX scene which dint help the movie to have a good taste in the audiences minds when they leave out.

Music theres not much to hear except for the " hai junoo" song. And a love making song between john and katrina but u rather see it than hear it. :p

Acting

Neil Nitin Mukhesh - i've been a fan of all three of them since johny gaddar.. nice acting

John Abraham - he's always proven the myth that "models cant act" wrong..superb acting..he potrays flamboyance , anger , frustration.. just perfect!

Irfan Khan - is a superb actor.. he plays the role of a cop with ease and natural acting abilities unlike the other star cast but wat is IRFAN khan without his wise ass perfectly timed dialogues he's been given NONE..!!

Now for the acting skills of my pretty lady Katrina Kaif , all i can say.. she's definitely improved her HINDI.. lol

All in all NEW YORK - the movie of course..is a strict , mediocre .. one time watch.

I would say go for it , smell the popcorns and come u'll have a feel good factor.. lol..

RATINGS: 2.5/5