Godavari

Godavari - It’s a beautiful feeling. After a long period, I saw a good movie, a movie which makes you happy for watching it, and after watching it. I just sat there and I really lost myself to it.

The story, the screenplay, the music, the dialogs, the actors, the camera, the boat, the river - everything is beautiful and sweet. Everything.

I am not going to tell the story. This is not a spoiler as, personally, I hate to listen to a story before I watch a movie. All I want to say is it is a great movie and every one who like good movies should watch it and it deserves a special recognition and a separate post from me ;)

Few things I liked in the movie (not in the order of my liking)

1. Location and Camera - the Cinematographer must be a highly talented guy to show a normal boat and plain river to look that good.

2. Animated characters: Amazing. Just too good. They come only for short period, yet in right places and make your life lighter. I especially liked the dialogs of the dog. Heard that it was voiced by the director. In a scene, a boy (whom the dog calls master) feeds a dosa and the dog says, “u r not a human, master - a Dog ,err sorry, a God!”. “I will be with you always, at the time of needy, (+ something)” Then to itself: “did I promise extra?? Hey leave it, lets see when time comes (something like that)”. The original telugu dialog is really fun to hear. I also liked the conversation between our dog and another well – breed Dog. And the exchanges between parrot and our dog. Really cool ones.

3. Dialogs (of humans ;) ). :: Short n sweet.

4. The expressions of the heroin (Kamalinee Mukherjee,) - cute

Apart from this, the movie has neither vulgar language or A-rated jokes nor obscene scenes. Not that I don't like them ;), yet nice to see a movie without them. Till now, this directer -Sekhar Kammula's previous movie ANAND was my all time favorite. My opinion is set to change.

Overall a good, decent, sweet and a must movie.

Thinnama, padukunama, thelarinda

I spent my weekend keeping the above line as motto. This line is from Pokiri, a telugu movie where a police officer comments on the general attitude of public. In fact, I can add to say Thinnama, chusama, padukunama, thelarinda - to be more apt.

Thinnama

Friday night:: 10.45 PM. After a busy meeting reg an upcoming program(some serious stuff), me and sriram are busy eating onion dosa, chitrannam, and one more type of dosa(does name matter?) + some juices in the kana bazaar somewhere in lalbagh area. We came to know such a road existed in Bangalore only that night as the rest of so-called decent hotels refused to allow us ‘that’ late in the night. The food was great compared to any good hotel except that u need to stand and eat which is definitely not an issue for me ;)

(Chusama ) Padukunama:

Reached home at 12.30 night and bhasa was wide awake surprisingly. So we decided to watch a movie, name of which I am unable to recollect! But I ended up sleeping around 3.30 ;)

Thelarinda:

So Saturday begin before even I slept for Friday!. Got up at 9.00 with a slight headache. Started my day with the only comforting fact that I got up before Bhasa. After breakfast, incidentally which was a version of Upma, experimented by myself, which includes successful convincing of bhasa to eat that, I settled for a movie. The movie is Godavari(telugu). Ha, one sweet movie. It deserves a separate post, so nothing here ;). mm .Then the gang(Sri, pv, chax, me , bhasa , kv, and babai) met at Bhagini for lunch, which was followed by some discussions on ‘Eye on I’.

Thinnama

Jaya joined us at out home at 6.00 and after some veti -veti talks, we decided to go for dinner at Golkonda chimney (treat from babai). Filled my stomach with some proteins ;) and tried hookah for the first time and returned home at 11.30 after a brief 45 minutes stop at corner house for a light dessert ;) .

(Chusama ) Padukunama:

I was desperate to watch OMKARA as I missed it in theater. Actually I was not very much interested when the movie was released, but later, after the feedback from my colleague was so good that I borrowed a original DVD(slight correction here- it is Piriginal) . So again a bit of convincing worked to get the majority to watch this movie. Yahoo!! , Movie show started at 12.00 and after regular breaks (thanks to sagar) , slept around 3.00.

Thelarinda.

Sunday morning. Sunday usual breakfast of bun+ butter + puff with tea satisfied my stomach. Thanks to kv, who forced me to go out for shopping to marathahalli. Few purchases and back home, so that we can cook before the match will start.

Thinnama :

Sorry, the ‘we’ includes only KV as he is the chef and the others in ‘we’s – PV and bhasa helped him and the last of ‘we’- myself, just coordinated the event ;)

Chusama – watched the match till the end(till mandira said bye) . The day ended when I slept at 10.30 after a simple dinner at near by Bengali mess.

I am sure god won’t be this gracious on me ever. The point is I decided to stay at home this weekend as my computer at office witnessed me working late in the nights last week and I decided to give myself a much deserved rest. Yet, in spite of staying most part of the time at home, I was tired on Monday morning.

How Can

How can it be you're asking me to feel
the things you never show

Usually I won’t hear unknown / not previously heard songs when I am down or bothered.

Last Couple of days, I was bothered inside. It is usual for me to get troubled from inside, and during this time, I will go alone (literally) and do some analysis and introspection and eventually will try to change myself. This is a casual style of mine which was annoying my friends during my college days and they used to ask me reasons for my sudden silence or disappearance. But as months passed, they got used to it, I believe, for they stopped bothering me in such times, even though they recognize I am going thru something.

Currently I am in one such mood. It is kinda complex and a closer to heart situation involving people who matter in my life. But for the first time in my life, I am convinced that its not my fault and I should continue as I am. It is a great improvement in my life, for I always convince myself that it must be my fault. I always try to adjust to situations where all are comfortable. If I am in an argument, I always go an extra mile to see other person’s point of view and go extra extra mile to understand why the other person is making a mistake and try to justify his/her stand. But Now-a-days, I am changing. And I know it for sure.

One more aspect is my anger management. I usually won’t get angry or upset with someone as easily as I get with myself ;) But I do get angry at times and usually I get tongue-tied when angry and I will still be angry till the other person calms down. Also I usually try to reason out with the other person and convince him or her that the whole thing was just his or her mistake, if I believe that’s the case. But this fully exercise would have zapped me out and I will be mentally totally disturbed and my work-life balance would have gone for a task, that I will end of spending sometime alone to get composed. Also my first instinct will be to sever ties or maintain distance with someone when I am upset with them. I am improving in this aspect too. I stopped being emotional when angry and trying hard to be insensitive if a person makes mistake knowingly. But looks like this is a quality of Sagittarians and I need to live with it. :(

Oh, why this post? I wanted to tell this. Usually I won’t hear unknown / not previously heard songs when I am down or bothered. This is one aspect of mine where I need to change. There are few songs which I love to hear when I am down. BackStreetBoy’s ‘Show me the meaning’ is one such. This time after hearing the song B2B 8 times, I went crazy enough to hear this particular line repeatedly. With concise wordings, it meant more than what it was intended. So thought of posting /pasting them :)

G-Sheets

Past couple of days, all I am doing is maintaining spreadsheets.

In my office, the Linux work which I was doing went to QE and they found enough bugs. It’s a buggy life after all! My manger, before going on his vacation, told me to coordinate the fixes and delivering the fixed build to QE. From then on, I am coordinating with excel, :) with lot of color schemes, remarks, corrections, blah blah blah ..

On the other hand, p9 too needed some attention from me. Sri was telling me his idea about collective fund rising. But his initial idea of asking people to fill in exact-committed amount and getting them regularly didn't appeal to me much. So I proposed an alternative where a GSheet will be sent to the group every month and every one will fill in their contributions for that month. Since I proposed, I did that GSheet work.

GSheet is Google spreadsheet. Its pretty cool and very useful if you want to share among friends or groups so that multiple people can update simultaneously. Whereas an attached excel sheet fails if the group needs to update them simultaneously.

Also the sharing options are good. We can allow some people to edit and some people to read only. We can always pull back the options.

I kinda like the GSheets . Guess it is pretty useful if you want to keep some accounting information online.

Ofcourse it is Google ;)