Rain is beautiful

Note: This is the first I am writing this kind of post. Actually I couldn’t categorize it. Please let me know your views and also under which criteria I can place this post.

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From the way it forms to the way it drops, it’s a marvel of nature.

 Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

                               – Author unknown

Black is always considered a colour of sorrow but when the clouds turn black no one shed tears but everybody’s eyes were brimming with hope, lips were wearing smile and suddenly the whole world starts to look beautiful.

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.

                                              – Henry wadsworth Longfellow.

        It makes any part of day as beautiful. Just the moments after we wake up, if we open our windows to see the world being looking fresh and new with rains pouring down, we know it’s not another day. I always love standing at the window and watching those rain for few minutes. It gives immense joy not because it may grant a leave for me. Take it by afternoon, when we will be tired after work, it offers a freshness to the tea, we drink. A hot cup of tea/coffee during a rainy afternoon/evening, a bliss!!!  By evening while returning from work, no need to worry about the looks on how wet our dress will get, all are ready take a little bath from nature’s shower.  And come night, we can sleep merily with the comfort of bedsheets with the sound of rain drops makes a perfect combo. It also gives a reason to sleep a little longer.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather down. Without the rain ther would be no rainbow.

                                                         – G.K. Chesterton.

So after I get dressed up and start to office, I can see some beautiful view of children holding small umbrellas going to school or a child fully covered with raincoat yet the kid’s mother prefers he/she to walk with her under the umbrella or children splashing water by jumping into the water in the little ponds on the road or all this together.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the Earth; Without rain there would be no life.

                                                       – John Updike.

I have never seen a kid running fearing the rain but when I see them they will be accompanied by some elder person. They love the true nature and they know what the rains are for, to sing and dance. They love to hold as much as possible rain water in their small, soft and tender hands and play with it.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

                                              – Roger Miller

Rain shows no differences to people in making them beautiful. A person who looks beautiful in dancing in the rain was as beautiful as when he/she holding an umbrella and walking carefully. Yes. It’s a pleasure to watch people walking with umbrella. Be it a young kid or older man or a couple holding a single umbrella, it gives a new dimension to their look.

I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.

                                         -  Arthur Freed.

Rain makes food wonderful. Except for juices and icecreams we prefer food to be served hot. A hot food is one requiste on a rainy day. Its a fun to watch those steam coming out of the hot served drink or rice or curry. I love it. And what makes those bajji’s and samosa’s looks more beautiful than they are?? its rain. Other days we just drink tea. On a rainy day, we enjoy the tea.

If love is shelter, I’m going to walk in the rain.

                                            – Author Unknown.

Rain makes travelling beautiful. When we walk, or  riding a cycle or bike those drops of rain we feel on our face makes us feel we are the happiest and luckiest people at this moment and on this Earth. Its a wonderful feel to ride a cycle at your pace when huge rains comes down.

Last but not the least, Rain makes sunshine beautiful.

Let the rain kiss you.  Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.  Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

                                                           -  Langston Hughes

Rain is beautiful, indeed.

So why I am writing this?? For the last 15 days I am enjoying all these moments and Chennai is much cooler and beautiful now

PS: Thanks Swaram. I thought of adding those quotes at the end of the post. But just remembered Swaram’s way of placing the quotes within the post. Its really nice to see and read them

Training tales: Meeting my cousin, Late night chats

When I went to my training I have never thought I will meet my cousin brother there even though my mom has told that my cousin was selected for my company I never thought I will meet him. But I met him in the second week of my training. Actually the training is on developing our communication skills and the first thing we have to do is go around the room and introduce ourselves to the other people(Except the 7 college mates I don’t know any of them while reaching there). So after introducing myself to 2 or 3, we both started to introduce and by that time he started to ask about where I am living and do you know them?? like that. Then only I remembered, its him. The last time I have met is, when I was studying in 5th Standard. So my memory can’t be blamed for not remembering instantaneously. We had a good chat by that day itself.

After that we used to frequent to lunch and dinner together many a times. And had a great time too even though we had totally different interests. He never keeps his eyes open max. of after 11 and I always used to roam around actively till 3. I don’t think he ever came to playground while my half of the training days were spent in it. Its also really great that I am back to Chennai after a little trip to Pune and we had our lunch together here also but its been a long time since we have eaten together as my shift timings(afternoon shift) were never changed for last 8 months or so

Late night Chats:

As I have already said, its a kind of hostel life for me. So late night chats are really a part of it. All the night we are all will group together in one room and used to talk about everything. With lot of cricket were played by India those days we were not short of topic any day. And there is always cinema to discuss about. All the music channels will be playing some or other songs and talks will be on actor, actresses and directors. And also the leg pulling of  the fans of the actors will happen. And the worst thing is when we are about to switch off the TV, a beautiful song will be played and again we will be chatting for another 30 minutes.

Mostly all these chats will happen in Room no. 476 or 495 where the friends are came from KSR college.

One night the talk went for a long time and one of our friend Mr.RV started to move to his room.

Me: Why are you going so soon da?

He: In sometime, its going to dawn da.

And the clock is showing 2:50 AM. And we had classes by next day morning 9 AM. Phew!! those were the days.

PS: Only one post is left in this series, and it will be on the day I finished my training

Inglourious Basterds and This is it

         Quentin Tarantino is back with his new film ‘Inglourious Basterds’ with all his trademark elements. From parting the whole film into chapters, brilliant dialogues, excessive violence and a gripping screenplay. But he missed his famous non-linear screenplay. This time the field he took to implement all his ideas is in Nazi Occupied France, in 1941.

 

Plot:

 

Film starts with the Chapter 1 title card flashing, ‘Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France, in 1941′. German colonel Hans(Christopher Waltz) comes to a Farmer’s home and having a long conversation before bathing the whole house in blood. The Jewish-Amerians forms a group called ‘Inglourious Basterds’ under the leadership of the Aldo Paine(Brad Pitt) and their aim to kill 100 Nazis individually. Now the story moves to 1944, where a German war hero Zeller meets a young French lady who runs a theatre. A film was made on Zeller’s war heroics and it is about to be Premiered. As he likes her much, he wants his film to be premiered in her theatre and there she want to take her revenge on the Nazis as most of the important leaders in the Nazi going to be present there. Meanwhile the Inglourious Basterds knows about this Premiere and wants to grab their chance to finish the Nazis. And what really happens forms the climax.

 

Acting:

 

 

Every actor has given a strong performance but the stand-out performer was Christopher Waltz. The way he speaks itself sends chillness to the spine. Even the way he eats makes us to scare. A strong contender for this year’s academy award. Brad Pitt speaks English in a very different accent which I found really difficult to understand. He sleepwalks through his role and was as ruthless as Christopher Waltz in action.

I liked the French Actress.. She is really beautiful

Technical Aspects and Art:

The cinematography is so apt and perfect. There are lot of close-up shots and the camera captured the fear and revenge of each people superbly. Editing is so perfect that the scenes were seamlessly and never makes us to yawn. In a period film art direction is equally important and the buildings craved for this film, makes us to travel to France of 1940s.

 

Direction:

 

 Quentin’s films are not about story but the way he presents them makes the fans to stand-up and watch it. This time he didn’t took a non-linear approach in presentation. But there are lot of chilling moments, like, a Nazi officer who was thrashed to death by a member of Inglourious Basterds and the whole first chapter is gripping and Chilling. In this film, Quentin takes only field(Second world war) and woven his own story around it. So if you expect a historical film here, you will be disappointed. It’s pure entertainment. On the whole, another successful attempt by QT as director and Screenplay writer. 

 

 Inglourious Basterds - A must watch for QT’s fans and those don’t mind excessive violence will appreciate this film. 

 

 

 

 

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 This is it: 

 

This is a documentary made on the rehersals of the last concert of Michael Jackson which didn’t seen the stage. ‘Its a pity that it didn’t seen the stage’ – This is what I can say after seeing this amazing documentary.

 

    The film starts with MJ announcing his plans on the concert just for the fans named ‘This is it’. From then on, a glimpse of the audition took place to select the dancers for the show is chosen and rehersals took place for each song to be performed in concert. MJ is aged and very thin too, but he was really energetic and didn’t shown any sense of discomfort while dancing or performing for the songs. He is completely in command on what he needed from his team. From the way the things to look on stage to the little notes of the music, he has a clear picture in mind. He encourages his team members, appreciates them and corrects them to perform better. In one place he tells to a guitarist, ‘This is the moment for you to score and we are all here with you’. The work they put behind this one is really amazing and it looked to me like, its a real concert. Such is the effect.

I really loved a part in this documentary in which MJ performing for a song(forgot it) and all the members were enjoying it and whistling at it. After finishing the song, MJ said, ‘Atleast I got a feel of it. Bless you all’.

 

This documentary has all the MJ’s greatest hits which means we are for a great musical journey. From the ‘Beat it’ to ‘Earth Song’ every song is feautured in it. Even though there are lot of criticism and different opinions on MJ’s personal life, no one can deny that he is one of the world’s great entertainers. This documentary once again proves that fact.

   Director Kenny Ortego has done a great job in making this documentary, which didn’t have a dull moment. I didn’t felt bored at any point. Crisp editing made this possible.

 Trailer:

 

  Its really difficult to believe that this man was died with he still entertaining us. His death is really a great loss for music world. Thanks MJ for all the entertainment you have provided all these years and for the years to come. R.I.P MJ.

 This is it: Don’t miss it MJ fans. 

 

Mother’s love

Once again I have just missed writing a 55 word fiction :( But successfully written a Drabble. According to Wiki,

A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length..

And my below fiction has exactly 100 words

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Story:

She was at the end of her long awaited interview with the acclaimed writer Mr. Shinde. And here is the question she has, which most of his fans wanted to ask him. She cleared her throat and asked, “Sir, you have written stories on all genres ranging from Fantasy to Love, from Science fiction to thrillers but you have never registered about a mother’s love in your writings. Any reasons for that, Sir?”

After a moment’s pause, he answered, “Yes, there is. Because I can never do justice for that. And I feel words are not enough to describe it”.

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Updates:

Friends, sorry for not visiting your blogs for the past few days. My internet connection was gone 3 days before and its yet to get repaired. Hope it starts work fine soon. Will read all the missed posts in 2 days

And over the weekend I have seen 2 movies which I wanted to see for a long time: Alien and Aliens. Both are awesome. If the first is more of a thriller, second one is fully packed with action. I think I would have been the last soul on this Earth to watch those films. I am amazed by the way Cameroon visualized the second part of that film franchise. Because Ridley Scott finished that first part(which he wouldn’t have thought as a Ist part) in a perfect way leaving no space for a second installment.

Also started watching another movie ‘Conspiracy’, which is a documentary kinda movie on Wansee conference held in 1942 in which the German officials discussing on ‘How to evacuate the Jews systematically’. It was full of conversation and I started to feel bored midway through the movie and closed it.

Time to Act

As you sow, so shall you reap

Pakistan was learning the meaning of this proverb in a hard way these days. The once friend Talibans were rocking the Pakistan cities with bomb blasts and if we all just see the no. of bomb blasts happened there in this year, we will faint for sure. According to the following site, there are about 417 blasts(The latest bomb blast in Peshawar was not included in this) in this year till October which makes more than a blast/day. Check this here. This amount of bomb blasts also shows how easily the Talibans were moving along with the people in the country. And the latest Peshawar blast was happened on the day, when US secretary of state Hillary Clinton visited Pakistan, which itself is a statement.

In many of the blasts luckily there were no loss of life. Even an accident in front of our will create a lot of pressure, uncertainity and doubts in a human mind. And these kind of attacks will surely create doubts and fear in the minds of people for sure, which is not a good sign for a nation. We can avoid accidents, but these intentional bombings??? But this blasts provides an opportunity for Pakistan to understand how evil the terrorism is and to completely uproot Taliban from their soil. Even the people of Pakistan will be furious about the attacks which killed many of their countrymen and will extend a complete support for their government’s action.

If a stern action was not taken by the Pakistan government, it will be a great threat for all the South Asian countries. And Pakistan leaders must stop pointing their fingers towards India for the blasts by making some statements like ‘India supporting Talibans by providing monetary assistance’ which will just help to divert their attention towards a direction which is wrong and a direction where the problem won’t be solved. Actually some kind of above statement was made by Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province’s (NWFP) Inspector General of Police (IG) Malik Naveed which was then denied by the Pakistan Interior minister Rehman Malik. You can read about that here.

If we see the cities in which the bomb blast happened we could see most of the NWFP states are affected. This itself may create some doubts in the minds of the different parts of the people which is again not a good sign for the integrity of a nation. So its time for the Pakistan government to push aside their misconceptions and egos for the welfare of South Asia, if not for that, atleast for their nation and their people. Hope they won’t commit their mistake again.