Daily Archives: January 11, 2009

Yeh Lazy Lamhe

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I love that song (and not because of Ameesha Patel doing her thing in the green bikini). I thought she looked horrid. But anyway, that is not the point of this post.

To me, Lazy Lamhe is just a nice, pleasant song that describes the perfect weekend. This weekend came pretty close to being one.

Partly due to the petrol strike, and partly because we are both tired after the almost non-stop socializing in December, we decided to stay home n chill.

The little snubnose is having one of those days as well. She has been sleeping continuously for the past 3.5 hours, which gives me enough time to post my blog updates. Now off to drink my third cup of tea and curl up with Brisingr – one of my guilty but fun fantasy reads. How childish of me, but I love books with maps in them (ever since I started reading my first fantasy novel – The Hobbit).

Ahhh…I am just loving it :)

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Rab ne Bana di Jodi – Movie Review (Kinda)

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During the shutdown, I started watching RNBDJ with a plan to writing some real snazzy n witty reviews where I just tear the movie apart. Everybody who has seen the movie had such funny stuff to say about it, I could have just compiled all their comments into one helluva funny review.

Unfortunately, I have a conscience, and it requires that I actually see the movie before writing a review about it. And, that I write what I feel about the movie.

So, I sat down to watch it on video. I have yet to finish watching it. The movie is soooo damn boring, that I ended up snoozing halfway through (right after that Dance pe chance song). And, I have just not felt the inclination to continue watching it. That’s the reason this post is titled “Movie Review (Kinda)“.

Some aspects of the movie were just intolerable, such as:

  • Shah Rukh Khan as a Punjabi – I think he just didn’t look the part. He also looked way too old when he comes as Raj. Actually, Shahid Kapoor would have been a better fit for the role. Aditya Chopra needs to get over his Shah Rukh fixation.
  • The movie is so uncool – This is a little hard for me to explain, but I will try. I find that Chopras are never able to create cool characters in their movies. They all have only one single aspect to their personality and come across so blah. One very strong example of this is Mohabbatein – where none of the 3 young couples came across as fun / cool / any personality at all. Contrast this with Jaane tu ya Jaane na, or Dil Chahta Hai, or even Rang de Basanti, where the characters had some attitude and panache. In RNBDJ, both Shah Rukh and Anoushka are as bland as corn flakes.
  • Golden Temple shots – I am getting very irritated with this constant barrage of shots of the Golden Temple of late. It was very nice to see in Rang de Basanti. I could tolerate it in Singh is Kingg. But once again ?? That too, such poorly taken visuals. Golden Temple is such a beautiful structure, it is actually insulting when it is shot in such a shabby manner.
  • Rab’s role – Why is Rab responsible for making jodis? Surely, he has far more important work to do. Also, it seems a sad way to make a jodi by killing of the unfortunate fiance.

Strangely, the one aspect that everyone found unbelievable (that Anoushka could not recognize her husband after his makeover) somewhat easy to swallow. If you allow for the fact that they were newly weds, she hardly knows him and is not close to him, and she is grieving over her dead fiance – it makes sense that she would not recognize him at all. In fact, during most conversations with her husband, she is barely even looking at him.

Question ? – Do bank officers in Amritsar take bath out of a tap in the outside of the house? without a geyser? in winter also ?

Second question? – Do you think it is worth-while for me to watch the rest of the film?

Of Satyam and Shopping

Shopping,

I started blogging about the Satyam controversy and what a terrible start it is to the new year to so many people – the employees, the investors, and so many people whose lives and jobs may continue to get affected due to this scandal.

As I wrote, I noticed my pace of writing getting slower and slower, and I started getting more and more depressed. I felt that the world is full of dishonest people who are just out to make a fast buck and try to escape the consequences. People don’t care about each other anymore.

After about a couple of hours writing in the above fashion, I just pressed Delete on that post. Why ? It was bad enough that I was getting depressed, but I didn’t want to dump that misery on anyone else who happened to read my blog.

So, after deleting that post, I decided to take snaps of the clothes I bought during the December sales at Sanctuary. Here it goes:

Red and Yelow Top

I adored the bright red and yellow colors and the smock-type appearance of this top. Price: Rs. 300

Yellow Chamki Kurta

Yellow Chamki Kurta

I pulled this kurta out of a sale bin (original price Rs. 550, sale price Rs.225) so it is looking very crumpled here. But the material is lovely, and I loved the chamki work on the collar and sleeves. The buttons are very nice too. The sleeves are a little bit too long, but I think I can live with that :)

Below is a close-up of the neckline :

Close-up

Close-up

So did anyone else take advantage of all the sales happening currently ?

Fitness New Year Resolutions

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If you are anything like me, then you may have also thought about doing things differently this year – actually achieving some of the goals that you set in the beginning of the year.

For the past couple of years, health and fitness have been pretty high on my new year resolution’s list only to drop by the wayside when work stress and life obligations gets in the way.

This year, I have finally admitted that I need to be more organized about diet and exercise. So, it makes sense that I should track more carefully my food and exercise habits in order to identify and correct them.

One tool that I found while browsing looks like it may be able to help with this.

Fit Day Fitness Log is an online diary that you can use to log in your daily food intake and your exercise routine. It then reveals your calorie intake and calories burned for that day. Nice huh !

Unfortunately, most of the food that we consume does not come with strict calorific values. For example, you eat a biryani – how do we know how many calories are in that ? To help with this issue, I found another site called Calorie Count, which includes even Indian foods. You only get a rough estimate, but hey something is better than nothing right ?

Anyways, after logging in all my details for today (not including dinner), these are the results :

My Diet Graph for the Day

Kind of shocking, because I thought I hadn’t eaten much at all today. However, the carbs were way too high and the protein was very low. Kind of expected, I suppose, since I am a south-indian veggie whose daily routine involves eating mainly rice. Something, I should think about changing soon :(

How did I find this tool? I dunno, it is not the most user-friendly thing out there. And I am pretty sure, the constant calorie-counting will get too boring for me. I will probably just try it out for a month or so, to see what my eating and exercise patterns are, but I doubt I will use it too much after that.

But for serious calorie counters, this might be a tool that may just help you meet your health goals … I would definitely recommend giving it at least one shot.