Movie

I watched "Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind" yesterday.
One who wants to get mad, please go and watch it. ;)

It is all about playing with brain(technically) and hence with mind. It has shown a technique which erases someone completely from brain. The way it is shown, it seems logical (as all hollywood movies have logical/scientific ways to show all unreal things.)

Kate Winslet looks nice! Yes nice! Her hair with all weird colors and which change its color frequently, but look good on her. Who can imagine a blue color on hair and looking good? But it really looks nice!

Jim Carrey is cute! His acting justifies the story!

(I hope I understood the right meaning of the story without subtitles. :D)

This movie reminded me of all the weird dreams I see when I'm extremely tired and bereft of sleep for long time. It shows me the different world. Probably the one which is hidden inside my brain/mind.

Just like that! :)

The one and only game I play on computer is pacman; the ancient game of DOS Age. Now I play the flash version. When I play it at home, I and my mother (she forgets her age) keep screaming like anything. I scream with the false fear of getting eaten by the evil insect (what I call it) and she cheers me like I’m really playing in some contest at international level. :P
I really appreciate her cheering when I play it. No one in the world has cheered me for anything as my mother always does for everything I tell her I’m doing. Few days back she had turned into typical mother that I should learn all house stuff and all that. Now she has given up and I have made her forget that I’ve grown up. :D Good for me until she realizes my age again. :D

Harry Potter and Chamber Of Secrets

I finally got the whole day to read it and I completed it. Superb, fantastic, mind blowing, outstanding.. History! :D (Suddenly remembered of Himesh) As expected, the book was very nice! It had more peak point situations than the first one. Of course the first was more introductory and this started all the series of fascinating events ultimately making me forget all hunger and thirst.

Dobby, Ginny Weasley, Mr. Luciuos Malfoy, Prof Glideroy Lockhart, Nearly Neckless Nick, Justin, Colin, Peeve, Tom Riddle, all the founders of Hogwarts, Prof Binn, Mrs. Pomfrey, Prof McGonagall, Prof Albus Dumbledore etc. All the characters are so peculiar and so fantastically narrated by J.K. Rowling that getting to know about everyone is really an avid activity. And most important fact is that we can’t easily forget their characteristics. Fantastic job by writer! While reading many books, if some character appears after lots of pages, I have to go back to check who it was. But in this book, I never had to go back to recollect something in spite of having so many characters with weird names and so many new terms. Really nice! Now I came to know why people go crazy when they talk of these books.

Hermione is very much inspiring to me. The way she swallows the books and has all the information, she leaves the actuation in the mind. Sometimes I really wished to go back to engineering years and study like her where I wasted my months and months in I don’t know what.

Harry Potter has all the powers in built. But Hermione achieves them. She learns them on her own. So for me till now, she is more attractive. No wonder Harry is the Hero as he is the one who defeats all the evil. But without Hermione and Ron he can’t achieve what he did. I missed Hermione while reading the book when she was petrified by the monster. She didn’t turn back much even at the end of the book. So I’m eager to read the next book now. I want to see her soon.

I’m waiting if anyone gifts me the third book. I got first one from my mother. Second; I had to buy it as no one gifted me and I could not have waited. :D This time probably I’ll try to convince my father who believes sleeping is better activity for me than reading books as if I’m going to reduce more weight by reading books. :P

My First Project Event in Amdocs

After so long, this was my first project event in Amdocs. Venue was Kent Club of Kolhapur. Again a resort! So it was usual picnic. But it gave me a nice change which I really needed because of 2 weeks of continuous work and my continuous stay in Pune. (I know 2 weeks is not a big deal. But for me, it was; because of sudden change in the nature of work, in the schedule and of course in the responsibilities which I never had got.)

Anyway,
We left on Friday in the morning. The journey – the start of the picnic, was full of fun. Everyone got energized with song singing and teasing people around. On the way, we took our first halt at Prati-Balaji at Narayanpur. The temple was very tidy. Flowers brought by visitors are not allowed inside. This rule has kept the temple very clean. Starting the journey with temple made us feel of peace. It was nice to spend some more time with God than just saying “Hi” as we do everyday. ;)

We left from there in few minutes. Then eating lot of food on the way and playing dumb charades, journey ended at 1.30. As soon as we reached the club, we all kept our bags in the hall and few boys from us started playing volleyball. I never had played it. So I also joined them just for fun. I enjoyed it though everyone was teasing me for not knowing how to play, but at the end they all had started to give me practice. Good for me! :)

We played for a while and then went for lunch. There were kept some children’s toys and a bicycle – the one which has to be ridden keeping one leg on it and the other on the ground and giving jerks by the leg which is on the ground. I rode it there until the guy came to stop me because it was only for kids. Still maja aa gaya! ;)

Then we got our rooms and we took a nap there and got ready for Snow World – our next event. They had prepared a snow inside a large room and had maintained the temperature at -12 degree Celsius. We wore all protecting jackets, gum boots and entered inside. It was same as I had expected. We had a lot of fun there. We threw snow on each other, played on ladder. It was of extreme fun. There was no manager, no employee, no professional. We all were kids. :)

After that was the Horror World. I didn’t like it much as it didn’t scare me.

Then we went to roam around. The weather was fine. We took some snaps. When we came back to the resort, the others who hadn’t come with us were chatting. We also joined them. And as we reached there they started the ragging for new comers. As they hadn’t got to rag me last year, they started it with me. It was of fun again.

Then we played musical chair.

Every moment was of fun. I enjoyed the whole day completely. And as I look, behave like a kid, it added more fun in some or other way. The day ended after dinner. We had planned to dance, but due to lack of good music the plan got cancelled. So we did some chats and then went to sleep.

Next day in the morning, few people went for trekking. I didn’t even realize when someone tried to wake me up. :D

We went to play water rides. This day was of wounds for me. I just missed a serious injury. ;) But the ride which hurt me the most, gave the biggest pleasure. So again fun! Weren’t these 2 days purposed to give me all the fun I needed? :)

For no reason!

I’m admonishing you that this is not logical at all. So read at your own risk.

I needed a change. I left office, boarded usual bus, and as usual played music player of my cell. It played 3 songs to me but I didn’t hear a single one. I don’t know where my mind was flying. It was not with my senses. It couldn’t listen, see, feel. Nothing! It was not the first time to have so. Bus was stuck in traffic. I literally threw the headphone and took out Harry Potter book. Read a single page of it and closed the book at the advent of my destination. I closed the book and stepped down. I had decided not to eat anything. My mental body didn’t need food for physical body. It needed its own food. But then the thought of acidity came to mind and I asked the hotel guy to make parcel of food. I didn’t want to mess up one more day bearing the acidity. He needed 10 minutes. I went to have a normal walk. Nothing touched me at all. I had become completely adamant to things happening around me. Coming back to the hotel, a thought appeared to my mind. It said, “Let’s play a game. You’ll find 5 things. Any 5 things. And I will put a thought on it. Let’s start.” And I started to look around.

I could make note of following things – My mind put thought on each that I have written in brackets.
1) A very poor appearing girl was sleeping in a well priced car. (Wasn’t it unusual? Well, such things can happen here. It’s a place of crazy rich people. This needs a different post to write about them. But I won’t. They are not that important to me.)
2) An alone girl eating ice-cream. (Would I have ever eaten ice cream alone on road? I think no! But I should give a try. Why should I be dependent on someone if I want to eat ice-cream? Lonely people are very much self-loving. :))
3)A husband with a wife and a child carrying child in one hand and holding wife’s hand by his other and crossing the road. (How caring! I would love if someone will do it for me too. But I’d rather prefer not to be dependent on anyone for such a small thing.)
4)2 small Muslim kids wearing Kurta-pajama and the cap (I don’t know what it is called) riding bicycle. (They really were looking very cute!)
5)And the last - after spending one year in this house, today for the first time I noticed that there were 5 posters of Ganpati right above the front door and… I noticed 3 first. I said wow! Then I saw 4th. Again said wow! Then the 5th and oh my god I saw the whole Toran (I don’t know what it is called in English) having Ganpati on each of its leaf. And you know how I must have felt. Here I and my mind expressed everything in unity. :)

Story ends here. The story which had no purpose! And will have nothing in the future too. A game played like this never entertains me second time.

When I think I'm settled now, I'm blocking all the doors of progressing!

Some say I know so many things. Some say I need to improve my knowledge.
Some say I keep crying all the time. Some say they never saw smile missing on my face.
Some say I’m too much lazy. Some say I’m very energetic.
Some say I’m boring, I like nothing. Some say I’m enthusiastic about everything in this world.
Some say I take things very seriously and get offended. Some say they tease me a lot so that I’ll get offended. But they never win. :)
Some say I’m very rude. Some say my voice is so polite that even if I try to be rude, I will never become so.
Some say I do not have much social life. Some say I waste my most of the time in trying to be social.
Some say I’m very emotional. Some say I’m rigid, nothing matters to me.

I get surprised specailly when people give opposite opinions about me on the same day or in the same hour.

There can be two reasons behind it –
1) Everything is comparative. Nothing is absolute. But every statement they make is absolute.
2) I’m random. (This is 100000000000% true.)

When someone says “Oh Pranali, you are impossible. Understanding you is not my cup of tea” Then that person understands me well. :)

Harry Potter

This phase can be said as of Harry Potter for me! This is second book I'm reading now. I liked everything whatever I've read so far. One of the nice sentences -
"Ingenious, really, how many ways Muggles have found of getting along without magic!"
(This is when Ron's father and Harry talk about Phone as a medium of communication invented by Muggles)

How inspiring for all of us Muggles! :)