How can a thing which is so simple to say can get so complicated to comprehend?
Is it me? Am I really so bad at putting things across?
And I thought I was pretty lucid till now.
Or is there a deeper malady to all this which I can feel yet not diagnose.
I've become so numb.
I've become so tired, so much more aware..................
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
What are the odds............. (ii)
The story starts in the year 2006 0r maybe 07.
One night while surfing channels I came across U.S Top 10 on Star Movies. There I watched the trailor or of a movie called "Into the Wild" for the first time. I got very intrigued by the plot of a young man hitch hiking all the way to Alaska to see if he could survive in the wild.
Amazing cinematography had to be there when the subject involves mountain and forests. Even the song they played in the promo was very apt. Meaningful and inspiring. I took down the name of the movie on my cell so that I don't forget.
The chances of such an off beat movie ever coming to the theaters in Lucknow were pretty remote so tried to get it from the local video parlours and the various music shops. As expected no one had even heard of it. My search continued for a couple of months more and I looked for it even in Bangalore and Delhi without any success.
The story restarts after a long break in March, 2009.
We went to Gurgaon to meet Ayush's friend. There in their book shelf I came across this book "Into thin air" by a guy called Jon Krakauer. That book was about a true account of a disastrous attempt to scale Mount Everest in which 12 people lost their lives in a single night. Really liked that book. Then during the course of discussion I came to know that they even had "Into the wild" written by the same author. I obviously was pretty excited by the find and finished the book in a single day, 3 sittings. The book turned out to be all that I thought it would.
The scene now shifts to last night. On my way back from Patrakarpuram market I decided to take a detour and pick up some magazines from a shop and if possible buy a DVD.
Changed my mind about the DVD and just picked up a couple of magazines. As the shopkeeper was busy with another customer I started browsing through the DVDs he had kept. After flicking through a round hundred of them I didn't find anything interesting. Gave the money to the guy and was about to leave when he told me that there was another bundle of DVDs in the back. Was in double mind but then thought what the hell, might as well take a look.
Another guy was already going through the bundle of around 50 DVDs and I just picked a few that he had already seen. As I turned to leave that guy had a sudden change of heart and he left before I could.
So I turn around to take a final look at the rest of DVDs and the last DVD in that bundle has "Into the wild" in the pick of 6 movies!
In all these years I must've gone through thousands of DVDs in video libraries, Planet M, Landmark, Crossword in all the different cities and many, many more in shops selling pirated DVDs without ever coming across this movie.
And then there it was all this while in a shop near my house waiting for me to come and pick it up.
What are the odds?
One night while surfing channels I came across U.S Top 10 on Star Movies. There I watched the trailor or of a movie called "Into the Wild" for the first time. I got very intrigued by the plot of a young man hitch hiking all the way to Alaska to see if he could survive in the wild.
Amazing cinematography had to be there when the subject involves mountain and forests. Even the song they played in the promo was very apt. Meaningful and inspiring. I took down the name of the movie on my cell so that I don't forget.
The chances of such an off beat movie ever coming to the theaters in Lucknow were pretty remote so tried to get it from the local video parlours and the various music shops. As expected no one had even heard of it. My search continued for a couple of months more and I looked for it even in Bangalore and Delhi without any success.
The story restarts after a long break in March, 2009.
We went to Gurgaon to meet Ayush's friend. There in their book shelf I came across this book "Into thin air" by a guy called Jon Krakauer. That book was about a true account of a disastrous attempt to scale Mount Everest in which 12 people lost their lives in a single night. Really liked that book. Then during the course of discussion I came to know that they even had "Into the wild" written by the same author. I obviously was pretty excited by the find and finished the book in a single day, 3 sittings. The book turned out to be all that I thought it would.
The scene now shifts to last night. On my way back from Patrakarpuram market I decided to take a detour and pick up some magazines from a shop and if possible buy a DVD.
Changed my mind about the DVD and just picked up a couple of magazines. As the shopkeeper was busy with another customer I started browsing through the DVDs he had kept. After flicking through a round hundred of them I didn't find anything interesting. Gave the money to the guy and was about to leave when he told me that there was another bundle of DVDs in the back. Was in double mind but then thought what the hell, might as well take a look.
Another guy was already going through the bundle of around 50 DVDs and I just picked a few that he had already seen. As I turned to leave that guy had a sudden change of heart and he left before I could.
So I turn around to take a final look at the rest of DVDs and the last DVD in that bundle has "Into the wild" in the pick of 6 movies!
In all these years I must've gone through thousands of DVDs in video libraries, Planet M, Landmark, Crossword in all the different cities and many, many more in shops selling pirated DVDs without ever coming across this movie.
And then there it was all this while in a shop near my house waiting for me to come and pick it up.
What are the odds?
Friday, March 13, 2009
Field of Dreams
What a night! What dreams!
I saw rabid monkeys, someone out to kill me, my old school- Presentation Convent and L.K. Advani of all the people in this world.
The supersonic, psychotic monkeys (or maybe one monkey with her baby) was in Jammu. Out to get my ass, I was saved by Suzana who's trying her best to get a nip on the monkey. I was standing in the lawn and she seemed hell bent to bite me for some reason. The monkey is zipping on the boundary wall and propelling herself from the shesham tree near the waterfall. Divya is also there and I'm equally perplexed as what is she doing there, all the way from Banda. In the end I try to kick her and she almost gets a nip on my leg while Suzana is almost going to get a nip on her.....and I wake up with a start!
Before this in another dream I have this information that someone is out to kill/hurt me and I am put up in a hostel. I'm more wary then afraid. Nitin is in the room next to mine and I'm sitting there. A window/grill opens into my room so I can keep an eye if anyone comes looking for me. No one came from what I remember.
Nitin figures in the next one too. I've had a fight and am contemplating whether to call or sms. But I remember a chat about the one who is in England. Nothing specific but just ideal chit-chat which ended in an argument. Am lying on my stomach in the ground of PCS, facing the school building. For some reason I am eating powdered sugar from a paper bag. After some time I doze off and the next I know there is a commotion due to which I wake up. Lo and behold L.K. Advani has come to school with an entourage of 10-15 people. I get up to see what he has to say. He has three SPG guards with him in bandhgallas who are giving me dirty looks. One of them stands almost in front of Advani as if I'm out there to assassinate him. There is no platform and he's just standing on the ground and addressing a group of around 20 people. Nitin later comes to me and comments on how I was devouring sugar and then slept off there in the sun for an hour or so.
Two bad dreams out of three is not a good score and when was the last time I saw so many dreams in one night?
I think never.
I saw rabid monkeys, someone out to kill me, my old school- Presentation Convent and L.K. Advani of all the people in this world.
The supersonic, psychotic monkeys (or maybe one monkey with her baby) was in Jammu. Out to get my ass, I was saved by Suzana who's trying her best to get a nip on the monkey. I was standing in the lawn and she seemed hell bent to bite me for some reason. The monkey is zipping on the boundary wall and propelling herself from the shesham tree near the waterfall. Divya is also there and I'm equally perplexed as what is she doing there, all the way from Banda. In the end I try to kick her and she almost gets a nip on my leg while Suzana is almost going to get a nip on her.....and I wake up with a start!
Before this in another dream I have this information that someone is out to kill/hurt me and I am put up in a hostel. I'm more wary then afraid. Nitin is in the room next to mine and I'm sitting there. A window/grill opens into my room so I can keep an eye if anyone comes looking for me. No one came from what I remember.
Nitin figures in the next one too. I've had a fight and am contemplating whether to call or sms. But I remember a chat about the one who is in England. Nothing specific but just ideal chit-chat which ended in an argument. Am lying on my stomach in the ground of PCS, facing the school building. For some reason I am eating powdered sugar from a paper bag. After some time I doze off and the next I know there is a commotion due to which I wake up. Lo and behold L.K. Advani has come to school with an entourage of 10-15 people. I get up to see what he has to say. He has three SPG guards with him in bandhgallas who are giving me dirty looks. One of them stands almost in front of Advani as if I'm out there to assassinate him. There is no platform and he's just standing on the ground and addressing a group of around 20 people. Nitin later comes to me and comments on how I was devouring sugar and then slept off there in the sun for an hour or so.
Two bad dreams out of three is not a good score and when was the last time I saw so many dreams in one night?
I think never.
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