HEY.. My blog just scored a century... yeah yeah yeah I started the counter at 1000..lekin u must realise that I got a counter when the blog was about 20 posts old...OK Agreed.... Few people drop in here to read and even fewer take the pains to Comment.... but I cant help it yaar...I can't write about my sex life(since it doesn't exist) and neither am I too Talented or Funny...3 days and 100 hits... yeah alrite atleast 20 were from me ... so what ... a Hit is a Hit !!!!
No this post isn’t about November Rain from Guns N' Roses... Neither is it about Rock or any other kind of music... Please feel free to click the X on the Top Right corner of your monitor in case the reason why u started reading here was your love for music
No offence.. I love music as much as the next guy (perhaps a lot more, coz the guy who sits next to me is a gult who's world of music starts and ends with Telugu Movie songs)
Its about the Rain of Birthdays in November
Was running through my planner and just discovered the number of people who have their Birthdays in November...
Let’s go back about 22-26 years and try to see what was so special about that period... I mean the month of Feb which led to so many birthdays in November...
Couple of reasons I could think of are :-
Spring - Now who doesnt like spring...The air is fresh...Flowers everywhere...New leaves on the trees... A romantic hue to the whole atmosphere... Now spring alone, according to me, is a reason enough to explain the November Rains, but I have another reason
Weather - Too hot and the last thing you would want to do is make out.... all sweaty and hot(literally)... Too cold and you dont want to get out of the rajai.. leave alone the clothes... Now Feb has just the right kinda weather ....it's not too cold and heat is still far away....
Now that some images have splashed across my mind which are not suitable for public discussion.. I will drop the whole finding reason thing....
Another thought intrigued me.... Is it that I am more compatible with the people born in the month of November.. Is that why a majority of my fiends are under the Zodiac sign Scorpio????
So I checked out .. Ahem... This
Please don't get me wrong... I am the last person who would turn to read about Horo(r)scope... I care two hoots what the signs say...A staunch non believer of Zodiac, I would rather confess surfing porn than surfing these zodiac sites...And I was always amongst the gang in college, who used to sneer at gals from Eng Hons who used to religiously carry Linda Goodman for their "reading pleasure"... Reading Pleasure.. Aawww gimme a break...
Doctors in medical conferences don't discuss the symptoms of Chicken Flu/Dengue/AIDS with as much fervor as the Eng Hons chicks do... Every possible shade of human emotion, character and temperament can be explained thanx to the 12 Zodiac signs... Somehow the Eng hons chick is quintessentially a Linda Goodman reader...
OK so much for the November Rain lets see what December has in store for urs truly
:-)
This is in line with the first post on Filmi Euphemism in which featured some of the most commonly used euphemisms in our film. (Here is a link to that in case u missed it)
And more often than not these are relating to sex.... Now this brings a Q to mind
Is depicting sex on screen such a hard task that our filmmakers have to resort to such tactics????
Now surely its not that the people of India don’t know about sex ... You don’t have a nation of 1 billion people for nothing..... In fact Indians know too much about sex... and we are pretty good at it too...our birth rates n population are proof of that... The only people who have better sex than us is the Chinese... In fact they are so good at sex, that people all over the world are dying to have sex with them... So much so that they had to build a wall around their country to stop that...
Euphemism No 8
Boiling Milk
Scene: The heroine is working in the kitchen.... newly wed wife... learning the tricks of the trade... the husband sneaks up from behind and grabs her around the waist... the heat in the kitchen , the smell of milk boiling on the stove, the spices in the kitchen and all that make the hero really hot (not that he wasn’t already horny) and they start making out oblivious of the milk on the stove ... while the hero n heroine move out of scene the camera pans into the vessel kept on stove with milk boiling... within minutes the milk starts to rise ... the rise in the level of milk is directly signifies the building up orgasm ... in five minutes the milk overflows (that’s the average time it would take - for both the activities)
Note: This euphemism can also be shown for Rape and in that case the milk boils to a rather jarring music
Euphemism No 9
Bird in Cage
This euphemism is solely reserved for use when depicting a rape scene.. The bird in the cage is analogous to the hero's sister in the grip of the villain...
Note: It will be hero's sister in 99% of the cases and this should occur somewhere in the first half of the movie.
Euphemism No 10
Fluttering Diya
This particular diya is rather from 60s and 70s where a diya would be lighted next to the person on his death bed... sitting next to the dying old man/woman would be his wife/husband, the dutiful-and-friendly neighbours, the chacha, taya, mama, mausi, doodhwala, kaam-wali-bai and a hoard of junior artists but not the son...
the son is rushing home to be besides his father/mother who is ready to kick the bucket anytime now.... as soon as he enters the room panting the diya is extinguished and the man/woman in bed has breathed his/her last....
In recent movies the diya has been oft replaced by the ECG machine .... The waves going up n down in a jagged way and finally nothing but a straight line....
The first one small n swift. Followed by a long drag. A cloud of smoke bursts into the scene. The lighter slowly placed near the clock which is slowly ticking away. Its distinct mechanical sound can be heard clearly in the silence of the night. Outside cars zoom by at irregular intervals. Some people making their way home. Some more ash in the tray. It nests comfortable amongst the stubs that once caressed my lips and filled my lungs. Can hear the rustle of burning each time I pull a long drag. The tip, glowing orange in the dark. Brighter, dimming , bright again with a bitter smell and slowly inching towards me. The window closed against the cold. The air mixed smoke and the faint undertone of my deodorant. I stub it in the ash tray and glance at the clock. Its late. I crawl into the bed thinking about the day next.
Life : Six minutes less.
Recently I had the chance to read some Quotations by some great men.... and women ofcourse. Here are some of the ones which I liked. You may read the whole list here. (Basically this guy was threating with a © Copyright Notice so I had to give his site's URL)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
[I am thinking of including this in my mail signature and really giving it a serious thought...]
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
[Niether am I Mr. Einstein]
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
[To each his own reason]
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
[Mr. Jefferson... If u were lucky enough u needn't work.]
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
[And each problem which I solve forms the base of a subsequent problem]
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
[Damn right I am]
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
[I have been practising that long before I read that]
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
[It never is]
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra
[Lolz... ]
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
[I love this one... m sure the techies would understand]
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
[So is a software engineer... turning coffee into software]
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
[Yeah....and before they go they stare deep down my eyes and with a Schwarzeneggerish voice "I'll be back"]
"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides (556-468bc)
[two words ....Umrao Jaan]
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
[Next in line - Keyboards]
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)
[right said gal.. way to go]
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa
[U bet!!]
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
- Carl Sagan
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."
- C. A. R. Hoare
[I swear]
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
- Mae West (1892-1980)
[Same here]
"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."
- Gloria Leonard
[Well said!!]
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben
"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."
- Gore Vidal
[Niether would I... GOD are u listening??]
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
- Woody Allen (1935-)
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
[LOLZZZ]
Diwali came n went and finally the celebrations are over ... but the food isnt which was ordered for Saturday's party from Arhus (since Aalborg doesnt have any Indian restaurant)... I guess it will last till tomm...anyways ... on Tuesday it was just another day... All the people were at office working as usual but with a bit of festivity in the air... We did invite the Danish folks from office to have some sweets and they did like them very much...
Here are some pics from Tuesday evening
a 10 year old boy was very happy ... his dad had just got him a bicycle... although the cycle was a second hand one but nonetheless he was overjoyed... and so was his dad.... the little boy soon started the process of learning how to ride the cycle with the help of his elder sister... the falls, the bruises, the cuts... he remembers them all... although it hurt he never did mind all that... he was living his dream of riding his bicycle and that was what mattered at the moment... he still remembers the final push his sister gave to the bike after which he glided the cycle without any support... how his sister was running besides him and panting while he took his first ride unaided ... how he came rushing back in to tell his mother that he rode the cycle without any assistance... as soon as his father entered the house he told him the same... and the father was smiling seeing his son happy... 100 rupees couldnt have been better spent
