You are here

So, I have just finished Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan's much talked about book 'You are here'. When I first read about it (in some newspaper), I had a great anticipation of reading a book, which talks about women of our generation, something I thought I'd be able to relate to. However as I actually started reading it, I realized I was not at all able to relate to any of its characters. Then I braced myself thinking, it might be because I come from a different social background and all, but even after that, I did not find anything at all in the book, which I can even call appealing, let alone worth reading. You know all the time I was reading it, searching for one single thing which will make me say, 'yeah, its nice', but NO!! I found I was expecting too much of Ms. Madhavan, I mean for all it might just have been a random collection of hundreds of her blogs she has written over the years. Its not even a good timepass. See -- There is no story, and every time something comes up, where you sense a beginning of something interesting, it has to precede first with some random and extra long flashback of some entirely uninteresting past, and more so totally unrelated to the thing going on in present, and it all burst as it had popped up..

I am not sure thought you know, I mean I might be a little harsh, due to that fact that I was expecting too much out of it, but still I'd say, it does not account for a good reading at all, and have read some good books (HummYeah..I think I have!!)

Sarkar Raj

It's a gloomy day. One more of several of its kind. I do not feel geared up for my work. Neither do I feel like studying nor for anything else. It's just like one of those days when you just don't feel like doing anything. The problem is, I am having such days pretty frequently ;-( So, the funda is, we'd be happier if we try to be what we want, and not what we are supposed to be. I really like and appreciate the people who are actually doing that.
Saw Sarkar Raj yesterday. Ram Gopal Verma has managed to recreate the magic he once was supposed to be possessing. All the Bacchhans look excellent and deliver even more excellent. I am really impressed by Abhishek now, and I'd really like to ask this to all the people who just love to criticize Aishwarya, what'd you all say after Jodha Akbar and now Sarkar Raj. The lady has constantly proved herself and I can't help but love her more after Sarkar. She has delivered a very decent and mature performance, and not once you can think that the same heroine worked in Jodhaa Akbar as well.
And I don't think I can ever think of anything that matches with Mr. Amitabh Bacchan. I just say "You are eternal Sir!!"

I Love Google

I've never been a net savvy, considering the fact that I never had a computer of my own, but being in software induatry gives you this oppertunity of endless hours of net surfing, coz obviously you will have your own machine, obviously connected to internet, and you are obviously supposed to work on it, and obviously you will find many hours where you have nothing to do, so you will just play with it. So that's when it starts and you use google for everything ranging from tickets booking to eat-out searches. And what's so amazing is you can practically ask anything to google and it will give you a supposedly correct answer to it. I mean I have tried it all the time. Google solves nearly all questions of my life. Sometimes I feel, with almost half of the earth using it, and considering it a prt of their daily life, google has not just reamined a search engine. It has become more of a phenomena, a person who we live with, and yes... I love living with it!!!