Of movies, news, relaxation and Bliss!

These days all I am doing is watching films. Some great ones like Pay it Forward and some most horrible and gross; in fact so gross that I don't want to name it. Its even more morbid than Requeim for a Dream. I don't know why such movies get a rating of 7+ on imdb. I just fail to get it! And yes I did not like Requiem for a Dream inspite of my sis going ga-ga over it. I had to take a long walk to get over the heavy effect of that one and 2 days back I watched Billu all over again just so that I could get the aforementioned movie out of my head.

Another genre that I have been seeing lately is Horror. Saw some ok types English ones and saw 13B. And this blogpost is about 13B. Just wanted to tell you all that I got the mysterious killer at least 45 minutes before the actual end and the motive about half an hour earlier!! Yeay!! They should make me script writer or concept writer at least :-). Aakhir kuch to fayada ho itni saari detective and mystery novels padhne ka. Come to think of it, I have not read one in a while now. Time to lay my hands on one i guess.

In other news, IPL shifting out of India. Sad. More so for the moolah it would have generated at this time of reccession. General Elections in India. Enjoying every bit of it. Although I won't be able to vote. Actually I have never voted all my life. Shame on me! But then the process of getting a voter id was so complex earlier and I have never lived at my home since I turned 18. Anyways now that its much simpler, I shall definitely cast my vote during the next general elections. And yes, as proof, will definitely blog about it.

Spent the last 3 days at home. I love home. I love doing nothing. I love not having to think of doing something. Absolute Bliss!! As some one rightly calls me aalsi ram...err...sita.

Heartwarming

So I have been away for a long time. Lots of things going on in my life and had I blogged about them, all you would be reading was some senti or philosophical stuff which would not have made any sense to you. So I refrained. (I know this is quite lame an excuse for not blogging but I will stick to my argument!)

Now you must be wondering then that what I am doing here. Well, last night I saw 'It' and something inside me knew that I had to blog about it. 'It' made me think. 'It' made me realize how selfish all of us really are. How easily we say that the world is 'shit' but seldom do something to change it. Forget do, we don't even believe that we as an individual can actually try to bring about a change which would cascade across the world and change it. I guess we have become hard shells. We have lost faith in humanity. What with so much violence and treachery happening all around us.; this is bound to happen. But once in while someone or something comes up in our lives which tells us that all is not lost. We can if we want to. We might fail but at least we tried. Imagine if even half of us got back that lost faith, how much better the world would become.

So I would urge all of you to go and watch this splendid and heartwarming tale of how a class assignment of a young child,Trevor, becomes a country wide movement. This movie is called 'Pay It Forward'. I am sure everyone who watches it will feel differently about their life by the end.

As Trevor would say, " I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses. "