Stay with my Loved ones...

A new place to settle for a year...new friends to meet...new pressures to cope up with...new deadlines to meet...new emotions (or the lack of it)...new newness...old oldness...people...bottled up in my heart... difficult time is approaching and people say I gotta be strong.

Yes I will be strong when I miss my Mom,a twitch of someone's brow will bring back memories, when some soft strains of distant music will wrench apart my heart and dry tears will stab my heart with a saline choking feeling. I will be strong when I get up in the morning and call aloud my mother and then realize that She must be sitting in the Lobby and asking me drink up the sherbet soaked overnight. I will be strong in the evenings...at nights...when it rains..when the cool breeze would brush against my face,when some distant memory would come back to haunt me in silent shapes and formiddable(sp?) forms. I will be strong in front of malls,when I will walk in a lane,during auto rides,when will I pray,when I will wait for a friend,when I will write in my blog,when I will live,exist,smile,gumble,when I will breathe,when I will stay alive...
Music,dont come near me and movies,go away for a year. golden sunshine ! stay with my loved ones, messages,be nice to me, wet roads and the divine fragrance ! take care of them...
I will be strong
I will come back soon....
Bless.

Dhoni - Dude or Dud?

The Big Bazaar ads are some of the most horrible ads that I have seen. I mean come on gimme a break.He may be a youth icon but he cannot be possibly a style icon ! The middle class consumers can look up to John or even Akshay for that matter. and if thats too hard on the pocket,then let me say that I dont believe that Dhoni is too much of a big heart to charge less in his endorsements !

Whatever crap he blurts - "aukaad kapdo se pata chalta hai" - is that his aukaad ? that muck of a t-shirt (the black striped one) and whatever else he wears (dont wanna recall them too). Bhai,aukaad to logo ke chalne se bhi pata chalta hai. why do u walk in that manner in the ad,mahi bhaiyya?

I guess Dhoni does a good job in the parle milk shakti and brylcreem ads. while in doodh ka power he is in his natural self (the one with dadi darling is humorous), its more of the extra characters that weave magic (or "gels" with the audience) in the latter.

Dhoni may be cool on field but he has a long way to go on television and on the ramp too.

He is not expected to be classy and perfect to the T too. come on after all he is good in whatever he does best-cricket and I do respect that. Its just the ad makers and the product heads who sort of push guys from a different field to endorse a brand.(remember monster.com?)some click some does not. Sreesanth ,for instance ads panache and his goofy antics wins our hearts in the parachute and pepsi ads.but look at Sachin I dont remember that he was outstanding in any of the ads that he has done till now. after all our cricket stars are not models and thus they are not expected to have their characteristics in them.now every one cannot do an Irrfan khan,can they?

Note : A good ad maker can even pull off an ad and make it the best in the country with even a Ramesh Powar.

Amma,ille,chinna,poro....Bhai maaf koro !!

Its funny actually. 6 days back I was sitting in my home in Kolkata at this very hour and thinking about what will I be doing 6 days after. well here I am in the land of idli-dosa, sambhar-vada,of Karunanidhi-Jaya amma, of Kamal Haasan's Dasaavthaaram, of the Rajni mania and the Vijay craze, of cholamandalam bank and kaanjiverum sarees, of womwn who do not wash their hair everyday and tie a rajnigandha mala on in their hair instead [Sunsilk GOGs,what about the campaigning down south?], of marina beach and mamallapuram beach, of girls who are astoundingly fair as regards to south,of guys who consider it as their birthrght to sport moustaches,of shops where people help u with a smile in their face[sometimes over does it and creates trouble for us] and where almost everybody can manage the English language....Chennai has been a neat,proper and hassle free city for me.

Just as back in Good ol'Cal we address people as dada,here its baaabuuuu.tee hee.

I am staying in a lovely place called Kilpauk. Its a bit like Salt lake meets kankurgachi thing. The by lanes are neat and peaceful and the main road is bustling with activities.

The climate is quite pleasant as it rained heavily a couple of days back.But one cannot ignore the warm air that blows once in a while.

Its a politically demonstrative area with posters of a bald guy in black glasses and a yellow shawl [wink wink] stuck all over the city and the letters of the slogan doin their routine rotundum exercise[if u understand what I mean]. Their are two beautiful memorials built in the memory of MGR and Anna,political leaders. Ega and Sangam theatres have caught my eye and citycentre and spencer's plaza is good to look at from outside. The beach is a lovely view and the highways are smooth.

It was a surprising sight [my mistake to feel surprised] to see hindi movie posters in some parts of the city. So much for mere baap pehle aap and sarkar raj and one solitary bhoothnath.

I am boarding the train tomorrow night and I hope that this time the co passengers are easy to talk with.

Its been 3 days and I am already homesick.

I am coming home....Maaiiind it !