Screw up

There are certain points in your life where you are just simply forced to stop, and think.. "Did i just screw that up?". More often than not , this should be a good thing . It should sort of help you re-evaluate what you are doing with life and all that. However, when this question sort of starts irritating you a lil too much , its about time you realized that something is seriously going wrong with life. Lately, i have noticed a pattern of behaviour from my side which probably puts me in the "a**hole" category. I am not sure about how i can name this. Lets see. Laziness ? Irreverence ? Indifference ? Denial ? . Its probably all combined too. Cant put my finger on it , but it does seem to be taking a toll on my social activities and my overall mood. Summer is getting to me.

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Instacure (the solomon shoshanna love story)

Disclaimer : My opinions on this blog are not about this song. I love this song , and i absolutely love this movie. Its more about how alarmed i get when i find that people are more accepting of "traditional kind of love" compared to "modern kind of love".


Are you an ailing lover  , stuck in the 20th century family, with absolutely no way to express your feelings for the opposite / fairer sex ? Do people scorn at you for watching the hip/awesome shows on MTV/Channel V ? (shit even that sounds like the 90s , but w/e). We have a solution for you , especially if you are a young vibrant , romantic , energetic mallu , with strong christian values in your family. Yes. Introducing the legal form of love. The solomon and shoshanna love story !

This love story is pure , pure like the waters of the backwaters of the vembanad lakes of kerala. This love story is ethical moral , and strictly sticks to religious ways, and does not in any way , involve fighting with families , unless you are talking about a clarinet band faceoff. This story is awesome because god himself makes sure that this kind of stuff happens (for more info , watch the movie).

So yes , if you are a youth stuck in an imaginary town in kottayam like say kumarakom or something , and happen to have innocent lasses around your neighborhood trying to hit on you. Please do feel free to continue fantasizing  about your ethical love affair after watching this song.

The rest of you minority stuck in other towns , surrounded by people from different religions , castes , and a million other sub-castes , please ignore. This is not for you.


PS : Nothing against this song. Love this song. I am only alarmed by the fact that love gets so much bias when it starts getting close to "spirituality"/religion (ahem) .

iOS 7 UI . Do i give a f#ck ?

I have never been an apple fan boy. But i love what they did to smartphones,  more or less influenced everyone else to follow suit , and made some pretty darn good looking mp3 players. Now , this iOS 7 UI update has been doing the rounds , and i know a huge majority of designers dont like it . Majority ? Ok , i take that back . A lot of them dont like it .Much better. Now.. Do i care ?

No. Why ?  Well , firstly , apple should get over their iPhone fetishes. Their device is easily more than 6 years old in terms of everything . The way it looks , feels , works , everything . They have their retina display going for them . Yes, most of their stuff works like Android and Windows ,but who are we kidding here ? None of the phones that are actually out today do any justice to what could have been. Nokia genuinely tried to bring some innovation in , but alas , they had to depend on windows. I would like to believe that we are investing way too much in hyping up stuff and technology, advertising and releasing too many phones. iPhone 5 is just a way to say , oh hold on , we have a new phone ! iOS 7 is a new way of saying that "Oh wait, we can have colors in our OS too..!". The same does apply to Samsung who for whatever reason released samsung galaxy s4 . Now , we all know that its got nothing special except more RAM and possibly a new processor. For the hype its getting , it looks like most people are made to believe that its an entirely new phone , and its no less than the hype smartphones got when they first came out (more or less ?) . In my opinion , with a new release of a new "landmark" phone or OS ( iOS7 , biggest change since iOS - remember ?) ,there is no sense of purpose that actually needs to be really fulfilled. Updates to the iOS 7 / Jelly bean have been nothing but cosmetic , and even multitasking features have been long overdue , and shouldnt be treated as something "landmark".

The simple rule is that we all want something new , and if its iPhone 4 vs iPhone 5 , we choose 5 , simply because its slightly better. So yeah , apple fanboys will be apple fanboys for quite some more time . Unless google does something like a science fiction version of a phone . Reality check acheived.

Yeh Jawani , Hai Dewani

We have seen a million "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara"s by now.. We just dont realize it . Thats all . The only thing that was good about ZNMD was that it was so bloody chilled out yaar. No one gave a damn about anything in the middle of having fun, except Kat and Hrithik who had to sort of make it work since they had 5 days to fall in love and all that.  I digress.  Point being.

Yeh Jawani Hai Dewani tries to do a ZNMD and flops big time. Let me tell you why.

1. Trekking the peak is not an easy thing .Especially if you are not wearing enough thermal wear , and if you are drinking for the first time, especially if you are this nerdy girl who never seems to have done anything adventurous ever. Umm. ok . I will let this go on a technicality that she does look smoking toned (this part comes later in the movie , so i kind of post processed my thoughts here).

2. This movie is not about life and having fun or dreams. Sometimes its just a chronological narration of how cool Deepika Padukone becomes cooler and cooler , decides to lose more and more clothing , and probably is the hottest female doctor , with her own clinic, and is pure 100% desi , and still manages to dance with probably the most awkward Indian looking dress ever ( Bikini sari , i like to call it woot?). Not that m against women doing all that you know .But come on ! Nerd, Doctor, Indian Values , and then this horror ? And why do cool women have to expose everything ? Kya bakwas ! (please do not try to conclude that the converse is true. Mildly dressed women can be cool ;))

3. Seriously did not get the point behind the story. So , this woman who is in love with this man , splits up , and after 8 years of what seems to be proper separation ( he asks her if shes married , has a baccha/bacchan and all ..) , they just get back aise hi ? Just like that ? Man i wish life were that easy ! Jealous of this guy yaar , seriously.

4. Ranbir Kapoor in normal life would have ended up a villian here , accd to THIS story. A man who runs after his career for 8 years , doesnt call his closest friends mroe than 20 times..The only thing that keeps this a good happy ending film is the fact that he has angels for friends. Now , if we assume that everyone in the movie is like Ranbir Kapoor , this movie would have made a little more sense to a lot of us. This movie twists reality while making it look like its all OK. Sorry man,  cant buy this .