Yeah... Why I Haven't Been Posting Stuff?

Well basically I've been busy... And then my parents and sister found out about the site. And that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Sorry. I'll see if I can do something about it.

Iron Man VS Bruce Lee

GOOD EFFORT!! 

Street Fighter !!!!

Birthday Blues...

It's always funny when a birthday comes up... You start thinking of things past, present and future and always think of things to make it better... And here at the threshold of my 25th birthday, a time when I should have been settled in life atleast concerning my future, I'm still stuck... Well atleast I'm not living off my parents... But it still sucks... God always comes into the picture... Coz you're always thinking, OMG, how did things end up this way? I should have had a plan or something! Normally I'd just sleep it off but it's almost the halfway point of my life... And I walk on unstable foundations. Each step I take is on blind faith and the muttered "under my breath" swearing that I could have done something earlier... Where do I go from here? I better go sleep before this headache gets any worse... But seriously... Birthdays, and New Years should be banned if they just make people feel dreadful about their lives... Or i should just refuse to celebrate my birthday... Never connected with the day anyway... It's easier to run away from it... :)

Slumdog Millionaire

First things first... Let me wish everyone here a belated Merry Christmas and an early Happy New Year as well... Hope the hols were as fulfilling and relaxing as they were supposed to be!

Coming to the topic, Slumdog Millionaire, one of the movies that's getting rave reviews all over the world, is a guaranteed must-see according to me... It's one of the best movies this year without a doubt! I hadn't heard of this movie until I was going through the Golden Globe nominations and noticed A.R.Rahman's nomination for Outstanding Score for the movie... Well.... Then I noticed that SDM ;-) had been nominated for Best Movie, Director and Screenplay as well... I couldn't help getting more intrigued and so I went and bought the DVD. (...which isn't out yet? so you guys know what i actually did...)


Not wanting to spoil the movie for you guys, a heavily micro-sized synopsis for now... The story's based in India, mainly aamchi Mumbai, about how a street urchin who's barely educated, gets on the "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?" contest (KBC!), and seems to know all the answers somehow... The story evolves over the various back stories of how he got to know each answer (through the trying experiences of his life obviously...) and about how and why he got on the show in the first place... The narrative's got it's moments and you just can't but help being happy for the hero in the end...

I was quite moved by the story telling which was both subtle and in-your-face at the same time... And the acting of the children especially, the colours, camerawork and Rahman's background score all added to the excitement, the athos and the pathos that is everyday India and Mumbai in particular... I dunno what it is about people using third world (Just generalizing... India's not Third World anymore...) country backgrounds for movies (maybe it's for the awards season), but it works... Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Millions, 28 Days Later) and co-director Loveleen Tandan have made a movie that targets the worldwide audience as such. The stories are stories we've heard, stories that we know, stories that we've seen and stories that we've experienced and understand. and thus thanks to Simon Beaufoy (screenplay) and Vikas Swarup for the novel Q&A on which this movie was based... The movie's got quite a few familiar actors from Bollywood, each doing their parts quite well, except when they have to say things in English which were better said in Hindi... Dev Patel does a good job for his first movie... Apparently he's a Brit Indian... And Frieda Pinto looks beautiful and acts quite well too.

It's a movie that uses the age-old adage that fate and destiny make the world go round... And I think the movie works because of that. It's not groundbreaking or that different, but it's still a breath of fresh air.... Watch it. Tell us what you think!

See you guys!!!

Luv,
Nelson

P.S.
Q. So finally how does he know the answers?
A. Well, finally because... "It Is Written..."

To read more about the movie... Imdb, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia...

Last Month.

One Month just passed by me and I hardly knew that it did! I guess that's what happens when you really work your ass off, (or at least try to...). I've on the first day of the three days of my "well deserved" leave. Hopefully to get thru my appointment order and my ATM card which my dumb bank just refuses to send for some reason. So I don't know how to survive the next few days... I'd have loved to go on a trip to Chennai or Bangalore... But then without money... The next best thing would be sitting and watching all the eps I haven't had time to watch over the last one month... I really need to start watching a few movies... Just collecting stuff doesn't seem interesting anymore for some reason. Maybe because I do have a life now. :)
Labour Room is and was fun of course... Totally loved almost every minute of it... There were the painful moments... I did learn stuff so... I think I'll be fine... :)

ATM Card Theft...

It's not always that you lose an ATM card and if you do... It's not always that the person who stole it could figure out your pin number before you block it. Unfortunately it happened to me... And I lost a lot of money... It's not like I couldn't have prevented it, but that's always a factor... The preventability of the situation... But the fact still remains that they took it in the space of 3 minutes within the bank. I'd left it by the side (by mistake) and went to pay off a bill at the counter and when I turned around to get the wallet (which I realized I didn't have, due to my empty pocket), it was gone.

I felt violated. Having never lost a wallet before... People hacking into my account and taking all my money felt wrong. I guess I couldn't swallow the fact that ATM hacking network extended to Vellore also... I mean... These guys went down the highway to a place 15kms away to a place where the ATM didn't have a camera. The thing was planned.

Anyways my parents haven't reacted yet... I guess they didn't read the mail I sent them 2 days back... I prefer sending them bad news by mail. This time I conveniently forgot to message them to check their mail. I couldn't tell them straight on.

Shit happens. I guess no good thing lasts forever. This goes straight to the Top 5 of the list of bad things to happen to me in CMC.

Woe is me. WTF. Screw you m*therf*ckers. Rot in hell.

Losing A Stethescope...

Being a doctor is difficult when you have supposedly high standards to live up to... Those set by great and famous doctors of lore and before, those set by the great oldies who've grudgingly taught you year after year till you pass, and those set by the general patient population who swarm in like bees in the OPDs and keep buzzing around and lingering long after they've seen their doctor just to put in a word of thanks...

Now a stethescope is a status symbol of sorts in various communities... Here it's rather cool and rad to walk around with a steth around your neck. You feel good, the watchmen don't stop you and salute you as you walk past as you give a small nod in response... There actually are schools of thought whether to hang it so that the bell/diaphragm end is left or right on your chest... (I put it on my left...)

Most colleges have medicos wearing white coats so they shove their steths in their pockets but just so that both ends stick out just enough for everyone to see who they are... Common behaviour.

Of course surgeons and superconsultants don't carry steths... They're too cool to do so... They just borrow the intern's steth. :P

And so in the midst of all this... I go lose a stethescope... Which cost around 4 grand... Which wasn't mine... For which I don't have a good enough replacement nor the money to pay back... And for which I have to pay asap. It's a really sick feeling... Almost devil and the deep sea type situation.

I'm sure there are the people who are aghast with disbelief and the ones who've gone through this situation... Well it's happened... How do I pay for this mistake now?

Short Attention Spans...

It's been a long time as usual and I think it's all my fault as usual... What with my short attention span and blah blah... But frankly speaking, I'm not the only one... I swear... I can cite a lot of examples of people with short attention spans around me (half of them don't even know it or don't want to accept it...)... But I'm not talking only about attention spans, I'm talking about interest spans... People can't sit through lectures/meetings/even movies anymore... They'd rather watch a 20 min sitcom than a great classy 2 hour movie!!!

It's a sad life when people live from distraction to distraction... I've been doing it for a long time and it's really funny to list out all my obssessions over the years... Some utterly ridiculous (long distance running, trying to pay attention etc etc), others brilliant (music, singing, acting), some useful (album art, movies) and a few life-changing (studying, prize exams) if had stuck on to them longer... Wow... I've just lost track here and don't know how to continue... Need to work on this. :P

Anyways... My advice... Get a life. Get your priorities right. Getting through life hanging by your fingertips isn't healthy for anybody.

And so I end this. Abruptly. As usual...

Luv,
Lost.Found.Lost Lost Lost Lost.

A Dangerous Diary, A Burn Book...

Just started writing a diary recently and realized too early that it had to be password protected... Can't help it, letting people know what I think sometimes is a pretty dangerous thing. It's funny that I can't put some of the stuff here... But, it's different and got me thinking about the universal truth that most of us choose to be different people to different people and situations... That's kinda sad. Thinking maybe I need to make it more interesting... Like a Burn Book... :P Anyone remember that movies, Mean Girls and Cruel Intentions!!!

Anyways, it's been a half decent week and I hope maybe as time passes by, I'd be able to write a bit more... My creativity cells have been dead for quite sometime.