How to name this?
I thought, after all I badly need a break. Past 4 weeks have been so hectic both officially as well personally. One of the best decisions I made right on the beginning of that 1st week was to decide anything and everything once I go back to India by this December 1st. Ya might sound like an escapist but cant help myself. I just need that time for things to sink in. Today being Friday my outlook was auto replying “Hi. I got your mail. Will get back to you on Monday morning. Have a nice weekend. Br-Arun S.” But there I was sitting at my desk watching youtube, listening to songs and what not? I was doing all non-sense other than work till 17:00 hrs. The weather here has started to play illusions. Looking out the window it appeared like 21:00 hrs and it was pouring heavily. Thought of just going out for a walk and came out. Kinda weird but romantic weather it was. I just missed a girl friend to enjoy such an envi to the core. Started walking not knowing where to go. I t seems I am so used that my mind went on a recursive mood and there I was standing on the bus stop. It reminded me of my school days where I used to enter the year which passed when I start to write something. It’s just so that our mind get used to the past routine that it takes time to get back to present.
Mostly 99% of the time the public transport maintain their time and so does now. Some of my childish instinct are still there even now because the moment I got into the bus I was searching for a window seat. I was lucky and cuddled (ya corner seats are close to the heaters so I literally cuddled up myself) in one of those window seats. Everything was gud. Cold weather and its pouring, a window seat next to the heater. May be a mug of coffee would have made it more lovely. It’s gonna take another 20 minutes to reach the city centre. So it’s all my 20 minutes to dream off what I want to. I was thinking about this one so long and may be recollecting about writing the date made me to think this again. When was the last time I wrote a letter to someone? I mean a proper letter where I let my thoughts flow into words on the paper. Well even when I type the email I am let my thoughts to flow. But there’s a difference when you write yourself on the paper and the person who receives it will imagine as if you are standing by their side and whispering it as they read along. I have felt that, but long back. Life now has become so electronic that maximum nowadays I use my pen when I have to sign for my credit card purchase.
Ting Ting. 20 minutes gone. Got down from the bus. Though it was not pouring it was drizzling here in city centre. A voice inside me asked “Now what?” Hmmm I really donno what’s next. So dint gave a damn for the inner voice. Got into shopping mall and was doing window-shopping. Came through this laser 3D crystal shop where technology has made it to reflect the faces of people and things, which is an intricate beauty. May be this time when I go back home I shall take some goodies like these. That was a good pointer I got when I was speaking to some one. It’s quiet valid though because i never gave penny back to my dad after coming here. Rather my dad knows me better ;-).
By then it was 18:30. Just saw the movie theatre ad. I don’t know why I am so nostalgic today. When I was in Gujarat myself, Arnab, Premji and Jeyachandran all used to go for movie every Friday’s and Saturdays. Once we went to one of the multiplex (ooops I don’t get the complex name now, it was in between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar) and watched continuously 4 shows right from noon to night for the reason that we dint liked the first and then second and then third till the fourth which was also a crap. But that was fun. We had the lunch, snacks and then dinner all in the Cineplex. Since the Cineplex was somewhere in the middle of no-where there was no bus and we started walking all the way back to Gandhinagar. And all of a sudden we saw a jeep and stopped it to ask for lift. It was a night patrol police jeep and they dropped us all the way back to our room. The way we asked lift, we could still laugh upon that and especially the reaction in our face once we understood it was police night patrol, we were quiet lucky they dint remanded us for looking so suspicious. But after coming here to Finland, the broadband here has made us so dumb that we don’t even go to theatres that often nowadays. Wanna watch a movie? Name it and there goes vivek downloading all in a matter of an hour. And we do have standards when downloading through torrents though its piracy. We download only HD quality ?.
But I prefer to watch movies based on my categories in theatre or whether stick to download. There is few kind of movie that I prefer to go as a gang for the fun part and it doesn’t matter how good the movie was. And then there are few movies that I prefer to watch in theatre all alone after reading the review before hand. But then sometime I just go for it in theatre neither with any preview nor with friends when I feel bugged too much by myself. So the movie 1408 what I went today is the third type.
Though I am not going to give a full review and spoilers just few words about this movie. This isn’t that kinda horror movie where you get creepy creature to scare like evil dead or the psychopath movie like Silence Of The Lambs. This is very much different. John cusack is a novel writer who debunks all supernatural existence by traveling to all those places and staying for a day. One day after his surfing he return back to post office to collect his mails. He see a postcard saying, “Do Not Stay In 1408.” To complete his ongoing novel he took this as the challenge and goes there. Rest, you should watch it in big screen. If you have a projector at home even it’s better to watch it home alone after downloading ?.
The added fun for me was that I was lucky to have good-looking girls either side this time. Usually it never happens in train, bus or flight. The movie was directed so meticulously that it pumps the BP level as the movie goes on. I was having fun watching those girls reaction. The girl on the right almost covered herself with the jacket and was peeping time to time through the hood. She was in a half state that she wanna watch it, at the same time she don’t wanna. The girl on the left, when I saw had her ears closed with her hand. But what I could not understand is by that time there was no dialog or any hell thundering war scene. It was pin drop silent background in the movie and so was in the theatre. Seeing her I couldn’t control my laughter. Both of them were screaming in a domino effect and I was tired after sometime to follow up who starts screaming and who ends it. At one point there was a damn good turning point in the movie. Sure I wont forget the way she shouted “F*** when the movie will end?” I just turned aside and told her “May be another 20 minutes” ? ? ?
If you are a guy reading this, sure take your Gal out for this. You will have lot of fun ;-). May be that will be the last outing also. Either way if you feel it’s worth, again I am telling sure take her out for the movie 1408. Last time I took my friends Bharath, Arun, Prasan, Jagdeesh to the movie GRUDGE as a treat in Satyam complex in Chennai. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. After the movie they assured that they would never ever ask treat from me and esp for a movie. The movie was so scary that we all were laughing in order to feel bit relaxed. OMG I am laughing now as I am typing this. That happened I think almost 3 years back. But they stay still afresh in mind. I felt I just came yesterday for chirstmas here and now this year gonna end. Yes time flies just like that.
Came back from movie and had Maggie. Yummy. Then watched Die Hard followed by Twister in TV for a change and typing this post in parallel. I am done for the day. It’s morning 2’o clock now and may be will go for a walk before I hit bed.
Nice Weekend!