Its once is a life time after all!

Last week was my sister’s Paru engagement. The cute and happy couple are just perfect. Congratulation and God bless the couple. Well it does help that the guy is “Piscean” and I am sure Paru would agree on how sensitive and caring a Piscean can be; Anoop would agree even more anyway J

The other day we were talking about wedding at work and believe me now-a-days I am getting a whole lot of inputs. Everyone was talking about how they have spent all that they have saved for these 3/4 years on their respective weddings!

All of a sudden the entire world seems to be either getting married, engaged and have just gotten married / engagement! I had a lot of guys come up and talking about how expensive the whole affair is. Apparently this conversation is frequent almost everywhere.

Of course there was the much expected north-south comparison. No offense and let me be honest that I love north Indian weddings but I can’t picture myself spending 60k on one lehenga. I had all the “north” Indian friends coming up n saying ‘that’s kinda the usual price now-a-days’. On the other hand, we "mal" girls have the whole gold store around our necks but hey at least its an appreciating asset (even though all that gold rarely comes out of the bank lockers J. I used to tell my friend that one of the reasons' he should get married to a mal is cause the gold store profit!)

Either way its just an expensive affair and there is no way out of it.. but yeah as everyone says its after all once in a life time and the most memorable day – i guess its worth it. So all the best Paru n Anoop…or rather should I say happy spending sweethearts J

Avatar – just too amazing!

I am stumped for words to describe this one. Any adjective that I can use is not enough to describe this digital visual treat! Well for one its not ‘Avaa-tar’ but ‘Av-taar’ J but there is nothing else I can really find amiss.

There is a beautiful story in the movie and yet it’s the most amazing digital effects. By the end of the movie you will end up hating the human race! You just realize that human race has absolute disregard for anyone or anyone’s feelings.

It was my first time at IMAX 3D and it was worth very bit. It’s a must watch; so if you have not yet watched it just to it asap J

Nothing “idiotic” about it

Yes, 3 Idiots – the most talked about movie in recent few days. Rashmi saw it and was all praises about it. In fact everyone who has watched it has been only appreciating the movie.

It’s a 100% entertainer and a feel good movie. Of courses parts of the movie is just overly exaggerated; but that’s what made the movie light-hearted and extremely enjoyable. Thinking about it I guess it not a movie ‘just’ for entertainment but it has a very strong message: a true and substantial message. For us it’s all about being No.1 in the rat race; forget what you want. A lot of this is changing, but at a slow pace. It’s no more a must to be an engineer or a doctor or a CA.

However, the fact is that it’s still difficult and often a struggle to do what you want. There is a pressure of “log kya bolenge” or just as in the movie “padosi kya sochenge” – constant fear of what will the society think. We live in the mindset of “what will others think of us?”. I do agree that we live in a society where we are answerable to almost everyone; but often in this struggle to answer people we give up what truly makes us happy – personally as well as professionally.

I think we should just strive for what our heart believes and everything will fall in place eventually; but to give up without a struggle is idiotic J and that’s whats was the ‘feel good’ factor in this movie. If you think about it we all have been taught “you can’t get all you want in life. You have to compromise”.
This movie, however, inspires you to think that if we our efforts are in tandem with our dreams nothing is impossible.

Some parts of the movie are highly touching, like the scene Farahn has to convince his parents that he doesn’t want to be an engineer. It actually takes guts to stand for what you want. We all are a mix of Raju and Farhan; scared to believe in first ourselves and then in what we really want. I agree that the system is flawed but its up to us to believe in our own decision.

Finally I think, just pursue your dreams and you will always be happy. Convince the important people in your life to believe in you and your decisions then “All iz well” !! J

Adieu 2009.. Bonjour 2010 !

It’s once in a blue moon that we have a function organized in my building and perfectly true to the word we welcomed the New Year with the “blue moon”. In 20 years for the first time we had a get together for New Year’s at my building.

This New Year and New Year’s Eve was quite different for lot of reasons. First of all it was a “once in a blue moon” New Year and in addition we also had a lunar eclipse. As for all mallus – it was “Thiruvathira” on 31^st December, 2009. Basically it’s the mallu version of “Karva Chauth”; but with some difference. All girls can (preferable should) take a fast – no matter you are married, engaged, likely to be engaged, committed or plain and simple ‘single’.

In spite of all this we had a lovely party organized in my building. True to nature of ‘IT professionals’, I made sure that I delegated all the work to everyone and made sure the project “Celebration 2010” as going on fine. Thanks to Mayuri and rest of the group things were pretty good. Before you people can think I didn’t do anything; let me clarify – I pitched in big time to meet the deadline J. We had loads of “last minute” work and most importantly at the end of the day everyone had a lot of fun.

We rung in the New Year in style with - cake, snow spray and loads of blessing and wishes from family and friends.

These are the times that we miss the important people closed to our hearts. More often than never, we realize it’s not possible to be with everyone we would love to spend times like these. It’s all about being practical; but yeah blessing and best wishes are always there J

So here are my wishes for a Happy, Prosperous and Blessed New year to all my family, loved ones and dearest friends. May God fulfill all your dreams and give only the best for each one of you.

Love,

Lakshmi