I’ve been want­ing to watch this after all the hype and finally caught it this week. An inter­est­ing movie. Shot in a style we’re not very used to see­ing in this indus­try, Ada­ja­nia deserves a few cheers for com­ing up with a film, that if not totally cap­ti­vat­ing, has enough to keep you involved.

It’s been on my read­ing list for a while and I finally man­aged to fin­ish it!

The Kite Run­ner is about two boys Amir and Has­san who grow up in Afghanistan. While Amir is the son of a busi­ness­man, Hassan’s father is a ser­vant to Amir’s father. Yet, they forge a friend­ship when they are really young (they are also nursed by the same woman). Inspite of their close­ness, Amir finds it dif­fi­cult to acknowl­edge Has­san as a friend because of their class dif­fer­ences. Once par­tic­u­lar inci­dent seals their fate and Amir can never rec­on­cile to what con­sti­tutes a rather cow­ardly act.

Have you folks read or watched ‘Mes­sage in a Bot­tle’? I loved the book and cried dol­lops watch­ing the movie. And unbe­liev­able as it was, you still tend to cling on to the fact that maybe these things hap­pen. Just as the pro­tag­o­nist of the novel sets out (even against everyone’s advice) to find the man whose mes­sage she found in the bot­tle, she is filled with a deter­mi­na­tion that can­not be explained.

Mar­ket­places never cease to fas­ci­nate me. I can sit and watch the going-ons for hours. There’s so much action. Buy­ing, sell­ing, hag­gling, trans­port­ing, cut­ting, trim­ming, sort­ing, clean­ing — it’s all there. Sat­ur­day morn­ing, I made a trip to Rus­sell mar­ket. After two years in Ban­ga­lore, I thought it was high time. I reached around 6.30 am […]

So appar­ently the name of this new-age match­mak­ing com­pany is Mar­ry­gold : a take on the flower marigold used for wed­dings and aus­pi­cious ceremonies.

Is also hap­pen­ing. So come along, par­tic­i­pate & make it happen!

Heh! Fooled you didn’t I? No, ladies and gen­tle­men, I am not going into launch into a mono­logue on the impor­tant of hav­ing faith in these trou­bled times. I thought I’d share some inter­est­ing facts about the vodka, one of world’s most pop­u­lar spir­its, instead:

If you want to know more about Bar­Camp, you can read about it here. They’re hap­pen­ing all over and if you want a glimpse of what’s in store, you can log in to BarCAmp.org. I’m hop­ing to make it if my work sched­ule allows it.