I am Mostly Calvin

In case it goes unnoticed, I am surfing the net a lot these days. And so, I am reading whatever comes my way!! But this one did catch my eye. I have been a fan of Calvin and Hobbes for a long time, and so took up this test just for fun-sake! And here are the results

You are 80% Calvin and 20% Hobbes

Your inner Calvin often prevails, but, as in the image below, you have a significant Hobbesian component. I’m going to try to stretch the visual metaphor here: you have a good head on your shoulders, but when you don’t use it, your crazy body gets you in trouble? Does that work? Odds are you’re impulsive and imaginative, but it’s possible you’ve collected just enough wisdom to hold your most anti-social urges in check. Most of the time. It’s a precarious balance, like a boy on one foot with a tiger head.

‘Khuda Ke Liye’

Finally got to see the movie everyone seems to be talking about.. The storyline is really good, but the plot is too lengthy, as if the writer wants to pack everything in it. So you have cross culture marriages/live-ins,  liberal or should I say moderate Pakistanis, plight of women under Taliban regime, conversion of a modern educated young man into a jehadi, racial discrimination after 9/11, and everything else that you might think of! I guess editing was not even considered! And I don’t want to start discussing the acting (in)capabilities of the cast! Except Naseer, everyone gave a rock solid performance (pun intended!).  Still overall a very bold attempt by the film-maker, a lot better than other movies being produced these days..

Khuda Ke Liye

You know that you had been thirsting for some good read –

– when you finish an entire book in three straight hours!!

(Ok, it had more to do with the simple language and filmy story!)

The 3 Mistakes of my life

What kind of mindset is this??

Them(with great conviction): Meyr maa baba hi nijer meyer jeebonta barbad kore …
(Translated: The girl’s parents are responsible for spoiling her <married> life)

Me (surprised) : Really? how come?

Them: well, they tend to interfere in their daughter’s life, teach her stuff against in-laws and disrupt peace in the family.

Me (with concealed anger) : And how can you say that?

Them: It happens everywhere these days

Me (confused) : as in?

Them : You can see it all over the television.

Me (ohhh now I get it): Hey come on, that is all fiction

Them: All these serials are based on reality – these writers take inspiration from real people around them

Me: Oh is it? Then how come I haven’t seen anyone sleeping in their heavy saris and jewllery, not even a single case of mistaken identity and plastic surgery..and also no murders in the family..
(with clenched fists: Where is Ekta Kapoor? She has many questions to answer now)

There was a time when I was overloaded with emails –

– and I hated it…

And now, I check even the spam mails to make sure I haven’t missed anything…

Another side effect of being out of job?

And I thought that this happened only in movies ….

This one is really scary – you get threatened and abused just because you dared to expose a certain website stealing other people’s stuff….

Shameful …

Take me higher!!!

Height of foolishness –

– Having the most important things in life at the bottom of our priority lists.

Ever wondered why we consider having shopping malls/ restaurants/cinema halls etc as the sign of progress of a city, while we give practically no thought at all to the air/water quality? We keep some money aside for the overhaul of our apartment building (for painting/plastering etc), but none whatsoever for getting rain water harvesting done or installing solar water geysers..

Afterthought: Do we have some law against people who (criminally) waste/contaminate water, or pollute the air?

Six months old… and first tooth!

The little angel has achieved another milestone by cutting her first tooth!!

And she would be turning six(months) on 8th!

My First tag…

This one is for you, Abha!

*I am: Puja Thakur, stuck in a different timezone!!!

*I think: that my name is a very BIG part of my identity… and yes, that includes my surname as well

*I know: that I would always have support of my family and friends.

*I want: to let the memories go.. Good or bad, they do hurt.

*I have: my baby with me.. and that is what matters most!

*I wish: we would get rainwater harvesting done in our apartment.. (I am tired of convincing and fighting with everyone in the building for the same 😦 )

*I hate: Lack of compassion

*I miss: Long walks in the college campus with friends, oh! and also the bus journey from hostel to home..

*I fear: that I might lose people I love most

*I feel:Blessed

*I hear: Water overflowing from the overhead storage tank… (I told you we NEED to conserve water, and the people in my building are non-cooperative)

*I smell: Hot tea 🙂

*I crave: for a warm and tight hug!

*I search: for a glam look for myself 🙂 (Too much of simplicity isn’t good, na!)

*I wonder: what did I do to deserve this life!

*I regret: not pursuing post-graduate course

*I love: the comfort zone I am in right now

*I ache: for my parents and their loneliness

*I care: very strongly about environment

*I am not: fashion conscious

*I believe: in getting the most out of what I have..

*I dance: On any Punjabi music…

*I sing: “Ankhiyon ke jharokhon se”.. Ask my college friends, and they would tell you that they have never heard any other song from me!

*I cry: at certain social awareness ads – like the recent one for eye-donation where two kids are enjoying colorful light show and later you realize that one of them is blind..

*I don’t always: talk so much.. I am otherwise a very quiet person..

*I fight: A lot – with myself..

*I write: Out of pure impulse.. Infact, I never even edit what I write on my blog!

*I win: the argument with silence! (I hate confrontation)

*I lose: All the bets that I have ever placed !!

*I never: can speak aloud the deepest feelings.

*I always: try to find the good that might be hidden beneath the troubled times… ‘wo kehte hain na ki jo bhi hota hai acche ke liye hota hai’ (Corny, isn’t it??)

*I confuse: sometimes… or is it everytime??

*I listen: ALWAYS To certain friends.. The rest – I only hear!

*I can usually be found: reading (whatever printed material comes my way… yes, I read the old news on paper bags as well)

*I am scared: of dogs and deep water.. Everytime we visit Goa, I promise myself to learn swimming 🙂

*I need: to visit more places!

*I lack: the will to get out of the house more often

*I am happy about: the fact that I am alive and comfortable..

I pass on this tag to Gurdas and Shabnam, and Nitin…