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I can't really decide which movie was more "bokwas".. Chennai Express or Happy New Year.. Of course you have to keep your expectations really low when you go to watch a Farah Khan movie.. It's just going to be mindless cinema, so if you're looking to watch something sensible you'd be better off watching Vishal Bharadwaj's "Haider".. We missed the first 20 minutes of the movie thanks to no parking space at the mall.. After watching the movie I thought we were lucky to get away with 20 less minutes of boredom.. Farah Khan tries to do an "Ocean's Eleven".. But sadly none of the actors (not even SRK) of "Happy New Year" have the panache of the cast from "Ocean's Eleven".. It's a bad comedy movie, if you can call it that.. The jokes fall flat.. I heard a lot of people laughing during the movie.. It left me wondering whether they were watching the same movie as me.. Save for a few good jokes the movie was tota...

Recently there was this string of posts on FB called the "Book bucket challenge" where people named their top 10 favourite books and nominated friends to name their top 10 favourite books.. Up until then I considered myself a 'well read' person.. But reading other people's list of books just blew my mind...made me realise that I am a frog in the well and the amount of books I have read can be compared to a drop in the ocean.. I have come up with my "Book bucket challenge".. A list of books I hope to read in the coming year.. So here goes.. 1. Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3. Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie 4. The kite runner - Khaled Hosseini 5. A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini 6. The day of the jackal - Frederick Forsyth 7. The cuckoo's calling - Robert Galbraith 8. The lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri 9. Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh ...

Remembering a certain friend from college who used to annoy me so much.. This person ever the optimist, was also considerate, since she would never fail to ask me what was bugging me, whenever I seemed upset.. But I chose not to tell her.. And it would annoy her so much that I'm being so secretive.. And I used to beg this person to "leave me alone".. and she just wouldn't get the concept of "leave me alone".. Today I'm wishing this person was around to ask me what's bugging me.. Actually, she's very much around.. Just that all of us have moved on with our lives.. Everyone's married now, few of us have kids and its just so difficult to be in touch.. We've all moved on, made new friends so even if we did get in touch we wouldn't have much to share since we're all in different 'places' now.. I'm missing all those people today.. we used to have so much of fun.. We had that bond.. That something special which you can never ...

It's probably one of the most ridiculous titles you'll ever hear for a book, but that hasn't stopped readers (Yours truly included)from rushing to the bookstores to lay their hands on a copy of latest Chetan Bhagat novel.. I had to visit the book store twice since copies were sold out the first time I went to buy this book.. Guess that makes Chetan Bhagat the undisputed king of paperback.. With this book he seems to have got his Midas touch back.. copies of "Half Girlfriend" are selling like hot cakes.. and this book probably will be adapted as screenplay for a hindi movie and Bhagat will receive potloads of money as he hands over rights of the book to the movie makers.. Of course there'll be a controversy just before the release of that movie.. you know,pre movie release promotion tactics.. And the movie will join the likes of Chennai Express and Dhoom3 in the 100 crore club.. And Chetan Bhagat will live happily ever after.. ;-) Coming to the book I feel i...