secular?

onam-the festival that we all malayalees look forward to no matter what is the age, sex and religion.i havent enjoyed this festival last year coz i was in b'lore and here there are not many malayalees and we had class(cant expect a leave in b'lore that too in a bengali dominated college)this year also will be a repetition but i feel really hurt when i heard that even christ college(our neighbours)hasnt allowed their students to wear the traditional dress.this is a college that is dominated by malayalees and according to the college...celebrating all these festivals is against the secularism of the college...so where is this secularism when all the christians have to attend the catholic meetings...why are all christians forced into it??even those who are not catholics have to attend and somethings they say or do are actually against the belief these kids were raised in...where did the college lose its secularism???

cold drinks

Kerala made a wise decision of kicking out pepsi and coke and then Karnataka followed by not permitting these drinks in and around educational institutions(dont kno how much effective that is)but i had the shock of my life when i saw an advertisement of amul saying that they are "safe to drink"???wats going on???is amul diversifying from their speciality??have they forgotten their milk n milk products???somedays before that i saw another ad saying that they are safe to invest??wen did amul become an investing company??
i want the old amul back...the amul that used to provide good chocolates and was lead by a sweet person whom i admire as a very successful intrapreneur...a person who changed the life of rural India.
now,back to cold drinks....the corporate movie is very much based on this industry and wat happens in the movie has happened in B'lore also...first there was a cry that the drinks are bad and then there was a cry that the level of pesticides are below the danger level..clever i say coz they dont say that there is no pesticide.so...do they expect us to drink those or can we do what people in gujurat did???use it on the crops coz they make a good pesticide and is cheaper than the real ones and equally effective.

memories

yesterdayi was chatting with one of my classmates and from out of the blue our topic landed on bicycles...then the whole conversation turned to the weird stuffs we used to do on our cycles as kids...the time when BMX was launched and Hero had a good sale with BSA champ...that was the time when i was able to identify the different kinds of cycle on the basis of its horn or brake sound.i used to have a BSA Kidd which was blue in colour and with pictures of bret hart on it..the day i first rode it my brake was neighbour's wall.
all those childish stuffs we discussed were so much alike...even if we belong to different parts of the country...going on long distance rides on the bike and giving parents a shock(my dad was going to register a case once)...going for exploration with friends on cycle...racing against rain but still getting wet(esp the rain in summer...wow)
then the thing we had in common was our bikes without brakes..i have no count of the number of times i have fallen from my bike.
summer vacations was the best with all the kids in the area on bikes that no other vehicle could pass by.i still remember there was a gang of four who had street cats(bmw among cycles).never knew them personally but then i used to admire that bike a lot.
when we discussed all these we were in a very nostalgic mood of us missing homeland a lot...he was missin his mountains(he is from north-east)and i was missing my greenary.then the juniors came and broke our conversation and we went back to our usual life of computers and research.

Is Bollywood running out of stories?

wats happenin to our good old bollywood???im used to bollywood remaking all the good available english movies(2006 will see 3 English remakes by Bhats)but now..is Bollywood so running out of stories that they have started remaking old hindi films...
Devdas was made 3 times in Hindi and twice in local languages...its a remake although Bhansali kept with the recent trends and decided to send SRK to England.
Umrao Jaan- another remake with Abhishek Bachchan and Aisharya Rai...on the sets of which the romance happend..i will be delighted if they dont marry(read:lots of Indians wil be happy)
now,its Don and Sholay...wats going on guys??
doenst bollywood have good stories anymore??
copying from other languages are very very prominent also...i can only speak about Priyadarshan remaking all the good malayalam movies and then totally destroying it...i was sad to see the remake of my "punjabi house" to "chup chupke"...it was just a change of cast and dialogue-by-dialogue translation
c'mon guys...give us something good and new...something like Munnabhai and corporate(not many people could relate to the latter...u have to be in the industry to understand this...like Page3...thats the real world of newspapers)
now that comedy alone is successful and originally i wouldnt mind keping my brains out and going for the movie but plz dont give us the remakes...all things look good only in its origianlly format...i kno its a mental block but i cant get over it...i cant replace the Big B with SRK

Disney

all these days we had a guest lecturer from Disney...i wasnt much interested in class but today as she was talking about Disney cartoons i was really touched...the charcters i think anyone in the world can relate to...CN only had Tom N Jerry(they are an epic)but nothing can ever beat the likes of mickey n minnie mouse n all...i still remember watching Beauty And the Beast and feeling sad(my sis was crying and i think even today she will)...the cute seven dwarfs were created in 1937 but i can still relate to it.
This is the year of cindrellabration...Disney has a policy of telecasting a movie and then putting it away for the next seven years...so this is the year when cindrella will be brought back and the WHOLE WORLD will be celebrating this...isnt it cool...btw,they take a seven year gap coz they think 7 years makeup a generation.

a light in my life

when the going gets tough...the tough gets going...true...and when there are friends on whom you can depend even at midnight it really does make a differnce...this has been happening to me the whole week...first i met my best friend(female)on sunday and then i met my friend in the evening(he is a new addition to my list of friends but im comfy with him)...then as the week proceeded i got back a friend whom i had lost under unusual circumstances...a friend for whom i have always wished i was with... a friend on who's b'day i used to cry coz i couldnt wish him...a friend who missed me as much as i missed him.
it all started with me going on okut and then suddenly seeing his invitation for friendship..man this is a dream come true..then i had the major shock of my life when i saw that he was married but then anything is possible over the 2 years when we were not in contact.
i met him today...after a gap of 2 years...it felt as if i was back in my school and with my friend...a guy with whom i was extremly comfy with..a guy who knew me like the back of his own hands...a guy who has loved me just like i loved me...a guy who still loves me just like i still love him
im gratefull to god for giving me back in my life,i feel as if a part of my life has been given back to me and when i look back to the amount of tears that i have spilled over his one and only b'day card he sent me i feel as that all those have had its affect...all those nights of tears and lonliness...i can finally rest in peace
Thanx to orkut also:)

bad day

for a goody-goody person like me who makes it a point to attend classes everyday...i just had the worst day when i bunked class for the first time in the past 2 years.I WAS CAUGHT and it was because the person who was teaching makes his appearence once in a week and also because 2 of my close friends in college also decided to bunk for various other reasons and it seemed as if it was a planned one...this bunkung happened on saturday and on sunday i got the memo and i realised that 6 of us had bunked the class that day.we went to meet our sir on monday who told us to meet ma'am and then enter class...we met her and she just said "u ned not attend any further classes but can write the exam"...wow!!!
on tuesday we were called and made to pay a fine of 100rs each.
i always had a good impression about my faculity but the way they behaved when they weren't ready to listen to our excuses and just told us to stay away from class really hurt me and cant they realise that they are playing with our future here???
this may sound very objective from my side but i dont think this is the way that faculity should behave...student's future should be their priority and should be ready to listen to excuses.