This is my official invite for my online friends… The plays I have been talking about(for sometime now) will be staged on Nov 1st Nov 4th at TunBridge School (Opposite Safina Plaza) on Infantry Road, Bangalore. It will start at around 7pm (Consider this as the time If I don’t update this post). Its a presentation so we just have one show

All my blog readers are welcome to watch the play and to encourage this fabulous group of budding artist I had the privilege to be a part of. The entire presentation has been written, planned and (hopefully) presented by the group.

PS: Dont you guys use Work as an excuse… We chose Nov 1st Nov 4th coz its a compulsory holiday(In Karnataka atleast) Saturday

UPDATE: The presentation date has been advanced to Nov 4th… Hope this does not ruin plans for anyone

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I read the FountainHead a while back and wanted to desperately write a review of the book… But as luck had it, When I was interested I did not get the time and when I got the time the mood was out of the window. Anyway before I start to explain what the subject line means I feel its important to give a short review of the book.

The moment I started reading The FountainHead I realized this book is going to be special. The first 100 pages were just addictive, I feel that among all the characters Peter Keating was the only one who was life like. Everyone else seemed too pretentious to my taste… It reminds me of movies with a clear cut difference between the good, manipulative and bad. The good cant be anything but good and the bad cant be anything but bad. Dominique was the only character I felt for actually… lot of people who read the book told me that they could not get why she did those things but I was least surprised when I read the book. Howard Roark… What do I say about the hero of the book? I hated him from the word go… I just could not get why someone would do things that he did in a way that he did, at least until last week.

To understand the rest of this post you will probably should have read the book. In case you haven’t please do, it might just be the best book ever.


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When you were least expecting it hits you… Like something you had expected for years to happen and it did not occur. So when it did occur it was more like a miracle. Vindication for everything you believed in, offered in such a beautiful package, at such a wonderful time when you had just given up the dream… like it was all meant to happen… like a story had reached a climax.

The search began a long time ago, looked every which way… in places where you expected to find it and at times even in the most ridiculous of places. Searching for things you lost is so much more easier than for things you have never seen… and after repeated failures the thought slowly began to set in ‘maybe it does not exist’. I was at that phase almost a year ago…

Over time I realized that my search for it was my naive way for finding something which each and every one of us has thought about and felt that it is what is required. I guess my thoughts matured over this time and realized that finding it and what is symbolized was not important to me at all… This was when I decided to walk away…

There was a line from Lost which has stayed in my mind for a long time now, “The only way to find what you truly want is to stop searching for it.” The line is almost like a puzzle and once you have figured it out, every conquest in life becomes so much more easier. I heard this line only a few months ago and after yesterday I can say I believe in it absolutely.

So there I was yesterday ignorant of what the universe was bringing to me… I was so ignorant that it took me a few hours to fully contemplate and understand what was just given to me. Now that I do, all I want to do is thank… I will pass my gratitude to the carrier of this ominous message which has in its own way rejuvenated my vitals and made me fall in love with life even more(if that was possible)

…And then I saw her face,
Now I’m a believer…

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A conversation I had in mid 2003…

H: So you watch F1?
Me: For a while now…
H: Whome do you support?
Me: Fernando Alonso and Renault.
H: Why? Cant you choose someone who can win?
Me:

I believe the time has come to answer that question…


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WORLD CHAMPIONS

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Decided to celebrate a Green Diwali this time so no crackers… Just realized its so much more fun to just watch people enjoying the festival of lights.

Took a lot of snaps of fireworks, uploaded a few of them… Few look really different thanks to the exposure time… These are the first pics from my cam(online atleast)


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I am a proud owner of a brand new Digi-Cam My uncle in China sent it as a gift… yaay. It is a Canon IXUS Wireless… Its a pretty good cam(lets not compare it with SLRs), the wireless feature sounds very cool(something to do with sending pics from the cam to a comp… hv to test it still) and conisidering it was a gift, Im all excited about it I was planning to go for an SLR in a few months and thanks to this development I will be putting that off for a longer time now The only turn off for me is the size… its only a little larger than my cell phone and I so wanted a bulky camera

Other than that the weekend has so far been absolutely boring… I was really missing office yesterday . Went to Rangashankara for the Saturday Matnee show but the tickets were all sold out So came back and just went to sleep. Watched Lost(Season 3 Ep 2) and Good Night and Good Luck. Lost was brilliant as usual, for anyone who saw the episode ‘you taste like strawberries‘ GNGL was brilliant, I have a lot of respect for George Clooney as a director(loved Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) and it only increased after watching this movie.

Currently watching the Live Telecast of India v/s England(Champions Trophy)… Each time I watch one of these telecasts I feel the statement “Cricket is a religon in India” is an absolute understatement. BTW love the look on Charu Sharma’s face when ever Rahul Roy starts speaking(dude just does not stop)… Its been a while since I had a laugh like that. Ok match about to start, *fingers crossed* for Irfan to hit form with the ball

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