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November 18 Casino Royale!Yaay! Saw the Bond movie first day and it was worth every bit of planning that went into it.... Today I guess the stars decided to shine down on me..... Or maybe the Venus and Jupiter were on the same line and smiling upon me when I woke up this morn! (Or maybe I should stop reading that horoscope thingy and add it to my spam!) In any case, my PCR worked big-time with a huge product band, my yeast and bacterial transformations seemed to have worked fine and........... I got to see the new Bond movie first day! Daniel Craig as the new 007 is simply awesome... He's classy, uncanny, smart, stylish, handsome, omnipotent and has a good sense of humor! The movie alludes to the terrorist plans of blasting off some US-bound planes in London and to 9/11. I'd say it was fast-paced, action-packed and has a lot of twisted plots set in Madagacar, Montenegro, Bahamas, and Miami.... I was truly impressed! And that title song was very creative! All-in-all, great movie, cool plots and a great Bond!!! And the movie ends on a good note - The name's Bond, James Bond! July 11 What is it about 'Alaipayuthe'?"Why do I like this movie?" I ask myself for the umpteenth time as I watch the movie for perhaps the hundredth time... "Madhavan! Of course its him.... Isn't he so adorable in this movie?" says one part of my mind. But then, as I watch the movie again and again, it flashes on me that there is not one person in that movie who doesn't leave a lasting impression in your mind. Shalini, with her simple, girl-next-door appearance, conveys so many emotions with her lovely eyes. Then, the Nungambakkam train station.... It captures Chennai at its best..... I wonder how they shot the movie that way! (If it is a set, it is indistinguishable from the original!) Swarnamalya, as Shalini's sister is so 'big-sistery' she reminds me of my own sis! Madhavan's dad, whose name I dunno, is the image of any dad you'd see... I've noticed him in many movies and I see that he has an awesome flair for dialogue delivery; the casual, paternal way in which he admonishes Madhavan early on in the movie is hilarious.... His reaction when his granddaughter tells him joyfully that she earned two rupees from Madhavan for calling up a girl is absolute exasperation!!! Vivek - whom I've never seen in a non-comedian role before, Shalini's parents, house-owner Chetta, Aravindswamy and Kushboo, who only make a brief appearance towards the end of the movie, are so close to reality, that it is hard to forget them.... ARR's music, Sriram's photography.......... everything about this movie rocks! Mani Ratnam, you are indeed something! July 08 Snippets from NYC!I happened to hear the strangest conversation between two women in the elevator this morning... Girl 1: My cousin flushed his cell phone down the toilet... Girl 2 replies quite nonchalantly, "And the toilet didn't clog?" It's the US of A, ain't it???? July 04 The five-minute manager..Here's a case of five minutes well-managed..... My job for that night was simple -simply go and inoculate a loopful of yeast into a 100ml media. Can you think of ways in which this could extend beyond 2 minutes? Here's one. Being a novice at yeast work, I had to search for the strain of yeast I had used earlier. And exactly that day, someone had rearranged the cold room which meant that the plate wasn't there where I had seen it last. Optimistic as I obviously was, I began a slow and diligent exploration of each and every rack in the cold room. And Voila! I found the strain too. Very smug now, I returned to my lab bench and measured out the media with a very clumsy burner on. And then disaster struck! An apparently over-precautious idea popped up in my head and I wanted to check if there was a fresh plate of the same strain in the cold room. So, off I went to the cold room and the lab door promptly locked shut behind me, locking me out. Now, I felt a surge of panic. Lots of "What ifs?" started swimming in my head....(What if the burner toppled? What if the bench caught fire? What if I am kicked out of lab? What if? What if? What if?) So, I quickly called security and they opened the door for me, which took a maximum of 5 minutes, before which I was a nervous wreck..... Whew! finally I inoculated my friend, yeast (not from the new plate!), into the media and fled the place......Talk about a five-minute work! June 16 Heights of stupidity!Watched a completely wacky movie today.... The logic behind it was so mind-blowing that I was rendered speechless, for.... OK! Never mind how long... I am still astounded, flummoxed and flabbergasted. How often does one get to see movies where the hero manages to step on a landmine (YES! A REAL AND ALIVE LANDMINE!), fights off all the baddies, flirts with his sweetheart and still manages to come out of it alive??? Well, I'd say if you are as unfortunate as I was, once in your lifetime! Here's how the story goes: After all the gore, fights and superhero stunts, the story somehow manages to lumber towards the climax. And the bad guys have planted a landmine in some zone where they do not expect our omnipotent hero to arrive. Unluckily for them, he does and in the course of fighting off all the baddies, he accidentally steps into the shaft of a landmine. Smart as he is, he doesn't remove his leg from it and now the bomb squad comes in and are unsucessful in defusing it. In an effort to save the hero, the hero's best friend appeals to the guys who actually planted the landmine! (Logic completely forsakes one here. Why would the guy who planted the bomb hang around that zone? To be blasted off? ) Man! He appeals and lo! and behold!, a guy materializes and tries to defuse it!! (Ever heard of a terrorist as obtuse as this one? First, he plants the bomb and doesn't flee the place and next, he comes to defuse it in front of the cops!) And, in the meantime, the ladylove joins the hero and both of them are balancing their weights on the shaft of the landmine! (And it never goes off!) If some tiny corner of your mind tells you that these are not quite impossible, read on and you'd be truly dumbfolded. The hero now realizes that he has no choice but to die and being a Good Samaritan, clears off the people. Now, you MUST believe this! He sits down (one leg still on landmine) and actually digs the landmine out! Now, he kicks the bomb high up in the air(Oh! forgot to mention that the hero is a soccer star in his college!) where it explodes without hurting a soul! COMPLETE BS! I am sure the thousands of soliders who lost their lives in a landmine would now be shifting in their graves! June 07 Spice in life!Oh! I saw someone shop-lifting yesterday! I was waiting
dutifully in line at a Pizza place and the line moves at an
incredibly slow pace coz' a couple of people at the counter are
quarelling with the cashier for a nickel..... And, therez this woman
ahead of me with a baby who promptly removes a Tropicana from the
counter and stashes it under one of the many sheets of the stroller in
the blink of an eye. She picks up another drink from the counter,
pays for it, turns around and gives an "oh-so-sweet" smile to a gaping
me and scoots!! I dunno why I was grinning when the security at the
entrance scanned my stuff before letting me out.......and it wasn't from the Pizza I had! |
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