Kadlekai Parshe!

The parrot has spoken!!

Some people, like my mother, believe in astrology, God and all things that have no proper explanation . I am still undecided on whether I believe in God or not (but however, I do very much believe he exists on blogger and twitter) but astrology, I don not believe in that! For one, If I had to go by what my horoscope says I should have been engaged to some dude in july and married by the end of this year.

But that doesn't stop me from going to astrologers. It is so much fun. this one time, when we were doing our final year project, we were waiting at the photocopy shop for the power to come back so that we could get our report printed and binded and all that. While waiting we (by 'we' I mean three of my friends, S, GA, Chay and me) saw the astrology sign and decided to kill time there. We went in one by one into a dimly lit room filled with photos of every god to know our future!!!! We asked him about whether we were going to be rich before asking anything else. We were told different things, I, was told that I was going to be neither rich nor poor. Neither happy nor sad. My life is always going to have this balance of sorts. How boring I thought!

It was good fun, a better way to have killed an hour than by sitting in a lame cafe near college! :)

Yesterday, I went to kadlekai parshe, it is a street festival that happens in basvanagudi every year. I wait for it..it is my second favorite thing about basvangudi (after gandhi bazar and all the parks) it happens in december usually but since the festivals have all come early this year.. it happened in november. Kadlekai parshe translates to groundnut festival. If you are in bangalore and have never been here, make it a point to visit it next year, It is like time travel, it is also like visiting a typical village fare!

and that is also where I did the one thing I have always wanted to do. Gini Shastra! (parrot astrology)

Yes!!! I trusted a parrot to tell me my future!! I was advised by the parrot above to pray to a particular god to make sure good things happen, I happily nodded, took the photos and thanked him. The crowd is huge and very little space to move around, getting the camera out and back into the bag can itself be a painful task... so here are a few photos that I managed to take...

The huge crowd..some to shop, some to worship, some to eat the yummy bondas and kadlepuri and some just to have a little fun! 

The local shooting range! :) for the record..I shot all 5!! 

The candyman! He will make you a parrot if you want or a car or whatever that you fancy your candy to look like!  The last time I was there, one candyman even told us a story about the doll he was carrying, she even had a name.

The Jelabis... its yummmmm!

If you are not sure about the parrot... you can always go to this robot to know your future!! I am not kidding.. it is an astrology robot! believe it!

 

 

The man who sells crowns and swords...silver gold ruby and diamonds, in all that for a day, you can drown! 

These are rabbits made out of thermocol sheets that are used to rap glassware, furniture and even electronics! Talk about recycling beautifully! 

and finally all the groundnuts!!  

Ps: all the photos are my property, use it if you must but be a nice person and mention my blog url (believe me, good karma always does good as the parrot says and bad karma...well...you are better off not knowing that but let me just tell you this... horrible horrible things will happen)

Priorities

yesterday I ended up in landmark and they played coldplay for the most part and one by eddie vedder (my current fav, if you haven't heard him yet, shoot yourself, carry your ipod to the grave and regret being ignorant till you rot completely). That 1 hour was the happiest happiest hour in the last couple of months. Seriously!

I could totally live in a world with only books and music, I don't care if there is no food.

Actually, I take that back. Music, books and food. That's all that matters.

PS: have you heard Mona Lisa by Grant-Lee Phillips? No? Listen to it here I couldn't find an mp3 link...so youtube it is! I love it.... it is not even new.. I wonder how I never heard this until recently!

Under the bodhi tree

I cannot sleep over everything and expect stuff to get sorted out by themselves. In the real world, outside of the imaginary one I live in, I will have to get off my rear and move, if anything needs to be done at all and also, procrastination never helped and never will.

whoever said ignorance is bliss, got it soo right!!

Too late for a review but I will throw my opinions anyway!

I finally saw Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. Yes.. it released ages ago, yes I did not watch first day first show, yes I was so upset I cried, yes I wanted to die because I could not digest the fact that I hadn't seen this movie so many shows after its release!

But I have put the bitterness of it all behind me.

The movie totally cheered me up. A friend gave me some advice about watching the movie..she said, "leave your brain at home and you will love it"

It's mindless fun, like how a certain genre of hindi cinema should be like Andaz Apna apna or hungama or even hulchul.. the kind of movies that make no sense but is fun anyway. the kind that doesn't require you to use the brain, Everyone knows the story and the ending... its just how the story unfolds is what makes the movie.  

So that's what I did..left the brain but carried my heart(sooo cheeezy I has become!) and yes I loved it! it's Ranbir people, it ought to be nice!! My dad doesn't get my fascination with Ranbir Kapoor, but I don't get how he cannot see the greatness that he is.

That stupid thin line should be highlighted!!!

random, silly blabber/rant alert!

I watch a lot of tv. LOT. In fact I will chose tv shows over movies. Movies don't always have a big impact on me. TV shows do. It started with friends, like for most of us, I am guessing, then it was one tree hill, prison break, boston legal, grey's, csi, criminal minds, gilmore girls and a few more. I lost interest in one tree hill after just first two seasons, it was too dysfunctional for me to relate to after a point, I watch prison break for wentworth miller more than anything else. I don't like dark stories but with him there, I don;t mind the violence and the tragedy :D Boston legal for james spader, his witty, in your face dialogues - so sexist and so anti-feminist but I can't quite explain why I am so ready to overlook that detail when it comes to that show. The rest were temporary addictions but what I love among these shows are Luke-Rory and Bones-Booth.(You probably don't know what I am talking about....don't scratch your head for it - not worth it, believe me!) I want what they have. I do. You know what the funny thing is? I once had it... what they have...I lost it to reality!

Like I said, TV shows have an impact on me, I can relate to them over a period of time, same with books, reason why I love books, movies are not an experience and its forgettable (of course some are powerful enough to impact you in 2 hours but that's very rare)

This post is dedicated to my ex-best friend, A - You MORON! never has anything been as twisted as you and me! never has anyone had the patience for a roller coaster ride lasting 9 years! You epitome of 'complicated'. You king of 'I-know-better', you dumbass! you messer(?) of everything nice, fine and simple! you crazy thing living in la-la land! you 'talking-indirectly-only-through-facebook-status-message' idiot! Idiot! Such logical, practical profound thoughts you think you have! idiot-ness it is!

*I feel so much better just typing this nonsense! God bless blogs!

22

That's how old I am since yesterday! yay! :D

I had the longest day ever. I had to wake up at 4 and I only got to sleep at 2. Ohh.... you know what I just realized, that's a 22 hour 22nd birthday. ok that's lame. hehe..  I like birthdays and this was the first birthday without a cake. I don't ever remember not having cake on my birthday... there were 3 cakes one time! but it was a good day it started great and ended even better! :D the sweetest ending to a birthday ever actually :) 

I feel old. Like from a 20 something, in a year or 2 I will be 'a girl in her mid twenties'. but I am liking where life is heading, I don't mind  feeling being old at all.

My version of a horror movie

I was at this gelato place with mum and dad today while we watched a kiddo not more than 3 years old make her mum's life a living hell in just 10 mins. Here is what happened. Kid enters, sees ice cream, screams and the mother orders for whatever that is the kid wants, The kid has absolutely no patience to wait for it and therefore screams, screches, yells and cries out loud while dramatically sitting on the floor until the ice cream cone is in her hand!

That, fellow bloggers, is a true drama queen! I was so close to standing up and applauding at the brilliant performance! But I was too caught up in my own thoughts to do so.

My parents on the other hand were busy laughing at me the whole time. Why you ask? lemme give you the background story.

There was once this guy, good looking, good family, our family friends too, and a lot of other good things basically and he wanted to marry me! yea yea... this was a while ago, I disagreed... obviously because I am way too young for it. But my mum had one and only one thing to tell me and her exact words are "Sure, marry late but be sure I won't be strong and able enough to take care of your kids then, you are on your own!" to which I had bravely replied "If I can create one, I can sure as hell manage one!"

For a split second there (more actually) I was trying to picture myself there and my parents being my parents could easily read my mind. They laughed through ice cream and then also through coffee a while later!

But really the scene was scary. Really scary.

The irony is staring at us, covered in blood stains

Was just watching this particular track from 'Khuda ke liye' on Youtube. I happened to read through the comments. Here's some of those:

"Music is haram even if people listen to it at least admit its haram, dont bend the rules"

says one to which someone else has replied

"can someone quote me an ayat from quraan forbidding music, or a confirmed hadith? btw does Allah not dictate us to say prayer regularly, pay zakat regularly and fear Allah? does he not order us to treat our women well? do we do that and condemn those who don't with the same gusto as we use against music and those who like it. let the first stone be hurled by the one who has never sinned!" and another comment goes "Religion should be separated from state matters and Pakistan should be a secular state. It's going to take at least a decade to cleanse our society from religious fanaticism.everyone who love Pakistan should make there voice heard that we will not let mullahs to highjack the whole society.Only socialist idiology can defeat religious fanatics. Well done shoaib ji, we need more films like this"

In fact every video on youtube on this movie has started a debate of sorts in its comments section, not just for this movie, pick any Atif aslam songs and there is a debate on India and Pakistan. "haram" being the most used term!

Purists - they are the trouble makers. They are the ones who are trying so desperately hard to put breaks on the progress. Mix a little bit of these purists with some hunger for power and insanity and there you have the perfect reciepe for disaster!

People die everyday. The newspaper everyday has reports of bomb blasts or killing in the name of religion or war or some overrated nonsense like that. After a while, I think people won't even blink at such news, until the situation gets worse and comes to bite their ass!

But then, what I think hardly matters. I wonder how everything went so terribly wrong that it now seems irreparable, the mistakes done are far too many and unforgivable. The self declared saviors of the religion, language and even mankind, And bombs to save mankind?

 

Why look at other countries, a simple division of labour, belief in a particular god, turned into something as inhuman as untouchables, their supression, revolt, quotas, national debates on it, politicos making use of this bias to get what they want - power! and so much more in our country.

Did you read about Thackeray today? wanting members from his party to take an oath only in marati while our constitution clearly states a candidate can chose any language from the 17 languages to take his oath? He is another maniac...wants marathi to be the only language spoken, wants everyone else out of bombay.... oops.. mumbai! next he'll want mumbai to be a country on its own where everyone speaks marathi wearing those white caps and he will be the king! He even warned them openly saying ‘‘If anyone dares not to take the oath in Marathi, you will see what my MLAs can do. They will create a ruckus in the house’’ here's the full story if you want to read it.

I don't even want to talk about the politics in karnataka! They have made a fool out of everyone involved! I got this text message from a friend in the morning and nothing could have described the situation here any better:

What is full of crazy monkeys and not a zoo? changes every fortnight but not the moon?
The karnataka government!

Actually when I take a step back... separate myself from the reality and look at it from a distance. I find it very funny, very very funny. Like dumb blond jokes. It is funny because it is hard to believe such extreme stupidity can exists. But it does. All around us and sadly somewhere without our knowledge we become a part of this big elaborate cruel joke. But a joke nevertheless.