Sunday, September 30, 2007

Worst travel experience

Here I am writing this post live from the shittiest bus that I have travelled by till date, and since lady luck has totally deserted me I have the worst seat in the bus. Well the bus is Krishna Varun and I am travelling from Pune to Goa, sitting on rightmost corner seat of the last row. There is no leg room, I can’t push the seat back, and once the seat next to me is occupied I won’t be able to move. This is by far my worst travel experience to Goa and I can't blame anyone else for this because I waited till the last moment to book the ticket, even when I knew that there would be rush because of the public holiday on 2nd october. Wait a second, may be I can blame someone, the guy who sold me the ticket. That *$%@ (insert the bad word of your choice) told me that he was giving me a seat on the second last row. Also this guy had told me that tickets of another bus that I preferred were over, whereas I found from my friends that the tickets for that bus were being sold upto 15 mins before that bus left pune.


The bus has just left pune, now lets hope I reach home in one piece. Home seems to be really far away. 12 hours away...

P.S. I have safely reached home and posting this entry from my home PC

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Disturbia & Chuk De India

I am writing this post after taking a loooong break from blogging. The reason for my absence was work and exams which I am glad to say are over. Well this weekend I happened to watch 2 movies one was Chuk De India and the other Disturbia. Both the movies were great and if you like watching Hindi and English movies then you should not miss either. I guess most people out there have seen Chuk De India, atleast most people from my office have seen it twice. I was one of the few people who missed to watch it earlier, the good thing was that i didn't have to wait in a long queue to get the tickets and I got good comfortable seats.

Chuk De India is a story of a Hockey player turned Coach of the Indian womens world championship hockey team aka Shaharukh Khan, and his team of girls that has been selected from all corners of India. The movie basically shows how the coach tries to teach the girls to play together as a team and motivates them to win the world championship. The movie also touches upon the fact that cricket is given way too much publicity in India and sports such as Hockey is neglected to a great extent. I particularly liked the fights between the girls and the Haryanvi dialogs of the actor that played Komal Chautala. Its a must watch movie for any cricket fan who is disappointed by the Indian cricket teams performance in England and wants to turn a womens hockey fan.

The main reason I went to see Disturbia was that it had got a 7.5 rating on IMDB and I didn't have much to do on Sunday. The movie is a thriller which revolves around a boy who has been sentenced to a house arrest for 3 months for punching his teacher in the face. The story takes a turn when our hero finds out that one of his neighbor is a serial killer who kills women and preserves their bodies in the basement. I was told by a friend that Disturbia is similar to the movie The Rear Window. I found the movie as thrilling as Vacancy, although Vacancy was a better movie and had much less actors. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes to watch thrillers and who liked Vacancy or The Rear Window (Which I haven't seen).

P.S. I have around 6 posts that I had started but never managed to complete. Hope to publish them soon :P