OMG! the future is finally here... B-O

Who has watched the film, Wall E? well many of you might have. so there was this nice futuristic vision of world set where people were choosing the food they want to eat from the mobile devices they had in their hands. right?
few days ago i downloaded an app for Fasso's and there were many food items onlines displayed, and also status of my order as now the orders placed and now its cooking and when it was finally delivered. I found this so much similar with the way people in Wall E were interacting with the things. Isnt this is the same way we are dealing with shopping or food now a days?
We see things in advertisements, and search for them online, we place an order for them and they get delivered at our door steps. Ha... Isnt that is the same way as our future was predicted few years back :D
and now the next big thing is Internet of things where our devices will be controlling themselves and contacting among themselves. and it will be just as robots operating among us. well it seems like we are going into the future more fast than we might had predicted, isnt it? :D

so heres to the our next future when we might get things delivered on platter once you wish for them. :D
OMG! the future is already here...

To Natsamrat…

कुणी घर देता का घर... या तुफानाला कोणी घर देता का...

The first time I ever read this dialogue I thought the sarkar word was actually to address the government. But when I saw the play in terms of movie on screen I found out what that was really about. And I really really regretted not being born into the era of such extraordinary piece of art which shakes you from bottom.

I could have never guess how much emotion and pain it involves to be a actor, an extraordinary actor that you forgot to live. I can still hear the dialogues which nana patekar delivered that you feel as if you want to understand each and every word of it.  You want it to repeat till you understand, till you soak it as a sponge soaking water.

The great piece of art, the great piece of literature, the great play…  after a while I started to feel where does these people get this inspiration , the passion that their creation are used to measure all the other creations. In our era of loud and show bizz, have we really lost the touch of innocence and ability to think beyond limits. People have spent nights and nights on creating them, and what do we celebrate today?

The one line of “ I really like you” said by ganpat to his wife at the last of their life together, seems thousand and thousand times real and romantic than a proposals in thousand movies with red roses and violins on background.  But even then, we will watch the movie and forget about it after a little while.  Perhaps back then people didn’t had glossy theaters or tech to create the high definition films but they had so much more creativity I think. If one glimpse in that era can make us this surprised  I cant even imagine what they must have felt when the third bell rang and the curtains opened, which led them to an another world. as the protagonist in today’s film says this theater has ability to create entire world within it.

Again a wonderful effort to let us have a look at our treasure of Marathi literature.  To Natsamrat…

The outsiders.

Its also one of the book I found out while reading another novel, and searched frantically for it until I found its ebook.

Well the book is about teen age boy and his struggle through the socio economic class partition led to them by the society.

I am giving here the plot as explained on the Wikipedia site since it will be neat and explains better summery.

Ponyboy Curtis, a member of a gang called the “Greasers”, is leaving a movie theater when groups of “Socs” (short for "Socials), the Greasers’ rival gang, jump him. His two older brothers—Darry and Sodapop—and several members of their gang rescue him. The next night, Ponyboy and his Greaser friends Dallas and Johnny meet Socs, Cherry Valance and Marcia, at a drive-in movie theatre. Ponyboy realizes that Cherry is nothing like the Socs he has met before.

Afterward, Two-Bit Matthews, another gang member, Ponyboy, and Johnny walk Cherry and Marcia home. Socs Bob Sheldon and Randy Adderson see them and think the boys are trying to pick up their girlfriends. Cherry prevents a fight and the girls leave with Bob and Randy willingly. When Ponyboy comes home at two in the morning, Darry becomes angry and in a fit of rage starts to yell at both Soda and Pony. Ponyboy runs away after Darry strikes him, and meets up with Johnny to run away. Ponyboy calms down and wonders if running away would be a good idea.

The boys wander into a park in the neighborhood. Bob, Randy, and three other Socs confront them. After exchanges of derogatory remarks, Ponyboy spits at them. The Socs attempt to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. Johnny, anxious and terrified, stabs Bob, accidentally causing his death. Ponyboy and Johnny, frightened and unaware of what to do because both know those who murder in Oklahoma will be executed on the electric chair, seek Dally’s help. Dally gives them money and a loaded gun and tells them to hide in an abandoned church in Windrixville. During their stay, Pony cuts and dyes his hair as a disguise and reads Gone with the Wind to Johnny. He also recites the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost.

Dally comes to check on them, he reveals that the tensions between the Greasers and Socs have increased since Bob's death. Johnny decides to turn himself in and Dally agrees to take the boys back home. As they attempt to leave, they notice the church has caught fire and several children are trapped inside. The boys run inside the burning church to save them, but Ponyboy is rendered unconscious by the fumes. At the hospital he discovers that he and Dally are not badly injured, but a piece of the church roof fell on Johnny and broke his back. Sodapop and Darry come to the hospital; Darry breaks down and cries. Ponyboy then realizes that Darry cares about him, and is only hard on Ponyboy because he wants him to have a good future.

The following morning the newspapers declare Pony and Johnny heroes, but Johnny would be charged with manslaughter for Bob’s death. Two-Bit tells them that the consistent rivalry between the adversaries is to be settled in a rumble. Ponyboy and Two-bit run into Randy who tells them he will not participate in the fight.

Later, they visit Johnny at the hospital when he is in critical condition. On their way home, Pony spots Cherry and they talk. Cherry says she is unwilling to visit Johnny in the hospital because he killed her boyfriend. Pony calls her a traitor, but after explaining herself, they come to good terms. After escaping the hospital, Dally shows up just in time for the rumble. The Greasers win the fight. Afterward, Pony and Dally hurry back to see Johnny. He dies while they’re in the hospital and a maniacal Dally runs out of the room. Pony returns home that night feeling confused and disoriented. Dally calls the house to say that he has robbed a store and is running from the police. The Greasers find him, but see that Dally is pointing an unloaded gun at the police. They shoot Dally and he dies instantly. Ponyboy becomes overwhelmed and faints. He regains consciousness and is sick in bed for several days due to concussion. When the hearing finally approaches, the judge is generous and Pony is free from responsibility for Bob’s death. Pony will be allowed to remain at home with Darry and Soda.

When Ponyboy goes back to school, his grades drop. Although he is failing English, his teacher, Mr. Syme, says he will pass him if he writes a decent theme. In the copy of Gone with the Wind that Johnny gave him before dying, Ponyboy finds a note from Johnny describing how he will die proudly after saving the kids from the fire. Johnny also urges Ponyboy to "stay gold". Ponyboy decides to write his English assignment about the recent events, and begins his essay with the opening line of the novel: "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home..

So the story went like this. I was already aware of the quote “stay gold pony…” so I was kind of looking for that line till I reached it and also found a plot exploitation which was with the novel I had read.

I did cried at few parts when pony finds out that his older brother actually cares for him. I had almost crush on the middle brother who happens to look like movie star, and was a part of gang.

Well mostly the theme went pretty good with book, at some points it did seemed like written by a young person, but at some point it was really tuff.  I felt the crime theme was too easily handled, and how can one just get through with a murder and gang beating as its daily activity. Maybe I am being the secured environment person , it seems like that way. But whether really all the bloody gangsters are that way? The victim of the environment. Probably it is. Well when you don’t know what to idolize you idolize what is in front of you. I like the way even after all Darry still trying to make best of circumstances for ponyboy. Even after reading about scary gangster stuff, you are met with the softness and an urge to get better things. It seems as if even after all the hurt and bad things everyone has a breaking point. If only all the boys who were on the verge could read the outsiders. If only they could stay gold, when there is still good things to see and do.

I was really glad and crying (because it was good book, and I kind of like the books that make me cry), when I finished the book.  And it was added to one more of read book list.

Well two books in 3 days, I might be setting a new record for 2016 after all. :D until the next one, see you all… J

Like water for chocolate

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of

food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that

lights one of the matches. For a moment we are dazzled by an intense

emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes

by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it. Each person has to

discover what will set off those explosions in order to live, since the

combustion that occurs when one of them is ignited is what nourishes

the soul. That fire, in short, is its food.

If one doesn't find out in time what will set off these explosions, the

box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted.

If that happens, the soul flees from the body and goes to wander among

the deepest shades, trying in vain to find food to nourish itself,

unaware that only the body it left behind, cold and defenseless, is

capable of providing that food.

                                                        -Like water for chocolate

The first time I read the name “Like water for chocolate” was the book mentioned in one another book, where the protagonist  of the book was assigned to read this book as a school assignment.

The first time I read these words, I felt the book must be some kind of romantic novel which has this conversation. I tried looking for the book but couldn’t find it online in form of  a pdf. I even told one of my friend to look for its hard copy in library, but before we could search for it one night I suddenly found it.

As I started reading the novel I felt it’s a great combination of the foody book as well as a story book. I read and read and read until I finished the last page. And felt the feeling we get after savoring a really nicely prepared dish for a long time.

So here’s my review of like water for chocolate.

The story is of a young girl Tita, who is in a Mexican household which is controlled by her mother, mama Elena. In her youth she fells in love with a boy named pedro, who happens to be fall for her too. He and his father comes to mama Elena for asking Tita’s hand, but mama Elena refuses this by saying that she is the youngest daughter of house and so that means she cant marry anyone, but stay at home and take care of her mother. (I really didn’t get who and why invented such cruel and inhuman tradition.) so then mama Elena don’t just stop at refusing her hand but also says that pedro can marry Tita’s elder sister Rosaura instead of her who is just 2 years older than her. Pedro agrees to this match so he could stay close to Tita. Since he will be living on the same house with all of them, even though Tita is aware that her mother has destroyed her dream and stole her boyfriend and gave it to her sister, she also knows that why pedro has married to Rosaura. But due to stern mother in law Elena he is not able to be near to Tita as he had expected. Tita is an exquisite cook who cooks dishes as if they are piece of art, What I loved about the frequent comings of recipes in the novel that they were giving it a different kind of phenomenal touch so that the scene which was going on was even more imprinted with smells and tastes. Tita has learnt the art of cooking under the teaching of a old cook servant who dies on the day of marriage of Rosaura and Pedro. Tita feels really empty but even then she continues to live on her life in her mothers watch and her infinite work and of course cooking.

One day Tita’s another sister Gurtrudis runs away with a sergeant from army when she cant any longer stay in her house. She gets in trouble and Tita and all family receives a news that she has been working at a brothel.  After watching pedro still has eyes for Tita after fathering a child from Rosaura named Robarto (who Tita adores very much and love his as his mother), Mama Elena decides it will be better if Rosaura and Pedro left home to live in San Francisco.  After they leave Tita becomes very lonely and very sad for her life, since all she ever does is what her mother wants her to do, and her this prison treatment would go on till her mother dies.  One day a news came that the son of Rosaura died due to wrong diet he could no longer abide. Tita gets very angered and throws something on her mother when Mama Elena tells her to continue work and not ever cry again. Mama gets angry and breaks Tita’s nose by a spoon. Tita then goes up on terrace and cries a lot. Elena calls up a doctor from town who is a widower having a son named alex.

The doctor somehow calms down Tita, and brings her down when her mother tells him to put her in a asylum. But instead he takes her with him to his house and treats her till she gets recovered from the attack. The doctor john also likes Tita , he confesses so to her and asks for her hand when she gets perfectly alright from her panic. Tita who feels the opportunity of getting freedom accepts him, and decides never to return to the Ranch which is her house.

But she soon receives an news that her house was attacked by the army during the revolution days and her one servant was raped and her mother had a attack of paralysis due to all this. Tita has no choice but return to the house to take care of her ill mother and handle the house hold. After the return when she prepares meal for her mother, Elena angers and tell her that her meal tastes bitter. Tita gets very upset by her mothers this behavior but continues to stay there. Her fiancé often comes to visit her and treat her mother finds no defect in the meal yet agrees to send a new cook to her next day. After all the cooks have tried mama don’t stop her tantrums and fuss, she somehow survives a month and dies. After her death they discover she had been taking a poison from which she slowly died. Tita feels no sorrow from her mother passing until one day she finds out a box of letters sent to Mama Elena from her lover who was a Dark officer in army. He was a illicit child of a beautiful dark lady and a army officer. When Mama Elena’s parents find out about it they immediately ties knot of her and Titas father.

Although Mama keeps contact with the love of her life, and her first daughter Gurtrudis was an illicit child of him and Elena. Once she finds out about this she plans to run away with him but on the very night someone kills him and Elena has no way but to continue her life with Tita’s father. After Tita’s birth when her father goes to a club to celebrate, some one breaks the new so of Elenas behavior to him , and he passes away by a heart attack.

After finding out the truth Tita feels pity for her mother, and cries on her funeral and decides never to break this secret to anyone.

The very day Pedro and Rosaura returns to the house and starts to live with the. When Pedro finds out about the marriage proposal Tita has from Dr. john he fumes and tells Tita to reconsider the opportunity. Since her mother dead now they can get married. Tita snaps at him by saying that he cant tell her what to do with her life, when he wasn’t brave at the time. Since she never told him not to marry her sister, he also has no right to tell her whom to marry. Sooner Pedro and Rosaura has another child , a girl named Esperanza, and due to birthing complications Rosaura left to have no childrens further.

When john and his son Alex comes to visit Esperanza , the little boy excited after seeing the beautiful child expresses his wish to marry the girl when he is older.

But Rosaura laughs and says she is a only and daughter of house so she wont be married but will live her life with her parents to take care of them. Tita decides never to carry off this tradition on to Esperanza and make  her suffer as she did.

John soon leaves to bring his aunt from US for the wedding and Tita is left with Pedro and Rosaura and the child. During those days one time Pedro takes advantage of Tita and claims her virginity.  Tita is confused with the thoughts of getting back together with Pedro or having a new life with john cant decide what to do. Soon she suspects of being pregnant and that makes things even more complicated. The ran away sister Gurtrudis returns to house married to the sergeant she ran away with, and offers help in Titas decision. She reveals to pedro that Tita is pregnant and he is filled with joy so that he can get his life with Tita as they both had wished. But after few days Tita find out that she wasn’t pregnant and it was a false alarm. Mean while Rosaura becoming the second version of mama Elena tells Tita to carry her love affair with pedro after she is dead, and she will not let those two allow invade their image as a descent family. She takes charge of Esperanza and tells Tita never to come near her daughter. Tita left with jalousie behavior of Pedro and her sisters anger on her for this matter cant really decide the decision to take.

Later in the story , we discovered Pedro and Tita dancing in a wedding, which is the wedding of their daughter  Esperanza to Alex (the boy of doctor).

We are left with the end that Tita refuses to marry doctor, and choses to stay with her love instead. Pedro and Tita makes a treaty with Rosaura that they will never reveal their affair to anyone, Tita sends Esperanza to school, teaches her ancient recipes , makes her a capable lady and allows her to marry the love of her life ,while her mother Rosaura is angry over invading the tradition. But before one year of Esperanza’s marriage she dies of a illness. After the marriage of Esperanza and Alex is over, Tita and Pedro are left alone which leads to a romantic meet of those two who had waited for long time for the love of their life but during that period pedro dies of sudden,  making the saying in above lines true that

 “You must of course take care to light the matches one at a time.

If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once they would produce

a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can

normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes,

revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and

summoning us to regain the divine origin we had lost.”

Tita commits suicide in order to continue on the path Pedro has lead, making their long awaited love come true.

Ha… so that’s the story of Like water for chocolate. Well certainly I think it might not be a great piece of literature but its very skillfully explained. I laughed at some points where the humor goes with the situation, I also cursed the bitch Mama Elena for her behavior with Tita, I was hoping to find and explanation for her hate towards  Tita but it wasn’t explained. Yet I had thought Tita will choose Dr. john than pedro but I think she knew him better than I do(:D) since she stayed committed to him even after he married, fathered two childrens, left her, and got jealous when she was finally having some happiness in her life. But perhaps love like water for chocolate, always keeps boiling, when egos are forgotten, insults are forgotten. A nice story with a different manner of narrating.

J Like water for chocolate…

sometimes all you need is moon and stars and quiet

Whoever reading this,

Have you ever read a novel which you never wanted to end?

Or painted a painting which makes you calm and help you to relax?

Or just stayed awake till 4 am and feel the moon light coming out of window.

Well most of you might not be freaky readers or painters or even late night owls like me :P

Yet let me tell you, it still feels worth it.

Tomorrow I have a big shot placement at my college, and my university exams already approaching so I have been studying late night from past few nights. But today just everything feels so out of way, don’t know why. Its like one of those moment when you feel calm yet you feel why are we stuck in situation like this. Well so I decided to paint something, and I painted a girl looking out from window looking at something which isn’t there probably, blue light filling the room and highlighting her cell, laptop, headphones and books. And all I felt was imprinted on the paper. And on the back side I wrote a quote that sometimes all you need is moon and stars and quiet.

Perhaps that’s what you need…

But I guess it’s a good therapy to relax ourselves. Whenever I put the brush on canvas and it starts releasing its colors making the paper forever his. And it moves and moves smoothly across the harsh surface until it soaks all the tenderness and becomes blue or green or red. I love the way it feels, and as the picture gets complete all that you were thinking or feeling goes away slowly. Just like the ink on paper.

Perhaps I might not be the painter of the decades but wherever I will live my walls will be always filled with these paintings I draw. They just make me realize that this what something you have, which is never leaving you. So hang on there. We are with you. J

Fangirl, Lndline and attachments...

One more book I finished this holiday was fangirl. Well the girl was kind of freaky, at some points I was rolling my eyes at her “not going out for dinner thing”,” leaving school for her father thing”, “and also whats up with her mother ?” but yet… the guy was awesome. Even though I kind of wanted to punch him at first, but later it got better. As it depicts, not every nerd is destined to stay single. :D or not all girls you think are freak are actually freak . I like the story because cath kind of matches my personality, well I have tried very hard to come out of my shell and mix up with people, make small talks and be the person which everyone appreciate and the not the opposite but I am not that bad as cath in case of changing environment :D

Also one thing I would like to mention is the way she has showed the world of fandom. And I was really not so sure about making your own stories and posting them to read for others.

I guess when a writer writes something its actually their work and why should any one gets to invade their world ? I know all the fan thing but cant we just stay fan of whatever they have created? Well whatever.

and also I really loved the part when cath finally gets her way in her new school and her sister is surprised by her new change. J

So that week I got two stories of rainbow rowel who has published them at start of her career. They  were actually set into the adult age, one of them was

“landline”

So the landline is a story of a women who is a script writer for a famous comedy show and who has very important assignment exactly on Christmas day so she cant go to her in laws house that holiday.  But she somehow manages to repair her marriage by a magical phone she has. Which calls to the husband in past only, while her real means future husband isn’t picking up any calls from her(for 10 days. Oh my).

Well I felt the story was all right. I felt some parts were little too explained.  And obviously it followed the good end.

Another story I am currently reading is “attachments” and god I am enjoying it so much. Its one of the books you never want to end. I just want to save the bits and bytes till it finishes. I guess she is really that kind of author which involves you in her stories, I felt the same impact when I was reading hers elenor and park as well fangirl. Her stories are just set in so better environment or just made so beautifully together that you just want to stop it at the exact moment you feel like this should be it, the happily ever after. But story must move on as life goes on J

So attachments is I haven’t completed yet , because oh… I just don’t want it to end :D so i will be writing the review of attachments in next blog. :) 

merci...

so to be continued with the review about attachments. It ended just like I expected, on a sweet note as desert of last course. :) 
I loved the story since fairy tales can take different forms around the world. watching lincoln read beths mail was like watching him look inside her head. very few times this happens as we get to know about what exactly the other person is feeling about us. I think it may surprise us sometimes that how others respects or maybe hate us or maybe adore us without showing us. Well thats where the walls and lies borns. :D
so obviously I felt the end was rushed a little bit, since its just like that lincoln leaves the job and gets back with beth. :P yet I think it will be my favorite novel for a while now. :) 

As if that’s what it takes to love someone :D

And in the middle of the risk mitigation, monitoring and management plan preparation I start remembering anna and the French kiss bits and bytes. And that is the moment you understand you are totally screwed by the effect of teen adult novels and the freaking paris and the freaking terrorist attack on paris.

I read the novel twice, thrice and many times as much as I can not count, and yet it feels like I haven’t got the best out of it.

I wonder what people think of the corny novels which has the happy ever after ends. Or whether people think that reading such novels is craziness because they keep you away from reality or makes your thinking very shallow. God forbid when I read my book review about “gone with the wind” I felt it as if I was in dream and I was reading a review of some another person. Well I have to admit it, I have got better in writing reviews. Yeyieee…

Well forget it. Suddenly I thought of the some things from Anna I felt whether its really worth finding the love of your life falling for you so easily. Absolutely I adore the happy ends, and I adore stephnie perkins for giving many girls like me a hope that that can happen(Atleast in a book) but even then it makes us kind of sad too I guess. That in reality we don’t land up in SOAP or meet the love of your life in the most freaking romantic city of the world, or find the boy next door your lover or even find the artist boyfriend whom you adore so much.

But we can and definitely can visit the point zero of notre dame, and see the grand bassin. Maybe in 2 years from now, or 20 years from now… :D

But I gotta give her this, she makes amazing trio of classic tales which are beautiful in own way. Movies, art, and illustration in everyday through clothing or automaton or décor it’s just overwhelming. Maybe that if why I like her writing, because I have interest in all these things which makes us different than others. I have my entire wall full of paintings and sketches I made, in my hall. I have a wind chime made by me hanging in our window. And when anyone visits our little flat and they always admire the creativity. Its like a tonic to keep going on.  To make something beautiful out of something small, and see the sparkling praise in people who admires me.

Well subject got carried away, but after reading anna almost 14^th time, I felt I should write something.

Other than that, things going great. I got a job offer, on the way of internship training, and yes…

Risk mitigation, monitoring and management plan is still there, looking at me with a glare, so gotta complete it. Ha ha… J

Merci…