Wedded Bliss

I used to think I might never get married, living forever with your parents and being a bossy aunt to nieces and nephews is not a bad option. But tying the knot with someone you can't live without is the better option :)

Niece and nephew on the wedding day.

H and I?

Cars et al

Have you ever noticed how many people have 'Ram', 'Om' and the like written on their car windows? Or whenever they get a new vehicle they do 'pujas' and they have that ribbony thing on their car hood for a few months?

I just wondered, we Mizos are supposedly very strong about our religion, but how many of us in Mizoram have 'Jesus' or 'Isua' etc written on our cars? How many of us hand over our cars, houses and other possessions to God even by a small prayer? Many Christians here in Delhi (and other places) have 'Jesus saves' or some such pasted on their cars. I know it's probably not a very important issue, but it's just a thought, are our material possessions kept separately from our spiritual side? Maybe we are just not too showy about how we feel, maybe it's not a very cool thing to do, maybe we don't think it's all that necessary. But for some reason, it feels kind of nice when I see Jesus' name anywhere, even on the back of a car. It's just a thought :)

Transformers

Pic www.movieweb.com

Just got back from a movie with H. Read the rave reviews of 'Transformers', and since H is a big fan of action movies, we decided to watch it. Definely worth the 2 and a half hours spent. It's amazing what Hollywood churns out, it must be all computer graphics and stuff I suppose, but it's pretty mindboggling what they can do with it.

Came out of the movie hall at 10 pm and all the cars outside with their blinking red lights looked pretty robotic to me. Hell, even the autorickshaw we came home in felt like it was going to turn into an autobot. That's how inspired I am. The movie really tickled my fancy.


It started out very well, but the second half turned into too much of a mob fight for my liking. The movie has got it all, humour, a little bit of romance, fast cars, everything except horror and tragedy. The heroine was hot (forgot her name), the hero was suitably bit of a nerd, just not unattractive to be unworthy of his part. Anyhow, the movie's definetely worth a watch.

And the pic of Megatron (I think?) goes very well with the pic of the wedding cake :)

Dear Diary

Dear diary, what is wrong with me?
Cause I'm fine between the lines.
Be not afraid, help is on its way
A sentence suspended in air way over there
Dear diary, what else could it be?
As nightshade descends like a veil under the sail of my heart
Be still don't stop until the end.

Melancholy lines of Travis, sung in their beautiful melancholy way. I like the way the sentences are written, in a vague helpless kind of way. Not their most memorable song but I loved it nonetheless.

I used to keep diaries before, frantically noting down stupid emotions on handmade papers :) It was kind of nice to exaggerate feelings and events in your own personal novel. Even if not much ever happens, it makes for a good reading later on. I remember in school though, I had to pay my brother everyday to keep my secrets. Those little heartshaped locks did not offer much protection against naughty little boys.

I loved reading as a kid, and I was quite delusional for a while that I could be a writer too. (I was also once delusional that I could sing, but my dad rid me of the notion before I tried it in public). Even after being told quite clearly by two palm readers that I don't have an artistic bone in my body, I continued to churn out so called poems, they mostly had no rhyme or reason. Thank God I grew out of it.

Anyway, after undergraduate days, with all the shifting around, it became kind of difficult deciding which diaries to throw and which ones to keep. And getting rid of a diary meant shredding whole lots of pages manually, and disposing of the bits in godforsaken places. On retrospect, I think I stopped keeping diaries when things actually started happening. When my life was oh-so-boring, I guess I compensated by making my diaries more interesting. But diaries are still a girl's best friend, where you can write about your deepest feelings and thoughts, because thoughts are fleeting sometimes and you forget, and the moment is forever lost.