Tormented by past demons,
The future is held in sway.
Is it right, is it wrong, one wonders,
For the present is swept away.
Reflections of the past,
Color the hues of today...

Tenjewberrymuds!

This is one of the funniest links ever!!!
One of my friends sent this to me, and it had me in fits of laughter!!

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/16076.htm

Read aloud for the right effect!

Goa.

Another post today!
I'm on a roll!! :)

Well, actually this is more of photographs than anything more.. A couple of weekends back, I went to Goa. Beautiful place. Last time I went there was on a school trip, where we went to mostly the popular places. This time, was more of secluded beaches, road trips and the like. Here are some of the beautiful places, captured on the lens.



Yes, these aren't the only photographs. Ofcourse not, people who know me, know that there must be atleast hundreds more...!!!! But these are a few which I think are beautiful.

Movies, movies and more movies...

This weekend has been spent in watching movies.
I have now seen:
Milk.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Changeling.
Mamma Mia.
Pink Panther 2.
Raaz 2.
Luck by Chance.

Yes, that's a lot of movies for 2 days, make that 1 1/2 days.. But it was fun, to be a couch potato after a very long time..

The first three movies, brilliant acting. Sean Penn has outdone himself as Harvey Milk. Really. I've always considered him to be a really good actor, but this was an almost perfect performance. Brad Pitt as Benjamin button, very controlled acting. His portrayal of a child trapped in a much older body was touching. You could actually see the child-like innocence. Angelina Jolie, as a mother looking for her son, comes across as just that, a troubled mother looking for her lost son. Considering that I don't really like her for her acting skills, it was a pleasant surprise to see her in this role. One can almost feel her character's anguish, which says a lot about her work in this movie.

Pink Panther 2. The movie wasn't anything memorable. It just looked like the same ol' same ol'. I personally prefer the Peter Sellers' movies, but then, atleast the first movie was better than this sequel. Mamma Mia was a pleasant change from all the serious movies. A musical, through and through, it was a light-hearted comedy which was a lot of fun! Raaz 2, not a movie I would recommend to anyone! Nothing more to be said about it. Luck by Chance, was again an interesting surprise. I expected a normal hindi commercial movie - loads of over-acting and not much of a story. But to be truthful, it was a very pleasant movie to watch. Nothing earth shattering, but not a bad movie, either. Even though the performances weren't memorable, the acting was really good. I didn't once get bored in the movie (except that I forwarded all the Song sequences!) .

All in all, a great weekend! Should repeat it again.. Not too soon, though! :)

The Brilliance of Ogden Nash

The other day, in Crossword, I happened to walk in and see this book "Candy is Dandy"... it was a collection of Ogden Nash's verses.. I bought it after just browsing through the content, and what a great buy it was!

After reading the verses, I started looking into more of his work. Brilliant!
Here's something that Anthony Burgess said about his work as an introduction...

"I have never in my life said anything other than laudatory
Of the work of Ogden Nash, whose innovations were chiefly auditory,
Meaning that he brought a new kind of sound to our literary diversions
And didn't care so much about breaking the poetic laws of the Medes and the Persians. "

Some of his verses are so precocious that you just laugh! I'm going to put some down right here... :)


REFLECTION ON ICE-BREAKING
Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.

MORE ABOUT PEOPLE
When people aren't asking questions
They're making suggestions
And when they're not doing one of those
They're either looking over your shoulder or stepping on your toes
And then as if that weren't enough to annoy you
They employ you.
Anybody at leisure
Incurs everybody's displeasure.
It seems to be very irking
To people at work to see other people not working.
So they tell you that work is wonderful medicine,
Just look at Firestone and Ford and Edison,
And they lecture you till they're out of breath or something
And then if you don't succumb they starve you to death or something.
All of which results in a nasty quirk:
That if you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

OLD MEN
People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.

TO A SMALL BOY STANDING ON MY SHOES WHILE I AM WEARING THEM
Let's straighten this out, my little man,
And reach an agreement if we can.
I entered your door as an honored guest.
My shoes are shined and my trousers are pressed,
And I won't stretch out and read you the funnies
And I won't pretend that we're Easter bunnies.
If you must get somebody down on the floor,
What in the hell are your parents for?
I do not like the things that you say
And I hate the games that you want to play.
No mater how frightfully hard you try,
We've little in common, you and I.
The interest I take in my neighbor's nursery
Would have to grow, to be even cursory.
And I would that performing sons and nephews
Were carted away with the daily refuse,
And I hold that frolicsome daughters and nieces
Are ample excuse for breaking leases.
You may take a sock at your daddy's tummy
Or climb all over your doting mummy,
But keep your attentions to me in check,
Or, sonny boy, I will wrong your neck.
A happier man today I'd be,
Had someone wrung it ahead of me.

REFLECTION ON THE FALLIBILITY OF NEMESIS
He who is ridden by a conscience
Worries about a lot of nonscience;
He without benefit of scruples
His fun and income soon quadruples.