The good thing about office is once I’m home I’m jobless and totally free! No home work to do, no assignments to complete, nothing. This is so unlike school/college, where there is always some work or the other to do and deadlines to keep.
Anyway back to the office situation – now I suddenly have all this free time in the evenings and weekends and so to use up this time, I now indulge (big time) in some of the many forms of entertainment available, mainly – movies, music, books and friends.
I was never completely into movies earlier and used to watch around one or two (max) movies a week. I hardly watch TV and prefer spending my time with my girl friend ( my computer! ;~) ). When I was in school I used to read a lot of books. The frequency dropped while in college, but never stopped.
My parents always complain that I have too many friends and this is true to an extent, but I am not complaining!! I have so many groups of friends that sometimes it gets hard to cope with all of them properly, but its a lot of fun. I like to make friends and though I am slightly reserved initially, once enough time passes, I come out of the shell and my friends will remain so for life. I still keep in touch and regularly meet with my 1st standard school friend!
Anyway, over the past 2 – 3 weeks, I watched more movies and read more books (ofcourse some of these movies/books I’ve watched/read earlier also) and went out to meet my friends more than I used to do over a full semester or two in college!
Some of the movies that I watched are -
English:
- Equilibrium – Good to see once.
- Pulp Fiction – Awesome movie!
- Philadelphia – Nice movie and nice acting
- Reservoir Dogs – I love Quenton Tarantino
- Shawshank Redemption – Beautiful movie!
- The Usual Suspects – Great ending!
- Transporter2 – Ok
- Sahara – Ok
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Not as good as the book. Not even close.
- Batman Begins – Wokay
- The School of Rock – Rocking movie!
- Good Morning, Vietnam
Tamil:
- Anniyan – Great acting by Vikram – one of my favourite actors
- Manmathan – Nice story with a twist!
Hindi:
- Paheli – How the hell did this get nominated for the Oscars???
- Bunty Aur Bubli – Fun Fun Fun!
- Chocolate – Copy of The Usual Suspects – but not half as good
- Iqbal – Nice movie
Some of the books that I read are -
- The Mahabharata by Chakravarthi Narasimha – Came highly recommended and was a great read, especially to understand the main story of the epic, without any distractions.
- Ka by Roberto Calasso
- Valmiki Ramayana by Arshia Suttar – One of the best translations of the original Valmiki Ramayana.
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling -Time pass.
- Prince of Ayodhya by Ashok K Banker – Awesome! Read my review in an earlier post.
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – Need I say anything?!
- Siege of Mithila by Ashok K Banker – Roller coaster ride with the Princes and the Seer!
- The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum
- Demons of Chitrakut by Ashok K Banker – Fascinating! Watch out for my review.
As far as I remember, I’ve managed to put down all the movies/books, but I am pretty sure I have missed out on a few items that I could have added to the above lists. Anyway it was incredible fun ‘living’ the above lists!
As I write this blog post, I’ve already made plans for another movie – Hanuman! I will be going to watch this movie with a friend this evening!
Life as a professional is good!
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