I have what my friends call an irritating habit, I read up on a movie before I watch it. But I like it. It makes me understand a movie better, because there are certain things in a review which click only when you watch a movie. Its those small ‘aha’ moments that I enjoy a lot.

Wake Up Sid has got mostly favorable reviews by critics but majority of my friends found it boring and predictable. As for me-I think it had its moments but not enough to make the cut.

There is Sid, your average aimless Joe who finds direction and discovers love in the course of the movie. There are genuinely-too close for comfort scenes like when he admonishes his mom for constantly lecturing and then gives her one more tee-shirt to fold. Or even his confrontation with his Dad. But these Oh-I-av-been-there realism is marred by this fantasy element where a new girl in Mumbai takes on a stranger to live with her although their relationship is strictly platonic, where this new girl sets up and decorates a new home ‘before’ even getting a job and that of an editor’s assistant at a niche magazine, where Sid greatest challenge towards realising life is tough is to learn to boil an egg!

Its not gritty-it moves at this predictable pace. Its not bad,the problem is its not good either.

Ranbir is very good as this child-man you want to slap and cuddle at the same time. At some level I thought the character and the actor must have had a similar childhood should have helped.(I thought only I viewed this casting in such a manner, but so did one of my best friends). And yes we have a first time plus size friend who isnt reduced to a comic caricature-in fact Lakshmi is as real as friends come. Some how Konkana’s role seems a more cardboard version of her role in ‘Luck by Chance’-it was a sort of deja vu for me.

Over all I would say no harm done in catching it on DVD.

Most people have told me 2 blogs-no go.

I have been reading a lot on Tumblr vs Wordpress. This isnt an easy or obvious jump as was from Blogger to Wordpress.Wordpress was leagues ahead of blogspot at that point.Tumblr not so much.

My major concerns-

*no commenting, I had to open a disqus account

*no archiving tool found as of now

*can I import my wordpress content here?Dont think so

*and I have read it doesnt show up on Google

Of course these drawbacks disappear whenever I see the damn attractive dashboard. Lau and only lau is what I feel. Things are so simple that Wordpress feels like ugh..work?

This was a good read. Made a lotta sense-photos,videos, posts which are 140 words or more ;)

I am thinking of having both coexist for some time. What say?

Another day and another best BSchool ranking is out and the school I went to has slipped from the top ten to an inglorious 22nd. The alumni are busy cursing the daylights off the current media relations committee and the school in general.Its another matter the same publication had given us some 15ish rank for past 2 years.

Now its the industry’s worst kept secret not to get too swayed by the rankings.Esp those where institutes like ICFAI make top ten of India.But the truth of the matter is there ARE students who look at the rankings from such “reputed” magazines very seriously esp when the institute in questions isnt an IIM and isnt a private insti with special PR cell.In fact most people wont have heard of this school unless some one you knew studied there limited as it is to taking only engineers.

There is only so much a committee of students can do.And there is only so much one director of placements can do. When the rest of the babus running the show realise we are no IIM and need to build a brand equity to get anywhere in todays race to grab the best talent then only something can be done.

Hell, one building institutions are climbing ahead of our 63 acres in infrastructure rankings. I really dont know who was sleeping more-the person who did the ranking or our insti people.

One more wedding invite in the inbox. I am positively swamped with them these days.

And made to send the reply with mandatory wishing of luck and excuses for inability to make it. The sender doesnt expect me to turn up anyways.

So as this deluge of wedding invites makes you feel kinda left out.Not to mention the expanding waistline and the beginnings of a crows feet do nothing to the confidence at one’s marketability in the marriage market.

But hey I am new age-post modern woman of today. My career comes top. I earn and do my own thing. I am not “supposed” to be bothered with things that are decidedly old fashioned and sexist like making  marriage my aim of life. Hell, no one in my close friends circle is even any where near to one.

And yet why do any, just any conversation happen to include the “so when are you settling down”.

Gets my goat(ee). If I hadnt waxed it already.

I really dont know what this gonna be about. Since I already have a blog where I try to be funny or philosophical.

Maybe because I have run outta patience to do full length post. Maybe because I have just run outta patience.

Maybe this can be the one status update instead of a twitter and a FB and a Gtalk.

And then again maybe not.

We ll cross the bridge when we come to it.