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Shots by an aspiring photographer!!

Well, in other words, these are some of the photos i've taken in my boredom that I think are pretty cool!

Dancing feet.

Magic. he he he!

The Rose

I read this beautiful poem in a book of Daily Devotional Readings by Joni Eareckson Tada called More precious than Silver. The poem is called The Rose and was written by a missionary. Thought I would share it:

It’s only a tiny rosebud – A flower of God’s design;
But I can’t unfold the petals with these clumsy hands of mine.
The secret of unfolding flowers is not known to such as I –
The flower God opens so sweetly in my hands would fade and die.
If I cannot unfold a rosebud this flower of God’s design,
Then how can I think I have wisdom to unfold this life of mine?
So I’ll trust in Him for His leading each moment of every day,
And I’ll look to Him for His guidance each step of the pilgrim way.
For the pathway that lies before me my Heavenly Father knows –
I’ll trust Him to unfold the moments just as He unfolds the rose.
- Author Unknown

Omkara!

Since I’ve been here in Zambia I haven’t had much of a chance to watch many English movies cause my parents aren’t so keen on them and I’d rather not watch them alone so instead have had a good dose of hindi movies… and thankfully a good dose of good hindi movies!! Well, mostly at least. Just like some English movies are absolute rubbish, so are some hindi movies and just like some English movies are fantastic so are some hindi movies!!
Anyway, yesterday I had the chance to watch one such great new-on-the-scene hindi movies; Omkara. As I am sure, I have already made clear; I enjoyed it, I really enjoyed it! I was impressed and I knew I would be and that’s why I wanted to watch it anyway. A few years ago, the director of Omkara (something Bhardwaj!) made Maqbool which is his hindi interpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Having studied Macbeth in school, I knew the story pretty well and I also loved it, so you can imagine that I watched it with some expectations and I wasn’t disappointed. He did a great job at setting Shakespeare’s classic tragedy into an Indian context, changing the characters accordingly and still not losing their deeper meanings. He managed to bring about the eerie effect of Lady Macbeth’s character even better than the English movies of Macbeth that I have watched.
Omkara, is the adaptation of another famous Shakespeare play; Othello. I haven’t had the chance to read this one yet but after watching Omkara, I think I must! After watching the movie, I checked up a summary of Othello on the net and found (as far as the summary tells me) that he’s done it again! Othello is Omkara, Cassio is Kesu, Desdemona is Dolly etc etc. So the story is the same but it’s not just that… (you can’t really go wrong there; after all it’s a Shakespeare story!) Transferring from page to stage, or page to reel in this instance, is not an easy job and the effects are important, that’s what impressed me. He (Vishal Bharadwaj, that's what his name is!!) manages to make your hair stand on end…
Anyway, before you go and watch the movie because I am saying all of this and then come and yell at me because you didn’t like it as much as I did (!!!!) let me tell you that this is purely my opinion and as I have not written in my blog for a while, so I thought I might as well write about Omkara as the movie is still fresh in my mind.
But still I am going to dare to recommend it! If you don’t believe me then for your information it almost got nominated as India’s nominee for best international movie in the Oscars, but apparently Rang De Basanti beat it there, hmmmmmm, I have my opinions about that but that’s a different debate!! Lol
If you like a good “off-beat” movie with some action, something that will get you thinking, something that’ll give you a taste of well-made hindi movies and Shakespeare at the same time, Omkara is good. Even if you know hindi though you might want to find a DVD with subtitles… I had to watch it with subtitles myself, cause the hindi was pretty hard to understand; just like Shakespearean English is a little hard to understand.
Anyway,
More later!

The Big Picture...

I just completed a thousand piece puzzle! Its took me a couple of weeks and I really enjoyed it; very stress relieving... I've had this puzzles for some eons and they've just been sitting in the cupboard gathering dust. I did try them once or twice but this is the first time I actually finished one. Anyway, so I thought of a parrallel of this puzzle with God omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent. He sees the whole picture of our lives, puts the pieces together to make a beautiful overall image. Whereas all we can see are the little bits. Sometimes they don't seem to fit with the rest of the picture cause we got the wrong piece and then there's a hole but eventually the hole gets filled in, cause the Master puts the pieces to fit together perfectly with time.

Creative juices: Dry

Hello! As the title suggests I really have nothing to say, nor do I have any photos to put but I haven't blogged for a while so I felt that I must put up something...
So as you can tell, nothing new here. Still at home, still studying for the SAT, still cannot stick to one book at a time, keep getting distracted and start reading something else. So I haven't progressed much on the Great Expectations as I have been diverted by a book of short stories called Mirrors that isn't even that great but is easy reading. Some of the stories are good, the others don't really make sense, well atleast not to me.
As usual I am missing school and all my friends very much! Its a pain that they're all scattered in every corner of the world but when you think about its also very cool. Shows how diverse we are and still we managed to get along so well. Always used to think about that in the dorm. Each one of us were just so incredibly different, it was pretty impressive how we all managed to live together day in and day out without killing each other, but quite the opposite; having so much fun! I mean there were many opportunities to kill like when people dropped crumbs on my carpet, left the door open, didn't wash up dishes, insulted my baby (my music system that is!), put on loud music when I was trying to study etc etc. But it was all part of the deal and the benefits definitely count for more.
sorry, just got a little nostalgic there! more later!

Ze Reunion!

From the left: Riki, Me, Shaon, Dev and Riki's sister Ria. On Monday, we had a mini re-union at my place. There was about six of us girls who used to hang out together when we were younger, four of us met up, which was really great!!