Chasing the Monsoons

• Waste -- Phish
• Bachna Ae Haseeno -- Kishore Kumar, Vishal and Sumit
• Right Here Right Now -- Abhishek Bachchan
• Moonlight Kiss -- Bap Kennedy
• Walking Away -- Craig David
• If You Leave Me Now -- Chicago
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love -- Queen

The title track blows you away. I mean, really. The best title track I've heard in a while. Do NOT miss it.

As for the movie, it's quite good. I wasn't expecting anything more than some crappy acting and a chocolate boy image from Ranbir. But the guy delivers. Minisha Lamba sucked royally, as did Deepika. Bips is another story though ;)

The movie is quite straightforward, with a no brainer story line. It's the corny jokes and slang that really make the movie fun.

I really liked this tag while hopping around, so doing it. Violet, CM, you guys should try it too.. I guess it tells more about your music collection than much else, but seems like fun :)

So, here’s how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool and no disclaimers allowed.

So I'm off for a friend's wedding in Rajasthan.. I know I've been promising pictures for a while now, but I'll surely put some up when I back :)

Till then, enjoy part lyrics from another favourite of mine:

Even saints,
make their mistakes.
Letting their dreams fall and break.
Oh, it feels like,
Living in sunshine with the shades pulled down.
Now I,
Want you to see,
How good life can be,
You can turn it around,
and better your life with the good times found.

No song makes me smile like this one, which has been my favourite since I saw "My Sassy Girl". The movie itself is worth a mention, but that's for another post.

I am getting back to lazing around in a cafe and trying to finish off some work. Holidaying in a foreign land makes it so much more fun. I just randomly walked around some seconds book stores and picked up some good books on chinese culture and Al Gore's "An inconvenient truth". :)

Enjoy the song:

I've got sunshine
On a cloudy day.
When it's cold outside,
I've got the month of May.

Well, I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl. (My girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl. (My girl)

I've got so much honey
The bees envy me.
I've got a sweeter song
Than the birds in the trees.

Well, I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl. (My girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl. (My girl)

Ooooh, Hoooo.

Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey, hey.

I don't need no money,
Fortune or fame.
I've got all the riches, baby,
One man can claim.

Well, I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl. (My girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl. (My girl)

Talkin' bout my girl.
I've got sushine on cloudy day
With my girl.
I've even got the month of May
With my girl.
- The Temptations

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

Some people, I have realised, imagine that they know it all and are thus capable of passing commentary on someone else, directly as well as indirectly.

... and taking each day and night at a time...

Have been doing a lot of investments related reading, in order to work out an ideal investment strategy (I know I know there never really is one).

I found 2 gems on the topic recently, through different sources:

1. The magic book that beats the market by Joel Grenblatt
2. Interpretation of financial statements by Graham and Meredith

To an old friend...

.. to samjho woh bheegne wala hai.

Cheeni Kum is a mind bending movie which truly captures the eternal love-war situation between men and women.

There are some really good lines about crying, picking up a woman (yes woman, not girl) and rain/umbrella (chattri).

I won't spoil it for you, but I have to say that Amitabh-Tabu jodi (pair) is the best on-screen rapport I have seen in years, maybe ever.

Heard this song on the radio the other day, and simply had to post it. It's from the movie Ek chaalis ki local. The lyrics as well as the name of the movie brought back a flood of memories... but then adaptation is the name of the game. :)

woh kehte hai na
jo hota hai achche ke liye hota hai
galat kehte hai

kismat ka khel hai saara
phirta tha main aawaara
yeh kya se kya ho gaya
chaar din ki zindagaani
har pal ek nayi kahaani
kya tha, main kya bana gaya
kya huva jo laaree chhooti
jivan ki gaadi looti
kwaab hai toh mujhko na jaga
zindagi ek pal mein saali