Dew on the roses

Check out the post with the above title that Daddy has written on his blog: http://rrkelkar.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/dew-on-the-roses/

The reason I am mentioning it here specially is because the meaning of my name is "dew". :)

Michael Moscovitz

I saw a rerun of the movie Princess Diaries a few days back. Though the film story and its characters are quite different from those in Meg Cabot's book of the same name, I happen to still like it. A huge reason for this is seen in the photo above: actor Robert Schwartzman who plays Michael Moscovitz. He looks a total sweet heart with his hair falling almost upto his eyes. :)

In the movie Michael finds himself surprised at being invited by Mia to the Genovian Ball and asks her "Why me?" The reply to this question: "Because you saw me when I was invisible." is my favourite dialogue.

PS: The story of the film has been nicely summarised on yahoo movies. For more on the book check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Diaries.

Chain se humko kabhi

Chain se humko kabhi, aap ne jeene na diya
Zeher bhi chaha agar, peena to peene na diya

Chand ke rath mein, raat ki dulhan jab jab aayegi
Yaad humaari, aap ke dil ko, tadapaa jaayegi
Aap ne jo hain diyaa, woh to kisi ne na diya
Zeher bhi chaha agar, peena to peene na diya

Aap ka gham jo, is dil mein din raat agar hoga
Soch ke yeh dam ghutataa hai, phir kaise guzar hoga
Kaash na aati apni judaai, maut hi aa jaati
Koi bahaane chain humaari, rooh to paa jaati
Ek pal hasnaa kabhi, dil ki lagi ne na diya

This was the song I found myself humming when again today I was made to run around thanks to the Admin Section at NCL. People in my lab think however its good because its made me get up from my seat. :p

I did some research on this song and found that Chain se humko kabhi...had been composed by O. P. Nayyar for the film Pran Jaaye Par Vachan Na Jaaye (1973). It has been very beautifully rendered by Asha Bhosle and you can just feel the sadness which is evident even in the lyrics written by S. H. Bihari. This is infact the last song that Asha Bhosle sung for O. P. Nayyar before their fallout. Very few musical instruments have been used in this song and yet its soulful. Thus, the whole weight of making the song work rests on the singer. In most of today's songs, they have hazaar things playing and yet there is no melody. I wonder how many of the singers would remember even the tunes of the songs to which they've been lending their voices currently.

Funny side of global warming

Loved this cartoon that came in today's (26th May, 2007) Times of India. I too am not going to do any activity from this moment onwards in this drive for slowing down global warming! Hehehehe

Big Sis!

I have had a very sheltered life when I was in school, firstly because DPS Mathura Road was just a 10 min bus ride away from home and secondly because I had my elder sister with me. When I joined school in Nursery, Ulka was in class II. This probably made my parents feel at ease. But as my sister has told me many times I gave her a lot of grief. It was a ritual that when time would come for Ulka to leave me in classroom I would cry and not let her go not realising the trouble she could get into for being late in assembly.

Ofcourse things got better as I grew up. But then the problems that would crop up on occasions too got bigger. Once I was falsely accused of cheating and when I refused to accept my wrong deed by Hindi teacher wrote 0/80 on my answer sheet. I went for help to my sister during the break. She consoled me and even talked to that teacher. The whole incident ended on PTA (Parents Teacher Association) meeting when my parents took over the job.

Ulka's been a saviour on days when I'd be a bit afraid to ask things directly to Daddy. I'd then do it indirectly through Ulka. Like one evening two of my friends Kamakshi and Mallika landed at my place. Mallika was anyway spending the night at Kamakshi's home. And they asked me to join them. It was on the spur of the moment idea and so we were hesitant to go in front of Daddy. Ulka came to our rescue and faced Daddy who to our surprise readily agreed!!

Even today when I am old enough to take care of myself she feels very protective of me. Whenever Daddy goes on tour and I am alone at home Ulka will call me to check if I have closed all the doors of not. Just a few days back she was telling me that when the Pizza Hut guy comes to deliver I should take the pizzas through the grill at the door. I had to remind her that our grill is such that the delivery man would only be able to give me one pizza slice at a time.

I guess it all comes with her being my big sis. But then who is complaining here. :)

PS: There are ofcourse a thousand more memorable incidents but I'll save them for another time.