Poem -Fake Pride

You stand there, head held high
With a cast of misconceptions over your neck 
Looking down on them, you stand there 
While forgetting your roots of misfortune

Wearing a fancy dress, only to hide the scars 
You bury your sorrows 
The mud of bluff All over your face, splattered by you

Putting on a mask, only to hide the scowl 
Everyone knows the mask 
But who knows the face? 
The mask joins with your veins
Whereas the face peels out

You don't know you now 
You don't accept you now 
Trying to integrate the fake pride in your blood 
Trying to belong, whereas loosing yourself 

In this futile attempt, you became no more than dust
The sin consumes you, but not realise yourself 
In this pursuit of fake pride, I hope you get yourself back

New Year Stories (Short, Sweet, and even heartfelt)

MEMORIES
The clock strikes twelve and the son cries Happy New Year to his father. The father welcomes him with open arms, thinking to himself "I don't want him to let go, never". "Happy Birthday mom" says the son to a photo. Behind him, the father's heart cracks a little more, the New Year is not all celebrations, for him it is a breaking of an oath too.
After all, the only memory is the photo for the kid. Every New Year, when the crackers are illuminating the streets, he is yet again kept in the dark.

FREEDOM
"Wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy New year" whispers the five year old girl
"Shh, don't be loud otherwise they'll hear you" reprimanded the mother
Another year passed in this basement,
Another year in waiting for freedom
The sound of guns blazing is the only sound they'll hear tonight.
The shameless cries of evil men committing heinous is the only sound of "celebration" they'll hear.

THANK FULL
"Yay, we're going to the mall today!" for the first time in years, the ten year old kid will feel rich.
Will feel rich not by buying expensive clothes or latest gadgets for himself.
But feel rich by the long lost smile he'll see on his sister's face today. Feel rich by the pure happiness his sister will receive today, all by a simple thing of going to one of the most superficial places on earth. Once again, he can sit down and be thank full to his god, once again he has faith in Him.

BLESSINGS
For many New Year is a time for partying, firecrackers, booze, late night drunkenness.
For few, it's a blessing, a blessing that they are leaving the evils inside them behind just like the previous year.
A blessing that they've gone through another Year, and lived.
A blessing that they have enough their pockets to have a roof over their heads and enough to keep their stomachs from grumbling.
For a few, it's a blessing.

HAND IN HAND
"Lets stay here, on this bed tonight" said she after a hours of making love.
"Okay, he readily agreed" For once he did not have more sex in mind.
He wanted to lie down with her, feel her presence, be assured that unlike this year she'll stay.
He wanted to hold her hand and be with her. Wanted to look into her deep eyes and see love reflecting back.
He wanted to live his life hand in hand with her.
And he knew she wanted that too.

The Poetic streak continues

Title - A Faker

A faker you are
You laugh for the wrong reasons
For all the wrong people

You ignore the caring ones
You depreciate the loving ones
Rather stay with the "popular" ones
A faker you are

You wear the stylish dress
When you know you'll rather
Wear that comfortable one

There's that one person, out there
He is your pillar, your support
Rather forget him when he needs your shoulder
A faker you are


Thinking you'll be "popular"
You give up the important people
Not realizing the people you want to be, are fakers too

You make up fake memories, fake experiences
To fit in the societal bonds, you slim yourself
But it's not your fault, you are a faker
And no one taught you how not to be one

Shordinger's cat - This one might be appreciated by selective people

Shrodinger's Cat : Dead or alive?

There was once a brilliant scientist named Shrodinger
That mad scientist loved his cat to the core
Oh, did he hate his cat!
He always kept her company because he cared
That's why, He thought of locking the cat he cared

What brilliance it is to lock a cat up! He exclaimed
He never thought, What ignorance it is to lock a lovely cat up?
He wasted none a second to get a box
And shove the cat in the box

Oh! The contribution to Science it is!
Never thinking, Oh! what cruelty to Animals it is!
That cat though, oh poor cat...
Not a clue what is happening
Thinks her master is playing
It's a game all right, a game of life AND death

Now the real question the scientist asked,
Will the cat live? or not?

For those of you not familiar with this special cat you should check this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
This will only provide you the basic layer of the material, I guess you can understand the poem then.
Also, those of you who didn't get it, it's not your fault, the poem is pretty horrible...
Though try to see what I tried in the first stanza. Cheerio.

I Origins- Eye is the window to the soul

This movie surely caught my "Eye" (It's a pun, as you read ahead you'll know). It is one of the movies in which you'll have to really sit down and watch with concentration (preferably with a loved one). Otherwise you'll not get the abstract concepts and metaphors and not be able to appreciate the movie completely, and since you have a loved one with you, you can cry your eyes out and "fan couple" with them.

Ian Gray is a molecular biologist most fascinated with the eye. When he was just a kid, he realised the intricate and almost magical workings of the Human Eye, the most evolved part of the body since the dawn of the time of life. Also, Ian being a scientist, believes in facts and data, not the spiritual world, religious scriptures and everything related to it, unless proof is provided. So naturally, he is trying to find the evolutionary steps of the construction of the evolved human eye. He is trying to find proof that Human Eye had evolved instead of being created by an "intelligent designer", God Himself, which might potentially prove science as superior than religion.

One day, Ian goes to a Halloween party and goes to the rooftop to smoke a cigarette where he meets a mysterious girl wearing a black mask with the most dazzling eyes ever. Naturally, he gets drawn to her and she allows him to take the pictures of her eyes.  They immediately click and end up sleeping together, which results in the girl running away in a taxi just after it is finished.

For a few weeks, he could not stop thinking about the girl with the dazzling eyes. He simply stared at the eyes he had captured for hours, swimming in their deep and colour iris. Until one day, looking like any other normal day, just that it actually wasn't. He entered a 7-11 Store and bought a lottery ticket. After that, his life was turned upside down by the number 11, he encountered it everywhere- on his lottery ticket, the time, the bus's number he was boarding. As he was travelling in that bus, he randomly dropped on one of the stations, and as if the universe was bending itself for him, he found the exact eyes he was searching for on a billboard.

Now, maybe I've left the review in a suspense (or I had nothing else to write unless I wanted to reveal something important). So, will Ian find the eyes he was looking for? Are they meant to be? Or the eyes will be a mystery forever? But, even if he meets the bearer of the eyes, is there really a possibility that the girl will be anything more than a one night stand? Most of all, what does this have to do with eyes?

  

Tears- My first try at poetry

So, first shot at poetry people, please be gentle.

Title- Tears

Falling down the cheeks
Eyes shut
Can't see a thing
Beauties of the world fuzzing out
Will I ever see the colours as they are?
Or will they always be grey from now on?

The reason of my demise is simple really
I could not see the reality clearly
The world seems bland now
It is not about one thing now

But maybe, it's a good thing
With my tears, my sorrow drip out
Maybe it'll wash off and never return
Maybe I'll find solace after this sorrow
Maybe, just maybe it'll be okay

Sweeny Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Normally, in titles like these you should let the title do the talking. For the musical drama fanatics who can bear with the "monotonous" dialogues of a motion picture, this should be the movie my friends. Originally written by Stephen Sondheim as a musical drama and recreated by Tim Burton as a movie for the big screen.

Judge Turpin, who lusts the incredibly beautiful wife of a barber named Benjamin Barker devises a way to have her for himself by convicting Benjamin and sending him in an exile over a crime he did not commit. Eventually, as expected even though not desired, Judge Turpin takes in the wife with her child and convinces them to live with him or live in the streets. Naturally, it was a hard bet. At this point, The Judge is the only one who would think his "happily ever after" has been fulfilled.

After roughly fifteen years of disappearance, Benjamin Barker comes back as Sweeney Todd, and it does not take much time to be "the demon barber" of the street. He even meets a beautiful lady who cooks literally "The worst pies in London". She is very hospitable and offers him her precious pies and a cool drink while being completely oblivious to the man's real identity. After acquainting the man a little more through her "insect killing" pies our Demon Barber finally reveals his true goal to her, partly in desperation and partly in trust. She then in return leads him to his nostalgic old barber shop, in which there are the special marked razors of our beloved barber, the ones he famously used as Benjamin Barker. Now the familiar touch of the handle and the blade had made him remember his painful memories of his exile, which only amplifies the fire to achieve his ultimate goal- To finish of Judge Turpin once and for all.

After getting his fire stoked a little more, getting a beautiful lady and getting back his razors he goes on a journey to get his daughter back. But he should hurry and eliminate the Judge as he has decided to marry his daughter too! So, will Sweeny Todd get a highly known and protected judge? Will he be able to get his daughter away from his lustful clutches? How is he planning to become the Demon Barber after all? Will he be able to achieve anything at all with pies and razors? The screen will tell how will go into an exile this time, this time forever, to the other side.  



     

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - A relationship Unfathomable

The relationship between a father and his son is a special one. Every father is the kind of friend who will protect you no matter how much your life is messed up. He will help you, pick you up and guide you through the never ending void every son falls into. No matter what, a father will be there for his son, even after his death. A son on the other hand will always say "I hate my father!" to the world, but will cherish the memories they had together. When a son is afraid of the dark, the father will come with a flash light to guide him. If the son is afraid of heights, he will climb the mountains to show him there's nothing to be afraid of. A father and son relationship is the most unfathomable ever.

Oskar, a nine year old kid lost his father in the tragedy of  9/11, his father was one of the victims of the twin towers tragedy. The extremely loud bang took out his incredibly close father. Oskar was already the kind of child who would rather stay at home and reflect upon life rather than do skateboarding outside (He was a smart kid I tell you). When the catastrophe happened, he was in school completely oblivious that his own world is going to be turned upside down. They were left early from school and he reached home finding six messages on the answering machine, all from his father. Moving on, he completely cut himself off from the world. The only ones left with him were his grandmother and mother, but he didn't make any effort to confide in them much. He regularly went in his secret closet in which he kept on listening to the messages his father left and drown in his own guilt of being too scared.

One day, as he is as he was listening to the recordings on loop, he decides to go in his father's cupboard. Everything there was untouched, neither by him or his mother after the accident, since it harboured too many painful memories. He was trying to get a box from the top shelf and accidentally he breaks a vase. Inside, he finds a key in a small envelop with the name "Black" written on it. He creates a plan to find and meet all the people with names as written in the envelop in the entire State.  Convinced that his father left him a message, he goes in an ambitious journey to find the lock the key fits, so that he can unlock the last message ever of his dead father. In this journey, he revisits his worst fears conceived after the tragedy and learns to overcome them, for his father. He meets new people, hears their awe inspiring, shocking, heart warming stories and discovers that everyone he met had lost something, and not only to the 9/11 tragedy, but to life.

So, will Oskar find the lock to the key? What exactly is the message left by his father? Or even if there is a message? Is the key really meant for Oskar in the first place? Most importantly, will Oskar give up? This movie has uniquely blended a horrific incident with the beautiful relationship of a father and son. This tale tells you about a strong bond between two human beings  related by blood, how it is never broken but one will go to great lengths just to get to relive it again. This movie tells you that no matter how many tall buildings have fallen over, you should never give up because there is always a key to unlock and wash away the sadness inside of you. A movie must watch from me.

1965 Indo-Pak War Exhibition - An account of tragedies and winnings

"War is not meaningless, it is just unnecessary"

War has been going on since the dawn of time. Wether it is humans fighting each other for their survival or the universe battling itself for its own existence, war has been going on and it will go on. To go on a much lesser level than the Cosmos, one of the one of the many wars fought by the Republic of India after its independence was the 1965 India-Pakistan War over the State of Kashmir.

It is believed that is this tragedy's wheels were set in motion during the time of April when Pakistani troops decided to infiltrate Kashmir and launch a full scale insurgency battle so that the state of Kashmir is torn apart from India. India retaliated with full force to this by sending its forces to Kashmir to send off the Pakistani insurgency troops. It was soon converted into a full scale war which reported thousands of deaths and the biggest tank battle since World War 2! One can only imagine the sheer number of the pile of tanks, money, and human lives lost in this tragedy.

September 2015 marks the Golden Jubilee of this war and an Exhibition "Shauryanjali" was set up on India Gate to honour the of the might of the armed forces, and many valiant soldiers who sacrificed their lives to save their mother land. This Exhibition is one account of the tragedies and winnings of a country and from personal experience I believe that they did a great job of communicating with the masses. There was a wide array of the Tanks, and Air Crafts on display which were used in the war. People were mesmerized by the collection and the sheer aura of all the heavy guns and artillery. All Of three armed forces had their fair share of time for showing their own cards up their sleeves but there were mainly two events which were an absolute hit. First, they had set up a stage for a wide range of performances to be shown. There were many more performances by Army, Air Force and even school children. Secondly, the Indian Army had recreated an indoor battlefield just beside the exhibition which became an instant hit and everyone was more than excited to see the realistic set up.

All in all, it was a great experience for me and surely for anyone who ever visited it. This Exhibition has been enlightening, fruitful and very much fun. Even though it was supposed to be for five days but because of the large public response, it was extended two more days. So a request to all the Delhiiets, today is the last day and hence the last chance for you all to see the glimpse of our valiant soldiers who were martyrs in one of the biggest war of India. Please do attend it, the entry is free, yet the experience is priceless. 

















Author's Note : I do not take credit for these pictures, The Armed Forces, and the original photographers of these photos do. But I do take credit for the quote above.

Secret Life Of Walter Mitty - The Quintessence of Life

Have you ever thought of travelling the world? Of finding yourself? Have you ever travelled and felt the breeze of the earth calling to you, and take you away to wonderland? Ever thought of travelling to see the majestic, magical, intriguing wonders of Life? To enjoy the dust flying around, to see a flower blossom. To travel, not for a bunch of photos for social media or to show off in front of your friends, but to travel because sometimes getting lost on the roads let's you find a way to your soul.

Walter Mitty is an average, 9 to 5 office worker with a monotonous daily schedule with little time for himself. He manages the negatives for the magazine called LIFE. Ironically, he has no life. He is the kind of guy who cannot even fill the "Been There, Done That" section of a dating profile. He goes to office everyday, processes negatives and that's it. The only escape from reality is his imagination about what he would do if a catastrophe strikes, if he had the guts that is. Unfortunately, as it only happens in his head, he is the only one amazed by it. He imagines everything from saving a dog from a burning building to flirting with his crush after scaling The Himalayas. One day, as he is going to LIFE he finds a surprise waiting for him there. The magazine is going online and they need to cut down on the employees. Everyone knows that because of digitalization no one requires processing negatives anymore, putting his job in jeopardy.

Even after the shocking news he goes to the basement where all the negatives are processed and gets to work. That's the day his life became a negative to a colourful photograph. He receives the last reel of negatives from one of the most renowned photographers for LIFE, Sean O'Connell. He sends some beautiful pictures and a wallet for Walter because it's his birthday. Among the reels is photograph no. 25, apparently the most life defining picture Sean has ever taken. The board receives a telegram, and the contents of it say that photograph no. 25 is "The Quintessence of Life" and should be put on as the cover photo of the last issue. Everyone is asking about 25 but as it turns out, it is not with the other reels of negatives. Which spells big trouble for the magazine, especially Walter.

In an attempt to get the most important photo for the magazine he embarks on a journey to find the rarely seen Sean O'Connell in the hope he still has the photo with him. He processes the remaining photos to find some clues and unfortunately most of them does not make any sense to him. But he gets one picture, the name of the ship which Sean travelled in, a ship of Greenland. During the journey, a lot of unexpected happens. From a nine to five worker he becomes an adventurer. His imagination and reality merge into one and he finally does the things he was visualizing about. He finds what he is capable of, and finds his life during the journey.

So, will he meet Sean O'Connell? Even if he meets him, does Sean still has "The Quintessence Of Life"? What are the hardships Walter faces on the way? What all is he willing to do, for one tiny little negative? Will he ever get to see the most lively photo clicked by the amazing photographers? Everything will be answered if the movie is given the time to be watched and understood carefully.

Dil Dhadkne Do - my first take on a Bollywood film

Have you ever been forced to take a decision due to the pressure of your parents? Take up the subjects they want you to? Or worse,  join the family business you certainly don't have the skills to handle? Have you ever let go of the love of your life only to have him waltz in again and make you question your feelings for him?

Kamal Mehra is a self made businessman who built up a company with years of hard work. Which is now known as AYKA. But it has gone bankrupt now. To save the company they have to minimise their assets such as their own planes. Sadly for the son of the family, Kabir owns one of the planes and he is reluctant to let it go. To save the day for our dejected son, Neelam Mehra, the mother has stepped in. With the will to antagonize her husband, she sells her shares of the company to buy a plane for her son. On the other hand, Ayesha Mehra is a daughter of the family and also a self reliant woman with lots of ambition. She has created an online travel portal named ''Musafir.com''. Even though her company is doing great she still hasn't got the approval of her father every girl yearns for. Instead her father is trying to force Kabir into the family business. He has no management skills for the company unlike Ayesha. He has a passion for flying planes but is being handed over a multi-million dollar enterprise he has no idea how to handle.

The Mehra's decide to go on a cruise as a wedding anniversary celebration of Kamal and Neelam Mehra. Kamal has invited many potential investor geese in the hope of getting golden eggs out of them for his company, making it a somewhat cleverly camouflaged business trip. Even though Kamal is desperate for funding he does not want the money to exit the family circle. So he devises a plan keep it in.

During all those supposed partying on the cruise, Kabir is having his own type of fun. He encounters a girl named Farah when she was performing on the stage and he somewhat knows that she is the one. He manages to fix a date with her and as they get to know each other, they know that they are in love. They are having a great time getting to know each other

Let's get back to, Ayesha. She is married to a narcissistic and dominating guy who is innocently names Manav. He is the kind of guy who thinks the girls should stay home and cook and should not work.  Even after the obstacle of marriage Ayesha does not let it tamper with her independence and stands tall with the support of her brother. But the worst is yet to come. Ayesha is not invited on the cruise as their daughter but rather as the wife, which basically means she is not their daughter anymore. On the cruise, she finds out that her boyfriend Sunny has come back from USA. They had a history together before Ayesha's (supporting) father decides to send him abroad for better studies. Now he's back and she still does not know if she's over him or not!

There are other love birds flying around the salty sea too but should only be revealed if you watch the whole movie. Finally, this whole movie is narrated by a dog. Don't let it discourage you since he's a wise dog, and is present to witness every important moment of the film. The dog's name is Pluto Mehra. You surely will love him as he is the most sane being in the family. Now for the real questions. Will Ayesha get back with her boyfriend? Do Kabir and Farah have a future together? Will Kamal Mehra succeed in his quest to save the company? How does the dog know everything? Who knows? Certainly not you, because you've not seen the movie.

 

The book Thief - A Death Defining Book

Everyone is familiar with death, but no one welcomes it. For some reason, we all dread the phenomenon of rotting away and forgotten by people of our own, even though rotting away helps in the betterment of our environment. Even if some people do not dread it, they don't particularly welcome it either. Even after being the most common and inevitable phenomenon ever in the human history, we as humans have always tried to avoid it. But for one particular girl, death has avoided her. As narrated by death itself, you'll know how he revolves around the girl.

Leisel Meminger is a Jew. May not be surprising now, but in the reign of Hitler it was a crime unless you looked like a true Aryan, blonde with blue eyes. Which just proves how lucky she was. Very lucky. It was as if she was born to evade death.

Leisel Meminger's mother had an arrangement for Leisel and her brother to live a life, not guaranteed if happy or not. She was being given to the Hubermann's, foster parents living on Himmel Street, Molching. As she is going in a train to Molching, still adjusting to fact that she would be separated from her mother. Travelling nonetheless, it was as if she had a visit from a friend, but it did not come to take her. Her brother had died while sleeping on the train, beside her. It was as if she could feel Death scoop her brother and take him away, her first interaction with her new friend. The train stops at Munich for track repairs and the family with two guards come down to discuss what to do with Werner. They go to the Gravediggers to give him a proper burial. It was snowing heavily and the ground was frozen but the Gravedigger and the apprentice manage to dig the ground up. While that was happening, her eyes fell on the book which the apprentice had put down, The Gravedigger's Handbook. She was unnaturally attracted towards, even though she didn't know how to read or write. She picked up the book anyway, and that's how our Book Thief's journey started, books changing her life forever.

When Leisel saw the Hubermann's receiving her at her house, she had no idea that her life would change more drastically in a few years than she ever could imagine. Hans Hubermann was the friendly father, he was the one who read to her most of the nights, helped her wash the bed sheets whenever she had nightmares. He was so amazing that he even helped her complete her ambition, to read and write herself. He became the father Leisel sorely wanted. Rosa on the other hand, became a disciplinarian, always trying to discipline her and bend to her ways. No one actually knows her true colours until she just has to rip apart the cold hard wall she had enclosed her heart in.

Through the course of acquainting and adjusting to her life she got two friends. Max, a Jew on the run and Rudy, the best friend. Both the friendships were poles apart from each other but they both were very special to her. To put in context, if she stole fruits and books with Rudy all those activities rushing with adrenaline, she sat there calmly with Max in the basement of her house, in a serene manner, watching him read and write. Max was always like a brother to her, she obviously dreaded that her family is hiding a Jew in their basement, but she loved his company. Rudy was, the best friend. Nothing more, she spent most her time with him. They were out there, stealing food with their gang. Their personal thing they developed was stealing books from the house of the mayor of Munich, just living across Himmel Street. That automatically became their own thing, only shared between them two.

Just with the exception of the occasional bomb blast which required the neighbors to go into an approved bunker safe for shelter, all was well. But suddenly, a gust of wind blew and crashed her castle of life. The wind was blown by death. This time, death was much more cruel, he turned her back on her.

So here is Leisel Meminger, the one who continued to amuse death and steal books. A Jew in Nazi Germany, her tale of survival. Evading the most dreaded phenomenon in all of human history every single time. Now, you just have to pick up the book and explore the rest of her.

This, is just a summary of a great and revolutionalising book, it only highlights the major events of the book. So people, I hope I put up a decent review after such a long time.

Angels and Demons-Race against time for relegion

Angels and Demons features a Harvard symbology professor who gets in a race to save a religion from crumbling down.

Robert Langdon is living his life peacefully, teaching symbology at Harvard, breaking co-ed's hearts, living in his small comfortable apartment filled with various symbols and artifacts in history. In short all is awesome. Until one day he gets a call and a fax from a well renowned company CERN. The director Maximilian Kohler is a guy of authority who can operate his kingdom from a wheelchair. He encounters a certain situation which requires the special eyes and brains of a symbologist, naturally he selected a well known professor of Harvard.

Langdon is flown to the headquarters of CERN located in Switzerland where he has the chance to walk on the same soil noble prize laureate's have walked on (He even plays catch with one!). He has been lead to a personal laboratory of Leonardo Vetra, a well known physicist and a priest, where he has been found murdered. Where Langdon's expertise comes in is that Leonardo has been branded by the ambigram of Illuminati and one of his eyes has been gouged out. Surprisingly, there was no police on the premise as there was a murder in one of the world's well known scientific organization, Maximilian Kohler gave the theory that he did not wish to involve the police as it would bring bad publicity to CERN, and would create fear around the company (Yes, only a select few people know about Vetra and Maximilian is a good man).

Illuminati was a top secret and the most influential brotherhood ever to walk the earth. But was said to be dissolved in the 1700's. A three hundred year old top secret organization to have come back surely stroke a spur of fear across hearts.

The daughter of the physicist who is a marine biologist, Vittoria Vetra, came to CERN as soon  as she heard the devastating news. It was said that Vittoria and her father were working on a mission which is to be kept in absolute secrecy. As she lands, Maximilian pressurizes her to tell him about the secret project as it may be the cause of Leonardo's death. What comes to light is that the father-daughter duo was making anti matter, which is highly explosive if it comes in contact with any matter, and could power whole cities for days. So of course it was for the good of humanity.

As it happens, someone steals it. Presumably it's the brotherhood for obvious and fairly imprinted reasons. Robert Langdon works his mind and comes to know that the Brotherhood is finally going to avenge it's nemesis, the Church. He guesses that the anti matter bomb is in the Vatican and no one knows about it. Now, the symbologist and the marine biologist go on a quest against time to save a religion who gave us Jesus (Jesus Christ, that's heart racing!). The fact that they are selecting the new Pope makes it all the more crucial for the bomb to be stopped.

As they both are racing against time, there is an executioner in the Vatican who is going to first terrorize the Church by trying to kill the four most preferred Cardinals for Pope in the most terrible and painful way. As it is known by all, the brotherhood did not worship Jesus or any god's sanctioned by the Church but worshiped Science. In those times, for science there were four main elements who made the earth, namely Earth, Fire, Water and Air. To strike some fear in the hearts of the Church the executioner killed all those four Cardinals by those elements. How all of this unfolds and how many survive from this deadly explosive is only known by reading the book.      

F.R.I.E.N.D.S - keeping up with the definition

Hey readers, my apologies for being inactive, you missed me right? right? Anyway, the reason for me being inactive are the dreaded exams and a vacation to hills. Anyway, I am back into action and I hope to give you some decent reviews. This review is going to be about one of the most sensational shows ever aired in the nineties! F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Friends is a daily soap which was first aired in September 22, 1994. The fact that it went on for ten whole years proves that it was one of the most sensational show of all time.
This show is about six best friends, three women and three men, namely Joey Tribbiani, Ross Geller, Chandler Muriel Bing, Pheobe Buffay, Monica Geller, and Rachel Green. They live in the same apartment complex in New York. Honestly, their friendship will make super glue blush. They stick by each other no matter what. The best thing, they had no romance between them which never created an awkward situation for the rest of them. This show tells the public about the ideal friendship. They all pulled each others legs at every opportunity they got but never left the others back, never allowing the faith and trust to simmer down.

Now a little about the characters :
Joey, this one was a total womanizer. He practically reeled women in with his amazingly good looks and personality. He has a passion for acting and tries his best to pursue it. Even though he has been selected in numerous acting shows, eventually he was removed for reason or another. He lives in an apartment owned by his best friend, Chandler. Even though those six are close, the both are closer. Not in that way of course, they are best buds. Period. Chandler also pays for every expense of Joey along with his own, from food to acting classes, everything. Take it as an example of their friendship.

Now how can the two buds be separated right?
Chandler is an exceptionally sarcastic man, not because he wants to be liked but because he has a tragic history. His parents were separated when he was young and he started using sarcasm as a defense mechanism, so he replies with a sarcastic comment (let's be kind) ninety percent of the time. Now this seems pretty miserable, but believe me he is not the depressing type. He enjoys his life with Joey, does stupid shit and live life. Not at all miserable.

Now coming to the women, Pheobe is like the feminine version of Chandler, only that she does not have a bud like Joey. Although she has a downright miserable history with her parents she manages to get through that heartbreaking faith and move on. Her hobbies are singing and playing. Even though she plays guitar just above average she compensates with second rate lyrics of the song. She sings pretty well but likes to make an unintentional fool of herself with sarcastic remarks. The best part, she does not mind. She is totally the weird person who acts all different on public places and is pretty stupid at first talk, but she may be the greatest person to hangout with when you get to know her.

Even though it was so difficult to pick out only three characters to write about, but they are pretty exceptional in their own light. This show is one the most longest running shows in T.V. history and, of course, the most adaptable. This show will delicately thrown light on true friendship all mixed with funny and romance romance (yes, there is a little). If you like the review, you will fall for the show. It may be great for binge watching for its long list of episodes and ten seasons. Needless to say, a must watch.  

  

The Neighbors - Out of the world

There are different kinds of neighbors in every locality. There is an uncle that, by any chance if the ball goes into his lawn while playing, it will never return. His lawn became the Bermuda triangle for balls. But in a show like The Neighbors, if the ball went into the neighbors lawn, it would first go through thorough examination of its atomic density, type of material and molecular mass. Just because they have never seen a peculiar object such as a ball. Being from outer space has it's perks. Let me clear it up, it is not a mistake. The neighbors really are from outer space.

Marty Weaver is just a responsible and caring father and a husband who happens to come across the locality of Hidden Hills, New Jersey, with its own golf course. I think it was the golf course which swung them off, but they thought their new home would be extraordiany. Which it was, more or less.

As they shifted, they noticed that all the other houses were inhabited by humans, well, at least who looked like humans. They start to notice that their neighbors habits are not, earthly. They travel in golf carts, the whole locality wears the same clothes as everybody else, everyday. Their names resemble famous people on earth. I think their social behavior is also taken from the magazines. It can even be that they think Justin Beiber is a good singer. There were a number of other plausible causes too.

Larry Bird, with his wife Jackie Joyner-Kersee who introduces himself as the leader of the community is the first to meet the Weavers and simultaneously break the news that they are from a planet called Zabrovan and assure the Weavers that they will experience which is never before experienced. As they are the only earthly family in the locality, Larry Bird always turns to them for advice on human psyche. Which is annoying because it feels like teaching a forty year old infant.

As the show progresses on the Weavers starts to realise that the Zabrovians are not so unpleasant to be around with, as long as they do not clap their hands twice and reveal their true form. They also realise that they are so important to their neighbors, who rely on them for practically everything. As the show progresses they realise that their decision of moving to the locality was not so bad afterall.

Don't you think I have done enough of TV shows? I think I'll do a book next time.

Masterchef Australia - A one of a kind culinary show

Masterchef Australia was first aired on April 27, 2009. Since then, it has had a meteoric rise. Masterchef, being a cooking show franchise has other adaptions from countless countries. Australia obviously being part of a part of it. Other adaptations also include Masterchef US, Masterchef India and many more. In my opinion, the Australian one gracefully rises above all and shines, so obviously being my favourite. There are even four major series of Masterchef franchise, The normal Masterchef, Masterchef Professionals, Masterchef juniors and Masterchef All-Stars.    

To talk about Masterchef Australia and it's franchise, it is apparently the most watched television show in Australia. Predictable. It has completed over six seasons, each one predictably better than the last. The show is judged and hosted by three fabulous cooks in this world. Gary Mehigen, George Calombaris and Matt Preston. Everybody has each other's qualities but Gary's personality, George's supportive and friendly nature and Matt's wise and strict judgement makes this trio perfect.

In season six Of Australia, the show was graced by the visit of Kylie Kwong, Heston Blumenthal and the legend of cooking, Marco Pierre White. They three shared their exceptional knowledge of cooking and gave a fresh perspective on altering the traditional classical dish into a modern delicacy. Kylie even mentored the the contestant running for the immunity pin. I must tell you, some of the home cooks have the Midas touch in cooking. A guy named Brent Owens won this one, he was also a home cook like everyone and he especially struggled to stay in the competition. That guy went through every elimination except one, that too a team challange. Now that folks, is pure determination, will-power and hard work.

Overall, season six was as lip-smacking and an amazing ride into the culinary world. I hope this review was at least half as good as the show, because if it is, then I have compelled you to watch it. I would seriously love to do that, maybe you will be salivating and even despise your home food temporarily after watching the show. See ya! have a good day.
       

How to get away with murder - A stop for drama, suspense and crime

So as told,  here is a review on another television show I was obsessing about.

Annalise Keating is a defence lawyer who is also teaching at Middleton Law School. At the first day of college it is known thats it's a rat race to acquire the top position, for that everyone will hog on to the law books, memorize all the unusual cases, and just try to get to the top.

Annalise, for her law firm, hires top five students from her class as her assistant. To make matters more interesting, she gives a reward, a trophy to the most outstanding student in her class. This trophy will not be just a momento to grace your shelf, this trophy will give you the power to slip away from any one test planned on the whole year, even the end term exams. It has only one use, and when it is handed back, it will be up for grabs again. You even have to maintain the lead or else it will slip away from your fingers as if it is coated with butter. Needless to say, it is easy to have the trophy snatched than earned and only one of the top five she appoints will get it.

In the first episode our protagonist, Wes Gibbins manages to barely enter the university, escaping the black hole of reservation list. He can't make a good first impression and stammers in class, which is like the Achilles heel for lawyers. He gets his first assignment, which is to get a suitable defense (apart from Annalise's) for a case she has taken. He manages to impress the professor and paves his way as one of her assistants. Along with four other, Conner Walsh, Laurel Castillo, they solve the case at hand while Wes manages to know some secrets involving Annalise and her husband Sam.

Between the present day scenario they show snippets of past, in which Wes and other assistants are carrying the husband in a forest, to burn him, so that the DNA is destroyed. I know there are questions, How? Why? What? Everything is answered in the show by showing us the snippets of the past with the daily case Annalise gets gradually revealing what is happening. So it really is worth at least an hour's of your time, I hope you like this one. Again, get a scratcher. You will be greatful.

Castle - A show worth swooning over

Okay, as promised, I am writing on one of my favorite shows. Castle. Just to clear it up now, it's not a PLACE! It's a name of a writer. Richard Castle The most amazing writer that America (even though fictional) has ever spawned in their television history. Now, this was personal perspective, I may be wrong to some people. So no suing the blogger which gives you crappy reviews. Anyway, he is a guy worth being gay for. I am just telling how amazing he is, I actually am not gay. I don't care if they have started their season seven. I will still write about it.

As every writer needs inspiration, Richard "Rick" Castle who has written many books on crime, murder and mystery has found his inspiration in the twelfth Precinct of New York city. The inspiration turns out to be a cop (duh) known as Detective Kate Beckett. She is a mind blowing homicide detective with honour, integrity and courage embedded in her.

Rick Castle, is one childish (always), hyperactive (sometimes), and a brilliant wordsmith (obviously) of a writer! Needless to say, a detective like her does not like a writer like him. But she has no choice. As she goes through the journey to have him by her side all day with his childishness and stupidity she finds him way over mildly annoying. He spent a day with her and thinks he has found his inspiration for his next crime novel, Nikki Heat. So, yeah, for further research, he stays.

Castle not only observes but also participates by giving crazy and speculated theories on who might be guilty and what the motive of this heinous crime of sending an innocent soul (or not) away from the earth might be. Great Castle, another reason for her to hate you. Anyway, as they both spend time together, Kate realises that he can be a fun guy to hang around with, slowly they trudge along the path of of friendship and partnership.

So that's it folks, all the other things will be clear in the show. I hope this review is worth your time, just watch the one hour episode, you'll not be disappointed. Next up is another review on a TV show.

   

A synopsis of Egyptian myths

I'm going to answer what my stalker (if I have one) must be thinking about all the time. Why was I inactive these days? I was too busy swooning over two of the most amazing shows in the United States television. That's for another review, for now bear with this synopsis of 'Rick's bundle of Egyptian myths.

THE DEMON DAYS:
The demons days were created by the sky goddess, Nut, for her and the earth's (Shu) children to be born in. Yes, they made out. No biggie! They are just the sky and the earth. Was she an over-pampering mom who wanted to pamper her children so much such as to give them their own days? Actually, no. The real thing was that the sun god Ra came across the prophecy that the children of the sky and the earth will take over the throne of the pharaoh, of which Ra was taking pleasures of. So he got all freaked out and forbid Nut to bear children to bear children on any of the three sixty days of the year (Then it was five days less). Harsh. So now Nut out-smarted Ra by gambling with the moon to gather enough moon light to create five separate days! And yes you can do that. But people, gambling is bad and with the moon it's worse, ask Carter and Sadie they'll tell you. After those days were made, Nut bear five children, one on each day, Set, Nephtys, Osiris, Horus and Isis. So if you think you had a miserable year then you know whom to contact to complain on how the year is too long. Though I hope no one had a miserable year.

PATH OF THE GODS:
This is a type of magic which can help you to use the power of the gods by channeling it through your body. This magic is very volatile and can damage you till, let's say, irreparable body parts. That's the con. What's the pro? You can have the devine power of the Gods. You can have cool combat avatars wrapped around your body which can act as a shield too (Carter did it). You can produce big fists to knock out your enemies, it is advised not to try it on mortals. But you have to keep it all under control, if you become too greedy the power of the Gods will eat you up. If you try to channel too much power you will blast to smithereens (I mean die). Scary? it should be. Millions of years ago when the Egyptian culture flourished the path of the Gods was legal and people used it extensively on combat (it even helped them to bring snacks from the other room without getting up). But people got greedy and jealous of others (why can he do that? I want to do that too!) they started fighting each other and channeled too much power and were dying in great numbers. So the path of the Gods was forbidden and the Gods were buried deep into the Du'at.

OSIRIS:
I am just doing this part because I think he is a cool God. This God is the Lord of the Dead. I mean can you believe it? He is the judge of millions of dead people in this world! He can decide which damned or pure soul will go where. Well actually he does not decide it, he has an assistant named Anubis who (according to girls) is to die for. He is an extremely hot, with good fashion sense and respect for ladies, God of death rituals. Anubis also keeps the feather of truth which is used for knowing whether one soul is pure or not. The feather is kept on one side of a weighing scale and the dead's heart at the other. If the scales are balanced then the heart is pure if the feather is heavy then......
Osiris also has a cute yet devouring pet with a crocodile's mouth, he's not a crocodile though, who likes to eat the heart of the damned.
There is one more thing which is mind-blowingly interesting. Carter and Sadie's dad hosts Osiris, even though unintentionally. So the cool God is in an amazing dad cum Egyptian lecturer's body.

So that's it for this time readers, I hope you like it. I want you people to like it. That's why I write after all. I will write a review on the couple of shows I was swooning over. Soon. They are really a couple of nail biting shows. After all, a detective drama series and a sexy, thriller, suspense based on the court are ought to be amazing and nail biting. See ya readers.

He's the great author who made my life full of adventure

  

I know the drawings are not great but that's how it is

Serpents Shadow - Ma'at restored

Okay now, this is my final post.....of this blog project. You can't get rid of my writing very easily. Internet will suffer in silence taking in my writing for years! Bwahaha! Too much? Sorry.

Now this book is the final in the series. The final battle. Apparently, our giant, immortal, funky and chaotic snake, Apophis, is slithering around the world gathering followers either by fear or respect. His master plan is that he will swallow the sun so that the earth is plunged in an eternal sea of chaos and he can rule it afterwards. This particular snake can be the cause of immortal back pain I tell you. Now as always Sadie and Carter to the rescue! They have a weapon which, is a spell, if performed correctly, will send Apophis so deep in the Du'at that he may never to rise again. There is one tiny problem (as always). They are actually not so experienced with spell books, so they talk to the author of the book, who has been dead for some centuries. How? Their dad is the god of death now. Don't ask how THAT happened, it will take a whole other post. So, they ask the author to help them (whose name is Setne by the way) and he agrees to help. Now another problem, they have to use the spell in the shadow of Apophis, which is in the middle of the most dangerous and chaotic part of the Du'at (duh). Why is it not joined to him? Because as it goes, the shadow is one of five parts of you, essential for you to be complete, quite literally. Isn't shadow just a projection kind of thingy? Later please. Now the review.

So will our magical duo of siblings be able to stop our snake in time? Will they be able to perform the spell correctly? What will will be the plethora of dangers they will face? And yeah one more, they have to wake the sun god fully now. Who is now acting like a toddler. How will they babysit AND and save the world? All in the book.