Love's up for sale!!

Interesting concept we have in this world and one of them is Valentine's day.....yaa we all know all the mush in the world happens on that day!! But seriously, love never got so hyped or let's just say overpriced....ahh to be a woman on such days!! Gifts, spiffy dinner and all the jazz!

I could not help relating the same to an advert running on TV, where the girl is thinking "what shall i give him for his birthday?" ....sorry boys she ends up giving him nothing. We tried out something in real life, we all went out with the girls of our office, and one of the guys suggested we came up with the idea of treating u girls and selecting the place, why don't you foot the bill!!

Sadly, so much for women empowerment, we did end up splitting the bill (fortunately).....long way to go boys!! lol ;) Aah, to be a woman!

126 planes...lot of drool

I was at the Aero India Show recently, and had a whale of a time there. It is rare to find so much high tech stuff thrown around you. So everyone was talking 16,18,30mki,35....no these are not numbers these are the fighters that are present there...F-16,F-18,Sukhoi 30s and Mig 35! Most of the planes were impressive, and clearly Mig 35 was the crowd favourite.

During the stall visits i happened to chat up with one of the Marketing Executives of Lokheed Martin, just to get a feel of their take....and man was i dissapointed! Their perception of the comman Indian was filled with utmost cockiness about themselves. Yes, you are putting your F-16s on display but then did you not sell the same to Pakistan...who is a rogue state? And why would India want to take a risk of buying from US when if something wrong happens(god forbid) you will not supply it on time....to which he replied the relation is between companies? My friend F-16s were and are stalled to pakistan due to govenment delibrations!!

What I strongly believe that whenever India asks for the big order...we should rely more on the russians who have maintained a stedy relation...come what may...and yes...Gripen from the sweds is also a good option!! That is my take...a lot more happens in India...so let's all see how the biggest order in defence history of India Materialises!!

Shattered Glass

This was an interesting movie on journalists (2003) starring Hayden Christensen. The storyline is In the wake of the scandal at the New York Times, in which journalist Jayson Blair contrived sources and quotes, Shattered Glass offers a potent exploration of another journalist's motivations for doing similar in the magazine world in the 1990s. As the youngest staff member of the political magazine The New Republic, Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen) is bylined month after month, and his writing has such verve, such power, such wit and humor that he's getting calls to freelance for all the best publications. He's also a really nice guy, complimenting the secretary's lipstick and helping new writers find their footing. Nice as he is, though, Glass is also a little childish: He tends to pout; he's always asking fact checkers and editors to help him out with his stories; and he's going to law school because his parents "made him." Because he's such a nice, sweet, innocent kid, nobody suspects the somewhat outrageous stories he files are anything but true--until two writers at Forbes Digital pull the thread that causes Glass' carefully stitched web of lies to unravel. For more on the movie click or the whole review : http://www.hollywood.com/review/Shattered_Glass/1732752

Now comes the real reason why I thought this movie is relavant. We look at the media stories we find stark reality starring into our faces. Don't we see many of these people around us? On electronic media we see "sensational breaking news" everyday.....the relavance is mostly at the lowest common denominator. Come to think of it, Shilpa Shetty got read and talked more about than say Tata bagging Corus! DUMBING DOWN never got clobbered on to us with such continuity. Or say the perceived conflict between SRK and Amithab Baccachan. Irrelavance is today becoming so relavant today that the truth is seemingly being forgotten or kept under wraps and conviniently forgotten.

Glass story is increasingly relavant to all of us as he doctured up something, made it look like a true story and got rave reviews....what is happening right now in India is similar, frivilous gets all the attention while the true story lies somewhere in between. We Indians pride ourselves for having emotional depth, a transition perhaps to becoming shallow. Talk about, Chalta Hai attitude emerging into a new avtaar!!

Here i am
Lost in the light of the moon
That comes through my window
Bathed in blue
The walls of my memory
Divides the thorns
from the roses
It’s you and the roses
Touch me and i will follow
In your afterglow
Heal me from all this sorrow
As i let you go I will find my way
When i see your eyes
Now i’m living In your afterglow
Here i am
Lost in the ashes of time
But who owns tomorrow
In between
The longing to hold you again
I’m caught in your shadow
I’m losing control
My mind drifts away
We only have today
Touch me and i will follow
In your afterglow
Heal me from all this sorrow
As i let you go
I will find my way
I will sacrifice
Till that blinding day
When i see your eyes
Now i’m living
In your afterglow
When the veils are gone
As i let you go
As i let you go
Touch me and i will follow
In your afterglow
Heal me from all this sorrow
As i let you go
I will find my way
I will sacrifice
Now i’m living
In your afterglow
Bathed in blue
The walls of my memory
Divides the thorns from the roses
It’s you who is closest

-JD Fortune,INXS

A song that reminds me of a relationship that ended, gives me the strength to move forward.