Dreams: I really dreamed!!

I am having few weird dreams for last few weeks. Though its really difficult to remember them all but few of them I have tried here to reminisce.

• I was sitting along with so many people around me. But I was the only one able to feel rotation of earth- it felt like earth was literally slipping off my feet. It made me feel as in I am going to fall of earth into infinite space. Also, someone in US is chatting at the same time on messenger with me but because of the effect of rotation I am not able to type things correctly.
  
• There is a big mirror in the sky where I can see the reflection of the whole American continent (Few days before this dream I had an idea of putting a big mirror in the sky so that the during the night time sun light is reflected back converting nights into days). Plus, I am able to see light traveling from mirror to my place. And once it reaches my eye then I am able to see that image in the mirror (truly world class imagination!!).
  
• I am at a place somewhere near my hometown. There I met some guy. He told me I met him at some place(which I am sure in the dream that it exists). I recognized him immediately but this time he was with his wife(whom i haven't met in the past. and she looked like a Mallu converted to Christianity). He told he can meet me anytime and gave his mobile number.
  From here scene of dream changes and now I at my home. I had a vibration feeling in my pocket. When I checked it there was some very fundoo, eye catchy yellow-black mobile in my pocket which I haven't seen anywhere before. It had received a SMS-"I met u yesterday with my wife, Instead of giving you my mobile no, I gave u my mobile itself. Please return it to my wife".I searched his wife name, S***(I have forgotten it now, but I remembered it earlier when I told my friends about my dream) in the phonebook, but it was not there. After that I was so disturbed in sleep- how to return this mobile? At last I woke up.
  
• One of my college friend here in my office comes up with a problem that the most beautiful girl in our office is always behind him and not letting him go anywhere(yeah thats his problem!!) .(Few days ago I was surprised to see both of them together at a public function of our office)
• I wanted to go to toilet in my office but I was unable to find it on any of the floors. At last I found one open air toilet on the ground floor where on entering the scene became unbearable to me. There are no urinals and people were just using it like a roadside thing with everyone peeing on walls itself(color was full yellowish and greenish).
  
• I am in a building where Koreans have captured few people and one of them is a small girl. I got them run from the place. My dream went on for I don't how much of time, but in the whole dream I kept on running with them-forests, jumping walls, climbing mountain slopes, sliding snow falls,etc. It ended when I reached my hometown kinda place though it was not my hometown.

I remembered few more but now I am not able to remember them while writing this post. I don't know whether its my imagination which is doing so much of work or am I not mentally at peace. But all through my life I have been having so many weird dreams and few of them- ghostly, gore, friendly, humorous etc- have stuck in my memory for forever.

Unique or First time Experiences!!

I am going to complete 1 and 1/2 years of my stay here in Bangalore in few days, 13th Jan to be exact. These 18 months have been marked some first time and unique experience of my life- enough to be listed in a post.

• Live -In is not a big thing nowadays. But to leave your room for the sake of Live-In for your friend is indeed a unique experience for anyone. And yeah mind u that I stayed in the dining hall of the same house. And here comes the surprise- the girl was not just any girl but a Brazilian coming all alone from Brazil just for the sake of my good friend. The girl was awesome to be friend with and for those 2 months our rented house became a home for the first time. Breakfast at home; clean each and every corner of the house even bathrooms; snacks while watching movies at home; there were so many things that she was the one to be responsible for. Watching hindi movies, mythological discussions (explaining so many hindu gods and goddesses, their incarnations and cricket are the most difficult things to explain) ,cricket, fights, compromises- there were so many things that happened.
• Not many people will have an experience of getting into a Panga immediately after entering in the corporate life, and that too because of a girl. The reason was too ridiculous- an orkut thread on our bakait community hurting feelings of few people, a girl and two boys. But there were too many friends (especially HB) that I made over here in 2 months to take care of everything that came up. But it was really unique in a sense to have a fight in front of office reception with around 25 people for me, a pure college day fight. I wonder as in I didn't faced such a situation whole my life but ended up facing it at the start of corporate life. But it was too childish from the other end!!
  
• 1st time Abroad experience for me. A 2 and 1/2 month stay in Suwon, korea was indeed an experience to cherish for a long time.
• Watching a live cricket match for the first time in life in cricket ground. And that too a India-Pak test match. What to want more when there were already- a double century by Ganguly, century by Pathan, 6 sixes, Kumble' successful LBW appeal, Indian team's fielding, etc
• Not many people would be having time to do the same kinda things, that they used to do in college, in their corporate life. But I am still able to continue the thing that i used to do with best of interests in college days. 4 skits doesn't sound too many but still a relief and refreshing change from the regular work. And yeah the prize money and treats for them are too big to compare with that of college days.
  
• So many bike trips- Nandi Hills, MekeDatu, Hogenakkal (there are too many places to visit in an around bangalore)
  
• Car Trips: Mysore, Skandhagiri
• New friends: People make friends during school, college and then at the 3rd stage of corporate life. I knew many friends who went to different IITs and then made many friends at IITD. Then again here i had been enjoying company of so many friends from different IITs who joined along with me. Many of them started fresh for new destinies but few still here with me enjoying the days over here again and again.
  
• After getting out from IITD, first time realized the importance of IIT and that sometimes do become a reason of frustration on seeing so many people around here whose sole aim was to reach the point where they are standing now. But journey also involved knowing so many non IITian talented, good people around here. (especially in the team to which i belong).
• And after all these, there have been happening so many things on personal life end too.

May be I missed few others, but these 18 months have been eventful on one end and monotonous on the other. And that is how I guess life is supposed to be.

Korea: Experiences continues....

I am finally returning on 22nd september to Bangalore. It will be 2 & 1/2 month by then. Though most probably it remains the same as it was when I came over here, apart for that my enthu for CAT doesn't remains the same.

Over the time, I made some good friends over here. I felt every moment that Koreans are by far good people at heart. Most importantly "Kid" at both heart and mind. And their hospitality has been the best. The worst part is they work too hard and expect same from others. Anyways, thats the reason for where they are Now. And most interestingly, girls over here always look much younger than they actually are.

Some beliefs that I had about the place before coming here got changed with time - girls still hesitate in talking about the relationship status; they are no longer senti with their own languauge; SAMASUNG,though being a Korean private company, its like "Sarkari company" for them but with more devotion towards work; India is not very popular over here in general public though better than most of the Asian Countries; people dont care or know much about other than their own place; commmunication is much more difficult than I thought of, etc. In fact if one lives here for long time, one will forget the use of verbs, prepositions, conjunctions and will only talk in terms of subjects and key words.

The most interesting incident that I will remember forever will be the one that I had on my first trip to Seoul. You never expects anyone to call you in this ChinkiLand in your familior tongue. Though I dont remember his name(their first names are anyway very difficult to remember and last name will always be one of the four guesses that you can make) but the way he was speaking Hindi was even shameful for one of my friends (who is from kerela and speaks a little Hindi). He was there organizing the youth film festival and invited us to watch films. The way he started it looked to me as he was trying to catch attraction of our group for the films. But in the next moment he was speaking though not very fluent but appreciable hindi. And guess what?He was able to write as well. My disgraced friend in no time tried to get lost in crowd before I could start teasing him. We could not refuse his request for watching films and that also for free in the multiplex. At last it turned out to be a nice Romanian film. The most astonishing fact is he was upto that level in 6 months during his stay in India. He tried to contact us later also. But in my busy schedule over here I was not able to contact him back. May be will meet him someday in my own country.

There are many more things to cover. I will try to continue with such posts.

Experiences & Realization

So I have completed 60 days outside my homeland today. When I look back at these 60 days which went by at the speed of light for me I, it reminds me of the experiences and realizations that I had at some point of times within this period. Most of them happened only on weekends because of the kind of work that kept me engaged for weekdays (abt 12-13 hrs a day) and sometimes on weekends too. And I am writing the blog, I dont why, on the day when I came to know my final day of returning which has been postponed thrice and will be making my stay here for about 2 and a half months. The visit to so many places can be seen over here(http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/tej.nishant.shekhar).

This has been for the first time that two of the festivals (out of millions in INDIA) Rakshabandhan and Janmashtami went by without myself knowing that half of it is already over. But then I do realized the importance of so many festivals back at home. Here in Korea they have a some kind of celebration (thanksgiving) in the last week of sep., the biggest for them after Christmas and people out here with an excitement in their eyes asked me about any such thing clebrations happening in India. When I told them about some or the other things happening almost every month they were quite amazed to know more about it.

And along with it INDEPENDENCE DAY was also during this period, though kinda the mood here was same, with Korean Independance Day falling on the same day. Infact attended a function for joint celebration of Indian and Korean Indepeneance Day which was quite a unique experience (http://picasaweb.google.com/arunsdevine/IndependenceDayJointCelebration).

Along with these there have been many other things to talk about which I will do in my next post.

Movie Reviews

As usual, I watched a lot of movies for last few weeks and thought of writing reviews for them

• Shootout at Lokhandwala(**&1/2) :A bigtime manly film with so many heroes (many playing villains) that few of then did not get enough space in the whole film. Its a Vivek Oberoi film (reminding Company) with Sanjay Dutt and Suniel Shetty playing their usual stuff. God knows whenTusshar kapoor will start acting like actor, but still better than his previous films, it seems until unless her sister is involoved in the film he is not going to get any roles(atleast for which acting is desired). A gud entertainer as whole. Camera work required a better work. Dark yellow colour of the film suited the film best. Apoorva Lakhia did made a film in a way which he had been talking all these days.
• Cheeni Kum(**&1/4): Amitabh Bachhan can make a mediocre film look like a gud entertainer. This can be seen for a different style where, instead of routine bollywood treatment of old-young affairs with heavy and emotional dialogues, director kept the situation under control with crisp and light weighted dialogues which will make you either laugh, smile or enjoy rather than just cursing him for the heaviness. 2nd half is better, but for one sequence. Big B and Tabu complemented each other really well which was missing in Nishabd. I watched both of the above films back to back in the theatre and guess what? I got the same seat as well. So it was like watching a long film with three breaks. And it really also showed AB's ability, from an old guy romancing a girl whose father is younger to him to a Lawyer making a judge realize what Police do when it really means business.
• Metro(***):This film is must watch being one of the best so far in the year. Look out for Irfan and Konkana, the star couple of the film. Irfan again showed why he is a class act. KK is the 3rd person to look out for. Rest of the cast played the roles given to them with sincerity. But its actually the script and the screenplay which makes the film worth watching. It captures everything-the stars, all stories, all ages, positives, negatives, timing, their interleaving-so well that it never gives u a moment to keep urself out from the plots going on in the film. MUST WATCH-thats how it can be summed up.
• Bheja Fry(***&1/4):When I came out after watching this film I said "Its the best film I have seen in this year". If you rarely watch films, lets say once or twice in a year, than this is the one you should go. Vinay Pathak aka Bharat Bhusan is awesome. Its a full situational comedy with no scope for cheap or double meaning dialogues. Some situations (its ringing/redial/opening of briefcase) keeps on peaking during the film, everytime it happens it looks better than the previous time. Go out for this film and you will forget everything, but laughing for one and half hours. Bharat Bhusan will not give you time to deviate from his acts and dialogue delivery. BEST FILM OF THE YEAR.
• Ta Ra Rum Pum(**&1/2): A full family entertainer, "live ur life, live ur dreams" funda film. Lead roles have been played superbly which makes film worth watching. Few squences(car crashes/races) have been shot really gud which makes you feel bollywood is coming of age. Background acore by Vishal-Shekhar is another attraction. I watched it twice in the theatre.
  
• 140 ki last local(**): A proper boyish film. I found people who came up with their family or GFs looked embarrased with the kind of jokes and language used in the film, otherwise would have enjoyed it a lot as we people did. An average incident based film with a good, different script. I would say a good time pass where you can enjoy the kind of dialogues like Uncle maachis milegi kya, aag lagani hai.....aunty bhi chalegi. Average acting by the cast and a gud background score especially "Laaree choote" which has been a big hit.