Friday, June 09, 2006

The Black & White Days!


Are dreams black and white (B & W)?? No, I do get colour dreams. But some other things are definitely black and white - the olden days! It's a very simple, yet thought-provoking issue.

Think about the days of the Indian freedom struggle - Nehru, Netaji, Gandhiji...everyone appears B&W in front of our eyes! However much I try to imagine my grandparents in their teens, I just cannot envision them in coloured clothing. Forcing colours into their days, seems to make everything phony.

Why does this happen? Is there a scientific explanation to this? Or is this merely the influence of prolonged exposure to B&W photography?!

The first aircraft by Wright brothers...Abraham Lincoln...the World Wars...The Ford Thunderbird...The Russian Revolution...EVERYTHING IN BLACK AND WHITE! Why? Why? Why???

Monday, June 05, 2006

My best F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Easily one of the funniest sitcoms ever to have hit the silver screens, F.R.I.E.N.D.S was first aired on 22 September 2004. There was no looking back after that until 6 May 2004, when the last of the 233 laugh-riot episodes was aired.

Though it is very difficult to rate the friends, I've done my best to rank them from my least favourite to the most:

6. Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston):
She's the millionaire, who turns waitress. She's real cute in the first couple of seasons, and real HOT in the next 5. But come season 8, wrinkles start getting the better of her...and even the best of make-ups dont seem to help much!
Coming to her character, she's this cute and bubbly girl, who's in the look-out for an ideal match right through-out. In the process, she gets on and off with Ross, and even gets married to him once while drunk! However, she is slisha annoying at times, compensated only by her HOTNESS (or however you put it)!

5. Monica Geller (Courtney Cox Arquette):
She's the whatever-I-do-is-correct, everything-should-be-perfect girl, who just HATES to be wrong! Her BEST acting part comes when she does "The Routine" with Ross for the New-Year's show! Simply AWESOME :D
However, too much of squeaking sometime gets on one's nerves :)

4. Ross Geller (David Schwimmer):
The guy who almost always has some sad tale to narrate, cracks everyone up with him amazing facial expressions and dialogue-delivery. With 3 failed marriages, and an unending list of flopped relationships, Ross is the guy who bears the brunt of mockeries. His best comes in the episode where he gets tanned in Season 10!
However, he tends to get monotonous after a while, spoiling the funny guy that he is meant to be.

3. Joey Tribbiani (Matt Le Blanc):
"Hey, How you doin? ;)" is probaby the BEST one line punches EVER to hit the screen. Joey, with his ever-so-late reactions, and his out-of-the-world intellect throws everyone into splits just with his neat acting. But things just go out of control in the later seasons when he's converted into a mere laughing-stock!

2. Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow):
She's probably THE funniest person on the show. Though she doesn't have that much of a story by herself, she does her part to perfection. Almost every single dialogue of hers will render a comical twist to the story! Her numbers with the guitar just cant stop bringing a smile across one's face. Especially, "Smelly Cat" ROCKS! Yay Pheebs!

1. Chandler Bing (Mathew Perry):
Unbelievably awesome! Out of the world! Mind-boggling!.... The list is endless. He is meant to be the "funny-guy" in the show and in the process has carved a niche for himself. It's so impossible to imagine the show without him (or without any one of the others for that matter, but especially w/o Mathew Perry). With a huge cauldron full of sarcasms, Chandler is probably THE BEST thing to have happened to FRIENDS.
The reaction that unfolds on Chandler's face when Joey drills through the wall so close to him, is just out of the world. 3 cheers to Chandler.

My best buds have been listed...Its your turn now guys...

Saturday, June 03, 2006

8 stories up!


I don't know how many of you guys have ever been eight stories up in chennai. But trust me, it is one of the most amazing things to have happened to me! My room in my apartment is east-facing, with windows both in the south and east directions for cross ventilation.

Come 4.30 PM, and the sea-breeze fills my room up and it's not until 8.30 at night do I feel the chilly winds recede slowly. And when it rains, the scenario is just orgasmic! OMG!

I was literally forced to write this blog cos of the amazing weather right at this moment in my room. I'm seeing lightning light up the city every other second, with soft drizzles kissing my forearms right throughout.

Do I even have to talk about my terrace...and the water tank thatz over it?? Come here guys, just to get a feel of what naturez all about..and to get to see "Chennai by Night"... S.E.X.Y! Real Sexy! :)

(No kidding, but the picture was snapped from my balcony!) Cheers...