Wake up Sid! 😉

You can guess from the title what my fav movie is. Yes! I can watch this movie n number of times without getting bored of it! Hehe

Clicheeeé I know! But it's true! There is nothing not to love about this movie. A. It's based on Mumbai. The city I love so much! Oh the last scene on Marine drive just makes me ache to back to Mumbai just to enjoy the rains! 

B. It depicts the quarter life crisis of the protagonist which so resonates with my situation! Well it has been like that since a long time :P but I'm getting there slowly.. What a coincidence! My blog alias is Sleeping sun! 😄

C. It shows the coolest places. The kind of spaces that have their own identity. The kind of places that I would make and would like to be a part of! 😊 the home that Aisha lives in, the Mumbai beats office. Oh I just love them. South Bombay ( yes Bombay not Mumbai coz I love it that way ), the streets, the bazaars etc etc etc.. I can go on and on..

D. It has a happy energy about it. It just makes you feel so upbeat about life! Like you can just reach out and pluck a dreAm from your bunch of dreams and just live it! Who wouldn't love that?

E. It is a love story! 😉 😄 I know so predictable right? But this one I like because it is more real and familiar love story. Like Aisha says "like life" not like a movie. 😊

F. It has a spirit to it. It has the emotions that touch a deep corner of your heart. And just makes there place right there. How we struggle to come out of the shadows of people who inspire us and still want them to feel proud of us ( mostly these people are our parents and/or siblings, friends etc ) , friendship, fun, struggle, daily life, neighbors.

G. It is filmed in Bandra! The place I've called home for almost a decade! I love it! And will keep going back to it like a lost soul looking for some place to call home.

H. It has all my fav actors! Anupam kher, supriyaPathak, konkona sen, Ranbir Kapoor ( was kind of obvious, this one! 😉 ) and rest of the cast. Everyone is awesome! 😊

H. It is filled with sweet moments that melt your heart. Simple ones like the terrace scene on Aisha's birthday. 

Yes I can go on and on and on about this movie. Yes I just finshed watching it yet again! And yes I can start watching it all over again right now! 😄

I watch this movie every time I'm very happy, very sad, just done with something important like a project or an exam ( yeah I'm officially done with GRE! 😉 got a decent score too ) and so it's a movie for every occasion in my life! 😋

Wow! I'm obsessed! 😂 like I don't want to! Hell yeah I'm obsessed! And I like it! 😂

If you feel like I do about this brilliant movie and you haven't watched it in a while. I suggest you better get to it! 😉

P.S: I loooooooove the songs too! 😉

Here is a picture of my freshly painted toes! 😉 it's party time! 

Monkey

Perseverance. This word! Or rather the lack of it sums up my life until now :P

You can call it lack of patience, laziness or simply getting bored with everything too easily..

Because temperance is in my nature 

I avoid digging deep as long as I can..

Depths scare me, they make me feel claustrophobic..

Maybe that makes me superficial or maybe it just makes me who I am

A monkey! Jumping from one branch to another..

Sniggering at myself when I stay on a single branch too long..

I'm apprehensive of staying too long at a branch but never too shy when jumping to the next one

Never worrying that the next branch might snap and drop me to the ground or worse still a deeper abyss..

I seek attention but when absolutely all the attention is on me I become extremely nervous and completely lose interest in doing the clown like tricks that I normally do to get that attention..

You see I'm a very image conscious monkey! :d 

So I would rather be mistaken for a statue than for a not-so-funny monkey ;)

I love myself very much and revere myself too for all the small things that probably only I appreciate about myself.

So if someone tries to show me a mirror and tell me I'm not all that whatever I think about myself, I don't like those people very much :D 

But somehow the paranoid me tries to crab me down and sometimes I totally swat it away and sometimes...well you know...

Are you a monkey too? What makes you tick? What braches have you swung on so far?

I'm a curious monkey too you see ;) 

I like finding out what makes people tick because I like to please people 

Probably I'm one of those jamura and ustaad type performing monkey..so I have to absolutely be sure how to please the crowd

If I don't know then that scares me :D

Btw so that brings me to a very intriguing question: do monkeys have a purpose like a higher purpose in our lives? Or are they just doomed to always monkey around like they have got nothing better to do? :D

Well I will leave it to you to find the answers...while I try to find some myself..

Feeling overwhelmed

Now that I have no job but a pursuit of becoming an artist by profession..

I have also developed a dilemma...

Creativity I like, looking at people's creativity, their drawings and their art I like but studying for the qualifying examination is something I keep procrastinating...

Shutting my eyes when I see the challenge looming at me to believe that it will somehow vanish by magic or sheer chance...

Some days go amazingly well when I start the day on the right note by revising my vocab, doing my routine stuff like workout at home, some house chores and gym and a healthy diet and bit of art too along with the social networking that I indulge in..

Some days are just plain poetic when I don't worry about anything study or no study I enjoy myself...

And then there are days of guilt...

When I know I need to study but I binge on other activities like house chores, internet surfing, drawing, talking to family or just thinking..and then I keep on accumulating the foreboding of the piled up to-dos for my GRE..I know they are not many, but these days have the power of making me feel sucked out of life..

Give me a headache, sometimes disturbed sleep too...

And sometimes I feel it's just my body missing the workout it was promised..

You know how they say that working out releases positive hormones in your body?

I guess that's most probably it..

Maybe, maybe not..

Maybe it's just a lack of discipline 

Or just too many distractions...

Or maybe it's my fear of failing to accomplish what I want to achieve..

I need to give myself some pep talk daily I guess so that I keep working hard...

You find it funny? :P 

But I've seen that it actually works on me...

I have never been too much into gym and fitness but I found that reading inspirational tweets has made me look forward to my workouts and observe results in myself and that makes me motivated further...

I guess I need to do the same for my studies...

Sounds like a plan! :)

Little lessons of life

In the past few months the big n small changes in my life have made my heart grow lil more..

I have learnt to love the friends that I have

I have also learned to make new friends, 

It makes me feel like I'm a child again taking the risk of opening up to strangers

I have learnt to hug and be hugged in return,

I have learnt to love deeply and be loved in return even though we know it was never meant to last

I have learnt that age doesn't matter if you can still dream,

I have learnt that happiness and sadness are always lurking at the corners 

Depends on who you notice and welcome in your life..

I have learnt to cry openly and shamelessly when it really hurts

I have learnt that sometimes when you terribly miss a friend all you can do is hope that they are doing good in their lives

I have learnt and acknowledged that I have some anger management issues :P

I have learnt that sometimes you have to be your own counsel

I have learnt to be easy and patient with myself..

I have learnt to do things that make me happy :)

And I have learnt that it's damn scary to go after your dream...

I have learnt that sometimes you wait so long for something that you forget how to be excited when it finally happens

And I have learnt that that's ok :)

I have learnt that the biggest struggle in our lives is to be in the here and now! :)

Well I guess I have learnt enough for the moment! ;)

Time to snooze for a bit! Haha! :)

Growing up

Is this what growing up feels like?

when you feel a lot but have no words to say...

when you want to do something but hold back...

because you know its for the best..

when you meet many forms of love in life but you can't understand them all so you just let them be..

when experience teaches you something your childish heart wouldn't have thought of?

what does growing up feel like?

does it feel like trying to be a child again?

does it feel like loving anyone who needs your love because you only have that one thing that you can truly give?

does it feel happy? does it feel sad? or does it feel like flowing water in the stream a motion so natural and fluid..

you can't really feel what it feels like because every moment is so different..

does it feel empty to have grown up? or does it feel full?

empty after letting go of all the dreams...some that you lived and some that you could not realize..

full with the supposed 'wisdom' from

all the things that you have been through...

does it feel like a stationery but very wise tree who has stood the test of time?

or does it feel like a shattered house whose roof collapsed in the last rain storm?

does it feel like a change of season? sometimes bright and sometimes cold?

its really hard to tell now...for that I really have to grow up and grow old...

to tell the tales that I have to tell..and answer my own questions which I pondered so hard on when I knew little..

but would I know so much when I grow up and grow old?

or will I still be child wondering about life like I do now?

who is to say?