Be a Rebel....Masti ki paatshala...Na Koi Padnewala ..Na koi seekhnewala ..

"I believe Amirkhan's latest movie Rang de Basanti is very good."

~ My Dad

Yup Dad..I saw Rang De Basanthi ..8 Adults + 1 child (above 3 yrs) went for the movie.Tickets were bought only for 8 adults ...Hmmmm First growing signs of corruption is it ??.... ..
Liked the movie .Songs are great...Have been listening to its songs from morning although i did hear them much before seeing the movie .But listening to songs after seeing the movie gives it a little more meaning :) !

Liked the first half more ...Some scenes were tooo tooo good ..Especially Aamir khan saying " Sue ...Sue kar mere man kiya tune kya ishara... " (BTW Sue is a British film maker in the movie for all those people who still haven't seen the movie !! ) and one more "Yeh Hindi bolti hai yaar ...." ( Time when Aamir realizes the Sue knows hindi , LOL ) and the dialogue practices of Aamir Khan with Chotu... Great acting by everyone . Locations were great ..the old Fort amidst the mustard plants , The open theater kind of place (looked similar to an coliseum.)

The second half was saad and a bit unrealistic . I just loved one dialogue which Madhavan says to all the other guys when argue about India , Madhavan says "Its not enough if we say nothing will change ,you have got to change it , Join IAS ,join politics and change India " . Yes , I do believe that even a single person making an effort to change India will help rather than just saying "How will a single person make a difference". I have seen people around me throwing garbage on the road even though i told them that "Hey , C'mon its your country keep it clean" ..but i get to hear "Hey , only if i do will India become clean? And then what are these cleaners for ? I am giving them work allva? ". How can such citizens change the country ? Looks like my train is off the track...Back to the Movie.. All in all movie was good .

People watch the movie if you haven't !!!

Hmmmm ..Malaysia Trip -Part 3 is still pending ..will post it soon..

Malaysia Trip -Part 2

Coninued from the previous post....

Got up at 6:30 in the morning . Ordered for a Hot Milo through the Room service since the time of breakfast was not sure and i cannot survive until then :D . Everyone was there at time except the Van .He was in the vicinity within 15 minutes of everyone arriving. Headed for Batu Caves ( a temple ) ,hmmmmm a religious start indeed .

The place was wonderful .A huge statue of Murugan in front of the Caves with steps on the left side leading you to the caves .Everyone left their footholds in the van itself and started towards the temple. Climbed almost 200 steps till the caves. Nice caves. There is a row of gods at the entrance of the caves.
Although it is not well maintained ,the natural beauty is to be admired . The natural light coming from the ceiling lights up the otherwise dark caves .Lot of our ancestors where the main attractions eating the coconut and other prasadam.On the main level of the caves there is a temple where the pooja had just finished and they were distributing the prasadam. I too joined the queue and the tasty Pulliogare + Sweet Pongal + Channa. It was really tasty .Obviously after climbing so many steps empty stomach it had to be tasty ;-) .Spend some time there in the caves and then descended down .

There are lot of pigeons down ,they gather and then fly away together to a particular roof and then from roof back again to the ground. Its really nice to see so many pigeons flying together .I was sitting and clicking photos when suddenly all the birds flew ,oh the rattling sound of their wings was great !!!

Took a tender coconut for later use because weather was very hot . Ditched the breakfast as the Prasadam had filled my stomach .Packed idli for lunch since it was heard that getting Vegetarian food in the place we were heading to ,is difficult. Everyone packed their lunches and we were again on the wrecked bus to Genting HighLands.

Genting Highlands is a Hill station sort of a place .Quite similar to Ooty .As we climbed the mountain the weather was becoming cooler. We could see the clouds covering the top portion of the hills ,it was nice ,those curvy roads, the cool breeze .

We reached the cable car starting point. Cable Car ride was pretty long and somewhat scary. Its supposed to be the longest and fastest cable car ride .Ride was pretty good. Top of the mountain there is a Theme park and Casinos .

We headed to the Theme park. Took the ticket for All parks not delocalizing we won't be able to finish one park also. Once we entered the theme park everyone dismissed while i was keeping my bag inside the locker. Anyways i had my camera with me .so clicked few shots here and there of kids and flowers.

Then later met one of the girls who was also not entering any of the rides .Both of us went for a Boat ride and a Dragan Fly ride. That's the only rides i went in the theme park .
Rest of the day went in waiting and searching for people .Had lunch and then was ready to leave Genting Highlands ..on the way to the Exit (Kelluar as in Malaysian anguage) some people wanted to try out the Casino. There is a dress code for guys -Collared shirts and Shoes .Gals it was okay :) .No camera and bags allowed .You had to take you passport to enter the Casino .I too entered .5 of us entered but only two of us tried our luck .And i was pretty lucky ,i played for 10 RM (Ringette) and won 23 RM ..quite a good profit i must say ..compensated for not sitting on any ride . People waiting outside were getting furious so we ran outside .Took the cable car back again .It was scarier this time !!!!! Headed back to KL .Went to a place called Time Square which is a shopping mall, things were pretty costly ! I don't think anybody shopped .Then we went to Night View of Petronas towers. I had taken the tripod especially for this view.Took the petronas towers from all sorts of angles.The towers look really fantastic in the night.

After the night view ,had Dinner and went back to the hotel.

To be continued...

Malaysia Trip -Part 1

Had a long weekend on account of Chinese New Year .Took a break and went to Malaysia for 3 days. 13 of us + two kids .
Transportation Mode : A Blue Colored Van numbered WGX 8646 with 13 seats .

'Don't go by looks' is the first proverb which comes to my mind when i think of the Van now .From outside it was just nice but the seats were very congested and with the water dripping from the Air Con it was all the more wonderful :) .There was a TV and a DVD player .Even after sending a mail to get mp3 cds or audio CDs none of them got any CDs . Yes ,i did get CDs :) like a good girl . Anyways the speakers were just enough for the front seaters !! The back seats were horrible to the core ,no place to keep the leg ,hot ,water dripping (we did tie a plastic cover later on) .

The weather was pretty hot an humid and the damn AIR CON was nowhere suffient for 15 of us plus the driver + her wife (equal to two paasengers).
Stopped at Malaysian Immigration to get our passport stamped and after that dropped the lady at her house .Continued the journey playing Antakshari...suddenly the van wobbles, a break and we stop .The awful smell of rubber burning was an sure indication that the tyre had busted !!

Now what ??? All of get down,straigten our legs ,see the vehicles zooming past us on the highway !! Driver takes out the tools and ready to change the tyre only to find out one important tool is missing . Ab kya hoga ... hona kya hai .. we stop another vehicle ask for the tool change the tyre ..in the meantime there is a 'Poliz' van who helps us bcos they don't want us to be on the highway for a long time. The spare tyre had less air so we had go slowly.Stopped at a garage to have the further fixes done . Totally 2-3 hours wasted on the repair !!

We reach Kualalampur at 5 P.M in the evening which is 6 hours later from the schedule. We checked in the hotel (First Business Inn) ,freshened up and were off to the KLCC tower.The view from the top the tower was great.Tooks snaps of the famous Petronas towers/Twin Towers which was cleanly visible. There were lot of huge buildings .

Did some shopping at the foot of the tower,bought a peice of twin towers as a momento for 28 RM (Ringette) after bargaining with the shop fellow who was a Bangladeshi. Then headed to city for some night view and dinner .Visited Prime Minister's office , Little India .

Had dinner at little india and came back at around 10:30 to hotel and then went down again with the camera to gets shots of the Chinese New Year Celebrations . People were dressed up in red and they were lighting candles . There were a variety of food items kept.

They were going to pray untill 4 o'clock in the morning !! I was very sleepy so i went to my room (Room number 110 ) and slept off...

To be continued...