Fighting crime from the ivory tower

I guess when you’re spending a lot of time marathoning The Closer and Law and Order, you also start to notice things like this. I’m not surprised the city isn’t safe – it’s not new. What I am surprised at is things like this:

I thought this was a known fact (or is it just because of television?).


C’mon paper! The headline sucks!! And apart from being sexist, are you saying that one day you’ll be able to say that the city is safe? Is there any city that is??

 

another Linkage

Left Chennai and am back in Delhi...!Without wasting time...lots to say....
1. Delhi is AWESOME as usual
2. THIS is the new Ssherlock Holmes movie coming to town. I cannot imagine anyone else pulling Holmes except Jeremy Brett cause he was wonderful! Cant imagine Holmes punching people and jumping from his house into the Thames..!On a related note, goddesspharo has a picspam of the trailer HERE.
3. In the middle of watching Gossip Girl...Have finished 20 episodes of season 2 and dloading the rest...Although I do not want to..cause then all the silly-ness will be over and I will have to watch THE WIRE!
4. Similar with HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER...Have seen most of season 4 too...and am too excited now...Wanna watch the leap...I was rooting for Barney/Robin so much...... AWESOME...wowsugarpuss_ has an amazing pic spam of the b/r episode HERE

5. I am currently dloading Sailor Moon, Naruto Shippuden and will start will FullMetal Alchemist soon..Anime brain freeze!

In Delhi...indefinitely

NEWS

1. Back in Delhi: Requires no explanation, except to say that its the most Awesome (as Barney Stintson would say it) city in India.

2. First time Voter: I would be lying if I would say that I did a wonderful job exercising my rights as a citizen. It was a shameful experience voting and an excellent sham. I thought I would read the parties and their nominees' agenda and then go vote, after being totally informed. Turned out that I could not find the name of the nominees standing from my city area and a greater surprise was that the ballot list had only the names of the candidates.

I'm no journalist!

3. Latest Passion: Anime! Have watched Naruto, Ouran high school Host Club and currently downloading a brilliant series called Paranoia Agent by Satoshi Kon (who made Paprika: a must for all). Apart from that, I have a whole list of things that I want to see ! Anime opens up a lot of possibilities that real live things cannot attain, apart from Hentai ;0

4. SHAMELESS LINKING: Posting links that I discovered through useless browsing

- CHECK the speed of your internet connection here. I was surprised!

-I want to watch THIS MOVIE. Have heard that that its wonderful and award winning...

-Discovered an amazing site for books and this trivia test that goes with it.. Will become a member soon

-Watched the movie called The Asphalt Jungle: its scenes of heist beat Oceans' 11, hands down!

More Later!

Random Thoughts

Looking at: the pc screen!

Listening to: Script session in college


1. Have to edit a few stories tomorrow and I don't know how to be polite and still get the point across. It is so tough to tell any author that I don't understand what they've written or If they could re-structure a sentence. Not trying to be sweet, but nice. :(

2. Missing home! as usual..

3. Studying International issued daily is painful. Especially when you can't listen carefully, as you are busy making notes..(which I painfully and diligently do, because I am a stenographer! :P)

4. I am so excited that LOST is returning! Just dying to watch it....I wanna see Sawyer and lap up all his hotness....Kate and take in all the lies...Jack and watch him drink his tears...
.....Wonderful

5. I watched Fight Club a few days ago and I think I should read the book soon...If the movie was so powerful, ecstatic, wrenching and zapped me awake, imagine what the novel will do?!
I hail the writer (Chuck Palahniuk) and the director(David Fincher) !

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"

" We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives."

Wonderful

TWO DAYS TO GO

Listening to: Ennio Morricone soundtrack (just found it last week. Fistful of dollars is great)

I'm leaving in two days.
For home. Delhi seems a distant dream..but come tomorrow, and I will be there, in the cold, freezing and loving it.

5 days to Homecoming

its time to go home...finally...

Going home should be fantastic after staying in a place you aren't particularly fond of. Missing mom's food and touch, missing sister's silly behaviour, missing little bit of grannie nagging, missing the cold and the heat.

Delhi is home, a home that made me lazy and grumbly and maybe a bit of everything. But it is only through the knowledge of not being at home that, one can come to love it with all their heart. Missing home is hard jobb; but atleast you can look forward to being back home.

PS: Started seeing Entourage. It dulls the pain a bit.

Random small sized posts

• I am on a Monty Python spree. Have started watching it like MAD and I think I might do my project on it. But will have to do immense research for it.


• And now for something completely different.


• Have decided that Journalism may not be the best area for a non-socializing person like me. Have started to believe, "Hell is other people." There is no escape!


• Have discovered the benefits of a torrent. After a successful download of Dark Knight, have become a Torrent fan. Might have to buy a wi-fi connection soon.


• US election is coming up and fates will be decided. Honestly, my vote doesn't count and neither does my opinion, but I would prefer Obama to be the new leader. He seems young, radical, motivated and is liberal. I admit to not knowing more about his politics, but his stance on issues like war and abortion seem to be neutral. Anything's better than extreme.


• Chennai has books and movies and loads of them. This weekend I bought - books on film theory, plays by Girish Karnad, Another Agatha Christie novel called Dumb Witness. Also purchased a few films like Iko, The Birds, and Poirot movies... cant get enough of Christie


• Have stopped watching television all together. This thought scares me a lot! I am spending a lot of time on the laptop, but television is just another screen dimension. Missed so many F1 matches this season, along with new series on english channels.


• Will see the new Potter trailer and report. Cant believe I missed that one. Shame on me!


• Have started listening to BBC podcasts. I get a very slow connection here, but the podcasts are very small. So I can easily download a few. They are very informative and interesting.


• Dilli or Delhi? Once , I go back I might decide whether I am a Dilli-ite or a Delhiite. Makes no difference either way. To live in Delhi and not be a part of it is a shame.

Recently, conversations have been turning to subjects like marriage, caste, religion, region and family and what I discover is that all of these matter more than identity. Maybe because they are a part of one's self. Apart from these traditions, there are a few hangups that never leave us and are passed down from earlier generations.

I had never given much thought to what others believe because I always think that thoughts and beliefs are mutable, changing constantly with new experiences. One can never believe that anything is fixed because nothing is. How can anyone believe that our ideas and identities are permanent, when we live in a world that forces us to scrutinize our actions and doubt our ability..

• Just saw the HP trailer.. so familiar, it reminds of comfortable Delhi days...()

Alive, Depressed and Surviving

Listening to: Light My Fire - The Doors

I'm not a fanatic. Usually I try to mantain a distance from subjects, issues and try to listen to the other side. As a Journalist in training (unwilling at that), I am being taught not to be influenced by any coercion or attitude and preudice. But this time, I realize I have to do it.

Its hard to be comfortable when you are in an unfamiliar city. Chennai seems a hybrid town, struggling as a modernized jungle. Straddling the identity of a city and a village, it fails miserably in both. I'm being very judgemental here, but its the voice of a person who has left home for a short time and finds herself in a alien city that is reluctant to accept change. Trapped in its singular language and cult-star-love, it is half accepting and the other half, I am unable to decipher; But maybe most cities are like that. Maybe I've just lived in one city all my life and that might hinder Chennai's chances.

Chennai has one thing working for it though...It is the treasure trove of classic movies that are available at a very affordable price. I've already bought a few and plan to buy more. Can't love a city, but am always there to corrupt it!