DREAM ON!!
I set the alarm to 5.30 a.m and slept really hoping i would wake up...
Did it happen?????
Obviously not!! 5.30 became 6.00 and then 6.00 became 6.30 and finally light entered my eyes only at 7.30. What a perfectionist in the making!!
But the outcome was quite expected.A walk back to the hostel with my head below my shoulders after every session of torture in the exam hall.
There's one thing i still din't understand. Did the alarm actually ring!!!???how could i not hear!!??
I can only hope that I would actually hear it someday and its not too late.
We all need wake up calls so that we jump out of our beds to actually do what we always claim to be doing. I tell you something......We are all some kind of flawed protagonists preaching something we've always been affected with. We still take things for granted hoping something will happen without any great effort.
And then......after hours of contemplation, the alarm does ring.
It was 5.30
I was in the exam hall writing another session.
5.30 p.m!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Saturday, February 10, 2007
INDEED..........A Monsoon Wedding!!
I looked at my cell
'Dad calling'
He was in Kolkata.
# Hello suddu??
## Yeah Dad.............tell me.......What happened??
# Fixed da.....Your sister's getting married!!engagement on nov 3rd and marriage on Feb 8th and 9th.......wait i'll give it to her.........
Her voice was heavy. Quite understandable. But what was it?? Excitement or Anxiety??
Ha..........I wasn't any good at this!
Huh..........That was September and February arrived before i could blink twice and say 'abra cadabra' .
Arrived home on 3rd February and saw lots and lots of packing and unpacking!!
It was good!!
Also lucky the Kaveri issue dint ruin the fun after the bandh was postponed and suddenly you realize your family has turned into a news channel after you hear of incidents which television also couldn't cover!!!!
oh.........yes! it went on well amidst all the rain!!
After half a year of blogging and 28 posts...............i'll dedicate this one to my sister who just got married!! best of luck!!
..............................................................I'll miss her.
I looked at my cell
'Dad calling'
He was in Kolkata.
# Hello suddu??
## Yeah Dad.............tell me.......What happened??
# Fixed da.....Your sister's getting married!!engagement on nov 3rd and marriage on Feb 8th and 9th.......wait i'll give it to her.........
Her voice was heavy. Quite understandable. But what was it?? Excitement or Anxiety??
Ha..........I wasn't any good at this!
Huh..........That was September and February arrived before i could blink twice and say 'abra cadabra' .
Arrived home on 3rd February and saw lots and lots of packing and unpacking!!
It was good!!
Also lucky the Kaveri issue dint ruin the fun after the bandh was postponed and suddenly you realize your family has turned into a news channel after you hear of incidents which television also couldn't cover!!!!
oh.........yes! it went on well amidst all the rain!!
After half a year of blogging and 28 posts...............i'll dedicate this one to my sister who just got married!! best of luck!!
..............................................................I'll miss her.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
'....And Sunshine Follows the Rain'
The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come again.
Charles Kingsley
I remember the start of this play very well!!!
"All a magician does is an illusion but it looks like the truth,
I'll show you truth but it will only look like an illusion"
It was a memory play and the lights would remain dim.....
Synopsis:
This play is set in an Anglo-Indian family in madras. Amanda Wakefield whose husband left the family when her children were young, dreams of a good life for her children Laura and Tom. Tom working in the Railway workshops to support his family, dreams of joining the merchant navy and see the world. Laura, shy and withdrawn lives in her imaginary world of glass figurines, as her mother desperately searches for a gentleman to marry her. What happens to the family is what this play is all about!
There were many aspects in this play that was quite remarkable! one was the fragmentation of the characters! The same character played by many people and the lines of the character are distributed among them. So.......With 3 main characters we were seeing 7 people on stage! may sound a little chaotic but it was balanced brilliantly.
The play is subtle and maintained a very steady pace. And its amazingly spaced out! At no point of time will the viewer feel the play is getting draggy. And the music is perfectly matched to the mood of the play! Its not everyday that you see music merging so nicely with the script!
And finally its the title......I loved it! oh..ya..it was a give away before anyone could see the play itself but still...... some of the lines during the course of the play......where Jim o' connor (A High profile character in school who doesn't turn out to be that successful.Tom's classmate in school and laura once liked him. Amanda desperately tries to let Laura married to him) talks about the relation and comparison of being "disappointed and discouraged" summed it up. And finally as the sun shines, you could only turn back and question......."Did it rain sometime back?????"
The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come again.
Charles Kingsley
I remember the start of this play very well!!!
"All a magician does is an illusion but it looks like the truth,
I'll show you truth but it will only look like an illusion"
It was a memory play and the lights would remain dim.....
Synopsis:
This play is set in an Anglo-Indian family in madras. Amanda Wakefield whose husband left the family when her children were young, dreams of a good life for her children Laura and Tom. Tom working in the Railway workshops to support his family, dreams of joining the merchant navy and see the world. Laura, shy and withdrawn lives in her imaginary world of glass figurines, as her mother desperately searches for a gentleman to marry her. What happens to the family is what this play is all about!
There were many aspects in this play that was quite remarkable! one was the fragmentation of the characters! The same character played by many people and the lines of the character are distributed among them. So.......With 3 main characters we were seeing 7 people on stage! may sound a little chaotic but it was balanced brilliantly.
The play is subtle and maintained a very steady pace. And its amazingly spaced out! At no point of time will the viewer feel the play is getting draggy. And the music is perfectly matched to the mood of the play! Its not everyday that you see music merging so nicely with the script!
And finally its the title......I loved it! oh..ya..it was a give away before anyone could see the play itself but still...... some of the lines during the course of the play......where Jim o' connor (A High profile character in school who doesn't turn out to be that successful.Tom's classmate in school and laura once liked him. Amanda desperately tries to let Laura married to him) talks about the relation and comparison of being "disappointed and discouraged" summed it up. And finally as the sun shines, you could only turn back and question......."Did it rain sometime back?????"
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