Moana – why I loved it so much

Finally I got a chance to watch the Disney Animation Moana and totally loved it.  The new trend of Disney with powerful female leads is highly appreciated (Frozen, Tangled, Finding Dory). So thank you Disney for that one.

This joyous tale of Moana depicts a strong willed teenager who listens to her heart and becomes what she wants to be (a Voyager) and not what her village forces or expects her to be. The audience is bound to cheer for her in her quest to literally save the environment from a pure lava evil. Her quest is unwittingly joined by Maui – the Demi God and Hei Hei the Chicken.

Why I loved the movie so much?

~Blatant love for pets (a piglet and a chicken)

~The movie has an empowering story.

~The story has a leading lady who has a realistic body shape

~Heart warming music

~Most importantly -- Dwayne Johnson as Maui (need I say more).

Verdict – It is a feel good movie so everyone should watch it... at least once. 

The British and their Superlatives

The other day I was watching a British television show and I realized that The British can do many things in style but their list of swear words top the chart. Even if the words are really hurtful, the Brits know how to make them sound funny or trifle with their accents. Here are some of the common curse words that don’t sound so bad. Their meanings and usages are also given for your pleasure.

Poppycock

Meaning – Senseless chatter; Usage – to suggest nonsense, foolish talks, rubbish

Bollocks

Meaning – Testicles; Usage – denoting rubbish or nonsense or an expression of disbelief! 

Bugger

Meaning – Someone who practices buggery. Can be used both as a noun or a verb; Usage – calling out a jerk or a fool, OR to replace the word ‘fuck’ such as ‘bugger off’.

Wanker

Meaning – masturbator; Usage – to identify a general douche bag, loser or a despicable human being

Twat

Meaning – Vagina; Usage – to call out an idiot or a jerk 

Important Note: This post is written for humorous purposes and does not intend to offend or hurt anyone. However if you do get offended then......

The World without Sweepea

Once there was a little black puppy that was taken from his mommy by some kids and dropped at another unknown place. The little puppy was a happy guy so instead of finding the new place a scary big world he decided to make it his new playground.

His enthusiasm towards life and love towards other dogs and humans made him a famous little guy in this new area. Most humans loved him to bits. One such human named him Sweepea. He was also known my many other names like Oreo, Blacky, Chotoo, Raja and so on.

He was not a fussy eater, ate whatever was given to him like pedigree, chicken, mutton, dal rice, milk rice. Although, he did prefer a particular Pedigree food over the others. He would not touch the chicken n vegetable variety and his favorite flavor was meat and rice.

Every morning when the humans would walk their furry buddies, this tiny bundle of joy would run along in the big field and play with those dogs and their humans alike. There was never a day when Sweepea would not greet them with a big woofs, ear-to-ear smile and super fast swooshes of the tail. So it was rather out of the ordinary when yesterday the humans did not see this ever smiling big baby greeting them in the morning.

By evening they figured out that the boy was ill and needed immediate medical care. Some of these good humans took Sweepea to the clinic and after fighting with death the entire night young Sweepea took his last breath early morning today.

As one of Sweepea’s humans I have this gut wrenching feeling that I cannot get rid of. I am devastated.  I realized that the most painful and helpless feeling in the world is to see someone breathe his last in your arms but you cannot do jack shit to keep him alive.

I understand the basic concept of life that whosoever is born shall perish eventually. Though it will still hurt incredibly I can come to terms about someone who has lived their entire life and have died of natural causes. However this is the case of a 7 to 8 months old healthy puppy who dies consuming something poisonous. 

He was loved by many and everyone stood teary eyed at his burial and we bid him goodbye with a heavy heart.

Rest in Peace Dear Sweepea!!! You shall be missed.... 

Photo courtesy - Radhika Borkar

FaceBook Etiquettes or the lack of it!

Have you ever seen posts on Facebook which read share if you love your mom and want her to live for 100 years or  share if you have a handsome son… or share and your wish will come true or you will die… you know what I am saying aright!

I mean seriously!?! What kind of nonsense is this? I want my mother to have a healthy and a happy life that means if she conks of at 75 but does not suffer I’d rather take that any day over she dragging through till 100 with a sick body and a given up mind.

Also tell me which mom will think that her son is not handsome. Even if the damn kid has a face only a mother can love, she would still  be the one finding him handsome. Won’t she?

Lastly… wishes coming true. I am fucking serious when I say people would stop sharing such things then  my timeline would be much less cluttered.  My question to you such-forward-sharers is that do you actually believe in that shit you forward? I mean if every time one such forward is shared and your wish came true, each of you would be in the best of physical shape, exceedingly rich and married to your favorite actor or the hotness you’ve been secretly fantasizing while doing your boyfriend/husband….

My point for the long rant is that most people want to enjoy the Facebook experience, so please do not forward such messages because not everyone agrees with your misguided enthusiasm….

The Day of Inertia...

Tell me my dear friends do you ever wish to be someone else? Be a bit more selfish than regular? Decide to be the person who makes you happy? Live for yourself at least for a day?

You think I’ve gone bonkers… don’t you?

That may very well be the case dear pals... but I’m getting increasingly tired of being constantly expected to behave as a wife, daughter-in-law, or daughter…  I value each of these relationships but for once I want to be ME and this is how I want to spend my day of inertia (as I would like to call it).

• I would like to wake up one day with no worries about my to-do list. 
• I want to be pampered and spoilt silly for a day. 
• I want to spend the day snuggling my cuddle bugs and reading a good book. 
• Intermittently my beer mug will be refilled by an invisible house elf and plates will apparate with variety of finger food.
• I want a good and sleep inducing head and foot massage, free of cost obviously.
• I am not being greedy, but a day like this once a month would be a luxury that I wish I could get…

Well… dream’s over… c’mon… get back to work…. Yes you… as you were my friend...

Image courtesy – www.barkertherapyarts.com 

The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad – Book Review

I had built up an immense hope right from the time I ordered the book from Amazon. Ever since reading Twinkle Khanna’s ‘Mrs Funnybones’ I was bursting with excitement to read this one. Needless to say I had pre-booked it and my patience was thoroughly paid off.  

I started & finished this book in one sitting as I was waiting in line for my turn for a bank transaction during these testing days of demonetization.

The collection of short stories talks about the matters of heart & determination. My favorite of the entire bunch was the one with Noni Appa and finding love at an unexpected corner of her life. The others in the collection are enjoyable as well. I was rather awestruck by ‘The Sanitary Man from a sacred land’ which like all her other stories is written with so much grace and ingenuity. Fashioned on the struggle of Arunachalam Muruganantham, the author has woven the story with panache and added some fictional bits as well. Of course being an ardent fan of dogs, I absolutely loved the relationship between her lead character Bablu and his mongrel Choti.  Both Muruganantham & she have proven that feminism need not only be the property of women, strong men can be supreme feminists too.  

Whether it is the one with the young girl who creates a plan to save the girl child of the village or the one with the lady who was on a tryst to find the meaning of life & true love, each of Ms. Khanna’s characters are embodiment of will power & strength of character.  

My verdict:

Must read for everyone whether you are a feminist or not.

I am in love with her writing and I eagerly wait for her next literary excellence to pop up. 

Washroom selfies and more..

So last evening my bum-chum Srushti and I were at a posh theater waiting for a movie to start. We decided to make use of the time by taking some of our customary selfies like a selfie in front of the giant poster of the said movie; another with all our food items in hand, then 1 individual photo each and so on and so forth…

You’d think that since we are in our late 30’s we’d be tired of the selfie syndrome by now; but no my dear friend, we are not tired; in fact there is no lack of selfie taking preparation on side. Our hair has to be flipped and noses have to be powdered and of course for me the only other criterion is that my wobbly tummy should not be seen in the image!  Yes I am shallow that ways!

Anyhoo, after all our customary selfies were taken, we decided it would be awesome to check out why washroom selfies are so much in vogue with everyone... right from a school kid to a fashionista. 

Armed with our selfie stick and an iPhone we went in the little ladies room and CLICK CLICK CLICK we immortalized the PVR toilet in our photo albums.

Now our grandchildren would also see our photos and say “hey grandma... that used to be the PVR Theater” and we’d say “Yes baby it used to be a cool place before the apocalypse happened and the world got ruined”…  Also my friend and I would reminisce and argue in our senescence as to in which theater was this image taken.

Oh dear… now see what I did! I digressed too much into the future. So coming back to our ‘now’, I don't think we will take another washroom selfie... because of the following...

1. No good lights - God alone knows why the theater washrooms have such dim lights. It's not that you'd be having a romantic dinner or a smooch session in the ladies loo. How are we supposed to see our faces and powder our noses if the lights are as bright as a single candle in a football stadium? 
2. BECAUSE IT IS STUPID – Now that it is out of our system I believe that it is going to be included in our customary selfie list... like EVER…

I know I know what you are thinking... that these girls are silly and this post is stupid... but my dear friends, before you make a face at this article or consider us ludicrous, please go to a public loo (not a stinky one though) and click a selfie.  Only and only then you have a right to call me frivolous and silly else we are free-spirited!