Of Movies and Quotes

Finally the holidays have arrived!!!
This means I'm gonna be posting a lot more over the next few weeks. Lets hope I keep my promise. Well I've been thinking (a dangerous ploy, I admit) a lot people have been asking me to get a little more personal in my blogs, to see some more of my life as opposed to my views. So i thought why not. So from now.. I'll probably be posting a lot more of my feelings (again a dangerous ploy) and daily occurrences. Hope it works out. As of now, you'll have to be content with I'd like to call my "top ten movie quotes list". These are quotes I feel are the most memorable (chiefly because I remember them) and well... I'd kill to be given a chance to use them. So take a look... In, no particular order.

Bond. James Bond

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse - Godfather

Certainty of death, small chance of success... well, what're we waiting for? - LOTR

I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. - City of Angels

SHOW ME THE MONEY!!! - Jerry Maguire

"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Well, who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who the f--k do you think you're talkin' to?" - Taxi

Go ahead... Make my day. - Dirty Harry

Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live...at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade all of that from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! - Braveheart

I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you. - Last of the Mohicans

I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. - When Harry Met Sally


Compiled By Berhael

Of Pushes and Power

Man.. the end sems are approaching and suddenly I realise I have a lot to learn. Blogs are becoming a luxury i refused to take before. But what the hell, I need a break and a chance to vent my frustrations. What better place than this...

We might've recently seen news bytes involving a certain 'power-play' by a leading cricket team to a very important person as far as Indian cricket concerned. Lets just call the team Z and the person A.
There has been a whole lot of brouhaha over this, what with leading media personalities and sportsmen alike coming forward and stating that this is very irresponsible behaviour on part of the Z team and they should show more respect for Indian cricket, especially for its top brass.

By showing disrespect and literally pushing off Mr A, they feel, the Z team acted like a bunch of ruffians with no idea of class. The media attached a colonial angle to this, taking it is a post-independence domination of the fair skin and it became a matter of national pride. Certain sections were even quoted as saying, that the Z team has offended Indian pride as a whole.

I've been to places where people push each other for very important reasons... some of these include,
1) The local cinema hall, where people don't know about the idea of a queue and promptly push each other all for the idea of purchasing a ticket worth in most cases 3- 40 rupees. I've learnt a lot about shear forces from these queues.

2) Our cycle stand, where (in the good old days when I really did own a cycle) cycles would keep getting pushed down because someone decided to stuff his/her own transport machine between two more trying as best as possible to stretch the definition of the phrase 'cycle gap'.

3) In super market halls where I simply fail to understand how waiting in a few queue for five minutes longer will spoil the day of certain people. I mean, everyone else is there to buy things too. If there were really in trouble, they should've come early or asked someone else to come in their place.

4) Our very own cafeteria right opposite my hostel when at certain times of the day, it is almost impossible to buy a cup of coffee because seven or eight more people are breathing down your neck, running their hands through odd regions of your body in a effort to reach the front desk and show the shop keeper that they have 5 rupees and hence deserve purchase rights for the world's most addictive beverage. A queue in this area? If I were to suggest to my friend's they would laugh at me, but thats just how our psyche is I guess, we laugh at this basic habit. Such a queue would be compulsory where I used to live in the Gulf

And so on.

It is indeed sad that we play into the hands of the media. The media in addition, in keeping with its policies keeps sensationalising every single news item, ordinary or extra-ordinary. Alright, granted, Mr A is a very important person and its a matter of pride that he is not pushed. But seriously though, about 12 countries in the world actually play cricket. In the 150 odd, most people wouldnt even know who the captain of Z is. And even most people in the 12 countries wouldnt know who Mr A is! So is it really important?

I understand the team acted badly. But they did apologise. Let's leave it at that.

We might argue that our national pride is at stake. I'm very happy we have pride in our country. But, let us ask ourselves, we push in cinema halls, throw down vehicles, don't stop in the road when a vehicle attempts to cross in the perpendicular lane, push and jostle each other in metro rails and a plethora of other places. Will our pride be lowered if we follow some ettiquette and try to avoid these things within ourselves instead of harping on about how some foreign team players pushed one of our own.

Mr A has said the right thing by being a sport, saying its a small matter and that the media is simply blowing up an honest mistake. The Z team has apologised personally saying it was a brash break of protocol and they should have been more responsible. That was good. Let's hope they don't repeat it. However, I have to say that I was honestly disappointed when I saw pictures of the 'followers' of Z burning effigies of the team and portraying them as species of the asinine variety. Made me feel real bad that THIS is where we are after 60 odd years of independence. Still I dont know the full story and am young so I probably have to learn.

>> Berhael

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