What is Choti Writer doing right now?

A simple question yet hard to reply…quite a long day and it hasn’t ended yet, which is full of meetings, hundreds of pages to be signed, pages of agendas to be followed, mails mails and mails to be read…At this step Choti Writer wants to reply as “i am reading a nice book by the window listening to drizzle and sipping from my hot chocolate”….or “i am lying down on my favourite sofa, watching a romantic comedy forgetting all about the serious issues of the world and eating a huge bowl of pop-corns dropping them here and there…laziness to the end!”

*Sigh!*

Unfortunately these are nothing but my sincere daydreams or goals of coming weekend to be realized if i am lucky to spare some time…

So the question is still unanswered…what is Choti Writer doing?

It is 4.40 pm, i am still at the office just giving a break to fight with the warrior of sleep hence having difficulty keeping my eyes open and having my distracted attention to focus back on its way! Right now Choti Writer is too tired for the day hence looking for an escape…

Was it a bit demoralizing? Well, considering that the night hopefully will be a better time to spend totally for myself, therefore giving me a blink of hope, i can say i am feeling better

Okkkk..it is your turn now! What are you doing right now?

Dear Diary~Day 12

Dear Diary,

Finally (and unfortunately) the winter showed its face in real sense since yesterday. I witnessed the first snow of the year although it was just for a short while (giving us false hopes as we all dreamed of a white cover all over). Snow appeals to me but i cannot say the same thing for the cold. It is just freezing outside and thick pullovers, wool hats, gloves already took their places in my closet, making me seem like an eskimo while walking around

That is all about the weather and what about me?? Well, busy time of my life. I am gripping partially this and that but not able to wholly grab what i touch. Time and patience are the basic factors that i need the most!

Love,

Choti

First Movies of 2010

With the start of  a new year, i decided to make some changes in the stream of the movies i watch weekly and aimed to give more chance to Turkish movies; hence i spared the first days of 2010 for “Aşk Tutulması” and “O da Beni Seviyor“.

Aşk Tutulması (Infatuation) is a love story as proved by the title. We are told about a relation which is initiated by coincidences yet sealed by the real love in the end.

It does not include any special feature or a remarkable scenario.

I didn’t feel bored during my watch still it was a chick flick movie that should be seen only when you have nothing better to do, so getting a 2/5 :D

O da Beni Seviyor (He Loves Me Too) is not a barely love story although it sounds so. It is more about human relations (bonds within a family, among relatives, friends, and between lovers). The movie was shot in Malatya (one of the cities in Turkey) so providing really nice views. It was a realistic movie as if reflecting a piece of every day life also representing some inner lives in a transparent way. I can say this one was better in terms of topic-line, cast, acting skills, etc so getting 3.5/5

Some Hollywood Some Bollywood

Long break i gave i believe and yet i didn’t manage to see many movies or read many books in the meantime; still i watched four movies which are all from 2009 and both from Bollywood and Hollywood…

First one is “Blue” by Akshay Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutta, Katrina Kaif and Zayed Khan. It was about some kind of so-called complicated plans and projects about some money buried under water and some theories and tricks to get this money and put it on the right hands. Considering this simple tagline, although the movie should be a breath-taking adventure both under and on water, it was just a waste of time and nothing. There were surely some eye-candies such as Katrina, Lara and even Kylie Minogue as a guest appearence, even these were not enough to bring some life to it. So my rate is 1/5. And this 1 point goes to “Chiggy Wiggy” song sung by Kylie Minogue herself.

The second movie from Bollywood is “Tum Mile” by Emraan Hashmi and Soha Ali Khan. As it is suggested by the title, it is a love story…about a bond between two people, which is challenging yet indispensible. This movie was relatively better as both subject and cast. The soundtrack was also remarkable, my favourite being “Dil Ibaadat” and “Tu Hi Haqeeqat” hence getting a 4/5 from me.

Third one is 2012 from Hollywood for which i had waited to see impatiently for a long time. I can shortly say it was not a perfect and rational action movie yet it was quite strong both on topic-line and acting skills. It was a nice time-pass with some scenes to be watched without even blinking and without getting bored as a whole, so getting 5/5 from me.

And the last movie of this post is 500 Days of Summer, which is quite a different one as a format. It was in a direct story-telling format rather than a routine movie continuence, hence there were lots of flashbacks and  flashforwards which was making the movie more interesting. It was both a love and a separation story including deep psychological analyses, getting 4/5 from me.

That is all for today. I may lost again for some time considering the new year celebrations. So let me use this opportunity to wish all of you a joyous christmas and a happy new year

Phone rings again…

Boy: I want to ask you something…

Girl: Go ahead…

Boy: But i am hesitant…

Girl: Hesitancy is not your type of behavior…

Boy: May be i changed a bit…

Girl: May be…but i don’t know the new you….the person i knew would easily ask me or tell me whatever he has in his mind…

Boy: Hmmm…Then tell me…did you ever miss me during my absence?

Girl: If i say ‘yes’ what will it change? Let me tell you ‘Nothing’.

Boy: Does it mean i never came into your mind?

Girl: If i say although you were not there physically, yet i kept talking to you, writing to you, and loving you as always, what will it change? Again a big ‘Nothing’…

Boy: You are really angry with me, right? You must be hating me…

Girl: I used to love you even to die for you, i used to miss you even to fall sick, and i used to hate you more than anyone…but now…

Boy: And now?

Girl: I don’t feel anything. I feel as if i am dead…as soulless as a dead!

Boy: Hmmm…you words are really hurting…

Girl: May be…may be it is your turn to get hurt…still i don’t do anything on purpose although you think so…

Boy: You know what i am curious about the most?

Girl: Hmmm what?

Boy: What would  your reaction be if we could meet somehow?

Girl: I dreamed of our meeting millions of time…each time changing the scenario…

Boy: Tell me…I wanna hear…

Girl: Well…First it was like a happy end…I would be impatient to see you, and once you would be close enough i would hug you as tight as i can…

Boy: Lovely…

Girl: No it is not…then the scenario changed just like the change in your attitude with me…this time as soon as i see you, i would feel a strong urge to slap you…but the ache on your cheek could never compansate for the wound you left in me…

Boy: Don’t talk like that…i didn’t do it on purpose you know…i would never hurt you…just the conditions…

Girl: Not the conditions…but the priorities…

Boy: Hmmm…and what about now?

Girl: Now…i would stand close to you, slightly touching your face to be sure that you are real…and after feeling you on my fingertips, i would just walk away…

Boy: …..

Girl: …..

Boy: I’m sorry.

Girl: I’m not.

The Oscar Goes To Me!

I am so happy to share the first award of this blog which has been recently distributed by Sree, my craziest blog friend Thanks a lot buddy But before accepting this kind award there are certain rules i should follow…

The Rules are:

First you should write a post telling about the award itself, the name of the blog owner who considers you to be one deserving it, and his/her link. Then you should select minimum 7 blogs whom you think that he/she deserves this award too by the design or the content of his/her blog. So Mention 7 people leaving comment on their blog informing them about the award. Lastly list 10 honest things about you and you are done!

Here we go:

1-I concentrate on my work much better when i listen to Udit Narayan or Sonu Nigam (Does it sound weird?)

2- I eat a chocolate bar every day at 3 pm in the afternoon with a cup of tea or coffee which keeps me alive during the rest of the day!

3- I have a notepad where i collect various quotes i read in books or notice here and there; i note them down together with the date of the day and then i like to read them like a real diary…

4- My friends use always nicks while talking to me instead of my real name such as panda, auntie-ji, beti, beta, choti, ISD, Hazzy, Tini Mini, etc. I am sure most of them already forgat my real name

5- I am a FarmVille addict!

6- I love mailing and receiving mails from friends all over the world…hearing about different lives, knowing about different personalities makes me more and more curious about everything in this world and this curiosity keeps me happy most of the time (Ok you can mail me too…i dnt mind )

7- I see nightmares almost every night and wake up by screaming and that is why i keep naming myself as Melinda Gordon

8- I am as slow as a turtle at reading and i don’t know whether it is coz of the limited time spared for reading or of my lazy nature.

9- While working and when i am densely concentrated sometimes i murmer in Hindi and that makes my Turkish colleagues to look at me in fear :D

10- I have no idea why but i have difficulty in remembering the Hindi counterpart of the word “Brain” in English. And even right now i am still not sure whether it is Bheja or something like that

Phew….that was not easy! Now it is time to find the victims yet i will make a rule violation and will nominate only 3 people instead of 7. I have many blogs i strictly follow and find quite magnificant yet i don’t have a fluent communication with many of them hence will go for the ones i am often visited by. Hope Sree won’t scold me for the violation

• AJ’s Take
• Swaram
• BlueMist

Best of luck

I’m walking…

I’m walking…

Far away on a deserted road,

With bare foot feeling the thorns on the way.

 

I’m walking…

Far away on a painful journey,

With wet eyes shedding tears all the way along.

 

I’m walking…

Far away on a deadly heartbreak,

With a lonely soul suffering alive.

 

I’m walking…

Away from YOU.

Dear Diary~Day 11…

Dear Diary…it has been quite much time again (i have no idea how many times i have repeated this also) since i last left a trace on your pages…however, there has been nothing that worths sharing with you. The past days were quite normal and routine like a vicious circle between the house and the office.

As a cheering point, i managed to spare some time to see a play at playhouse. The name of the play was Lozan, which is the name of one of the important agreements signed in the Turkish history. As already implied, the play was an historical one and unexpectedly it was not boring at all.

I haven’t been able to see a new movie this week but i have started to read a new book named “Evening Class (İtalyanca Aşk Başkadır)”…so far so good but unfortunately i am so slow (like a turtle) at reading these days because the winter already knocked our doors and before anyone else i (again) succeeded to catch cold so whenever i attempt to read a few pages, this results in nothing but falling asleep

That’s all for now…

Choti!

~Ghost Whisperer~

Well i can hear some of you asking no movie review this week? And the reply is unfortunately NO. Because there has been some other item keeping me busy the whole week hence kept me away from watching any movie as well. This item is a quite popular t.v. serial GHOST WHISPERER! It starts with a monologue by Melinda Gordon, the heroine. She says she has just married, just moved into a small town and  just opened an antique shop. By this classical story of hers, her life looks quite familiar to ours in many ways; however there is this important characteristics of hers which distinguish her from us, which is a gift she owns. She can see and talk to the dead. And she can even help the earth-bound sprits to cross over through a light. She finishes her words saying “in order to tell you my story, i have to tell you theirs”.

Does it sound a little creepy? Yea that was i had thought even. But after a few episodes, i got used to her and even to them. I started to looking forward to hearing their interesting, emotional and at the same time scary stories. And now i became totally addicted to hear more about the other side! Well considering the pure beauty of Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and her handsome husband Jim (David Conrad), it becomes easier to be an addict

Would you like to have a look at it? Well here is the first episode of the first season….if you are not introduced to it yet, see and tell me what you think!

http://www.cucirca.com/2009/01/01/ghost-whisperer-season-1-episode-1-pilot/

Bon Appetit!

I have always been a fast food fan till now let it be a cheeseburger, french fries, onion rings, pizza or fried chicken (i mean Burger King, Pizza Hut, Kentucky, etc), but suddenly on the last weekend i decided to be more careful about my daily diet and my aim was to be more healty rather than looking like a super model So i cooked some local dishes which are composed of vegetable basically and i prepared a cold salad made up of some tomato at the base, parsley, maize, walnut, lettuce and fried cheese on the top which were mixed with a little bit salt and pure olive oil. And no need to say it was really yummylicious

Wanted~Movie Review

Another Sunday…showing the slight face of winter…slowly….shy yet impatient…hesitant yet brave…so sending the raindrops just before the water gets frozen and turns into solid cold….

Another movie to accompany me on this low yet peaceful day…”Wanted”. It has been weeks since i had seen a new Hindi movie so today decided to see one of the new releases of this year and picked up “Wanted” ,although i had always hated Salman Khan till now, because it was the only one with subtitles…

Till the movie begins i had no idea who is the heroine to dance with the item songs and soon i came to know it was Ayesha Takia whom i did not consider talented as well as she always seemed a little buxom so incapable of running on the golden sands or dancing on a cliff. However this movie turned my standards and prejudices all upside down!!!

Salman, whom i considered till now as ugly and irritating with a pile of useless muscles with his over confidence and so-called cool guy postures, proved in this movie to be really fit, funny in a witty sense, cute and smart under the scope of a role composed of some Terminator, Rambo or Rocky type fighter. I should confess this is his first movie from which i got impressed in real sense from both the comedy scenes and action scenes. And the most attractive side of his was “not interested in love” attitude although he was carrying a deep love in his deep heart

As for the Ayesha, i believe she must really have lost some weight because she was looking extremely fit and beautiful. And again unbelievably she was dancing quite well and acting quite cute. I don’t know how to apologize from both

The movie was an action movie on the surface but some witty jokes, word games, mimics, and some specific scenes were also categorizing it as a comedy which i can truly say made me laugh at many times. The the songs were high-quality with hyper rhythm and melodious lyrics, my favourite being “Love Me Love Me”

I don’t wana disclose much spoiler regarding the topic line hence let me summarize the subject very shortly. A fearless man working with gansters only for money and nothing else. He is the one unbeatable person, an undefeatable terminator within the whole underworld. He seems to be a bad chap by behavior but an unknown mystery inside, and that is why the girl who falls in love with him cannot decide whether to keep loving him or to forget him. Beside this indefinable love story continuing on one side, there are these big murders of gangs and police forces on the other side to lead a big surprise in the end (which you will find out on seeing the movie) and our hero takes the best place on the center.

All in all i enjoyed quite much the cast, the story, and the songs hence it gets a 5/5 from me

P.S. Salman-ji and Ayesha-ji, please mujhe maaf kar do for not discovering you long before in many ways

Techno (Freak) Girl!

Don’t let the title mislead you as i cannot be considered as an up-to-date technology tracker, but if something new catches my attention (as an eye-candy rather than its technological properties), then i have to get it as soon as possible in order to prevent myself from watching this item in front of the store every day at the same hour :D

My new netbook is one of them. A white princess with utmost glam and extreme comfort. It is as light as a feather and as cool as an ice with its elegant and delicate outlook. Ok ok that much compliment is enough for its external characteristics. Regarding the internal technical properties of it, well i have no idea….you should ask my husband

Ladies and gentlement…kindly meet my new friend Asus Eee PC 1101HA and please don’t forget to show a warm welcome to her

Quote of the Week…

If only somehow you could have been mine, what wouldn’t

have happened in the world?

I’m everything you lost. You won’t forgive me.

My memory keeps getting in the way of your history.

There is nothing to forgive.You can’t forgive me.

I hid my pain even from myself; I revealed my pain only to myself.

There is everything to forgive. You can’t forgive me.

If only somehow you could have been mine,

what would not have been possible in the world?

  — Agha Shahid Ali–

                    Farewell

Tum Sath Hote Agar…

It happened again. Just for one second only but I got the same feeling. Shy sparkles coming out of my eyes, accelerated heartbeats, difficulty in breathing. It happened again. I felt the same love. It happened again. My soul got alive like a phoenix rising from the ashes. It happened again. Just for one second only.

Then a wave of regret without remorse shaded everywhere. Then the heart was dipped into cold. Then the soul was sentenced to dark. Then you went. Then i died…

Surrogates~30 Days of Night…Mini Reviews

On friday night i went to cinema after a long break to see the new movie of Bruce Willes…Surrogates. No need to mention that his movies meet the high level of standards mostly and this one was surely one of them. It is categorized as action/science-fiction. Shortly regarding the topic-line…there are surrogates of people used in daily life. Surrogates do the work or have the fun and the human beings just manage and witness the happenings all in safe at their homes until there occurs a murder of a surrogate which also causes the death of its real owner. Then things get complicated and it becomes more difficult to distinguish between the real and the copy, between the good and the bad. I really enjoyed the movie hence rated it as 5/5.

The second movie i have seen within this week is 30 Days of Night, which is a horror movie as can be deduced by its name. A group of vampires assaults a town in Alasca where it is night (no sun rise) for 30 days hence it has no connection with the rest of the world. The movie tells about the struggle of a handful of people who witness the murder of their family or neighbors yet have to think about his/her survival at the same time. The movie was not that scary but the scenes floaded with blood were quite disgusting in real sense. Well, some scenes were hair-rising  i can say but frankly speaking i did not like the way it ends. The end was very romantic which was not appropriate for a scary movie i believe so i rated it as 4/5!