pinder ponder

Not a really happening week. Lotsa food for the brain, though. 

• The term "mother tongue" has always eluded me. Now I know why one feels a sense of belonging towards it. Sometimes just the sound of it is so soothing, its like a river flowing through a desert. (My metaphors are getting cliched day by day :|) To put it very simply , 'इतकं बरं वाटतं नं !!' Thanks to Sa re ga ma pa little champs, I don't miss listening to it anymore. And to my own surprise, I sing all those songs these days. Actually, Mom has a huge collection of these and we have watched every single sunday evening 4 O' clock Marathi movie on DD, so we have kind of grown up listening to them. So should not be a surprise :) One more amazing thing is my vocabulary has expanded!!! Now 'chabukk' , 'ghar-aana', 'aflatoon' are day to day words in my dictionary. A song I just loved :) Respect Sant Eknath !!! Amazing philosophy in such simple and straight words. 

• Watched Revolutionary Road a week back. The movie is saddening and disturbing. Plus the overhead that, the director leaves it to us to trace the meaning. What the characters are going through is very real and day to day, but it is not my type of movie. I will not recommend it! Anywho had a wonderful discussion with a friend yesterday. He thinks, most 'ME's' end up unhappy just being 'ME'. 'ME' has to think that happiness comes from 'US'. I think, healthy 'ME's' make a healthy 'US'. I know I have directly given you the answer key to a very tough question, without describing the question itself. Believe me its difficult to articulate. So just forget this mumbo jumbo if you have not watched the movie :)

• I am reading the 'Life of Pi' by Yann Martel. A true example of the constitutional will for survival and life. The book is about the life of Pi Patel who is left as a castaway in the Pacific ocean with a tiger, a dying zebra, a hyena and an orangutan after a ship wreck. A very graphic book in terms of descriptions of emotions. A good and engrossing read.

P.S. The bullets are not appearing somehow when I publish the blog :-/ Can you help ?