Iraq- the tragedy

I came across this video today while just browsing the net. Its a speech by Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, a doctor but now a full time anti-war activist. Its about Iraq ,the mess it is now in and how thousands are dying there at the hands of violence.

Do watch it and u could also see the doctors website at liberatethis.com


Also check this related video out.

Found this site http://keepmeinsuspense.blogspot.com/ the other day while browsing on the net. Really interesting site. Lots of tips for writers etc. So good in that sense.

Moving on today was a holiday so had a movie day

Started with Man on Fire a 2004 release starring Denzel Washington. Its a nice movie about a retired assassin played by Denzel Washingtonwho is now employed as a bodyguard for a little girl Pita played by Dakota Fanning. In the course of the movie Pita is kidnapped and everyone assumes later killed by the kidnappers. Denzel who had been shot during the kidnapping, recovers and goes after the kidnappers meting out his own justice. The movie was very interesting and fun to watch though the attempt to portray it as a real story in the end left a bad taste in my mouth. I had to go on to the net and double check.

Next I shifted to The Simpsons which was again a rather enjoyable movie. The antics
of the Simpson Family have foreven been bizarrely hillarious and the trend continues. Watch it only if u are interested.

Finally I decided to watch 'The Bourne Ultimatum'. The final of the trilogy, the movie was as fast paced and enjoyable as the rest though I think a glitch occurred
when it is shown in the movie that an agent who is supposed to kill Bourne leaves him untouched after Bourne is knocked out by a car explosion intended to kill someone else. I dont really get the scene. SUm1 explain it if possible.

MUSINGS -yet again

MUSINGS
The most wonderful sight to me is a little child frolicking about his or her mother. For the child there is no past, there is no future. He lives in the present. And the best part is if he is happy then joy fills his whole existence and the happiness is quite absolute.

The tragic part is he is unknowing of the ravages that time shall inflict on him as it passes by. Growing up is a traumatic experience. We loose the sense of absoluteness. Everything becomes conditional. Nothing , absolutely nothing can satisfy. And even in the zenith of our times we cant find the absolute joy a child enjoys. That’s the paradox. The child playing with a cardboard box is happier than us by a long margin.

Go back to the earliest memories that you have of yourself. I am sure if you were to look deep enough you would be unable to recognize yourself and feel like an impostor peeping into a forbidden window of foreign memories.

‘Truth or dare’ and the other games that we play as adults to have fun are far more complicated than our earlier childhood games. The innocence of childhood on departure took away the innocence of our games. These games of adulthood are all silent battles where everyone is testing the other. What we seek evidences of weaknesses in others and holes in their armour. This is what gives us the high in such games.

And the thing is as children we desperately want to grow up and be adults while once we grow up most of us would do anything to return to that age of innoncence which by now has long gone, never to return, ever.

Interesting

Domination by either gender is still dominatioon

Falling in love can really hurt you

Falling in love can really hurt you

Guess what I long suspected has finally turned out to be true. Love can be dangerous. Quoting from a paper

It’s official now. According to scientists, love really hurts.
Researchers at
Imperial College London have revealed that the range of physical effects caused
by the ups and downs of romance can cause serious long-term damage to the human
body.
"Our bodies are constantly going through a roller coaster of emotions
and love has some very obvious physical effects," said Prof. Martin Cowie of
Imperial College.
"Pupils dilate, palms become sweaty and the heart rate
increases. Large amounts of adrenaline are running through our system which does
cause problems," he added.
He said that stress-related illnesses at work
arise from similar physical conditions. Prof. Cowie, who has been studying the
effect of emotions on humans, said there is evidence that bereavement can
increase the risk of heart problems and death.
He said that inability to
acknowledge the effects of emotion on health makes things worse.

Book Review

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Well the final edition of the Harry Potter series is out and we now know once and for all, the boy who once survived a death spell survived again.

And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand
in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of
the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane
finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike
face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding
curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hand, staring down at his enemy’s
shell.

Anyway I am not a Harry Potter fan but still I find the books a good read.

The final book is interesting. As the finale author J K Rowling has actually used the pen as a brush and the result is a heady mix of emotions. Harry Potter journeys along with his friends destroying horcruxes an escapes disaster so many times, so easily that frankly it becomes a big joke. I think the authoress fails here in this context.

Beyond this the book is generally well written. The final character of both Snape and Dumbledore is surprising. Severus Snape; the vile, hated master of potions and killer of Albus Dumbledore turns out to have never really been working for Voldermort. His love for Lilly, Harry's mother as revealed in the last few pages is indeed touching.

"Snape's Patronus was a doe," said Harry, "the same as my mother's, because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from the time when they were children. You should have realized," he said as he saw
Voldemort's nostrils flare, "he asked you to spare her life, didn't he?"
"He desired her, that was all," sneered Voldemort, "but when she had gone, he agreed that there were other women, and of purer blood, worthier of him - "
"Of course he told you that," said Harry, "but he was Dumbledore's spy from the moment you threatened her, and he's been working against you ever since! Dumbledore was already dying when Snape finished him!"

Dumbledore was forever and still remains a hero but now at times there are dark shades attached to him.In a way its perhaps this complexity and depth of stories that set the books apart.

Also all rumors of another book could probably be laid to rest as the last chapter sees 19 years after Voldermort is dead with Harry having married Ginny and Ron being hitched with Hermoine. Sad I always thought Harry and HErmoine would be perfect. Anyway Harry and Ginny have already had three children and another lovely paragraph is the explanation of harry to his son about his name-

"Ablus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could
hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew."

Would I recommend this book. Sure I would. Go ahead and read this but take my word for it that there are better books also

What more can I say!!!!!!!!

My heart is crying out loud tonight
Coz I just want to hold you close,
And time is flying away too fast

Am stumbling through a jungle,
Cant really see through the haze,
And I am running in circles for you.

Suddenly my poetry rhymes,
Don’t know what magic you did,
For I just cant get over you.

The world can feel my love,
Everyone asks me your name,
I just wish you had a face.

P.S. this is poetry I wrote recently in June. Its quite rare I indulge such fantasies of mine knowing how morose poetry sounds to most people. Its because of this only that I have shifted to small paras