Being utterly jobless is quite a strange situation . The freedom that you have in hand gives you a delusion that you are truly happy with yourself. But at the end of the day when you look back at it, you feel a bit guilty of wasting one precious day in life. In the other case, when you have been working all day long with a hope that some day you will become a free bird, then at least you have some reason to cheer about at the end of the day , that you have one day less to go through this torture.
Anyways i'm very much better off with the first case .It really is an ecstasy to doze off for those 10 hours a day, mostly even more with the rain bringing back the much needed cool weather at night.
And to wake up and just take time to do anything you want, take those long showers, watch all those tv shows which i had been missing consistently for some stupid reasons ( all the important shows, either the final of a major sport tourney, or some good movie, always used to be on the day before an exam or an important test , and it used to really piss me off ) . I had a trip to Bangalore during the 1st week of june, well for about 3 days . Stayed at my friend varun's house there. Really envy him for having gone there after 10th. The road traffic is definitely a bit worse, but the place just has got so much to offer. I've visited B'lore a few times but this is actually the first time that i saw the city in detail,it's development, malls and stuff. For a chap from our great city of cochin which consists of only one main road and two malls , B'lore is really big deal. Not that i'm a shop-a-holic or anything. It's just that one doesn't have to hangout at the same place everytime, like the case here.
After going there i had to see a film, obviously. The only theatre where hindi films release in ernakulam has speakers which are worse than a home theatre system. So i went for this movie , 99 with my friend .There were few other choices(thanks to some film producer's strike ) , and the critics too seemed impressed with it. So we went ahead. But just 10 mins after the movie began, we were sure that the money did not go waste. It was absolutely 'hilarious' all the way . And it wasn't some trash comedy you would normally expect in a hindi film. The humour was embedded in the story itself . Each character in the film contributed to the laugh riot. Even the bad guys! But Cyrus Broacha was the one who kept the comedy going throughout the film. Kunal Khemu also does a brilliant job and Boman Irani again proves his comedy prowess . Soha Ali Khan hasn't got much to do but she does her part well. And all the other actors were just perfectly suited for their roles. Overall i think it must be one of the best comedies in recent times in bollywood.
Back to kerala and i was back to my old friends tv and comp. 'Facebook' took most of my hours away, and the time left i spent on some kind of rigorous exercises like pressing the buttons on the tv remote. And sometimes i do some research on colleges and stuff... it's really interesting to read those forums on some of the websites. The word fights between the jobless students of different colleges are really worth wasting your time. Another important thing that i did was that i had an experience of the famous 'ambalapuzha paal paayasam' from the temple there. If you haven't come to know about it yet, well all that i can tell is that it is the best paal paayasam(I guess it's a kind of rice pudding.. in english) you'll ever get to taste in life. The sweetness of it..it was truly magical. Just penetrates into your head and you won't feel like stopping.
After that.. i havn't done much other than seeing some horrible films. Well i had bought a dvd from b'lore (obviously pirated ) which said in it's cover that TERMINATOR 4 was included. But what was there was a similar sounding movie called THE TERMINATORS!!, and it was crap to say the least.The rest of the films in the collection were not much better, except maybe 'The Shinjuku Incident'.
I also had a jam session with my friend and bass guitarist Peter. We rented a drums kit( i play it btw) and played out for some 4-5 hours .
