X-mas Wreath inside the house -- X-mas

Ceiling Decorations -- for X-mas

On the X-mas Tree

Merry X-mas

From today, I will post a snap of the decorations till Wednesday. It shall be my tribute to the concept of Wordless Wednesdays -- of course it is not a single day but 3 days of no words - only pics - to show you my x-mas decorations. I like the idea already. No more writing, talking, or thinking out loud.

Of course, I can write today. This is the snap taken on the 25th - of the crib. The Arien is quite creative. This time, I helped a bit. Usually, he gets so hyper that I keep away but this time we both were involved in the creation of the crib.

The Arien had this amazing design and by the time we finished with it - he felt our crib did not match up to his expectations.

According to me -- It was made by him with a lil help from me and so it was ob. great :D But, naturally, I would say that :D

This is a close-up shot of the crib - You can see baby Jesus and the focus was perfect for the snap. Of course, some of the others snaps were not so easy or blur-free.

Merry Christmas to you all :D

Merry Christmas to you all -- Happy Holidays!

The first bit of decoration that was completed on the night of the 23rd while we were giggling and shushing each other outside our door in the common hallway. It was also the first time we were hanging up the decoration on the door especially because the Arien is paranoid 'bout the door. He is so sure someone will walk away with our decorations.

We usually only put up the Merry Christmas on the door but this looked so much nicer -- Xmas spirit was on the rise :)

Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol

This movie had garnered so much of publicity that though we were not ready for X-mas yet, we made time for the movie. Yes, we saw the movie on a weekday two days before X-mas. It was a nice idea - catching a movie on a weekday. Both of us felt so relaxed - it was almost as if we were dating :D Also, we were seeing it at the new multiplex near our home, Cinemax @ Total.

About Cinemax @ Total:
The new multiplex is a hop, skip, jump away from my place. Wah! The Gold Class tickets are 200 bucks a head. Wah! Wah! The Gold Class seats are huge, very comfy, and simply fantastic. Double Wah! Wah!

Image Courtesy: http://www.guardian.co.uk

About the movie:
The MI movies always have some amazing stunts and this one does not fail to impress at all - in that department. Of course, in this movie the mega stunts are actually over and done with by the time we come to the intermission. Tom cruise looks seriously old in the escape scene at the hospital. However, in the last scene, he looks clean and yumm!! Its surprising how much damage unwashed hair can do to your looks :P

Waaah: Tom Cruise is good, yet again. I was very surprised to know that he has actually performed the stunt in Dubai and did not take the help of a stunt-double. They are simply aeons away in terms of technology wen it comes to film-making. Inspite of squinting real hard, I really could not see the wires that were holding Tom - fantastic! Story was ok. Both the Arien and self realized after a few minutes that the main villain, Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist) was actually the actor who played Blomkevist from "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo". He is older but is good as the villain. We had recently seen Jeremy Renner (William Brandt) in the movie "The Town". Good choices. Simon Pegg provided some comic relief and was perfect for the role he played.

Blaaah: Anil Kapoor, is not the villain as mentioned in various press releases, but can actually be described as an extra with a few dialogues. He plays the part of a foolish, rich, Indian businessman with an eye for the ladies. He is absolutely ridiculous. The scene supposedly shot in a parking lot in Mumbai, is very clearly not shot in India. While we have not yet reached tht level of spohistication wrt parking lots, the number plates of the cars also has not been modified. A colleague remarked that some of those cars have not even been launched in India. Attention to detail was clearly missing. When Tom Cruise mentions that they will be travelling to India, it almost sounds like an anti-climax punch dialogue which falls pathetically flat. WTH???!!

Worth watching once - if only to see the stunts!

The Town

This movie was the Arien's choice. I wanted to see it because the movie starred Ben Affleck. This whole week seemed so lazy that a movie seemed like a good idea :D I remember "Good Will Hunting" which was a fantastic movie. We hoped this was a good one too. It was. Not great - good. Definitely worth a watch.

This movie is yet another bank heist movie but I liked it because of the script. The movie also stars Jeremy Renner. I had not seen him in any other movie before this. He is good. Usually, movies end with the robbers walking off into the sunset with the money. This movie begins with the heist and how their life changes after that. Four friends, from Charlestown, known as the Town, plan the heist and successfully pull it off. Ben and Jeremy are close friends. As part of the heist, they take the assistant manager hostage and let her go without harming her. Ben is drawn to her. Jeremy wants no loose ends and is worried that she may recall something which may result in their capture. Ben falls in lowe with her, gets close to her and makes her fall in lowe with him all the while hiding his true identity from her.

At the same time, the police are waiting for the gang to make mistakes or plan another heist. They are blackmailed into planning another heist and what happens after that forms the rest of the story.

Adhoc Interpretations of an Ad

Today, as I sat down to watch some TV, the first ad I saw had me cringing. It was an ad for pickles (Aachi). They had used an old Tamizh song "Thottu Kollava..." as the background. If you have not seen the ad, watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbwBfVjjnds&feature=related

Why was I cringing? Well, they had this handsome hulk giving you a sidey smile as he sang "Thottu kollava.. "! A very small percentage of Tamilians use the term "Thottukka" to refer to the side dish accompanying the main dish. Now, if I am told that we are having sambhar and rice for dinner, I will probably ask "Thottukka Yenna irrukku?" The answer is usually the name of the subzi that was made. If you are eating curd rice, pickle is usually the answer. Thus, the idea for this ad, I think. However, literally translated, it means "What is available for me to touch?" And from the guy's expression, it looks like he means it literally - Naturally, I am cringing at the double meaning! So when he is singing "Thottu Kollava..." with sidey grins and glances, he is probably singing it literally to the heroine and not so literally to the pickle jar.

Well, if we are going to look at it literally, I vote for the big bad wolf singing this song to Little Red Riding Hood. Makes it less of a double meaning and kinda more believable - don't you think?

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The Song Playing In My Head Nowadays

No no no... Its not "Why this Kolaveri Kolaveri di?" which has been a hot fav on Facebook. However, this song is yet another Dhanush song - at least it is picturised on him. The song is from the movie Mayakkam Yenna and I am unable to shake the song from my head.

I liked the song when the Arien played it in our car. When I saw the video, I liked the song even more. Dhanush is purrfect as the desperate guy and the video is quite good for a Tamizh song.

Naturally, one part of me wonders why I like this song.

Without further ado, the song is: "Voda Voda Voda Dhooram Korayala".

If you have not heard it yet, check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_aS5agMhAg