It ain't that simple!

For some reason, I ended up pondering over the fact why I never had a girl friend (ok ok, stop smirking right now). I was legally eligible to marry during the last 7 years and was financially eligible to have a girl friend for the last 4 years. You may wonder why I couldn't, but the actual answer is I didn't. Why? because I know I couldn't.

I further wandered into the realm of the whole girlfriend and marriage things. The first thing you hear out of a married guy's mouth is 'Never get married'. But people still do. Men are subconsciously afraid of marriage and they freak out (internally) that someday, someone will call him 'dad' and will take away all the money that he has earned. It is also worth noting that we men don't grow up. We like to stay kids forever. Also some people wrongly assume that men mature after marriage, but they just stop talking which is wrongly taken to the fact that they think a lot!

Women, on the other hand are too complex. They think complex, they act complex, they speak complex. The problem is they think that men can keep up with them and this is what creates all the problems. Women want men to understand everything they say or emote. But we don't. We haven't got the slightest idea what's going on those complex brains. If a man says something, he actually means it (this doesn't include 'you're beautiful') or he doesn't care. But if a women says something... well, I don't know what it means. And also women leave this subtle signals that are too ambiguous and it is impossible to decipher. A complex algorithm, that we can crack! But these signals, I don't think we would be anywhere nearer even after a lifetime's worth of research work.

It still beats me how marriages work. The bottom line is Men can't understand Women. This is the universal truth and we have to accept it. Biologically, men have the urge to figure out everything that is mysterious. And woman is the most mysterious thing in this world. That's why, for millions of years, they find themselves associated with women irrespective of all the relationship woes. A few of them have given up. One - the eternal bachelors and two - the kind who are fighting for 377 to be abolished.

And why did I write this post? I had got nothing to do for the last three days other than sitting at my home, eating delicious home made food, sleeping at will, listening to local radio, watching loads n loads of tamil channels and reading all the crap in the internet.

A-Z

Finally tagged in the blogosphere. Thanks to Deepak

The Rules first :

• Link the person who tagged you.
  
• Display award on your blog with these rules.
  
• Reply to the questions below.
• Tag 7 people deserving the award according to you.

I tag vignesh kumar, swetha , vigneshwar, uma, sharath, shanky and shadab.

And the Oscar goes to..

A – Available/Single? No prices for guessing this..First question is always a sitter!

B – Best Friend? A few. All within + or - 10 of my CEG roll no.

C – Cake or Pie? Cake..No no Pie.. OK, I'll take cake.

D – Drink of choice? More. More of what? It is More (மோர்).

E – Essential item you use every day? Not my toothbrush (after I came to IIML).

F – Favorite colour? Red and Yellow.

G – Gummy Bears Or Worms? Gummy Bears (what is that?)

H – Hometown? Chennai

I – Indulgence? movies and sitcoms

J – January or February? February. Just because it has only 28 days. You work less and get the same pay.

K – Kids & their names? Kids? I can make in the future. Names? I don't think I'll have a say in that.

L – Life is incomplete without? Me

M – Marriage date? Not until I fall in love (so cliched)

N – Number of siblings? 2 Bros

O – Oranges or Apples? Apples

P – Phobias/Fears? I fear frogs. There are plenty room and people think that it is studies that keeps me inside all the time.

Q – Quote for today? "Remember Jerry, If you believe it, it's not a lie!" - George Costanza

R – Reason to smile? Everybody at my class is enduring the same pain as I do :)

S – Season? Monsoon. Rain is my ultimate favorite thingy on this earth.

T – Tag 7 People? I tried hard for this (thanks to Etrigan!)

U – Unknown fact about me? I've eaten octopus!

V – Vegetable you don’t like? Beetroot.

W – Worst habit? Breaking knuckles.

X – X-rays you’ve had? I had to take one for joining IIML. Everything was normal :)

Y – Your favorite food? Everything my Mom cooks (even beetroot)!. If not available, I'll eat anything.

Z – Zodiac sign? Aries.

Bloody movies!

We are in a era of movie making where a good movie almost always has a violent or a bloody gore scene that makes us squirm in our seats or exclaim 'oh bloody shit!'. Seems like directors are running out of ideas. In their constant urge to make realistic movies, they are blinded by the fact that blood and gore will enhance the realism of their movies.

Movies either use violence to make audience happy or to make them develop the feeling of hatred towards barbarism.

Recently, lot of movies have been falling into the first category (the fun one!). Tarentino started the cult with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp fiction. Ever since Pulp Fiction became a phenomenon, blood & gore has been the center stage of several films such as Fightclub, 300, Kill bill (1,2), SinCity etc . It would be nothing short of disturbing to say that excessive violence in these movies excites the audience. I still remember people shouting in glee in a theater when I watching the movie 300. Tarentino's latest flick Inglorious Basterds seems to have a lot of violence as well and everybody terms it a fun ride!

The second category of movies are rare. They make you hate violence. And they are made by good directors..obviously. Speilberg's use of blood in Schindler's list and Saving Private Ryan will leave you cold and will reiterate the fact that violence is painful. The same is the case with movies by Coen Brothers and Scorcesse. No country for Old Men and the Departed shows a lot of blood, but it is hard and scary. Passion of Christ is another good example (people cried in the theaters).

There is actually a third category which wants to take a middle path, but unfortunately they only end up in disgusting me. Movies like Hostel, Saw have too much gore (innovatively violent scenes) and at the same time, they try to scare you. They end up leaving you feel sick to the mouth. I would categorize them as porn(extremity of sadism & violence).

Now which one do I watch among these? It is the movies in the second category that impresses me the most. Violence is something to be hated and not glorified. And Spielberg, Coen brothers, Scorcesse all make sure that it is the case so. I do watch the first kind, only if it has a innovative story line. Tarentino is one of my favorites. He is kind of director who has fun directing movies. Also, I would be absolutely honest in saying that I had enjoyed 300 immensely. It was a visually stunning movie with stylished action scenes (or rather bloody scenes). I've stopped watching the third kind and I just hate them.

Gladly, Pixars and DreamWorks are doing a fantastic job with all their animation movies. I don't miss any of them even if they are mediocre. It is one hell of a break away from the mainstream movies which claim to be realistic.

Gyan : Do not forget that man is basically an animal and a carnivore too. He internally has this bloody thirst that is never satiated. Over the span of several millions of years, he has learnt to be civilized (and sometimes vegetarian too!) and has been able supress his animal instincts significantly. We can only hope that he gets better as we go forward. But he is also growing at an alarming rate and his civic sense is possibly not sustainable. He will someday return to his barbaric best when he has to fight for his survival and what has left of this earth. Luckily, that day is at least a few million years away and the earth would probably be long destroyed by some nuclear holocaust :)