Toto and Alfredo !!

what a delightful relationship...in a delightful movie.. 'Cinema Paradiso' - saw it over the weekend and just looooved it...particularly the young Toto.. brings a smile to my face even now :-) .. A Classic !!

 

Interesting fact of the day

Saffron comes from the saffron crocus, Crocus sativus. Each purple flower has three threadlike orangish-red stigmas, which form part of the plant’s reproductive apparatus. When these are removed by hand and then dried, they become saffron. The stigmas are very, very small, and it takes several hundred to make up a gram of saffron. Depending on their size, it can take as many as 200,000 flowers to make a pound of saffron. Only about 30 tons are produced per year worldwide.

After dark

"But why should you be interested in me?"
"Good question. i can't explain it myself right this second. But maybe--just maybe--if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Lai' soundtrack music will start playing in the back-ground, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why I'm interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us."

--Haruki Murakami

Why !!!

Why do White Shirts attract disaster ???

For no reason at all , I splashed coffee on my white shirt.........urrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhh

Excited about

this one..http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419887/ .. I loved the book..hope the movie lives up to it..

Speaking of which http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433416/ is one movie which has gone beyond the book...seriously !

Also enjoyed http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976026/ recently..

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe

has won the Man Booker International Prize in honour of his literary career.

His first work, Things Fall Apart, is regarded as a classic of world literature and has been translated into 40 languages.(which I read recently)

Achebe, was once described by Nelson Mandela as "the writer in whose presence prison walls fell down,"

 

OTHER SHORTLISTED AUTHORS FOR THE AWARD :

Chinua Achebe

Margaret Atwood

John Banville

Michael Tournier

Peter Carey

Carlos Fuentes

Ian McEwan

Harry Mulisch

Doris Lessing

Alice Munro

Michael Ondaatje

Amos Oz

Philip Roth

Salman Rushdie

Don DeLillo

Who wouldve thunk

that orange + coffee aka Iced Orange Mocha would be such a delightful combination !

Come to think of it..Ive always loved orange...next step Orange Icecream !!

Being Right

There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions.
- Mark Kleiman

The Sopranos

is coming to an end this Sunday, and as much as it pains me to admit it , I will surely miss it.

I started watching it on my hubby's insistence as he is big mob-story-lover, but slowly and surely I got sucked in..

and now here I am scouring the net for all the Sopranos obituaries , savoring each last tidbit of the Soprano diet..

Salut !

Einstein on Freedom of Will

I do not believe in freedom of will. Schopenhauer's words, “Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills,” have accompanied me throughout my life and console me in my dealings with others, even those which are truly painful to me. This recognition of the lack of freedom of will helps me avoid taking myself and my fellow men—both as actors and as individuals casting judgment—too seriously, just as it protects me from losing a sense of humor.

—Albert Einstein

Half a yellow sun

wins the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction , a well deserved award for a well written book .

Congratulations to Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  who says "I suppose I was born with the story-telling gene." ..

Wish that could be found in me ..

Added to reading request pile

• East of Eden
• The Grapes of Wrath (Pulitzer winning)

- John Steinbeck , One of the best American writers of 20th century

Winner of Nobel Prize of Literature in 1962

 

Literary Quote of the day

"Lord,how the day passes ! Its like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do "

                                        - John Steinbeck (American Novelist)

Beauty and the Beast in Epcot , Orlando..

Fall Colours

at Grandfathers Mountain ..

Love thursday..

brings on my love of flowers...I love flowers and to take pictures...
heres some of them..

Free people read freely..

'Maurice' by E M Forester is my pick for the 'Banned book Week' ..
Check here

Which is yours ??

Dor...Kacchhi dor

First thing in the morning , as usual , I woke up.. checked my mails and then got on to rediff .. checking the news back home .. and since its Friday also expecting some good movie reviews.. and la and behold...find a new movie by Nagesh Kukonoor...one of the film makers I truly appreciate.. he puts so much efforts in his movies.. and his characterizations...I really admire it...take 'Teen Deewarein' , 'Iqbal' ..all great movies according to me..

and this new one...'Dor' ..the story looks good to me...and the review is all praises...I am overjoyed...thinking where and how soon can I watch this...I pass on the good review to a good friend...who happens to be a mallu... and no harm intended but whenever I talk about a good movie with a mallu (my husband for instance) , it seems that its already been a mallu movie !!

But Im not ready to believe this of a NK movie... so I accuse her and then have to eat my words... here it is .. the mallu version and the hindi version here .. how could NK do this .. Im very disappointed...

Onashamsagal...

Forgiveness

I Grant Forgiveness to all Living Beings,
I Solicit Forgiveness from all Living Beings,
I am Friends with all Living Beings,
I do not have any Animosity towards any Living Beings.

MICCHHAMI DUKKADDAM !