Happy New Year to all!!! Yeah I know it's a bit late but this is my first post for this year. Hopefully I will keep up. The last time I posted was way back in Sept/Oct 2005. I have been really lax about blogging. I guess I am kind of lazy about writing in general, it is counterintuitive because I really do like writing. When I eventually get down to writing, I end up writing at length running to several pages. At work, most of my emails are verbose and whenever I email my mom, it turns out pretty long as well. It does, however, take me a while to get into the mindset of writing.

Take for instance, the performance reviews that I wrote recently. I had to write reviews for 10 people at work, it being the end-of-the-year annual review season and all. Now the due date for it was Jan 10th. For the life of me, I could never get ready to start writing. It wasn't like I had nothing to say, quite the contrary, I had a lot to say about (at least) some of these people. Still I just wouldn't sit down and write. I even blocked my calendar for writing perf reviews but eventually I ended up finishing them on 15th. I am lazy about writing snippets, feedback, u-name-it. So it is going to be quite a struggle to keep up with blogging, but at least let me give it a try.

On a more interesting note, we watched Guru last week. This is a movie by Mani Ratnam (his movie 'Mouna Ragam' is my all time favorite), supposedly based on the life of Dhirubhai Ambani, the pioneer of Reliance Industries in India. Incidentally I was in Mumbai, India when Dhirubhai passed away leaving his vast empire to his two sons Anil and Mukesh Ambani. Anyways, back to the film, the performance by Abhishek Bachchan was superb. At an absolute level, I don't think it was stellar but compared to his earlier performances, this film was in completely different league. The chemistry between Abhishek and Ais in this movie was so apparent. The makeup was amazing. It really transformed Ais from a teenagish looking girl to a mature old lady from beginning to end. So overall I liked the presentation of the lead pair. Now coming to the other pair (Madhavan and Vidya), I feel they have been totally wasted. Madhavan still delivers his dialogue as though he's a chocolate lover boy. There was this really poignant scene between Abhi, Mithunda and Madhavan where Mithun basically tells Abhi that he's going to let Madhavan expose him and there are some subtle but strong dialogues there and Madhavan actually smiles when he says some stuff(?!!!). I mean who the hell would smile when he is tasked with exposing the leading businessman in the country. Vidya is a fine actress and delivers her role with amazing poise though all her role does is provide mushiness to the movie. The sad part is the content wasn't engaging. I felt the movie was too wishy-washy, I wish Mani Ratnam had taken a bold stand one way or the other. Anyways the film is definitely worth a watch. On the music front, Barso re is captivating, the others are easily forgotten but like all Rahman music, I guess they too will grow on me over time.

I am almost about to end this blog when I get a sudden idea. I am currently learning Spanish and French (don't ask). Maybe I can write my next post in Spanish. Por que quiero practicar mi espanol. vamos a mirar. Por ahora adios amigos.