Past Continuous

I miss that town
I miss the faces
You can't erase
You can't replace it



I miss it now
I can't believe it
So hard to stay
Too hard to leave it



If I could I relive those days
I know the one thing that would never change

For Moral Policing

I have a confession to make. I watched this. And I don't know why, so lets skip the questions.

Anyway, skipping the usual comments and discussions regarding displays of affection and cohabitation arrangements, there is one thing which I want to seriously comment about.

• There is a scene in which the guy gets a kid to do something for him by bribing him with a Halo3 pack. Now, that kid couldn't be more than 9-10 years old and Halo3 is rated 'M17+' by the ESRB. Doesn't the scene deserve a wagging finger by the censor board? In my opinion it is no different if the kid was offered a Camel Lights or a Hustler to run the errand. These game ratings are not taken very seriously anywhere and a couple of years here and there might be ok but a portrayal on screen should have been avoided. Especially since the guy is shown to be a Microsoft Employee and Xbox is a corporate sponsor of the movie [here]. Apparently, the criteria for choosing the two games were based on the fact that these were the most popular games in the character’s eyes.
  Maybe it can't be a legal issue because India does not have a system for rating games yet, but surely moral and corporate responsibility should have stepped in.

And there a couple of things which I want to comment not so seriously about.

• The irritating overuse of English words peppered over sentences to make it 'cool'. Why is it so fashionable to use 'wait' in place of 'intezaar' all the time!
  
  
• The movie begins when the protagonist is 17 years old - just completed the XII board exams the voiceover informs us - and ends when he is 30. In all those years, he doesn't age a day. He is either a baby faced 30 year old or was a very mature looking teenager - take your pick. Also, he has relationships which he breaks off for what could be termed 'moving on'. This not aging and moving on business has me convinced that he is the other John Oldman. Bachna Ae Haseeno ... The Man From Earth has arrived.
  

Smarts

If it weren't for high oil prices (which have fallen through the floor now) I would not have witnessed two Smart ForTwos in the space of five minutes while waiting for a bus. One of them furiously accelerating out of a bend to tackle a slight slope.

And Clarkson was right! The pause while it swapped 2nd for 3rd would have made A.B. Vajpayee proud.

PS: Another ForTwo I saw sometime back had a 'IT SHRANK' plate which brought a few chuckles to our group.

PS2: Just heard this ad on the radio. Apparently the friendly neighborhood Ford Dealer is now offering 100 Ford shares in addition to the $7500 cashback. So if you are all out of toilet paper today - and have a sudden craving for the 2008 Explorer - its the right time to buy Ford.

So Fast, So Numb

In reality, things may not be moving very fast, but from where you stand, it sure seems so.

Like now.

Show of support

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

~U2

Sometimes you can't make it on your own .... Where is your Lighthouse?