Reason to Smile :)

Reason to Smile Part 2 of the weekend: This actually happened at my place yesterday. I have tried to narrate the excerpt below. The one in brackets is something I thought on my mind :P 11.30 AM - I was all set to step out of the house for a 12 pm movie show and there rings the door bell. An elderly man starts talking to me. Man - Hello beta, do you know me? Me - Eh... (No ofcourse!) Man - Well, we used to be your neighbours for many years ! Me - Eh.. (Ya so?) Man - Can I speak to your mother for a minute? Me - Eh.. (What the hell.. Why?) Man - Actually this is with regards to some matrimonial relation I want to speak to her. Dont worry beta, I am not new to her. She knows me. We are all from the same community ! Me - Eh.. (Matrimony?? Get Lost then !) Man - Can I please come in? I want to meet your mother. Is she there? And as he is saying that, he starts proceeding towards the room. My mother was having food. Man to Mom - Hello Ben, Kem Cho? Hope all well.. and bla bla. ...

Reason to Smile: Some great men said -  There are essentially two things that will make us wiser:   the books we read and the people we meet. For me, its probably movies and exploring some unexplored places - even if its around Mumbai ! So I made this weekend eventful by catching up on the long time awaited movie - Byomkesh Bakshi. We know that some movies are entertaining, some are thrillers, some are finely crafted to send a social or a moral message and some are actually boring. I found this movie only 'intelligent'. Though based on dark lines, a murder mystery, nothing new to the audiences, it made a lot of sense to have a backdrop of the early 1940s shot in Calcultta. The film has an intelligent plot and has conveyed the story, pretty much fictitious yet powerful, very brilliantly. Sushant Singh has been my favourite so I thought he pulled off some of the frames very well :)  Infact I write this after missing the first half hour of the movie, all thanks...

Reason to Smile: I was wondering what I am gonna do this weekend because the trip I was booked for got cancelled :( I was told by a friend that there is a coins and currency exhibition happening at World Trade Center, Colaba. I generally avoid exhibitions because I mostly find it boring :P But since I was really not doing anything, might as well get bored in an exhibition ;) I was taken aback with a surprise with so much to see and so much to learn and explore. History at times gives some coins or notes special significance and this money becomes legendary! Unlike money that changes hands daily, legendary coins and currency are larger than life. Located at the WTC, the Exhibition included millions of objects, including coins, medals, decorations, stamps, old and new currency and paper money. It embraced the entire numismatic history of the world. The collection emphasized the development of money and medals in India and other parts of the world. It contained many great raritie...

Reason to Smile: Its been a while I dint pick up any trek or trip. May be because I wasn't coming across something new or something different ;) Also, when it comes to treks or trips in summers, its better I prefer the short duration or the one-day ones. I have indeed lost all the stamina and have no endurance zeal left for any treks anymore. While I know that the 'spring' in me will keep jumping for such adventures I now have to relax and seek for something new ;) While Saturday was a relaxed day, I went for a horror movie for the first time in my life :P The movie 'It follows' is based on a curse that one passes to another and sees an image of a soul in the form of loved ones. The dead soul keeps following you if you are the chosen one :P Indeed horrifying but funny :P  Now I only hope that watching a horror movie being a good idea doesn't follow me ;) Surely, the movie was boring and slow.   Sunday was eventful. Shikhar Vedh trip to Induri - Sangaram ...