The Great Debaters

The movie is based on a true story of the triumph of truth, the victory of belief and faith. Its a very good movie and the actors have done a commendable job. I don't even need to mention, Denzel Washington has done it again.
Life's challenges are never easy and although you may have started your journey with comrades, you depend and count on yourself, it doesn't matter if you have to tread the waters alone as long as you believe in what you are doing.
Two lines I picked up from the movie:
1. I do what I have to do - so that I can do what I want to do!
2. “Who is my judge?” “God is my judge.” “Why is God your judge?” “He decides whether I win or lose.” “And who are your opponents?” “I have no opponents … merely dissenting voices to the truth I speak.”

Nightcap in Canary wharf

Here I am agian, in Canary Wharf this time, came to see my friend. It has been a long day and a did quite a lot of sight seeing today.
I went to see the Queens House through the Greenwich foot tunnel also saw the Prime Meridian, meant to be a imaginary datum - the centre of time and space, hee haa not so imaginary for me anymore. It was fun but I just didnt have my camera along so no great pictures just good memories.
Its 7.30 pm and the plan is to go to central london now and witness the nightlife, when that happens is still unknown - my friend is fast aleep perhaps fueling up himself for another one of his sleepless weekends. Till we meet again and I have more stories to tell, bye.

A 2 min ride or an hour long trip??

Was just coming out of Sainsbury's, hmm too many bags to carry and although I am putting up pretty much at a walking distance I decided to board a bus to help my cause.
It was raining and dark so I started running towards the bus stop trying to get as little wet as possible. It was great I didn't have to wait long, the correct route bus was there, so I boarded handful of grocery bags and was off on a small ride towards home. I stood by the window to keep a check on where I need to de-board, unfortunately I couldn't see anything that resembled some land mark I was so used to. Yes by now I realized I had boarded the right bus from the wrong side of the road, but this wasn't a big worry just a big investment of time.
The world is round, what goes around comes around and so was this bus supposed, to I did reach my home but after a full trip of the bus to its last stop, back to where I had actually boarded the bus and finally to home sweet home.

Boxing Day!

Yes Christmas is over and what all you folks out there were waiting for is on...BOXING DAY (the time till you delay your shopping to save some bucks).
This was the first time I got a chance to witness one, most shops on the high street and in the malls had it on the right day, the day following Christmas, but then there were also the other lot...SALE SALE SALE thursday 7 am to 8 pm and those starting even before 5am to 7 pm. For God's sake this is the time in winter that you don't see the day light till 8am or even later.
Anyways money talks and talk it did and big time. I went for some window shopping myself, the Debenham's , M&S and what not. There was clothing for just £2 but believe me you wouldn't consider wearing one even if it were free, the real deal had offers too a couple of sterling off, so its not for you unless you are there to furnish out around a hundred bills. It was however a lot of fun to watch.
Then there was a queue outside NEXT, infact two - one for people to get in and one to get out. Can you believe it, people are paying to stand on the road wait for hours in queues for something they haven't even seen beforehand, but must be worth it cause the banner " upto 70% off on sale items" says so.
It was sort of funny, I don't know particularly why, but it must have been the men, women and even children being policed to pay.

Mirror Mirror!!

I can talk, will listen to anything and everything, but will not necessarily agree to whatever you have to say. By the way I dont even have to agree to everything until I dont understand it but I can live with it, knowing you are different, different from me and thats what makes you-YOU and not me.
Yes there are times I do agree to things and concepts I donot necessarily understand, religion for example. Probably I have a firm belief in it and thats the reason (is that logical I dont know! but thats me). I will question the rules, but to learn, to understand and not just because questioning everything has lately become a fashion, and the more you vocally question the more intellectual you are.
Discussions are good as long as they are productive-but whats productive? Is it making things fit into your line of thought or fitting your thinking into someone else's thinking?
I am different and please live with the fact-that you are too, not necessarily better than me or even worse, but just different. Yet when my point of view doesn't match yours, you think that I am wrong. Yes you love it when you learn something new, or just have a feeling that you can gain something from this person, and you are even more in heaven when you change people and they start to think like you. Yes its all very silver lined but its always about you and not me. If I don't change you don't like me, but what if I become you, and don't like you becuase of how I think you are-what no one should be.

I Killed Myself!

Its time for the term1 exams and all teachers had been giving their final recommendations about what to do and what not to do in the papers.
Then the chief of staff..Alexander the great! had so much stuff to talk about but unfortunately it was all somehow related to.....what if you fail?? and what can be done-the procedures and processes, so much so that I came to know, there are opportunities where in the university will consider massaging your results if you have been in a mishap (ill, accident etc) and it limited your ability to perform to your potential.
This all was somehow very amusing to me, and I started making fun of what the COS had said, and how everyone should now look to get a doctors note which can prove you have medical condition and so you don't have to work hard in your exams.
The joke was short lived and I was soon to become a candidate for the case. I caught a very bad cold and to make things even worse started self medication. My friend has this stock of every medicine a human can need, so I turned up at his vault and picked what I thought would best suffice my needs and get me fit soon (some medicine and some sort of lemon tea).
I took the medicines after dinner but soon felt very sleepy (I was thinking the medicine had started working already), so I slept early only to discover next morning that I don't have any energy left in me...the ghosts were coming back to life, I felt so week as one would after climbing a mountain. I have heard that cold has these effects but to such extremes, I could never have imagined. As one may guess now, I couldn't do anything the whole day, was confused most of the time, having conversations and forgetting the plot in the middle of it. I was scared!!!
In the evening I decided to talk to my doctor sister about whats happening to me and to my embarrassment soon discovered that the lemon tea was not tea but another form of the medicine that I had already taken.....turns out I had overdosed myself with antipyratics and sedatives....Ohhh will I really need a doctors prescription now? will i be able to sit the exams? I was so drowsy that I didn't know if I would wake up next morning ....yes I can laugh about it now. The instructions to my flat mate were clear, call me in the morning...if I dont answer please break open the door....
Now here I am all fine (well sort of..the cold is there but I am conscious atleast)...