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MOVIE RECOMMENDATION: LETTERS TO JULIET..

Letters To Juliet is an american romantic drama film directed by Gary Winick starring Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael Garia Bernal, Venessa Redgrave and Franco Nero. The film surrounds around young aspiring writer Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) who works for the New Yorker as fact checker. She heads for Italy for a pre-wedding vacation with her fiancee Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal), a workaholic who is obsessed with his impending restaurant opening and hence gets extremely busy with his work, neglecting Sophie. So here Sophie decides to play tourist alone and ends up at the home of the fictional Juliet Capulet where she sees unhappy women of all ages writing longing letters and notes to lost and unrequited love and sticking them into stone wall. Later, she discovered that these letters were collected and then answered by a group of women known as 'Secretaries of Juliet'. Sophie asks to join them and later while gathering the letter she accidentally finds a 50- year old l...

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: THE MURDER ON THE LINKS BY AGATHA CHRISTIE..

Puzzled about which book to go with for a perfect weekend reading? Okay.., What about just picking up a murder mystery..? And.. and when I say murder mystery one of the names that will crop up our mind will be Agatha Christie, the queen of mystery novels.. Yes.., so here I have a book recommendation for you all.. The Murder on Links by Agatha Christie.. It all starts with Hercule Poirot receiving an intriguing letter from foreign millionaire asking for help.. and hence, Hercule Poirot set out right away for the french countryside. But he arrives a little late to save his client, Monsieur Renauld, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. Who could have done such a thing? Why was dead man wearing his son's overcoat..? Who killed him? Was it his son? or his wife..? or maybe the the neighbor women thought to be his mistress..? or it was the mysterious girl on the train who calls herself Cinderella? And and.. before Poirot cou...

WHAT IS TIME..?

"Oh we had such a good time that day..!" "OMG I am getting late.., I just did't keep note of time. " "Please do come on time ." "That person is very much particular about time.. "                             Yes.., we use the word 'Time' so often. Well, what exactly does it mean..? So here I decide to google it and get to know it's technical meaning.. Google says.., It is a point of time as measured in hours and minutes past midnight or noon. It is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. It is plan, schedule, or arrange when (something) should happen or be done. Okay.., now let's just dive into it in our own way.., the way we look at it. [ Below is the conversation that I had with my friend. ] My Friend: So, see you tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock and yes, don’t be late. Me: Yes.., okay. See ...

BOOK RECOMMENDATION : THE COURSE OF LOVE..

The Course of Love by Alain de Botton tracks the trajectory of the love affair from it's very beginning till it's end. It shows how Rabih and Kirsten fall in love, get married and set off on a journey where they believed all they need is love and eventually learnt that life just had different ideas.. , and how the dynamics of the relationship changes is being brought by touching upon following contents.. Romanticism .. Our understanding of love is being hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. we have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue... Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate. Ever After.. We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to ...

BOOK REVIEW: THE HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED...

The novel 'The Hundred year old man who climbed out of  the window and disappeared" by Jonas Jonasson is about the life of the hundred year old man Allan Karlsson. Allan Karlsson sitting quietly in his room in old people's home, waiting for the party he does not want to begin. Yes.., his one-hundredth birthday party which he is not interested to attend and so here he decides to escape.. Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flower bed, Allan makes his gateway.. and here he embarks on a hilarious, adventurous and entirely unexpected journey..                                        His escaping journey begins with stealing of a suitcase (a suit case full of cash)  followed by members of gang who are determined to retrieve the fortune from suitcase and along his way Allan befriends some people and together they attempt to deceive police who are s...

FRIENDSHIP

FRIENDSHIP.... Sitting at the side of window pane, Gazing at the nature’s beauty and serenity around, That little princess contemplated hard over, What exactly friendship is? Is it a relation Wherein we make friends just to partner someone for a particular phase of life…, Or it’s a relation Which has this uncanny understanding that leaves behind a special feeling that lasts forever… Is it a relation Wherein friend’s help is to be kept note of and repaid, Or it’s a relation Wherein helping out friends is the prime duty which is just out of true love… Is it a relation Wherein we be friends with someone seeing at what standing they have.., Or it’s a relation Wherein all a person need to hunt for is a comforting equation with them… Is it a relation Wherein we are supposed to be good in front of our friends and criticize them behind their back…, Or it’s a relation Wherein we can share our things openly with our friends and accept them with ...

IN QUEST OF HAPPINESS…

                                 It was a lugubrious day..,sighed the little princess.. Subdued under pressure…, And .. lost in her way.. She felt.. slowly.. slowly happiness was dying away.., But.., I want to hold it back.. resilient and forever.. Thus.., Princess went out on her way to find happiness .., But where do I find it?, she asked herself.. Her mind was oscillating from one thought to another.. And hence.., She approached her dad to help her out on her way.. Seeing her little princess sad and despondent..,made him little anxious.. Oh.. my little princess ,said the loving dad..   what happened? Dad.., I want to find happiness.. but.., I don’t know   from where do I get it.. Come.. come my little princess I will help you out on your way.. You mould your life the way you want it to be.., Be it a happy one.., or be it a stressful one… Yes its in o...