Happenings...

Things are happening too fast. People around me are going through major life changing events...some changing jobs, some getting married, some setting up their own business! These are for the good.

On the flip side, I also find people around me, those who I love, both family and friends, going thru some difficult times...Saturn shows up in the skies for a rare celestial event and I'm told that it's gonna hv a good effect on my sun-sign. If it's good, then why is everything not okay. Aren't the people around me also part of my life and hence logically the good that happens to me shud rub off right? Well, I guess that's why life is called a journey. It isn't a script to be followed.

Rocky Balboa: A Review

Rocky Balboa: The name inspires courage, determination and sheer will power. If reel life ever came face to face with real life, this would be a name to reckon with. Most people grew up with the legend of Rocky since 1977 when the first edition was released. So popular was the character that they had to make sequels after sequels after sequels.
Rocky Balboa is the sixth one in the series and probably the final one! The movie made with a budget of $24 Mn opened in theatres with great reviews. The story is based in a time when Rocky in his late 50’s has retired finally and is running a restaurant in Philadelphia. Things get interesting when a computer simulation fight between the reigning World Heavyweight Champion Mason Dixon & Rocky Balboa predicts that Rocky would win knock out. This leads to an interesting series of events wherein an exhibition fight between the two is organized and no points for guessing, Rocky is on top again.
The movie is no different from the other parts. Of course the re-introduction of Spider (Rocky’s first opponent in the first movie) and Little Marie (also from Rocky-I) brings in nostalgia. Powerful lines such as “It doesn’t matter how many punches you take. What matters is how hard you can take them and yet be back to take some more!” & “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over” would definitely have a lasting impression on the mind. Typical Rocky philosophy but true to the core.
What I felt though was that the movie was a bit too fast paced and too much was shown in too short a time.

Nevertheless, Rocky still rules and Rocks the World of Boxing, be it Virtual or Real!

Who knows, there might still be another sequel to this…coz Rocky is known to bounce back and in his own words, “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over!” :-)

List of Things to Do Before I Die...

Picked up this tag here...The ones marked with an X have already been achieved :D

(X) Live far away from home …Bangalore is far…okay!!!
( ) Learn Salsa
( ) Go to South America
(X) Read avidly
(X) Climb a mountain
( ) Go to the top of Eiffel Tower
( ) Visit Amstredam
( ) Stand on the edge of the roof of a skyscraper
( ) Hug a stranger
(X) Bake a pizza
( ) Own your own restaurant
(X) Watch the sun set and rise
( ) Go scuba diving
(X) Ride a roller coaster
( ) Become a parent
(X) Fall in love
( ) Go to the theatre
(X) Lie down on the grass and do or feel nothing
(X) Go to a small quaint town/village to get away from the city
(X) Go to a concert
( ) Have a food fight…and will never have. Shudn’t waste food!
( ) Go on a hot air balloon
(X) Maintain a hobby …Does watching movies count?
( ) Spend christmas in New York
(X) Sleep under the stars…did this when in college. Slept on the water tank 4 floors above the ground! Scares me now when I think of it.
(X) Dance in the rain …Is a lot of fun!
( ) Go sky-diving
( ) Visit the pyramids
(X) Learn a foreign language …My definition of foreign language is anything other than my mother tongue
( ) Ask someone you just met for a date
(X) Get tipsy with good company …and the company was gr8…love u all…u know what I’m referring to ;-)
( ) Have your heart broken
( ) Eat sushi …This is off my list!
( ) Volunteer somewhere
(X) Quit a job
(X) Surprise someone
( ) Stay in New Zealand…ummm probably will make it Switzerland :-)
(X) Go to and make a friend someplace you don't know anyone
( ) Run a marathon
( ) Go Rafting
( ) Drive a Ferrari
( ) Own a villa

Will add on to the list as I remember.

You have been tagged...feel free to add to the list

Miles to Go Before I Sleep...

Was searching for this poem today after reading another of the poet's famous poem at a fellow bloggers page.

The last stanza gives me goosebumps even to this day!

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know,
His house is in the village though.
He will not see me stopping here,
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer,
To stop without a farmhouse near,
Between the woods and frozen lake,
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake,
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep,
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

-- Robert Frost