Surprised!!!

I was just going for a morning walk...hee hee...around 10 a.m :) and thought I would check mails on the way. I was expecting some of the blu-ray discs that I ordered through Amazon, in the mail box. I opened it and found a Amazon parcel for me and was excited making a plan of watching 'Cast Away' first and then 'Pursuit of Happyness' that day. Came home and opened the parcel and was in for a surprise! I did not see the BDs but two books. I was wondering if I ordered any recently but something of that sort did not come to my mind. Then tilted the box to see how it has been sent and was surprised to see that my friend has ordered those for me since she knows I like reading books of these kinds -' The 7 habits of highly effective people' by Stephen Covey and 'The Mindset - Psychology of Success' by Carol Dweck. 3 books in a row as a gift and by surprise :) I don't know what to say but I feel extremely happy :)

The 'four'some :)

It's been quite sometime since I wrote anything. I have been thinking what to write...devoid of ideas :) But now that I have been tagged, I am happy. The credit of 'tagging' me goes to my blogger friend Raji.
Now on the tag...

Four places I have lived (not in any particular order):
Madurai
Chennai
Cleveland
Colorado Springs

Four T.V shows that I love(d) to watch (not in any particular order):
Each for a person in particular although I love these series :)
F.R.I.E.N.D.S - For Ross and Phoebe
C.S.I Miami - For Adam Rodriguez
Are you smarter than a 5th grader? - For Alana Ethridge
Airtel Super Singer - For the passion on music :)

Four places that I have been on vacation:
Alapuzha
Bangalore
Philadelphia
Madurai (of course ;))

Four of my favourite food items:
I spent more time in thinking what to write here than the other columns :) That does not mean I do not eat well...I do!
Rava Dosa
Pizza
Rumali Roti
Aapam

Four websites that I visit daily:
Huh...I visit more websites than these, a day but confining to the # 4:)
greatday.com
weather.com
entrepreneur.com
sify.com

Four places I would rather be (not in any particular order of preference):
Italy (After watching Robert Langdon and Sophie Nevue's cryptographic attempts in 'Angels and Demons' ;))
Singapore (To see the standard of living in a clean city like this)
Bahamas (of course, for the beaches)
London (To watch a live cricket match @ Lords)

Four things I hope to do before I die..... (not in any particular order):
Like Morgan freeman and Jack Nicholson does in 'The Bucket list', I have my own :)
Paragliding
Form a musical band
World tour
Write a book

Four novels/books I wish I was reading for the first time:
In the order of my favorites although its been ages since I read it :)
It's your ship - by Michael Abrashoff
Catch me if you can - by Frank Abnagale Jr.
The Greatness Guide - by Robin Sharma
Five point someone - by Chetan Bhagat

Four movies that I can watch over and over again:
One for showing the meaning of love, one for giving the meaning of life, one for showing what persistence is, one for making me emotional throughout (in this particular order)
Alaipayuthey
Anbae Sivam
Cast away
Taare Zameen Par

Four people I believe will respond to this tag:
Raji, Saranya, Anusha and myself (responding to their comments :))

Movie time...

As usual, I watched few movies this weekend. There's nothing better to kill the boredom with 2-3 hrs going in a movie :)

1. Milk - Sean Penn's oscar winning performance, a homosexual oriented movie which has got great reviews nominting itself for the oscars and academy awards. I expected more in terms of all the above said factors and that's the reason I picked it up from my netflix queue. But I did not like the movie as I thought I would. Nothing more about it...
2. Naan Kadavul - I ended up crying more than liking the movie. There's only one thing that I liked in the whole movie - The cast. There's nothing else that is worth watching and I wonder why this movie was over hyped...
3. SMS - That's what my friends in India told that this movie is called in its shorter form...Siva Manasula Sakthi. When compared to the above two movies, I would say this one is far better because there's not much hype about this movie and it's casually screened. Jeeva's performance was good and I was surprised to see Aarya playing a guest role...(I was drooling amidst the surprise ;))
4. Yaavarum Nalam - I liked this movie better than any other tamil movies that I have watched recently. The screenplay, the twist and the turns, the cast, the suspense - Everything fitted well. When I started watching the movie, I thought it's going to be the usual pei, aavi kind of tamil movies but it was not. It's a bit different than the movies like 13 number veedu, Uruvam, Rasathi varum naal etc., I read somewhere that there may be a sequel to this movie which is being discussed by director Vikram Kumar and Madhavan. I would definitely watch the sequel too, if there's gonna be one.

And I have got the next 3 movies from library. At this rate, I guess I have to write movie reviews every weekend :)